Today the poster was removed….
Archive for October, 2007
Yesterday night we met Esther Bourdages (Vinyl Interventions), art historian, curator and sonic explorer based in Montréal) at the Artivistic vernissage. We were talking about Griffintown neighbourhood. She told us about a intervention she did in Parc Griffintown St. Ann a few years ago. Griffintown will take part in our intervention within the festival of artivistic 07:: is it possible to inhabit an idea?
In my secret life, Leonard Cohen
Griffintown, a district in change.
From Laurier (located in Le Plateau - Mont Royal) we took the Metro to Bonnaventure (located in the south of Downtown). Walking down south Downtown we noticed the change of neighbourhood. There used to be barracks located where Irish immigrants lived after they arrived at the end of XIX century. They mostly worked at the industries along the Lachine Canal. It still is an industrial neighbourhood and working-class site.
Instructions / briefly descripton of our walking: Rue de la Montaigne - Rue Wellington - Rue Basin - Parc de Griffintown St. Ann - Rue de Séminaire - Rue Ottawa - Rue William - Rue Canning - Rue Notre-Dame (ouest) - Boulevard Georges-Vanier - Rue Workman - Rue des Seigneurs - Rue Notre-Dame (ouest) - Rue de la Montaigne - Rue de la Gauchetière (ouest).
The photo below was taken at Parc de Griffintown St. Ann. There was a high frequently visited church. It was demolished in 1970. Some stones /ruins have been conserved in their original location and mark the outline of the non-existing Church. There have been installed some regular groups of wooden benches to occupy the void left behind.
From 1854 to 1970, St. Ann’s Church was the heart of Montréal’s Irish working-class community. The second-oldest English Catholic Church in Montréal, it had a parish of 1500 families.
Tackling the monumental work of male architects who are always ready to build bigger and higher, the Ontario artist Diane Borsato humorously opposes this with the work of women, which history seldom acknowledges. She occupies the area around Buckminster Fuller’s famous geodesic dome with an immense photograph of two young girls who have created a little surprise…go to page
Cathrine introduced us to Jean-Maxime from DARE-DARE:
DARE-DARE::DARE-DARE is an artist-run centre which has about 100 membres. Since its inception in 1985, the centre presented the work of more than 1000 artists. The board of directors is formed by Clara Bonnes, Constanza Camelo, Marie-Suzanne Désilets, Jean-Maxime Dufresne, Fabien Loszach, Jean-François Prost and Doug Scholes.
Parc with no name
