Créations

ARTIST TALK – March 31 at 2pm Vicky Sabourin’s work arises out of her imaginary, made up in part of many stories heard over the years. This world is elaborated out of a fantasized inner landscape taking the form of a narrative or tale. Through her installations and performances, she attempts to provoke a strong…

From the sublime to the sublime: Wanderings of a Rubbish Picker Wandering is to ramble with the resolve to discover something not (yet) known. — Unknown It is not so much by the things each day that are manufactured, sold, bought that you can measure Leonia’s opulence, but rather by the things each day that…

Event organized by VIVA! Art Action In recent years, the relationship between performance art and the image has been dominated by the question of documentation. As such, we commonly think of image making as a tool for capturing and communicating live works to future audiences. In other words, the action is commonly assumed to generate the…

Sporobole is proud to host French artist Julien Poidevin for a three-month residency. This residency is made possible by a partnership between CALQ (Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec) and Institut Français. In the context of the artist residency, Julien has installed a weather station on Sporobole’s roof that captures environmental data (wind, light)….

This electroacoustic piece for 16 loudspeakers was specifically composed for Sporobole’s sound window. The piece emphasizes the specific sound character of the place. It is constituted of digital audio processing, synthetic sounds and sound recordings of Sporobole’s neighbourhood. The composition suggests a musical counterpoint to the ambient sounds, to bring the listener passing-by to wonder…

It’s with great enthusiasm that Sporobole welcomes artist Émile Morin in the context of the 2016-2017 art-science residency. The artist will be working with Professor Patrice Masson and Research Professional Nicolas Quaegebeur of the Groupe d’acoustique de l’Université de Sherbrooke (GAUS). Émile Morin’s work is one of perpetual pursuit of complex systems that emerge from…

Christopher Varady-Szabo will be artist-in-residence for the three weeks prior to the exhibition that will take place on May 26th at 5 p.m. The public will be invited to take part in the production of the work. Project Description “Until now, my artistic practice has mainly been composed of in situ works. My sculptures and installations are…

You are warmly invited to Kim Kielhofner’s performance-conference that will take place on Saturday March 18 at 2 p.m. in Sporobole’s main gallery. This event is presented on the last day of the exhibition Mittelnacht. Mittelnacht, through a series of drawings and videos, deals with memory, time, patterns, and the tenuous construction of fictions.  At…

The artist will be artist-in-residence, starting October 1st. The exhibition will open on Friday October 21. Residency description: For three weeks, I will invest the gallery in order to seize its image. I will set up my workshop and my study in the space: Sporobole will become my laboratory. To observe, capture, print, project, overprint, superimpose….

It’s with great pleasure that Sporobole will host Alexis Langevin-Tétrault during a two-week residency. Alexis is the winner of the Sporobole Residency Contest that was open to students at Université de Montréal’s digital music sector. During the residency, Alexis will compose a new multichannel work for Sporobole’s Sound Window which is comprised of 16 outdoors…

Thanks to agreements between the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and international institutions and governments, Sporobole offers residencies to international artists. These residencies afford artists time to finish or create new works of art during a two or three-month stay. The residencies include: A private room and shared work space, washroom and…

Artist-in residence – January 4th to March 31, 2016 CALQ – State of New York   Project Description “The frst is called “Birth Mother” and is a virtual reality performance installation, and I will be recording and mixing the immersive soundscapes for the virtual reality environments. The second project is called “They Kill Things” which…