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Article: Agitating art: Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable creates ecoactivists in an afternoon.(Pierre Allard and Annie Roy)
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- Alternatives Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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THE STILL IMAGE of an exploding SUV bathed our faces in orange light, but no sound came through the speakers. While Pierre shook his head, Annie stood in front of the audience, hands on hips, as if she could will the video equipment to work. Pierre Allard and Annie Roy are Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable (ATSA), a Montreal-based "organism" with the goal of creating works that make "not just inhabitants, but citizens." Defining ATSA's work as art or activism would miss the point. For its creators, art and activism are indivisible.
The duo was in Toronto as part of the 2006 Free Fall Festival of experimental theatre. I was taking my basic training with ...