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The Artists
Marie-Laurence Marleau | Marie-Claude de Souza | Diane Brodeur | LFH | Dusso Danse
Wartin Pantois | Cassiopée danse | Les oncles de l'artiste
Events | L'art est dans ses feuilles| Partners
Marie-Laurence Marleau
In the Entre deux Eaux project, Marie-Laurence Marleau occupies several roles: writer, director, and performer. For this first project of such magnitude, the trained actress aims to question our personal and societal relationship with speaking out. The creative residency at La Montagnarde will be an opportunity to refine the creative process, writing, and staging of this documentary play, on which she has been working for over five years. "What are the limits to speaking out? Do we speak out too much or not enough? And what importance do we attach to it in our society?" These are all questions that Marie-Laurence attempts to answer through the use of various mediums (video projection, recorded and live music, interviews, testimonials, and even audience interactions).
Inspired by Daniel Bélanger's song "Respirer dans l'eau," the artist places her work in the present tense, as it also stems from her own desire to assert herself following reports of harassment. "A courageous exploration of human expression in the modern era."
Residency dates: January 20th to 29th, 2025.
Listen to Marie-Laurence Marleau about her residency at La Montagnarde in our podcast Sortie du bois.Sortie du bois.
Marie-Claude de Souza
An interdisciplinary artist, Marie-Claude de Souza has been creating poetic installations and interventions in public spaces and everyday life for many years. She takes the codes of relational art and applies them to the field of literary practices. Co-founder of Productions Langues Pendues and creator of the Topoésie project, she has been developing a new project since 2023: the Glossaire baragouiné (working title).
This diverted dictionary aims to list familial-lectal neologisms, that is, those diverted or invented words that only members of the same family know and understand. Her stay in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard is intended as an opportunity to collect testimonies from families—chosen, blended, extended, nuclear, single-parent, with or without children, immigrants, or natives of the region. This project also seeks to bring together modes of transmission from written and oral cultures within a single work.
During her stay at La Montagnarde, she hopes to advance this large-scale project in collaboration with various partners in the MRC.
Residency dates: February 6th to 17th, 2025.
Listen to Marie-Claude De Souza about her residency at La Montagnarde in our podcast Sortie du bois.Sortie du bois.
Diane Brodeur
A visual artist for over 40 years, Diane Brodeur, of Mi'kmaq Métis descent, has been working for over three years on projects highlighting her ancestors in order to bring their memory to life. The question of the passage of time and the time of healing is central to her artistic work.
Her residency at La Montagnarde will be devoted to an installation in the forest. Point de repère is a circle, a compass in the heart of the forest, where each tree will be a cardinal point, an ancestor to whom she wishes to pay tribute.
Residency dates: March 16th to 25th, 2025.
Listen to Diane Brodeur abour her residency at La Montagnarde in our podcast Sortie du bois.Sortie du bois.
LFH
Originally from the Eastern Townships, JF Lamoureux and Mathilde Fournier-Hébert met while studying photography. Since then, they have collaborated on various projects, which led them to found the LFH. Their artistic work has been selected at various events such as Cube3 and the Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie. During these events, the artists take a critical look at the democratization and acceleration of the photographic process through the use of slow photography techniques. LFH values civic engagement and seeks to encourage artistic collaboration in its projects.
Once brought together, the duo's primary objective is to engage in dialogue and reflect on slow photography. Their partnership is motivated by an eco-responsible, philosophical, and poetic approach. LFH values civic engagement and seeks to encourage artistic collaboration in its projects. The LFH firmly believes in the power of contemplating natural spaces and the link between knowledge of our surroundings and the desire to protect the environment. LFH advocates for slowing down. Slowing down the exploitation of resources, hyperconsumption, and hyperproductivity. LFH offers, primarily through slow photographic processes, a contemplative and activist perspective.
Residency dates: November 18th to 24th, 2024 and April 14th to 18th, 2025.
Listen to LFH about their residency at La Montagnarde in our podcast Sortie du bois. PART 1& PART 2
Dusso Danse
Caroline Dusseault - Dusso Danse brings together for the duration of the Musée Bermuda project, a collective in which she invites Yannick St-Jean and Jacob Cadieux to join her. Passionate about the off-scene, with the desire to explore the frontiers of contemporary art, these three artists will come together at La Montagnarde to finalize the creation of this project. The number 3 is the basis of this creation which combines dance, visual arts and music. We navigate this Bermuda triangle where the 3 disciplines come together and invest equally in unconventional spaces. This work is closely linked to Bois Flotté, the latest creation by Dusso Danse. Musée Bermuda is therefore a sort of phase 2 of this research where “past, present and future intertwine, leaving a confusing imprint on the contemporary cultural fabric.”
