Adrian Deveau

Thesis Title: Out of the Bedrooms, Into the Streets! The Aesthetic Reification of a Queer Self in Canada, 1990-2020

Supervisors: Dr. Michelle McGeough

Research Interests:

• Canadian Art
• Queer Theory
• Witchcraft
• Marxist Feminism
• Artist-Run Centres

Teaching Assistantships:

• 01/2024 – 04/2024 Teaching Assistant, ARTH374: “Architecture and Urbanism in Montreal” Concordia University, Montreal, QC. 
• 09/2023 – 12/2023 Teaching Assistant, ARTH300: “Art Historical Methods” Concordia University Montreal, QC. 
• 09/2021 – 04/2023 Teaching Assistant, ARTH 200: “Perspectives in Art History” Concordia University, Montreal, QC. 
• 05/2022 – 06/2022 Teaching Assistant, ARTH 262: “Aspects in the History of Drawing: The Performative Line” Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

Research Assistanships:

Research Assistant for Dr. Michelle McGeough, Thinking Through the Museum: Museum Queeries

Publications, conferences and exhibitions:

Publications:

• Forthcoming “Telepathic Visions: A Psychic Investigation of Queer Hauntings in Canadian Archives” in Museum Queeries: Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ* Interventions into Museums and Curation, Edited by Angela Failler, Michelle McGeough, and Heather Milne. Poland: Jagiellonian University Press. 
• 01/2024 ““Where Were You in ’92?” Exhibition Review” in Asian Diasporic Cultures and the Americas, Edited by Natasha Bissonauth. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/journals/adva/8/3/article-p343_007.xml 10/2023 
• “Consultation with the Devil: Witchcraft and Stolen Land in the Colonial Quebecois Imaginary,” in Ghost Light Part Two, Edited by Caroline Abbott. Network in Canadian History and Environment. https://niche-canada.org/2023/10/03/consultation-with-the-devil-witchcraft-and-stolen-land-in-the-quebecois-colonial-imaginary/ 10/2023 
• “Let There Be blood: Abjection and Colonial Subjectivation in the Rise of Indigenous Horror Film” in Colonialism’s Long Shadow: Ampersand Volume II Issue II. Boston University. https://sites.bu.edu/ampersandjournal/2023/09/06/adrian-deveau/ 08/2023 
• “A Story of a Lost Life: Absence and Longing in HIV/AIDS Photographs” in Les Lieux des Savoirs Photographique: Les archives/Sites of Photographic Knowledge: The Archives, Edited by Martha Langford and Eduardo Ralickas. Montreal: Artexte. https://artexte.ca/en/editions/the-archive/ 

Conferences:

• 07/03 – 10/03/2024: “Consultation with the Devil: Witchcraft and Stolen Land in the Colonial Quebecois Imaginary,” “Witch Stories: An Examination of Revisionist Histories and Legacy,” Northeastern Modern languages Association, Tufts University, Boston, MA. 
• 27/10/2022 – 29/10/2022: “GAI with a Very Proper Stranger: The Courtroom Drawings of The Body Politic on Trial, 1982,” “Queer Episodes in Canadian Art,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC-AAUC), The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. 
• 05/11/2021 – 06/11/2021: “Methotrexate, Azidothymidine (A Prayer for Healing): The Rise of Technopharmaceutical Capitalism in the Work of Sharona Franklin and General Idea,” Edible Undercurrents: Food in Art History, The 56th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. Accessible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssYTOLPcg8k 
• 17/09/2021 – 18/09/2021: “Fires of Tyrannical Value, Bodies of Dereification: The Crimes of Petr Pavlensky,” Letting It Burn: Art Worlds Ablaze, Seventh Annual Symposium in Art History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 
• 03/06/2020: “Exploitation in Memoriam: The Trap of Imperial Valorization and Postcolonial Nationhood through the War-time Photography of Glenn S. Hensley,” Decadence: Flows of Abundance and Decay, AHVA Symposium, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Contact:

adrian.deveau@mail.concordia.ca