The Archive is Creative: Artistic Interventions
Schedule
Thu Feb 12 2026 at 09:30 am to 04:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
The Catalyst at TMU | Toronto, ON
About this Event
The day features roundtable conversations with artists Crystal Z Campbell, Sameer Farooq, Luis Jacob, Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, and Timothy Yanick Hunter, alongside scholar Janine Marchessault. Join us for the first part of a three-part series organized by TMU's Histories, Archives & Curation Cluster Initiative. Across three years, the series examines the evolving nature and political contexts of archival, curatorial, and community practices.
The Archive is Creative: Artistic Interventions brings together artists, curators, and scholars for a full day of roundtables examining how creative methods reshape what archives reveal in a colonial present. Working across varied materials—from moving images and objects to everyday, tactile practices—participants explore how archives are constructed, how access is negotiated, and how shifting one’s point of view can unsettle inherited narratives.
Emphasizing process over product, the symposium highlights how wandering, attention, duration, and material experimentation open new possibilities for engaging with historical records and imagining future forms of archival practice.
Event website: https://thearchiveiscreative.com/
Where is it happening?
The Catalyst at TMU, 80 Gould Street, Toronto, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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