Culture Lab was a multidisciplinary symposium series initiated and directed by Brian Boigon that ran from 1991 to 1994. Held in the back of a club in Toronto, each of the twelve iterations of the program prompted four guests from diverse fields of cultural production to engage with a theme anchored in the history and theory of the digital. The events used the codes of the entertainment and nightlife industries to break from the confined parochialism of academia in a way that marked the wider migration of culture amidst the digital turn. The video recordings, which have not yet been shown to the public, reveal rich networks of intellectual connections across fields.

Through the materials comprised in the Brian Boigon fonds, the exhibition revisits Culture Lab and provides new clues about the many forms and channels through which architectural discourses are shaped and circulated.

Curator: Farzin Lotfi-Jam
Curatorial Assistant: Charlie-Anne Côté
Graphic design: House9
Design development: Sébastien Larivière, Anh Truong