Programming & Activities
Invasive Palette
Invasive Palette is an immersive installation and an ongoing mono material-based research that investigates the colours through pigments and dyes extracted from different parts of common buckthorn—an invasive exotic shrub. This work examines material memory, identity, and immigrant diasporas and opens up a new perspective of waste economies in the city and encourages the public to slow down and imagine the potential colours of our surrounding waste—not just as a product, but as living entities.
The Freedom Fighter: Surrender without Surrender
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.
Roundtable Discussion: Art & S.W.A.N.A. Diasporas
Chantal Khoury invites Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich, Manel Benchabane, Hoda Adra, and Rihab Essayh to discuss their differences rather than similarities. This conversation among artists, peers, and friends, all tied to Tiohtià:ke - Mooniyang - Montreal, stems from Khoury’s ongoing desire to engage with SWANA communities while breaking hierarchies of knowledge.