Artexte’s permanent collection is alive! It is activated through public events in support of new research, writing, as well as creating new artworks and publications around visual and print culture. Artexte aims to be inclusive of all visual cultures existing across contemporary art communities. Our on-site and virtual offerings include conferences, workshops, artist talks, performances, film screenings, as well as many interinstitutional collaborations and off-site activities.
Blackity
This spring Joana Joachim returns to Artexte’s stacks for a research residency focused on Black Canadian art histories. To date there has only been one art historical anthology written with the express purpose of mapping Black Canadian art history across…with Gabrielle Larocque and Le Broke Lab
During the week of June 14, Gabrielle Larocque and members of the Le Broke Lab collective will meet in Artexte’s exhibition space (currently closed to the public) for a three-day laboratory that revisits the collective’s archives in response to research…Listen, read, educate and engage
Over the years, Artexte’s vocations have evolved, yet we have always been determined to preserve and share reliable information sources and support the growth of knowledge. In support of the Palestinian people: Its for this reason, in support of…with Klara du Plessis and Kadie Salmon
Researching the artists’ book in Artexte expansive archival collection during a month-long, virtual residency in May 2021, visual artist Kadie Salmon (London, U.K.) and poet Klara du Plessis (Montreal) have responded with their own —conceptualizing the artists’ book as a…
Congratulations to Joana Joachim
The Artexte team would like to congratulate our collaborator and former Research and Exhibitions Coordinator, Joana Joachim, who was recently appointed Assistant Professor in Black Studies in Art Education, Art History and Social Justice at Concordia University. We wish a…Archiver le vivant : un laboratoire méthodologique
How does the encounter between the document collection and live or performative arts inform the subject of collaboration? My residency draws from Artexte’s material documents —a literature primarily donated by a community of artists and cultural workers— so as to…Wayside Archive
The artefacts and narratives of black queer women rarely surface in archives and art historical canons. Yet, as Katherine McKittrick notes in “Mathematics Black Life,” the genealogies of the black folks—of black life—are to be found in archives. At Artexte,…Narrative of process: activating the artist’s book
Kadie and Klara first met in 2018 while together at an artist- and writer-in-residency program in Montserrat, Spain. They have continued to work together since, using their respective practices to create dialogues between moving-image and poetic works. Drawing on a…Online
Schedule : 2:15 PM: Initial training offered in French and English for people with no prior experience editing Wikipedia articles; 2:15 – 4:00 PM : Edit-a-thon; 4:00 – 5:00 PM : Discussion with Geneviève Wallen and Michaëlle Sergile; As…Online
Artexte is proud to support the Art Gallery of York University in presenting the Desire Lines: Mapping the Metadata of Toronto Arts Publishing speaker series as a prequel to our future exhibition Lignes de désir // Desire Lines: Displaced Narrative…
Hello out there ! Greetings from the Artexte library !
On behalf of everyone here, I wish you good health and the stamina to find what brings you happiness and fulfillment during these times. Back in the days when we could be in the same room, we had been thinking…
Discover the Artexte's collection here and on our Instagram from another perspective
Throughout 2021, Artexte will unveil a series of unboxing videos featuring members of our team, guest artists, curators, researchers. The Artexte Unboxings series will feature each invitee as they search through our shelves and choose a box, a file, a…
Looking back on our activities during a very unusual year
As we come to the end of this very unusual and challenging year, we continue to forge ahead in our mission to provide reliable information sources for research on contemporary visual arts. We would like to highlight some of the…
Browse the Artexte collection online and discover our research tools with our librarians
Welcome to Artexte’s virtual tours where our librarians Jessica Hébert and Hélène Brousseau provide an in-depth look at our collection, discuss the history of Artexte and describe the various possibilities for research and services that we provide. Each tour has…in conversation with Mojeanne Behzadi and Karine Boulanger. Online
Following our recent collaborative exhibition Magnetic Sequences, Artexte and Vidéographe invite you to join us on November 25, 2020 for a conference with artist duo and pioneers of the Canadian video art milieu, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak. This discussion…
Themed research in the Artexte Collection
Many research residencies at Artexte have led to thorough thematic explorations of our collection, or started with a specific question in mind. These residencies resulted in bibliographies tracing the researchers’ findings. These bibliographies offer an effective way to start your…
Learning tools
Artexte has been offering for several years a constantly evolving toolbox to help our researchers navigate and use various programs commonly used in information literacy, as well as in archiving, and documents to learn about important issues in the archive…
External resources for research
In order to support you in your research in visual arts, Artexte’s team is offering you solutions that go beyond its own horizons. In addition to e-artexte research platform offering you an ever-expanding selection of digitized documents from our collection,…
Fashion
These educational guides, created by members of Artexte’s staff provide research guidance on particular subjects as they relate to contemporary visual art. We hope that they will inspire reflection and discussion. Each thematic guide is divided into subcategories and provides…
Food
These educational guides, created by members of Artexte’s staff provide research guidance on particular subjects as they relate to contemporary visual art. We hope that they will inspire reflection and discussion. Each thematic guide is divided into subcategories and provides…Online
ARTEXTE Information Centre, the Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques, the Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec and the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec are partnering to launch a second series of Wikipedia contribution which is designed to introduce…
Remembering and Evolving Through Video Art
From the comfort of your home, Artexte invites you to explore the practices of artists, researchers, and cultural workers in the contemporary art milieu in Quebec and Canada through texts, publications and media dealing with a range of themes and…Listen, read, educate and engage
At Artexte, we stand in solidarity with Black community and all people dealing with systemic racism on a daily basis. We believe that listening, education, art, access to information and community engagement are essential for an egalitarian society. Online…
Participatory Art and the Eternal Network
From the comfort of your home, Artexte invites you to explore the practices of artists, researchers, and cultural workers in the contemporary art milieu in Quebec and Canada through texts, publications and media dealing with a range of themes and…
Knowledge Commons, Access to Information and Memory
From the comfort of your home, Artexte invites you to explore the practices of artists, researchers, and cultural workers in the contemporary art milieu in Quebec and Canada through texts, publications and media dealing with a range of themes and…
Art + Feminism : Indigenous Voices
From the comfort of your home, Artexte invites you to explore the practices of artists, researchers, and cultural workers in the contemporary art milieu in Quebec and Canada through texts, publications and media dealing with a range of themes and…Logbook of an Artexte Researcher : Analysis of the Archives for a Feminist Study of Erotic Video
Micro-residency with Julie Ravary-Pilon as part of the exhibition Magnetic Sequences They are few opportunities for researchers to take the time to think about their practice and it’s implications. My micro-residency at Artexte will therefore allow me to take…A night in the Emerald City
On the occasion of the Nuit Blanche presented as part of the MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE festival, Artexte invites you to the Emerald City with an evening of projections of the 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz. The film will be…
