Art Historian and Museologist, Marianne joined the OBORO artist-run center in April 2020. She previously worked at the Centre d’exposition L’Imagier, in Gatineau, as General Director from 2008 to 2020, where she managed and coordinated the reconstruction of the center, which opened in May 2019. Motivated by the dissemination of current art, she has participated in the presentation of some fifty exhibitions and a hundred music and performing arts shows. In 2012 and 2014-2015, she was in charge of the Permanent Collection and Public Art for the City of Gatineau. Since 2018, she has acted as a regional expert for the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications for the Politique d’intégration des arts à l’architecture. She also offers her services as a professional consultant for the organization of public art competitions and exhibitions.

Tamar Tembeck, PhD, is an art historian with a professional background as a performing artist and exhibition curator. Before joining OBORO in 2018 (after many years of involvement with the organisation), Tamar held an academic appointment within an interdisciplinary university research hub in media studies. Tamar notably coedited the publications The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age (U. of Minnesota Press) and Conflict[ed] Reporting (Photography & Culture). With a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), she also led a research project on public art in hospitals. Tamar continues to be involved in both research and research-creation projects at the intersection of art and medicine, with collaborators stemming from diverse artistic and scientific disciplines. At OBORO, she has held the positions of General and Artistic Director (from 2018 to 2020) and Artistic Director (since 2020). http://tembeck.org/

Audrey Bilodeau Fontaine (she/her) studied visual arts at UQAM and Concordia University in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. She has worked at various artist-run-centres and pre-COVID, she was enjoying the mountains, occupying the position of Curatorial Research Practicum at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She will be a candidate for the Master’s degree in Museology, a joint program between UQÀM and the Université de Montréal in the fall of 2022.

Rhys Buhl completed her bachelor’s degree at Concordia University, majoring in Intermedia and minoring in Art History. She has coordination experience in artist-run environments like VIVA! Art Action festival, Turbine Center, Eastern Bloc, and now OBORO. 

In her practice, some avenues of research include harm reduction, restorative justice, and social wellbeing. As a cultural worker, artist, and educator, Rhys is interested in creating spaces for care and healing developed with and for vulnerable and marginalized communities. In the future, she would like to found a dynamic center specializing in community and youth programs, anchored in the collaborative arts. 

Mireille N’gouan has a Master in Management Science from the University of Cocody in Abidjan, as well as a certificate in Access to the Accounting Profession from the HEC Montreal. Since 2010, she has been working in the accounting field in non-profit organizations. This is what brought her to create MyConsultants, an enterprise that oversees the accounting in a few non-profit organizations and SEMs.

Speranza Spir is a second generation Greek-Montrealer,  haijin, performer and a somatic educator and maunual practitioner. Her art- works are informed from the intelligent body enhancing cognition and how its relevance informs performance and authenticity, identity and emotional empowerment. Nature and the great outdoors are motivating factors for her explorations and performances. In 2002, she completed studies in Video-production at Concordia University in Montreal, and began integrating videography and photography to document body language as a tool for recording personal movement. Since, she has added to this inventory with frequent trips to Greece exploring cultural duality, existential questions of ancestral memory, knowlegde and ritual, human roots, place, migration, family secrets and belonging, taking forms in storytelling and Butoh dance. Since 2015, she is one half of the multidisciplinary duo SPY&DENY with her muse and life partner.  She holds regular classes and workshops in Montreal. https://journeypagesblog.wordpress.com/
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Born in Northern Macedonia (ex-Republic of Macedonia, ex-FYROM, ex-Yugoslavia), Sonja Zlatanova graduated from the École nationale supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. Since 2007, Zlatanova has curated exhibitions for institutional and alternative distribution platforms in Europe and Montreal. She was an active member of the artist center La Centrale from 2014 to 2018 and within which, with the Performance Committee, she initiated and developed a cross-residency with CRVENA, an art and social development organization in Sarajevo. Since 2013, Zlatanova has been involved in the Viva Art Action performance festival and specifically in the development of the Kitchen Residency. In July 2019, she joined the radio show Radio Atelier on CIBL 101.5, for which she hosted and curated the on-air performative creation segment. Zlatanova’s work has been exhibited in Europe, including Lausanne (CH), Paris (FR), Istanbul (TK), Berlin (DE), Sarajevo (BH), Skopje and Bitola (NMK), and Montreal (CA). The influence of migratory movements of individuals on the construction and metamorphosis of cultural identities underlies her various projects. Through edible plants, she addresses the occupation of territory, whether in symbiosis with nature or occupied by force. She also uses language in the form of poetic fragments that she disseminates through her formal and conceptual research.