Conversations in Contemporary Art
Lecture series
Conversations in Contemporary Art (CiCA) is a visiting artist lecture series and graduate-level course where artists, designers, critics, writers, educators, and curators share their practice(s) and perspectives. CiCA talks are free and open to the general public.
Our next event
Conversations in Contemporary Art will return in September 2025 with a fresh line-up of distinguished artists, critics, writers and curators from the Canadian and international community.
To view videos of past events, please explore our archive.
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Questions?
Please contact Surabhi Ghosh, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Studio Arts.
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Grants and projects
During the pandemic, we invited students to think about "radical hospitality". What is hospitality in a period of emergencies, and how can such a frame be explored by an art school tied to a university? Placing the adjective ‘radical’ before ‘hospitality’ introduced what seemed to be the right amount of emotional and intellectual tension to structure a critical series of engagements between cultural workers and their community.
The result was our CiCA in Your Studio series on Instagram, a video collection where MFA students shared their workspaces and pandemic lives.
