"Cuerpo y Esprit brings together reflections that began when I was diagnosed with cancer at twenty-nine, just as I was finishing my studies and eager to reconnect professionally with the visual arts."
Programming
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To Embody: Joyful Militancy and Irresistible Activism
2026-2027 programRead moreRaquel Cruz Crespo
Cuerpo y EspritRead moreCall for Proposals
Residency
CONFLUENCES ResidencyRead moreThis residency program runs continuously for 8 weeks. DARE-DARE seeks to foster a deeper, close-knit relationship between a professional artist (who does not reside in the metropolitan area) and the Saint-Henri and Petite-Bourgogne neighbourhoods, and provides dedicated support throughout the residency.
Call for proposals 2026
Residency
research micro-residency at La HALTERead moreThis summer, DARE-DARE invites you to experience a research blitz in the public space. The micro-residencies aim to question and (re)animate our relationship to reading, archives and exchange.
Guillaume Dufour Morin
FAAS8Read moreDARE-DARE has invited Guillaume Dufour-Morin to present a performance at the eighth edition of the Sudbury Alternative Art Fair (FAAS).
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.
Job offer
Projects and Special Events CoordinatorRead moreDARE-DARE is looking for a dynamic, autonomous individual to fill the position of Projects and Special Events Coordinator.
Job Offer
Cultural Mediator and Programming Assistant (Funded by: Canada Summer Jobs)Read moreDARE-DARE is seeking a dynamic, creative, and self-directed individual to fill the position of Cultural Mediator and Programming Assistant
Elsy Zavarce and Denise A. Olivares
Echoes of Burgundy: Exploring Urban Presence Through Multisensory ArchivesRead moreThe duo of Elsy Zavarce and Denise A. Olivares, who were in residence for an independent research project during the 2025–2026 programming year, will present the results of their work at La HALTE in late May.
Archives
2014 two thousand and fourteen
ADRIANA DISMAN
INTIMATE WITH FEAR or The inside of your home is the inside of you and vice versaRead moreI invite you to invite me to your home. I invite you to invite me to explore your objects, your space ... and to ask you some questions.
Mélissa Simard and Camilche Cardenas
Minorité invisibleRead more"Minorité invisible" must be listened to with a blindfold. The project's subject is the dissemination and poeticization of the sound territory, the search for the invisible.
DARE-DARE RADIO
Read moreTo increase and refine its field of action, DARE-DARE innovates this year and grafts a punctual radio component to its programming.
VINCENT CHARLEBOIS
Le pelleteur de gravierRead moreThis operation is repetitive and without any other purpose other than to move a stack of rocks. When the worker is exhausted, the gravel is left in place until the next shoveling session.
AURÉLIE PEDRON
RÛERead moreRÛE consists of a series of research on the movement, realized alone or in duet and which develop on the mode of the meeting.
GENEVIÈVE LETARTE
Fenêtre sans rideauRead moreThe suite of unpublished poems that I propose here is at the same time a pagan haiku, an intimate slogan, an existential ad. In short, an individual word which wants to be collective according to the famous "I is another" of Rimbaud.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2015-2016
MICROINTERVENTIONSRead moreFor its 2015-2016 programming, DARE-DARE proposes a framework around the notion of infiltration.
Pohanna Pyne Feinberg
Residency
While Walking - Research residencyRead moreHow does walking contribute to the creative process? How can we understand walking as an art form? How does interaction with public space influence artistic walking practices?
GUILLAUME BOUDRIAS-PLOUFFE
Le lutteur à l'eau de roseRead morePerformance tribute to the signer Fernand Gignac. Come sing your popular tune in "friendly duels" on September 24th, starting at 6 pm on Place des Arts Esplanade in front of the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
BLOGUEURS EN CAPTIVITÉ
Interventions within the Public Space and the InternetRead moreBloggers in captivity, guest artists Adam Bergeron (Quebec City) and Karen Elaine Spencer (Montreal) have accepted the challenge of imprisonment and alienation during the three-day event.
MAUDE S. PILON
INSTRUCTION DERNIÈRERead moreInvite people to the launch of the publication « les instructions inhospitalières » following the non-propitiousness of a project due to the disharmony of two networks.
Arkadi Lavoie Lachapelle
I Love You the Way You HateRead moreThe project reinterprets the slogan "I love myself as I am". Well used in the mercantile sauce to sell products or to promote ideologies aiming at the "well being" (especially with women), it often evacuates the questioning: "Who do I love?
Geneviève Amyot
Nous sommes beaucoup qui avons peurRead moreFear, especially its confrontation, is at the heart of Geneviève Amyot’s work and most of all in "Nous sommes beaucoup qui avons peur", published posthumous in 2003 by Éditions du Noroît.
PASSEPORT 2014 + FESTIVE EVENING
PASSEPORT
fundraising activityRead moreThis project consists of an itinerary where participants are invited to collect works/prints by DARE-DARE artists in various locations in the Quartier des spectacles.
Sonia Pelletier
Residency
Research residency - “Unpredictable” pictorial practises in public space: a challenge?Read moreAs part of its Critical Space program, DARE-DARE welcomes Sonia Pelletier.
Edith Brunette
Residency
Research residency
Art in Public Space: When Politics Meet PractiseRead moreAs part of its Critical Space program, DARE-DARE welcomes Edith Brunette.
Viviane Namaste
Quartier des spectacles : What's invisible is spectacularRead moreTen statements invite passers-by to better understand the neighborhood in which the illuminated sign is located. The statements aim to make visible forgotten elements of daily life in the Quartier des spectacles: the popular singer, the native art, the demolition of housing, the closing of an Arab grocery store...
MAUDE S. PILON
Lectures publiques des instructions inhospitalièresRead moreThese readings, which propose a confrontation between the textual and the real, will take place in the waiting room, the corridor, the lobby, the elevator, the cafeteria, the patient's room and the doctor's office of a Montreal hospital.
MANUELA LALIC
3 PROJECTSRead moreManuela Lalic uses the fundamental contradictory similarities of snow and polystyrene in order to immerse herself in the public space with humour.
SYLVIE LALIBERTÉ
Read moreSylvie Laliberté started her practice doing performance in 1985, and then extended it to video and writing.