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 […]
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By María Juliana Angarita “Visual Footnotes: Counter Memories and Art from a Fractured Past in Post-Conflict Peru” was an exhibition and book launch curated by Cynthia Milton, in collaboration with Lex Milton and María Juliana Angarita as part of the Beyond Museum Walls FRQ-SC Grant. On March 16th, the Curating and Public Scholarship Lab (CaPSL) […]
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Aurelio Meza Fall 2017 Excerpts from the essay “Curar saberes difíciles: arte, curaduría y Ayotzinapa.” Calle 14, 12 (21), 2017. In Winter 2015, Erica Lehrer taught a seminar at Concordia University, Montreal, on the curation of what she and other scholars call “difficult knowledge”—the (usually) violent heritage that cross- or intrasocial conflicts, both past and […]
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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 […]
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Stephanie Tara Schwartz reflects on decolonizing museums and universities.
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Reflection on the New Storytellers Symposium by CaPSL research fellow Nadine Blumer.
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