Programming
Marianne Rouche
Micro-residency at La HALTE: Mais où est partie la ville ?
Marianne Rouche will be participating in a two-day micro-residency at La HALTE to draw inspiration from the DARE-DARE library.
DARE-DARE invites you to participate in a workshop led by Marianne Rouche, as part of her micro-residency at La HALTE.
Saturday, September 5, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
La HALTE (Sainte-Cunégonde Park)
Mais où est partie la ville ?
Mais où est partie la ville ? is a research-creation project that explores our right to the city, a concept theorized in the late 1960s by philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre: the right—and the duty—of residents to participate in the creation of the city—to inhabit it, conceive it, dream it, and build it collectively.
Drawing on the HALTE collection, Marianne Rouche embarks on a “biblio-drift”: a meandering journey through the library, guided by chance discoveries, associations, and echoes, much like drifting through a city. The fragments gathered—words, images, quotes—become the raw material for a cut-up workshop, a technique that involves breaking down texts to reassemble them in new ways and allow unexpected forms of meaning to emerge.
Open to everyone, the workshop is an invitation to build the city with our own hands, to read it and tell its story, to blend our voices to compose together the pages of a manifesto-collection, and to leave with the “biblio-drift” as a divination game to be replayed at home, anywhere, anytime.
Marianne Rouche
Marianne Rouche is a multidisciplinary artist and cultural worker. With degrees in anthropology, art history and intermedia arts from McGill and Concordia Universities, she is interested in the city and its interstices, where the empty and the built, the obsolete and the productive, meet. She defends flânage and urban exploration as modes of presence and knowledge production in their own right. Questioning the relationship between the group and the individual, she advocates a philosophy of softness, where the latter is experienced as an expansive force, a catalyst for an open and benevolent mode of relationality. She seeks to integrate this approach into her work and contribute to the creation of spaces that recognize the value of care, listening, the multiple and the provisional.
Her work has been presented at GIV, Galerie VAV and Écotone. Her latest publication, entitled Lara Almarcegui: mémoires sédimentaires et imaginaires du vide, appeared in Esse magazine n°112, Rêves, in autumn 2024.
She has also worked as a cultural mediator for Printemps Numérique and Artenso, before taking charge of programming for the 2023 edition of RIPA. Her experience in the arts and her passion for intervention practices led her to apply to DARE-DARE, where she held the position of project and special events manager in 2024.