Today's events
I insist is a long-duration performance piece that unfolds over the course of several hours. In it, the artist slowly wraps their body in red sewing thread. With minor, ritualistic, almost inconsequential movements, the piece itself is mostly understood in fragments.
Bodies carry and transmit traces of memories, sites, and stories — both as acts of care and as burdens to bear. Bodies Carrying: Traces and Stories is a two-fold conversation taking the form of a group exhibition and a program consisting of workshops, performances, and talks.
Upcoming events
La cartographie corporelle offre une manière unique et créative d’explorer son identité, ses expériences de vie ou une thématique particulière en centrant le corps et les émotions dans le processus de réflexion.
This workshop offers an immersive, collaborative space for scholars, performers, visual artists, and curators to engage with embodied practices that attune to spectral presences.
Drawing from a post-colonial concern with the preservation of different forms of oral traditions in Morocco, this lecture performance seeks to restage a halqa as both a space and a conduit for ancestral storytelling, performance and communion.
In a movement-based workshop, we propose an exploration of relational possibilities and their bodily expression, anchored in silence(s). Here, silence is not a rupture but a dynamic space of exchange between individuals sharing the same space-time.
2026 will mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of The Senses and Society and coining of the term 'sensory studies.' In this presentation, the editors reflect on their stewardship of the journal and ever-evolving meaning and scope of 'sensory studies' as a term of art.
In an intimate space within the exhibition space, a copera will interact with volunteer participants who visit this spot individually. Before the interaction begins, each participant will be given a token amount, which will be used to exchange stories and typical beverages of the Colombian cafés.
The Concordia Research and Education for Athletic Therapy Excellence (CREATE) Conference is the only academic-oriented event in Canada specifically designed to host both professional and student researchers to disseminate their knowledge creation and network among peers in the field of athletic therapy.
This keynote address investigates the aesthetic, cultural, and scientific discourses of synaesthesia that inspired the flourishing exchanges among the modern arts.
Walking Interludes is a reflective reading about walking, place, race, identity, and memory. In this reading, I share short excerpts from my field journal that I kept during my research visits to Belfast and Lahore.
This is an event composed of two artist presentations followed by a joint Q&A.
In this talk, the keynote speaker will explore some ideas on the ontology of the social and relate it to the metaphysics of the senses in order to make the argument that cultural practices are not only based on an implicit ontology of the social but also on the belief that the social is sensorially accessible.
The keynote speaker argues that sensing entails positioning oneself at the very edge of a phenomenon – inhabiting the liminal – in order to observe a field of rapidly morphing forces. Drawing examples from landscape archaeology to glaciology and environmentally-informed art, she will explore environmental sensing as rhythms, vibrations, bandwidths, resonances, and frequencies that create fluid and liminal sense-impressions of an unresolved natural process, and through it, opportunities for remapping and rephrasing the criss-crossing umwelts of the planetary sensorium.
Join us for an interactive workshop based on the new book Beyond Molotovs. A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies. The workshop will include an exhibition and discussion of how — using images, songs, memes, poems, occupation of spaces, symbols, graffiti, murals, and stickers — people craft aesthetics of resistance that can be used to confront authoritarian tendencies.
Join us for Arts for Laughs, a one-of-a-kind celebration where comedy meets creativity! This full-day event brings together multidisciplinary comedian-artists for workshops, visual art, and a stand-up showcase — all in one immersive experience.
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