VOX seeks to provide a propitious setting for public access, research, and experimentation by providing experienced or emerging artists, curators, and scholars an opportunity to participate in a continuous laboratory of reflection and artistic creation.
VOX is resolutely interested in the various forms of expression that images, experimentation, innovative points of view and critical discourses can take. The questions VOX is concerned with emerge from photography and extend into the culture of the image today.
VOX seeks to facilitate and promote exchanges among professional artists, curators and researchers by organising thematic research groups and encounters which link the theory and practice of diverse disciplines, or by participating in the production of new work.
The results of this research and creative activity can be intended for exhibition, a public presentation, a publication, or for posting on the Internet. Public access to these projects and the interpretative activities which accompany them have as their goal to make contemporary art accessible to diverse sectors of the public.
To carry out its research and public access mandates, and with the constant goal of bringing together Montreal’s arts community with other communities, VOX plans to increase the number of collaborations it undertakes with distributors, universities and research centres in Canada and on the international stage. VOX is open to various forms of collaboration: curatorial projects, loaned or circulating exhibitions, and joint production of exhibitions, joint publication ventures, and jointly organised public lecture programs.
VOX continues to develop its activities in the digital field and has formed a committee of experts, which will develop and enrich the content of its database, which is available on the Internet (formerly known as the Musée virtuel de la photographie québécoise). Currently, this database documents the work of nearly seventy-five artists. VOX’s digital activities also provide curators and artists the opportunity to experiment and to carry out multi-media projects. VOX invites researchers to publish the results of their research.
VOX wishes to play a major educational role, with a broad
public in mind, by facilitating access to contemporary
art and by increasing the exchanges between the art and
education milieux. VOX organises discussion forums for
students which address the issues raised by artistic practices
and the organisation of exhibitions. VOX also invites
artists to make presentations about their creative process.
A didactic and interactive interface on its Web site complements
this learning process about the image.
VOX functions as a true collective: a committee made up of artists and researchers exchanges ideas on the issues surrounding the image today and, with the Artistic Director, participates in developing the program of activities. Projects are proposed or chosen and VOX staff members, themselves artists and researchers, do their utmost to meet the committee’s goals. Staff members work with artists, curators and researchers to carry out their projects under professional and stimulating conditions, and to promote their work.
