Project Artists.

Our initial season of performances takes place in and around Tiohtià:ke / Montreal in the summer of 2025, featuring the artists  below.  For performance season updates, please follow us on Instagram.

As our research, experiments and performances advance, we will be assembling what we learn into a series of Open Access resources interested in working with reflected sunlight. Look for initial drafts of these resources in late 2025. 

Sabina

Lucy & Isabella

Oriana, Bastik & Mila

Sabina Gámez is an audiovisual artist currently pursuing her MFA in Intermedia at Concordia University (CA). She holds a Bachelor of Arts, focused on electronic media, with a minor in biology from Universidad de Los Andes (COL, 2018).

Her research and artistic practice explore the experience of embodiment and how the body is perceived and recontextualized in digital media and the environment. She creates video collages, video installations, and video performances using different formats and approaches to audiovisual media, including chroma key and Virtual Reality to examine themes of self, self-recognition, and remnants in digital media. She is interested in studying the body and its interactions with external phenomena, creating installations where the subject is transformed, re-contextualized, and its corporeality is explored in relation to the environment.

Her most recent research investigates the multi-dimensional role of the sun, examining its geopolitical, social, and environmental implications. She explores alternative practices inspired by the sun, adopting a Symbiocene approach that emphasizes a positive revaluation of our relationship with the world and its influence on human and ecological systems. Her work is informed by Solarpunk theories framing solar energy as a guide to re-evaluate pressing climate and social crises. Her work has been exhibited in Colombia, Mexico, South Korea, and Canada.

Lucy Fandel is a dance artist and cultural mediator in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. She grew up in Concord, MA (USA) and Beaulieu sur Mer (France) before studying dance and sociology at Concordia University. She likes places where water and wind circulate in strong currents. Through choreography, performance, teaching and writing, she explores how to connect to the poetry of movement within ourselves and in the world around us. Lucy has the pleasure of collaborating and dancing with artists including Allison Moore, Sarah Wendt and Pascal Dufaux, Nickle Peace-Williams and the collectives Daughter Product and As They Strike, among others. 

She is active in her community as an artistic advisor, journalist for The Dance Current, co-founder of Nous Sommes L’Été, an organization supporting the creative development of emerging artists, curator and coordinator of cultural projects in multiple disciplines

Isabella Leone is a performance maker, director and theatre designer. She is of settler descent and grew up on Syilx Okanagan territory in British Columbia. She has been based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal for ten years. Her work is guided by collaboration and experimentation, playing at the intersections of dance, puppetry, video, performance art, and installation. Through her practice, she fosters close attention to the worlds she inhabits, while threading together the realms of abstraction and the imaginary into things deemed known. 

Her work has been presented in OFFTA, Articule, RIPA, and Concordia’s Art Matters Festival and VAV Gallery. She has trained and interned with companies such as Big Dance Theater (NY), Theater Mitu (NY), Porte Parole (QC) and Bread and Puppet Theater (VT). She holds a BFA in Theatre and Development from Concordia University.

Leone’s work has received generous support from the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Photo by Étienne Desbois. 

 

Oriana Confente is a writer and maker-of-things based in Tiohti:áke / Mooniyang / Montréal. Confente completed a Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Communication Design at the University of Waterloo (Canada), where they began developing research-creation projects. They continue to be research-driven while exploring concepts connected to postnatural ecologies and sustainable practices, with particular interest in more-than-human entanglements. Their interdisciplinary work has been exhibited in Canada, Europe, and published in open-access journals. In 2024, Confente earned a Canada Council for the Arts grant.

Bastik (b. 1997) began her artistic practice at the young age of 4, as a student of Kay Tiga in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Practicing the “Artistic Rotation” method by roaming freely from ink to paint and clay; blurring the boundaries between mediums quickly became second nature to her. Today relocated in Tiohti:áke / Mooniyang / Montreal, she is a mechanical engineer and multidisciplinary artist exploring themes of connection, identity, as well as Haitian visual cultures of nature through a multitude of mediums.

Mila Figuet is a performance artist and cultural worker based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her work bridges activism and art-making, with a focus on developing strategies to raise awareness about gender-based violence and building tools for collective protest and healing.

She creates spaces and situations where the body—often the primary site of such violence—plays a central role and multiple voices resonate, interweaving personal experiences with the testimonies of the communities she engages with.

She holds a BFA in Intermedia (Video, Performance, and Electronic Arts) from Concordia University. She is also self-taught in archival practices, using them to challenge dominant historical narratives by documenting and making visible stories, experiences, and perspectives that have been under-represented or erased in conventional history. Combining this tool with oral history methods and elements of narrative experimentation, she builds a language halfway between documentary and fiction.

She has collaborated with cultural institutions such as Dazibao, Vidéographe, Eastern Bloc, Artch, and La Centrale.