reworlding, came about from a discussion around what we need, individually, collectively, environmentally and socially, right now. During uncertain and turbulent times, art helps us (re)imagine, hope, and dream about alternative (possible) worlds that may be hard to imagine otherwise.

To help articule celebrate its 45th year, Diyar Mayil is generously donating her beans! Each copper bean was individually hand-cut and assembled, created specifically for her installation, Still Air. Half of the proceeds will support articule’s 45th anniversary fundraiser, and half will be donated to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. 

Evoking feelings of anticipation, marked both by waiting for something to happen and waiting for something not to happen, Still Air entangles hope and fear together. Inspired physically by water infrastructure and spatially by architectural enclosures such as courtyards, this installation offers a slowing of time and room for contemplation. The precariousness of everyday life is present in materials that can melt, seep away, or evaporate into thin air.

A Part of Me, Apart from Me presents selected works from Park’s long-term project, the Aejang Project, which began with his father’s oldest memory: accompanying the artist’s grandfather to bury his one-year-old sister. Her body was buried in the form of “aejang,” a Korean practice intended to forget the child, avoid bad luck, and ease its passage into the next life. The exhibition explores dimensions of melancholia as an ontological inquiry into belonging and memory.

Do you have work accumulating in your workspace but need help to photograph it? We have the event for you! Celine Bureau and articule are joining forces to offer our members the opportunity to have professional still photographic documentation of their work in a white wall gallery space for a small registration fee of 10$.

The staff at articule, with the help of members of the Writers Club, wants to bring back our magazine, Discussion, for a 45th Anniversary edition. To get us started on this endeavor, Articule will be opening its archives for 2 days to all its members, both those currently active and those active in the past. Help us dig into our past, to search for inspiration as we look ahead to a new Discussion.

A dervish embraces death before death, sheds selfhood, and bows to the mystic's immortality. A freedom fighter, too, dies before death. Relinquishing the ego to be subsumed by the vast and nebulous unity of resistance, forsaking personal desire to dedicate the soul entirely to humanity. They surrender to the collective and its symbols, weaving their souls into the existence of all peoples, and patiently reflecting the moral sovereignty of the soul.

Join us for the return of our holiday market 𝐁𝐚𝐳𝐚𝐫 𝑩𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒂𝒓 at articule on December 20th and December 21st. We are proud to present a lovely selection of local vendors who will be selling their handmade goods including zines, prints, ceramics, jewelry, food, and more. Sip some mulled wine, enjoy the warmth, and meet some neighbours, while supporting your local artists!

Drawing on early encounters with Western culture, Dong uses the song “Lemon Tree”, by Fool’s Garden, as a symbolic and aspirational fantasy of Western life: bright, carefree, filled with promise. For Dong, Western fantasies were shaped through cultural exports like music, media, and fashion, each offering an idealized, unattainable version of the West. Bittersweet childhood memoirs are transformed in this exhibition into acts of resistance and empowerment.

The 8th edition of Slut Island Festival is here. In times of unending grief and peril, we must resist despair. Art and music divorced from the commercial sphere is a vehicle for messaging that begs to be heard and with the power to invigorate us. We will congregate with expanded lenses, confirmed suspicions and new perspectives, undoubtedly (re)shaped and shattered by ongoing tyranny abroad and at home. 

In collaboration with articule, the MEM - Centre des mémoires montréalaises and Concordia University's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Super Boat People is organizing a series of eight workshops enabling a cohort of ten participants of Cambodian, Vietnamese and Laotian origin to reappropriate their family past through oral history and art.

For this 10th edition of Montreal Monochrome, articule has invited artists and activists to reflect on the different struggles BIPOC artists navigate across different temporalities. The contemporary, melds with the past and future in the cultural sector across the identities of the artist - how can we most carefully manage this?

For our Winter Window Exhibition, mid-December 2024 to mid-January 2025, we are inviting applicants, both individual artists and collectives, to propose works around the theme: TRANSPARENCE. Works examining the unobstructed passage of light, works studying how looking through an object changes both the viewer and what is perceived, works with an aching desire to reveal personal secrets (a misguided longing for transparency?) are all welcome.

For its 2025-2026 programming year, articule has chosen ABUNDANCE as its theme. We invite local, national and international artists, collectives, art institutions and curators to submit exhibition proposals that respond to this theme in whatever way they see fit.

Exploring Landbeing is a 3-day series of improvisations in conversation with Leeay Aikawa, Kristi Chen, and Akash Inbakumar's collective exhibition Landbeing. Each day will feature a different trio of improvisers, brought together exceptionally for these performances, responding to the sculptural work and weaving their creative practices together.

Landbeing plays with interpretations of living on the land, whether as residents or visitors, and various ways of adapting to the environment. Land is innately embedded in being and in the basic elements that create a shared life force that runs through all things. Working with materials and techniques from the lands they arrive at and those they reach towards, these three artists seek to orient themselves towards Landbeing.

In collaboration with articule and Concordia University's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Super Boat People is presenting the works of a cohort of ten participants of Cambodian, Vietnamese and Laotian origin reappropriating their family past through oral history and art. The Summer Window Exhibition exhibition brings together personal reflections, archives, artworks and objects created during this process.

For this 9th edition of Montreal Monochrome, articule invites individual artists and collectives to consider the art and act of undoing. What is receptive, or unreceptive, to being undone: what materials, objects, structures, or systems? How can we undo—untangle, unsettle—systems of oppression or cultural expectations? In the wake of undoing, what remains to be utilized?

Transit, corporality: what are the limits? How do we transit the world, how do we move through places and spaces, what interacts from our own bodies, and how far?

Re Imagining the city from the edges: border symbiosis is a multidisciplinary conference and exhibition that brings together different perspectives on the concepts of city and border based on artistic, cultural and social interventions and dialogues with people from a variety of cultural and social sectors.

For its 9th edition, Montreal Monochrome reflects on the different notions of time. How do we reflect on time in an era where current events seem to be in constant flux and intertwined without a real capture of current injustices?