Eastern Bloc

In the performance project "Si serve il numero...", the Italian artist collective S'ODINONSUONARE presents a “Public Office for Personal Imagination Diet.” Artists Alessio Mazzaro and Marco Campana will explore the mechanical...

Eastern Bloc is pleased to present the very first NVA Off-Site steps away from Never Apart, with the appearance of DJ STINGRAY 313, a Detroit underground legend, followed by TEMPLE DJs. NVA, the musical division of Montreal-based culture centre Never Apart,...

MSHR is a collaborative project by Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy based in Portland, Oregon. The duo produces installations, sculptures and ritualistic performances that place the human body into a dynamic relationship with sound and light, generating...

The Montréal Contemporary Music Lab (MCML) is a 10 day performance and creation workshop exploring, celebrating, and creating bonds between performers, composers and sound artists engaged in the act of creating new music. During the lab participants...

Agence TOPO presents another edition of its Sortir de l'écran / Spoken Screen series with RIPALIPER, a new performance from sound artist and composer Steve Heimbecker. Since 2008, Heimbecker has written nearly 2000 cards comprised of word plays,...

Presentation of Masters Thesis project by Darsha Hewitt A Side Man 5000 Adventure is a fifty-minute educational video that revolves around the technical documentation of the Wurlitzer Side Man 5000 – the world’s oldest commercially available...

Concordia University’s Intermedia/Cyberarts graduating students present Harbinger, a three day gallery show and event series taking place at Eastern Bloc. Harbinger strives to formulate a prognostic of our actual and virtual (potential) relation...

For children 2-8 years old (and all other ages welcome too!) Eastern Bloc invites your children to come celebrate the end of winter in sound and image! DJ Claire, well known in Montreal for her work at Laïka, will participate in this event and give...

Temporal Drone is a psychedelic electro-visual hybrid performance in which the motion of dancer Alessandra Rigano is live-streamed and visually manipulated by Guillaume Vallée, while spectators are immersed in drone music by Hazy Montagne Mystique....

Eastern Bloc presents a night of music and dancing in the company of five women artists: Petra Glynt (Toronto), Xarah Dion (Montreal), Marie Davidson (Montreal), and Mathématique (Montreal), and the DJ performance of Babi Audi. Be ready to pull a (semi)...

Robotis Personae is an invitation to explore robotic and organic ecosystems. It is a reflection on today’s collective spirit and the profound nature of interactions happening within it, where technological objects are increasingly important. This...

A cybernetic musical performance work that bridges robotics and emotion to create a biologically harmonic chamber music, Swarming Emotional Pianos features a set of mobile robots that each house instrumental and lighting components. The behaviour and...

Les Escales Improbables de Montréal take over, for one night only, Eastern Bloc for a series of performances with invited artists Arm, Mc Rappeur, Allison Moore, Marilyne Fournier and L.O.S., Jessica Arseneau, as well as a surprise group during the...

To celebrate the 11th edition of the festival Les HTMelles, ZERO FUTURE, Eastern Bloc presents, in collaboration with Studio XX, a very special evening of live performances. Bringing sound and vision together in three acts, this event features international...

In FOUND, Mitchell Stafiej and Robert Feulner start with a film and transform it, giving it new dimensions: a simultaneously voyeuristic and alienating experience. The film, which functions as the piece’s source material, brings us into intimate moments...