Responding to calls for submissions can be tedious and sometimes even discouraging; they represent many hours of invisible, unpaid work in an artist's daily schedule. Yet, they are an essential part of the diffusion of artworks; it is therefore important to respond to them and to take them into consideration. What are the best practices? What are the mistakes to avoid? 

In order to better understand the selection process of institutions and to constitute effectively an application file, the [artch](https://artch.org/) team will lead a two-part workshop: an initial exchange on best practices followed by a time to review and discuss your application file.

*Participants are encouraged to bring a current or complete application (print or digital) to receive hands-on feedback from the artch team.*

This event will be held in French only.

### Facilitators
Sarah Kitzy Gineau-Delyon, Director, artch

Margot Chambon, Project Manager, artch
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April 21 to 23 2023

Grand Quay of the Port of Montréal

Plural 2023: a memorable first edition! Presented by National Bank, the Plural fair was held from April 21 to 23, offering visitors several new features and an unparalleled experience on the two floors of the Grand Quay in the heart of Montreal's Old Port.

The Contemporary Art Galleries Association (AGAC) is proud of this inaugural edition, which consolidates the status of the Plural fair and of Montreal as an essential hub for discovering the best in Canadian contemporary art. In addition to undergoing a rebranding, the event expanded to include 49 Canadian galleries, a record number of exhibitors.

AGAC was delighted to welcome just over 8,000 visitors to the event, the same number as last year. The public, which included art lovers from all backgrounds, were able to discover, admire and acquire the incredible selection of works presented at Plural.

Plural Art Fair

Workshop

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 Appuyer la pratique artistique: Mieux réussir mes candidatures d’appels aux artistes

What part does photography play in the current art market? This question underlies the tour elaborated by Ciel variable. Faced with the profusion of so-called image practices, photographic proposals have gained in diversity and depth. It will be a question of finding the most emblematic among what the galleries at the fair offer. Punctuated by carefully chosen stops, this quest will allow you to answer the initial question.

This event will be held in French only.

### Mediator
Jérôme Delgado, Publishing Coordinator, magazine Ciel variable
### Presented by



Guided tour

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Photographies en tête

What defines an emerging artist? And what challenges do these artists face when entering the art market? Despite a recent surge in initiatives and programs dedicated to emerging artists, early career artists still occupy a modest place in the contemporary art market and face numerous obstacles in making a name for themselves. In this panel presented by artch and AGAC, two duos of emerging artists and gallerists will come together to reflect on the current status of emerging artists, gallerist-artist relationships and the need for collaboration.

This event will be held in French only.

### Moderator  
Hugues Charbonneau, Director, Galerie Hugues Charbonneau  
### Panelists  
Soad Carrier, Director, McBride Contemporain

Rihab Essayh, Artist

Allie Gattor, Artist  
### Presented by  

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Prendre racine : quelle place pour la relève sur le marché de l'art contemporain ?

The Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone (BACA) will guide you through the exceptional selection of Indigenous artworks at the fair. Canada is a country marked by its diversity and rich cultural heritage, which is reflected in the contemporary Indigenous art landscape. This scene has grown exponentially in recent years, with major galleries and collectors helping to promote the work of First Nations artists.

This event will be held in French only.

### Mediator
Chloë Lalonde, Artist and Cultural Worker
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BACA x Plural

Lillian Mauer is the founder of Art Speaks, a platform designed to encourage discussion on contemporary art and social change. From 1978 to 1990, she directed the *Lillian Mauer Contemporary Art Gallery*, which presented multidisciplinary Canadian and American artists. In this conversation, Lesley Johnstone, Director of Exhibitions and Research at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the collector will discuss her private collection and her involvement in the art world, both in Montreal and internationally.

The event is presented by the SéminArts program, offered by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal with the valuable support of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation.

This event will be held in English only.

### Moderator  
Lesley Johnstone, Director of Exhibitions and Research, MACM  
### Guest  
Lillian Mauer, Founder, Art Speaks  
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Interview with Art Collector Lillian Mauer

The Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone (BACA) will guide you through the exceptional selection of Indigenous artworks at the fair. Canada is a country marked by its diversity and rich cultural heritage, which is reflected in the contemporary Indigenous art landscape. This scene has grown exponentially in recent years, with major galleries and collectors helping to promote the work of First Nations artists.

