Co-organized by 7A*11D International Festival of Performance and Artexte
In partnership with the 7A*11D International Festival of Performance, Toronto Performance Art Collective and Artexte are pleased to invite you to the virtual launch of the digital reissue of w.o.r.k.s.c.o.r.e.p.o.r.t on September 10, 2022, at 11:00 am (EDT) on Zoom.…with Klara du Plessis and Kadie Salmon
Researching the artists’ book in Artexte expansive archival collection during a month-long, virtual residency in May 2021, visual artist Kadie Salmon (London, U.K.) and poet Klara du Plessis (Montreal) have responded with their own —conceptualizing the artists’ book as a…Online
Schedule : 2:15 PM: Initial training offered in French and English for people with no prior experience editing Wikipedia articles; 2:15 – 4:00 PM : Edit-a-thon; 4:00 – 5:00 PM : Discussion with Geneviève Wallen and Michaëlle Sergile; As…
Discover the Artexte's collection here and on our Instagram from another perspective
Throughout 2021, Artexte will unveil a series of unboxing videos featuring members of our team, guest artists, curators, researchers. The Artexte Unboxings series will feature each invitee as they search through our shelves and choose a box, a file, a…
Browse the Artexte collection online and discover our research tools with our librarians
Welcome to Artexte’s virtual tours where our librarians Jessica Hébert and Hélène Brousseau provide an in-depth look at our collection, discuss the history of Artexte and describe the various possibilities for research and services that we provide. Each tour has…in conversation with Mojeanne Behzadi and Karine Boulanger. Online
Following our recent collaborative exhibition Magnetic Sequences, Artexte and Vidéographe invite you to join us on November 25, 2020 for a conference with artist duo and pioneers of the Canadian video art milieu, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak. This discussion…a poetry reading and screening
Tanya Lukin Linklater Tanya Lukin Linklater reads passages from her book of poetry, Slow Scrape. Followed by a conversation with Robin Simpson. Tanya Lukin Linklater often makes performances with dancers and sometimes composers/musicians in relation to objects in exhibitions,…A series of presentations by Adam Kinner, Carola Dertnig, Anique Jordan
Moving Histories and Discourse looks at how artistic practices not only can question dominant normative and colonial narratives but have the power to shift our/their/all perspectives on and within them – as they come into being, are re-staged or simply…
The artists discuss their selection of documents
In this series of video clips, several artists discuss their selection of documents for the Symposium Discourse in Motion, which is the final event of An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time and the beginning of a series of public projects…An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time: Performance Art in Quebec and Canada IV
Place Publique | Fonderie Darling, Montréal With Sophie Castonguay, Faire corps avec Foucault anonymat (2019) & Francys Chenier, Comme aphorismes, ouvertures et semences de discours (2019) Curated by Jade Boivin & Camille Richard Considering the meeting between performance and writing…Around Computerese
This edition of Artexte on Air will feature an online conversation with Toronto artist William Perry, a pioneer of Telidon art which used a pre-internet interactive technology in the early 1980s. We will be discussing the mystery surrounding Computerese :…Discussions around the exhibition Reading Performance: An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time III
This discussion brings together historians, artists and curators that have participated in bibliographic research projects at Artexte dedicated to various artistic and performance based practices. Presenting their points of view and themes, these individual and collective researchers ask how the…Discussions around the exhibition Reading Performance: An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time III
This discussion brings together historians, artists and curators that have participated in bibliographic research projects at Artexte dedicated to various artistic and performance based practices. Presenting their points of view and themes, these individual and collective researchers ask how the…A live streamed conversation
From 1PM to 2PM (EST) We are thrilled to present the first of what will hopefully become a series of digital hangouts to foster an ongoing dialogue between arts organizations and the general public in Canada and internationally! Join us…Additional content in conjunction with Anne Ramsden's project
The following video interviews featuring Anne Ramsden with artists and curators speaking about their experience working on retrospective or survey exhibitions provide a glimpse of how modern art institutions have formalized the contemplation of past artistic achievements through the form…
Videos of exhibition-related talks
Talks within the frame of the exhibition: Sylvie Lacerte: Poésie et storytelling: un itinéraire de la performance chez Vera Frenkel, de la graphie aux nouveaux médias (in French) Jacob Wren: An apology that I have not properly documented my…
The artists discuss their selection of documents
In this series of videoclips, several artists discuss their selection of documents for the exhibition An Annotated Bibliography: Performance Art in Quebec and Canada. Johanna Householder Johanna Householder has been making performances, videos and other artworks since the late…
