MOMENTA Biennale

For this season’s final episode, Jamie and Tuan meet virtually – one in Toronto and the other in Hồ Chí Minh City. Tuan addresses a little-known side of Vietnam’s colonial history through the life of his grandfather, a Senegalese former soldier. Old traumas are laid bare in the Vietnamese-Senegalese community, torn between forgetting and love, at the heart of Tuan’s work. Jamie and Tuan talk about...

Jamie and Lindsay meet at the Kahnawà:ke canoe club. With its wealth of memories and symbols, the place nurtures a touching conversation during which Lindsay talks about identity, affiliation, her relationship with the St. Lawrence River, and how performance enables her to reconnect with her surroundings, including through the figure of the sturgeon. Through her ecofeminist approach, she draws clo...

Rémi rejoint Jamie en studio pour échanger sur sa pratique ainsi que sur ses passions, dont la musique et l’histoire acadiennes. Depuis 2018, l’artiste déploie la présence de Joan Dularge, figure « manquante » de l’histoire du rock politique acadien des années 1960 et 1970, qui lui permet d’affirmer la présence du chiac et de la culture queer en Acadie. Rémi se confie sur son identité et sa relati...

Jamie meets Séamus in the Biosphere dome, an iconic Montréal site located in the former United States pavilion for the 1967 World’s Fair. The pair discuss the desire to innovate that inspires such major events and look back at the invention of the nylon stocking in 1939, made possible by that era’s scientific advances. Through the figure of Miss Chemistry and borrowing the codes of drag culture, S...

Michèle met Jamie at 401 Richmond, an emblematic gathering place in the Toronto cultural scene. She talked about her connection to sports, which enabled her to explore her relationship with masculinity and to foster deep ties with individuals in her community. The work Quantum Choir, resulting from a collaboration with several of them, exposed their sense of vulnerability and fragility. Together t...

Jamie retrouve Valérie à son atelier dans Chabanel. En passant de ses personnages invisibles aux photographies distorsionnées, ils parlent des œuvres présentées à la Fonderie Darling. Ils discutent de leur rapport avec la création, la perception de l’autre et de l’échec. À travers le jeu et l’échange, ce balado nous plonge dans un partage d’histoires et d’expériences bercé par le tintement des clo...

Mara and Jamie meet for the first time in the Virage Sonore studio. Together, they talk about the works that Mara is presenting in the Biennale. Starting with her fascination with birds, the conversation wends through her curiosity about science and a phobia dating from her childhood. She also explains her relationship with sound, featured in many of her works, and talks about her fundraising effo...