La Chambre blanche

La Chambre blanche is an artist-run centre based in Québec City, Canada, devoted to experimentation in the visual and digital arts. Founded in 1978, it was the first dissemination centre in Québec City managed by a collective of artists. Its early programming focused primarily on performance, alternative photographic practices, and installation. Over the decades, it has evolved into a laboratory articulated around research, creation, production, documentation, training, and dissemination, with a particular emphasis on practices exploring new technologies within an international network of residencies and exchanges. The centre is a self-managed artist-run organisation. Its mission includes promoting visual and digital arts and serving as a gathering place for a community interested in its mandate, bringing together artists, makers, hackers, and anyone wishing to engage in associative life and contemporary cultural issues. Since 1982, it has operated an artist-in-residence programme. It also maintains a documentation centre on contemporary art and laboratories for exploring digital production. La Chambre blanche is located at 185, rue Christophe-Colomb Est in Québec City. It offers residencies, projects, and laboratories that treat virtual and real spaces as essential avenues of exploration. In 2010, the centre published its first electronic publication, Le performatif du Web, which interrogates the notion of the performative and attempts to define it in the context of web art. The organisation is governed by a board of directors and coordinated by a small team. Its programming and activities are rooted in the Québec City artistic community while participating in international networks of residency and exchange.

La Chambre blanche was founded in 1978 in Québec City, becoming the first dissemination centre in the city managed by a collective of artists. Its initial programming was centred on performance, alternative photographic practices, and installation, reflecting the experimental and interdisciplinary spirit of the artist-run centre movement in Canada. In 1982, the centre established an artist-in-residence programme, which has since become a core part of its activities. Over the years, it expanded its mandate to encompass all disciplines of the visual arts and, increasingly, digital arts. It developed a documentation centre on contemporary art and laboratories for exploring digital production, positioning itself as a laboratory articulated around research, creation, production, documentation, training, and dissemination. In 2010, La Chambre blanche published its first electronic publication, Le performatif du Web, which interrogates the notion of the performative and attempts to define it in the context of web art. This publication marked its engagement with digital and web-based artistic practices. Today, La Chambre blanche operates as a self-managed artist-run centre with an international network of residencies and exchanges. It remains a gathering place for artists, makers, hackers, and others interested in contemporary cultural issues, and continues to promote visual and digital arts from its base at 185, rue Christophe-Colomb Est in Québec City.

• 2010

  Publication of the first electronic publication, Le performatif du Web.

• 1982

  The centre establishes an artist-in-residence programme.

• 1978

  La Chambre blanche is founded in Québec City as the first artist-run dissemination centre in the city.

An artist-run centre and laboratory for visual and digital arts experimentation, research, and dissemination in Québec City.

• Artist residencies

  Residency programme for artists, established in 1982.

• Digital art laboratories

  Laboratories for exploring new methods of production and research for artists.

• Documentation centre

  A documentation centre on contemporary art.

• Le performatif du Web

  First electronic publication (2010) examining the performative in web art.

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