Programming

Fear, 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.

Ten 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...

These 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.

Sylvie Laliberté started her practice doing performance in 1985, and then extended it to video and writing.

Hélène Matte is a poet from the visual arts scene who speaks, an artist who writes.

The Nights of La Nuit de la poésie (March 27th, 1970 and March 28th, 1980) inspired Francys Chenier’s project. The artist walked around Quartier des spectacles with a trolley full of images inspired by the atmosphere of those Nuits.

A body of poems from various publications of the author.

I have always been fascinated by public art and street art, which are committed to reaching out to people and challenging the everyday life of ordinary people. Moreover, frustrated that the haiku is not so well known, I searched a long time for the way to diffuse it in other ways, and thus join a new audience of readers.

For the Écritures publiques project, Carl Trahan decided to work with a selection of texts referring to the mass and the crowd. This initiative is motivated by the location of the proposed support (in the town’s center, nearby a subway station, in front of a busy bus stop).

After reflecting upon the interventional space where the sign is located, the strongest references to appear were the Red Light district, the student crisis', and the Quartier des Spectacles. Each of the nine poems were written bearing all of these considerations in mind.

I note what I appreciate from my day. It's about simple actions and small gestures, what is needed to cultivate a conscientious attitude in front of what surrounds me. I celebrate my appreciations at the studio each day with a written page of gr‘attitude’.

Sharpen your senses, wear out your shoes and take to the streets. To hear, breathe, palpitate, rustle the city. Pick up its words. "Belle Gueule", "Jours d'école", "King", "VENTE VENTE VENTE", "silence"... The words of the city are everywhere, in the civic order and the human disorder, they break through.

Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf presents a selection of sentences that he’s been writing and collecting for some time. They are affirmative sentences whose subject appears questionable and silly.

DARE-DARE pursues the project of urban poetry/writing in a lightbox. The sentences, poems or onomatopoeias will be visible on a weekly basis for thousands of passers-by.

The reality of the Red Light has been absorbed by the expansion of the Quartier des spectacles. Red Shift offers a poetic countdown that invites you to dislocate history and go behind the scenes of today's Montreal to meet Lily and get back in time.

Can the artistic gesture take the form of a question, and not that of a statement? It is this question that is at the origin of the project Questions posées en vue d'une réponse définitive.