Conversations in Contemporary Art
1395 Rene Levesque Ouest Montreal, QC, Canada

DON'T FORGET!! Bring your and tomorrow at 1:30 pm and meet us on the Zoom tube to chit-chat with Juan and Zinnia! Make sure you've registered through the link in our bio and we look forward to starting the year off with a with you . Image Captions: . 1. "The Wanderers - Niagara Falls, 1988", 2019. Inkjet Print. Courtesy of the Artist.... . 2. "Midnight Poison", 2020. Installation, dimensions variable. . Modified IKEA LAGAN refrigerators, glazed stoneware, velvet pillows, IKEA BESTÅ furniture and hardware, Begonia Maculata plant, lighting gels, inkjet print on backlit film, and light. . "Tropicana", 2020. Installation, dimensions variable. . Video projection, pendant speakers, inflatable made with recycled nylon, video light with C-stand, lighting gels and spring clamps, 3D animation, inkjet prints on backlit film, lightboxes, found objects. (Photo: Michel Brunelle) See more

WE (@cicaconcordia and @cu4thspace) ARE SO HAPPY TO BE BACK and can't wait to see you all this Thursday, Jan 28th at 1:30 pm! Tune into a conversation with two Montreal-based artists, Juan and Zinnia. This TALENTED duo will be discussing their recent works with the theme of hospitality as a starting point to explore their practice and friendship. We know it's been awhile so here is your friendly reminder to register through the link: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us//re/WN_...Continue reading

Welcome to the continued season of CiCA! The conversation continues with a line-up of artists and educators discussing their work and ideas. Stay tuned for details as dates approach.... Please note: 14th January is an internally-advertised event for the @fineartsconcordia community. Happy to field queries about what this means and how we can welcome you via DM. We will continue to explore radical hospitality these coming months, both as a creative method and as a platform connected to a university. See you in the zoom room soon, we hope

Follow @graftcollective for regular posts of their recipes, ingredients and nourishment of many forms. At the heart of this project is an exploration of recipes: as scores, recipes can synchronize us in shared sensory experiences, bringing our bodies together through variations on a shared dish. Focusing on preserved foods, we are exploring how recipes ask us to imagine future actions, ingredients, and lapses in time. Over the next few days, we will be sharing some of t...he recipes we have exchanged thus far. First up, from the kitchen of Jessica, a recipe for goguma maellengi (delicious Korean sweet potato gummies!) paired with a memory text and a serving in an embroidered pouch. See more

We are SO EXCITED to announce that our first practitioners in residence are GRAFT Gallery Scattered between Albuquerque, Louisville, Montreal, and Philadelphia, GRAFT’s collective relationship is contingent on distance. Members inhabit different timescales together through phone calls, video chats, and physical mail. Through these media, they find proxies for inhabiting physical space with one another. During this residency, GRAFT started "Recipes for the Suspension of... Space-Time", a mail exchange centering around preservation--of food, objects, relationships, and time. Fermented, pickled, dried, and otherwise preserved, these foods form the basis for care packages of edible mail art. As care packages, they constitute a loose archive including foodstuffs, recipes, letters, voicemails, video events, kitchen rags, and more. Recipes here become loose scores for time capsules, snapshots of regional and intimate lives, and documentation of human efforts to reach each other across distance. GRAFT sees wild fermentation as a form of radical hospitality between human and nonhuman life-forms, and a metaphor for living and thriving under current conditions. Sharing a jar of sauerkraut between cities and across the Canada-US border brings bodies closer together, eating pieces of each others’ worlds. Follow us and GRAFT to see how their conversation and acts of care unfold over time and space!

THIS YEAR, CiCA is piloting the Practitioner in [Remote] Residency programThe initiative is part of the Radical Hospitality platform running during 2020 - 2021 that questions and extends what an Art School-affiliated visiting artists’ series can do for an artists’ community. Part of a three-year trial phase, an annual call will welcome in diverse practices and approaches to not only Radical Hospitality as a practice but the immaterial and invaluable work of cultural produ...cers: conversations, community, networks of making, knowledge exchange. Due to covid19 restrictions, the first call was adapted for remote residency conditions. STAY TUNED to find out who our first practitioner[s] in residence are

WOWTIME SURE FLIES!!! It's already the end of CICA's 2020 programming We will miss you all dearly as the year starts to wrap up, but we are SO looking forward to our amazing guests who will be kicking off our next conversations in 2021! While you wait for us to come back, you can check out our talks from the past few months through the in our bio! Until next year, XOXO @cicaconcordia + @cu4thspace

THE BIGGEST THANK YOU and to Hannah Claus and Peter Morin for their gesture of radical inclusivity. It was WONDERFULbeing able to share and hold a space with you all to think about/discuss/listen to different ways to approach decolonial strategies vs non-colonial practices, prioritizing relationality inside and outside of art-making, the idea of excellence and space making for Indigenous art and artists within systems. If you weren't able to join us live, check the in our bio for the recording of the fabulous conversation . And as always, a HUGE thank you to the amazing @cu4thspace for co-hosting this event with us

TOMORROW at 1:30 pm, please join us for a sure-to-be exhilarating conversation with Hannah Claus and Peter Morin. Grab a bevie, some snacks, and let's have a chill and dreamy time together Link in our bio . This event is co-hosted with the lovely @cu4thspace . Image Credit:... 1. Hannah Claus, invaders, 2019. 2. Hannah Claus, we are a tea people, 2019. 3. Hannah Claus, iakorònien’s (video still), 2020.

THIS THURSDAYNovember 12 at 1:30 pm, Hannah Claus has invited her friend Peter Morin to be a part of her CiCA research talk, as a gesture towards radical inclusivity. Prioritizing relationality, Hannah and Peter talk about art-making, decolonial strategies vs non-colonial practices, the idea of excellence and space making for Indigenous art and artists within systems. Register for a good Zoomy time through the link in our bio . Hannah and Peter have been friends fo...r a long time. They worked together as co-chairs for Kwän Mày Dáyè Dàátth’i (sit by the fire with us) for the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective gathering that took place in Whitehorse (2016), and co-curators / artists for there are so many stars (Oboro 2017), an exhibition project honouring Indigenous Art Stars who shape our worlds and journeys as artists. . This event is co-hosted with the lovely @cu4thspace . Image Credit: 1. Hannah Claus, chant pour l’eau [kinosipi], 2018. Photographer : Paul Litherland. 2. Hannah Claus, fancy dance shawl for Sky Woman (detail), 2018. Photographer: Mike Patten. 3. Hannah Claus, interlacings, 2015.

Have you missed 1, 2 or more of the and CICA talks this semester Are you wondering how you could possibly go in to surround yourself with the magical conversations and energies that our guests have shared with us? LOOK NO FURTHER Head over to our co-host's @cu4thspace Youtube channel to find the recordings of our past (and future) talks! in our bio

We'd like to take up some space today to thank our lovely guests: artist|writer|educator Michèle Pearson Clarke @mpclarke, artist|curator Michaëlle Sergile @michaellesergile and writer|Concordia MA Art History Candidate Ashley Raghubir @ashraghubir for sharing their ways of approaching and interpreting collectivity, kinship and care within their research and practice last week with usIf you missed the live roundtable, you can catch it through the link in our bio . THANK YOU to the wonderful @eahrconcordia for presenting this event in collaboration with us and to @cu4thspace for being amazing co-hosts!