Future Is Now

Janet Sui Jing Lumb, a great Montrealer, a musician, community organizer and activist. In this episode we invite you to listen to Janet Lumb life story.

In this episode of Future is Now, you’ll hear a conversation about gentrification that co-producers Shahrzad Arshadi and Caroline Kunzle had with two scholars,  Aaron Vansintjan and Fred Burrill. Both Aaron and Fred have studied and organized around the question of gentrification for a long time. They share their thoughts on what it is, how it works and what we as artists -- and most importantly,...

In this episode ,  I am focusing  on our Hopes and Dreams. What is the future we are wishing to live or wishing to leave behind for our children and grandchildren and the generations after us. For that I asked different people to record their voices in order to  share their hopes and dreams with us. A beautiful collage! Many of us have experienced atrocities by living through wars, brutal fundamen...

**The interview with Freda Guttman was recorded in October 2017 at her home in Saint Henri neighbourhood in Montréal. Freda Guttman   has worked as a printmaker, photographer and  as an installation artist. , her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and internationally Her art practice and her political activism come together in a series of ins...

A conversion about revolutionary art and most specifically revolutionary songs. Kaveh Abbasian   is an artist, filmmaker, university lecturer and political activist.

In this episode of Future is Now, listen to Shahrzad Arshadi's interview with Babak Salari,  a Montreal based photographer and educator. His documentary projects include: Iranian artists in exile; matriarchal, indigenous communities in Mexico; and gays and transvestites in Cuba. Recently, he documented those displaced and brutalized by war in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine...

In this episode of Future is Now , listen to Caroline Kunzle's conversation with Mohawk multimedia artist, Skawennati, in which she speaks about her work exploring Indigenous life in the future, about participating in a fashion show and about co-founding daphne, Montreal’s first indigenous-run artist centre. Skawennati also tells us about some of the ideas that went into her work, When Onkwehón: w...

Dans cet épisode, une conversation avec l’artiste multidisciplinaire atikamekw, Catherine Boivin, qui a présenté son œuvre, Nikotwaso au centre d’artiste autochtone daphne en juillet et août dernier. Elle nous parle des femmes autochtones, de la transmission culturelle des grand-mères, de l’importance de la langue, et des jeunes de sa communauté. Catherine Boivin s’exprime autant par la vidéo et l...

JJ Levine's exhibition at the McCord Stewart Museum, JJ Levine: Queer Photographs , questions the representation of traditional binary gender roles through staged photographs of queer subjects in intimate, domestic settings. In this episode of Future is Now , JJ Levine walks us through some of the photos and shares details of the process and motivations behind the work. For more information on the...

Dans notre première épisode en français, une conversation avec l’artiste interdisciplinaire, Nathalie Derome. Une pionnière québécoise de la performance underground, et la directrice artistique et générale de la compagnie de production, Des Mots d'la Dynamite, Nathalie créé des spectacles pour les tout petits. Elle nous parle de son processus de création et de comment ces tout jeunes lui ouvrent l...

Welcome to Future Is Now. In this episode you can listen to Shahrzad Arshadi’s interview with Razan Al-Salah,  a Montreal based Palestinian multimedia artist, educator and poet.   Razan’s work is concerned with investigating material aesthetics of dis/appearance of places and people in the context of colonial image worlds. In this episode Razan talks about her life, love of communit...

A first-generation Canadian artist of South Asian descent, based in Montreal, Mona Sharma works mainly in soft sculpture and digital drawing, two mediums whose accessible exteriors lend well to subversive acts. In this episode, Mona speaks to us about her latest project, To Sleep At Night, a series of digital drawings imagining an ideal living space for people with autism. To view Mona Sharma's pr...

Artist Forest Vicky Kapo, an indigenous person of Maori ancestry from Aotearoa, New Zealand, is a dancer, a musician and a visual artist. Forest also cares for the dying, working as a nurse in palliative care. In the Art of Dying, over a soundbed of original music, they share their reflections on art-making, on nursing the dying and on living in today's world. For more information about their work...

Khadija Baker is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist, originally from Rojava, Kurdistan, Syria. To find out more about Khadija Baker, see: khadijabaker.com *Songs and Music; EZ REWIME A  Kurdish song by Bermal Viyan Armenian Lullaby sung by my beloved hero Arsine Attarian  The spoken word piece, “Blue Beard Today's Tale” soundtrack for Khadia Baker;s animation , was perfo...

Khadija Baker is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist, originally from Rojava, Kurdistan, Syria. To find out more about Khadija Baker , see: khadijabaker.com *The Kurdish song at the beginning of this episode is “Jiyana Bê Deng” by Bermal *The spoken word piece, “Blue Beard Today's Tale”, was performed and sound designed by Moe Clark  (courtesy of Khadija Baker) **The original theme...