This event will be held in English only.

### Mediator
Chloë Lalonde, Artist and Cultural Worker
### Presented by

By placing care, joy, and empathy at the heart of their practice, curators and authors are restoring authentic narratives, without deploying the artifice of commiseration. They thereby adopt a collaborative approach - with communities and just not about them - in order to divest from the external gaze and bring out other voices, neglected memories and stories.

This discussion, in line with Nigra Iuventa's mandate, will examine how joy, care, and empathy contribute to the creation of new paradigms that enable a better understanding of the work of artists from Black and Indigenous communities.

This event will be held in English only.

### Moderator  
Camille Larivée, Curator, Artist, Executive and Artistic Director, Montreal, arts interculturels (MAI)  
### Panelists  
Asinnajaq, Artist, Director and Curator

Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Artist  

Raven Spiratos, Curator
### Presented by 

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Working with Care, Joy and Empathy as a Curatorial Practice

*Artists First* is a guided tour designed to showcase artists first and foremost! This visit, in line with Plural's mission, will celebrate the plurality of artistic practices at the fair by showcasing the work of multidisciplinary artists who employ a variety of mediums and techniques. This will be an opportunity to learn more about a selection of artists who deploy their art in a multiplicity of forms.

*Artists First will offer exclusively a tour of galleries from outside Quebec, strongly represented at the fair this year.*

This event will be held in French only.

### Mediator
Roxanne Labrèche P, Cultural Worker
### Presented by


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Les artistes d'abord

An introduction to collecting contemporary art for 18-25 year olds.

Be a part of the next generation of collectors!

Can you start an art collection without being an expert? Is it possible to invest in art without a big budget? Are all questions good to ask at an art fair?

In this workshop presented by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, you will have the opportunity to discover the art world, its workings and its market, as well as to connect with other young emerging collectors through discussions with professionals in the field.

This event will be held in French only.

### Facilitator
Léah Snider, Head of SéminArts, MACM

*SéminArts is an introductory educational program in contemporary art collecting that has been offered by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal for over 13 years, thanks to the invaluable collaboration of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation.*

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SéminArts - La Relève !

*Artists First* is a guided tour designed to showcase artists first and foremost! This visit, in line with Plural's mission, will celebrate the plurality of artistic practices at the fair by showcasing the work of multidisciplinary artists who employ a variety of mediums and techniques. This will be an opportunity to learn more about a selection of artists who deploy their art in a multiplicity of forms.

*Artists First will offer exclusively a tour of galleries from outside Quebec, strongly represented at the fair this year.*

This event will be held in English only.

### Mediator
Roxanne Labrèche P, Cultural Worker
### Presented by

Artists First

There are many reasons for seeking protection from colonial violence, injustice, abuse, and trauma caused by social, political, ecological or personal crises. Whether it is by providing an outlet for pain or by becoming a vehicle for resilience, contemporary art frequently addresses the topic of reparation. Esse wishes to continue the conversation started in recent issues to discuss reparation in the creation, reception and acquisition of art, by taking up an ever-present question, that is, the performativity of art, or in other words, its capacity to affect us.

This event will be held in French only.

### Moderator  
Benoit Jodoin, Art Historian  
### Panelists  
Mirna Abiad-Boyadjian, Writer and Researcher in Contemporary Art

Rouzbeh Shadpey, Artist and Doctor of Medicine

Vivek Venkatesh, Full Professor, UNESCO Chair in the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Extremism, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University  
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L’art guérit-il ?

Could artificial intelligence be a medium for artistic creation? And if so, can anyone be an artist? These are some of the questions that have been raised over the last year following the appearance of Dall-E, a text-to-image generator freely available to everyone. This platform, which allows users to produce an image from a prompt, has generated a lot of excitement, but has also raised many concerns within the artistic community, both from an ethical and legal standpoint. In this discussion presented by AGAC in collaboration with the *Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels*, three experts from different backgrounds will come together to discuss the potential of these technologies, but also the dangers they represent for artists.

*This panel discussion will only be held at the Grand Quai du Port de Montréal on Saturday, April 22 at 5pm, and will not be available for online viewing during or after the event.*

This event will be held in French only.

