CHANTAL PONTBRIAND
Thursday, October 1, 2015, 6pm
Le jeudi 1 octobre à 18h00
Concordia University Fine Arts VA Building 114 1395 René Lévesque Blvd West, Montreal L’université de Concordia, 1395 René Lévesque Ouest, Montréal
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www.finearts.concordia.ca
Admission for all Conversations in Contemporary Art events is FREE and open to the general public. Seating is first come, first serve. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. The lectures will be held in English.
Tous les événements du programme Conversation in Contemporary Art sont gratuits et ouverts au public. Les sièges sont assignés selon le principe du premier arrivé, premier servi. Les portes ouvrent à 17h30. Les conférences se dérouleront en anglais.
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE ?
In a world where crisis and catastrophe seem to emerge all over, where the web allows no escape, what can be done ? Addressing performance and globalization, as they manifest themselves both in the local and in the global, Chantal Pontbriand will look at the growing importance of performativity in the arts and in politics.
BIO
CHANTAL PONTBRIAND is a contemporary art curator and critic whose work is based on the exploration of questions of globalization and artistic heterogeneity. She has curated numerous international contemporary art events: exhibitions, international festivals and international conferences, mainly in photography, video, performance, dance and multimedia installation. She was a founder of PARACHUTE contemporary art magazine in 1975 and acted as publisher/editor until 2007, publishing 125 issues. After curating several major performance events and festivals, she co-founded the FIND (Festival International de Nouvelle Danse), in Montreal and was president and director from 1982 to 2003. She was appointed Head of Exhibition Research and Development at Tate Modern in London in 2010 and more recently founded PONTBRIAND W.O.R.K.S. [We_Others and Myself_Research_ Knowledge_Systems].
www.pontbriandworks.com