Programming

I stood in front of the space that contains the yellow luminous board. Questions arose like queries, challenges or games proposals. It looked like the beginning of dialogues.

Josée Yvon (1950-1994) is considered by many as the most dangerous writer of Quebec. Danseuses-mamelouk, published in 1982 by VLB editor, resume her first two books by adding a unique section.

I draw sentences from grammar books. Each time I open a grammar book I am stuck by the italic and bold type sentences used as grammatical illustrations. I often set aside the rules of the book and become obsessed by the lost sense of the sentences so sacrificed for grammatical purposes.

I want DARE-DARE’s trailer to be perceived as a pit stop on a journey to nowhere. I chose excerpts from my personal travels on the roads and highways of Quebec, captured moments that seemed to me to be capable of reinventing the trailer’s function.

The idea was inspired by past collaboration with the Kahnawake community. For the project, my desire is to create a symbolic dialogue between colonist and Iroquois communities.

The suite of unpublished poems that I propose here is at the same time a pagan haiku, an intimate slogan, an existential ad. In short, an individual word which wants to be collective according to the famous "I is another" of Rimbaud.

The project reinterprets the slogan "I love myself as I am". Well used in the mercantile sauce to sell products or to promote ideologies aiming at the "well being" (especially with women), it often evacuates the questioning: "Who do I love?

Fear, especially its confrontation, is at the heart of Geneviève Amyot’s work and most of all in "Nous sommes beaucoup qui avons peur", published posthumous in 2003 by Éditions du Noroît.

Ten statements invite passers-by to better understand the neighborhood in which the illuminated sign is located. The statements aim to make visible forgotten elements of daily life in the Quartier des spectacles: the popular singer, the native art, the demolition of housing, the closing of an Arab grocery store...

Sylvie Laliberté started her practice doing performance in 1985, and then extended it to video and writing.

Hélène Matte is a poet from the visual arts scene who speaks, an artist who writes.

A body of poems from various publications of the author.

I have always been fascinated by public art and street art, which are committed to reaching out to people and challenging the everyday life of ordinary people. Moreover, frustrated that the haiku is not so well known, I searched a long time for the way to diffuse it in other ways, and thus join a new audience of readers.

For the Écritures publiques project, Carl Trahan decided to work with a selection of texts referring to the mass and the crowd. This initiative is motivated by the location of the proposed support (in the town’s center, nearby a subway station, in front of a busy bus stop).

After reflecting upon the interventional space where the sign is located, the strongest references to appear were the Red Light district, the student crisis', and the Quartier des Spectacles. Each of the nine poems were written bearing all of these considerations in mind.

I note what I appreciate from my day. It's about simple actions and small gestures, what is needed to cultivate a conscientious attitude in front of what surrounds me. I celebrate my appreciations at the studio each day with a written page of gr‘attitude’.