Photo : Photomontage by collectif Phorie (residency VIVA!), 2026
Saturday June 13 2026
5pm (performances at 7pm)
At Espace Transmission
5435 Av. des Érables, Montréal / Tiohtià:ke
VIVA! is thrilled to invite you to a performance evening celebrating the launch of the latest issue of Inter, art actuel, which features a micro-publication by members of the Phorie collective!
As part of the latest edition of the VIVA! Art Action biennial, three members of the Phorie collective (Félix Chartré-Lefebvre, Benoit Jodoin, and Marie Achille) participated in a writers’ residency dedicated to supporting performative writing practices and advancing theoretical knowledge related to current practices in action art. Phorie combines research and creation in an interdisciplinary practice where art and theory are shaped by experiences, narratives, and fiction. During their residency, the collective conducted research on the forms and strategies of affective contagion in contemporary art.
We are pleased to announce that the outcome of this residency takes the form of a micropublication featured in issue #147 of the magazine Inter – Ouïr: performances et installations sonores. Organized in collaboration with Le Lieu, the evening’s artistic program echoes the magazine’s theme.
Inter, art actuel is a cultural magazine that showcases various forms of contemporary art while exploring its relationships to the social, the political, and ethics. An open forum for artists, critics, and thinkers, it has championed ephemeral, emerging, avant-garde, and interdisciplinary practices for decades. The latest issue Ouïr explores the transformative interrelationships between sound creation, performativity, and installation in contemporary art.
Artists/
Joy Boissière (Québec, Canada)
Joy Boissiere, 40 Minutes, 2026. Photo : Betty Bogaert
Joy Boissiere is a non-binary multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Moniang, Montreal. She works in the fields of performance, installation, exhibition, and live performance. With a master’s degree in digital creation from UQAT, Joy has presented exhibitions at L’Écart, Espace Verre, Caserne 26, and the Wrong Biennial, and has performed at various festivals such as Entractes, Phénoména, Parcours Danse, and the Sudbury Alternative Art Fair. Joy is actively involved in Montreal’s cultural scene as a former co-chair of the ADA-X board of directors, an instructor at Vidéographe, a member of the Ateliers Belleville, and through her creative work with her collective CrocoDealDunil.
Her research and creative work revolve around obscenity, shyness, intimacy, movement, and the absurd. In recent years, she has focused her performances on the embodiment of technical monsters through acts of metamorphosis in which she combines stage equipment with the bodies of technicians. In her practice, she blends lighting design, video projection, stage technology, and performance.
Stephanie Castonguay (Québec, Canada)
Stephanie Castonguay, soft-cuts, 2026. Photo : Noee Noviant
An experimentalist at heart, Stephanie Castonguay develops a hands-on practice rooted in materiality, listening, and transformation. Through the construction of DIY instruments and the repurposing of obsolete machines, she explores sound as a living process shaped by touch, decay, and unpredictability. Her work reveals hidden resonances within analogue systems, where fragility, accidents, and attention become tools for improvisation and presence.
The sound performance soft_cuts unfolds as a tactile, luminous ritual for hacked turntables and their interplay using modular synthesis, named for the soft yet lasting marks engraved through time, bodies, and sound. Motorized systems animate the tonearms, while iridescent objects diffract light across surfaces, turning mechanical motion into a visual score. Performed in near darkness, soft_cuts invites listening through the hands, a meditation on ephemerality and intimacy, a tactile choreography of sound, light, and the invisible textures of what is lost and remains.
Marina Barsy Janer (Puerto Rico / Catalonia)
Photo : Marina Barsy Janer, achipelagic body ∞ devenir alga, 2026
Marina Barsy Janer is a performance and visual artist, independent curator, researcher and pedagogue. Co-director of the performance art space for creation and radical pedagogy MATERIC.ORG, she holds an MA in Curatorial Studies and a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex, UK. Her artworks have been presented in Abya Yala and Europe and discussed in several catalogues and books including Inconformes y disidentes, arte puertorriqueño en el siglo XXI (Isla Negra, 2023), Turned into Sterile Land (Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022), and Birthmark (catalogue Liberate Tate, 2015).
Acknowledging our ‘being in the World’ as intersubjective and intercorporeal, Marina’s work explores the soma-politics of encounter, and provides new spaces for interspecies kinships and negotiations to occur. Looking to decolonise internal body-geographies, she engages in forms of ‘sensorial activism’, exploring relational tensions between the human and more-than-human. Since 2015, she also creates art-life with artist Isil Sol Vil using a poetic philosophy of subversive love x extreme care. Their collaborative work was presented by DARE DARE at the 2017 edition of VIVA! Art Action.