Sortie du bois 2025

1. Marie-Laurence Marleau - Documentary theatre

With her project "Entre deux eaux", Marie-Laurence Marleau questions the courage needed to break silence and share one's experience, through speaking out. By mixing video, music, and testimonies, the artist seeks to create a micro-society on stage, where everyone can reflect and discuss the issues of speaking out. This project in progress, influenced by personal experiences, has evolved to become a work of awareness, between entertainment and reflection on speaking out. Her residency at La Montagnarde allowed her to reconnect with her piece "Entre deux eaux".

2. Marie-Claude De Souza - Interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinary artist Marie-Claude De Souza explores the porous boundaries between literature and contemporary art. She creates installations, maneuvers, and poetic interventions in public spaces, always with the goal of collecting stories, vocabulary, or writing samples from citizens to incorporate into her works.

The artist discusses her residency project at La Montagnarde, titled Glossaire Baragouiné. In this project, she focuses on the words we invent within our family units. She talks about gathering these words (mopologiste, pette à mouche, etc.). Marie-Claude highlights the importance of engaging with local residents and discovering the community fabric that continuously fuels her creative process.

 3. LFH - Photography

The LFH photography collective returns to La Montagnarde after five months to collect their many pinhole photographs. Mathilde and Jean-François describe the successful results they were able to share with the youth of Loco Local in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard. Using the collected photographs, LFH explains their zine project, which they aim to create to democratize this art form.

 https://www.lalfh.ca/

4. DUSSO danse - Dance

A performer and choreographer living in Val Morin, Caroline Dusseault began dancing at Sainte-Adèle high school. She continued her dance path at CEGEP in Laval, then at UQAM.
Her leadership spirit led her to pursue a career as a choreographer.
With 17 years of choreographic practice under her belt, Caroline opens the doors of her residency. She talks about her collaboration with Yannick St-Jean, from the Bois Flotté project to Musée Bermuda, the work project of her residency at La Montagnarde. Visual artist Robby Provost is accompanying them on the creation of Musée Bermuda.
https://dussodanse.com

5. Wartin Pantois - Visual art

"Transmissions: Gold Canopy," a reflection on the climate emergency led by visual artist Wartin Pantois while in residence at the Lolab artist center in Nantes in 2019, marks the starting point of the research-creation project he continued to undertake at La Montagnarde.

Wartin Pantois explores the composition of works wrapped in golden survival blankets, echoing the golden coverings used to cool satellites launched into space.

La Montagnarde witnessed the creative evolution of the "Transmissions" project, which became "Transmissions: Mission Star One." La Montagnarde then became the artist's space experimentation center.

Wartin Pantois explains, in particular, his choice of anonymity as a visual artist working in public spaces.

https://wartinpantois.blogspot.com

6. Diane Brodeur - Visual art

The artist talks about her creative process, which involves reusing materials such as fur, beads, watches, and more. She disassembles and deconstructs these elements to create unique works of art. Her works often feature references to time, circular shapes, and nature.
In this podcast, Diane Brodeur reflects on her stay at La Montagnarde last May 2025, during which she worked on her creative project, Point de repères, a significant piece in her body of work, now located in the Laurentian forest near La Montagnarde. Four cardinal points are made of logs and bark: North-white, South-red, East-yellow, West-black.
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