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The _Chronopolitics_ program has a twofold objective: to provide a forum for artists advocating ethical stances on the future, and to prompt critical reflection on the social and political issues around the notion of time.

This program of screenings and essays observe how time is used to oppressive ends. It encompasses a vast space of practices and discourses: the dominance of Western normative chronologies and historical narratives over the rest of the world; the messianic discourses of neoliberalism, convinced that the climate crisis is merely a matter of economic equilibrium and resilience; advances in technology that facilitate our social and professional relations even as they destabilize them; and last but not least, the algorithmic profiling that subjects us to instantaneous, fully programmed decisions. Our daily lives had increasingly been defined by acceleration, intensification and urgency – until the pandemic brought on a brutal desynchronization and a decisive downshift, compelling us to an awareness of how our lives are temporally organized.

As we emerge from our ensuing confinement in what Hartmut Rosa has termed “islands of deceleration,” how do we rethink the social function of time when we must, on one hand, contend with the narrow timeframe of a human life, and on the other, shape a sustainable time-space for the generations to come?

Chronopolitics

This exhibition brings together video installations on the ambivalent connections of intimate familiarity, domination and control between humans and animals.

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Janis Rafa. Landscape Depressions

Janis Rafa  
Landscape Depressions

This exhibition combines a retrospective of Diane Landry’s work, _Transparent Foretellings_, with a brand new kinetic installation by the artist specially designed for young audiences, _Celestial Mechanics_.

Diane Landry. Transparent Foretellings

Diane Landry   
Transparent Foretellings

This retrospective engages in a rereading of Sorel Cohen’s œuvre through emblematic photographic works as well as a previously unseen series of sculpture pieces. 

Sorel Cohen: Conceptual Metaphors

Sorel Cohen:   
Conceptual Metaphors

Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important figures in the fields of Conceptual Art, performance and film. Active since the 1960s, she continues to have an ongoing influence with her seminal feminist and media-critical works.

VALIE EXPORT. Research – Archive – Œuvre

VALIE EXPORT  
Research – Archive – Œuvre

The economy is the institution studied in this second installment in the series of exhibitions _The Radical Imaginary_, organized by a collective of artists and scholars comprised of Erik Bordeleau, François Lemieux, Marilou Lemmens and Bernard Schütze.

The Radical Imaginary II: Reclaiming Value

This documentary exhibition is the seventh iteration of _“Créer à rebours vers l’exposition”_, VOX’s research project on the practice, history and future of exhibitions in Quebec and their documentation.

“Créer à rebours vers l’exposition”: The case of Art et féminisme

“Créer à rebours vers l’exposition”  
The case of Art et féminisme

This exhibition will examine a fundamental cultural phenomenon of the last century: the relationship between images and music. Contemporary artists and directors will be featured alongside artists and filmmakers of the avant-garde in a circuit including a silent film with added sound, experimental and animation films, music videos, as well as performances…

The Musical Years: 1920–2020

Past

VOX’s programming is firmly oriented toward research and experimentation, investigating the conceptual paradigms underpinning image practices. Individual exhibitions offer re-readings of both contemporary and historical art practices, while thematic exhibitions see us engaged in processes of reflection. 

VOX développe une programmation résolument orientée sur la recherche et l’expérimentation en interrogeant les paradigmes conceptuels à l’œuvre dans les pratiques de l’image. Des expositions individuelles proposent une relecture de l’art tant actuel qu’historique tandis que des expositions thématiques nous engagent dans des processus réflexifs. 

VOX — Centre de l’image contemporaine

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