Programming
Triple event at La HALTE
Andréanne Martin, Daniel Fiset et Yamile Villamil Rojas
On June 20, La HALTE will come alive with three events featuring three artists. Andréanne Martin will launch her book Les seins ballants je m'en vais au vent; Daniel Fiset will present the culmination of his research on the Sud-Ouest neighborhood; and Yamile Villamil Rojas will present Cet invisible qui nous relie, a participatory performance.
DARE-DARE invites you to enjoy a multifaceted experience on June 20, 2026, starting at 1 p.m. at La HALTE, where three artists will present their work in the open air.
Andréanne Martin
Les seins ballants, je m'en vais au vent
Les seins ballants, je m’en vais au vent is a micro-series of nomadic artist’s books that explores the tension between the call of the open sea and the demands of daily life, between dream and disillusionment. Designed to circulate freely, from hand to hand, this reimagined logbook gathers fragments of wandering: conversations, photographs, jotted thoughts, and artifacts gathered along the way. During this event, the artist will present her project and read a few excerpts. The audience will then be invited to engage with the works and enrich them by slipping a personal contribution into the book boxes. A poem, a drawing, a photo, a confession, a memory, a joke? Everything is welcome. These precious contributions will become an integral part of the work and will travel with it.
Andréanne Martin
Andréanne (Dédé) Martin is an artist, filmmaker, and explorer of the boundaries between documentary filmmaking and visual arts. With a bachelor's degree in visual and media arts (UQAM), she refined her approach while pursuing a master's degree in experimental media (UQAM). Wandering, vagrancy, and hitchhiking are themes that run through her work, as well as methods for catalyzing chance and unlikely encounters. Armed with her camera, tape recorder, and journal, she travels the roads, margins, and social microcosms. The journal occupies a central place in her work, serving both as a field companion and a creative matrix that she reinvents in various forms: filmed journal, artist's book, and other forms yet to be imagined. Her works have been presented and supported by festivals, artist centers, and institutions, both here and elsewhere.
Daniel Fiset
(détail)
(detail) is a text-and-image project inspired by the location of the Halte de Dare-Dare in the Petite-Bourgogne neighborhood. Emerging from a self-imposed, covert research residency conducted in the summer of 2025, the project is rooted in a series of observations made at Sainte-Cunégonde Park, in the consultation of works from the DARE-DARE collection, and in a reflection on the integration of a decentralized artists’ center within the urban fabric. This research notably led to the exploration of an archival collection documenting the “slum” expropriation campaigns carried out by the City of Montreal in the mid-1960s. Often presented as a period of entry into North American modernity, this decade of urban transformation was also accompanied by vast demolition and displacement operations that profoundly marked certain neighborhoods of the city.
Image: Archives de la ville de Montréal. Dossier C-1044 – Immeubles – M. Laliberté – Expropriation rue Richmond – 19 juin 1967. VM94-C1044-030.
Daniel Fiset
Yamile Villamil Rojas
Cet invisible qui nous relie
A participatory performance exploring scent, memory, and the multiverse
Cet invisible qui nous relie is a polyphonic performance that weaves together scents, memories, narratives, and presences. Within an immersive textile installation, I am joined by other performers who contributed to the research project. Inspired by encounters built around the sharing of scents, this creation invites us to explore the connections between the body, the imagination, society, territory, and memory. Through breath, movement, and voice, it offers a sensory journey through the multiverse, where each scent becomes the trace of a world, a story, and a way of inhabiting life.
