2018 Webster Library Exhibitions
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Boundless Dialogues
April 3 – 30, 2018
Vernissage April 26, 2018
Curators
Melinda Reinhart, senior librarian emeritus
Others
Organized by Bonnie Baxter, Jenny Lin, Stephanie Russ, and Patrick Visentin, from the Print Media Program
Artists
Shazia Ahmad, Mauricio Aristizabal, Alejandro A. Barbosa, Nix Burox, Lindsey Carter, Cariston Fawcett, Jacques Fournier, Pierre de Montalte, Frédéric Lamontagne, and Alix Roederer-Morin
Description
This exhibition was centered on the intersection of artists’ books by master bookbinder Jacques Fournier with those of studio arts students who responded to his work. In the dialogues that emerged, the bookworks variously spoke to the unconventional structures and materials or evocative stories that push boundaries of the traditional book format inherent to Fournier’s artists’ books.
Curated by Melinda Reinhart, senior librarian emeritus, this exhibition was a culmination of a six-month project initiated by print media professors Bonnie Baxter, Jenny Lin, Stephanie Russ, and Patrick Visentin who worked in collaboration with Jacques Fournier and mentored students throughout the project.
Leisure, "How one becomes what one is"
November 19, 2017 – January 18, 2018
2nd floor vitrines and Digital Collections Discovery counters
Concordia Library is proud to present How one becomes what one is – a project organized by Leisure (Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley) and based on research they carried out as artists in residence at Concordia’s Visual Collections Repository (VCR) in 2018. The VCR is an academic resource that provides visual documentation to support the research and teaching needs of the Faculty of Fine Arts. The VCR Residency Program invites artists, like Leisure, to explore and interpret their unique visual resources.
During their residency, Leisure explored the collections of both VCR and the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative (CWAHI) at Concordia. They also took this opportunity to reflect upon traditional documentary practices around women artists in general. For their Webster Library installation, Leisure draws inspiration from the extensive visual collections of VCR, the role of slide presentations in the history of art pedagogy, and an early 20th century play by Lina Loos (1882-1950). The unexpected transformation and juxtaposition of art images in How one becomes what one is brings new meaning to how we experience art through visual documentation.
Oral History Exhibitions
Five exhibitions installed at the Webster Library explore the ways that stories can teach us about the past and present. These exhibitions, described below, coincided with the Oral History Association’s annual conference, hosted by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
Creative Engagements with Personal Story at COHDS (Curated by Lauren Laframboise, images by David Ward) explores the different research-creation projects undertaken at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
Walk in the Water/Marcher sur les eaux (Kathleen Vaughan, Concordia University Research Chair in Socially Engaged Art and Public Pedagogies and COHDS co-director) invites visitors to learn about the history of the St. Lawrence river’s Pointe-Saint-Charles shoreline by engaging with a touch-sensitive textile sound map.
Oral History, New Media and Our Changing Climate – The Shore Line (Elizabeth Miller) is a pop-up gallery of slow resistance stories featuring individuals who are confronting the threats of unsustainable development, storms and rising seas with both persistence and imagination.
Walking With (Pohanna Pyne Feinberg) is a sound-art installation in the library’s entrance stairway that explores the potential of walking as a form of artistic inquiry and expression.
Storytellers-Illustrer les mémoires de l’éducation autochtone: une case à la fois (Emanuelle Dufour, PhD student in Art Education) is a graphic art project on indigenous education, historical awareness and cultural safety.
Queer Print Club Exhibition
Queer Print Club Exhibition
Webster Library, September 7 - October 4, 2018
2nd floor
Concordia Library is pleased to announce a new display in the Webster Library organized by the Queer Print Club (QPC).
QPC is a community of queer identifying artists acting collectively towards publications, workshops and community outreach.
We welcome members of all disciplines to participate in the wonders of print. We aim to build a sense of togetherness through collaborative projects that demonstrate the various talents of the members.
The World Remembers
The World Remembers
Webster Library, September 12 – November 11, 2018
2nd floor, to the right of entrance
8 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. Free.
Concordia Library is pleased to announce a new display in the library entitled The World Remembers which will run from September 12 through November 11, 2018.
This display, curated by the non-profit organization The World Remembers, is an international and multi-institutional commemoration of those who died in WWl. The lives lost in the 1914-1918 war have been remembered collectively, but forgotten personally.
For this reason, the names of more than 1 million soldiers killed in 1918, including over 23,000 Canadian soldiers, will be projected in the library.
Each name is programmed to appear at a precise minute, allowing anyone anywhere in the world to find the exact moment when a lost relative will appear. For more information about this project, please consult the The World Remembers.
Photo courtesy: Concordia Records Management and Archives
