Board of Directors and Committees

President (temporary)

Geneviève Antonius-Boileau

Geneviève Antonius-Boileau is trained in acting, dance, and performance. After ten years of practice in collective creation and theatrical anthropology, she has developed expertise in on-site staging and cultural mediation. She occasionally teaches at the college and university levels while being actively involved in the cultural life of her neighborhood in East Montreal. A tireless traveler and seasoned advocate, she is also an entrepreneur and the mother of two young children.
Administrator

Danielle Thibault

Danielle Thibault holds a Master’s degree in Theatre from the École Supérieure de Théâtre at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal). She was awarded the Grand Prix d’excellence Georges Laoun 2002–2003 for her play L’Écho du silence, a work later translated into German and read in Berlin at the Maxim Gorki Theater in 2003. She is currently completing her first novel and developing a practice that bridges spoken word, relational art, and interdisciplinary arts (including photography, video, podcasting, and storytelling). She was part of the ethnographic team behind the podcast Les Voix de Bordeaux-Cartierville and is currently working on a new interdisciplinary project titled Escales et collisions, a multi-platform and multi-form text collection.
In parallel with her artistic work, Danielle dedicated over 28 years to the City of Montreal’s cultural services, where she notably served as manager of the Théâtre de Verdure. She has taken part in several international missions and served on numerous juries. Having sat on various nonprofit boards, she has extensive experience in governance and management.
Today, she works as a trainer and consultant, and has twice served as interim Executive Director of the Alliance chorale, as well as briefly interim Executive Director of the Conseil québécois du théâtre (CQT).
Secretary

Léa Boudreau

Léa Boudreau (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal who works with electronics, sounds and places. Her work questions interspecies relationships by considering nonhuman existences (nonhuman animal life, artificial life, the non-living, etc.) as ground for reflections on hierarchies dividing our world. She works following a DIY approach (do it yourself) favouring knowledge sharing and a critique of consumerism.

Among other places, her work has been presented in the Symposium International d'Art Contemporain of Baie St-Paul, FIMAV (Victoriaville), OTTOsonics Festival (Ottensheim, Austria), Akousma Festival (Montréal) and Sonorities Festival (Belfast). She holds a bachelor's degree in Digital music from Université de Montréal and a MFA (Studio Arts, Intermedia) from Concordia University. Over a six-month period, she will be artist-in-residence at the Insectarium of Montréal in 2025 for the creation of a new work inspired by the rich and surprising world of insects.

Photo: Dania Rioux

Treasurer

Manon Tourigny

Manon Tourigny was born, lives, and works in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Holding a master's degree in art studies from UQAM, she is a curator and author. Recently awarded a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and in addition to an exhibition at Écart art actuel (Rouyn-Noranda) in June 2022, she is working on a storytelling project that adopts an ecofeminist perspective and questions our way of occupying the territory. She is also interested in video, photography, performance, and artistic practices that engage with public space. Manon has written numerous articles for specialized journals such as Ciné bulles, CV photo, esse arts + opinions, Vies des arts, Espace, and Inter, in addition to writing booklets for various organizations.

For over 15 years, she has been involved in the visual arts community, notably at VIVA! art action, DARE-DARE, RCAAQ, and Centre CLARK, serving as co-general director and artistic director. She currently holds the position of general director at Artexte in Montreal.

Administrator

Anne-Marie Lavigne

Anne-Marie Lavigne holds a BA in Political Science from Laval University (international profile at the Université Libre de Bruxelles), DESS studies in Management of Cultural Organizations at HEC Montréal and an MA in Interactive Art from New York University (NYU). She has taught at the Visible Futures Lab and the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City, and before moving on to the United States, she worked as a video creative trainer in Maputo (Mozambique) and Johannesburg (South Africa). Anne-Marie has also held several positions in various organizations in Montreal, including Alternatives, the National Film Board of Canada’s interactive studio, RIDM and Mutek. His work has been recognized by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. The Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn) awarded her the Ruth Schirson Levin Fellowship (2014) for her one-year residency program. She also completed creative residencies at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), Guttenberg Arts (New Jersey) and the Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale). She has held the position of General and Artistic Director of Atelier Silex in Trois-Rivières since 2018.
Administrator

Gabrielle HB

Gabrielle HB is a sound artist working between the ancestral territories of Tiotià:ke and Nitaskinan. She uses voice, text, synthesizers and in situ recording as the main materials, oscillating between free improvisation and slow constructions. Through her projects, she seeks ways to access more slowness, presence and subtlety. She studied digital music at the Université de Montréal (2018) and holds a master’s degree in sound arts from the London College of Communications (2021). It is half of the Desert Mauve (Charline Dally), which produces soft audiovisual works, and the ensemble Jardin (Florence Garneau), a minimalist ambient music duo.
Administrator

