The Cummings & Pifko collective was born in 2019 from an installation that revealed the strength of their complementary worlds. For more than 25 years, Gaëtane Cummings, an artist with diverse abilities, has been transforming her experiences in a wheelchair into creativity and activism. Art, a space of freedom, leads her to explore performance, documentary, painting, installations, video, interventions and poetry. Sigmund Pifko, a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, painter, graphic designer and enthusiast of digital arts and scenography, approaches each project as a research-creation, guided by sensitivity and curiosity. Together, they are part of the CripArt movement, which proposes to create and think about art differently while denouncing ableism. Their practice, nourished by the experience of marginalisation, seeks to transform exclusion into beauty, to reveal invisible realities and to open up new perspectives.

Through her experiences with authentic movement and somatic education, Anaëlle has honed her sensitivity to the interplay between symbolism, the body, and human thought, all of which fuel her writing. She is the author and designer of multidisciplinary collaborative projects that gather creators from diverse backgrounds. She is co-founder of the Elles fallait collective, which presents artistic performances at the intersection of culinary art and literature.

CiÖ is a Montreal-based collective comprising Ganesh Baron Aloir, Anaëlle Lacoste, Hamie Robitaille, oLivier Landry-Gagnon, and Alexandre Pariseau. Formed through a series of collaborations between Ganesh, Anaëlle, Hamie, and oLivier during artistic residencies (Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay, Plateau-Mont-Royal), the group crystallises a sensitive, immersive, and technological approach to mental health issues. Winner of a 2024 NUMIX Award in the Digital Art category for the CiÖ installation, the collective continues its research at the crossroads of interactive installation, sensory design, poetic narration and generative design.

Éloi Angers-Roy is an artist working with images (digital, pictorial, video) on the Tio'Tià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal territory. A master's candidate in anthropology (Université de Montréal), his artistic research is currently focused on : 

• The discursive unpredictability of artistic expression and its potential for upheaval.
• the banality of the spectrum, systemic abstraction.
• the concrete experience of collaboration.