...Mount Royal Montreal. Thirty years later, fallout from this event is still scattered around the hillside like hulking metal carcasses. lingering resentment towards the symposium has built-up over the years, stemming from the event's lack of site-sensitivity to the mountain, considered to be one of the city's major heritage sites.

Founded in 2001 and coordinated by Centre d'art public, Artefact is a triennial outdoor exhibition of site-specific public installations that respond to place in an effort to surmount the turd-in-the-plaza status of most public art. To this end, Artefact...

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