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.
Programming
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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.
Archives
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DARE-DARE dépôt 2005
Fundraising activityRead moreDARE-DARE, with its store, sells multiple, mass-produced art objects. The profits will go to found the center activities.
Tadasu Takamine
Master classRead moreInterdisciplinary artist in media arts and installation, Tadasu Takamine has participated in exhibitions in Asia, North America and Europe, as well as in Australia, Israel, Mexico and South Africa. Takamine was also a member of the influential DUMB TYPE collective.
Périmètre
A public art eventRead moreSquare Viger, its history, its current issues, its physical and social components, is the theme of Périmètre, un événement d'art public.
Louis-Philippe Ogé
Les fruits de poteauxRead moreThe artist creates a project in the neighborhoods adjacent to the Jean-Talon Market. The artist presents Les fruits de poteaux, a series of interventions in two parts: the production and marketing on a small scale of a system of public trolleys.
Jean-Maxime Dufresne and Virginie Laganière
Hot SpotsRead moreDuring heat waves, the Hot Spots project focuses on the sphere of leisure and the transformations that its practice causes on urban space and social interactions.
Rose-Marie Goulet
Nos frontièresRead moreBorders divide us. Borders bring us closer. Borders belong to us. They are geographical, cartographic, political, linguistic, ethnic, social, economic, cultural... They are infinite. But they are not indefinite.
Thomas Grondin
Le soldat inconnuRead moreYou are invited to a very special research in the heart of the Centre-Sud district. Le soldat inconnu is a project that has emerged from an important moment in my life and from a find in my family roots.
Expo-sport
Multidisciplinary exhibition at the Downtown YMCARead moreAs part of the YMCA Centre-ville activity and location, Expo-sport is a collective exhibition featuring artists Belinda Campbell, Manuelle Gauthier, Mathieu Latulippe, Frédéric Lavoie, Martin Lord and Zipertatou.
JEAN-JULES SOUCY
Le tour du Canada en vélo… stationnaireRead moreThe artist has cycled through the window displays of various artist centers, art galleries and museums and at events in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria, accumulating the 8,800 kilometers needed to go to Victoria and back from La Baie where he lives.
Télétaxi
Video installation in a cabRead moreAt first glance, Teletaxi does not differ from the other taxis circulating in the streets of the city, but passengers who use it discover an interactive video screen at the rear of the vehicle. At random, passengers-viewers watch short animations and videos made by 12 artists.
DARE-DARE GALA 1
Fundraising EventRead moreBenefit event with performances, art videos and musical performances.
Hannah Jickling & Valerie Salez
Snow shovelingRead moreHannah Jickling and Valerie Salez apply to the task of shoveling snow like most people in the Nordic countries do. Except that they leave the "management and maintenance" aspect of it to propose a very different approach.