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Primarily narrative and characterized by cohabitation of multiple genres and motifs, Pierre Dorion’s painted works revolve around questions asked of painterly practice by the photographic image…

Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn’s art encompasses a wide array of processes based on her research, informed by feminist theory, which she applies to investigations of issues of historicity, community, utopian policies and multiculturalism…

Since 2006, Claire Savoie has been creating, among others, the ongoing work _Aujourd’hui (dates‑vidéos)_, which consists of producing daily videos according to a specific protocol…

Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from an Indigenous perspective. Born in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, she holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she is based. She is Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC).

Anne-Marie (AM) Trépanier is an artist-researcher and editor. Through their practice, they explore the specificities of different media, technologies and actions to (re)mediate the narratives that traverse a given situation.

A founding member and artistic director of Qaggiavuut until 2021, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory is also a curator, sculptural artist, actress, stage director, and poet.

Tania Willard, Secwepemc Nation, works within the shifting ideas of contemporary and traditional as it relates to cultural arts and production.

Sorel Cohen lives and works in Montreal. A graduate from McGill and Concordia universities, she has been a major figure on the Canadian photography scene for over twenty years…

Costa Rica–born Juan Ortiz-Apuy has lived and worked in Montreal since 2003. Working in his favoured techniques of collage and assemblage, he makes art driven by thinking around consumer goods.

Diane Landry lives and works in Quebec City. She produces installation and performance works influenced by readymade and her preoccupation with recycling.

Working as a duo with Richard Ibghy since 2002, Marilou Lemmens creates installations, videos, sculptures, photographs and artists’ books.

Art critic, curator, communication theorist and translator, of German origin, Bernard Schütze has lived and worked in Montreal since 1985.

Erik Bordeleau is a philosopher, curator, fugitive planner and cultural theorist. He works as a researcher at NOVA University in Lisbon and is also affiliated researcher at the Art, Business and Culture Center of Stockholm School of Economics.

François Lemieux makes books and exhibitions. His practice aims to prompt collective thinking about the notions of power, value, and the relationship to the norm.

Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill (b. 1979) is a Métis artist and writer. Hill’s sculptural practice explores the history of found materials to enquire into concepts of land, property, and economy.

My name is arkadi lavoie lachapelle. I was born the same year as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Polytechnique massacre in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal.

Bahar Noorizadeh is an artist, writer and filmmaker. Her research examines the historical advance of speculative activity and its derivative politics in art, urban life, and finance and economics.

Anne-Marie Proulx creates poetic worlds drawing on our conversations with the land and our relationship with language. She works with images, mainly photographic, to question the physical and metaphorical spaces that we occupy and which conversely also inhabit us.

Sanaz Sohrabi (b.1988, Tehran) is a research-based artist, filmmaker, and essayist living between Montreal and Chicago.

Mathieu Cardin (born Matthew Carden in Agloe, U.S.A.) displayed outstanding skills in combat sports, gymnastics and theatre from an early age. These youthful pursuits left him with…

Alexandra Lemay is an art director, fabricator, and stop-motion animation filmmaker who immerses herself in all things pop culture. 

Angela Grauerholz was born in Hamburg, Germany, and has lived in Montreal since 1976. She has been teaching at UQAM’s École de design since 1988. She is a co-founder of Artexte, a contemporary art information…

Joi T. Arcand is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation whose practice includes installation, photography and design.

David Tomas was a Canadian artist and anthropologist

Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel are a Toronto-based arts collaborative who explore the hopes and anxieties brought about by major technological disruptions.

Kelly Mark is a conceptual artist based in Toronto. She explores a variety of mediums, such as drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, sound, performance, and public interventions.

Judith Poirier is a designer and professor at the École de Design, UQAM. Her work primarily focuses on experimental typography in the fields of publishing and animation.

karen elaine spencer is an artist and curator committed to performance, action art, paintings, drawings, prints, texts and spoken word.

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The collective Chto Delat? (What is to be done?\*) was founded in early 2003 in St. Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Russia with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism. They create interventions in public spaces, video projects comprising theatrical _mises en scène_, and monumental installations blending architectural elements, documents, timelines, and murals. Chto Delat sees itself as an artistic cell and also as a community organizer for a variety of cultural activities intent on politicizing “knowledge production”. The works of the collective are always case based analyses of a concrete social and political struggles. In 2013, Chto Delat initiated an educational platform in St. Petersburg, School of Engaged Art, and also runs a space called Rosa’s House of Culture. From its inception, the collective has been publishing an English-Russian newspaper focused on the urgent issues of Russian cultural politics, in dialogue with the international context.

Chto Delat recent solo exhibitions include: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, MUAC (Mexico, 2017), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, CAAC (Sevilla, 2017), KOW (Berlin, 2017), Secession (Vienna, 2014), Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne, 2011) and Institute of Contemporary Art (London, 2010). The collective also participated to many significant group exhibitions and international events: Nuit Blanche Toronto and Paris (2017), San Paulo Biennale (2014), _Art, Really Useful Knowledge_, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2014), _Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789–2013_, Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, 2013), _FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects_, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2013), 10th Gwangju Biennale (2012), _Ostalgia_, New Museum (New York, 2011), _Morality_, Witte de With (Rotterdam, 2010), _Plug In_, Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, 2009) and 11th Istanbul Biennale (2009).

\*The collective’s name refers to the titles of two writings about social emancipation: a novel by Nikolay Chernyshevsky published in 1863 and an essay by Lenin published in 1902.

Fondé en 2003 à Saint-Pétersbourg par des artistes, critiques, philosophes et chercheurs, le collectif Chto Delat? (Que faire?) développe des projets à la croisée de l’art, de la théorie politique et de l’activisme. Il réalise des interventions dans l’espace public, des projets vidéographiques…

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The collective Chto Delat? (What is to be done?) was founded in early 2003 in St. Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Russia with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism. They create interventions in public spaces, video projects…

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