Art Volt x Art POP Performance Event 2023

Ambulation
Presented at 1pm and 4pm

Ambulation is a twenty-minute performance invading Entrepôt 77. Animated by multiple artists, the curiosity cabinet will roam around the site as if they belonged there. If the public is nice, they might take pictures with them like mascots; if no one is around, they might keep their hostile attitude. When the time’s up, the creatures are called back to the woods where they disappear, unleashed. Watch out as they might invade your backyard next.

With the participation of: Laurie Pouliot (performer), Rose La Rocque (performer), Lindsey Bégaud (performer), Vina Goh (performer), Médérick Martin (photography) and Juliette Demers-Cyr (sound).

About Mélanie Reid
Mélanie Reid is an interdisciplinary artist who takes pleasure in mixing humour, meticulousness and collectivity. When shaken well with ice, the Montreal based artist pours you a sweet and refreshing cocktail that sparkles when consumed immediately by a public that isn’t afraid of a little insanity. Her diverse and unique theatrical artworks are inspired by small moments of enchantment in her daily life which then become grandiose in situ. Food is consumed, objects are examined and animals are personified to elevate these adventures with a small touch of absurdity.

I’m-Pulse
Presented at 1:30pm and 4:30pm 

I’m-Pulse explores a cathartic search for rebellion through discipline, however the efforts are met with an overwhelming pattern of inescapability. Performed by Santiago Lopez-Alzate, Kiera Whitla, Victoria Dubé and Kaia Portner, precise acts of self-indulgence through musicality push the boundaries of time loops and radical shifts that follow the body through a journey of continuous impulses.

With the participation of: Santiago Lopez-Alzate, Kiera Whitla, Victoria Dubé

About Kaia Portner
Kaia Portner is a choreographer and dancer from Ottawa, Ontario; Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. She trained for 13 years at Greta Leeming Studio of Dance in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, as well as video/commercial styles and heels at Flava Factory. She is now based in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, having received a BFA in Contemporary Dance and Choreography at Concordia University. Kaia has worked on various projects such as music videos for artists Young & Little and Youssef Nassar, as well as movement direction with Montreal video production company Production Triskel.

Embodied Mapping of Forgotten Things and Histories
Presented at 2pm

The performance is a durational two-hour piece that centers the live creation of a large map of L'Entrepôt 77’s site using detritus from the area and handmade paper-making techniques. Spectators will be invited to engage with this process. In this case the map created is a counter map, a map not for navigation, but to tell overlooked stories. The map will grow slowly, incorporating fragments of the warehouse, plants, and human-made debris from the site. The performance engages with the question of how we celebrate the many narrative layers of the site, while also holding a critical viewpoint on mapping. 

About Tricia Enns
Tricia Enns a designer/artist/performer/researcher curious about the intersections between play, urban spaces, stories, debris, vents, mapping and bodies. Her work celebrates chaos, valuing the multiplicity of narratives held within one place, such as the case with her graduate research-creation project Narrative Debris which used collected debris and handmade paper techniques to create, both alone and with others, maps that highlighted the fragments and overlooked values of places rather then lines of ownership and commerce. 

Tricia’s practice involves creating with others through audio walks, kits, and facilitating workshops, such as the one she conducted in Brooklyn in June 2023, funded by the Quebec Arts Council. She also explores themes of situated stories through performance and public intervention, such as those co-created with (per)mission to play, an international artist collective Tricia co-founded with five other members in 2020. The collective has guided “detours” in England and performed urban interventions in Montreal, Wales, Germany, Israel, France and England funded by the Scotland Arts Council.