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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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 moreThe 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 more1889 – 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 moreThe Beyond Museum Walls research group will be working with two curatorial fellows, Lucas LaRochelle and Abood Hamad, to develop their research topics, media, and artworks into full exhibitions that seed critical dialogues around pressing social and political issues. To introduce the first of two curatorial residents who will be working with the Beyond Museum […]
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Le groupe de chercheurs établi à Concordia recherche deux commissaires en résidence pour développer des expositions publiques sur des problématiques sociales et politiques contemporaines. NOUS RECHERCHONS L’équipe de recherche Beyond Museum Walls offre deux résidences de commissariat d’exposition (Février 2019 – Avril 2019, Août – Octobre 2019) à des chercheurs, artistes, commissaires et étudiants intéressés […]
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April 5, 5:00 – 7:00pm: Vernissage + Performance/Lecture April 6, 6:00 – 7:30: Performance + Lecture In this performance/lecture, Rollins presents her most pressing conundrum: how do you preserve a shadow? With a short survey of her apprenticeship and fieldwork, a trajectory of the failures that brought her to her thesis question and a musing of shadows, […]
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The project Beyond Museum Walls: New Methodologies for Public Dialogue Around Difficult History and Cultural Conflict is designed to support the creation and mobilization of knowledge via new methodologies for critical museum-scholar-community engagement with difficult subject matter. Over four years, the project will generate critical dialogue and student training at the intersection of the five overlapping and […]
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