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The Artists
Danièle Desnoyers | Gaspard Combes | Elaine Frigon | Annie Roy | Claude Schryer | Events | L'art est dans ses feuilles| Partners
Danièle Desnoyers - Le Carré des Lombes
©Isabelle Rancier
An essential figure in Canadian dance, Danièle Desnoyers is artistic director of Carré des Lombes. Her repertoire, of around twenty pieces, notably Discordantia, Concerto grosso for body and metallic surface, Duos for body and instruments, Where I live, Devour the sky, Paradox Mélody and Unfold | 7 Perspectives, demonstrates a practice deeply rooted in movement and a rich and constant dialogue between body language, music, sound and space. For more than 30 years, her work, presented mainly on the Canadian and European stages, has been crossed by the idea of meetings with multiple collaborators and performers among the most notable of the Montreal scene.
More recently, the choreographer decompartmentalizes her own discipline and carries out multiple atypical projects such as the Scenographies-Landscapes cycle, carried out in natural environments.
The creative residency at La Montagnarde is a stage of work for the Scenographies-Landscapes in Sardinia, produced by Le Carré des Lombes in partnership with Fabbrica Europa (European CRISOL program), Tersicorea T.Off/Officina delle arti sceniche, the Center for dance production FUORIMARGINE, the Italian cultural InstitutItalian cultural Institut (cultural section of the General Consulate of Italy in Montreal) and Art Circulation.
Choreographer : Danièle Desnoyers
Performers : Myriam Arseneault Campbell, Giulia Cannas, Châtelaine Côté-Rioux, Rachele Montis, Nunzia Picciallo, Brontë Poiré-Prest et Elisa Zedda
Photographic documentation : Luc Senécal
Danièle Desnoyers will be at La Montagnarde for two different periods from June 27th to 30th and for September 27th to 30th.
Listen to Danièle about her residency at La Montagnarde in our Sortie du bois podcast here.
Gaspard Combes
©Pia Hinz
Gaspard Combes is a visual artist. His current practice focuses mainly on sculpture in public spaces with a preference for works in situ and in nature. This choice reinforces a desire for the democratization of art as well as a questioning of man's relationship with nature and the uprooting that he has carried out. The aesthetics of erosion, fossils or architecture thus question different temporalities that go beyond the scale of human life. By this, he points out the acceleration of our societies. His works allow us to put the transience of our existence into perspective with humor in a Western society where the imposed speed prevents us from having perspective to create critical thinking and an imagination for new common stories.
He graduated in Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (NL). During this training he carried out an exchange at the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem (IL). He had previously obtained a Diploma in Space Design at ESMA in Montpellier. His work has been exhibited in many European countries as well as in Africa and Canada. He exhibited his work Namas Pamus during the Passages Insolites festival in Quebec in 2022. The same year he took part in a multidisciplinary residency in Tanzania organized by the UMOJA program and supported by EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture). In winter 2023, he had a solo exhibition at the Galerie Palais (Neuchâtel, CH). His work Homo Stabilis is currently exhibited at the CÔA - Corridor of Arts festival in Portugal. His latest exhibition to date is one of a temporary in situ work designed specifically for the Alignments site of Carnac in Brittany, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site.
Gaspard Combes will be at La Montagnarde from August 15th to September 15th.
Listen to Gaspard about his residency at La Montagnarde in our Sortie du bois podcast here.
Elaine Frigon
© Elaine Frigon
"Identity, memory and the domestic universe are at the center of my approach. My research-creation work focuses on the links that unite individuals to the surrounding context, constructing intimate and playful portraits. My works are based on reflections on society and the human condition, drawing inspiration from the places and people around me. I became interested in clothes as materials because they constitute a significant part of waste and because they respond to my desire to limit the ecological footprint in my artistic production. They also represent what I call vectors of identity. Clothes contain within them the “little memory”, they remind us of someone in particular as well as a type of person, an era, an event By diverting the function of clothes from dressing the body, I give them the power to transform places, creating fantasized spaces according to the clothes.
One of my bodies of work consists of dressing trees creating ephemeral installations with a cinematic feel. I let myself be guided by the surrounding context, the morphology, the history and the function of the place in order to bring out its soul. Escape of the Brides is intended to be both seductive and disturbing. The dressed trees are transformed by the gaze of the walker, into women who run towards them or who run away from them depending on the angle of view. In this sense, I want humans to perceive the antagonistic relationship that our society has with the forest: a peaceful approach focused on contemplation vs. a design based on exploitation. "
Élaine Frigon studied architecture and visual arts in Quebec in the 1980s, then specialized in media arts at UC-Davis and at the San Francisco Art Institute, in California. Influenced by her studies in architecture, she has developed works focused on the links that unite the surrounding context with individuals. For almost forty years, she has been weaving sensitive connections between people, times and places. Since the 1990s, she has produced more than thirty videos which have been presented at various international events. More recently, his work Make it out was presented as an in situ installation at the 25th Rencontres Internationales Traverse in France and at the Art Space In Gallery, Incheon National University in South Korea. She regularly participates in site-specific art events, the most recent being All Around Us in Victoriaville. Elaine is also involved in the cultural sector. She was, among other things, coordinator of La Centrale artist center in Montreal. Alongside her artistic practice, she taught for around twenty years in Visual and Media Arts at Lionel-Groulx, Bois-de-Boulogne and Vieux-Montreal Colleges.
Elaine Frigon will be at La Montagnarde the 14th and 15th, 21st and 22nd and 28th and 29th of september.
