Joy as Curatorial Practice
The panelists will be in conversation discussing the joys imbued in curation from their individual perspectives. Each will draw on a particular curatorial project and the ways that joy and other sensibilities resonated through and within that exhibition or project. The panel will also touch on the ways we as cultural workers can be generative in the work we do by being cognizant of care and our individual capacities.
This activity is presented in partnership with daphne.
It is part of the Black Atlantic Networks: Heritage, Knowledge and Solidarity symposium, taking place in Montréal from November 18 to 22, 2025. The symposium fosters transnational dialogue and provides a space for the co-construction of knowledge.
Speakers
Anique Jordan
Lori Beavis
Information
Free activity in English, presented on Wednesday, November 21 at 5 p.m.
Duration: 60-90 minutes
Location: 5425 Casgrain Ave UNit #103, Montreal, QC H2T 1X6
The venue is accessible to people with reduced mobility.
About the Panelists
Anique Jordan
Anique Jordan is an artist, writer and curator who looks to answer the question of possibility in everything she creates. As an artist, Jordan works in photography, sculpture and performance often employing the theory of hauntology to challenge historical or dominant narratives and creating, what she calls, impossible images.
Photo © Stanley Collins
Lori Beavis
Lori Beavis is the Director of daphne, the first Indigenous artist-run centre in Tiohtià:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montreal. She is also an independent curator. Her curatorial work articulates narrative and memory in the context of family and cultural history and identity, art education and self-representation. Identifying as Michi Saagiig (Mississauga) Anishinaabe and Irish-Welsh settler, Beavis is a citizen of Hiawatha First Nation, Rice Lake, Ontario.
Photo © Klara Brandl-Mouton
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