Programming

For its 2026–2027 program, DARE-DARE presents projects that explore the presence of bodies in motion within public spaces. Projects that touch, awaken, and shift—like a ripple in the air, a collective uprising, a disruptive moment where reality reinvents itself. Projects that call for direct action, here and now, so that everyone can take part in this urgent transformation, without delegation or delay. 

Reflections: Where bodies vibrate, futures shift

In a world saturated with tensions, scarred by inequities, and fractured by visible and invisible borders, we continue to seek passages. How can art open new dialogues and invent forms of life that are sensitive, emancipated, and in solidarity? How do we commit to this with joy — an affect that is neither unconscious optimism nor a naïve way of ignoring the violence of reality, but a living, potentially subversive force, born of the resistances and desires that move through us?

In struggle, joy is not a refuge: it is a movement that carries us beyond ourselves, connects bodies and minds, and creates a sense of the common. It expands our capacity to act, to endure, to transform what moves through all of us. It is rooted in trust, mobilization and mutual aid; it is at once political, resistant, and creative.

Despite overlapping crises, one thing persists: the capacity of bodies to resonate, to make new worlds, to bend the present. The most modest gestures — those we believe to be almost imperceptible — can amplify our power to exist, allow us to imagine alternatives to existing systems of power, and open a freer space for all. There, at the heart of disturbance, a breath circulates: a jubilation that pushes us to conceive a future shaped by our actions and struggles, rather than accepting the present as fate.

Artists

Intervention component

AElab

Andi Vicente

Marcela Szwarc

Tricia Enns

Public writing component

Alycia Dufour

Claude Périard

Michelle Caron Pawlosky

Raquel Cruz Crespo

Critical thinking component

Florencia Marchetti

This program was developed by the programming committee, consisting of: Khadija Ben Ali, Marcela Bórquez, Lucas Ferguson-Sharp, Marcella França, Valérie Gariepy, Yanick Tanguay, and Martin Dufrasne