Join us for our last Walk in LePARC of the semester with visiting artist Margo Zālīte! Following a residency at LePARC, she will share her current process and work through informal discussion. Margo Zālīte describes her work as “moving pain paintings” that, in a free flow, balance between reality and imagination. Numerous opera productions have […]
"we are all 'in this together' as a shifting set of materials without privilege over each other." (Attala 2019) In this 2.5-hour workshop, you will learn the basics of paper-making and how to use pulp to form 3D objects. We will focus on repurposing and using found materials to create imagined creatures. This playful workshop […]
A one-day workshop hosted by the City of Montreal, the Milieux Biolab, and the Concordia Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality In urban settings, the toxicity of the air, a milieu that is felt although invisible, is a growing issue. Particulate matter and gases generated by transport and construction activities have significant […]
Participatory Open Studio: VHS Residence at LePARC with visiting artist and master's student Juan Miceli. I will be working with 80 VHS cassettes that VCR Concordia gave me to construct a temporary collective video installation. I invite people to open those casetes, share personal archives, discuss the way vision machines mold us and find antidotes […]
Join Nostagain's path to creative nostalgia with a neuroscientist-artist via guided meditation, active recollection, and diorama crafting! Following the successful LOSTAGAIN symposium last February, the Nostagain Network continues the exploration of Creative Nostalgia (Boym 2001) in an intimate fashion. Led by neuroscientist-artist, Dr. Cristian Zaelzer, participants can expect to: Bring your oldest owned object to the workshop; Tell […]
We are happy to invite everyone to join us for the first workshop in the Soft & Squishy Sensing Switches series: Fabric pressure sensors and soft switches workshop, with lee wilkens & Alex Bachmayer. When? Monday, March 13th 2:00 – 5:00 pm Where? MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825) In this workshop you will learn how to use e-textiles to […]
This workshop will give an overview and teach the participants how to use the free, open-source, cross-platform software ossia score, starting from the ground up, and with the goal to enable them to create installation work, displays, interactive music. The workshop will be given by the software’s principal author, Concordia postdoc Jean-Michaël Celerier. Dubbed “interactive […]
This month there is space to flow. This Thursday, February 23rd at 5pm, LePARC invites you to an improvisation session with experimental sound/music maker Adriana Minu. The proposed framework is pretty simple: 3x20minute moments of improvisation with conversations in between. I make openings for the voice and body but you can improvise with whatever works […]
Are you coming with me under my umbrella? Join us for the next installment of A Walk in LePARC with multidisciplinary artist Patricia Ragazzon, on February 16, 2023, from 2-5 PM. In her doctoral research on embodied learning as a pedagogical process, Patricia Ragazzon develops the concept of “performative compositions” as modes of creation with […]
The Aging in Data project is hosting the workshop How We Live with Data - in a collaboration with the Atwater Library - with researchers Nicole Dalmer, Cal Biruk, and Stephanie Hatzifilalithis. The workshop will be happening on February 10th, from 1:00-5:00 PM, at the Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) The aim of this interactive […]
The Concordia Ethnography Lab is happy to invite you to a workshop with Kristina Lyons (UPenn) on January 27 th at 1:00 pm: Rivers and Reconciliation: Elaborating the Sociological Memory of War Through Science and Arts-based practices. During this workshop, Dr. Lyons will present an ethnographic and participatory action research project to reconstruct the “socioecological […]
Join us for our first Walk in LePARC of 2023 with visiting curator, artist and producer Bek Berger about interdisciplinary creation and production. We'll discuss various disciplinary perspectives on creative process, professional practices, and conceptual concerns when engaging with performance, music, material, and other forms. Bek Berger Berger is an Australian curator, artist and creative […]
