The artist collective EN MASSE will create a large-scale collaborative black and white drawing, under the direction of Jason Botkin and Rupert Bottenberg. EN MASE brings together emerging artists who strive to reach a wide audience with unpretentious and accessible ideas and techniques, drawing from the diverse disciplines of fine art, graphic design, comics, illustration, graffiti, and tattoo art.next

Ten artists who have appeared in the DÉCOVER magazine will create a large-scale collaborative artwork under the supervision of Micah Lockhart, artistic director of DÉCOVER. Launched in September 2009, DÉCOVER is a publication dedicated to visual arts.next

Close your eyes, slip on a blindfold, and let yourself be taken away. The city you thought you knew— with its sounds, smells and textures—awaits the senses you had forgotten were yours.next

The performance and interactive installation PINOCCHIO #10 is a black comedy where Pinocchio is a real girl who desperately wants to be in plastic. It is a modern horror tale told with the morbid curiosity and innocent eyes of childhood.next

In the performance HANGED WOMAN, the giant artist is hanged by the tip of her hair to a tree. When the tension is relieved, she sits down and tears out her hair. One tuft at a time, she throws it on the ground.next

In the performance CARNATION , the artist is dressed with a tight latex costume, like a second skin. She cuts out some parts and sews the open parts with the wastes, using a sewing thread and a needle until all the holes are sewed with tight seams.next

The performances YOU SAY PATRI CK, I SAY PASTICHE! emerge from the surreal images that haunt the artist’s subconscious in regards to our world. With crazy characters and a twisted tendency for kitsch, he brings people to mock themselves and
be aware of the world of consumption we live in, and the consequences of our indifference.next

The interactive installation THE BOX OF LOVE&PEACE is inspired by the artist’s studio. The visitors can write, paint, stick and draw what they wish on her art tent, or just talk and move around. Emre Erturk will be proposing a surprising performance with coloured condoms.next

CONNECTION & DISCONNECTION #3 explores the interaction of the artist’s body with its environment and the public. The audience is invited to connect him to anywhere that they wish, using cotton ropes. He will stay still for a few hours before Rahmat Haron disconnecting himself, leaving the ropes on site.next

In the interactive installation, MY TRUE WHISPER OF SKIN, Isabel exchanges a nail polish against used nylons. With your help, these socks will be transformed into a giant labyrinth similar to a spider web. The process will be filmed and projected on Sunday.next

In the interactive installation 15 MINUTES OF FAME, visitors can arrange a blanket, a sheet and pillow, a prison suitcase and its content around a prison bed to create a new sculpture - a personal artistic statement about incarceration. The exhibiAmanta
Scott tion Parallel Lines complements the installation.next

T wo visual artists from Montreal, Francis Théberge aka TIND (Thisnotdesign) and Joseph Lefèvre aka jocool are uniting their forces and their talent to take over a store front on Ste. Catherine Street, and project on it their wild vision of the street and of the festival, as an homage to art and creativity.next

Leighton Pierce works on impressionist sounds and images which are often slowed down to create a hypnotic effect. His films appeal more to sensations than to fictions or theoretical abstractions. Water is his recurrent theme.next

Nathalie Bujold’s works oscillate between sublimation of the ordinary and trivialization of the sublime. They refer to consciousness in relation to time and perception.next

Both poetic and ironic, the art of Nelson Henricks is experimental, but also refers to
pop culture.next

The FIMA is happy to join forces with KA Vie Art to hold the exhibition Flaunt Yourself!, presenting the 10 finalists of our annual poster contest. The designs were selected by a jury of peers and arts experts among the 113 propositions that we have received.next

BLANC DE MÉMOIRE Fifteen photographs by Marc-André Goulet highlight 30 years of fight against AIDS. The portraits showcase personalities committed to fight HIVAIDS. Each image is taken in a significant public place and includes a living statue as a symbol of our collective memory.next