ARTH 375 Issues in the Montreal Art Milieu

• Tuesdays, 2:45pm-5:15pm
• EV-1.615
• Instructor: Professor Charles Gagnon

For this course the city of Montreal will be considered as a material and site onto which artists attach, or extract their work. Taking into consideration the city’s current state of transformation, or urban renewal, we will examine artworks, and exhibitions that make use of this state by using the street as well as abandoned sites for/as artworks. Starting from 1976 Montreal Olympics up to the present, some of the artists we will examine are Melvin Charney, including his censored project Corrid’Art, the collaborative work of Lyne Lapointe and Martha Fleming, the unbuilt parc de la langue française of Rober Racine, the various locations occupied by Dare-Dare gallery, and the last exhibition at Vie D’Ange gallery in Little Italy. As well, we will look at a range of artists, exhibitions, and magazines that critically engaged with the history and identity of Montreal.