Photo credit : Kinga Michalska, courtesy of the ÉCART Center.
Extramural Performance | Écart, 167 Murdoch Avenue, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec J9X 1E3
Pologne-en-sous-sol
Kinga Michalska + Sarah Chouinard-Poirier + Lari Jalbert + Michael Martini + Mycelium
- Extramural Performance
Co-presented by AXENÉO7 and L'Écart, Pologne-en-sous-sol of Kinga Michalska, Sarah Chouinard-Poirier, Lari Jalbert, Michael Martini and Mycelium extends the Pologne-en-Québec exhibition. The project is part of moving earth, an initiative led by both centers and supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec as part of the Soutien à des initiatives structurantes pour la circulation d’œuvres en arts actuels program.
Hours vary.
Access to this venue is via stairs; there is no elevator on-site.
The comrades are in a pickle!
Pologne-en-sous-sol is a punk haunted house where the members of the former neo-rural commune Pologne-en-Québec were fooled by a mischievous scarecrow: the one and only Chochoł. In this fantomatic universe where secrets are buried in the garden of rotten good intentions, we invite you to take part in a series of queer rituals and entertainment to help free our bewitched friends. The members of the commune Sylvio (Mycelium) and Union (Michael Martini) will guide you through an escape room, a trivia night, and a spooky-themed karaoke night.
— Text credit: courtesy of L’Écart.
For more information, visit the website of the ÉCART center.
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.
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.
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