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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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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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. […]
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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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“How do you preserve a shadow?” As the practice of Chinese shadow puppetry languishes, the traditional shadow puppets are dying by the thousands: neglected to ruin, strung up, misunderstood or framed in permanent silence in the name of ‘preservation’. Soon, these static shadow bodies will be the only traces of the living form that remain. […]
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Join us at the Curating and Public Scholarship Lab for an exhibition and discussion of “Conflicted Memory,” with book author Cynthia Milton, Shelley Ruth Butler (Institute for Study of Canada, McGill), and Kevin Gould (Geography, Concordia). What happens when concepts of “truth,” “memory,” and “human rights” are taken up and adapted by former perpetrators of […]
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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, […]
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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Curatorial Dreams for the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków Tuesday, June 27, 2017, Kraków, Poland 4:30pm – 7:00pm My museum, a museum about me!: or, who owns the legacy of the Polish village? Curatorial Dreams for the Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Kraków is an intervention that asks, “Is Polish historical awareness dominated by a single story that hides the many […]
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