Generate a dialogue between the artistic, ecological, scientific and entrepreneurial communities and enable the development of innovative eco-responsible practices.
Programming of Le Chantier winter/spring 2023
All activities are in French, but the majority of presenting artists are bilingual.
Demonstration
Ink and daylily pulp with Jocelyne Thibault
Friday February 3, 2023 from 1pm to 4pm
Demonstration
Free event, registration required
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This activity is intended for artists and designers who are curious to discover the use of daylily flowers in the studio through examples and live printing demonstrations. Since 2018, artist Jocelyne Thibault has been researching the possibilities of using a certain variety of daylily in an eco-responsible and non-toxic approach to printmaking. She invites participants to discover the processes she has developed for making monotypes, anthotypes and silkscreened images. She will present all the steps involved in making the recipes, from picking the flowers to transforming the pulp, as well as their application on paper.
The event is free and wheelchair accessible.
Crédit photo: Katya Konioukhova
Eco-responsible photolithography demonstration with Claude Arsenault and Elmyna Bouchard
Friday, March 10, 2023 from 1 to 4 pm
Friday March 17, 2023, from 1 to 4 pm
Demonstration
Free event, registration required
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This workshop is for artists and creators who wish to deepen their knowledge of photolithography and discover non-toxic products and work methods. Since July 2021, guest experts Claude Arseneault and Elmyna Bouchard have been exploring the possibilities of eco-responsible photolithography based on technical and artistic work carried out jointly as part of the Chantier de recherche sur les pratiques artistiques écoresponsables. They will present their experiments and the results of their research to the participants, sharing samples and technical procedures aimed at transferring the know-how to the workshop.
The event is free and registration is required.
Crédit photo: Katya Konioukhova
Plants, colors and fibers: an introduction to vegetable dyeing with habi habi
Friday, May 19, 2023, 10am to 4pm
Demonstration
6 hours at L’imprimerie
20 places
50$ (taxes not applicable)
FULL
Led by Myriam Rochon, horticulturist-dyer founder of habi habi, the workshop will cover cleaning, mordanting and dyeing animal and plant textile fibers. Participants will learn about the preparation of dye baths, shading and maintenance of colored materials. It will also be an opportunity to discuss the many techniques derived and the variations on various supports. Numerous dyeing plants to be picked or grown locally will also be presented and samples will be made. This workshop is an invitation to learn while reflecting on the many facets of the practice of vegetable dyeing, whether it be artisanal or artistic, rigorous or ephemeral.
Crédit photo: Katya Konioukhova
Workshops
Paper making with the Atelier Retailles
Date to be announced
Workshop
12 hours of training at the Atelier Retailles
8 places
160$ (taxes not applicable)
FULL
This second workshop is an introduction to papermaking in two parts: the discovery of plant fibers and traditional western rag paper making techniques. In an unprecedented collaboration, participants will be welcomed at the Retailles studio for two days of training. Retailles is an exploratory space that approaches papermaking as an artistic medium. It specializes in the transformation of fabric scraps from the local fashion industry into paper pulp: an ecological and circular practice. In the company of Sophie P-Voyer, papermaker and founding artist of the studio, participants will learn the basics of making sheets of paper with different plant and textile materials, from the preparation of the pulp to the integration of pictorial techniques.
Photo credit: Calope
Ethical picking with Annie Lord
Friday, June 9, 2023, 10 am to 4 pm
Workshop
6 hours at L’imprimerie
20 places
50$ (taxes not applicable)
The workshop will focus on the ethics of picking wild plants in urban areas. Participants will explore the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood to experiment good practices with the floral artist and coureuse des bois Annie Lord. The group will explore some of the skills involved in the act of picking: walking through the area, observing, searching for local plants, identifying and harvesting with respect. Inspired by the ecosystems and the surrounding territories, Annie Lord’s work wishes to honor the flora that surrounds us.
Discussion Events
Arts and eco-responsibilities: Economies
Wednesday April 19, 2023 at 6 pm
Discussion event
At the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve
Moderated by Emmanuelle Jacques
Speakers: Sophie Castonguay and Édith Brunette
Free event, 40 places
Please arrive early to ensure your place.
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We observe that the practice of print and photographic arts from an eco-friendly perspective requires a deep reflection on its explorations, materials, economies and considerations of social and environmental equity. Presented as part of the Chantier on eco-friendly arts practices, the Arts and Ecoresponsibilities event series proposes four collective spaces for dialogue on issues linking art and the environment in times of climate crisis.
