Monday September 20th, 2021 at 7pm
Food will be served at 18h30
The assembly will be held at the long table in Tolhurst Park
(corner of rue Fleury Ouest and rue Meunier)
15 minute walk from Sauvé metro station
Children welcome // support for childcare available upon request
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Since the last Annual General Assembly, the members of the Board of Directors have prioritised organisational resourcing by taking the decision to interrupt the usual programming cycle, to slow down in order to strengthen the financial autonomy of the organisation and to dedicate limited energies to internal reflections. During this period of dormancy, we have begun to articulate an action plan around a shared desire to simplify the structure in order to facilitate the involvement of individual members and to better align activities with the financial and human resources of the organisation. By refocusing the artists at the heart of the organization, we wish to renew our energies and open ourselves to the impulses and desires of the Montreal art action community. VIVA! hopes to emerge from the pandemic as a more flexible and participatory organization, a human-scale structure that can more easily respond and renew itself in various types of activities and collaborations.
To learn more, the VIVA! Art Action Board of Directors invites you to join us for a meal and a discussion that will feed into the development of future programming. It will also be an opportunity to meet new board members, and to see familiar faces. The AGA will conclude with an action-based varia point, during which members are invited to present short, spontaneous, self-directed performances to their peers.
We look forward to reconnecting with you!
Documents
All documents are in french. We appologize for any inconvenience.
Download the meeting’s agenda
Download the minutes of the Annual General Assembly of October 06 2020
Download the annexes from the minutes of the 2020 AGA
Download the 2020-2021 financial statements
Menu
Vegetarian chilli and seasoned potato wedges.
To reduce waste and ensure a sanitary environment, we ask that you bring your own bowl, utensils, and drinks.
Varia: action
Members who wish to present micro actions in this framework are asked to do so entirely independently (including cleaning up after the action, if necessary) and to perform their actions with respect for the site and the other people occupying the park. No fee will be offered, but photo documentation will be provided. You can register in advance, or present a spontaneous action. Questions can be sent to info@news.vivamontreal.org
Federal elections
Federal Elections will also be held on Monday, September 20th and we encourage all our members to exercise their right to vote. For information about the various ways to vote, including by mail and in advance polls, please visit the federal election website.
VIVA! elections
Nominations to be ratified: François Rioux, Florencia Sosa Rey and Serge Olivier Fokoua
Nominations to be renewed: Hélène Doyon (président), k.g. Guttman (vice-préseident), Marie-Claude Gendron (treasurer), and Rhonda L. Meier (secretary)
François Rioux, (he), is an artist with a degree and a cultural worker at Verticale – artist-run centre. He has produced several exhibitions and performances of his own work, in addition to the occasional involvement in event organizing, notably with VIVA! Art Action and other performance collectives. His performance practice is executed on a snowmobile or in high heels, as well as with any other canonical vehicle within reach.
Florencia Sosa Rey is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke / Moonyiang / Montreal. She holds a BFA from Concordia University (2015). Exploring the notion of trace and durability, she is interested in the socio-cultural history of her body and the objects that surround it. Her work is articulated through drawing, textile, performance, and collaboration. Between 2015 and 2021, she has exhibited her personal work in Montreal cultural spaces such as ARTCH, Casa del Popolo, articule artist-run centre, Livart, Galerie Les Territoires, at Toronto-based Galerie 44, and during artist residencies in the US and Iceland. Her collaborative work with the Auto-workshops project has been presented across Quebec, at the Darling Foundry, the Festival du Film sur l’art, VIVA! Art action, and Art Nomade. With the feminist and intersectional collective Womxn Walk the Walk, she has been presented at Concordia University, the SBC Gallery and the Place des Festivals in Montreal.
Born in 1976 in Douala, Serge Olivier Fokoua lives and works in Canada. He holds a Master’s degree in visual art from Laval University in Quebec. He has also participated in master classes in contemporary art organised by MOMA (New York), and in cultural management at the Institut für Kultur Konzept (Hamburg). Working mainly with installation and performance, Serge Olivier Fokoua touches on everything that involves the visual arts. Very attracted to experimental practices, he likes to make site-specific creations, often involving diverted objects. He has done numerous performances and participated in many exhibitions across Africa, Europe and North America. Co-founder of the collective and art centre Les palettes du Kamer, he was the artistic director of the Rencontres d’Arts Visuels de Yaoundé: RAVY for ten years. Curator of numerous projects around the world, he has also co-organised several artist exchanges between Cameroon and various cultural organisations in Canada. He is currently on the editorial board of the art magazine Inter.
Hélène Doyon has been working with Jean-Pierre Demers under the name Doyon/Demers since 1987. With no studio, no fixed discipline, and no disciplinary preoccupations, the duo strives to create what is not from what is. Their research-creation process is based on the relationship between art and life. Honoured as Canada’s Éminence Grise of Performance Art at the 2016 Toronto International Performance Art Festival (7a*11d), their work has been presented in Japan, Brazil, Cuba, several European countries and North America. Hélène Doyon has been teaching artistic practice: intervention, apparatus, and performance at UQAM’s School of Visual and Media Arts since 2010. She also directs the faculty’s doctoral program in art, where she teaches methodology seminars. Hélène Doyon has been a member of the VIVA! board since 2017. Doyon/Demers was a speaker at the 2006 edition of the festival and presented a performance at the 2015 edition.
k.g Guttman is an interdisciplinary artist, and a graduate of the PhDArts programme at Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, The Netherlands. Her work, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), considers the discourse of territoriality, decolonialism, choreographic practice and in-situ interventions. Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal has been her adopted city for 20 years.
Through a multidisciplinary approach in action art, visual arts, and media arts, Marie-Claude Gendron attempts to identify the patterns of a community that is constantly being updated in the spheres of the public, the private, and the intimate. Her projects are of the order of raw commemoration, highlighting the inevitable transformation of existing. She is interested in the multiple possibilities of the book-object and different forms of poetry in action. Born in Quebec City, Marie-Claude Gendron is involved in the organization of self-managed performance events and participates in several residencies, exhibitions and events locally, nationally, and internationally. Her work has been presented in solo and group shows, and she has won several awards and grants. Marie-Claude Gendron holds a bachelor’s degree in visual and media arts from Université Laval and a master’s degree in visual and media arts from Université du Québec à Montréal.
Rhonda Meier is a curator, writer, and arts administrator whose work has focussed on decolonization through her commitment to the work of indigenous artists. She has also been engaged with work in performance, sitting on the VIVA! board first as the representative for articule, in 2015. A cultural worker since 1988, Meier has also sat on the boards of Dazibao, articule, and worked at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Oboro, and from 1998-2005, as an educator at the Musée d’art contemporain. Meier’s writing has been published in Canadian Art, C Magazine, Art Journal, and by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Currently, she oversees the Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery at Dawson college, where she has initiated a performance residency program, beginning with Michelle Lacombe and Nadège Grebmeier Forget.