{"id":18647,"date":"2026-07-11T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=18647"},"modified":"2026-07-11T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:48:29","slug":"montreal-city-as-archive-artist-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/news\/montreal-city-as-archive-artist-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal: City as Archive Artist Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-City-as-Archive-5x4b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-City-as-Archive-5x4b.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-City-as-Archive-5x4b-600x750.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-City-as-Archive-5x4b-700x875.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-City-as-Archive-5x4b-300x375.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-City-as-Archive-5x4b-768x960.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-City-as-Archive-5x4b-260x325.jpg 260w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-City-as-Archive-5x4b-799x999.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARTIST LAB UPDATE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Montreal: City as Archive Artist Lab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An in-person Artist Lab in Montreal, Tuesday, 27 July to Sunday, 2 August 2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Montreal: City as Archive Collage Artist Lab is a five-day intensive where collage artists use Place as a laboratory and spend a week making artwork; learning about the city, its people, and its history; and discussing how art can capture, share, reflect, comment, and otherwise engage with a sense of place.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THESIS: Place as Archive&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Place as Archive takes as its premise that the landscape can be viewed as a sort of archive from which artists can draw, not unlike a material archive maintained in an institutional collection. When artists approach a place as an archive, they draw out a deeper, more complex understanding of that place that enriches our understanding of our communities, helps us be better citizens, and empowers us to take better care of our neighbors. Place as Archive intersects with other Kolaj Institute Projects around photography, folklore, trash as material, and history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see the Place as Archive is to consider all the things that make up that place as holding a story. The shape of a building may speak to past economics. Trash on the ground may tell us what people are eating or how they feel about their community. Graffiti, Street Art, and signage become part of the public discourse. The shape of streets and sidewalks; the shape and placement of parks or green space; the markings on bricks or manhole covers; all of these things point to complex human systems of place making and belonging. Be they grand or mundane, they are opportunities for artists to tell us something about the world we live in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em>The Lure of the Local<\/em>, Lucy Lippard writes about the fragmented nature of contemporary life. \u201cMost of us live such fragmented lives and have so many minicommunities that no one knows us as a whole. The incomplete self longs for the fragments to be brought together. This can\u2019t be done without a context, a place.\u201d Collage is the work of bringing fragments together into a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THESIS: Montreal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Centered on an island at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, for nearly four centuries, Montreal has played a key role in the economic, political, and cultural life of Canada and played host to many important international events. Deeply cosmopolitan, Montreal is a quilt of many communities and identities. Its flag holds space for English, French, Irish, and Scottish people who built the city and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) who lived on the land before its colonization. Its patchwork of neighborhoods were shaped by Jewish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, and Chinese immigrants arriving in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and later by more recent arrivals from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Originally dominated by the Catholic Church, Quebec experienced the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s that led to the secular, pro-French language, progressive State which governs the city and the province today. Gavin Bloomberg wrote, \u201cOne of Montreal\u2019s most striking features is its multiculturalism\u2026Walking through the streets you hear French, English, Arabic, Italian, and Mandarin. It\u2019s not just the languages, but this diversity is also reflected in the Montreal food scene\u2026The city\u2019s architectural landscape further represents my love for the city and its unique identity\u2026Yet for all the beauty, Montreal also has some complexities.\u201d Jake Pitre wrote, \u201cMontreal is a hub of cultural contradictions, a home to many thousands of immigrants, an erotic city bursting with sensuality, a queer-friendly atmosphere set alongside deep religious roots, and a place of seasonal extremes: deadly hot in the summer (we read in parks), endlessly frigid in the winter (we read at home). There are characters around every corner, in every fresh bagel shop, independent bookstore, hip cin\u00e9math\u00e8que, and lush green park. In other words, Montreal certainly has a reputation, but it\u2019s one that is so baroque and multifarious that it always comes back around feeling unexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artist Lab: Montreal: City as Archive&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artist Labs are an intensive series of workshops and discussions designed to develop proposals for multifaceted contemporary art projects. Through a series of presentations, site visits, walks, artists explored the idea of archive, place, and the role of artist research; developed strategies of making, exhibiting, and publishing collage art that speaks to a sense of place and history; heard about Kolaj Institute Projects and how artists can make art for books and exhibitions around photography and collage, architecture, trash as materials, folklore, poetry, and place as archive. Artists explored Montreal with a focus on Little Italy, Mile End, Plateau Mont-Royal, the Gay Village, Place des Arts<strong>, <\/strong>Downtown, Chinatown, and Old Montreal. Artists reflected on Montreal\u2019s history as held in the McCord Stewart Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designed with collage artists in mind, the Artist Lab considered how collagists find and use material culture in their work. The Lab spoke to issues of appropriation, copyright, and fair use and explore how the artist\u2019s choice and understanding of material shapes the narrative of the artwork. Other topics included artist practice, approaches to research and play, building context for artwork, and diffusion into the ecosystem of art.