Platforms, Terraces, Temples, Palaces, Courtyards, Stairways and Pyramids

As part of Pop Montréal’s Canadian Innovator series and “DARE-DARE Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal”:’s Périmètre: un événement d’art public, Pavilion presented it’s version of a ‘Fête Gallante’, a platform for all festival attendees to act out their social rituals. A mysterious, melancholy, dreamlike world populated by well-dressed people who flirt and play gracefully in a park like surroundings. Featuring four separate performances commissioned by Pavilion. Toronto artists Luis Jacob, Will Munro & Quebec’s Les Fermières obsédées, took over Square Viger’s concrete garden. The outdoor event cycled around a number of performances addressing the history of Square Viger as well as the politics of the intimate and social sphere.

These exigent actions were inturn supported by musical interludes provided by the sprawling Gavin Deathfuck, Dorothy Gellar, Awesome and the first effort by DELORO (band as artist collective featuring Tony Romano, Dave Clark & Dallas Wehrle (of the Constantines).

Produced support from the Canada Council for the Arts