Archive Montreal Blog
November, 2024

Founded in 2021 by Claire Lamarre-Niemi, Bootlegger Magazine was created to provide a space for emerging artists in Montreal to showcase their work without restrictions. Bootlegger Magazine is an effort to value creative youth beyond the confines of traditional art institutions. Guided by a playful, eclectic and contemporary vision, the magazine works to present a dynamic body of work. Bootlegger encompasses a variety of styles and mediums, focusing on those

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Frantz Voltaire is currently president of the International Centre for Haitian, Caribbean, and Afro-Canadian Documentation and Information (“Centre international de documentation et d’information haïtienne, caribéenne et afro-canadienne” (CIDIHCA)), which he founded in 1983. Throughout his career, he has made documentaries and published books and articles on Haitian and Afro-Canadian history. He is currently director of the Revue académique d’histoire haïtienne. The following is an edited transcript (translated from the original

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In honour of the launch of Michel Campeau’s book The Lilliputian Presence of the Photographer in the Four-Colour World of the Postcard, which was published on October 4th, a discussion was held between the publishers and the artist. Volume 7 guests of honour, NoRoutine Books is a Lithuanian independent publishing initiative dedicated to the design and printing of unique art books. Their publications are limited to 99 copies, making them

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  Filling Gaps is a speculative typeface that consists of reimagined Chinese ideograms which all have diverse visual forms, unique sounds, and tell a story of their creation. As a trans Teochew artist / activist / designer, Le Lin explores different ways in which typography can illustrate certain aspects of our lives, either through unlearning or relearning it. What are the origin stories of the words we use daily? How

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