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PHI Montreal Residency
The PHI Montréal residency grounds itself in the field of public engagement, an approach founded on sustained dialogue and collaboration between artists, cultural institutions and communities in the ideation, development and presentation of artworks. The PHI Montréal Residency, in collaboration with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), invites one artist from Montréal and one artist from Québec residing outside Montréal to collaborate with the PHI on public engagement projects.
The Selected Artists and Their Projects
Eva Quintas Le Havre de Montréal
Eva Quintas’s research-creation project seeks to explore the theme of the St. Lawrence River and its many relationships with residents and the city, focusing on the area of the Harbour located in Old Montréal and its surroundings. Inspired by PHI’s location, the artist aims to investigate the immediate territory that hosts it. Through walks, community meetings, and archival research, her goal is to capture the perceptions of those who live and work in this area, the issues that emerge from this landscape, and the dreams projected onto it.
Since the 1990s, Eva Quintas has pursued a photographic practice rooted in social and cultural perspectives, with an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach. She has produced photographic exhibitions, web-based artworks, video installations, public art projects, and artist publications. Through her exploration of various narrative forms, her work questions the construction of identities, mythologies, and cultural territories. She is the co-founder of the digital art centre TOPO, a member of La Traversée — Atelier de géopoétique, and a co-researcher at the Observatoire des médiations culturelles. Of Catalan origin, she lives and works in Montreél.
Andrea Williamson + Nina Pariser Spectres of a Shared Future
Spectres of a Shared Future is a community building art project that brings together citizen ecology, inclusive learner-centered pedagogy, and artistic disciplines to address climate and eco-anxiety, habitat loss for local species-at-risk, community-building in relation to land, and land stewardship. Through workshops and collective explorations, participants are invited to discover local ecosystems and imagine futures where humans and other species coexist harmoniously in urban or post-urban environments.
Since 2019, Andrea Williamson and Nina Pariser, working under the name Spoonful of Dirt, have been creating workshops that explore land appropriation, eco-citizenship, and community belonging through art. Their approach, grounded in care and attention to multi-species environments, fosters both tangible and imaginative connections between participants and their surroundings. They have presented their projects in a variety of contexts, from academic conferences to local community initiatives, and more recently through youth eco-art workshops and programs focused on environmental justice and creativity.
For more information about the artists and their projects, visit our website.
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