Programming

DARE-DARE is hosting two micro-residencies at the HALTE carried by Laurence Beaudoin Morin and the Leisure collective. Browsing our collection, the artists continue their own research while laying the groundwork for two participatory events that will involve the public and DARE-DARE members this fall.

Laurence Beaudoin Morin is initiating, through her research, the construction of new spaces that foster the kind of interdisciplinary collaboration necessary to understand and act in an increasingly diverse, interconnected, and fragmented world (Hardt & Negri, 2017).

Leisure proposes to work with kid-collaborators Eli and Paul Wesley Lanctôt, and Violet Carruthers Moffat, to create a conceptual art reader(s) for kids. Taking inspiration from the 1980s TVOntario television series Read All About It!!, where a group of kids discover a literary transporter in a coachhouse and found their own newspaper

Leisure is a multi-disciplinary collaborative art practice between Montreal-based artists Meredith Carruthers (1975) and Susannah Wesley (1976). Working together under the name "Leisure" since 2004, their practice methodology includes archival research, interviews with artists, site visits, and extending their own conversation and collaboration to include their historical subjects, family members, and community participants. The resulting projects are multidisciplinary in format--from workshops, to published texts, interactive installations, and object-making involving a variety of media. Recent projects on collaboration, gesture and spatial narrative includes: The Ceremony (Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, 2021), Conversation with magic forms (most recently exhibited at CAG Vancouver, 2020), the solo retrospective How one becomes what one is (Musée d’art de Joliette, 2018), Panning for gold/Walking you through (Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2017) and Dualité/Dualité (Artexte, Montreal, 2015).

Laurence Beaudoin Morin

Laurence Beaudoin Morin's practice focuses on the territory and, by displacing the elements that compose it, seeks to assemble visual poems. Performance, video and painting are the means she uses to tell her, and our, experience of spaces. By this association of gestures it is a question of revealing even of suspending the process of creation in order to structure the time, to attract the glance on the hardly visible. The randomness, the accident, the danger, the catastrophe... the scenes suggest or implement the movement. They evoke the premises, the expectation and the results of a dynamic process that sometimes seems to defy the laws of physics. Laurence holds a Master's degree in Visual Arts from UQAM and a BAC from Concordia. She is the founder of the auto-workshops for performance in the terrain vague and is part of the Performance Art Studies team where she facilitates performance workshops with local and international artists.

She has been a member of DARE DARE for several years and has taken part in various projects including Fabuler l'école and Femmes frictions where she has enjoyed reflecting together on alternative modes of learning and organization.