Montreal Cultural Calendar

Ex-Tension is an interdisciplinary group exhibition bringing together designers and artisans from Mile-Ex. Conceived as an extension of a neighbourhood, a network, and a place, the project highlights the creative density of this area through an immersive experience. This event will inaugurate Atelier L'Abri's new space with a group exhibition orchestrated by Procedures Industry. The proposal invites the public to discover the richness of the practices and partnerships that animate this creative ecosystem, made up of collaborations, materialities, processes, and exchanges.

New Age Contamination. MOLD, a nomadic gallery, presents Passengers, an exhibition highlighting the work of designers and artists Emile Algue, Geneviève Grenier, Jacqueline Beaumont, Jean-Michel Gadoua, Juliette Dupont, L.L.Y. Atelier, Olivier Bonnard, Philippe St-Denis, Rachel Bussin, Simon Johns and Sophie Murphy, who challenge the established order, push boundaries, and follow their own path.

Sténopé is the first solo exhibition of Matéo L. Sampaio curated by Mathieu Deschênes. Developed from photographic negatives discovered in an abandoned site, the project unfolds at the intersection of reality and fiction, activating fragments of memory linked to a forgotten family.

Soft Goods, an exhibition organized by Double Entendre, explores how soft materials can give rise to objects through the creative process. Bringing together Canadian designers, artists, and architects, the exhibition invites experimentation with malleable and flexible materials such as fabric, foam, paper, silicone, and other mediums to shape objects that reveal the full creative potential of softness. Focusing on furniture, objects, and small-scale lighting, the exhibition creates a coherent dialogue between works ranging from tactile, organic forms to pieces that evolve toward more structured or unexpected results.

Genuinely one of the most interesting artist studios within walking distance from the Mile End. Studio Beaumont, once a functioning industrial building, is now a creative home for an assortment of artists and designers. The tenants are neither an organization nor collective, but instead neighbours sharing walls, tools, and ideas; cooperating to maintain one of the few remaining affordable spaces for independent practices in Montreal.

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Eastern Bloc et Art Souterrain présentent une soirée de téléperformances explorant la notion d'ubiquité, cette capacité d'être présent·e en plusieurs lieux à la fois, réinterprétée à travers les technologies de téléprésence.

Trois projets en développement proposent des approches singulières de cette réflexion. Geopresence, de Paloma Dawkins et Fili Gibbons, ouvre la soirée avec une tapisserie médiatique mêlant son, visuels en temps réel et pratiques incarnées pour décentrer notre regard sur le territoire. Telepæsants, une performance de Michal Seta et Dirk Stromberg, propose un jam électronique entre Montréal et Singapour où distance et latence deviennent matière créative. La soirée se conclut avec Incantations, du collectif Future Ancestors : Koko Mariano, Jielin Liu et Najeeba Ahmed, une performance multisensorielle explorant des formes spéculatives de connexion et de communication au-delà du langage.

La soirée débutera par une marche guidée au coucher du soleil dans le jardin industriel devant Eastern Bloc, diffusée en direct sur notre Instagram.

18h30 Portes
19h00 Marche guidée
20h00 Performances

Entrée gratuite, inscription requise.
Bar sur place (comptant et carte).

Avec nos remerciements à Studio SIT pour son accompagnement technologique auprès des artistes dans le développement de ces projets.

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Eastern Bloc and Art Souterrain present an evening of teleperformances exploring the notion of ubiquity, the ability to be present in multiple places at once, reinterpreted through telepresence technologies.

Three projects in development offer singular approaches to this reflection. Geopresence, by Paloma Dawkins and Fili Gibbons, opens the evening with a media tapestry blending sound, real-time visuals and embodied practices to decenter our perception of territory. Telepæsants, a performance by Michal Seta and Dirk Stromberg, proposes an electronic jam between Montréal and Singapore where distance and latency become creative material. The evening closes with Incantations, by the collective Future Ancestors: Koko Mariano, Jielin Liu and Najeeba Ahmed, a multisensory performance exploring speculative forms of connection and communication beyond language.

The evening will begin with a guided sunset walk through the industrial garden lot in front of Eastern Bloc, livestreamed on our Instagram.

6:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Sunset walk
8:00 PM Performances

Free admission, RSVP required.
Bar on site (cash and card).

With thanks to Studio SIT for their technological support of the artists in the development of these projects.