Mélanie Binette is an artist-researcher, co-founder and director of a site-specific art collective, le Milieu de Nulle Part (formerly Théâtre Nulle Part). She graduated in 2014 with a Master’s degree from Concordia University in interdisciplinary studies, and her thesis questioned the political potential of spectatorship. She got involved with community-based practice in Park-Extension in 2017, when she produced in partnership with Afrique au Féminin and Constructlab an installation of collective embroidery inviting immigrant women to come share their skills at the former Outremont railyard.