Marta Rosenquist, PhD
E-mail address: [martarose@free.fr](mailto:martarose@free.fr)
Dual citizenship: French and American
Education
PhD in Fine Arts – December 2015 – AIX-MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ – thesis title: « The re-appropriation of former industrial spaces through contemporary creation: The Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille ».
Recent publications and papers:
- BUFFA, Géraud, ROSENQUIST, Marta. « Patrimoine industriel et pollution. Le cas emblématique de Legré-Mante à Marseille », Patrimoine Industriel, no 76, juin 2020.
- ROSENQUIST, Marta. « Une Histoire de Julien Blaine » in Julien Blaine : Le Grand Dépotoir, (Catalogue for Friche la Belle de Mai Gallery exhibition), 171-174. Dijon: Les Presses du Réel - Al Dante, 2020.
- ROSENQUIST, Marta. La Friche la Belle de Mai à Marseille : Espaces industriels, politiques culturelles et art contemporain (publication of PhD thesis). Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2019.
- ROSENQUIST, Marta. "The role of indeterminate spaces in the development of visual arts in a former Marseille tobacco factory", XIXth International Conference on Industrial Heritage, Gijon, Spain, September 2017.
- ROSENQUIST, Marta. "La Friche la Belle de Mai and Tramway: Policies et trajectories of conversion into places of contemporary creation." XVIth International Congress TICCIH Lille Region 2015, September 2015.
Languages: English: Native speaker. French: Bilingual. Spanish: Limited working proficiency.
Other: Photography - Recent Exhibitions:
The Edge of Marseille in Lockdown, SocialDocumentaryNetwork.net, May 2020. Le Fond et la forme (duo with Jean Noël), Le Ryad, Marseille, April-May 2019.
CILAC: Member since 2004.
Sessions in which Marta Rosenquist participates
Monday 29 August, 2022
Sessions in which Marta Rosenquist attends
Sunday 28 August, 2022
Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of the École technique de Montréal, founded in 1909, now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal campus.
Monday 29 August, 2022
Industrial heritage and photography have a close relationship. Photography is a source for industrial archaeology. It sheds light on the links between people, their tools, their machines and their workplaces. Once the industrial activity is over, photography is also a tool for documenting and studying the sites. But far beyond that, captured by artists capable of transcending common representations, conferring on industrial remains the ugliness of an era that was thought to be over, photog...
Tuesday 30 August, 2022
Wednesday 31 August, 2022
This tour offers an excursion on a privatized deck of Montreal's bateau-mouche; a playful guided tour that takes in some of the city's industrial landmarks from the St. Lawrence River.The tour is priced to cover additional costs; the fee includes access to the bateau-mouche, the tour and a drink.Departure will be on foot from the conference venue; boarding is at 3:45 p.m. at the l...
Thursday 1 September, 2022
The South Central district is a former industrial and working-class neighbourhood with a rich and unique heritage. The visit will allow us to discover, among other things, the Macdonald Tobacco factory and the Raymond candy factory, the old workers' housing typical of the district, and the reuse of old buildings for cultural and community purposes. The activity will start at the Frontenac metro station and will end with a visit to the Écomusée du fier monde. Staff will be avail...
Saturday 3 September, 2022
Uncover the vestiges of the Canadian Pacifie Railway tracks and the former Angus Shops, which played integral raies in the industrial and residential development of Rosemont. This tour wi/1 give you insight into the industrial past of the neighbourhood and its new life bath as a place to live and to work.A tour designed and guided by Heritage Montreal. Departure at the corner of Rachel and Dézéry streets, 10 minutes walk from Prefontaine metro station