Annie Roy
Annie Roy is co-founder of ATSA, When Art Takes Action, she is also its director. She created the artist residency La Montagnarde in 2022, the chalet next to the one she occupies in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard and where she spends a large part of her time. In addition to acting as a mentor for the artists hosted in residence, she continues her work of artistic creation in situ and protection of the public forest that borders these lands. This season she installed two works in the heart of this forest.
Brins de mémoire - Strands of memory, an installation from recovered frames. "We often put the significant memories that build our lives in frames: birth and death, marriage, travels and reunions... beautiful memories! Sitting on this rock and looking through the empty frames, I think of all that which defines us and which we cannot frame, the ephemeral, the difficult, the magical, the sensory olfactory, auditory, the emotional… What do you like to remember without being able to put it in a frame “…I often think to the softness of his earlobe…” From a first version for Stations Éphémères of the MRC des Pays-d’en-Haut, it now adapts to its context of the forest course.
Mes nuits blanches - My sleepless nights, an installation based on reused metal beds. "A study on insomnia, a work that is still dreamed of. Not being able to stop one's head from fluttering, sitting down, thinking, rethinking...sinking into the twists and turns of the earth...the beds take over from whoever who doesn't sleep to perhaps bring a little peace."
She will present her works during the Art is in her leaves event at La Montagnarde on September 28th and 29th, 2024.
Claude Schryer
©Claude Schryer
Claude Schryer (1959) is a franco-ontarian sound and media artist and arts administrator born and living on the unceded, unsurrendered land of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation (Ottawa). He holds a MM in composition from McGill U and was actively in involved in the acoustic ecology and electroacoustic music communities in the 80’s & 90’s. From 1999 to 2020 he held management positions at Canada Council for the Arts in Inter-Arts, partnerships and as a senior strategic advisor in arts granting. In 2020 he launched the conscient podcast (balado conscient en français) about art and the ecological crisis. In 2021 he was a co-founder of the Sectoral Climate Art Leadership for the Emergency (SCALE) where he served on the mission circle and as chair of the board until September 2023. In 2023 he was also chair of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology and on the executive of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. In 2024, he launched ‘a calm presence’: ‘short, practical essays about collapse acceptance, adaptation, response and art' and is producing the 5th season of his conscient podcast on the theme of ‘preparing for the end of the world as we know it and to creating the conditions for other possible worlds to emerge'.
During his residency Claude Schryer will research and create sound art. Among other things, he will record a conversation with Annie Roy on 'arts and culture in times of crisis and collapse' for the 6th season of his conscious podcast. He will also write and publish a bilingual ‘letter to the artistic community on the ecological crisis’ as part of his Substack newsletter ‘a calm presence’. In his spare time, Claude goes to sound recording in the region for his soundscape compositions.
He will be at La Montagnarde between the 21st ans 26th of October 2024.
PRESENTATION OF ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE | SAINT-ADOLPHE-D’HOWARD
Date and time: Saturday August 17th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Arts and culture Saint-Adolphe located at 1920, chemin du Village in Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard
ATSA is organizing a discussion so that artists can present their artistic approach to us. This time will allow us to get to know them better and discover the projects they wish to carry out during their residency at La Montagnarde.
OBSERVATION OF CREATION IN PROGRESS | SAINT-ADOLPHE-D’HOWARD
Date and time: From Wednesday August 21st, Wednesday to Saturday, between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., until September 13
Location: La Montagnarde located at 251 chemin des Bouleaux in Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard In the afternoons you can observe Gaspard Combes at work and discuss his creative process.
OPENING | SAINT-ADOLPHE-D’HOWARD
Date and time: Friday September 13th from 4 p.m.
Location: La Montagnarde located at 251 chemin des Bouleaux in Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard
During this friendly end-of-residency event you will be able to admire the work of Gaspard Combes carried out during his stay.
INSTALLATION | SAINT-ADOLPHE-D’HOWARD
Date and time: Saturday and Sunday September 14th-15th and 21st-22nd from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: La Montagnarde located at 251 chemin des Bouleaux in Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard
Come meet and observe the artist Elaine Frigon during her work. You will be able to accompany her in the installation of her project The escape of the brides in the middle of the forest.
L'Art est dans ses feuilles
L'Art est dans ses feuilles | SAINT-ADOLPHE-D’HOWARD
Come and discover the brand new art trail in the forest of La Montagnarde on September 28th and 29th during the first edition of Art is in its leaves!
Date and time: Saturday September 28th and Sunday September 29th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Location: La Montagnarde located at 251 chemin des bouleaux in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard (from highway 15, take the St-Sauveur exit, follow route 364, turn right on route 329, turn left on Montée d'Argenteurs, then follow the Montée du Bois-Franc on the right and finally take Chemin des Peupliers which becomes Chemin des Bouleaux. Go forward to number 251, you can park on the street, someone will welcome you there).
At 12 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. you can follow our guide on this path, among the autumn leaves to meet the artists and their works, some new! You will be able to admire the works of:
ATSA - forest installation, Gaspard Combes - Wood sculpture, Chloé Coomans - art-nature installation, Barbara k. Diabo – dance video, Dada – theatre, Diane Obomsawin – mural, Laura Doyle Péan – poetry, elparo – art-nature installation, Élaine Frigon – forest and video installation, Luc Senécal and the Carré des Lombes – dance photography.
We invite you to come and get to know this magnificent place in the heart of the Laurentian forest. All day long, surprises await you (performances, live music, meetings, etc.). Hot dogs and iced tea offered while supplies last, bring your picnic.
At ATSA we love carpooling! So, what if you need a lift to come or if you have a few places left in your car? Don't hesitate to talk about it directly on our Facebook event in the discussion area here.
This event takes place as part of the 2024 Culture Days!
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