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.
Archives
2020 two thousand and twenty
FAYE MULLEN and JADE KONWATARONI
Dawn into MourningRead moreSpreading mind across Land through root systems; we hold together a dialogue dawning us into mourning.
Douglas Scholes
(This is) What happens when a thing is maintained (?), part IVRead more(This is) What happens when a thing is maintained (?), part IV, is an alternative to the conventional idea of public art as stayed, static, non-changing.
La ville divergente
Outdoor screeningRead moreAfter the workshop The Divergent City involving the artist Jean-François Prost, the RAIQ (Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec) invited the public to an outdoor screening of the contexts visited and studied by the participating artists.
Martín Rodríguez
Silent Vectors: Sound under QuarantineRead more"Silent Vectors: Sound under Quarantine" is a series of environmental sound recordings that focus on urban silences resulting from protective measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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Tête-à-têteRead moreDARE-DARE continues its experimental school project. This second edition will be an opportunity to experiment with ways of transmitting and learning in DUO, to develop forms of resilient pedagogies in times of health and social crises.
Marie-Andrée Gill
Lâche Du LousseRead moreLet's love each other in our own way during our time and its catastrophes. This series of 18 poems follows a (self-)residency of the artist near her place of living.
DUOLOGIE II
Second runRead moreDUOLOGIE consists in forming original duos, to generate by this encounter and by the richness of the meeting the sensitivity and the singularity of the research approaches.
Amber Berson and Manon Tourigny
Souper spaghettiRead moreThe basic idea remains the family cookbook project that Manon is working on in her spare time and that interested Amber.
JOSIANNE POIRIER
researcher-in-residenceRead moreIn order to generate in-depth research on its thematic programming DUOLOGIE, DARE-DARE invited Josianne Poirier to establish links between the 2020-2021 artists, regardless of the field in which they are active.
Noisy and gourmet reading group
Reading circle
NOISERead moreDARE-DARE’s Espace Critique committee presents a duo of reading circles on the theme: NOISE.
Anne Bérubé and Sarah Chouinard-Poirier
Les ConcessionsRead moreSARAH: I've been wanting to try to make a doc for a long time. ANNE : Me too...! Wow, okay!
Ariane De Blois
Residency
Frictions - the podcastRead moreThe purpose of this series of podcasts is to offer visibility to the words of the artists who participated in FRICTIONS programming (2018-2019), by giving them, individually, a long speaking time.
Renata Azevedo Moreira
Residency
Chercheuse en résidenceRead moreWriter-in-Residence Renata Azevedo Moreira takes a fresh look at the work of artist duos formed for the Duology programming year.