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Children’s Art from the Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
April 11, 2014
9:45 AM – 6:00 PM
CEREV Exhibition Lab
Room LB-671.00
J.W. McConnell Library Building, Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8
Click here for symposium schedule and presenter biographies
This symposium is open to the public, but seating is limited. RSVP to cerev@concordia.ca (Mandatory for admittance).
In 2010, anthropologist Andréanne Pâquet launched a participatory photography project, Ce Qui Nous Voile (Our Veil), working with more than 50 women from Montreal who wear the Muslim headscarf. Together with photographer Éric Piché, she met, photographed, and interviewed these women on why they wear the veil and what it means to them.
Workshop with Andréanne Pâquet
March 31, 2014
1 – 3 PM
CEREV Exhibition Lab
Concordia University J.W. McConnell Library Building
LB-671.10
e-mail cerev@concordia.ca to RSVP (mandatory)
We are pleased to mount Caroline Künzle’s Is this a joke? / C’est une joke? project in our Exhibition Lab from March 14 – 20, 2014.
Vernissage
CEREV Exhibition Lab
Concordia University J.W. McConnell Library Building
LB-671.10
March 14, 2014
5 – 7 PM
Open to all. No RSVP necessary.
Facebook event
Viewing Hours at CEREV Exhibition Lab:
Open to the public, no reservation necessary.
We are excited to mount Zohar Kfir’s Points of View documentary project in our Exhibition Lab from February 27 – March 6, 2014.
Vernissage
February 27, 2014
5 – 7 PM
Open to all
Brown Bag Lunch Talk
March 5, 2014
11 AM – 12 PM *note time change
e-mail cerev@concordia.ca to RSVP (mandatory)
The installation and both events will take place at the CEREV Exhibition Workshop in Concordia University’s J.W. McConnell Library Building, room LB-671.10. The lunch hour session will include a virtual conversation with project participants including Yoav Gross, B’Tselem’s Video Department Director.
Viewing Hours at CEREV Exhibition Lab:
Open to the public, no reservation necessary.
Points of View is an ongoing interactive web documentary project based on video footage shot by Palestinians working with B’Tselem בצלם’s camera distribution project.
In 2007, B’Tselem began giving Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza video cameras as well as basic training in shooting and editing. Their hope was that the resulting video would allow Palestinians themselves to not only document the infringement of their rights, but also to present their the anger, pain, joy, and hope of their daily lives to both Israelis and to the international public.
A full day workshop on the collective production of socially engaged art and agitprop with activist cultural producer Avram Finkelstein. Co-produced by CEREV and Concordia’s HIV/AIDS Community Lecture Series with the support of the university’s Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery.
January 24, 2014
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
CEREV Exhibition Lab
LB-671.00
By special invitation only.
“Collective strategies for visual production on the issue of HIV criminalization” will be co-facilitated by activist/performer Jordan Arseneault and artist J’vlyn d’Ark. This session is presented in conjunction with “Collective Queer Cultural Production, AIDS and the Public Sphere,” a lecture by Avram Finkelstein at the Canadian Centre for Architecture on Thursday, January 23 at 7:00 PM.
An interactive workshop on art, food, and performance with Toronto-based Palestinian artist Basil AlZeri and David Szanto, Concordia Individualized Program PhD student and Vanier Scholar in performative gastronomy. Co-produced by CEREV and FASA with support from the Office of the Dean and the Office of Student Affairs in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University.
January 23, 2014
10:00 AM – 2:30 PM
CEREV Exhibition Lab
LB-671.00
e-mail cerev@concordia.ca to RSVP (mandatory)
All participants will be required to bring a food item with them as part of the praxis component of the session. Two short presentations will be followed by a series of exercises with all attendees.
A Conference on the Targeting of Culture During Mass Atrocities
November 6-7, 2013
Concordia SGW Campus
CEREV has partnered with the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University Department of History, Concordia Department of Art History, Christie’s, the Alex Dworkin Foundation, McCord Museum, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Sotheby’s and the Government of Canada to present “Plundered Cultures, Stolen Heritage: A Conference on the Targeting of Culture During Mass Atrocities” on November 6 and 7, 2013.
A workshop with Bernadette Lynch (museum writer, researcher and consultant)
October 16, 2013
14:00 – 16:00
CEREV Exhibition Lab
LB-671.00
e-mail cerev@concordia.ca to RSVP (mandatory)
Beneath the rhetoric of the utopian, democratic, dialogic museum, the space is always contested and political. This is the very reality, Lynch maintains, that the museum does much in its power to ignore. In fact, research has shown that the museum’s participatory engagement can produce the opposite effect, exacerbating the antagonistic potential existing within social relations, evidence of which can be seen throughout current museum public engagement work. Consequently, it can leave everyone dissatisfied.
What to do as a museum professional when faced with resistance, opposition, conflict – internally or externally – or both? As one staff member at a prominent UK museum put it, “Life is messy, controversial, fluid, contentious – lots of things a museum has difficulty with!”
A public lecture with James Clifford (University of California, Santa Cruz)
October 11, 2013
17:00 – 18:30
Visual Arts Building VA114
SGW Campus
Co-sponsored with the Feminist Media Studio, the CISSC Working Group in Transnational Cultural Flows, the McGill Anthropology Department and the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.
A screening of Tor Ben Mayor’s film “Two Sided Story” and facilitated discussion with Bassam Hajj and Sharon Gubbay Helfer
October 10, 2013
8:00 PM
LB 671.10
