Opening

Wednesday, March 7, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Conversation

Tuesday, March 13, 5:30 pm

A conversation between Katrie Chagnon and jake moore

Exhibition curator, Katrie Chagnon and artist and acquisition committee member, jake moore reflected on the acquisition process before moving through the gallery to think aloud about the exhibition’s premise and ways of listening and responding to the voices put forth by the works.

In French and English

Local Records

Tuesday, March 20, 2:30 pm

Speaking of Surveillance: Canadian Communists in the Global Cold War

Elena Razlogova, Associate Professor, History, Concordia University

For this workshop, Elena Razlogova examined the surveillance of Canadian communists from a transnational Cold War perspective and showed how to research the national security state under conditions where government records are often classified and difficult to obtain. She brought her own archive on state surveillance in the US and the USSR to compare with records from Merrily Weisbord’s cache of interviews, court documents, police records, and political publications collected for her book The Strangest Dream: Canadian Communists, the Spy Trials, and the Cold War (Vehicule Press, 1983) and now housed in Concordia University’s Special Collections.

At the Gallery

Local Records is a program that pairs exhibitions with relevant archival holdings in Montreal. Animated by a guest researcher each seminar coordinates encounters and discussions around a selection of primary documents, offering a local lens through which to consider the exhibition and a point of departure for new research.

Tour in Arabic

Tuesday, March 27, 5:30 pm

Exhibition Tour in Arabic by Emma Haraké (MA student, Art Education, Concordia University) of the exhibition QUI PARLE ? / WHO SPEAKS?.

Throughout the year the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery offers commented tours in a number of languages. Guides introduce and address the principal concepts behind the exhibition before focusing on a few select works.

Tours are free and open to anyone interested in discussing and learning more about contemporary art.

QUI PARLE ? / WHO SPEAKS?

March 7 – April 21, 2018

Curator: Katrie Chagnon

Jo-Anne Balcaen, Raymond Boisjoly, Moyra Davey, Suzy Lake, Isabelle Pauwels, Krista Belle Stewart and Ian Wallace