The AGAVF’s Curatorial Incubator
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Episode recorded in French
This podcast was produced by Véronique Leblanc, with the collaboration of Anne Bertrand, Communications Manager. It features the voices of Maryse Arseneault, Marie-Pier Malouin and Carolina Reis, emerging curators of the 2020 Curatorial Incubator, as well as sound clips from the video works, Bald, by Xavier Gould (Chiquita Mére) and HELLOS by Linda Rae Dornan, both presented in the exhibition Walking the Periphery | la bouche pleine de terre curated by Maryse Arseneault and presented at AX in Sussex, New Brunswick. Thanks to Andrew Harder for the mastering.
The Association des groupes en arts visuels francophones is the sector specialist for the visual arts in Canada’s official language francophone communities. As a national arts service organization, AGAVF is committed to the consolidation of a unique professional network across the country, in close collaboration with its provincial and national partners in the visual arts and the Canadian Francophonie. The collectives, artist-run cents, art galleries, and professional associations of the Canadian Francophonie play an important role in professionalization, circulation, and mediation and participate in the vitality of the milieu and the discipline locally, provincially, and nationally.
The Curatorial Incubator is open to emerging curators from the Francophone and Acadian communities who have already completed at least one curatorial project, as well as to any emerging curator whose projects primarily involve artists from these communities. Three applications are selected by a committee that includes the curator-mentor.
The first incubator took place in July 2019 at the Church Point campus of Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia. Following the success of this project, AGAVF has added this initiative to its annual programming.
Curatorial Incubator (AGAVF)
Created by: Véronique LeBlanc and Anne Bertrand (AGAVF)
Guests: Anne Bertrand, Véronique Leblanc, Carolina Reis, Maryse Arseneault and Marie-Pier Malouin
Music d’ARTériel: Allumette
Image: Claire Moeder
Véronique Leblanc is an independent curator, author and lecturer in art history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her most recent exhibitions include: Instrumental Stories (Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen and the Acadian Museum of l'Université de Moncton, 2019), Chto Delat? Performative Practices of Our Time (Vox, 2018), Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens. La vie mise au travail (Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montréal, 2016), Polyphonies (Optica, Montréal, 2015), and faire avec (AdMare, Îles-de-la-Madeleine, 2013). A graduate of UQAM's Master of Arts Studies program (2009), she views the exhibition projects she initiates and the pedagogical adventures in which she is involved as shared learning opportunities. Her current research focuses on the collective imagination in contemporary art through a set of artistic practices that combine collaborative and performative approaches with documentary strategies.
Image: Andrew Harder
Anne Bertrand has been active in the visual arts community for over twenty years. She directed Skol, an artist-run center from 2004 to 2012, and until recently, she directed ARCA, a national service organization that brings together artist-run centers in Canada and Quebec. Anne is currently working independently in communications support for AGAVF and for ARCA on a series of three instructional videos on artist-run centers that will be released shortly.
Credits
Realization
Véronique Leblanc with the collaboration of Anne Bertrand
Voices
Anne Bertrand, Véronique Leblanc, Carolina Reis, Maryse Arseneault and Marie-Pier Malouin
Soundtracks for video works
Xavier Gould / Chiquita Mére, Bald, 2020.
Video : BALD (edited version) / Xavier Gould (aka Chiquita Mére) / 2020
Instagram: @chiquita.mere
www.facebook.com/XavierChiquitaGould
Linda Rae Dornan, Hellos, 2020.
Mastering
Andrew Harder
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to the Trames collective who made this Podcast possible, thanks to its Audio Documentary Creation Workshop, offered as part of the Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec (RAIQ) training program.