(La version française suivra / Más adelante encontrará la versión en Español) Seascape Poetics February 12 – April 1, 2021 CURATOR: Bettina Pérez Martínez www.seascapepoetics.com Curated by Bettina Pérez Martínez, Seascape Poetics is a virtual exhibition that examines the complexity of Caribbean relationships to water. Featuring six contemporary Caribbean artists – Lionel Cruet, […]
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November 28 – December 14, 2019: (Re)Viewing the Syrian War: Stories from a member of the Red Crescent
لقراءة النسخة العربية من الخبر (La version française suivra) Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm Curator: Abood Hamad Events: Thursday November 28th, 5 – 7pm: Opening (Catered by Les Filles Fattoush) Free. No RSVP required. Friday November 29th, 6 – 7pm: “Syrian Art as a Transformative Energy” a presentation […]
Read moreAPPEL DE PROJETS D’EXPOSITION
Le groupe de chercheurs établi à Concordia recherche un commissaire en résidence pour développer des expositions publiques sur des problématiques sociales et politiques contemporaines. Date limite pour les soumissions : 24 novembre, 2019 Convocation pour les entretiens : avant le 13 decembre 2019 Des descriptions de projets plus détaillés pourront être demandés aux candidats sélectionnés […]
Read moreCALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS
Concordia-based research team seeks a Fellow-in-Residence to develop a curatorial project (includes an exhibition, a catalogue, and outreach events) on contemporary social and political issues. (Version Française) Submission Deadline: November 24, 2019 Interviews: before December 13th, 2019 Applicants chosen for interviews may be asked to provide a more detailed project description. Resident selection: before January […]
Read moreRachel Berger’s cup
The cup in question is part of a set collected by Rachel Berger’s great-grandmother, Hinda Kaplan (c. 1875-1962), in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Hinda suffered from heart trouble and would travel from her home in Klaipėda, Lithuania (referred to by its historic German name, Memel, by its Jewish residents) to take the waters […]
Read moreTruposznica (Corpse Carrier)
1889 – Franciszek Wacek was born in Przysietnica in southern Poland. During World War II he fought both in the Polish army and with a partisan unit. His daughter recalls: “three times he was almost a corpse. […] they lay among corpses, playing dead.” (Personal interview, 2017). August 10th, 1942 – approximately one thousand Jews […]
Read moreOctober 3rd, 2019: “Tactless: touching Holocaust memory” a curatorial experiment and workshop
WORKSHOP: October 3rd, 12 – 2pm EXHIBITION OPENING: October 3rd, 5-7pm VISITING HOURS: October 4-10th Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm Tactless: touching Holocaust memory is a curatorial experiment and workshop comprising “moments” in Holocaust remembering. The project will explore how powerful memories transform, break down, and are reformulated – in awkward, yet potentially emancipatory […]
Read moreJuly 16 – 26, 2019: “Queering the Map: ON_SITE”
Queering The Map is a community-generated counter-mapping platform for LGBTQ2I+ moments, memories, and histories in relation to physical space. The project collaboratively archives the cartography of queer memory, from park benches to the middle of the ocean — in order to preserve our histories and unfolding realities, which continue to be invalidated, contested, and erased. […]
Read moreBlackness and Experience in Two Canadian Establishment Museums: Critical Reflections
By Sally Hough, Research Assistant (Beyond Museum Walls) How does one experience an establishment museum? What are the subject positions of people working in and visiting museums? What are the complexities related to inclusion in establishment museums? Can contemporary art disrupt stereotypes of Blackness and Canada’s claim to innocence with regard to race and racism? Museum […]
Read moreApril 20th, 2019: “CALLEJERA” a multi-media performance by Jose Richard Aviles
“not built, only implied, and usually invisible . . . useless, amoral and sensual space that lives only in and for experience.” — Aaron Betsky, Queer Space: Architecture and Same-Sex Desire CALLEJERA is a multi-media performance piece that explores the testimony and spatial analysis of the Queer Ethical Subject. Historically, Queer folk, especially Queer folk […]
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