Karen Tam’s installation deconstructs and reconstructs different ‘ethnic spaces’ to see which elements signify meaning for the public and thus play a role in influencing Western perception of the Chinese, or the Other. In Terra dos chinês curio shop, Tam recreates spaces such as the... {read more}
In this round table, artist k.g. Guttman brings together artists and researchers around notions of play, authenticity and trust. How do these ideas operate in the teacher / student relationship in fine arts? How does the ability to forge powerful connections with students enable learning in the creative... {read more}
This fall, articule presents a special three-day series of events that features BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) perspectives: dinner conversation, game and movie nights!
In collaboration with the Black Students' Network of McGill, Black Radical Imagination, Ethnocultural Art Histories... {read more}
Following articule’s Montréal Monochrome IV: Study Hall, members of the Fabulous Committee present Table Setting, a dinner conversation series seeking to create more spaces at articule for Indigenous and people of colour artists, educators, activists, and community members to speak with each... {read more}
During the summer of 2016, SAVAC hosted a summer long residency, The Lie of the Land with artist Golboo Amani. The residency consisted of two social practice works that focused on breaking down the myths and fallacies of the colonial expansion and development that often shape the relationships settler... {read more}
Adebukola Bodunrin (US), Ezra Claytan Daniels (US), Michele Pearson Clarke (US), Numa Perrier (US), Be Steadwell (US)
October 29, 2016
For a second consecutive year, articule is pleased to collaborate with Black Radical Imagination by presenting the new iteration of their short film programme. Curators Erin Christovale (Los Angeles) and Amir George (Chicago) have selected four films that tackle issues present in lives within the Diaspora... {read more}
Each in their own way, the four artists presented as part of the exhibition Future Memories reflect on technology as a narrative space that is also a sharing space. By using different media, from video to textile, the artists challenge what separates the private from the public, and where the actual limit... {read more}
◐◓◑◒ “Picture something growing...” ◐◓◑◒
◐ ssurfacing ◐
Ambient electronic seedpod
◓ Mich Cota ◓ James Player ◓
Orchestral waterflow
◑ Claustra ◑
Luscious mountain soil
◒ DJ Iridaceae ◒
Dreamy disco psychedelic blooms
Come celebrate the end of the year at articule’... {read more}
articule’s Movie Nights are a series of film screenings presented by members of the centre as a way to learn about their individual practices and to raise some funds for articule. All are welcome!
Following the screening of Gohatto (Taboo), writer Ronald Rose-Antoinette will lead a conversation... {read more}
In collaboration with the Massimadi Festival and African Rainbow
In a series of photographs, video performances, paintings and prints, Eduardo Velázquez’s #postcolonialbooty deals with personal narratives by using his own postcolonial body as a departure point to construct a gender with an... {read more}
articule’s Movie Nights are a series of film screenings presented by members of the centre as a way to learn about their individual practices and to raise some funds for articule. All are welcome!
As part of a screening of Holy Hell by Will Allen (2016), Jamie Ross and Tina Carlisi will share their... {read more}
( English version below )
Tiohtià:ke enwatónhnhá:ren ne 375 niiohserá:ke ionsakáhewe, ne kariwanóntha ne Emergency Landing. Ki enwatonhnhá:ren ne Tioihtià:ke Otióhkwa ne 375 niiohserá:ke ionsakáhewe, tho i... {read more}
This durational performance explores the notion of intimacy between strangers and creates new possibilities/orientations of being together in the felt presence of immediate experience. The public is invited to spend time holding hands with Winnie Ho, oscillating between conversation and silence, listening... {read more}
Kelly Jaclynn Andres (Montréal), Maude Bernier Chabot (Montréal), Véronique Chagnon-Côté (Montréal), Maude Deslauriers (Montréal)
April 22, 2017 to May 21, 2017
For its upcoming exhibition, articule opens its doors to a space of contemplation and illusion: The Garden of Speculations. This group exhibition brings together four Montreal artists whose work focuses on notions of nature, daydreaming and ambivalence. The Garden of Speculations takes you into a new... {read more}
niv Acosta (US), Ayanna Dozier (Montréal), Joana Joachim (Montréal), Ronald Rose-Antoinette (Montréal)
May 25, 2017
“Mnemonic Cinemas/Performances: Blackness & Embodiment” is a one-day colloquium featuring workshops, performances and film screenings that address the socio-cultural and political importance of experimental films, the archives, and embodiment as they reveal new critical reflections on... {read more}
Hannah Azar Strauss (Montréal), Sophia Borowska (Montréal), Dana Edmonds (Montréal), Fanny Huard (Montréal), Julie Laurin+Jonathan M Roy (Montréal), Yen-Chao Lin (Montréal), Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (Montréal), Katerina Pansera (Montréal), Jacqueline van de Geer (Montréal)
June 02, 2017 to June 11, 2017
While the year 2017 is the occasion for numerous celebrations across the country, such as the 375th anniversary of the City of Montreal, articule wishes to engage a reflection on the act of commemoration, the history and sociopolitical context of Montreal / Tiotia:ke, as well as the subterranean and... {read more}
Atelier PocWoc, Sinz Bal, Krabe, Bagel Heureux, Maison B L C K M S S N, Tess Kuramoto & Lucas Larochelle, 3_3_4_7, Sumwut, J. Ellise Barbara, Iridaceae, Sof Silva, Sophia Borowska, Pandora Hobby, Floriane Davin, Ileana Hernandez, Cedar-Eve Peters
June 16, 2017 to June 17, 2017
Le Mile End s’articule is articule’s annual summer outdoor community arts festival, held in the alley next to the centre, during the famous ROTATION! ROTATION! garage sale.
For this summer’s edition, with the support of the Arrondissement du Plateau-Mont-Royal, the... {read more}
This performance explores the idea of revenants returning to tell stories of unresolved, undocumented histories, particularly in the context of Korea’s last century of colonialism, war, violent dictatorship and liberation. The work is a continuation of ideas explored in Haunting in the Flesh and... {read more}
With Hovering on an Hamaca, artists Camila Salcedo and Erick Rodriguez explore the complicated experience that immigrants face when leaving a familiar home country, but also being contemporary “settlers” in a colonized land. This collaboration is a way to connect to their roots as Latin... {read more}
