PUBLICATION LAUNCH AND PERFORMANCE BY SYLVIE COTTON

August 31st 2023 | 5 – 7 pm | at Skol 

With pride and enthusiasm, Skol invites you to the launch of its latest monograph. Join us for a performance by Sylvie Cotton as part of this event centered around fundamental questions of art and community!

Publication

DE L’ART ENGAGÉ AU QUÉBEC : 
ÉTHIQUE ET ESTHÉTIQUE DE L’UTILE /
OF SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART IN QUÉBEC:
ETHICS AND AESTHETICS OF THE USEFUL

Editors: Skol/Sagamie
284 pages – French/English – color

Authors

Stéphanie Bertrand, Alain Deneault, Maggy Flynn, Romeo Gongora,
Félipe Goulet Letarte, Ève Lamoureux, Alain-Martin Richard,
Sonia Robertson, Tamar Tembeck, Kathleen Vaughan

Artistes

Sylvie Cotton, Yvonne Dröge Wendel et Lino Hellings,
Maggy Flynn, Romeo Gongora, Catherine Lalonde Massecar et Érick d’Orion,
Chris Lloyd, Yann Pocreau, Alain-Martin Richard, Kathleen Vaughan
and 81 participants, Kim Waldron

Publication Committee

Renata Azevedo Modera, Stéphanie Bertrand, Maggy Flynn, Stéphanie Gilot,
Félipe Goulet Letarte

Literary Committee

Félipe Goulet Letarte, Denis Rioux

Graphic Design 

Mathilde Martel-Coutu

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The result of collective work, this publication brings together several texts and reflections on the foundations of engaged art. Such varied forms of discourse as project descriptions, accounts of artistic development, exchanges between artists, and critiques of art works.

The questions they raise are many: what is art’s function? What does the label “diversity-artist” mean for the artist concerned? Can socially engaged art have undesirable effects, or ones that even negate the artist’s intentions? How can art resist the logic of return value? Are manoeuvres immune to assimilation by the cultural industry? Can they counteract the various infringements on our freedom? How can the material object become a pretext to create connections? How are these connections and this object transformed by the social and political context?

These texts allow us to revisit works that offer a new perspective on familiar terrain, infusing them with an element that shifts our usual perception.

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