May 25, 2025 - ART HOTLINE with Céline Bureau
Panel with Hugo Dufour & Kriss Li from Céline Bureau
Date: May 25
Time: 6:30-7:45 pm
Language: French/English
Places available: 30
Artist and labor organizer Kriss Li and cultural policy analyst Hugo Dufour (Céline Bureau) will be discussing, contextualizing, and debating your questions and opinions about the role and job of artists and arts workers. They’ll tackle subjects like fame and success, political art vs political actions, gossip and money, and other art world survival tactics. They’ll even try to answer hard-hitting questions like “are artists inherently individualistic?”.
Céline Bureau is a non-profit artist residency in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal which fosters exchanges between local, national and international artists of different ages, backgrounds, mediums, and identities. The residency provides a shared workspace to research and develop ideas and / or practices alongside other artists.
Hugo Dufour is the host and one of the cofounders (with Terrance Richard <3) of Céline Bureau. Having lived nearly all his life within one mile of where the residency now stands, he is especially invested in preserving the artistic community that made the neighbourhood. His passion for supporting artists led him to work for the Chaire Fernand-Dumont researching cultural policy, and to participate in the making of many municipal policies in the Montreal area. Before that, he was working as a curator and coordinator in many arts festivals.
Kriss Li is a multimedia artist who creates films, installations, and conceptual projects that explore structures of power. Kriss’s work has been shown at over 100 global festivals including DOC NYC, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Images Festival, and Vancouver International Film Festival. Kriss has been selected for international residencies including Amant New York (USA), Recess (USA), Villa Sträuli (Switzerland), Paper Machine (USA), and Struts Gallery (Canada). Kriss is the recipient of multiple grants from Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. They were a 2023 finalist to United Association for Labor Education New Generation Award for Emerging Labor Educators.