Alicia Turgeon

Alicia Turgeon is a multidisciplinary and neurodivergent artist based in Montreal, Quebec. Active in the field of media arts and three-dimensional practices, Turgeon is primarily interested in cultural ecology through the concepts of accessibility, intergenerational exchange, meshing, radical care and design for appropriation. She recognizes the essential role that alternative approaches play in shared production spaces and explores, through her own creative research, the notion of authorship through Open Design methodology and DIY practices. Alicia is currently a bachelor of fine arts candidate at Concordia University majoring in sculpture, where she recently received various honors including a Sustainability Research Award (2020) and an Experimental Learning Grant (2020-2021) for one of her research-creative projects. As of March 2021, Turgeon is the executive director and co-director of the Eastern Bloc artist-run center, where she worked for several years as artistic and programming coordinator. Turgeon is currently a board member of the Art Matters Festival and a research assistant for the Kinawìnd Public Art Lab under the direction of Nadia Myre (Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts Practice).
Administrator

David B. Ricard

David B. Ricard is a transdisciplinary artist (film, video, performance, photography, theater, and sound art) who develops improvisation and interaction tools that promote performative creation and interartistic exchanges. By repurposing, repairing, and reactivating tools, archives, and materials considered obsolete, he explores film and analog video in particular. He takes on the roles of video designer in the performing arts, member of multidisciplinary collectives (-os-, Les Caroles, Nos jardins), documentary filmmaker, video and sound performer, and director. His works include the feature films Surfer sur la grâce and David contre Goliath, and the short film Études métamorphiques, co-directed with Nelly Paquentin. He is also co-founder of Studio Entours, an organization dedicated to expanded forms of cinema.
Administrator

Catherine Arsenault

Born in 1984 in Baie-Comeau, where she lives and works, Catherine Arsenault has developed a practice in drawing, sculpture, and animated video, rooted in a poetic engagement with the local landscape. Her work has been presented at numerous exhibition venues and events in Quebec, notably at the Baie-St-Paul Contemporary Art Symposium and the Quebec Biennale – Manif d’art 12, as well as at several short film festivals in Canada, the United States, Finland, and Denmark. A recipient of several grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, she was awarded the CALQ Artist of the Year prize for the Côte-Nord region in 2023. In addition to her artistic practice, she works as an artistic coordinator at the Panache art actuel artists’ center, where she designs and implements research-creation initiatives in dialogue with the North Shore environment.

Committees

Executive Council
Geneviève Antonius-Boileau, President (temporary)
Danielle Thibault, Vice-President (temporary)
Léa Boudreau, Secretary
Manon Tourigny, Treasurer

Strategic Planning Committee
Davis B. Ricard, Artist, Administrator
Danielle Thibault, Administrator
Manon Tourigny, Treasurer
Alexis Langevin-Tétrault, Assistant to the Director of REPAIRE
Sonia Pelletier, General Director of REPAIRE

Membership Committee
Danielle Thibault, Vice-President (temporary)
Geneviève Antonius-Boileau, President (temporary)
Manon Tourigny, Treasurer
Martine Frossard, Communications and Member Services at REPAIRE

Professional Development and Continuing Education Committee
Gauthier Kriaa, Artist
Laurence Beaudoin Morin, Artist
Alicia Turgeon, Artist
Maude Thibault Morin, Continuing Education Coordinator at REPAIRE

Funding Committee
Sonia Pelletier, General Director of REPAIRE
Alexis Langevin-Tétrault, Assistant to the Director of REPAIRE

Reflection Committee – Digital Project Development
Éric Desmarais, Sporobole, 01 Digital Hub
Gilles Arteau, Artist
Mériol Lehmann, Artist
Émile Morin, Artist
Vincent Charlebois, Researcher Artist (Hypha Coop)
Elsa Fortant, Custom Doctoral Candidate in Digital Studies and Sociomusicology, INRS
Marc Olivier Ducharme, Director of Innovation, Strategies and Innovation (Hub 01)
Etienne Grenier, Custom Doctoral Candidate in Culture, Datafication and Digital Technologies, INRS
Christophe Roubinet, Development Advisor
Alexis Langevin-Tétrault, Artist and Assistant to the Director of REPAIRE
Alexis Trépanier, Digital Cultural Development Agent at RCAAQ and REPAIRE
Sonia Pelletier, General Director of REPAIRE

Working Committee – Professional Status of the Artist Act
Gilles Arteau, Artist, Consultant
Éric Desmarais, Representative of Sporobole
Léa Bourdreau, Artist, Secretary of the REPAIRE Board of Directors
Anne-Marie Lavigne, Representative of Atelier Silex, Administrator of REPAIRE
Davis B. Ricard, Artist, Administrator of REPAIRE
Alicia Turgeon, Representative of Eastern Bloc, Administrator of REPAIRE
Sonia Pelletier, General Director of REPAIRE
Alexis Langevin-Tétrault, Artist Assistant to the Director of REPAIRE

Legal Advisory Committee
Georges Azzaria, Professor of Intellectual Property and Methodology at the Faculty of Law of Laval University and Director of the School of Art, Québec
Maude Choko, DCL Normand Tamaro, Barrister