TRANSIENT
© Photo Credits: Babita Sharma and Renée Mathews, 2026.
Call for proposals — Montreal Monochrome 11th edition — TRANSIENT
For Artists, cultural workers, researchers and community organizers
Call for Proposals open until March 27, 2026, at 11:59 PM.
The annual conference event will take place from May 20 to 24, 2026.
The objective of Montreal Monochrome is to build new, long-lasting solidarity networks among BIPOC arts workers across the country and promote discussion and awareness of systemic racism in the arts milieu. The conference will be an opportunity to share organizing strategies for better labour conditions among BIPOC arts workers. The theme of this year’s edition of Montréal Monochrome is TRANS/ENT.
We are looking for panel proposals and artists to adorn the space where activities will occur:
In terms of panels we are open to proposals that push the boundaries of what might conventionally be understood as a panel although our budget is limited .
We are looking for art work that will be in the space that will host our panels and workshop activities - this work must be able to fit alongside audiences, chairs and tables - beyond this we are open to any kind of offering.
TRANSIENT refers to what circulates under pressure: diasporic bodies, minoritized languages, unstable archives, trans/queer and racialized practices that resist regimes of fixation, measurement, and categorization. Against colonial, institutional, and statistical logics that flatten difference into acronyms, metrics, or singular narratives, TRANSIENT foregrounds relational, embodied, and collective forms of knowledge. It creates a space where identity is understood as a process rather than a stable fact, where memory is activated through use and gesture, and where movement becomes a strategy for survival, care, and continual remaking.
TRANSIENT names a situated condition shaped by movement, constraint, and political timing. It is neither a temporary state nor mobility for its own sake, but a mode of existence formed in the in-between: between appearance and disappearance, inside and outside, visibility and erasure. Perhaps we all find ourselves there—in the liminal, fuzzy, and fluid—either momentarily or temporarily. What have we been doing in the interim.
Montréal Monochrome, an annual conference for BIPOC artists and cultural workers organized by articule’s Fabulous Committee, will take place between May 20–24, 2026. This 11th edition will expand to include guests from across Canada.
Submission requirements:
— Please include Montreal Monochrome XI in the subject line of your email.
— Please compile all the information in one PDF file.
— Clearly indicate whether the proposal is for a PANEL or ART submission.
— A summary of your proposed activity / work (max 250 words).
— A paragraph (max 300 words) including information about you and your work. Include website links or relevant documentation, with credits, if available.
— A title for your proposed activity/work.
— The kind of space your proposed activity will need. Submissions must be designed around the gallery space.
— A list of technical requirements.
Send submissions to: outreach@articule.org by March 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM.
Montreal Monochrome is an annual conference organized by articule's Fabulous Committee (anti-oppression). It addresses the misrepresentation and under-representation of Indigenous and racialized people in the current Montreal arts scene. The event aims to imagine and nurture new and existing connections, solidarities and friendships between Indigenous artists, thinkers, cultural workers and racialized allies. Artists, cultural workers, researchers, community organizers and others are invited to apply. The selected projects may take the form of workshops, round tables, debates, collective works, actions in the public space, interventions, performances, demonstrations, lightning gatherings, among others.
The Fabulous Committee is a space for Black, Indigenous and/or racialized articule members, as well as Black, Indigenous and/or racialized queer and/or trans members, to come together, to have a space to care for each other, to exchange ideas, to share their practice and to see art together. The activities of the Fabulous Committee change according to the needs and desires of the members.
This year’s edition of Montreal Monochrome is made possible by the generous support of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.
The Canadian Race Relations Foundation is committed to building a national framework for the fight against racism in Canadian society. The CRRF will do this through knowledge-sharing and community support in the pursuit of equity, fairness, social justice and systemic change.