Final Holds draws on the world of professional wrestling as a metaphor for care, absence, and grief, where the final move of a match echoes the last gesture of holding a loved one.
Programming
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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.
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.
Archives
1996 one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-six
Infiniment petit 1996
Fundraising EventRead moreDARE-DARE invites artists to create a work of art no larger than 3 inches x 3 inches.
Pierre Bellemare
L'autre autoportrait à la veste grise en forme de théâtreRead moreTo suppose to the work of art a glance and, even more, a kind of pre-existence to its materialization, a "presence elsewhere", that the work of the artist makes appear: these propositions found the report of Pierre Bellemare to his work.
Bianca Côté and André Martin
Reading of textsRead moreReading event of excerpts from "Un rien me tue", "Les vers" and "Chroniques de l'Express.
Josée Fafard and Stéphane Gregory
On fiche le campRead moreJosée Fafard and Stéphane Gregory's moving installation mainly features a tent as well as various accessories related to the three "catastrophes" (snowstorm, meteorite fall, flood of instant coffee) that alternately parasitized the installation during its exhibition period.
Lise Nantel
Sacred laboratoriesRead moreIt is with great pleasure that DARE-DARE inaugurates its 1996-1997 programming and its new premises by offering to the public the project of a member artist, Lise Nantel.
Michael Drew Campbell
Plug and PlayRead moreA proposal about landscape and the various ways it is perceived in our society.
Trevor Mahovsky
If I Told You Once, I Told You A Million TimesRead moreA corpus of some 2000 drawings of various formats, grouped together in the form of wall installations.
James Dawson
Black Building Series, Green Parkade SeriesRead moreIn the two series of works in this exhibition, the technology used to make the images was both exposed as a process and summoned as a visual metaphor for the artist's relationship with his social and physical environment.
Janice Rahn
She Cast Herself AdriftRead moreAn installation that includes photography, sculpture, texts written by the artist, and a set of artifacts using various techniques such as photogravure, photo-serigraphy and engraving.
Kathleen Houston
Salmon skin, soulskinRead moreA set of works where performance, video, photography and a set of artifacts arranged in the form of an installation are brought together.