Members

Nathalie Derome actively participates in artistic stakes taking shape and, from 2003 to 2005, the company oversaw the creation of the Popstart website, Canada's interdisciplinary artist's network, initiated in collaboration with Toronto's Bluemouth inc. and Vancouver's Radix Theatre. Derome took part in the adhoc committee supporting the start-up of RAIQ (The Quebec Interdisicplinary Arts Network), an organisation which came into the world in May 2005.

Through performances, installation, public process and theoretical and practical research, interdisciplinary group PME-ART confronts its contemporary practice via local, national and international artistic collaborations. Combining creation, exploration, critical reflection, dissemination and casual yet significant interactions with various publics, the work is an ongoing process of questioning the world, of finding the courage to say things about the current predicament that are direct and complex, of interrogating the performance situation.

LES PRODUCTIONS RECTO-VERSO

Fondé en 1984 et membre de la coopérative Méduse depuis 1995, Recto-Verso est un organisme sans but lucratif qui se voue à la création et la diffusion d’œuvres de nature multidisciplinaire. Ensemble, les artistes et collaborateurs de Recto-Verso élaborent des œuvres autour d’assemblages complexes dans lesquels se superposent plusieurs couches de lecture en faisant l’usage de mécanismes empruntés à divers langages artistiques (art visuel, vidéo, art audio, poésie, performance...).

Rhizome is a Quebec-based NPO whose mandate is to produce shows that integrate literature performed by the author in a multidisciplinary context. The organization promotes hybrid forms of recited literature that borrow techniques from theatre, cinematography, video design, art installations, sound design, photography, and digital art. The role of these artistic disciplines is not to provide a backdrop to the literature, as in conventional recitations, but to nourish research that aims at engaging the disciplines in confrontations with each other, at testing their links and boundaries.