Spring programming

With the arrival of spring, AXENÉO7 is proud to unveil its seasonal programming. In harmony with the transformative energy that defines this time of year — and guided by a fully embraced introspective momentum. The centre steps off the beaten path to venture into the friche — beginning with a revisiting of projects from past programming and continuing by opening up to new territories of exploration.

Workshop + Public art + Micropublication

As part of a three-part collaboration with AXENÉO7, artist-editor Hannah Azar Strauss is introducing tongue breaks – langues rompues this spring. The project opens with an experimental writing and translation workshop bringing together seven artists and authors — Marc Alexandre Reinhardt, Vincent Bonin, Sophie Bélair Clément, Wawa Li, Diyar Mayil, Florence Simard, and Hannah Azar Strauss — conceived as a game of transmission, loss, and the transformation of meaning.

In parallel, the artist-editor extends these reflections into public space with tonguelangue, a first public artwork for Azar Strauss, created in collaboration with designer Simon Guibord. Installed as a series of text banners on the rear façade of La Filature, the work will be inaugurated during the opening night of AXENÉO7’s summer 2025 programming, on June 11.

The tongue breaks – langues rompues project will culminate in a micro-publication (forthcoming), concluding this three-part inquiry into translation, memory, and the possibilities of language.

Autoresidencies

As part of its Autoresidency program, AXENÉO7 welcomes this spring Fait Maison — a defining presence within the artistic scenes of the Outaouais-Ottawa region, and the field of performance art. Through the organization of emblematic evenings bringing together artists and audiences, Fait Maison has offered, particularly during its most formative years of activity, collective experiences that are simultaneously sensitive, intimate, radical and resolutely experimental.

A long-time collaborator of AXENÉO7 — most notably during the 2021 edition of PERF (re)act biennial — Fait Maison, now carried forward by Thomas Grondin and Anna Khimasia, continues its trajectory in a renewed form, marking its twentieth anniversary this year.

In residence through the Autoresidency program, Fait Maison embarks on a path focused on the transmission of its unique method and approach, gathering archives, collaborators, and communities around the development of a publication — thus opening the door to future iterations.

Also welcomed through the Autoresidency program, writer Maude Pilon is working on a text that offers a reflective continuation of the themes explored a few months ago in dialogue with Se limiter au maximum, presented at AXENÉO7 in fall 2024.

This research is part of an invitation initiated by artists Simon Brown, Pavel Pavlov, Marc A. Reinhardt, and Maude Veilleux — an initiative supported by AXENÉO7. Here, writing becomes a space of resonance and relay, where Maude Pilon’s voice enters into dialogue with those of the artists, extending the textual exchanges initiated during the exhibition iteration of this collective, multiform project. This contribution will take the form of a new publication. Perhaps…? Certainly!