Programming

Since September 2000, I have chosen to explore an urban habitat where I can observe the encounters between humans and animals.

The exhibition Face B brings together musician Martin Tétreault and installation artist Jean-Pierre Gauthier. Each presents a little-known aspect of his production: Tétreault exposes the results of a year of daily interventions in a 365-page art history book and Gauthier introduces us to his research in experimental music.

The 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.

Through 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 (eight months pregnant!), accompanied by her two acolytes, sang about the ups and downs of the artist's life.

Emanuel 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.

Since 1994, Cyrille Mariën (Lorient, France) has been exhibiting Objects-Supports on which other artistic practices or experiments can be grafted.

Since 1996, Marie-Suzanne Désilets has been conducting a series of sociological investigations on pleasure and trust.

This experience was based on the notion of autarky according to which one is "independent of others or of a community in the face of otherness".

In addition to offering the public a direct experience of the work in the street, this project simultaneously presented DARE-DARE with the artist's research space.

Through her installations, Ildiko Repasi (Brooklyn, USA) constructs artificial environments to trap the visitor. The installation The Laugh confronted us from the outset with a raised floor accessible by a staircase.

Christine Lebel's (aka Chocolate Lady) Montreal exhibition/performance played on the ambiguities between chocolate and sexuality, the artist and the character by making DARE-DARE a place for consumption.

Nomadic artist Nicolas Chiffe (Brighton, England) studies the architecture and history of major North American cities from which he creates "dreamlike architectural hypotheses".

Mireille Lavoie (Quebec) works with construction materials such as plywood to create sculptures with vaguely familiar, even comfortable shapes.

This young Toronto artist has transformed the gallery into a "Graceland that pays homage" evoking a museum gift store.

In this outdoor intervention, the room evoked by the title is a shed in a Montreal alley to which the artist had grafted video monitors.