On the afternoon of November 19, TOPO will participate in the 9th edition of the Colloque Arts & Médias at the University of Montreal, which will take place from 17 au 19 novembre 2021This is an initiative by students studying art history, cinema, and video games at the University of Montreal. The event will be held entirely online.
The 2021 edition offers a reflection on three open-ended, but not limited, aspects of the theme. Around borders: between crossings, boundaries, and exchangesThis subject, which has been explored by many disciplines and from different angles throughout history, reflects the conference's openness to multidisciplinarity.
Our panel, moderated by Eva Quintas, co-founder of TOPO, presents the FRONTIÈRE program through its three exhibition cycles, each associated with three authors: Nuria Carton de Grammont, Paule Mackrous and Mirna Boyadjian. The 10 participating artists, drawn from the diversity of the Americas, address themes such as the rediscovery of roots and heritage; technologies and their ability to blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction, the living and the non-living; and the relationships between geography and sociopolitics, which question power relations in space in various ways. In conclusion, Michel Lefebvre, CEO of TOPO, will discuss the challenges of programming that had to switch online for its latest cycle, thereby crossing a final frontier.
For access to all information about the conference, including the schedule, visit the website. colloqueartsmedias.ca.
To attend the various panels on Zoom, you can register by writing to the following address: artsmedias.udem@gmail.com or by consulting the page Facebook du Colloque.
Image credit: Jesse Aidyn, Critter LiAm (2021) and Andréanne Parent (editor)
