2022 Webster Library Exhibitions
Seer
Part of Open Access Week 2022, Seer was an interactive digital experience displayed on a Discovery Counter in Webster Library, a computer in the lobby of the Vanier Library, on the screens in the Visualization Studio (October 26) and in the 4TH Space (October 25). Seer invited people to explore questions about our world through open access research sources.
Questions floated across the display, inviting the visitor to touch (or click on) a question to see facts drawn from open access resources. Seer presented several facts (a number or other information) that related to the question. Visitors could then touch or click on each fact to learn more about it. Seer revealed both the open access licence that makes the fact accessible to everyone as well as its source. Information literacy tips were provided along the way.
Seer's playful context was designed to help people discover how open access benefits everyone, both inside and outside of academia. Seer was created for the Library's Open Access Week 2022 (climate justice-themed) activities by Francisco Berrizbeitia, David Somiah Clark, Mary Afonso, Kathleen Botter, Joshua Chalifour, Katharine Hall, Jingjing Li, and Miranda Monosky.
View Seer
100 years of Black community activism: The intersecting histories of the Negro Community Centre and La Maison d'Haiti
October 13, 2022 – January 26, 2023
Webster Library, Vitrines on LB-2
This exhibition highlighted the connections between two important community centres serving Montreal's Black communities: the Negro Community Center (NCC) and La Maison d'Haïti.
Through photographs and documents taken from the Black History and community archives preserved in Concordia University Library's Special Collections and the archives of La Maison d'Haïti, this exhibition provided insight into the educational and cultural programming offered by both organizations.
PETITE ENVELOPPE URBAINE: An Exhibition of Exhibitions in Envelopes
August 1 – September 30, 2022
Webster Library vitrines on LB-2
The Centre de recherche urbaine de Montréal (CRUM) is a symbiotic (parasitic) research group founded in 2000 by Felicity Tayler, Matt Killen and Hugues Charbonneau, and later joined by Douglas Scholes, Alexandra MacIntosh and Christian Carrière. Members of the CRUM collective, also known as “CRUMmies” explore links between art and urban space through their diverse and creative collaborations with artists, artist-run centres and other organizations at local, national and international levels; and through the 20+ year production of their remarkable Petite enveloppe urbaine (PEU) series.
Although the CRUM has produced gallery exhibitions, each work in the PEU series is a de facto temporary exhibition. “Since 1998, the Petite enveloppe urbaine has gathered urbanities of various disciplines around topics concerning their ways of life and their imaginary worlds. The small publication infiltrates different networks in various countries taking the form of paper envelopes containing uncommon projects” — in the tradition of assemblage magazines and portable exhibitions.(1)
This exhibition of exhibitions in envelopes presents a selection of the twenty-three issues of the Petite enveloppe urbaine that have been published since the series' launch in 1998 — first under the supervision of Charbonneau and guest coordinators, and then by the CRUM itself with occasional guest collaborators as of no. 11 (2004). Covering a wide range of topics linked to art and the built environment, works in the exhibition also highlight the imaginative, poetic and playful nature of the CRUM and their collaborators.
The Webster Library thanks the members of the CRUM for their involvement in this exhibition and for the loan of CRUM-related materials. Concordia Library is also grateful to Artexte for the loan of several issues of the PEU to supplement those issues of PEU held by our own Special Collections.
If you already knew about us, you are part of a special group. — CRUM
What have I got myself into? — J.L.
JELLO-2nd attempt from CRUM on Vimeo.
Video: Jell-O (for Disincorporation). Regard, Levis, QC, CRUM, 2018. 1:04 min. CC BY-NC-ND
(1) "Petite enveloppe urbaine." Centre de recherche urbaine de Montréal, https://crum.ca/petite-enveloppe-urbaine/
Image text:
Petite Enveloppe Urbaine, numéro 23, Septembre 2018, Lévis (Québec)
Désincorporation
100 Days, Daimon R. Tayler McLeod, Felicity Tayler & Christopher McLeod
A Family's Exquisite Body, Laurie Lamoureux Scholes, Douglas Scholes, Jaden Scholes & Zach Scholes
Échographies d'un détachement, Christian Carrièere & Audrey Lavallée
Get Your Armorial Bearings, Alexandra McIntosh, Alex Ferko & Isla Ferko
Killen Family Craft Time, Matt Killen, Joanna Foster, Matthew Killen, Ronan Killen & Anya Killen
Rethinking Family, Maude Christie, Daniela Mahmoudi, AnLi Tsang & Rozie Whillans
Cleaving utopia, Amber Berson & Saelan Twerdy
CRUM, Centre de recherche urbaine de Montréal
13/50
Listening, Sound, Agency, Soundworks and Transcriptions (2021-22)
May 16 – September 12, 2022
Webster Library, Audio Stairwell and display cases on LB-2
The Library is pleased to present unique sound-oriented and creative works that emerged from the international SpokenWeb symposium Listening, Sound, Agency organized and hosted as a virtual conference by the Concordia University SpokenWeb team.
