We hope for light so much that sometimes we get burned for coming too close to our dreams. As for darkness, it can represent both a refuge and the place where we encounter our demons, both that which brings us comfort and that which frightens us. We are too well adapted to our everyday life and the banality and inevitability it contains—let’s rouse our gardens, unconscious from neglect and from being trampled on so long, let’s listen to what the overflowing rivers have to say. We must recreate a whole world, piece by piece, pay attention to every leaf on every plant and every feather on every bird, do everything it takes to re-establish contact with them and with ourselves. By observing in ourselves all that is gentle and all that is violent alike, we’ll know how to burn the ancient parts of what we are, or level them to make space for unexpected images.
Our and everything it takes programming looks into the forces and resources that drive us and what, within and outside of ourselves, might equally prove to be a potentiality or a menace. As part of our alliance with the new Wendat artist-run centre Ahkwayaonhkeh, VU has brought together artists and artworks that revisit the zones of light and shadow that make us what we are in order to glimpse what we can become, individually and collectively. Actions carried out in our production and gallery spaces, and more widely on the Nionwentsïo that welcomes us, will allow vital energies to reveal themselves and contribute to the creation of new alliances.
Annual programming
Exhibitions
Residencies
Events
Les coulisses de Cercueils
[Complet] Atelier de photogrammes avec Noelle Wharton-Ayer
[Complet] Soleils Atikamekw, projection du film suivie d’une discussion avec Chloé Leriche et Jacques Newashish
Plusieurs principes clés de la relationnalité et des souverainetés autochtones et 2ELGBTQIA+
L’architecture du livre —Conférence et classe de maître avec Maxime Rheault
Appréciation ou appropriation ? —Discussion sur l’appropriation culturelle dans un contexte de création
Cinéma autochtone des Amériques —Projection de courts métrages autochtones commissariée par Nicolas Renaud
Formation en documentation d’exposition avec Marion Gotti
Unsplash
“Kanata: L’héritage des enfants d’Aataentsic” —Projection au Cinéma Beaumont
Double lancement
Volume 6
Lancement de la banque de membres
Bourse en édition
Immersion avec Miguel Chikaoka
