About VIVA!
Initiated by Patrick Lacasse and Alexis Bellavance, VIVA! was founded in 2006 by six artist-run centres from the Greater Montréal area to support the production of events dedicated to the presentation and advancement of action art practices and knowledge. The organisation’s energies are primarily focused on VIVA! Art Action, an international biennial that provides the public with a convivial context in which to encounter performance art in its most striking and avant-garde forms.
About the VIVA! 2025 Website
This year’s website, designed by House9, pays homage to the detritus of the internet, which, over the decades during its inception, has become a veritable dumping ground for every aspect of human thought, emotion and desire. Thousands of identical images of landmarks and plates of food; echo chambers of political debate and biased news; pleas from grieving, famine-stricken nations alongside gleeful confessions by their genocidaires; online courses that hold the secrets to building your own drop-shipping empires; scams; pornography; alternative currencies; artificial intelligence contributing ever more deceptive imagery; all amid brighter lights where immense camaraderie and kinship are built among strangers across the globe. With this website, we tried to visually demonstrate how the internet saturates our minds, how distractions and misinformation can cloud our view, how even our most passive consumption is still active, and the rewards and pitfalls of both abstention and immersion.
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Team
Michelle Lacombe (director)
Pierina Corzo-Valero (communications director)
Rhys Buhl (general and artistic production director)
Bailey Bird & Sol Worsnip (general and artistic production assistants)
Tristan Turigan & Adi Sneg (kitchen production co-directors)
Jeong Ung Song (kitchen production assistant)
Nadège Grebmeier-Forget (Hospitality hostess)
Ileana Hernandez (Volunteer coordinator)
Manoushka Larouche (photo documentation)
Paul Litherland (photo documentation)
Noah Ndorisiyoni (video documentation)
House9 (art direction and graphic design)
VIVA! also includes the important contributions of various other contract workers and volunteers!