Entering the Webster Library through the Audio Stairwell one will hear selections from the thirteen compositions contributed to the Soundworks project played in their original stereo versions, and in digitized versions of mono lathe cut vinyl records. Also on display in the Library are the full set of Riso-printed record covers, and examples of the limited run vinyl records. The sound project was produced by Angus Tarnawsky (PhD, Communication), Deanna Fong (Postdoctoral Fellow in English and History) and Jason Camlot (Professor, English). Art and Design by Leila Gillespie-Cloutier (SpokenWeb Graphic Designer & Webmaster). The exhibition also includes a selection of pages from Quotes: Transcriptions On Listening, Sound, Agency, an experimental citational book of scholarship that excerpts phrases, sentences, and paragraphs from the entire roster of papers and performances presented at the 2021 online SpokenWeb symposium. The Quotes curators are fourth year PhD candidate Klara du Plessis and recent MA graduate Emma Telaro.
Also on display are selected pages from Quotes: Transcriptions On Listening, Sound, Agency, an experimental citational book of scholarship that excerpts phrases, sentences, and paragraphs from the entire roster of papers and performances presented at the 2021 online SpokenWeb symposium. The fragments compiled and rearranged in this book made from transcriptions are taken out of context, but recontextualized to deliberately foreground dialogue, overlap, shared intellectual and creative concerns, and an overall sense of community and collectivity predicated on innovative modes of listening. Quotes' curators are fourth year PhD candidate Klara du Plessis and recent MA graduate Emma Telaro.
Learn more about & listen to some of the Soundworks.
Curated by Jason Camlot, Klara du Plessis, Deanna Fong, Leila Gillespie, Angus Tarnawsky, and Emma Telaro.
Print on the Move, Print Remembered, Projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE Project (2001-2005)
January 10 – March 31, 2022
Webster Library, vitrines and display cases on LB-2
Curated by Hélène Brousseau and Jessica Hébert, with assistance from Alessandra Iavarone
Photograph by Artexte
We invite you to discover the exhibition Print on the Move, Print Remembered, Projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE Project (2001-2005) that features zines, documents and ephemera from the Projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE Project special collection of Artexte.
The project was a volunteer-run initiative, including several Concordia graduates, aimed at expanding the visibility and access to independent publications by way of a travelling exhibition of zines and artists' books that visited communities across North America.
The Webster Library exhibition provides a glimpse into the do-it-yourself spirit of self-publishing, community building and print culture of the early 2000s.
MANUAL: Adam Kinner + Christopher Willes
June 3 – 5, 2022
Webster Library
The Webster Library is pleased to host the 3-day performance titled MANUAL by artists Adam Kinner and Christopher Willes, with guest performer Hanna Sybille Müller, as part of the 2022 OFFTA festival.
“Manual is a one-on-one performance that delves into the sensory and social life of sounds and printed images. Staged covertly in a library, this piece invites viewers to work with a guide to enact a series of tiny actions together – working a collection of disparate materials into a manual for slowing down. They look at and listen to books. Fragments of images, texts, and sound recordings blur into one another. A web of reflections emerges around the act of listening and the intimacy of reading with another person. With Manual, Kinner and Willes stage a quiet meditation on the book as a vector of shared attention.
Adam Kinner + Christopher
Adam Kinner and Christopher Willes make performance projects that evoke an unusual attention to the ordinary in the fraught context of public spaces. Their collaborations often stem from an interest in the sensorial intelligence of sound, audience positionality, and the aesthetic and political possibilities that participatory performance frameworks sometimes unearth. They both have been active in the music and contemporary dance milieux over the past decade. Their previous project, Listening Choir, was shown around Canada and the United Kingdom.”
Source: https://offta.com/en/evenement2022/manual/
Individual performances run for approximately 40 minutes each and take place in the Webster Library. Participation is free to holders of a valid 2022 OFFTA festival pass, although attendees must reserve a time slot in advance with the OFFTA organizers to take part in this event.
