PHI Foundation
465 Saint-Jean Street
Room G6
• Friday, February 23, 2024
• Saturday, February 24, 2024
From 1 PM to 5 PM
Each afternoon will be comprised of four 40-minute presentations.
Free admission
Limited capacity: first come, first served.
We are currently looking for artists, educators, and researchers who would like to present during this event. To learn more about the requirements, please go to the Call for participation section below.
Over the course of two days of dialogue, artists, educators and researchers will come together in Rirkrit Tiravanija’s installation untitled (skip the bruising...) (2017) to present their research, offer workshops, reflect on the successes and failures of their respective practices, and discuss failure as a generative tool in the work of public engagement.
These two days have been organized in dialogue with the Bureau of Noncompetitive Research’s public engagement project, and are presented parallel to the PHI Montréal residency program, which is offered in partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
The event will take place in French and in English.
1 PM Presentation by the Bureau of Noncompetitive Research
1:30 PM Justine Skahan / Book Report: The 4-Hour Workweek
2:30 PM Natacha Clitandre and Salima Punjani / A conversation about failure, part 1
3:30 PM Lin Li / How do expressive arts help to shape and rediscover collective memories? (Workshop given in the Education Room)
3:30 PM Simon Rivest and Chad Dembski / Open forum
4:30 PM Julie-Michèle Morin / Glitching Optimization in a Few Steps: A Performance Lecture about Robotic Failures
1 PM Presentation by the Bureau of Noncompetitive Research
1:30 PM Raki Malhotra / Nadee Achambha. Durational performance
2:30 PM Hannah Jickling and Reed H. Reed / Danglers
3:30 PM Laura Margita / Untitled
4:30 PM Annie Baillargeon and Jacqueline van de Geer / A conversation about failure, part 2
Ongoing: Durational performance by Edith Viau (Education Room)
Documentation of the presentations by Nancy Long
The Bureau of Noncompetitive Research is a group of artists and researchers who explore how slow philosophy, dialogue, collaboration, pedagogy, and public space intersect. Founded in 2021, the Bureau has taken on academic and artistic projects, namely Slowness and the Institution (2021), Pedagogy and Time (2022), and Giving Nothing (2023). In this iteration, the Bureau comprises Victoria Stanton, José Cortés, and Stacey Cann.
Stacey Cann is a performance artist and researcher interested in ideas of work, endurance, and collaboration.
José Cortés is a transdisciplinary artist whose work juxtaposes value and mundane matters in multimedia, public space, and pedagogic projects.
Victoria Stanton is an undisciplined performance artist whose infiltrating/relational works explore the role of rest, pause, and liminal space in artistic processes.
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Come and have a beer or a Coca-Cola with the three artists of the Bureau of Noncompetitive Research and learn more about their collective and individual practices as artists and pedagogues
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Over the course of two days of dialogue, artists, educators and researchers will come together to present their research, offer workshops, reflect on the successes and failures of their respective practices, and discuss failure as a generative tool in the work of public engagement
Past Event
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The Bureau of Noncompetitive Research is a public engagement project by the collective of the same name. Taking place in the PHI Foundation’s Education Room
Past Event
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During this ongoing activity offered by members of the Bureau amidst their installation, the public is invited to make their own demotivational posters
Past Event
Foundation
In this public performance that probes the interview process to reveal all of its absurdity, the group proposes to meet potential candidates in order to find the ideal employee
Past Event
Foundation
Come and have a beer or a Coca-Cola with the three artists of the Bureau of Noncompetitive Research and learn more about their collective and individual practices as artists and pedagogues
Past Event
Foundation
Over the course of two days of dialogue, artists, educators and researchers will come together to present their research, offer workshops, reflect on the successes and failures of their respective practices, and discuss failure as a generative tool in the work of public engagement
Past Event
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