Past Exhibitions

Vernissage: June 8th 5-7pm Exhibit June 9th – June 15th 1-4pm Closed Sat & Sun LB 671 CaPSL Exhibition Lab

We’re pleased to report that Erica Lehrer and her team (Heather Igloliorte/Concordia; Jennifer Carter/UQAM; Cynthia Milton/Université de Montréal; Shelley Butler/McGill) have won a Soutien aux équipes de recherche grant from FRQ-SC for their project “La praxis et la recherche sur les expositions : nouvelles méthodologies pour le dialogue public culturel et l’action sociale.” This is […]

Thursday, May 25th – Saturday, May 27: 2:00 pm-5:00 pm DETAILS: Museum Anthropology Futures** presents: a Pop-Up Gallery! Featuring 2 pop-up exhibits, a participatory mural with Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, and poster sessions featuring “curatorial dreams” from Concordia’s International Graduate Field School in Critical Museology. LOCATION: Hall Building at Concordia University, 7th floor 1455 […]

When: Friday May 12th 2017 (10am – 3:30pm) Where: CaPSL (Concordia University, LB Building 671) https://www.facebook.com/events/1325637890857541 This one-day event will be a collaborative investigation into epistemologies of curation and exhibition which problematize traditional accounts of knowledge exchange (for example, the notion that curated ideas or concepts are established, justified, and true) and instead offer a multivalent and perhaps messier framework of […]

Can museum institutions question cherished collective myths of heroism and tolerance? To what extent can they be self-critical, and how? What progressive social, political, and educational functions can such museums serve? And what roles can scholars, activists, artists, and citizens play in holding these institutions to their highest stated mandates, or even expanding them?   Listen as Thinking through the Museum research team members and collaborators considered these questions at the […]

Concordia’s first International Graduate Field School in Critical Museology begins at CaPSL on May 15th! For more information click here.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Curating and Public Scholarship Lab (capsl.cerev.ca) Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada May 15th – 27th, 2017 The International Graduate Field School in Critical Museology, sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies at Concordia University, will introduce students to the museum as a significant venue for debating social issues, as well as […]