WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Mélanie Binette is a multidisciplinary artist, performer and researcher based in Montreal. She is the co-founder and director of Théâtre Nulle Part (soon to be Milieu de Nulle Part), a site-specific art collective exploring the city as an imagined, practiced, contested, conquered and reconquered space. She graduated in 2014 from an interdisciplinary Master's degree in the Individualized Program at Concordia University--in the fields of architecture, art history, and performance and communication studies--her thesis questioning the political potential of spectatorship in immersive performances. Her research project included a fieldwork with spectators in London (UK) and a site-specific performance that she created in a windowed staircase in Concordia's EV Building. In 2015, she produced a sound installation at Chic Resto Pop, a community restaurant in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, which aimed at breaking the social isolation experienced by some in a situation of poverty. During the summer of 2017, on the site of the former Outremont railyard, she created an installation of collective embroidery, involving immigrant women from Park Extension. This project was produced in partnership with Afrique au Féminin, Constructlab (Berlin), Goethe Institute and Université de Montréal. Her upcoming art interventions will take place in Place des Arts' underground corridors and in senior residences in Granby, where she will partake in an art residency at 3e Impérial Centre d'essai en art actuel.