Time Travel Has Always Been Possible
- Doors open @ 6pm
- Talk starts @ 7pm
This event is presented in English
Time Travel Has Always Been Possible by Ray invites visitors to explore Ada X’s living archives through play, memory, and speculation.
Since 2008, Ada X has developed Matricules: a visual and documentary record of its activities, now containing thousands of digital files 30 years after its 1996 founding. Rejecting traditional GLAM classification, Matricules reflects a DIY, human-scaled approach rooted in lived experience, intuition, and care. Ada X independently manages its data, uses open-source tools, and retains sovereignty over its digital memory, long before such practices became central to conversations about technology, ownership, and power.
Time Travel transforms the archive into a poetic interface, opening portals into feminist media-arts history. Visitors explore non-linear narratives, cycles of learning and unlearning, and the evolution of artistic practices.
Drawing on neptunian time, ritual, and speculative communion, it asks: how do we remain connected to the past while responding to the present?
An interactive poem honoring time, legacy, and cycles of change, Time Travel contemplates communing with art and tech spirits across eras. In an age of technological obsession and anxiety, how do we stay critical, non-capitalist, and audacious? One way is to call in spirits and open portals across moments of conversation.
This project was supported by the Conseil des arts de Montréal’s démART-Mtl internship program.
Access to the space
There are three steps to enter the building. The front door opens by being pulled towards the street. This entrance is not wheelchair accessible. Ada X is located on the second floor after two sets of 10 steps with a landing in the middle, for a total of 20 steps.
Bathroom access
There is a bathroom outside the gallery, on the same floor as Ada X. It is not wheelchair accessible.