Final Holds draws on the world of professional wrestling as a metaphor for care, absence, and grief, where the final move of a match echoes the last gesture of holding a loved one.
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To Embody: Joyful Militancy and Irresistible Activism
2026-2027 programRead moreMichelle Caron-Pawlowsky
Finishing HoldsRead moreÆlab
Entre branches, bronches et rayons.Read moreThe duo Ælab, part of the Interventions component of the 2026–2027 program, is presenting two bike-and-audio activities with the Mobile Station, as well as an AV performance featuring modular synthesis, exploring the combined power of plants and mobility.
Jad Orphée Chami
Residency
Micro-residency at La HALTE: l’appel du rhapsodeRead moreAs part of a two-day micro-residency at La HALTE de DARE-DARE, Jad Orphée Charmi is offering a workshop exploring the memory of a place and the objects that embody it, as well as a storytelling evening.
Caroline Gagné
Peupleraie - Corps social et corps sonoreRead morePeupleraie invites us to explore the soundscape of a community of trees, poplars, in the urban fabric of the Petite-Bourgogne neighborhood and the Lachine Canal, as a metaphor for the “living environment” and the social body. Anyone passing through the South-West neighborhood with an internet-connected device and a pair of headphones can experience the project. Various connectors are available at the HALTE or at the DARE-DARE offices.
Andréanne Martin
Les seins ballants, je m'en vais au ventRead moreLes seins ballants, je m’en vais au vent is a micro-edition of nomadic artist books that explore the idea of wandering from a feminist and decolonial perspective, and are designed to evolve over the course of a year.
Ventology Training and Sensing
Read moreWhat does the air above your neighbourhood actually smell like? What sounds are escaping through the vents on your block? Ventology Training and Sensing invites you into a world full of blowing hot—and sometimes pulpy—air.
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Mitch Robertson
Famous TMRead moreThis young Toronto artist has transformed the gallery into a "Graceland that pays homage" evoking a museum gift store.
Jean-François Prost
Chambre avec vuesRead moreIn this outdoor intervention, the room evoked by the title is a shed in a Montreal alley to which the artist had grafted video monitors.
Peter Conlin
Free Running Toujours SecRead moreThrough very simple mechanisms, Peter Conlin (Vancouver) draws us into a poetic relationship with images by highlighting their fragility and ephemeral nature.
Caroline Boileau
Je me dilapide en renoncementsRead moreThis project stems from a research on the concept of container inscribing itself between the poles of the industrial world and the organic world, between technicity and nature.
Yves Gendreau (Gend’Art)
Chantier #365, L’INTENTIONRead moreYves Gendreau installed a construction sign with no inscription on a vacant lot in Montreal's central business district.
Jean-François Pirson
Reading : Une poutre dans le ventreRead moreWhile in Quebec, DARE-DARE invited Belgian artist/theorist/educator Jean-François Pirson to share his poetic reflections on the relationship of the body to "the architecture of the everyday".
Les Secrétaires Percutantes
Contemporary music eveningRead moreOffering an ironic and feminist look at the workplace, seven percussive "secretaries" shook their bureaucratic chips to the delight of the audience.
Martin Boisseau
Deuxième temps : rotatifRead moreIt is an investigation around the movements of the camera and the monitor. More precisely, a device where the movement of the monitor cancels the movement made by the camera at the time of the shooting.
Daniel Corbeil
Simulacre techniqueRead moreThis installation project outside the walls of DARE-DARE pursues an approach linked to the appropriation of disused industrial sites as metaphorical elements, conducive to a questioning of certain symbols of our contemporary environment.
Parlez-moi d’amour
Performance eveningRead moreOn the occasion of Valentine's Day, artists, through short performances, address the theme of love.
Ed Osborn
SkeletonsRead moreThe project is presented as a series of sound frames, in which the movement of automatons is made audible through the use of ultrasonic sensors.