Image (left to right): Almudena Millán, 2020. Photo: Monika Deimling and Diàleg Obert
L’Araignée (Noémi McComber and Helena Martin Franco), 2022. Photo: Kimura Byol
Lucía Peiró Lloret, 2024. Photo: F. Rincón

Monday August 24, 2026
From 6pm until 10pm (performances at 6:30pm)
Ateliers Belleville (545 Rue Legendre W, Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal)
Free, a light meal will be available while supplies last

VIVA! is thrilled to welcome Lucia Peiro Lloret and Almudena Millan, two members of the Art D’ collective from Velencia, Spain. While in Montréal, our guests will meet local artists and work with VIVA! to establish a foundation for possible future collaborations. As a first introductory step, we are presenting a programme of performances at one of the newly inaugurated spaces in Ateliers Belleville. 

Conceived as an encounter, the event brings together members of Art D’ and L’Araignée, a local performance art collective whose members have been featured in past VIVA! programs (2011, 2013, 2022). While giving space to individual practices, this program also highlights the relevance of collective structures, both here and abroad. These artist-driven initiatives nurture performance art communities and strengthen the sustainability of individual practices by facilitating encounters and exchanges between artists. 

We hope you join us to experience the work and meet  our guests: Lucía Peiró Lloret, Almudena Millán, Helena Martin Franco, Noémi McComber and Ileana Hernández Camacho.

Founded in 2017 in Valencia Spain, Art D’ is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the production and research of action art. The cultural association is composed of a intergenerational collective of artist researchers. All three members are university professors and practicing artists, and they present their work at international events, as well as in publications. Art D’ is dedicated to the study, documentation, and dissemination of contemporary action art. Its open and ambitious research approach takes various forms, including performances, publications, discussions, and performance workshops.

Founded in January 2011, L’Araignée is a collaborative platform dedicated to showcasing the work of its members – and that of other guest artists – in new contexts, both locally and internationally. The collective is composed of artists, writers, and curators who share a feminist perspective and a desire to take initiatives to promote art that resonates with both their artistic sensibilities and their political stances. The collective builds bridges between communities, arts organizations, and artists, whose unique perspectives can fuel reflection and raise questions about what is expected of contemporary art. 

Artists

Image: Lucía Peiró Lloret, Doblec doble doblegat. Double pli plié, 2024. Photo: F. Rincón

Interdisciplinary artist, Lucía Peiró Lloret holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and a master’s degree in cultural heritage management from the University of Valencia, Spain. She has been a member of several action art collectives, including A.N.C.A., Tres i nores, the Sinberifora Association, and the Art D’ Association. She approaches her artistic work as research and is interested in the relationship between sounds and objects. Her performances have been presented at numerous festivals, art spaces, and museums across Europe (Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Spain, etc.), as well as in North America. She co-directed the Art d’Acció series at the Octubre Contemporary Cultural Center in Valencia (2007–2011) and the Art D’ series at the CCCC (Centre del Carme de Cultura Contemporànea), and organizes occasional performance events at the Sporting Club Russafa. She is also a professor at the Valencia School of Dramatic Arts.

Image: Almudena Millán, Columbiello, 2021. Photo: Abel Loureda

A performance artist and painter, Almudena Millán holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and a master’s degree in artistic production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Her performances have been presented at numerous action art festivals and events in Spain, such as Acción!Mad (Madrid), Semana de la Performance (Madrid), Out of Mind(Zaragoza), the Jornada d’Art d’Acció (Valencia), and Fils d’Acció (Valencia). She has also participated in the Month of Performance Art in Berlin, Germany. In addition to being involvement with Art D’, Almudena is also part of the WDC collective (along with Elia Torrecilla and Pepe Romero), a group dedicated to developing discreet actions in public space. She is also a professor at the Castellón School of Art and Design.

Image: Noémi McComber, Entravée, 2020. Photo: Helena Martin Franco

Noémi McComber earned a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from Chelsea College of Art in London, United Kingdom, in 2002. Since then, she has pursued various artistic projects as an artist, curator, and teacher, adopting a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach. She has exhibited her work in various contextes across North America, South America, and Europe. Working in video, photography, urban interventions, drawing, and performance, her artistic practice explores the physical and social constraints that shape everyday experience. By exposing the unspoken rules that govern any social space, she seeks to redefine the potential of spaces we occupy, both individually and collectively. She co-founded the collective L’Araignée in 2011 and lives and works in Montreal.

Image: Helena Martin Franco, Transfiguration, 2026. Photo: Freddy Arciniegas – Arcpixel

Helena Martin Franco was born in Cartagena-Karmairi. She lives and works in Tio’tia: ke-Mooniyang-Montréal since 1998. She holds an MA in visual and media arts from UQAM. She is a member of several feminist contemporary art collectives, including L’Araignée (collective of diffusion of contemporary art), La Redhada (network of women artists from the Colombian Caribbean), CAVCA (Community of Visual Artists of Cartagena and Bolivar) and Las Meninas emputás! (Feminist collective, anti-colonial activist from Cartagena). Her transdisciplinary practice explores the blending of different artistic processes and the hybridization between traditional and new technologies. Her artistic practice invites dialogue about gender-based violence, immigration and artistic censorship.  cars, wrecks… the vehicles will serve as a canvas to convey multiple perspectives. By bringing artistic experimentation directly into shared urban spaces, FAAS 8 reimagines everyday infrastructure as a place of connection, curiosity and collective imagination.

Image: Ileana Hernández Camacho, Porosas absorbentes continental umbrales, 2026. Photo: Melania Sevilla

leana Hernández Camacho’s multidisciplinary practice focuses on relational performance, and her research explores human camouflage. She uses mimicry to engage in dialogue with various elements of her environment—both inanimate and living. Through clothing and everyday objects, she transforms her natural body into a poetic one. Her actions center on sensory awareness and collaboration. She is originally from Mexico, where she recently completed a master’s degree in artistic production at UAEM in Cuernavaca.