(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 […]

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APPEL 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 […]

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CALL 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 […]

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October 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 […]

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April 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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Congratulations on a Moving Memory Retrospective

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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February 1st, 2019: “Moving Gender: the case of home museums in Israel and Germany”, a presentation by Dr. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi.

Home museums in Israel and Germany produce a representational space in which the public figure, usually a ‘great man”, is effectively “dragged home” to the private sphere so as to make the domestic worthy of being represented in a museum. Based on three years of ethnographic research in nine such museums (four in Israel and […]

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Call for Exhibition Proposals

Concordia-based research team seeks two Fellows-in-Residence to develop public exhibitions on contemporary social and political issues. (Version Français)   Submission Deadline: September 21, 2018 Interviews: October 1 – 5. 2018 Applicants chosen for interviews may be asked to provide more detailed project descriptions. Resident selection: October 12, 2018   WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: The Concordia-based research […]

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(Blog) “Visual Footnotes: An immersive strategy to present and encourage reflections about research journeys”

By María Juliana Angarita . . .  The specially conceived exhibit titled “Visual Footnotes: Counter Memories and Art from a Fractured Past in Post-Conflict Peru” displayed multiple sources and items collected by the author over her 16 years of research. The corpus of primary sources on display embodied several of the footnotes in Milton’s publications. […]

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