Programming
Double outdoor launch
Peupleraie by Caroline Gagné and a publication by Alexandre Piral
On September 20, come celebrate the launch of Caroline Gagné's intervention project and the release of a retrospective publication on DARE-DARE's 2024-2025 programming, designed by researcher-in-residence Alexandre Piral.
On September 20, starting at 1 p.m. at Charlevoix Park, come celebrate with DARE-DARE the launch of Peupleraie - Corps social et corps sonore, Caroline Gagné's intervention project and the launch of a retrospective publication of the 2024-2025 program designed by researcher-in-residence Alexandre Piral.
CAROLINE GAGNÉ: Peupleraie - Social Body and Sound Body
In line with the theme proposed by DARE-DARE, which invites us to reflect on “spaces in motion, their location, displacement, relocation, metamorphosis, spaces of escape [and] spaces that escape,” Peupleraie highlights the presence of poplar trees found in streets, alleys, and parks. This furtive work by Caroline Gagné takes the form of a sound journey, installed in the trees of the Sud-Ouest borough. From September 20, 2025, to June 20, 2026, anyone passing by with a smartphone and a pair of headphones can experience the project.
In an exploratory approach, the sound materials recorded for Peupleraie inspired an in situ intervention to open up a participatory form of “sound body” and collective listening to be experienced on September 20.
Headphones with connectors will be available on site.
Caroline Gagné
Caroline Gagné's artistic proposals attempt to capture the subtle changes that reveal the places she explores, like clues, but without showing them explicitly. She unveils them by developing various devices composed of objects, motion capture, sounds, or raw materials. The resulting works are sensitive interfaces whose poetry lies in the connectivity they establish, orchestrating it with the elements that constitute them, but also with the places they refer to and the people who frequent them.
In 2020, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal's national collection acquired her work Le bruit des icebergs (The Sound of Icebergs) for its permanent collection. In 2022, Oboro Editions published Caroline Gagné: Donner corps à l'insaisissable / Embodying the Intangible, a retrospective look at her artistic career.
ALEXANDRE PIRAL - Publication of the end of the residency
Alexandre Piral was the researcher in residence for DARE-DARE's 2024-2025 program, Methods and Games of Space: Zones of Existence I.
On September 20, he will have the pleasure of interacting with the public and sharing a digital publication designed by Andes A. Beaulé / Studio Gabarit, available free of charge on the DARE-DARE website.
Alexandre Piral
Alexandre Piral is an author and cultural worker based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang (Montreal). After studying political science and art history, he was introduced to the healthcare field by working as a beneficiary attendant during the pandemic period. Since then, he has been in charge of public programs at the Fonderie Darling, where he contributes to supporting and accompanying both artists and the art center's various audiences, using the tools of cultural mediation. From a decolonial perspective, his current writing projects focus on the memories of local and international struggles and how they relate to his own family history.