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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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2010 two thousand and ten
Dé-programmer
Walk with l’atelier SYN-Read moreThis urban walk takes as its working canvas the concept of de-programming: an idea at first associated, in its more pejorative dimension, with a destructuring felt for some years in this sometimes "vampirized" sector that includes Concordia University.
DARE-DARE GALA 6
Read moreThis year's DARE-DARE GALA promises to be a memorable one. Held in partnership with the RCAAQ, it will be twinned with the RES ARTIS international conference.
Karen Kraven
Firm curves behind a brick wallRead moreFor her project, Karen Kraven involves participants — local community members, artists, architects — to assist her in the ephemeral redevelopment of a commercial space in the Quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (3179 Ontario East).
GENEVIÈVE ROUSSEAU
CUBERead moreProject of the artist Geneviève Rousseau as part of the CUBE event.
ROUND TABLE
MotelisationRead moreThe "Motelization" roundtable (a coined word about the proliferation of motels) follows an exhibition of the same title recently presented at the Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop's University.
Montreal from Below
Openspace on actual urban practices and strugglesRead moreThis is an afternoon "open forum" that aims to share practices and instill collaborations between our ways of fighting and practicing the city.
Julie Faubert
LES MOTS (2nd part)Read moreJulie Faubert’s Les Mots offers the city as a critical space in which to reflect on words that permit (or forid) us to think.
Miquel Garcia Membrado
Residency
47 joursRead moreMiquel Garcia Membrado (Barcelona) questions the role of the artist and censorship within contemporary art practices.
KNOWLEDGE CO-CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP with Katya Montaignac
Conversation with Katya Montaignac.Read moreAt our Off-Biennale in May 2009, Katya Montaignac presented her Danses Invisibles. She invites you to come and talk to her about in situ practices. What she brings to the table? The question of power.
Jacinthe Robillard
The Mentana GardensRead moreJacinthe Robillard explores the documentary portrait by studying domestic environments of specific social groups. She is particularly interested the experience of the other and the intrinsic link that it maintains with location.
Knowledge co-construction workshop at the documentation center
With PATRICE LOUBIERRead moreConversation avec Patrice Loubier à propos des pratiques furtives en art contemporain. Venez découvrir ces pratiques, discuter des vôtres, les mettre en relations avec celles dont parlera Patrice et interagir avec l’analyse qu’il nous proposera.
Vanessa Rigaux
DriftRead moreA performance based on oral tradition. A tale revealed through action and dance. Accompanied by a video by artist Leslie Supnet.