Inviting the public into dialogue with artists, theorists, researchers, critics, educators, and cultural workers, the Gallery’s events position exhibition making as a lens through which to examine today’s issues and debates. Recognizing the public’s sense for inquiry and experimentation, these workshops, lectures, screenings, tours and other interventions ask us to reflect critically upon the ways we look and the forces inflecting our experience. Welcoming and supporting different modes of public participation, the Gallery’s programming aims to make and hold space for new vectors of interpretation and inclusion.
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Produced with the support of the Frederick and Mary Kay Lowy Art Education Fund
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PRETENSES: CONVERSATION WITH ALEXANDRE BOUFFARD, DAVID THEODORE AND THOMAS BALABAN
Saturday, September 20, 2025, 2:00 PM — 3:30 PM
In English
Free, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920 Baile Street, Montréal, QC H3H 1R4
Discussion as part of SIGHTINGS 44: IDLE with Alexandre Bouffard and architects David Theodore and Thomas Balaban. The conversation will address the notion of pretense in architecture: how, often through images, architecture borrows the appearance of other places, doubles itself, or transforms. The discussants will explore the connections between Bouffard’s installation and Impostor Cities, a project developed for the 17th International Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2021 by Theodore and the Montreal-based architecture and design firm T B A, spearheaded by Thomas Balaban and Jennifer Thorogood.
This event marks the conclusion of Alexandre Bouffard’s SIGHTINGS project, on view on the ground floor of the Hall Building (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West) until September 21, 2025.
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Place Where the Waters Crossed
Raven Chacon in Conversation with Martín Rodríguez
Part of Reflections on Artistic Research
Friday, October 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
At Milieux Institute, 11th Floor, Concordia EV Building
Free, in English
Join sound artists Raven Chacon and Martín Rodríguez for a conversation around Chacon’s practice stemming from his exhibition Place Where the Waters Crossed presented at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. This discussion opens the event Reflections on Artistic Research, a gathering of curators, artists, and scholars exploring the distinct nature of research in art. Beyond academic conventions, artistic inquiry unfolds through materials, gestures, and embodied memory. This conference invites you to ask: What makes artistic research unique, and how can curiosity, imagination, and embodied knowledge shape new ways of knowing?
Co-presented with MOMENTA, Conversations in Contemporary Art and Post Image.
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