Programming

STEVE GIASSON

 

PERFORMANCE INVISIBLE INÉDITE

 

DEMANDER PARDON (SANS PRÉCISER POURQUOI)

 

REENACTMENT OF ERWIN WURM. THE ARTIST BEGGING FOR MERCY (DEDICATED TO MAURICIO). 2002

PERFORMER : STEVE GIASSON

PHOTO : CHARLES-ÉTIENNE LEBRUN

SUPPORT : MARTIN VINETTE

PHOTO EDITING: CHARLES-ÉTIENNE LEBRUN

GALERIE B-312. 17 AOÛT 2025

DARE-DARE is delighted to present Steve Giasson's new project entitled NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES (New New Invisible Performances). This project will mark the 10th anniversary of PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES, a vast body of work comprising more than 250 actions to date, initiated with DARE-DARE in 2015-2016 and relaunched with Le Lieu, Centre en art actuel in 2020-2021. 

NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES  will consist of some fifty minimalist performances based on conceptual statements. These new actions will be performed in public and private spaces without an audience (hence their “invisibility”). Images of the actions (photos and videos) and statements in several languages (French, English, Spanish) will be unveiled twice a week, every Tuesday and Thursday, for six months (November 2025–April 2026) on:

• DARE-DARE's Instagram account: @daredaremtl
• The Instagram account Nouvelles Performances invisibles: @nouvellesperfinvisibles
• The Truth Social account: @stevegiasson (Donald Trump's network!)
• The websites: www.performancesinvisibles.com and https://dare-dare.org/fr/.

With NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES, Giasson will continue his work of conceptual and plastic asceticism. He will deconstruct his practice as much as possible in order to rethink it in relation to his identity as a white, gay, cisgender, North American man with a PhD, and therefore inevitably privileged, AND the historical, political, socioeconomic, and ecological context in which we live.

Giasson will also revisit our era, which, in addition to being marked by the climate crisis and the resurgence of fascism, “cries ‘Carnage’ and unleashes the dogs of war,” and will propose forms of political engagement outside of traditional activism.

The actions will be reenactments of pre-existing works. The “stuttering” title of this project—NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES (NEW NEW INVISIBLE PERFORMANCES)—mocks our insatiable and collective thirst for novelty and can be understood in this sense.