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to traveling to Montreal, artists particpated in two virtual meetings that addressed questions around logistics and presented the curatorial framework for the project. Artists were provided a list of readings and resources they may have used to prepare for their visit. While in Montreal, the Artist Lab was based out of Atelier Galerie 2112 in Montreal\u2019s Gay Village. A unique, independent, and self-managed space, since 2017 the gallery has provided artists who wish to take their careers into their own hands, with a professional space for creation, archiving, and the dissemination of their works. Warm, welcoming, unpretentious, and human-scaled Atelier Galerie 2112 will become a collage making studio for the week. Artists had access to a printer, a library of collage materials and tools, as well as substrates. At the end of the week, artists made brief presentations of their artwork and spoke about their proposals to develop a larger body of work or project. After the Artist Lab, the cohort reconvened virtually to discuss progress, share feedback with each other, and discuss next steps.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lab was led by Ric Kasini Kadour, director of Kolaj Institute and editor of <em>Kolaj Magazine<\/em>, who as a 2020-2021 recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, spent a year investigating the intersection of art and history.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">OUTCOME<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artist Labs are designed to develop a proposal for a contemporary art project or body of artwork.  By participating in the Montreal: City as Archive, artists became members of Kolaj Institute\u2019s Place as Archive Project and will be invited to submit to exhibitions, contribute to programs at Kolaj Fest New Orleans or Kolaj LIVE Online, and receive curatorial and community support for their projects through one-on-one meetings and virtual meet-ups.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artwork made during and after the lab was considered for the exhibition, \u201cPlace as Archive\u201d, at <a href=\"https:\/\/kolajinstitute.org\/kolaj-institute-gallery-new-orleans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kolaj Institute Gallery<\/a> in New Orleans, 1 October to 14 November 2026 and future publications about Place as Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PARTICIPATING ARTISTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1275\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/laura-cannamela-kinderhook-creek.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18648\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/laura-cannamela-kinderhook-creek.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/laura-cannamela-kinderhook-creek-600x765.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/laura-cannamela-kinderhook-creek-700x893.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/laura-cannamela-kinderhook-creek-300x383.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/laura-cannamela-kinderhook-creek-768x979.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/laura-cannamela-kinderhook-creek-260x332.jpg 260w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/laura-cannamela-kinderhook-creek-784x999.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Kinderhook Creek<\/em> by Laura Cannamela<br>6.25&#8243;x5&#8243;; layered cut paper collage; 2026. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Laura Cannamela, Valatie, New York, USA<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lauracannamela.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.lauracannamela.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"2060\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/denise-clemen-foxglove-guardian-of-our-hearts.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/denise-clemen-foxglove-guardian-of-our-hearts.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/denise-clemen-foxglove-guardian-of-our-hearts-600x1236.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/denise-clemen-foxglove-guardian-of-our-hearts-700x1442.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/denise-clemen-foxglove-guardian-of-our-hearts-300x618.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/denise-clemen-foxglove-guardian-of-our-hearts-768x1582.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/denise-clemen-foxglove-guardian-of-our-hearts-746x1536.jpg 746w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/denise-clemen-foxglove-guardian-of-our-hearts-994x2048.jpg 994w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/denise-clemen-foxglove-guardian-of-our-hearts-485x999.jpg 485w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/denise-clemen-foxglove-guardian-of-our-hearts-260x536.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Foxglove, Guardian of Our Hearts<\/em> by Denise Clemen<br>12\u201dx6\u201d; marbled paper, book images; 2026. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Denise Clemen, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/deniseemanuelclemen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deniseemanuelclemen.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/sarah-cowling-think.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18651\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/sarah-cowling-think.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/sarah-cowling-think-600x599.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/sarah-cowling-think-700x699.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/sarah-cowling-think-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/sarah-cowling-think-768x767.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/sarah-cowling-think-260x260.