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.
Jad Orphée Chami
Residency
Micro-residency at La HALTE: l’appel du rhapsodeRead moreAs part of a two-day micro-residency at La HALTE de DARE-DARE, Jad Orphée Charmi is offering a workshop exploring the memory of a place and the objects that embody it, as well as a storytelling evening.
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.
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Cahier Folie/Culture nº7
La collection Des idées reçuesRead moreFifteen members of DARE-DARE were invited to participate in Folie/Culture No. 7, a project created by curators Johanne Huot and Denis Simard.
Karen Spencer
Expect nothingRead moreThe position of the viewer in the work is an important and current topic that Karen Spencer addresses using the strategy of duality: on the one hand, a personalized encounter around a very simple action in the room and on the other hand, the inscription of her personal and intimate life in the more formal context of the gallery.
L'Algèbre d'Ariane
Exchange and cooperation project between Liege and Montreal (Montreal part)Read moreL'algèbre d'Ariane is a Liege-Montreal exchange project that explores the links between artistic practices, between singular spaces, between the One and the Other, between the private and the public spheres.
Christine Brault, Marie-Suzanne Désilets, Jean-François Prost, Marie-Andrée Rho, Philippe Tessier
Nulle part / AilleursRead moreResearch outside the walls and gallery exhibition of five members of DARE-DARE and photographic presentation of four projects outside the walls, by Guy L'Heureux.
Teenage crisis: group therapy
Read moreOn the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, the members and friends of DARE-DARE invite you to four days of collective venting, which we hope will guide you along the path to happiness.
Victoria Stanton
Split : One year laterRead moreThrough lyrics, songs and gestures of remarkable precision, she traced the evolution of her identity as a woman, artist and member of a Jewish family.
Geneviève Crépeau
Mon chien, c’est ma vieRead moreGeneviève Crépeau (eight months pregnant!), accompanied by her two acolytes, sang about the ups and downs of the artist's life.
Emanuel Licha
Lovelcro - Les chants d’amourRead moreEmanuel Licha met couples in their homes. He had them put on suits made of Velcro strips that they experimented with in their privacy, without the presence of the artist.
Cyrille Mariën
Opération BooléenneRead moreSince 1994, Cyrille Mariën (Lorient, France) has been exhibiting Objects-Supports on which other artistic practices or experiments can be grafted.