Artist talk
Sarah Chouinard-Poirier + Kinga Michalska + AM Trépanier
- Discussion
Discussion presented in French, as part of the symposium Imaginer et créer d’autres mondes possibles : arts engagés, urgences, utopies organized by the Research Center on Social Innovation and Transformation (CRITS) in collaboration with DAÏMÔN production centre.
4:45 — 5:45 p.m.
All activities will take place within La Filature.
Entrance will be through the main door of the centre, at 80 rue Hanson.
Free admission
Free parking
As a prelude to Salon #6 — utopies, artists Sarah Chouinard-Poirier, Kinga Michalska, and AM Trépanier, whose works are on display in the three rooms of AXENÉO7 until November 29 with the exhibition vert soleil green sun, will take part in a discussion animated by Édith Brunette and Philippe Néméh-Nombré of CRITS.
For more information on the vert soleil green sun exhibition, click here.
Biographies
Sarah Chouinard-Poirier
Sarah Chouinard-Poirier is an artist who lives and works in Tiotia:ke/Mooning/Montreal and approaches performance, film, digital arts and writing in a transdisciplinary manner. They imagine performative scenarios—sometimes collaborative—rooted in research, stream of consciousness, speculation, intertextuality, and vernacular histories that reveal the connections between gender, class, labour, and somatic manifestations.
Their work has been featured in several artist-run centres and exhibition venues, including the Fonderie Darling, DRAC, Centre Clark, Caravansérail, VU Photo, Galerie R3, Ada X, Regart, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, OFFTA, TOPO, VIVA! Art Action, Sporobole, Le Lobe, Studio 303, as well as at several conferences, theatres, drinking establishments, institutional, self-managed and hybrid spaces in Quebec, Mexico and Poland.
Kinga Michalska
Kinga Michalska is a Polish queer filmmaker and visual artist based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They use mediums of photography, film, and video installation to examine shared cultural spaces such as home, kinship, land, memory, and hauntings. They are interested in the periphery of what and who makes history: amateur historians, geological processes, personal archives, oral history, queer intimacies, and speculative fiction.
Kinga Michalska holds an MFA in Photography from Concordia University (Montreal) and a BA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw (Poland). Their work has been presented in numerous festivals and exhibitions around the world, including in Canada, Poland, South Korea, the UK, Switzerland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Their debut feature documentary BEDROCK (2025) premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival (Berlin, Germany) and won the Best Polish Film Award at Millennium Docs Against Gravity.
AM Trépanier
AM Trépanier works at the intersection of media arts, documentary practices and cultural mediation. Often collaborative, her research-creation activities produce interventions inspired by social movements, community archives, alternative media, popular education, social geography, and oral history. Their recent work focuses on how power is translated into built space, as well as the communities that resist it.
AM has recently taken part in residencies and presented their work in exhibitions and screenings in Canada and Europe, notably at VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine (Montreal), AXENÉO7 (Gatineau) and Eeeeh! (Nyon). Her writings have appeared in Spirale, Espace art actuel, Panorama-cinéma, Vie des arts, OEI, and Termes (Galerie Leonard et Bina Ellen). Since 2018, they have co-directed the editorial platform Cigale with Laure Bourgault, which supports experimental, documentary, and critical writing.
AM grew up in Gatineau (Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation territory) and now lives in Quebec City (Wendat and Innu Nations territory), where she is raising her child.
Acknowledgments
AXENÉO7 would like to thank the DAÏMÔN production centre and the CRITS for their valuable collaboration.
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