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Think<\/em> by Sarah Cowling<br>12&#8243;x12&#8243;; collage; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sarah Cowling, London, Ontario, Canada<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sarahcowlingartist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1548\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-davi-the-perils-of-scrutiny.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18652\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-davi-the-perils-of-scrutiny.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-davi-the-perils-of-scrutiny-600x929.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-davi-the-perils-of-scrutiny-700x1084.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-davi-the-perils-of-scrutiny-300x464.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-davi-the-perils-of-scrutiny-768x1189.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-davi-the-perils-of-scrutiny-992x1536.jpg 992w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-davi-the-perils-of-scrutiny-645x999.jpg 645w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-davi-the-perils-of-scrutiny-260x402.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Perils of Scrutiny<\/em> by Bar Davi<br>9&#8243;x6&#8243;; found images; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bar Davi, Auburn, California, USA<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/saatchiart.com\/bardavi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saatchiart.com\/bardavi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1286\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/robin-duncan-smiling-through-the-tears.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18653\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/robin-duncan-smiling-through-the-tears.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/robin-duncan-smiling-through-the-tears-600x772.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/robin-duncan-smiling-through-the-tears-700x900.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/robin-duncan-smiling-through-the-tears-300x386.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/robin-duncan-smiling-through-the-tears-768x988.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/robin-duncan-smiling-through-the-tears-260x334.jpg 260w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/robin-duncan-smiling-through-the-tears-777x999.jpg 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Smiling Through the Tears<\/em> by Robin Duncan<br>12&#8243;x9&#8243;; hand cut pieces from old magazines and acrylic marker on mixed media paper; 2026. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Robin Duncan, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/collagequeen.art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1633\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/ernest-lopez-dominonation-set-two-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18654\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/ernest-lopez-dominonation-set-two-.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/ernest-lopez-dominonation-set-two--600x980.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/ernest-lopez-dominonation-set-two--700x1143.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/ernest-lopez-dominonation-set-two--300x490.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/ernest-lopez-dominonation-set-two--768x1254.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/ernest-lopez-dominonation-set-two--941x1536.jpg 941w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/ernest-lopez-dominonation-set-two--612x999.jpg 612w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/ernest-lopez-dominonation-set-two--260x425.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Dominonation Set Two<\/em> by Ernest Lopez<br>78&#8243;x48&#8243;; photocopy, type c-print, paint on board; 2009. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ernest Lopez, Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/lopezborrero.faso.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lopezborrero.faso.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"975\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/julianna-mccarthy-littoral-dreamscape.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18655\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/julianna-mccarthy-littoral-dreamscape.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/julianna-mccarthy-littoral-dreamscape-600x585.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/julianna-mccarthy-littoral-dreamscape-700x683.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/julianna-mccarthy-littoral-dreamscape-300x293.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/julianna-mccarthy-littoral-dreamscape-768x749.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/julianna-mccarthy-littoral-dreamscape-260x254.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Littoral Dreamscape<\/em> by Julianna McCarthy<br>10&#8243;x8&#8243;; mixed media collage; 2017. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Julianna McCarthy, Norris Point, Newfoundland &amp; Labrador, Canada<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/surrealdeepcuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1286\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/dominique-norville-the-world.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18656\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/dominique-norville-the-world.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/dominique-norville-the-world-600x772.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/dominique-norville-the-world-700x900.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/dominique-norville-the-world-300x386.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/dominique-norville-the-world-768x988.