H ART Department is a performance and series of public programming investigating the unethical ways the art world functions at the expense of burnt-out artists and art workers. Mimicking bureaucratic processes used by institutions to give the illusion of power, Snack Witch plays with the visual language of administrations to give authority to whisper networks, generally frowned upon by systems of and people in power.

Through theoretical research that I refer to as “embodied,” I intend to explore my relationship with two pioneers of the avant-garde (Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay-Terk), as well as two major Latin American cultural references (Violeta Parra and the band Soda Stereo). My intention is to produce knowledge through the body and emotions, not only through reading and study, but also and above all through a performative approach. — Camila Vásquez

This joint exhibition between the MAI and articule gathers 53 artists from Palestine and its diaspora across time and borders to reimagine the missing works of Maroun Tomb, a Palestinian-Lebanese artist, whose 1947 exhibition in Haifa was lost amid the mass displacement and dispossession of the Palestinians during the Nakba. The works resurrect a moment that was nearly erased until it was discovered in archival documents. Curated by Joëlle Tomb, Haidi Motola, and Rula Khoury.

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 thirteen 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.

In the face of intersecting ecological, social, and political crises, the Members’ Show explores the theme reworlding—a call to reimagine how we live, relate, and create. Inspired by rewilding practices, reworlding proposes a radical untaming of thought, memory, and matter. Through ceramics, sound, textile, drawing, painting and audiovisual mediums each work becomes a fragment of a shared map toward survivable futures. This exhibition does not propose fixed answers but rather opens a space to dream alternative paths, informed by embodied knowledge, ecological sensitivity, and queer, feminist, and diasporic perspectives.

 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.