Parked in front of the gallery, the GNO will close Larch Street between Durham and Elgin for a week of site-specific art focused on the theme of chance.
‘Hasard’ in French refers to an unpredictable, fortuitous event with no known cause or a force acting randomly, often linked to luck or fate, implying an absence of plan or control. It can be an unexpected coincidence (by chance), logical unpredictability (in games), or a philosophical concept of unnecessary causality.
‘Hazard‘ is an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another. As a verb, it means to take a risk, especially for the chance of a good return. You might hazard your chances at the roulette table or hazard a guess – that is, risk making a guess when you aren’t certain.
Big buses, flatbeds, trucks, cars, wrecks… the vehicles will serve as a canvas to convey multiple perspectives. Set up and developed over the course of a week, artists and the public will come together bumper to bumper for these spontaneous encounters. Beep beep! Let’s go for a joy ride! Turn on your hazard lights!
By bringing artistic experimentation directly into shared urban spaces, FAAS 8 reimagines everyday infrastructure as a place of connection, curiosity and collective imagination.
Many thanks to Melanie St-Pierre-Bednis for her incredible work on the FAAS visual identity!
Schedule
Wednesday, May 13
Noon to 6 PM : FAAS site – live creation
7 to 9 PM : Station 84 – Project :: FM
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Thursday, May 14
Noon to 6 PM : FAAS site – live creation
Friday, May 15
Noon to 6 PM : FAAS site – live creation
5 to 7 PM : Publication Launch event :
RELIER by AGAVF
Distance by Labo
Lumières by ESPACE art actuel
FAAS 7 Retrospective by GNO
7 to 9 PM : Performance excursion – departure from GNO
Performances by :
Guillaume Dufour Morin – Dare Dare
Fait maison – Axenéo7
9 PM : Series of short films : Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film
1- Taxi. 1969, Roland Stutz, musique Claude Lévellé, 2 :00.
2- Lignes horizontales/ Lines Horizontals. 1962, Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart, 5 :00.
3- Shui, Clark Nicolai, 2001, 04:29 minutes, colour.
4- cheatin’ heart (…the 400 Series…) Leslie Peters 1999, 02:30 minutes, colour.
5- Miikana (The Road) 2015, Nathan Adler, 00h 04m 44s,
6- oil wells: sturgeon road & 97th street 16mm, 2002, Christina Battle, optical sound, 3 minutes, colour.
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Saturday, May 16
5 to 7 PM : FAAS site – 
Installations by:
Blank Hands – Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
Cedar Eve – Art Gallery of Sudbury
Cell Driver – Near North Mobile Media Lab
Clayton Windatt – Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
Collective Beam : Nicole Poulin and France Huot – Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
Félixe Struk Lussier & Lizbeth Hildebrand – La Maison des Artistes
Heritier Bilaka – Bravo
Massy Emond – l’Écart lieu d’art actuel
Mélanie Paulin – L’Atelier Imago, La Galerie Sans Nom et La Galerie Louise et Ruben-Cohen
Myths and Mirrors Collective
Tarun Godara – Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
seth cardinal dodginghorse – Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
7 to 10 PM : performance evening
Debajehmujig Collective
Emilio Portal – Le Labo
Geneviève Matthieu – Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
Guillaume Dufour Morin – Dare-Dare
Jefferson Campbell-Cooper – Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
Juan David Molina Velasco – Centre Clarke
Kristel Tremblay – Viva Art
Sebastien Goyette Cournoyer – Le Lieux
10 PM : Geneva Jacuzzi featuring Shannon Cornett
11 PM : party yéyé with DJé .✦ ݁˖
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