Justin Langlois
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Justin A. Langlois is an artist, educator, and organizer working across media and social practices. He is the co-founder and research director of Broken City Lab, an artist-led interdisciplinary research collective working to explore the complexities of locality, infrastructures, and participation in relation to civic engagement and social change, and founder of the School for Eventual Vacancy, the Neighbourhood Time Exchange, and Float School (with Holly Schmidt), supported by Emily Carr's Living Labs.
His practice explores collaborative structures, critical pedagogy, and custodial frameworks for gathering, learning, and making. His work has been presented at galleries including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, the Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Alternator, Oxygen Gallery, Work:Detroit, and conferences including Open Engagement and the Creative Time Summit, among many others. He writing has been published in Canadian Art, C-Magazine, the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, and in books focused on radical pedagogy and socially engaged art practices. In 2017-18, he was the inaugural artist-in-residence with the City of Vancouver's Sustainability Group, and his project, Locals Only with AKA Artist Run in Saskatoon was one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program.
He is currently the Associate Dean of the MFA Program in the Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies.
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