Avatar est un centre d’artistes en art audio et électronique. Au coeur de la ville de Québec, Avatar offre un lieu d’échanges et d’initiatives et explore de nouveaux territoires artistiques.

Fragile Thresholds

We are living in a time when thresholds are becoming increasingly fragile: these include climate, social, and political thresholds among many others. Such fracture lines reveal the vulnerability of our world, but also the possibility to reconstruct it. A threshold is never a static place: it indicates both a limit and a potential opening, a space where materials, ideas, and bodies meet and transform. The fragility of thresholds becomes a poetic and political resource, a field of exploration for a programming that proposes to inhabit these shifting zones.

 

In the 2025–26 programming, this fragility of thresholds takes many forms. It exists in devices sensitive to the elements, whose wear and tear and precariousness become the conditions of a fragile splendor or in static objects set in motion and activated by light and sheltered sounds. Fragility can also be heard on the side of a road where lives erased by urban planning persevere, as well as in a grating mechanical repetition, suspended between suppression and fluctuation. It is expressed in a prolonged, multiplied, and fractured voice that makes unstable passages resonate. Lastly, fragility lodges itself in silence, understood not as an emptiness but as a space of listening and an appeal to the other.

 

Exploring the fragility of thresholds means agreeing to stand in these intermediate spaces where nothing is fixed. It means recognizing the value of wear and tear, care, transformation, and absence as creative forces. Stability does not take precedence but rather the ability to generate new forms of understanding, open up zones of attention and listening. In this programming, fragility does not appear as a weakness but as a strength: the strength to (re)invent, even across fractures, spaces of resonance and mutation.

 

Building on the previous programming, which explored the concept of passages, the fragility of thresholds is imagined as a metaphor, opening spaces in which the sonic, the visual, and the corporeal are activated with sensitivity, revealing what is being invented through vulnerability, wear and tear, and transformation.

Myriam Lambert
General and Artistic Director of Avatar

Avatar est un centre d’artistes en art audio et électronique. Au coeur de la ville de Québec, Avatar offre un lieu d’échanges et d’initiatives et explore de nouveaux territoires artistiques.

Fragile Thresholds

We are living in a time when thresholds are becoming increasingly fragile: these include climate, social, and political thresholds among many others. Such fracture lines reveal the vulnerability of our world, but also the possibility to reconstruct it. A threshold is never a static place: it indicates both a limit and a potential opening, a space where materials, ideas, and bodies meet and transform. The fragility of thresholds becomes a poetic and political resource, a field of exploration for a programming that proposes to inhabit these shifting zones.

 

In the 2025–26 programming, this fragility of thresholds takes many forms. It exists in devices sensitive to the elements, whose wear and tear and precariousness become the conditions of a fragile splendor or in static objects set in motion and activated by light and sheltered sounds. Fragility can also be heard on the side of a road where lives erased by urban planning persevere, as well as in a grating mechanical repetition, suspended between suppression and fluctuation. It is expressed in a prolonged, multiplied, and fractured voice that makes unstable passages resonate. Lastly, fragility lodges itself in silence, understood not as an emptiness but as a space of listening and an appeal to the other.

 

Exploring the fragility of thresholds means agreeing to stand in these intermediate spaces where nothing is fixed. It means recognizing the value of wear and tear, care, transformation, and absence as creative forces.

Stability does not take precedence but rather the ability to generate new forms of understanding, open up zones of attention and listening. In this programming, fragility does not appear as a weakness but as a strength: the strength to (re)invent, even across fractures, spaces of resonance and mutation.

 

Building on the previous programming, which explored the concept of passages, the fragility of thresholds is imagined as a metaphor, opening spaces in which the sonic, the visual, and the corporeal are activated with sensitivity, revealing what is being invented through vulnerability, wear and tear, and transformation.

Myriam Lambert
General and Artistic Director of Avatar

PROGRAMMING 25-26

Fragile Thresholds

Vincent Isabel

Between Matter and Code

Conference series orchestrated by Vincent Isabel

from September 24 to October 14

Claire Veysset

Eyes in Headlights

October 12 to October 25, 2025

Avatar | Phonurgia Residency

Amélie Laurence

November 2025 to Febuary 2026

Artist under embargo

January 8 to Febuary 28, 2026

CALQ Residency 

Eufonic | Mois Multi | Avatar Partnership

Tania Bonardo Pellerin

Soundscape electronique

March 8 to 10, 2026

Avatar award 2024 residency

Jasmin Bilodeau

Paléo Techno Pop

April 7 to 24, 2026

Residency

Marguerite Arbour

June 1 to 12, 2026

Avatar award 2025 residency

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Quebec artist in Catalonia

Creation residency

Avatar | Phornurgia Nova 2025

Call for proposals

NEWS

Quebec artist in Catalonia

Creation residency

Avatar | Phonurgia Nova

2025

Call for proposals

2025-26

PROGRAM

Vincent Isabel

Between Matter and Code

Conference series orchestrated

by Vincent Isabel from

September 24 to October 14

Claire Veysset

Les yeux dans les phares

October 13 to October 25, 2025

Avatar | Phonurgia residency

Amélie Laurence Fortin

November 2025 and Febuary 2026

Artist under embargo

January 8 to Febuary 28, 2026

CALQ Residency

Eufonic | Mois Multi | Avatar

Tania Bonardo-Pellerin

Soundscape électronique

March 8 to 10, 2026

Avatar awad 2024 residency

Jasmin Bilodeau

Paléo Techno Pop

April 7 to 24, 2026

Residency

Marguerite Arbour

June 1 to 12, 2026

Avatar awad 2025 residency

Isabel Archs

Cold Border

Jan 10 to Feb 26, 2025.

Confluence 2025 Residency

Avatar·Recto-Verso·Eufonic

Claudie Gagnon

Ainsi passe la gloire

du monde

November 7, 2024 to January 19, 2025

Chroniques – la Biennale des

Imaginaires Numériques [FR]

Pascale Théorêt Groulx

passage obligé ~

bound flow

December 2 to 13, 2024

Avatar-Phonurgia Nova Residency 

Triska Sicuranzo Gagné

La Petite Ourse

Master’s Residency at Avatar, 2022-24

Master’s Scholarship in

artist-run centers from Laval University,

funded by the René-Richard Foundation.

Bruit TTV

L’ouïe, Louis, l’oui

November 8 to 10, 2024

festival Marginal

Léo Azzaria

/(/(/\ .-. /\\/ ._. ||\\ & more

September 24 to October 13, 2024

Avatar-Eisode Residency

Repères

Listening room

September 6-8

Méduse cultural kick-off

Pierre Boulanger,

Juan David Molina,

Samah Saidi,

Triska Sicuranzo

Capturer l’éther

Avatar 2023 Prize Residency

May 28 to June 18

July 30 to August 19

Technologies

of Consciousness

Numinous Machines

Avatar-MUTEK Residency

July 29 to August 19

IN THE NEWS

Avatar is dedicated to the research, creation, circulation and dissemination of audio and electronic artworks and artists. To support artistic practice, Avatar produces projects, invites artists, reflects on practices, and fosters new collaborations via a local and international network. 

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