Programming
Steve Giasson
NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES
From November 25, 2025, to May 14, 2026, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, artist Steve Giasson will present a series of minimalist performances based on conceptual statements.
STEVE GIASSON
PERFORMANCE INVISIBLE INÉDITE
DEMANDER PARDON (SANS PRÉCISER POURQUOI)
REENACTMENT OF ERWIN WURM. THE ARTIST BEGGING FOR MERCY (DEDICATED TO MAURICIO). 2002
PERFORMER : STEVE GIASSON
PHOTO : CHARLES-ÉTIENNE LEBRUN
SUPPORT : MARTIN VINETTE
PHOTO EDITING: CHARLES-ÉTIENNE LEBRUN
GALERIE B-312. 17 AOÛT 2025
DARE-DARE is delighted to present Steve Giasson's new project entitled NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES (New New Invisible Performances). This project will mark the 10th anniversary of PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES, a vast body of work comprising more than 250 actions to date, initiated with DARE-DARE in 2015-2016 and relaunched with Le Lieu, Centre en art actuel in 2020-2021.
NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES will consist of some fifty minimalist performances based on conceptual statements. These new actions will be performed in public and private spaces without an audience (hence their “invisibility”). Images of the actions (photos and videos) and statements in several languages (French, English, Spanish) will be unveiled twice a week, every Tuesday and Thursday, for six months (November 2025–May 2026) on:
- DARE-DARE's Instagram account: @daredaremtl
- The Instagram account Nouvelles Performances invisibles: @nouvellesperfinvisibles
- The Truth Social account: @stevegiasson (Donald Trump's network!)
- The websites: www.performancesinvisibles.com and https://dare-dare.org/fr/.
With NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES, Giasson will continue his work of conceptual and plastic asceticism. He will deconstruct his practice as much as possible in order to rethink it in relation to his identity as a white, gay, cisgender, North American man with a PhD, and therefore inevitably privileged, AND the historical, political, socioeconomic, and ecological context in which we live.
Giasson will also revisit our era, which, in addition to being marked by the climate crisis and the resurgence of fascism, “cries ‘Carnage’ and unleashes the dogs of war,” and will propose forms of political engagement outside of traditional activism.
The actions will be reenactments of pre-existing works. The “stuttering” title of this project—NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES (NEW NEW INVISIBLE PERFORMANCES)—mocks our insatiable and collective thirst for novelty and can be understood in this sense.
[1] « Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war » in William Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar, scène 1, acte 3 (1599).
Steve Giasson
Steve Giasson is a conceptual artist with a PhD in Art Studies and Practices from the Université du Québec à Montréal. His engaging, deadpan practice draws on pre-existing works or fragments of history and everyday life, which he appropriates in a variety of ways, in order to challenge romantic notions of authenticity and originality and demystify the creative process and the figure of the artist. His works are characterized by a great economy of means and by their use of different media (performance art, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, conceptual writing...).
His work has been shown in fourteen countries in North America, Europe and Asia, in over a dozen solo exhibitions and numerous group shows, including Liverpool Biennial 2012, Text Festival 2011 and 2014 (Manchester), ED RUSCHA BOOKS & Co. at Museum Brandhorst (2013, Munich) and Gagosian Gallery (2013, New York City, 2015, Paris and 2016, Beverly Hills) and Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale II (2018, Morni Hills and Chandigarh, India).