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 decodes
Fundraising EventRead moreThis is not a benefit activity at Divan Orange.
karen elaine spencer
Dream listenerRead moreFor a year, karen elaine spencer took to the streets with cardboard signs on which her dreams were written. Follows a dialogue with the people of the street, offering the opportunity to enter the dream world of others.
Sophie Fougy et Simon Girault-Têtevide
Kif-kif bourricotRead moreThe "Kif-kif bourricot" project takes the form of a polyform beast, in constant metamorphosis, vacant at its daily occupations to which the public is invited.
Viva! Art d'Exécution
Viva! Art ActionRead moreIn the course of an evening on Friday, September 29th, and an afternoon on Saturday, September 30th, at the park with no name, DARE-DARE will be the host of performance art presentations as well as related interdisciplinary art forms of today.
SPURSE
Sensing Place: across zones of MontréalRead moreSPURSE is a hybrid collective with international ramifications that touches on art and architecture. SPURSE is interested in the reconstruction of the common places, by an examination of the urbanity with a psycho-geographical approach.
Karen Trask
Lit de Proust: en attente d'un baiserRead moreKaren Trask began reading Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Inspired by the conditions that led to the creation of this work, Trask decided to reinterpret and build, in a shed, the context, the room and the bed of Proust.
Autour de l'Agora
Forum EventRead moreDARE-DARE intends to continue its reflection and experience during the meetings Around the Agora, where artists, sociologists, architects and activists will present approaches, visions, modes of intervention aimed at rethinking the conceptualization, planning, development and organization of the urban landscape.
Collectif Au travail / At work
Projet d’emploi et de détournementRead moreAT WORK / AT WORK is a call for open and free collaboration. This experimental project proposes to artists and workers to consider their workplaces as an artistic place of residency.
DARE-DARE GALA 2
Fundraising eventRead more2nd edition of the DARE-DARE Gala! Benefit party for the activities of DARE-DARE which brings together about thirty artists during a festive evening where performances, videos and musical performances are presented.
Book launch
Petite enveloppe urbaine - 13th editionRead moreThe participants in this edition, whose theme is Accident: Randall Anderson, Catherine Carmichael, Philippe Hugues, Harold Klunder, Patric Lacasse, Caroline Lavoie, Douglas Scholes and Myriam Yates.
Stéphanie Pelletier
Char brunRead moreInspired by an outdoor parking lot in the Lower Town, Stéphanie Pelletier decided to intervene there. A mound of dirty snow occupied a parking space and offered itself as exploitable material.