Taking cues from Stuart Hall’s reflections on the Living Archive, the term archive here is approached not only as evidence or recount of the past, but also as a testimony to the voids in time and history. It is approached as a holistic and dynamic body that offers, in its incompleteness, the possibility to inhabit and continuously reassess the past, in search of that which was omitted. In this vein, the exhibition brings together Ethel-Ruth Tawe and Mallory Lowe Mpoka, two artists whose practices are deeply rooted within intergenerational transmission and archival custodianship.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Cinema Politica, Kara Crabb, Rap Battles for Social Justice, Anne-Audrey Remarais, Awa Banmana, Kamissa Ma Koïta