Congratulations to Nadine Blumer on the creation of the Moving Memory Website, a retrospective and reflection of the Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue exhibit hosted at CaPSL in June 2016. “Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue” is a collaborative multi-sited research exhibition about the Armenian and Roma genocides that proposes creative solutions to museological and scholarly […]
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Striking Memories (Nadia Hausfather, Rushdia Mehreen, Florencia Marchetti, David Widgington, Jen Spiegel, Marion Miller), is a visual installation accompanied by performance art exploring the experiences of Quebec’s general unlimited student strikes since 2005 as remembered by activists, with a focus on those affiliated to Concordia University in 2012.
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Dead or Alive: Animal Bodies in the Museum is an exhibition showcasing the thesis research of Jacob Le Gallais, an M.A. student in Concordia’a Department of Art Education. This research has been envisioned and realized in two distinct phases, and constitutes an exploration of arts-based museum education practices, the human animal relationship, and the strange, […]
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Flim screening and discussion – Oct 19th 2:00 A woman walks across a room and picks up a crying baby. As she leaves the scene, the bombs begin to fall. This is the bombing of Guernica, the legacy of which is impossible to deny. This first targeted aerial bombing of civilians inspired Picasso to create […]
Read moreJoin us at Concordia’s Curating and Public Scholarship Lab (CAPSL) for two back-to-back events co-hosted by FNC explore and the Sexual Assault Resource Centre-Concordia University ! 5:00 – 6:30 pm Testimony Project: Panel discussion + virtual reality demo Testimony is an interactive documentary for virtual reality that shares the stories of five survivors of sexual assault and […]
Read more6:30 – 8:00 pm CaPSL Open House + Refreshments! Undergraduates and graduate students, faculty and staff welcome! Come meet CaPSL staff and partners and learn more about upcoming projects and events at CaPSL; a hub where faculty, students, and community and museum partners translate academic scholarship into on-site and mobile exhibitions that respond to critical […]
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Vernissage: June 8th 5-7pm Exhibit June 9th – June 15th 1-4pm Closed Sat & Sun LB 671 CaPSL Exhibition Lab
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Museum Anthropology Futures May 25-27, 2017, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Please click here for website and registration. This conference invites museum anthropologists (academics, students, and museum professionals), artists, art historians, as well as curators and community thinkers and actors for 2.5 days of stimulating sessions, sustained knowledge exchange, and museum visits. “Museum Anthropology Futures” seeks […]
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RADIO INTERVIEWS on the event! Radio Canada International (RCI) invited the exhibition team for a couple of interviews. Mouloud Boukala, member of the scientific team of the exhibition, presents in French the origins of the project among other topics: http://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2017/05/06/le-pouvoir-dun-portrait-exposition-images-et-pouvoir-femmes-noires/ Adriana Cabrera Cleves, co-curator of the exhibition, speaks in Spanish about the curatorial process undertaken […]
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Vernissage: THURSDAY, MARCH 23 @ 5:00PM — Wine and Hors d’Oeuvres Date: March 23, 2017 – March 28, 2017 – This exhibit in collaboration with Goldjian traces back the artistic journey of Dr. Margaret Jean Westby’s PhD research-creation project of making a mess of dance and technology through the framework of feminist Science and Technology Studies.
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