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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.
articule would like to extend it’s most cordial invitation to an Artist Talk and Lemon Party! On November 23rd at 4 PM dress in your finest yellow duds to explore Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s exhibition 𝐼 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝐼 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑊ℎ𝑦. There will be music, meringue and merriment! Yellow or green apparel and wigs are strongly encouraged.
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.
Candidates for the board of directors will present their candidacy and respond to the questions provided by our committees. Active members will then have the chance to vote to adopt the candidates to the board! Help us elect future candidates to our Board of Directors - we'll need member participation to reach quorum!
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.
We invite you to join us in launching the publication, Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care, over a pupusa dinner and to participate in an open conversation about what practicing care means to you.
As part of the HTMlles Festival, À nos prothèses (To our prosthetics) collective is organizing a series of workshops, rituals, participatory installations and projections to create a convivial atmosphere around our needs, our refusals, our memories and our stories of prosthetics.
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?
Join us at articule gallery on Saturday, May 4th for two events related to prison abolition: Solidarity & Love Behind & Beyond Bars drop-in art workshop and the Montréal launch of How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment by Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché.
articule is in search of a new Administrative Coordinator starting June 18th 2024. We are looking for a motivated and organized person with a passion for community building and art administration. articule is in a position of exciting change and the administrative coordinator will be a big part of this. We are looking for someone with a vision and a proactive approach to the development and growth of articule.
As part of the HOST exhibition by Yen-Chao Lin and Justine Skahan, we invite the public and our members to take part in an in-person discursive activity. The discussion between the artists and our mediator, Manel Benchabane, will be preceded by a guided tour of the exhibition. The event is bilingual, and ASL and LSQ interpreters will be present.
Candidates for the board of directors will present their candidacy and respond to the questions provided by our committees. Active members will then have the chance to vote to adopt the candidates to the board! Help us elect future candidates to our Board of Directors - we'll need member participation to reach quorum!