### Moderator  
Matthieu Dugal, Host, Moteur de recherche, Ici Radio-Canada Première
### Panelists  
Sébastien Cliche, Artist  

Éric Desmarais, Executive Director, Sporobole

Valentine Goddard, Founder and Executive Director, AI Impact Alliance  
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Création, éthique et propriété intellectuelle : l’intelligence artificielle en art contemporain

What are the strategies, practices, actions and measures for creating healthy environments and equitable and inclusive cultures? Offered by Nigra Iuventa, a non-profit organization developing innovative contemporary art projects that draw on the practices of African-descendant and African artists and curators, the workshop aims to introduce basic concepts and strategies of equity, diversity and inclusion.

This event will be held in French only.

### Facilitator
Diane Gistal, Founder and Director, Nigra Iuventa
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 Introduction à l'équité, la diversité et l'inclusion dans les organisations culturelles

Wishing to highlight artists who identify as women or non-men and galleries with parity, POST-INVISIBLES invites you to discover contemporary practices anchored in the capitalocene era whose research addresses notions of eco-anxiety, climate change, ecofeminisms, nature and territory. Note that this visit will stop in 6 of the 15 galleries (out of 44 galleries) that represent at least 40% of women artists in their gallery and 50% in their booth at the fair.

This event will be held in French only.

### Mediator
Mylène Lachance-Paquin, Founder and Director, POST-INVISIBLES
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POST-INVISIBLES : Pratiques artistiques à l’ère géologique du capitalocène

Wishing to highlight artists who identify as women or non-men and galleries with parity, POST-INVISIBLES invites you to discover contemporary practices anchored in the capitalocene era whose research addresses notions of eco-anxiety, climate change, ecofeminisms, nature and territory. Note that this visit will stop in 6 of the 15 galleries (out of 44 galleries) that represent at least 40% of women artists in their gallery and 50% in their booth at the fair.

This event will be held in English only.

### Mediator
Mylène Lachance-Paquin, Founder and Director, POST-INVISIBLES
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POST-INVISIBLES: Artistic Practices in the Geological Era of the Capitalocene

Following the rise of the pornographic industry in the 1970s, artworks featuring explicit images of sexuality became critical of both the industry and the art world. Over the course of several decades, artists transgressed not only the compartmentalized categories of art and pornography, but also the patriarchal aspects of art, commercial pornography and sexual norms. This panel will be the occasion to highlight various artistic productions featuring a plurality of sexual representations through alternative, educational, gay, lesbian, dyke, queer, feminist, and amateur pornography, which transforms the edges of pornography, making it quite literally protean.

This event will be held in French only.

### Moderator
Dominique Sirois-Rouleau, Curator, Art Critic, Lecturer, and Director, Vidéographe
### Panelists
Emma Kate Guimond, Performance Artist

Julie Lavigne, Art Historian and Professor, Department of Sexology, UQAM, author of *La traversée de la pornographie : politique et érotisme dans l'art féministe* (Éditions du Remue-ménage, 2014)

AM Trépanier, Artist Researcher and Editor
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Art contemporain et pornographies : déclassifier les pratiques 

What part does photography play in the current art market? This question underlies the tour elaborated by Ciel variable. Faced with the profusion of so-called image practices, photographic proposals have gained in diversity and depth. It will be a question of finding the most emblematic among what the galleries at the fair offer. Punctuated by carefully chosen stops, this quest will allow you to answer the initial question.

This event will be held in French only.

### Mediator
Jérôme Delgado, Publishing Coordinator, magazine Ciel variable
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Clare McAndrew, PhD, is an internationally renowned cultural economist specializing in the art market, founder of the firm Arts Economics, and author of the annual *Art Market Report* for Art Basel and UBS since 2016.
 
In this conversation moderated by esteemed curator, professor, and collector Paul Maréchal, the economist and curator will discuss key topics in today's international art market, including the art market's place in our global economy, the future of public art institutions, commercial art fairs, and major artist foundations that contribute increasingly to the privatization of art.

*We invite you to come and watch the interview alongside Paul Maréchal at the fair on Sunday April 23 at 5pm. The curator will introduce a few issues regarding the Canadian art market as well as host a question and answer session following the viewing of the interview.*

This event will be held in English only.

### Moderated by  
Paul Maréchal, Curator  
### Guest
Clare McAndrew, PhD, Founder, Arts Economics
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Online

The Current State of the International Art Market with Clare McAndrew

Online and at the Fair

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