Promenades is the link between the Ellen Gallery in the McConnell Library Building and the SIGHTINGS exhibition cube in the Hall Building of Concordia’s downtown university campus.

Robert Walser’s famous essay The Walk unfolds as an iridescent prism of observations and connective thoughts on the occasion of a short walk through a city. We are asking artists, writers, and other contributors involved in SIGHTINGS, to develop for Promenades a seemingly ephemeral thought as it occurred to them during the making of the work on display.

These thoughts may be expressed in the form of a narrative tour, a performance, a short lecture, a reading. The only formal constraints are that the gathering begins at one of the two sites, and ends at the other, and that the Promenade last no longer than thirty minutes.

Promenades is a reoccurring format.

Third Promenade

Walk with Catherine Lescarbeau and François Lambert
Thursday, April 7, 12 pm

This spring Promenade was led by artist Catherine Lescarbeau and botanist François Lambert, who collaborated in the creation of the project Terrarium. After a brief discussion around the SIGHTINGS cube, in which a sample of plants from different areas of the university was displayed, the two collaborators gave a guided tour of the surrounding buildings where there are other natural and artificial specimens that are also relevant to the project. The merging of artistic and botanical perspectives enriched the understanding of this interdisciplinary project and stimulated a reflection on the relationships between nature and culture as they are articulated in the academic institution.