Collage on Screen

Presented as part of Volume 8 MTL – Art and The Book, which will take place from September 30 to October 5 at Casa d’Italia.

Collage on Screen, an eclectic evening of moving images, is part of Kolaj Institute’s Collage in Motion project, which explores collage and the moving image, a broad, loosely defined category that includes animations, film cut-ups, collage film, stop-motion, documentaries about collage artists, and other forms of media in which collage—as medium or genre—is present.

Part One is a collection of films curated by Kolaj Institute. Part Two features works made during Kolaj Institute’s 2024 Collage on Screen Artist Residency, a five-week program designed to support artists who want to develop a practice that includes motion in their artmaking. The artists worked virtually over five weeks in Summer 2024 where they explored the history of collage on screen and the various ways that collage makes its way to the screen and how collage artists operate in the space of moving images and sound. They considered these ideas: “Unlike two-dimensional art, collage on screen is temporal art, meaning it moves through time. Because of this, viewers experience Collage on Screen not as a linear series of images but as an immersive experience.” This residency asked, “How do we, as collage artists, make artwork that speaks to that?”  Part Three will show two films by Montreal, Quebec Filmmaker Ric Kasini Kadour.

For the Collage in Motion project, Kolaj Institute sees its role as not one of defining “collage in motion” but as one of asking what “collage in motion” can be. The project manifests as articles in Kolaj Magazine, an online directory, workshops, residencies, and screenings. Artists with a practice of Collage in Motion are encouraged to submit to the online directory.

See the detailed program

Part One

CITRUS DREAMS
Shari Gaynes, 2020

PICNIC
Shari Gaynes, 2023

21-87
Arthur Lipsett, 1963

ALIBI (Hurray for the Riff Raff)
Eric Stafford, 2024

SCALA!!!! PROGRAMMES & TENTACLES
Osbert Parker, 2023

PUBLIC DOMAIN
Máximo Tuja aka Max-o-matic, 2023

COLLAGE AND SHADOW DEMO
Miwa Matreyek, 2015-2025

PROMISE
Miwa Matreyek, 2023

OCTOPUS EMPIRE
Imagined Wings, 2022

HAPPY FACE TIME
John Akre, 2025

ETERNAL CHIC
Shari Gaynes, 2019

ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
Shari Gaynes, 2023

ANIMA VERT #2
Máximo Tuja aka Max-o-matic, 2024

HIGH STREET REPEAT
Osbert Parker, Laurie Hill, 2022

BLACK COFFEE
Marta Janik, 2018

Part Two

THE CORRECTIONS IN COLLAGE
Sara C. Rolater, 2025

WATER BODY
Marria Khan, 2025

A WOMAN CONSUMED
Rachelle Wunderink, 2025

NATURGEMӒLDE
Bella LaMontagne, 2025

MOOSE RUN
Christine De Vuono, 2025

GHASTLY FIGURE/WORSE THAN EVER
Darren Floyd, 2024

THE SUN NEVER SETS
Leniqueca Welcome, 2025

SUBTERRANEAN SPIRITS
Hillary Carlip, 2024

ÅGUAGUAT
Tonya Dee McDaniel, 2025

Part Three

COVENANT OF SCHWITTERS’ ARMY
Ric Kasini Kadour, 2022

JOY IS PAPER
Ric Kasini Kadour, 2024