Programming
Off-Biennale
DARE-DARE invites you to the Off-Biennial, an event that will showcase various unique artistic projects including performances, dance, installations and sculpture.
➜ Please note that this event could not be fully realized. The OFF-Biennale team was forced to end activities earlier than planned, for reasons beyond our control. Some activities have been postponed to the following programming season.
Patrice Loubier
L’open source est une métaphore utile pour examiner un caractère particulier de l’intervention furtive : son ouverture à la relance, son potentiel de propagation.
Nadège Grebmeie Forget
Mobilisation d’une foule vêtue de rose ayant pour mission d’épuiser la saveur Double Fraise du Laura Secord de la place Alexis-Nihon.
SYN-
From neglected leftover space to tightly controlled “junkspace”, the status of spatiality raises numerous questions, notably the relationship citizens have with their environment and how they use the latter. This is the vantage point from which SYN- engages in urban exploration as an opportunity for intervention, research and reflection.
Vanessa Rigaux
While a soundscape plays, a woman posts notes on the trees in the Cabot Square. As she considers the space she improvises a dance that is connected to the words she has written.
Art Coders
Le collectif propose une conférence/atelier interactif abordant la question de la collaboration entre l’art et la science/technologie dans l’histoire, les liens entre la créativité artistique et scientifique et la démocratisation des technologies et des systèmes de création.
Université Populaire à Montréal
The Université populaire à Montréal (UPAM) is a project for exchanging, sharing and building knowledge, with the aim of promoting a vision of education that is open, free, transdisciplinary and empowering.
Sylvie Cloutier
Quarante dessins sur verre miniature seront installés à divers endroits du square Cabot. En utilisant la technique du dessin à la silhouette, Sylvie Cloutier peint sur verre le portrait de gens croisé dans le quartier.
Erica Brisson
Drawing inspiration from origami-style patterns shared by designers via the Internet, I will create a temporary sculpture garden of cardboard furniture, inviting passersby to build and take home a piece of their own.
Andrea Carvalho
The Place de Galo works are temporary, portable and inflatable sculptures that provide an alternative to the public monument as a site for collective memories.
Caroline Bergeron
Une matière blanche parasitaire se répand à travers les arbres du Square Cabot, phénomène qui chaque jour prend un peu plus d’ampleur.
Martine Viale
Conjoncture (Prélude) explore différents points de rencontres et de ruptures entre lieu intime/corps privé et lieu publique et propose une réflexion sur notre rapport à l’espace et à autrui en perturbant brièvement le rythme et le cours habituel des choses.
Candice Tarnowski
Installed in and outside the Atwater Library and Mechanics Institute, The Stacks presents a frugal, monochromatic pageantry: a flag flying half-mast on the roof, an appliquéd banner suspended from the mezzanine, folded and stacked bedding and laundry tucked into glass cases in the foyer.
Angela Silver
Utilizing an electronic message board, this project transforms banal traffic commands into a cycle of poetic words offering to the itinerant public a subtle disruption to, and a moment of reflection on, everyday life.
Objets dansants non identifiés (O.D.N.I.)
Une série de danses invisibles s’infiltre dans le « décor » de la vie quotidienne… Discrètement, elles s’inscrivent dans le paysage urbain à partir d’actions simples réalisées en groupe.
Nancy Anne McPhee
The Wunderkammer Project involves the collection and presentation of objects found in and around the Cabot Square. The Square signifies a confluence of social spheres ; an axis of wealth and poverty, commerce and culture, nature and structure, memory and loss, neglect and revitalization.
Robert Hibourassa
Les cabines téléphoniques sont en voie d’extinction. Quelle est la cause de cette extinction ? Ce projet tente d’apporter des réponses à cette question et d’éclaircir cette période trouble de l’ère de la communication.
Jenny Lin
“Flutter or Flap” and “Number One Zamboniman” are excerpts from a larger project entitled “Big Mac Scotty’s Mini Hall of Fame”, a fictional chronicle of a Canadian recreational hockey league from the 1980s.
Emily Lewis
Using the idea that urban environments produce a variety of fungus or growths, I will spend the duration of the event growing an installation. Each day there will be an addition, beginning with simple 2D painting and drawing, ending with 3D cement growths.
Les attentives
Here's what you'll find: small attentions paid to Cabot Square and these small details by attention specialists.
Pascaline Knight
Canadian Coffee Chain. Un endroit impersonel et anonyme mais étrangement réconfortant que les gens de toutes les couches sociales fréquentent. En y passant quelques heures régulièrement pour y dessiner je peux y observer l’humanité, sa fragilité, ses absurdités.
Audiotopie
Touch the tactile spaces of the city with the tip of your finger, the palm or the back of your hand, using a mobile video player and a designer-guided tour.
Anne Fauteux
Since 2003, BOLM: The Label Project has been touring the world. People met fortuitously in public spaces are invited to donate their clothing labels, which will be sewn onto an overly branded straitjacket for fashion victims.
Geneviève Chevalier
Œuvre qui s’appuie librement sur l’ambiguïté du symbole de la cloche, l’installation Propos campaniformes est composée de deux sculptures en forme de cloche recouvertes de cire et suspendues l’une à l’envers, l’autre à l’endroit, dans l’église.
From May 22nd - 31st 2009, DARE-DARE invites you to the Off-Biennial, an event that will showcase various unique artistic projects including performances, dance, installations and sculpture. The projects will take place in non-conventional public spaces in and around the Cabot Square as well as the Atwater Library, a church, Alexis Nihon Plaza, the bygone Forum, Ste-Catherine Street, etc. The 19 projects in the event will question, in humoristic, political or poetic ways, ideas surrounding work in the urban environment.
The Off-Biennial will also create a space for discussion and dialogue between the public, the artists, the community surrounding the Square and the representatives of the neighbourhood. Through conferences, panel discussions and workshops, the Off-Biennial wishes to promote a variety of view points by way of diverse discussion and shared artistic, historic, political and theoretical knowledge. The idea is to open a discourse on the various practices and to adapt them in the spirit of open source.
With the Dis/location project, now in its third phase, DARE-DARE is pursuing its mandate by creating an event full of ideas. By its very structure, DARE-DARE is continually open to infiltrations, multiplicities, contaminations, rootedness and seeks to be a part of its host neighbourhood.
