A five-day, in-person intensive at Atelier Galerie 2112 in Montreal, Quebec, for collage artists using Place as a laboratory. Through presentations, site visits, walks, discussion, research, and studio work, participants investigate the idea of place as archive — how Montreal's buildings, streets, public spaces, signage, material culture, communities, and histories can inform collage. Artists explore Little Italy, Mile End, Plateau Mont-Royal, the Gay Village, Place des Arts, Downtown, Chinatown, and Old Montreal, and reflect on the Centre-Sud district's history through the Écomusée du fier monde.
The Lab speaks to issues of appropriation, copyright, and fair use, and explores how the artist's choice and understanding of material shapes the narrative of the artwork; other topics include artist practice, approaches to research and play, building context for artwork, and diffusion into the ecosystem of art. Artists have access to a printer, a library of collage materials and tools, and substrates. At the end of the week, artists make brief presentations of their artwork and speak about their proposals to develop a larger body of work or project.