The environmental emergency and climate change will be at the heart of the next edition of the Underground Art Festival, in spring 2024. Montreal’s underground pedestrian network will be transformed into an art gallery, with around a hundred works and around twenty activities .
This sixteenth edition of the festival, which will take place from March 16 to April 7, is titled Environment do you hear. Around forty local and international articles will participate, highlighting “a variety of mediums and practices”.
Throughout the 6 kilometers of the pedestrian network, the public will be asked to think about their relationship with the environment, the links between climate justice and social inequalities, their consumption habits and the future. The idea is also to “open up to indigenous perspectives on the environment and sensitive relationships with living things,” write the organizers.
“For us, the First Nations, the environment is not a concept, but a way of life. With him, we maintain a bond marked by respect, a relationship of equals,” said co-curator Sonia Robertson in a press release.
“How do we live in a world that is damaged, while paying attention to the beauty, love, and care that still remains? » adds Heather Davis, also co-curator.
