For forty years, DARE-DARE has moved forward as a pathfinder — at times a tightrope walker, often stepping sideways. It has surfaced where least expected, claimed the in-between spaces, shifted the lines, choosing productive friction over the straight and narrow. Forty years of treating art as an active verb: to spill over, to infiltrate, to connect.
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Alain-Martin Richard
Alain-Martin Richard lives and works in Québec City. An artist of manoeuvre and performance, he has presented his work throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Parallel to his artistic practice, he pursues sustained work as a curator, critic, and essayist. He has published numerous articles in a wide range of journals, addressing theatre, performance, installation, and manoeuvre. A former member of the collectives Inter/Le Lieu and The Nomads, he remains actively involved with Les Causes perdues and Folie/Culture.
His artistic productions often unfold across multiple planes of reality, as exemplified by Atopie textuelle (2000), Le chemin pour Rosa (2006), Le bloc que j’habite, presented at Manif d’Art 2014, and Trou de mémoire, currently in progress. In 2014, he published a monograph entitled Performances, manœuvres et autres hypothèses de disparition, a work centred on the relationships between art and society.
His most recent projects are grounded in local communities and consistently incorporate singular aspects of what he refers to as the “human landscape.” Each project invites a consideration of how the social inscribes itself within public space and unfolds there, resonating through political, economic, and libidinal dimensions.