We invite all environmentally conscious people to join us for the third occurrence of this series about economies. The event will take place at the Maison de la Culture Maisonneuve on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. The discussion will be moderated by Emmanuelle Jacques, an undisciplined visual artist with a penchant for counterfeiting and misappropriating symbols of power in her work. Speakers Sophie Castonguay and Édith Brunette will present their research and recent projects while opening the discussion to the audience.
What do the survival of the planet and the survival of the artist have in common? There is no doubt that artists’ economic issues are part of a larger discourse. At L’imprimerie, we believe that eco-responsibility goes hand in hand with a responsible economy. The capitalist system, economic growth and degrowth, solidarity systems and other alternative models of consumption inevitably influence artists’ lifestyles. Can we imagine an economy or economies on a human scale that considers the health of artists and the environment?
We raise here the challenges of professional and personal life, both psychological and environmental, which are experienced mostly through a mode of daily production and subsistence. The artistic product brings questions about the value of exchanges and the power relationships between individuals, accentuating the privileges when it is consumed and the precariousness in which the creators are held during its production. Can we collectively give a sustainable economic power to artistic practice, and what would be the principles? Through these complex reflections that raise multiple questions, how do we imagine the artist-run centre / print shop as an economic place? Can we clarify its role and its impact on artists’ lifestyle?
Arts and eco-responsibilities: Environmental and social equity
Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 6 pm
Discussion event
At the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve
Moderated by Gisèle Trudel
Speakers: Maryam Eizadifard and Michèle Magema
Free event, 40 places
Please arrive early to ensure your place.
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We observe that the practice of print and photographic arts from an eco-friendly perspective requires a deep reflection on its explorations, materials, economies and considerations of social and environmental equity. Presented as part of the Chantier on eco-friendly arts practices, the Arts and Ecoresponsibilities event series proposes four collective spaces for dialogue on issues linking art and the environment in times of climate crisis.
We invite all environmentally conscious people to join us for the fourth occurrence of this series, which will take place at the Maison de la Culture Maisonneuve on Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 6pm. In the form of a conversation, the event will focus on the relationship between artistic practice and social and environmental equity. It will bring together speakers Maryam Eizadifard, Michèle Magema, and Gisèle Trudel who will act as participant/moderator of the activity.
The fight against the climate crisis requires a reconsideration of the very structure of our society. There is no doubt that there is no climate justice without social equity. The causes claimed by marginalized communities include the inescapable perspectives of immigration, feminism and colonialism in environmental issues. These considerations call into question the art industry in Quebec and elsewhere. In what social structure does it operate and what range of voices does it represent? In other words, who speaks for whom? As an emblem of economic and social marginalization, artists must question their community affiliation and the role of their work in the social ecology. Can we define and possibly redefine the role of cultural institutions and artist-run centres in representing marginalized communities? How does issues of environmental and social equity manifest themselves in art practices? Do we see the artist studio as a place for conversation and action and social engagement?
This conversation will be an opportunity for a dynamic exchange to create a more horizontal mode of discussion between the speakers and the audience. Guests will begin the conversation with a short excerpt from philosopher and professor Donna J. Haraway’s book Staying with the trouble. Link to the short except (french)
Arts and eco-responsibilities: Materials
Thursday, March 23, 2023, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Discussion event
At L’imprimerie
Moderated by Frédéric Bigras-Burrogano
Free event
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We observe that the practice of print and photographic arts from an eco-responsible perspective requires an in-depth reflection on its explorations, its materials, its communities and its economies. Presented as part of the Chantier de recherche sur les pratiques artistiques écoresponsables, the Arts and eco-responsibilities event series proposes four collective spaces for dialogue on issues linking art and the environment in times of climate crisis.
We invite artists, creators, cultural workers and anyone concerned about the environment to join us for the second edition of this series on the subject of materials. The event will take place at L’imprimerie, center d’artistes on Thursday, March 23, 2023. The discussion will be moderated by artist-researcher Frédéric Bigras Burrogano, who addresses in their work the notions of politics, territory and materiality. They will initiate interactions between the speakers Alice Jarry, Marianne Lavoie and Juan Ortiz-Apuy while opening up exchanges with the public.
