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. The walk from one site to the other lasts five minutes at the most.

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.

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Photo: Corinn Gerber

First Promenade

Karine Savard
Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 12 PM

The first Promenade focused on Karine Savard’s project, Box with the Sound of Its Own Making. This event took the form of an informal discussion in the presence of the artist and her father, a carpenter, with whom she developed this project as part of an ongoing collaboration between them. The conversation emphasized the idea of practice as a means of meeting and exchange, and the parameters governing the mutual construction of knowledge. The tour concluded with a conversation around the exhibition cube SIGHTINGS, where Box with the Sound of Its Own Making is presented.