Since its eighth edition in 2014, the OFFTA offers the Bourse à l’audace in collaboration with the Caisse de la Culture. This award is given to an artist or group of artists participating in the festival that stands out in its practice with a bold and unique approach that brings a renewal within the live arts scene in Montreal and Quebec.
The recipient of the award is chosen by the three curators the of OFFTA and is announced after the festival.
Recipients
2017
Dominique Leclerc and Patrice Charbonneau-Brunelle – Phase 3
OFFTA is proud to give the Bourse à l’audace – Caisse de la culture to an artist who stood out through his/her innovative and daring artistic approach in living arts. We are very happy to announce that for the 11th edition of the Festival, the Bourse à l’audace – Caisse de la culture is granted to Dominique Leclerc and Patrice Charbonneau-Brunelle for their Phase 3 project.
Phase 3 opens a conversation on a theme that we don’t often talk about in Quebec: Transhumanism. A space in a very-near future where human and machine meet.
Balancing between factual data and intimate documentary, this project offers a unique approach. Resulting from a well-documented research process, this rich and provocative reflection will lead to the creation of a Post-Human show in the next Fall.
2016
collectif WIVES – Feeled
2015
Gabriel Plante – Plyball
2014
Lara Kramer – NGS (Native Girl Syndrome)