{"id":972,"date":"2026-05-27T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/?p=972"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:13:14","slug":"writing-listening-action-launch-and-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/2026\/05\/27\/writing-listening-action-launch-and-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing\/ Listening\/ Action\u00a0:\u00a0Launch and performances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo : Photomontage by collectif Phorie (residency VIVA!), 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday June 13\u00a02026
5pm (performances at 7pm)<\/strong>
At Espace Transmission<\/strong>
5435 Av. des \u00c9rables,\u00a0Montr\u00e9al \/ Tiohti\u00e0:ke<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

VIVA! is thrilled to invite you to a performance evening celebrating the launch of the latest issue of\u00a0Inter, art actuel<\/em>, which features a micro-publication by members of the Phorie collective!\u00a0
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As part of the latest edition of the VIVA! Art Action biennial, three members of the\u00a0Phorie collective (F\u00e9lix Chartr\u00e9-Lefebvre, Benoit Jodoin, and Marie Achille)<\/strong>\u00a0participated in a writers\u2019 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.
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We are pleased to announce that the outcome of this residency takes the form of a micropublication featured in issue #147 of the magazine\u00a0Inter \u2013 Ou\u00efr: performances et installations sonores<\/em>.\u00a0Organized in collaboration with\u00a0Le Lieu<\/em><\/a>, the evening\u2019s artistic program echoes the magazine\u2019s theme.\u00a0<\/strong>
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I<\/em><\/a>nter, art actuel<\/a><\/em><\/strong> 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\u00a0Ou\u00efr\u00a0<\/em>explores the transformative interrelationships between sound creation, performativity, and installation in contemporary art.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artists\/<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joy Boissi\u00e8re (Qu\u00e9bec, Canada)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joy Boissiere, 40 Minutes<\/em>, 2026. <\/em>Photo : Betty Bogaert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joy Boissiere<\/a>\u00a0is a non-binary multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohti\u00e0:ke\/Moniang, Montreal. She works in the fields of performance, installation, exhibition, and live performance. With a master\u2019s degree in digital creation from UQAT, Joy has presented exhibitions at L\u2019\u00c9cart, Espace Verre, Caserne 26, and the Wrong Biennial, and has performed at various festivals such as Entractes, Ph\u00e9nom\u00e9na, Parcours Danse, and the Sudbury Alternative Art Fair. Joy is actively involved in Montreal\u2019s cultural scene as a former co-chair of the ADA-X board of directors, an instructor at Vid\u00e9ographe, a member of the Ateliers Belleville, and through her creative work with her collective CrocoDealDunil.\u00a0

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Castonguay (Qu\u00e9bec, Canada)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stephanie Castonguay, soft-cuts<\/em>, 2026. Photo : Noee Noviant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An experimentalist at heart, Stephanie Castonguay<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sound performance soft_cuts <\/em>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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marina Barsy Janer (Puerto Rico \/ Catalonia)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo : Marina Barsy Janer, achipelagic body \u221e devenir alga<\/em>, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marina Barsy Janer<\/a>\u00a0is a performance and visual artist, independent curator, researcher and pedagogue. Co-director of the performance art space for creation and radical pedagogy\u00a0MATERIC.ORG<\/a>, 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\u00a0Inconformes y disidentes, arte puertorrique\u00f1o en el siglo XXI\u00a0(Isla Negra, 2023),\u00a0Turned into Sterile Land\u00a0(Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022), and\u00a0Birthmark\u00a0(catalogue Liberate Tate, 2015).\u00a0

Acknowledging our ‘being in the World’ as intersubjective and intercorporeal, Marina\u2019s 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 \u2018sensorial activism\u2019, 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vivamontreal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}