Programming

For the fourth edition of the CONFLUENCES residency, in partnership with the Sud-Ouest borough, DARE-DARE welcomes Caroline Loncol Daigneault for eight weeks. Her project Maman, papa et les masques de l’avant-nuit (Mom, Dad, and the Masks of the Night Before) is being carried out in collaboration with the Alzheimer Society.

Maman, papa et les masques de l’avant-nuit

A dramaturgy of dissolution

Maman, papa, et les masques de l’avant-nuit takes the form of a creative breeding ground that, without having a defined shape, imposes itself. In fact, it is a breeding ground in dissolution. It has been built up over the years, rubbing shoulders with very close relatives whose identity and ties to the world are gradually falling apart.

As part of a residency at DARE-DARE, personal experience will be decompartmentalized to make way for a dramaturgical writing that will question the silent march of dementia and cognitive loss. Its insidious movement—characterized by the dissolution of reasoning, of links of continuity and causality, by a certain loosening of form—what does it make way for? Beyond loss and suffering, could dementia reveal other valid arrangements, qualities of being, rhythms, and perspectives?

Through a collaboration with the Alzheimer Society, Caroline Loncol Daigneault will have the opportunity to undertake a creative process with seniors and people living with some form of dementia. These encounters and close contact with the context of the Centre-Sud neighborhood will feed into the development of a walking piece, a kind of procession through the neighborhood. The artist will follow a language that is not verbal but rather a kind of “dance” between the participants and the environment. These encounters and close contact with the Centre-Sud neighborhood will fuel the development of a walking work, a sort of procession through the neighborhood. The artist will follow a language that moves, that is undoubtedly found where we least expect it.

CONFLUENCES

Back for its fourth year, the CONFLUENCES residency, a DARE-DARE initiative, aims to welcome an artist from outside Montreal for an 8-week stay each year, enabling them to explore and get to know the Sud-Ouest as a place to recharge their batteries and create. The artist is housed in an apartment provided by artist Douglas Scholes, a long-standing partner of DARE-DARE.

CONFLUENCES is a three-year cycle of annual two-month residencies, during which a guest artist develops an original project nourished by the specific context of the neighboring areas hosting DARE-DARE. This initiative is made possible by the extraordinary support of the Sud-Ouest neighborhood.

Caroline Loncol Daigneault

Caroline Loncol Daigneault is an artist, author, and curator based in Stanstead Township. With a deliberately collaborative and listening-based approach, her projects are driven by a desire to enrich and nuance the nature of our relationships. She creates situations that seek to collectively broaden the contours of preconceived ideas about childhood, old age, nature, and the circulation of power. Writing, keen attention to context, and approaches to presence based on the body and gesture are her primary tools. Her curatorial projects include Ranger | Déranger (Foreman and Turbine Art Gallery) and Le Chant des pistes (AdMare), among others. This summer, she created Tourner|Détourner at her home, a multidisciplinary, intimate, and community-based experience developed in the form of a coming-of-age fable with her twelve-year-old daughter, guest artists, and members of the Fitch Bay community. With this residency at Dare Dare, curating and writing continue their migration toward dramaturgy and take on a performative form.

Project funded under the Entente sur le développement culturel de Montréal between the City of Montreal and the Government of Quebec, and by the Sud-Ouest Borough.