Gabrielle HB is a sound artist living between the ancestral territories of Tiotià:ke and Nitaskinan. She uses voice, text, synthesizers, and field recordings as primary materials, oscillating between free improvisation and slow constructions. Through performance, she seeks to bring forth forms of tenderness, play, and transparency. She is half of Désert mauve (with Charline Dally), producing audiovisual works, and part of the ambient minimalist music duo Jardin Joue (with Florence Garneau). Holding a Master's in Sound Arts from the London College of Communication (2021), she has performed and/or exhibited her work at the Musée d’art de Joliette, the Ann Arbor Film Festival (US), MUTEK (CA, ES, AR), the Calais School of Art (FR), the Society for Arts and Technology, and the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival in Montreal.

Photo: Éliot B. Lafrenière

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Porosities: We Will Be Made of Sponges and Speakers

Gabrielle Harnois Blouin's project will focus on the creation of a performative choral work, in collaboration with an elementary school group. The artist wishes to explore with the children their relationship to the world, through the prism of porosity, by engaging their voices, gestures and ideas. She will invite them to reflect on a range of questions: what touches them most: clouds, darkness, raspberries, a thunderstorm, a caress, something else? Why and how does it go through them, what does it do to their bodies? In the same way, she will seek to understand how they affect the world around them. The artist dreams of a project culminating in a series of evening concerts, so that the children can experience performance in all its variations, magic, confusion, fear and joy.