Until Nov. 16 - Contested Site: Archives and The City

Contested Site: Archives and the City, the exhibition on view in October and November 2012 at the FOFA Gallery, is part of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) conference being hosted by Concordia University this fall.

Through photography, video, printmaking, drawing, storytelling and performance, the people involved in Contested Site: Archives and the City make clear how artists perform as researchers as well as producers of cultural content. The exhibition looks closely at this relationship and showcases the diverse outcomes produced by Concordia’s fine arts community.

Contested Site: Archives and the City highlights the emerging phenomenon of research/creation, which is redefining institutions, pedagogy, funding agencies and artistic practice in a reflexive manner, as perhaps a contested site itself.

In conjunction with this exhibition, a catalogue publication, Les Cahiers, will be launched at the vernissage. This collection of small format volumes will present text, notations, and ephemera as works in and of themselves. The publications are not framing documents or responses to artistic production, but a component of the discursive praxis of research/creation.

What: Contested Site: Archives and the City exhibition
When: October 22 to November 16, 2012, Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Where: FOFA Gallery, Room EV-1.715, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (1515 Ste-Catherine St. W.), Sir George Williams Campus

What: Contested Site: Archives and the City vernissage, catalogue launch Les Cahiers and Eliza Griffiths’ Love, Alienation and Free Association exhibition publication
When: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 7 to 9 p.m.
Where: FOFA Gallery, Room EV 1.715, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (1515 Ste-Catherine St. W.), Sir George Williams Campus

Participating artists:
June Ying-Li Aldinucci / Peter C. van Wyck, École de la Montagne Rouge, Andrew Forster, Shauna Janssen, Thomas Kneubuhler, Shauna Janssen, Douglas Moffat, François Morelli, Taien Ng-Chan, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Emmelyne Pornillos/Candice Tarnowski, RECTO/VERSO Collective: Tina Carlisi/Joshua Fourney/Katerina Lagassé, Jeff Scheible, Matt Soar, Matthew Thomson, Étienne Tremblay-Tardif, Steven Woloshen, and more

Curatorial team:
Christopher Moore (Associate Professor, Department of Design and Computation Arts), jake moore (Director, FOFA Gallery)

Catalogue design:
Pata Macedo (Part-time instructor, Department of Design and Computation Arts)

Catalogue production team:
Tina Carlisi, (MA student, art education), Joshua Fourney (MA student, Individualized Program), Jacquelyn Hébert (MFA student, studio arts), Christiana Myers (FOFA Gallery intern, funded by a New Brunswick Arts Council grant), Kyle Goforth (BFA student, design)

Admission is free of charge and open to all. For more information, visit the FOFA Gallery website or call 514-848-2424, ext. 7962 during gallery opening hours.

Related links:
•   FOFA Gallery
•   Universities Art Association of Canada