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Autour de Mémoire vive

Winter 2003

[In French] Ce numéro propose une série de « petits exercices de mémoire » qui mettent en scène le rapport de l’art à la ville et à son public, le récit historique, l’expérience vécue et l’acte d’échange, d’abord à travers quelques essais sur Mémoire vive – événement orchestré par Dare-Dare de concert avec le Centre d’histoire de Montréal –, ainsi que dans des textes abordant la « topophilie » urbaine, les arts de la rue et la performance.

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Abstractions

Spring Summer 2025

Yet what about abstraction today? Long confined to formalist and self-referential imperatives, abstraction has gradually freed itself from the modernism yolk to recapture its evocative power. This issue proposes to turn away from the dogma of Abstraction as a historical genre to consider its various plastic and semantic avenues. In this invitation to explore abstractions, we wish to re-establish a dialogue between content and form, between the political and the poetic, by engaging with works that evoke reality differently. Whether they are qualified as abstract, non-figurative, or non-objective, these works certainly tell us stories.

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