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/dominique-norville-the-world-260x334.jpg 260w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/dominique-norville-the-world-777x999.jpg 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The World<\/em> by Dominique Norville<br>8&#8243;x6.75&#8243;; paper collage, acrylic paint; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dominique Norville, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/danorvil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABOUT KOLAJ INSTITUTE\u2019S PLACE AS ARCHIVE PROJECT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kolaj Institute\u2019s Place as Archive investigates how artists incorporate a sense of place into their collage art as a way of drawing out deeper, more complex stories. The project takes as its premise that the landscape can be viewed as a sort of archive from which artists can draw, not unlike a material archive maintained in an institutional collection. When artists approach a place as an archive, they draw out a deeper, more complex understanding of that place that enriches our understanding of our communities, helps us be better citizens, and empowers us to take better care of our neighbors. With a current focus on New Orleans, Montreal, and Scotland, the project manifests as residencies, articles, exhibitions, and publications. Place as Archive intersects with other Kolaj Institute Projects around <a href=\"https:\/\/kolajinstitute.org\/photography-collage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">photography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/kolajinstitute.org\/folklore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">folk<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kolajinstitute.org\/trash-as-material\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lore, trash as material<\/a>, and history. Learn more <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/kolajinstitute.org\/place-as-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABOUT RIC KASINI KADOUR<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ric Kasini Kadour, a 2020-2021 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow, is a writer, artist, publisher, cultural worker, and the director of Kolaj Institute. His curation work includes exhibitions in Louisiana, New Mexico, Quebec, Scotland, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Vermont. Kadour is the editor and publisher of <em>Kolaj Magazine<\/em>, as well as the editor of the Kolaj Institute journals, <em>PoetryXCollage <\/em>and <em>Folklore Collage Society<\/em>. He has written for a number of galleries and his writing has appeared in publications including <em>Hyperallergic<\/em>, <em>OEI<\/em>, <em>Art New England<\/em> (where he was the former Vermont editor), and <em>Wissenschaft und Frieden<\/em>. Kadour maintains an active art practice and his photography, collage, film and sculpture have been exhibited in and are part of private collections in Australia, Europe and North America. In January-February 2020, he was artist-in-residence at MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar, Scotland. He holds a BA in Comparative Religion from the University of Vermont. Kadour splits his time between Montreal and New Orleans. Learn more at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickasinikadour.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.rickasinikadour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABOUT ATELIER GALERIE 2112<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 2017 by Artist-Entrepreneur Antoine Giasson, Atelier Galerie 2112 is a unique, independent, and self-managed space dedicated to presenting high-quality Visual Arts exhibitions in Montreal. The Gallery\u2019s mission is to provide Artists who wish to take their careers into their own hands, with a professional rental space for Creation, Archiving, and the Dissemination of their works. The Mission of the Gallery is to promote and showcase excellence in Contemporary Visual Art from Montreal and beyond, encourage the advancement of current Art and the excellence of traditional and figurative practices and methods, democratize and raise awareness of local Artistic talent, offer a place where it is possible to meet Artists during the Creation process, and provide training and skill development in Art through drawing and painting workshops. Atelier Galerie 2112 aims to maintain a professional network among Artists committed to excellence and various stakeholders in the Art world. The goal is to ensure a promising and solid future for a local Art community dedicated to excellence. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ateliergalerie2112.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.ateliergalerie2112.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTIST LAB UPDATE Montreal: City as Archive Artist Lab An in-person Artist Lab in Montreal, Tuesday, 27 July to Sunday, 2 August 2026 Montreal: City as Archive Collage Artist Lab is a five-day intensive where collage artists use Place as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/news\/montreal-city-as-archive-artist-lab\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,3,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute","category-news","category-project","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-City-as-Archive-5x4b.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-4QL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18627,"url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-events\/montreal-collage-artist-meet-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":18647,"position":0},"title":"Montreal Collage Artist Meet-up","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"10 July 2026","format":"gallery","excerpt":"COMMUNITY EVENT Montreal Collage Artist Meet-Up at Atelier Galerie 2112, 2112 rue AtatekenMontr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec H2L 3L8 Monday, 27 July 2026, 7-9PM EDT Hosted by Kolaj Institute RSVP On Monday, 27 July 2026, 7-9PM EDT, we would like to invite any Montreal Collage Artist to join us for an evening of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/category\/content\/collage-events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-Collage-Artist-Meet-up5x4.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-Collage-Artist-Meet-up5x4.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-Collage-Artist-Meet-up5x4.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Montreal-Collage-Artist-Meet-up5x4.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13041,"url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/new-orleans-collage-artist-lab-city-as-archive\/","url_meta":{"origin":18647,"position":1},"title":"New Orleans Collage Artist Lab: City as Archive","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"30 October 2022","format":"gallery","excerpt":"COLLAGE ARTIST LAB New Orleans Collage Artist Lab: City as Archive Kolaj Institute is pleased to announce the eight artists selected to participate in the New Orleans Collage Artist Lab: City as Archive, November 2022 Public Talk:The City as Archive by Ric Kasini Kadour at the Milton H. 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