JULIE-ISABELLE LAURIN, FÉLIPE GOULET, Marilou André & Kristel Tremblay-LETARTE: Monument politique poème performatif

Co-creation

June 6 th — June 20 th 2024

Project Description:

In addition to presenting the living archive of the Monument politique poème performatif*, Skol members participating in the workshop will be invited to reflect together on the themes running through the Monument poème: systemic racism, legitimacy, identity, responsibility, and action art in public space.
With four non-indigenous artists, historical material and performance art will be used as a medium to explore new ways of transmitting memory through the performative monument and its documentation. This will allow participants to develop alternative narratives rooted in lived experience and grounded in a territory.

Monument politique poème performatif is a collective project of performances and interventions around the Monument-à-Maisonneuve at Place d’Armes in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal, initiated in 2020 by artists Julie-Isabelle Laurin and Félipe Goulet-Letarte. In 2022, the collective expanded to include artists Marilou André and Kristel Tremblay. Thanks to the contributions of numerous collaborators, the collective performance project around the Monument-à-Maisonneuve seeks to highlight the plural nature of collective history by bringing together the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal worlds, notably through the creation of a website with alternative works to the official history of Quebec.

Workshop Schedule*

*You must have participated in one of the two days between June 8 and 9 in order to present a performance on Saturday, June 15.

Saturday, June 8, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Presentation of the collective project Monument politique performative poem, short tour of the exhibition archives, walk through the Monument-à-Maisonneuve and performative exploration of the site

Sunday, June 9, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Theoretical presentations on the project, based on the research and contributions of the 4 members, and exchange of performance ideas among the participants

Wednesday, June 12: Meeting (to be confirmed with participants)

Saturday, June 15, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Morning group discussion and afternoon performances at the Monument

Sunday, June 16, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Gallery work and archive modification

Thursday, June 20, 5 to 7 p.m.: Finissage of the project open to the public and guided tour of the archive exhibition

To register for workshops

be a professional artist or in the process of professionalization
be or become a member of Skol
be available for the majority of time slots
fill out this short REGISTRATION FORM

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions!

Collective capsules

In a collegial spirit of exchange and expertise sharing, Skol’s main gallery will host a series of 3 co-creation sessions. Each session will be led by a Skol member who will share their skills while guiding the development of a collective project. The gallery will be divided into two distinct spaces – one for creation and the other for presentation. It will be open to the public, featuring both previous works and works in progress. At the intersection of education, creation, and dissemination, these sessions will serve as the fertile ground for the production of unique collective works related to the collective imagination and public space.

* More informations to come!

Image: The collective performing on July 26th, 2024. Left to right: Julie-Isabelle Laurin, Marilou André, Krystel Tremblay, Félipe Goulet-Letarte.
Photo credits : Christine Brault and Laurence Beaudoin-Morin

bio

Marilou André lives in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. His practice questions urban space, community, and activism, in order to present new ways of experiencing memory. Her social sculptures have been presented at the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City, the Musée d’art contemporain de Valdivia in Chile, the Biennale d’arts imprimés de Montréal and the IX Biennale de l’Hémisphérique Institut in New York. Since 2013, she has been working on her Urban Skins series, in which she creates her imprints of the territory in public space in several urban centres.

Félipe Goulet-Letarte is a non-binary artist and writer based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their artistic work deals with the ethical issues that shape our world, such as “race” and “gender”. They express themself mainly through performance, installation and painting. Félipe has been a member of Skol since 2018, where they helped coordinate the workshop-exhibition Traits d’union (2018) by François Morelli. They also coordinated the publication De l’art engagé au Québec : éthique et esthétique de l’utile (2023), of which they are an author.

Julie-Isabelle Laurin is an allochthonous artist who recently settled in Rawdon, Lanaudière, on the unceded territory of the Omàmìwininìwag Nation. Over the past ten years, she has presented over 40 performances in galleries and non-traditional spaces, both locally and internationally. In 2018, she completed a master’s degree in visual and media arts at UQAM entitled Devenir monument: La mémoire comme archive active dans une pratique in situ de la performance et de la sculpture. In her spare time, she works as an artist-curator, notably for the project Les Traceureuses with Espace arts in situ in Lanaudière.

Kristel Tremblay holds a degree in Communication, Politics and Society (BA UQAM 2009) and worked as a manager for the Quebec government (2010-2016) and Médecins sans Frontières (2016-2019) before embarking on a career in the visual arts. A graduate of the Maison des métiers d’arts de Québec (sculpture), Kristel seeks to integrate her sculptural practice into the (in)disciplinary field of performance. Based in Nionwentsïo, Québec, she is involved in the creation of artists’ studios, hosts a weekly visual arts program on CKRL 89.1, and is president of the Board of Le Lieu, center en art actuel.

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JULIE-ISABELLE LAURIN, FÉLIPE GOULET, Marilou André & Kristel Tremblay-LETARTE: Monument politique poème performatif

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