Monika Kin Gagnon

Monika Kin Gagnon is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She has published on cultural politics, the visual and media arts since the 1980s, including Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art (2000), 13 Conversations about Art and Cultural Race Politics (2002) with Richard Fung, as co-editor of Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 with Janine Marchessault (2014), and most recently, In Search of Expo 67 (2020) with Lesley Johnstone. Her research focuses on cultural memory, creative archiving, and experimental media arts. In 2009 she undertook the DVD-catalogue and restoration, Charles Gagnon: 4 Films (2009), based on her late artist-father’s experimental 1960’s films, and the related interactive database Korsakow film Archiving R69 (2011) http://www.archivingr69.ca/ She was co-curator of In Search of Expo 67 with Lesley Johnstone at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal for the 50th anniversary of Expo 67, which included an expanded cinema program of digitally restored multi-screen films from Expo 67, including the 70-mm Motion (1967) and The Earth is Man’s Home (1967) – and a VR prototype for Man and Colour from the Kaleidoscope pavilion. She curated La Vie polaire/Polar Life at the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2014, a digital simulation and restaging of Graeme Ferguson’s spectacular 11-screen Expo 67 film, which partnered the Cinémathèque québécoise and National Film Board of Canada with CINEMAExpo67. And in 2015 she curated Theresa Hak Kyung Cha | Immatérial for DHC Art at Centre Phi. Recent publications include “Into the Archive With Joyce Wieland: Bill’s Hat (1967),” and her conversation with filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, “Before I made films, I was singing,” in Alanis Obomsawin: Lifework (Berlin: HKW/Prestel, 2022). She is currently working on a book entitled Posthumous Cinema: Unfinished Films in the Archives.