Event :Colloquium-forum presentation

Taking place at UQAM (Montreal) from June 21st to June 23rd 2010

Topic of the conferences: Matter and Material in Contemporary Native Artistic Practices
Speakers (mainly artists) will present the relation between the subjects that inspire them and the materials they use to express them in their work as creators (or curators) in Quebec and Canada

If you need any supplementary information contact us at: kwe@artial.qc.ca

Message from Artial’s founder, Anaïs Janin, initiator and coordinator of the project:

Hello to all our visitors!

I’m glad to invite you to to Artial’s first colloquium, bringing together more than thirty Native artists, academics, and experts in the diffusion of Native art of Quebec and Canada. We are convinced that their presentations and performances will allow you to discover how, in each sector of cultural activity and for the fifteen or so disciplines touched by the conferences and special activities, the artists are are the carriers of a specific sensitivity.

They contribute, in their own way, to the evolution of the contemporary artistic practices by their hability to build an authentic identity while conciliating influences coming from different sources: the feeling of belonging to the community, the aesthetic streams that cross the cultural milieu, and the inputs coming from outside.
The special activities make up for an integral part of the programme because each participant will be invited to speak out and talk about the meaning of her or his work, either at the photo exhibition opening on Tuesday, or during the closing-show on Wednesday.

The leading thread for the different meetings will be the relation between the subjects that are touched in the artworks (the “Matter”) and the materials used to communicate them. It will be interesting to see if we can pin point some traits that are common to the approaches of persons coming from different disciplines, but also the particularities that make of each creator a unique personality, with her or his own itinerary.

I wish you personaly, in the name of the whole Artial: art & social team, a stimulating experience of discoveries in the company of the presentators and actors of Creation and Diversity in Native Art Today.

Anaïs Janin

Doctorate researcher in sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Administrative director for ARTIAL, which she founded in January 2010.