6th conference
Diverse Leadership in Canadian End-Goal Arts Institutions: A Comparative Study
Important milestones in diverse leadership at major museums and galleries in Canada have occurred in recent years. For an industry that has long faced criticisms related to exclusion, this move towards empowering more diverse leaders is noteworthy.
At Director and CEO-level positions, landmark firsts have been announced and achieved. Through analysis of press releases, announcements, media sources, events and public responses related to these historic moments, patterns emerge. A close reading of this public domain ephemera yields tenors and tones which coalesce into coherent narratives.
By focusing on the archive of the digital realm—and bringing a media analysis into conversation with notions of historic haunting—we can ascertain reoccurring themes. What goes unspoken? What remains obfuscated? What patterns continuously reemerge?
Lecture presented in English.
Exposer/exposées. À propos de la double pratique de deux artistes-commissaires noires à Tiohtià:ke/Moonyiang/Montréal.
Cécilia Bracmort and Michaëlle Sergile are both artists and curators. Why did they choose to adopt a dual practice? And what does it mean to exhibit and to be exhibited? How do these artists articulate their own practice in relation to that of the artists they champion?
In this lecture, I aim to understand what might lead two Black artists to cross over to “the other side,” the impact that curating has had on their own artistic practice, and finally, what their singular perspective brings to exhibition programming in Tiohtià:ke/Moonyiang/Montréal.
Lecture presented in French.
Modératrice
Abigail E. Celis is an assistant professor in Art History and Museum Studies at the Université de Montréal (Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang) and received her PhD in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the afterlives of colonialism and decolonial imaginaries as witnessed through contemporary Francophone visual culture, artistic creation, and museums, with a focus on the work of diasporic artists. Her research practice includes curation, creative collaborations, and scholarly publications, and she has received several awards and grants for her research and writing. Recent projects include an article on queer carework in a performance by Mame Diarra-Niang, and an exhibition titled The Catalogue of Speculative Translations which was created in collaboration with artist Cosmo Whyte and reimagines the pasts and futures of African art collections through intermedial translations.
