Members’ Show — Performance Evening
Join us at articule on Wednesday, June 17, 2026.
Starting at 5 PM. Free and open to all.
We will be welcome several artists members of articule for a series of artistic performances on Wednesday, June 17. Centered around the theme of our members’ exhibition, the living room, these individual performances by Joliz Dela Peña, José Dupuis, Tricia Enns, FERN, and Vincent Lacasse invite you to explore the surroundings of the artists-run center and to explore the gallery space inside and out. The evening will begin with a Trashy Talk walk led by Tricia Enns, from 5 to 6:30 PM, and will conclude with a gathering at the gallery to discover the works of the other artists.
Crumbs on the rug, a tea stain on the coffee table, a forgotten scarf... Come discover works that pierce the intimate space and reveal the connections between bodies and communities, memory and living spaces, as well as between ancestral heritage and urban regeneration.
The Members Committee is in charge of coordinating member initiatives and events, responding to member needs, and planning the annual Members’ Show. For questions about joining the Members’ Club, please write to James at outreach@articule.org.
Artists’ Biographies & Performances
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Joliz Dela Peña is a Filipino self-taught interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal whose practice centers on performance as a form of embodied storytelling, protest, and collective memory. Working across performance, video and photography she explores themes of migration, displacement, labor, longing, and diasporic hybrid identity.
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A performance that is not just a performance on domestic violence, feminicide, the housing crisis, and the effects of overcrowded immigrant and temporary worker housing, (like dormitory, boarding houses, and bunk-style accommodations, those marketplace ads of brown people in parc ex looking for someone to live in their living room to cut down more of the rent price). Altogether, we will examine the word “living” in “living room” as both a basic and fundamental human right and a question of survivability. A living room. Living in a room. A room that lives. A space where living is held, as much as dying. How many people lived to die invisibly?
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Tricia Enns (she/they) is a relational and place-based artist whose practice draws on a dispersive gathering of methods: sound art, map-making, walking, zines, paper-making, and 3D-scanning. In 2025–26, their work was presented at and supported by Ada X, HTMLles Festival, Sound Art Lab (Denmark), Walking-as-Practice (Sweden), NYC Trash Club, and UKAI.
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Trashy Talk is a 1.5 hour workshop taking place June 17th at 5pm at articule, during which you are invited to walk with Tricia and others, together. Moving through the neighbourhood of Little Italy we will gather trash and wander in and out of dialogue. We will attempt to permeate the boundary between gallery and streetscape by creating a collective recording of stories and fragments gathered which will become part of the “living room” installation.
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As an interdisciplinary artist based in Montreal, José Dupuis create sensual, feminist, and poetic works that explore identity and representation. Her body—and the body in general—becomes a space for exploration and tension. Through presence, breath, and metamorphosis, she explores these areas of ambiguity with a touch of irony.
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I care. 🧹📖
José Dupuis will perform a reading of Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s MANIFESTO FOR MAINTENANCE ART, 1969!.
A major textual work in the history of feminist and conceptual art, this manifesto challenges women’s domestic roles and elevates housework to the status of a work of art.
The protocol is simple: manifest housework.
Trigger warning: The performance contains nudity. -
fernando belote is a neurodivergent queer Brazilian immigrant artist working across documentation, archiving, performance, and aestheticization of Bajubá—a linguistic Afro-trans heritage extended to LGBTQIA+ communities in Brazil through intersections of race and dissidence.
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Drawing from Marginalia Archivophagic, a performance presented at SKOL as part of the exhibition Réveiller l’Androgyne, FERN invites feminist members of articule to engage with documents from the L’Androgyne bookstore archives preserved at the Archives gaies du Québec. Together, participants are invited to reflect on the political legacy of these materials and collectively decide which documents should be preserved and which will be literally eaten during the performance as an act of transmission, critique, and transformation.
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Vincent Lacasse explores a curatorial practice with Expo Miroir, writing for Ex Situ, Estuaire, and XYZ in poetry, and for Vrille, Galerie R3, and Espace Libre in performance. He is interested in the intersection of art and activism, interventions in public spaces, relational aesthetics, and the bodily analysis of social violence.
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Vincent Lacasse is launching the HOMMAGIE series, a series of performance-manifestos designed to pay tribute to historical activist figures in order to carry on their struggle and amplify their cause through techniques specific to the tradition of performance art, notably shock, risk, and the layering of symbols. His performance at articule will be the third iteration in the series.
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