Programming

VOCES ONÍRICAS

15 October — 15 November 2022

Come and listen to the podcast Voces oníricas, which explores how the dreams we have during sleep can become an integral part of our days, at the audio station located at the Réjean-Ducharme Library.

From a daily and rigorous collection of her dreams and observation of everyday life circumstances, Camila Vásquez develops research processes surrounding the dream space. These include sleep routines, journaling, audio recording of detailed accounts of the previous night's dreams, a drawing practice of prolonging the dream state while awake, exchanging auditory dream narratives with a neighboring artist she met in her backyard, walks while carrying a dream, and conversations around personal dream worlds. By offering increased attention to the threads that connect dreams to what is happening around them, the artist brings to the forefront of her interests what happens during sleep. Thus, over the course of the day, a body of information and knowledge is gathered that, without intending to be objective, allows for the exploration of other forms of truths and brings dreams from the intimate to the social sphere.

First imagined from a dream, this project took shape, through an approach of the performative in everyday life, during two months of residency in the South-West and is declined in several parts: drawing, participative art workshops, podcast and performance.

CONFLUENCES
Starting this year with Chilean-born artist Camila Vásquez, the CONFLUENCES residency, a DARE-DARE initiative, aims to host an artist from outside Montreal for an 8-week period each year, allowing them to explore and get to know the Sud-Ouest, making it a place of renewal and creation.

The artist will work primarily in his or her host location, the Saint-Henri district, but also in a temporary apartment set up by artist Douglas Scholes, a long-time accomplice of DARE-DARE.

CONFLUENCES, a three-year cycle of annual two-month residencies during which an invited artist develops an original project nourished by the specific context of the neighboring neighborhoods that host DARE-DARE, is made possible thanks to the extraordinary support of the Sud-Ouest Borough.

Camila Vásquez

Camila Vásquez is an interdisciplinary artist of Chilean origin. She lives and works in the Estrie region of Quebec, on the ancestral lands of the W8banaki Nation.  She has been active in the arts since 2005 as an artist, teacher, curator, mediator and cultural worker. Her artistic practice is embodied in everyday life and develops into long-term projects that challenge the boundaries separating art from other spheres of life, as well as dominant conceptions of social space and knowledge. Her work has been presented in various art centers, galleries and events  in Argentina, Chile, Spain and Quebec, including 3e impérial centre d'essais en art actuel, Galerie B-312, Galerie d'art Foreman, Praxis art actuel, Péristyle Nomade, VIVA! Art Action and DARE-DARE, as well as independently and furtively. She is currently coordinator of  the Foreman Art Gallery’s Community at  Bishop's University.

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