Programming

SPECIAL

12 — 16 May 2026

Guillaume Dufour Morin

Foire d’art alternatif de Sudbury (FAAS 8)

The Sudbury Alternative Art Fair (FAAS), organized by the Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, brings together visual and multidisciplinary artists from across the Canadian Francophonie. At each edition, DARE-DARE delegates one of its member artists to participate. For this eighth edition, Guillaume Dufour-Morin presented his performance Processions.

photo : Camille Tremblay Beaulieu
photo : Camille Tremblay Beaulieu
photo : Camille Tremblay Beaulieu
photo : Camille Tremblay Beaulieu

Every two years since 2008, the Sudbury Alternative Art Fair has occupied and transformed a public space in downtown Nickel Capital. According to the concept and parameters of each edition, participating artists are challenged to create a new work within limited physical and temporal constraints. Since the event’s fifth edition in 2016, DARE-DARE has been pleased to take part in the FAAS and to showcase, beyond the Montréal territory, the practice of one of the centre’s member artists.

Processions

This ritualized and relational performance will explore emotional memory, the passing of the word, the creation of legacies, and rural life through a series of actions spread over the festival’s four days.

These actions—sometimes individual, sometimes participatory, sometimes serious, critical, or tinged with dark humor—will reimagine funeral rituals to celebrate life, reconnect with the natural cycle of life and death, and resist its oblivion.

FAAS 8

Sudbury Alternative Art Fair Parked in front of the gallery, the GNO will close Larch Street between Durham and Elgin for a week of site-specific art centered on the theme of chance.

Hazard is an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another. As a verb, it means to take a risk, especially for the chance of a good return. You might hazard your chances at the roulette table or hazard a guess – that is, risk making a guess when you aren’t certain.