dickinsonia. les archives sensibles
The dickinsonia is a 550-million-year-old sea organism whose soft body has left very few fossils. The rare traces of its existence have left the scientific community doubtful. Similarly to this old life form, our oldest memories, blurry and unclassified at the depth of our minds, only seem to leave vague impressions. These visceral stories, written in the flesh but almost inaudible, could resurface. Unexplained and sudden ripples would move through our tissues, shaking us at times, with potentially healing effects.
Charline Dally
Charline dally (she/they) lives between France and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Her practice combines analog video signals, computer generated imagery, glass and textile through films, installations, and performances. Graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains and UQAM in visual arts, she has realized artistic residencies at Signal Culture (Owego, NY) and the Society for Technological Arts (Montreal). Her work has been presented in various institutions and festivals such as MOCA (Toronto), MAJ (Joliette, QC), FIFA (Montré al), Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI), FNC (Montré al), VIFF (Vancouver), CTM Festival (Berlin), MUTEK (CA, ES, AR), BISFF (Beijing), OMAF (Sé oul), Les Abattoirs (Toulouse).
Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin
Musician and composer, Gabrielle HB oscillates between free improvisation and slow construction. In performance, she finds ways to bring out forms of tenderness, playfulness and transparency. She is one half of Désert mauve (Charline Dally), which produces gentle audiovisual works, and of the ensemble Jardin Joue (Florence Garneau), a minimalist ambient music duo. Holder of a Master’s degree in Sound Arts from the London College of Communications (2021), she has performed and/or broadcast her work at the Musée d’art de Joliette, the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), MUTEK (CA, ES, AR), the École d’arts de Calais (FR), the Société des arts technologiques and the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival in Montreal. Her most recent solo album, Daily Scores, was released in December 2023. She lives between the ancestral territories of Tiotià:ke/Montreal and Nitaskinan/Nord de Lanaudière.