In the fall of 2011, when the Occupy Montreal movement appropriated Victoria Square, placards were placed on the Monument to Queen Victoria (1869) by Marshall Wood.
© Denise Caron
SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS
Book chapters and articles | Communications | Master’s thesis
Vernet, Laurent. 2017. “Le gout des autres: tamtams, Piknic Électronik et autres jeux de la sociabilité publique.” In Vivre ensemble à Montréal: épreuves et convivialités, edited by Annick Germain, Valérie Amiraux, and Julie-Anne Boudreau, 41–52. Montreal: Atelier 10.
Vernet, Laurent. 2017. “Artworks as Strangers? Encounters with Two Monumental Artworks in Montréal.” In Urban Encounters: Art and the Public, edited by Martha Radice and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, 25–50. Montreal and Toronto: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Vernet, Laurent. (2015). "The Social Life of Artworks in Public Spaces: A Study of the Publics in the Quartier international de Montréal". In The Uses of Art in Public Space, edited by Julia Lossau and Quentin Stevens, 149-166. London and New York, Routledge.
Vernet Laurent. (2014). "La vie sociale des œuvres d’art dans les espaces publics : une étude des publics au square Saint-Louis", Environnement urbain / Urban Environment 8, p. a1-a13.
Vernet, Laurent. 2017. “Thinking of Publics through Public Spaces,” presentation given during the session Public Art and the Experience of Public Spaces: New Social Perspectives of the symposium Public Art: New Ways of Thinking and Working, York University, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, Toronto, Canada, May 19–20.
Vernet, Laurent. 2017. “The Social Life of Artworks in Public Spaces: Critical Perspectives,” presentation given during the session Public Art: Spaces As Sites of “Living Together” of the American Association of Geographers’ annual conference, Boston, USA, April 5–9.
Vernet, Laurent. 2014. “The Social Life of Artworks in Public Spaces: A Pragmatic Approach to Publics,” presentation given during the session Geographies of Public Art Co-Production: Let Us Talk about Public Art, but Where Are the Publics? of the annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, August 26–29.
Vernet, Laurent. 2013. “The Social Life of Artworks in Public Spaces: A Study of Publics in Two Montréal Squares,” presentation given during the international conference Urban Encounters : Art and the Public, organized by the research group « Tracing the City : Interventions of Art in Public Space », Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, October 10-12.
Vernet, Laurent. 2012. “The Social Life of Artworks in Public Spaces: A Study of the Publics in the Quartier international de Montréal,” presentation given during the session The Uses of Art in Public Space of the 32nd International Geographical Congress, Cologne, Germany, August 26–30.
Vernet, L. (2006). En temps et lieu : le programme d'art public de la Vancouver Art Gallery et les dynamiques urbaines, master's thesis, Concordia University, 152 p.