If visual artists speak about the world they are part of, it is often through material productions capable of expression and sharing. Whether it is through raw materials such as silver salts and natural pigments, through those resulting from technology and transformation or through those constituting our bodies. It is in this perspective that we will try to understand our relationship to them and the stories that are attached to them. What responsibilities do we have towards the materials of creation, their life cycles and their origins, and this, in the context of the Canadian economy of extraction? How do we deconstruct the narratives we maintain about so-called “inert” materials and how do these narratives perpetuate the anthropocentric narrative that positions humans not within the world of which they are a part, but above it? What are the artist’s strategies for making the materials think and feel while minimizing the ecological footprint of her approach?
Arts and eco-responsibilities: Scientific explorations
Thursday, October 13, 2022 from 8:45am to 6pm at the Grantham Foundation
Discussion event and visit
VIA Rail transportation and lunch included
25 places
25$ (taxes not applicable, non-refundable ticket)
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L’imprimerie invites artists, creators, cultural workers and anyone concerned about the environment to discover the fields of exploration that stem from Le Chantier: a research project on eco-friendly art practices. We observe that the practice of print and photographic arts from an eco-responsible perspective requires further reflection on its explorations, its materials, its communities and its economies. The Arts and eco-responsibilities series of discussion events proposes 4 collective spaces for dialogue on the issues that link art and the environment in a time of climate crisis.
We invite all those who are sensitive to these issues to join us for the first occurrence of this series, whose topic is Arts and eco-responsibilities: Scientific explorations. The event will take place at the Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment on Thursday, October 13th, 2022 from 8:45 am to 6:00 pm (VIA Rail transportation and lunch included). Moderated by Gaëlle Étémé, metaphysician and doctoral student in research-creation at the Université de Sherbrooke, the event will generate exchanges between speakers Kelly Jazvac, Vanessa Mardirossian and Myriam Barriault-Fortin.
What do science and art have in common in terms of investigation? What methods unite them when the power of the creative gesture, both for the artist and the researcher, generates possible solutions to the climate crisis? Is it fair to claim that the sciences embrace a logical and Cartesian way of thinking while the arts are often synonymous with a sensitive and/or emotional way of thinking? With art tending towards interdisciplinarity, this binarity is crumbling to make room for a multitude of practices that bring together these ways of conceiving the world. From then on, collaborations with the different spheres of scientific activities create new possibilities from which these hybrid practices emerge.
The artists and artist-researchers who approach scientific explorations plunge us into a universe of investigation, trial and error, dialogue, wonder, failure and risk-taking. Through the tenacity of their work, they imagine works that are both sensitive and critical, renewing ways of thinking and reconfiguring the eco-responsible way of doing things in their fields of expertise. Driven by a desire to make knowledge more accessible, while renegotiating pedagogical avenues, they take us out of the traditional institutions of art and into the public space and other institutions dedicated to knowledge. Whether it be techniques of the body and mind, pure sciences, humanities and traditional knowledge, art acts as a link between disciplines and ways of thinking in the creation of works that are both sensitive and critical.
The event takes place at the Grantham Foundation located at 1411 Blanchard Street, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, QC J0C 1K0. Registration includes lunch and round-trip VIA Rail transportation from the Montreal Central Station located at 895 De La Gauchetière Street W, Montreal, QC H3B 4G1.
To know more about the Grantham Foundation for Art and Environment
Residency Exit
Miri Chekhanovich’s residency exit
Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 6 p.m. (doors open at 5 p.m.)
Presentation
At L’imprimerie
Free event
Leyla Majeri’s residency exit
Friday, April 21, 2023 at 1 pm
Presentation
At the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve
Free event
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Claude Arseneault and Elmyna Bouchard’s residencies exit
Friday, April 21, 2023 at 3:30 pm
Presentation
At the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve
Free event
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Sophie Cabot’s residency exit
Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 1 pm
Presentation
At the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve
Free event
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Bosny’s residency exit
Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 3:30 pm
Presentation
At the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve
Free event
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thanks
L’imprimerie thanks the Canada Council for the Arts for its support.
Politique d’annulation – formations
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- le coût des séances déjà suivies ou prévues la journée-même ;
- une pénalité prévue par la loi1. Cette pénalité correspond à 10 % du prix des séances qui n’ont pas encore été données.
1 Loi sur la protection du consommateur : http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/ShowDoc/cs/P-40.1, page consultée le 30 août 2017.
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