Panel

Presented by Art Matters Festival
Feb 27, 2025 ― Feb 27, 2025

This panel will be held at Livart as part of the second edition of the Forum arts visuels émergents – FAVE 2025.

 

Thursday 27th, February from 6pm to 7:30pm at Livart

Curatorial statement: How will we make space for queer bodies in a future where it is no longer available, accessible, or welcoming? Bringing together four emerging artists, this public discussion will examine diverse queer reactions to a nostalgia for community spaces. Using moving images, 3D visualization, video games, dance, and historical research, these artists reimagine the purpose of abandoned, hostile or lost places, remembering their potential to create better futures for marginalized communities. Linked by a queer approach to personal and public archives, their work documents, recreates and transforms environments digitally. In a moment when erasures resulting from systemic oppression have left gaps in the histories available to queer people, they prompt us to rethink how the past can be a source of inspiration to imagine new queer spaces. In these spaces, it is possible to hold sustainable community gatherings; it is possible to make a hostile place feel like home; it is possible to become two worlds at once, blurring the line between here and there; and in the end, it is possible to dance and party like it’s our last time.

Facilitator: Filémon Brault-Archambeault (they/them) (iel/il/elle)

Junes Dreyfus (she/her) (elle); Isaiah Coacher (he/him); Skkandaloza (they/them) (iel); Belén Catalán (she/they)

 

No reservations required.

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An activity presented by Art Matters Festival

Art Matters is North America’s largest student-run Fine Arts festival that takes place every year in March. Since 2000, Art Matters has hosted exhibitions and events across Montreal creating platforms and opportunities for undergraduate artists studying at Concordia University.