Programming 2025-2026:
A Glitch: House9 x Dark Opacities Lab in Conversation
In this conversation, Farah Khan, Balbir K. Singh and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo will explore the tension, challenge, and possibilities of considering opacity as a framework in which to devise and create a research lab. As a portal to the lab, House9 created such a site for Dark Opacities Lab at Concordia University, with the demands of considering what opacity could look like, and where that overlaps with the concept of a glitch. In addition, they will speak to the work of design and justice-centered projects in building solidarity and networks for communities of colour, especially at a time of intensifying crises locally and globally.
Speakers:
Farah Khan, Director, House9
Balbir K Singh, Director, Dark Opacities Lab, Art History and Post Image cluster member, Concordia University
Moderator:
Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, LOKI, Design and Computation Arts and Post Image cluster member, Concordia University
Date: Monday, October 27, 2025
Time: Doors open at 5:30, discussion starts at 6pm
Location:
Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University
1515 Rue Sainte-Catherine W.
EV Building, 11.705
Admission: Free and open to the public. Light snacks and beverages will be served.
Programming 2025-2026:
Reflections on Artistic Research
Post Image and MOMENTA Biennale d'art contemporain bring together curators, artists, and scholars exploring the distinct nature of research in art. Beyond academic conventions, artistic inquiry unfolds through materials, gestures, and embodied memory. This conference invites you to ask: What makes artistic research unique, and how can curiosity, imagination, and embodied knowledge shape new ways of knowing?
SCHEDULE
10:00AM Raven Chacon in conversation with Martín Rodríguez11:30AM PANEL: Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Lou Sheppard, Sanaz Sohrabi. Moderated by: Alice Ming Wai Jim
1:30PM PANEL: Caroline Mauxion, OK Pedersen, Anouk Verviers. Moderated by:
Alanna Thain
2:15PM KEYNOTE: Lucy Cotter
3:00PM KEYNOTE: Natalie Loveless
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Programming 2022-2023:
Moving the Landscape to Find Ground
Moving the Landscape to Find Ground is a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which will take place from September 2022 until May 2023 . This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial gaze. Our proposed programming is in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre, the Feminist Media Studio and the Black Perspectives Office.
As such, our proposed programming begins with a Speakers Series composed of invited Indigenous and Black artists, theorists and curators who will present their research/research-creation practice.
The invited speakers will provide studio visits to Concordia University graduate students. If you wish to have a studio visit with oneof our speakers, please sign up here.
Our programming includes an artist in residence: Scott Benesiinaabandan. Scott will develop a project at the Post Image Lab which will be in dialogue with the rest of the programming and its thematic chord: the dissection of the settler photographic archive. Furthermore, the artist in residence will host a public artist talk, activating the space through a workshop, and conducting studio visits with graduate students of the Fine Arts faculty.
This project is generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture, Concordia University’s OVPRGS (Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies), the Black Perspectives Office, the Indigenous Futures Research Center and the Feminist Media Studio.
October 3rd 2025
Conference Day: Reflections on Artistis Research
April 25th 2023
Closing - Caroline Monnet
April 11th 2023
Zinnia Naqvi
March 28th 2023
March 29th 2023
Shelley Niro:
The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw - Q&A + Screening
Artist talk
March 14th 2023
Michele Pearson Clarke
February 14th 2023
Tina Campt
February 7th 2023
Rehab Nazzal
January 11th 2023
Barry Pottle
October 18th 2022
Greg Staats
September 27th 2022
Opening -
Martin Akwiranoron Loft