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.
The lectures are held in English and generally recorded for our Youtube channel.
Our next speaker
Nico Williams –
February 10, 2023
Nico Williams, ᐅᑌᒥᐣ (b. 1989) is Anishinaabe and member of Aamjiwnaang First Nation community. He is currently working in Tiohtià:ke | Mooniyang | Montréal. He has a multidisciplinary, often collaborative practice that is centered around sculptural beadwork.
2022-23 schedule at-a-glance
- 16 September - PAUL MAHEKE. Presented in collaboration with Diagonale.
- 7 October - SOPHIA HIRSCH + JOHANNES MUNDINGER. Presented with the Museum of Jewish Montreal.
- 21 October - KELLY JAZVAC.
- 4 November - GENDERFAIL.
- 18 November - MARA EAGLE - the 2020 Bronfman Fellow
- 27 January - LOU SHEPPARD. Presented in collaboration with Diagonale
- 10 February - NICO WILLIAMS - the 2021 Bronfman Fellow
- 24 February - NELSON HENRICKS + MARK LANCTÔT in collaboration with the MAC
- 17 March - RITA McKEOUGH
- 31 March - Collaborative event with WORLDING PUBLIC CULTURES
Questions?
Please contact maya rae oppenheimer, CiCA convenor and Assistant Professor, Department of Studio Arts + Interdisciplinary Studies in Fine Arts.
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.
