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
PERFORMANCE: aWOKENING BY WINNIE HO
Wednesday, October 21, 6:30 PM
In the Gallery
Free, in English
An immersive sensorial experience of sound, smell and touch over metallic landscapes, Winnie Ho engages in wok chi (鑊氣) a defining feature of Cantonese cuisine.
This performance accompanies the exhibition FOODWAYS, presented at the Gallery from September 1st until December 5th, 2026.
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SIGHTINGS 47: PUBLIC DISCUSSION
With Alexia Laferté Coutu, François Lemieux, and Julia Eilers Smith
Thursday October 22, 5:30 PM –7:00 PM
Ground floor of the Hall Building, in front of the Auditorium; 1455, De Maisonneuve Blvd W
As part of SIGHTINGS 47, join artists Alexia Laferté Coutu and François Lemieux for a conversation with curator Julia Eilers Smith. Together, they will retrace the series of encounters and gestures that led to the integration of the works into the cube: from the initial invitation to the installation of Laferté Coutu’s sculptures, through the process of taking impressions on site, casting in the studio, and transferring forms from paper to glass. Moving between materiality and the memory of the site, the conversation will extend to the audience, opening the idea that both the building and the artworks record in their own way histories, passages, and gestures.
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Larissa Fassler in conversation with Shauna Janssen
Thursday October 29,3:00 PM–4:00 PM
At 4TH SPACE, LB Building, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Free, in English
Join us for a conversation around the conclusion of the research residency of Berlin-based artist Larissa Fassler. Since September, Fassler has been conducting on-site research, worked in Concordia’s archives, and explored Montréal as she developed a new drawing that maps the university’s architecture alongside the city’s student and political movements. This drawing will be paired with another based on Freie Univerität Berlin under the title Bodies of Knowledge: The Architecture of Dissent and will be shown together at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in the summer of 2027.
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