This residency program runs continuously for 8 weeks. DARE-DARE seeks to foster a deeper, close-knit relationship between a professional artist (who does not reside in the metropolitan area) and the Saint-Henri and Petite-Bourgogne neighbourhoods, and provides dedicated support throughout the residency.
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research micro-residency at La HALTERead moreThis summer, DARE-DARE invites you to experience a research blitz in the public space. The micro-residencies aim to question and (re)animate our relationship to reading, archives and exchange.
Elsy Zavarce and Denise A. Olivares
Echoes of Burgundy: Exploring Urban Presence Through Multisensory ArchivesRead moreThe duo of Elsy Zavarce and Denise A. Olivares, who were in residence for an independent research project during the 2025–2026 programming year, will present the results of their work at La HALTE in late May.
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.
Raquel Cruz Crespo
Cuerpo y EspritRead more"Cuerpo y Esprit brings together reflections that began when I was diagnosed with cancer at twenty-nine, just as I was finishing my studies and eager to reconnect professionally with the visual arts."
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Projects and Special Events CoordinatorRead moreDARE-DARE is looking for a dynamic, autonomous individual to fill the position of Projects and Special Events Coordinator.
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Cultural Mediator and Programming Assistant (Funded by: Canada Summer Jobs)Read moreDARE-DARE is seeking a dynamic, creative, and self-directed individual to fill the position of Cultural Mediator and Programming Assistant
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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.