Gabby Moser
@gabbymoser.bsky.social
Art critic, curator, art historian. Associate Professor Art History + Research Chair/Director of the Jarislowsky Institute for Canadian Art History at Concordia University. Founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA (she/her).
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Gabby Moser
@gabbymoser.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Lee Lozano, Art Workers' Coalition Open Hearing in 1969: an event, Lucy Lippard wrote, to "get people thinking about change instead of continuing the personal griping... that always goes on; to crystallize & analyze dissatisfaction & see where constructive energy can be directed"
From 2023-25, @morrislum.bsky.social and I met every other month to sequence the photographs from his “Chinatowns” series into this book, which officially launched today. This lead image on CBC Arts was always my cover image contender. So proud of Morris and this series
www.cbc.ca/arts/for-mor...
www.cbc.ca/arts/for-mor...
For more than a decade, this artist has photographed North America’s changing Chinatowns | CBC Arts
Visiting Chinatowns from Ottawa to Oakland, Calif., Morris Lum’s new book is a visual exploration of restaurants, grocery stores and community halls as important sites of cultural heritage.
www.cbc.ca
October 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
From 2023-25, @morrislum.bsky.social and I met every other month to sequence the photographs from his “Chinatowns” series into this book, which officially launched today. This lead image on CBC Arts was always my cover image contender. So proud of Morris and this series
www.cbc.ca/arts/for-mor...
www.cbc.ca/arts/for-mor...
The thrill of seeing an undergrad student on the bus, poring over their highlighted copy of Stokstad.
October 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The thrill of seeing an undergrad student on the bus, poring over their highlighted copy of Stokstad.
Some decisive shots of Montreal life, in black and white, currently on view in the McCord Stewart Museum’s “Pounding the Pavement” exhibition curated by Zoë Tousignant.
October 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Some decisive shots of Montreal life, in black and white, currently on view in the McCord Stewart Museum’s “Pounding the Pavement” exhibition curated by Zoë Tousignant.
Morris Lum’s forthcoming “Chinatowns” book, which I helped him to photo edit and sequence, is on today’s @cnn.com style page! The book is out October 28 with a book launch planned in Montreal for December 11. @morrislum.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/s...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/s...
October 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Morris Lum’s forthcoming “Chinatowns” book, which I helped him to photo edit and sequence, is on today’s @cnn.com style page! The book is out October 28 with a book launch planned in Montreal for December 11. @morrislum.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/s...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/s...
With one of my oldest and dearest in Montreal.
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
With one of my oldest and dearest in Montreal.
Write fast and Don't Think (trying this out as a "get your book done already" mantra)
September 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Write fast and Don't Think (trying this out as a "get your book done already" mantra)
Over the last five (eight? Ten?) years I’ve realized the profound responsibility and pleasure it is to be a part of an artist’s practice via friendship and to truly understand their work as it develops. 🙏 to count @narrowrooms.bsky.social as one of my people as I watched her present her work today
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Over the last five (eight? Ten?) years I’ve realized the profound responsibility and pleasure it is to be a part of an artist’s practice via friendship and to truly understand their work as it develops. 🙏 to count @narrowrooms.bsky.social as one of my people as I watched her present her work today
Montreal is really showing off in this late summer segue into fall
September 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Montreal is really showing off in this late summer segue into fall
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Seriously! How the hell is that allowed?
Full solidarity with the flight attendants. Shame on you AC.
Full solidarity with the flight attendants. Shame on you AC.
Boarding, disembarking, delays: flight attendants work it all unpaid. How is this even allowed?
The Liberal government had a rare opportunity last fall - even the Cons recognized how grossly unfair this is.
This strike could have been avoided.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
The Liberal government had a rare opportunity last fall - even the Cons recognized how grossly unfair this is.
This strike could have been avoided.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Could federal legislation have eased a key sticking point in the Air Canada dispute? | CBC News
Flight attendants poised to strike this week have previously asked the federal government to address one of their biggest grievances — unpaid work.
www.cbc.ca
August 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Seriously! How the hell is that allowed?
Full solidarity with the flight attendants. Shame on you AC.
Full solidarity with the flight attendants. Shame on you AC.
Just waiting for @aircanada.bsky.social to pre-emptively cancel our flight home from visiting family in Vancouver rather than returning to the bargaining table with @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants. Solidarity with the workers.
