This performance-workshop explores the spaces between appearance and disappearance, self and environment. Participants are invited to record short gestures using a green screen, which are then projected and refracted through handheld mirrors. By redirecting and fragmenting these projected bodies, the work creates "in-between" spaces to inhabit. The mirrors function as tools for agency, allowing participants to choose what is revealed or withheld in a collective act of witnessing the ephemeral transformations of the self. 

Trespassing the Timeline is a playful take on how violence is packaged through toys and games marketed toward children and younger audiences. Toy guns, ammunition, and playsets that reproduce the imagery of institutions of authority become the primary objects of interaction between performer and audience. Which comes first? The war story, the propaganda, the heroic saviour, the terrorist, the hunt? By placing the apparent innocence of play alongside gun violence, state authority, and the mass deportation of immigrants, the performance asks how these narratives become familiar before they are understood. 

SWIRL/SADDLE is a performance-reading that uses found text—historical court proceedings; Pornhub video descriptions; scholarly articles about displacement, insects, nightmares, and online “hate raids”—to comment on the dehumanization, fetishization, and mytholigization of Black women and femmes.

Following up on the performance Le jardin des phrases-semailles, "Garden of Sentences-Sowings", presented in Longueuil, Amanda Préval unravels the intertwining strands of a long braid in order to reconnect the participatory dimension to the initial action. Through the metaphor of the body-tree, they offer us “what remains when we forget everything” and when “there is nothing left.”

To kick off this eleventh edition of Montréal Monochrome, we’ll begin with an opening announcement followed by a BLK D'OR concert featuring Jahsun, Cabral Jacobs & Endong Egone and refreshments. BLK D'OR is an exploration of free black expression that seeks new sounds, harmony, dissonance & authentic cultural exchanges.

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.

articule is once again inviting improvising musicians to respond to our current exhibition for Les journées de la cutlure. This year the multi-instrumentalist Radwan Ghazi Mouhmneh will perform alongside Florence Blain Mbaye (english horn & voice). The duo will respond to The Lost Paintings project an exhibition that gathers 53 artists from Palestine and its diaspora across time and borders.

articule is proud to partner once again with Af-Flux and host the Black Transnational Biennale for their second edition. We will be presenting performers Kim Ninkuru and storyteller Jacques Adler Jean-Pierre for a Storytelling Performances Festival on January 13th.

As part of the 8th edition of Montréal Monochrome, multidisciplinary artist Marcella França presents Becoming Water.

Becoming Water is the result of 15 years of research by multidisciplinary artist Marcella Franca, dedicated to the relationship between science and Buddhist philosophy in which she explores the physical-chemical aspects of water, correlating them with issues such as fluidity, impermanence, time and memory.

As part of the 8th edition of Montreal Monochrome, writer Dani Carter presents ONE WOMAN IS VERY BAD.

As a Black queer person, experiencing the present, past, and future as indistinguishable from each other, and the cumulative weight of this chimeric stew—of these parts of time crashing together—is frequently overwhelming. Collective trauma and genetic memory spill out of our pasts and both infect and subtly mutate our presents; likewise, microaggressions threaten to pull us out of the present—perhaps even out of the future, where the possibility of change exists—into an antiquated understanding, or lack thereof, of Blackness.

Unlearning the paradigm of counteraction is an unsettling performance where the artist test the meaning of words associated to political discourses in relation to the material disposition, reuse and recycling.

Launch of the biennale: September 11th
Performances Festival at articule : Novembre 14th

articule is pleased to announce its participation as a host for this first edition of the Black Transnational Biennale.

Thursday December 10th, 2020
7pm - 8:30pm
Online
Bilingual event

Join us online for our first open mic event! The theme for the evening: Where’s your happy place? You can participate with poetry, music, performance, a comedy show or any other means suitable for an event on Zoom.

Po B. K. Lomami

Saturday, June 6, 2:00 - 6:00 PM

Online - registration required

Amanda Ruiz Méndez (MTL)

Ronald Rose Antoinette (MTL), T.S. Ellise, bertronnd

All ages dance party