Joyful Situations

In the unstable, vibrant fabric of Montreal’s DIY nightlife, I have developed a practice of space-making that draws from political philosophy, research-creation methodologies, and collective embodied work. Inspired by the Situationist International’s call to construct “situations” beyond capitalist spectacle, I craft ephemeral third spaces where new and old relation, and political, collective transformation can unfold.

My practice resonates with research-creation, looking at movement(s), micro-event, and affective infrastructures. Following these currents, I treat space-making as an experimental site for minor gestures, for emergent forms of being-together that cannot be pre-scripted.

Drawing also from McKenzie Wark’s understanding of the rave as a counter-architecture of experience, my work transforms unconventional venues—warehouses, empty lots, imaginary gardens—into temporary zones of encounter. Movement, light, sound, and proximity create new grammars of relation, new ways of inhabiting time and place. Like Anna Tsing’s assemblages of precarity, these gatherings are intentionally unstable: resisting ownership, refusing permanence, making room for unexpected solidarities. They invite dérive, collective drift, and a re-synchronization of bodies with the more-than-human textures of the city. These spaces act as experiments in re-worlding: how might we inhabit collective time otherwise? How might we speak, move, and sense across the fractures of language and history?

I would say, it's a perpetual practice of shimmers at the edges of what can be said.