August 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Just waiting for @aircanada.bsky.social to pre-emptively cancel our flight home from visiting family in Vancouver rather than returning to the bargaining table with @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants. Solidarity with the workers.
From yesterday’s lovely and generous studio visit with Emma Nishimura. Furoshiki paper printed with photogravures of her family photographs of ancestors and kin incarcerated during Japanese internment in Canada.
August 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
From yesterday’s lovely and generous studio visit with Emma Nishimura. Furoshiki paper printed with photogravures of her family photographs of ancestors and kin incarcerated during Japanese internment in Canada.
The first of three conversations as part of Kate Wong’s SITE project at Mercer Union unfolded today, asking why Toronto’s art institutions are in crisis and what can be learnt from their symptoms.
August 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The first of three conversations as part of Kate Wong’s SITE project at Mercer Union unfolded today, asking why Toronto’s art institutions are in crisis and what can be learnt from their symptoms.
Reposted by Gabby Moser
So long, York U office.
August 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
So long, York U office.
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I bring a text about parenting, technology & creativity to read aloud each year at MOTHRA: an artist parent residency on Toronto island. Today, we read the introduction to @hzeavin.bsky.social’s “Mother Media” and talked about extended kinship, pathologizing mothering and artists as media
July 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I bring a text about parenting, technology & creativity to read aloud each year at MOTHRA: an artist parent residency on Toronto island. Today, we read the introduction to @hzeavin.bsky.social’s “Mother Media” and talked about extended kinship, pathologizing mothering and artists as media
“All of my favourite artists are people who think about everything — there's no aspect of expression and the way that it could be received that isn't considered. jes was one of those 'everything' artists.”
🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse:
www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...
🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse:
www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...
Remembering jes sachse: disability activist, artist and maker of good trouble | CBC Arts
Friend and collaborator Gabrielle Moser reflects on the late Toronto artist who approached life and work with 'radical freedom.' They died earlier this month at the age of 40.
www.cbc.ca
May 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
“All of my favourite artists are people who think about everything — there's no aspect of expression and the way that it could be received that isn't considered. jes was one of those 'everything' artists.”
🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse:
www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...
🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse:
www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...
Paris in May is a study in having a very nice life
May 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Paris in May is a study in having a very nice life
Is there an online support group for disappointed Parisians who have moved to any other city in the world?
May 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Is there an online support group for disappointed Parisians who have moved to any other city in the world?
I regularly teach a graduate seminar called Un-Learning the Archive at York University in the faculty of education, and every year I assign Anjali Arondekar's "For the Record" in a week about the body and the archive. Until this year, her work seemed to fly under the radar.
May 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I regularly teach a graduate seminar called Un-Learning the Archive at York University in the faculty of education, and every year I assign Anjali Arondekar's "For the Record" in a week about the body and the archive. Until this year, her work seemed to fly under the radar.
I love this animal.
April 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I love this animal.
Students who thank you for transforming their research after they hand in their final assignment: this never gets old ✨
April 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Students who thank you for transforming their research after they hand in their final assignment: this never gets old ✨
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We are looking for a postdoc for our research group in digital sociology within DIGSUM. The research is about how false information is created and spread across digital platforms, and how it can affect public opinion and undermine democracy. Spread the word! www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/...
Postdoc position to study digital disinformation — DIGSUM
We have an open position for a postdoc to come work with us at Umeå
University to study how disinformation and misinformation are created and
spread through digital platforms, and how they may affec...
www.digsum.org
February 24, 2024 at 9:36 AM
We are looking for a postdoc for our research group in digital sociology within DIGSUM. The research is about how false information is created and spread across digital platforms, and how it can affect public opinion and undermine democracy. Spread the word! www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/...
How are we still in a place where a child-focused supposedly trauma informed health service will ask for a mom and dad’s name — rather than the names of the parents — on their intake form? Truly astonishing
April 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
How are we still in a place where a child-focused supposedly trauma informed health service will ask for a mom and dad’s name — rather than the names of the parents — on their intake form? Truly astonishing
Against all odds, or maybe because I arrived here in 2006 at the height of Torontopia, I still love this city best of all
April 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Against all odds, or maybe because I arrived here in 2006 at the height of Torontopia, I still love this city best of all