Programming

I draw sentences from grammar books. Each time I open a grammar book I am stuck by the italic and bold type sentences used as grammatical illustrations. I often set aside the rules of the book and become obsessed by the lost sense of the sentences so sacrificed for grammatical purposes.

I want DARE-DARE’s trailer to be perceived as a pit stop on a journey to nowhere. I chose excerpts from my personal travels on the roads and highways of Quebec, captured moments that seemed to me to be capable of reinventing the trailer’s function.

The idea was inspired by past collaboration with the Kahnawake community. For the project, my desire is to create a symbolic dialogue between colonist and Iroquois communities.

The suite of unpublished poems that I propose here is at the same time a pagan haiku, an intimate slogan, an existential ad.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.

Bloggers 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.

Invite people to the launch of the publication « les instructions inhospitalières » following the non-propitiousness of a project due to the disharmony of two networks.

The 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?

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).