ATSA (Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable)

Pierre Allard and Annie Roy, Artists, Montreal

ATSA was founded in 1997 by artists Pierre Allard and Annie Roy to create urban interventions: installations, performances and realistic stagings that bear witness to our current social and environmental reality.

ATSA's works investigate and transform urban landscape to restore the citizen's place in the public realm, depicting it as a political space open to discussion and societal debates.

ATSA’s approach uses the aestheticism and symbolism of art as tools for effecting social change. It creates works that, through the experiences they offer, provoke thought and bring about action. By grabbing passers-by from their daily worlds and ushering them towards a fiction which strangely resembles reality, the works foster an emotional understanding of the problems at hand and generate positive citizen action.