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 Foundation for Contemporary Art on public engagement projects.
The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) has been supporting the residency for the past two years.
The selected artists and their projects
Erin Hill + Nina Vroemen Collective
Deep Gazing with The Sisters of the Celestial Order of Nephology
Meteorology, meaning the art of looking up, began as the study of individual meteors and expanded to the study of all weather. This practice of Deep Gazing is a guide, a tool, an atlas and a companion for individual and communal attunement to the environment. Opening to the expansiveness of the sky, learning to read its signs and traces, and allowing for messages and meanings to arise beyond the art of forecasting.
The Sisters of the Celestial Order of Nephology (the study of clouds) is an interdisciplinary performance project by Horizon Factory (Erin Hill and Nina Vroemen). Forming in 2019, during a dance residency at Studio 303 (Montreal), the fictitious, pseudo-sect of two, blue cloaked, atmospheric-nuns were called by the unseizable state of clouds and the ephemeral narratives that form them. These narratives are personal, environmental, futuristic, and potential warning signs. The Sisters engage across multiple mediums and disciplines, including performance, video, radio, workshops, and writing. In 2024, they printed the prototype for their forthcoming publication Deep Gazing.
Gabrielle Harnois Blouin
Porosities: We Will Be Made of Sponges and Speakers
Gabrielle Harnois Blouin's project will focus on the creation of a performative choral work, in collaboration with an elementary school group. The artist wishes to explore with the children their relationship to the world, through the prism of porosity, by engaging their voices, gestures and ideas. She will invite them to reflect on a range of questions: what touches them most: clouds, darkness, raspberries, a thunderstorm, a caress, something else?
Gabrielle HB is a sound artist living between the ancestral territories of Tiotià:ke and Nitaskinan. She uses voice, text, synthesizers, and field recordings as primary materials, oscillating between free improvisation and slow constructions. Through performance, she seeks to bring forth forms of tenderness, play, and transparency. She is half of Désert mauve (with Charline Dally), producing audiovisual works, and part of the ambient minimalist music duo Jardin Joue (with Florence Garneau).
For more information about the artists and their projects, visit our website.
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