An Experimental Performance

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In Hanter avec le paysage, Chantier Performa invites audiences to a collective and immersive experience drawn from explorations of Montréal’s edge‑landscapes, organized by Jean‑Paul Quéinnec and Andrée‑Anne Giguère, with artist Éric Noël and their team from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC).

In 2023, they visited three specific environments—Perry Island, Sainte‑Anne Park, and the Steinberg Woodland. Together with the human and more‑than‑human beings, living and non‑living, that inhabit or haunt these spaces, they developed what they call a “co‑landscape writing” practice.

Back on stage, they compose a hybrid form between installation and theatre, intended as the reverberation of their co‑listening encounters with these landscapes. Hanter avec le paysage is also a performance rooted in eco-dramaturgy, where bodies, sound, and video open onto a poetic narrative that is almost raw—and at times ghostly.

This activity is presented as part of the 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters.

Biographies

Jean‑Paul Quéinnec is a professor of theatre at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), director of the CELAT-UQAC research centre, and co‑lead of the research‑creation axis at CRILCQ. From 2010 to 2021, he held the Chaire de recherche du Canada en dramaturgie sonore au théâtre. His research‑creation work examines dramatic and scenic writing processes and devices through ecological, plural, inclusive, and performative approaches. He publishes in various scholarly and professional journals, and his creations are presented in Québec and abroad.

Andrée‑Anne Giguère is an interdisciplinary artist whose active practice includes acting, performance, video design for the stage, research, directing, and teaching. As the co‑artistic director of Théâtre Déchaînés, she directed Les souliers plein de sable in partnership with students from the Les Muses school. A doctoral candidate at Université Laval, her research focuses on the sensitive integration of technology on stage. She publishes in scholarly journals and presents her creative work in Québec and internationally. With Jean‑Paul Quéinnec, she co‑edited five phonography booklets (LaClignotante micro‑editions).

Éric Noël is a non‑binary writer, translator, and performer from Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, recently appointed Artistic Director of Jamais Lu. In 2024, they received the Michel‑Tremblay Award for their text L’Amoure Looks Something Like You (Hamac, 2022), which had been staged at the Théâtre Denise‑Pelletier’s Fred‑Barry space. Their play Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés (Leméac Éditeur, 2025), premiered at Théâtre Prospero in April 2025 in a staging by Philippe Cyr, received the Governor General’s Literary Award.

Through an eclectic approach blending literary creation, theatre, and immersive audio, Gabrielle Couillard, a student member of the Hexagram Network, works across production and creation on a wide range of projects. Her work combines poetry, field recording, and chained sound transformations, supported by a rich aural imagination that enables her to design complex sound‑diffusion systems. Her main interests revolve around spatialization and immersion, where she explores the relationship between body and space through sound, grounded in her lived experience of disability (Dispositif Espace‑Corps, 2022–2024 ; Territoires, 2023).

Marion Bibeau is a multidisciplinary artist and master’s student in art at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Her work combines photography, video, painting, sculpture, performance, and sound to create a space between personal mythology and collective imagination. Through rigorous framing, playful exploration of the body, and natural artefacts, she proposes semi‑abstract and sensual works at the edges of psychedelia.

Cover image : courtesy of Jean-Paul Quéinnec

Published on March 20, 2026

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