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Fictions of Fictions
Fictions of Fictions
Piper Bernbaum on the material facts and urban fictions of the Eruv wars in Jerusalem
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Figuring Territory
A hands-on workshop with Bellingcat introduces open-source investigation: the use of satellite imagery, maps, photographs, videos, and metadata to examine how territories are transformed, represented, and contested through publicly available material.
Shaughnessy House
28 November 2026, 1pm to 4pm
The Distance Between Us and the Ground: To Take Measure
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A hands-on workshop with Bellingcat introduces open-source investigation: the use of satellite imagery, maps, photographs, videos, and metadata to examine how territories are transformed, represented, and contested through publicly available material.
Shaughnessy House
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DR2012:0012:085:003
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File containing documents in English and French (predominant), including bibliographies, brochures, contracts, correspondence, photocopies of press coverage, and programs related to the following group exhibitions at the Musée du Québec: - Territoires d'artistes: paysages verticaux; - Un archipel de désirs. Original folder inscribed in graphite: MUSEE DU QUEBEC: PAYSAGES VERTICAUX 1989 + UN ARCH DESIRS 1991
1988-1991
Bibliographies, brochures, contracts, correspondence, photocopies of press coverage, and programs related to group exhibitions at the Musée du Québec
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DR2012:0012:085:003
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File containing documents in English and French (predominant), including bibliographies, brochures, contracts, correspondence, photocopies of press coverage, and programs related to the following group exhibitions at the Musée du Québec: - Territoires d'artistes: paysages verticaux; - Un archipel de désirs. Original folder inscribed in graphite: MUSEE DU QUEBEC: PAYSAGES VERTICAUX 1989 + UN ARCH DESIRS 1991
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1988-1991
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Encountering the Agrarian Mundane
Amra Alagic, Hannah Whitlaw, and Hiba Zubairi peel back the temporal layers of the agricultural landscape
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28 September 2026
Learning from... Madrid
In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, Spain is now paying for its lack of urban policy, particularly in the construction industry. The credit crunch curbed the frenzy of construction and left behind a vast territory of incomplete urban spaces. Architect, editor, and architectural curator Javier Arpa Fernández presents a lecture reflecting on how alternative(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
4 December 2014 , 6pm
Learning from... Madrid
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In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, Spain is now paying for its lack of urban policy, particularly in the construction industry. The credit crunch curbed the frenzy of construction and left behind a vast territory of incomplete urban spaces. Architect, editor, and architectural curator Javier Arpa Fernández presents a lecture reflecting on how alternative(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
5 November 2015
John Palmesino: Territorial Agency
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Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
The decay and neglect of polluted industrial sites on the edges of cities became a worldwide phenomenon by the end of the twentieth century. The industrial site of Marghera lies on the waterfront overlooking the historical city of Venice, confronting La Serenissima as its titanic alter ego. This exhibition presents the complex and changing reality of Marghera through the(...)
Main galleries
9 December 1998 to 25 April 1999
Photography and Transformations of the Contemporary City: Venezia – Marghera
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The decay and neglect of polluted industrial sites on the edges of cities became a worldwide phenomenon by the end of the twentieth century. The industrial site of Marghera lies on the waterfront overlooking the historical city of Venice, confronting La Serenissima as its titanic alter ego. This exhibition presents the complex and changing reality of Marghera through the(...)
Main galleries
Toys and Transport
Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
Toys and Transport
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Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Learning from... Astana
Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 April 2007 , 7pm
Learning from... Astana
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Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
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19 April 2007
7pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre