HISTORY
DARE-DARE
Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal
• Founded in 1985 – International Youth Year – the centre became an artist-run centre in 1990. It has been located, successively, on Laurier, Saint-Laurent, Parc Avenue, Sainte-Catherine as well as on Viger Square. It is presently located in a park with no name.
• From 2004 to 2006, during Phase 1 of Dis/location: projet d’articulation urbaine, the centre was located on Viger Square; after which, the mobile unit moved, mid-2006, to a park with no name at the border of Plateau-Mont-Royal and Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie boroughs.
• In addition to the regular program, special events are organized:
Viva! Art Action 2006;
Périmètre, un événement d’art public 2005;
Mémoire vive with the Centre d’histoire de Montréal 2002;
L’algèbre d’Ariane with Les Brasseurs Art Contemporain, Liège 2000.
DARE-DARE supports:
• projects in the city, in collaboration with various communities
(Immixtion: Sites of Engagement 1994-1996, Jean-François Prost 1998, Yves Gendreau 1998, Kirsten Forkert 2001, Louis-Philippe Ogé 2003-05, Expo-sport 2005, Télétaxi 2005, Karen Spencer, 2006-2007),
• performative interventions within the urban fabric
(Christine Lebel 1999, Marie-Suzanne Désilets 1999, Canada-Columbia exchange project La chute 2004, Hannah Jickling and Valerie Salez 2005),
• evolutive projects
(Massimo Guerrera 1997, Shannon Cochrane and Jacob Wren 2003, Doug Scholes 2004, Chih-Chien Wang 2007),
• interdisciplinary practices
(Raphaëlle de Groot 1997, Jean-Pierre Gauthier and Martin Tétreault 2001, Olivier Choinière 2005, Geneviève and Matthieu 2005, spurse 2006)
• new artistic practices
(Mireille Cliche 2002, Denis Lessard 2002, Thomas Grondin 2005, Au travail/At work collective 2006)