The artists' desire is to make this work an almost immersive experience suitable for small spaces. Indeed, for a long time, Caroline has had the democratization of artistic practice firmly in her heart. Very anchored in the Laurentians, this residence in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard will allow her to immerse herself a little more in this place which is dear to her.
Residency dates: June 2nd to 10th, 2025.
Listen to Caroline Dusseault about her residency at La Montagnarde in our podcast Sortie du bois.Sortie du bois.
Wartin Pantois
Wartin Pantois is a visual artist based in Quebec. His site-specific art infiltrates public spaces and unconventional places. His contextual work take so many perspectives that provoke reflection and discussion. They are developed from observations, research and citizen surveys. Known for his ephemeral photographic collages, in black and white and on a human scale in public spaces, his creations also take the form of critical images, ready-mades and installations.
His stay at La Montagnarde will be an opportunity to extend research-creation around his Transmissions project. Combining the installation with human aerospace ambitions, this project is a reflection on the urgency into which climate change projects us. His engaged, contextual and in situ artistic approach resonates perfectly with the ambitions of the ATSA artist residency.
Residency dates: June 16th to 29th, 2025.
Listen to Wartin Pantois about his residency at La Montagnarde in our podcast Sortie du bois.Sortie du bois.
Cassiopée Danse
Originally from Abitibi and based in Val David, in the Laurentians since 2003, Marie-Josée Larouche received her dance training at UQAM in Performance/Creation and Teaching. She has been active in the professional arts field for 30 years. She has been a dancer-performer and choreographer since 1998, where she co-founded her artist collective with her partner Nathalie Lebel: Cassiopée danse. Her interest in discovering cultures and various artistic facets, including film, has allowed her to collaborate with many performing artists from here and abroad; including in Europe, on the Montreal scene, and in Japan.
Michel Depatie, a multidisciplinary artist, joined Marie-Josée Larouche at La Montagnarde for the project Vestige Immersive - 360°. A creative project in perpetual motion, a different look at contemporary dance in an immersive space created with a 360° camera. Choreographer Marie-Josée Larouche and filmmaker Michel Depatie work closely together to create an artistic film imbued with poetic beauty, which offers the viewer a privileged opportunity, allowing them to live an immersive experience close to the dance performers using a virtual reality headset.
residency dates: July 14th to 22nd, 2025
Les oncles de l'artiste
"La Montagnarde's invitation is to design an intervention in the forest using materials found on site: on the ground, underground, in the trees or even in Annie's "material library"! In the past, with bgl, I have designed large branch paintings, but very few large objects. Armed with a technical book entitled "Making twig furniture" I will attempt to produce and integrate furniture that has no place in the forest. My preparatory sketches outline a public turnstile managing crowds at the entrance to certain businesses, sports stadiums, and arenas. But since I started reading my technical guide more seriously, other desires have arisen! They say that to choose is to renounce. May my choice communicate inventiveness, astonishment, and poetry." - The Artist's Uncles
Bgl, a trio of artists based in Quebec City from 1996 to 2021, is known for their varied practice, deeply rooted in the medium and often leaning toward installation. Bgl represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and has exhibited in various national and international galleries and events.
residency dates: September 22nd to 29th, 2025.
Events
READING-DISCUSSION MARIE-LAURENCE MARLEAU | SAINTE-MARGUERITE-DU-LAC-MASSON
Date and time: Saturday January 25 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Location: Café O'Marguerites located at 100 Chem. Masson, Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, QC, J0T 1L0
Come and discover a reading of the Entre deux Eaux project carried by an actress followed by a time of friendly discussion with the artists present.
LUNCHEON-TALK MARIE-CLAUDE DE SOUZA | SAINT-ADOLPHE-D'HOWARD
Date and time: Saturday, February 8 from 10 a.m. to 12 a.m.
Location: Pic café located at 1965, chemin du Village, Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard Qc, J0T 2B0
Come discover and participate at the Glossaire baragouiné project, a collection of invented or diverted words that only members of the same family know.
L'Art est dans ses feuilles | Art is in its leaves
Our celebration weekend at La Montagnarde will be back for a second edition in fall 2025! Come discover this year's artists and some of their creations through our Art-Nature Trail in the heart of the Laurentian forest.
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