FILIATIONS - PERFORMANCE SERIES 

Place Publique hosts four evenings of performances in order to reveal the connections between artists.

For the past 10 years, the Darling Foundry has enlivened its Place Publique during the summer season with art installations and performances. Art lovers return year after year, while the general public is often surprised by the artistic proposals of the Darling Foundry. The 2016 edition presents four evenings on the theme of “filiation”, revealing the affinities and influences that feed every performance community. Initiating the invitations, the Darling Foundry asked artists Michelle Lacombe (Montreal) and Richard Martel (Quebec), two well-known performers in the artistic scenes of Montreal and Quebec, from different generations and with distinct affinities, to kick off the series and the first evening. Each one then invites a performer whom they appreciate and whose work echoes their own practice to perform the following night, and so on. We want to hear the voices of the actors in the different performance art scenes as they know their artist peers and in doing so, the Darling Foundry wishes to adopt a non-authoritative stand by sharing its artistic direction and giving Place Publique its purpose of free and spontaneous speech. 

THURSDAYS AT 7:30 PM 

PROGRAM :

June 30 : Filiations evening 1 Michelle Lacombe + Richard Martel
July 14 : Filiations evening 2 Karen Elaine Spencer + Jean-Sébastien Vague
July 28 : Filiations evening 3 Dayna McLeod + Suzanne Joly
August 11 : Filiations evening 4 Danny Gaudreault + Kama La Mackerel