FADO E-LIST (January 2010)

FADO Performance Art Centre E-Bulletin (January 2010)

INDEX

1. FADO News: TallBlondLadies Eyewitness Account by Stephanie Sirant

2. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: exist-ence

Date: January 15-16, 2010; Source: Rebecca Cunningham

3. WORKSHOP: ABSTRACT BUFFOON Dates: January 18-22, 2010; Source: Studio 303

4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival

Deadline date: January 15, 2010; Source: 7a*11d

5. CALL FOR VIDEO: 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival

Deadline date: January 15, 2010; Source: 7a*11d

6. CALL FOR PARTIPANTS: BLINDED TOURIST

Deadline date: January 18, 2010; Source: John G. Boehme

7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Just Act Natural

Dates: Deadline January 20, 2010; Source: Lisa Visser

8. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: FIMA 11TH Edition

Deadline: February 5, 2010; Source: Marie-Chantal Scholl

9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Dare-Dare

Deadline date: February 15, 2010; Source: Jannick Rousseau

10. CALL FOR SUBMMISSIONS: ANTI –Contemporary Art Festival 2010 Deadline date: February 19, 2010: Source: ANTI Festival

11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Junction Arts Festival 2010

Deadline date: unspecified; Source: Michael Menegon

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1. FADO News: TallBlondLadies Eyewitness Account by Stephanie Sirant

http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=pubarticle&id=18

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2. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: exist-ence

Date: January 15-16, 2010; Source: Rebecca Cunningham

exist-ence: performance art live and on film call for work

2 days of live and documented performance art!

CALL FOR WORKS: performance on film / live / or art-i-facts

Proposals can be sent to beccunningham@hotmail.com

If need can be posted to 18 Jenkinson St. Indooroopilly QLD 4068, AUSTRALIA

Deadline for works: 10 January 2010

Please let me know if you would like film/items returned

The event will be free to the public – any donations will be shared among all presenting artists.

Event dates: 15-16 January 2010 in Brisbane, Australia location tbc

More information will be posted to http://existenceperformanceart.wordpress.com and you can check out the facebook page: exist-ence PERFORMANCE ART EVENT call for work.

This event is made possible by your generosity

warm regards, Rebecca Cunningham

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3. WORKSHOP: ABSTRACT BUFFOON Dates: January 18-22, 2010; Source: Studio 303

ABSTRACT BUFFOON

Teachers: Nathalie Claude & Peter James Dates: January 18-22 (5 days) Mon-Fri, 10am to 1pm Site: Studio 303 Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)  Studio 303, danse et arts indisciplinés 372 Ste-Catherine Ouest Montréal Qc H3B 1A2 Tél. 514.393.3771 www.studio303.ca 

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4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival

Deadline date: January 15, 2010; Source: 7a*11d

8th International Festival in Toronto, presented by the 7a*11d collective

October 21 – 31, 2010

www.7a-11d.ca

NATIONAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

7a*11d's 8th International Festival of Performance Art takes place in Toronto from October 21 to 31, 2010. Organized by a non-profit collective of artists, 7a*11d presents performance art events and artist projects in our biannual festival. Our purpose is to offer a professional venue for new and progressive performance art works. The artist organizers will select emerging and established artists of the highest quality from around the world to showcase the breadth and depth of contemporary performance art. This Call for Submissions is for artists living in Canada. We pay artist fees, accommodation and when possible, subsidize travel.

Deadline: Proposals must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2010.

Please be sure to indicate the kind of setting that is most appropriate for your work (indoor/outdoor, site specific, industrial warehouse, white gallery, black box, etc.)

Return of materials: If you wish your materials to be returned, you MUST include a self-addressed stamped envelope for the return of your documentation. Please ensure that postage is adequate. Materials will be returned by June 2010.

No dance, theatre or circus troupes or companies. No email submissions.

Send proposals to:

7a*11d c/o 386 Delaware Ave.

Toronto, Ontario

CANADA M6H 2T8

http://www.7a-11d.ca

performancefestival@hotmail.com

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5. CALL FOR VIDEO: 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival

Deadline date: January 15, 2010; Source: 7a*11d

8th International Festival in Toronto, presented by the 7a*11d collective

October 21 – 31, 2010

www.7a-11d.ca

INTERNATIONAL CALL

Direct to Documentation: d2d

D2D = Direct to Documentation: a program of performance documentation or performance for camera. Can't come to the Festival? We still want to see your work! Send us a tape, CD or DVD [five minutes or less] of your performance documentation or performance for camera. Selected works will be curated into a screening program. Artist fees will be paid to those selected for screening.

Deadline: Proposals must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2010.

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6. CALL FOR PARTIPANTS: BLINDED TOURIST

Deadline date: January 18, 2010; Source: John G. Boehme

 Will you be my guest? 

I, Mariëlle Videler, am looking for four artists working in different disciplines to take part in the project BLINDED TOURIST for seven days. I need artists who have never been to Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and who are able to stay for the entire last week of March 2010. There is one rule: they cannot leave the installation. During our journey, I will be your host and will do all I can for you. I will develop a “travel programme” with vegetarian food, images, stories and movement. We will also be able to meet the visitors to W139 and our installation during the opening hours of our venue, W139. During your stay, I want you to create a work, a visual journal; it could involve drawings, video, performance etc. The journals will be presented during the final weekend. 

Journey I love travelling and explorers. I want to visit authentic communities, but I travel from façade to façade: global cities. The journeys I look for I find in books about discoveries. When I read these books I travel into an old but unknown culture, I get close to the citizens, their personal rituals and objects. I love journeys like this, and meeting you there. So I came up with the idea of making a physical place of my own that is waiting to be discovered. I’ve called it ‘BLINDED TOURIST. Gijs Frieling of the artists space W139 in Amsterdam invited me to develop the project further. I suggested creating an installation for my journey in the space of W139 and to invite other artists to travel with me. If you are curious and like to be on of the four invited artists  please send me your motivation to become part of the project BLINDED TOURIST.  Send before 18 January 2010: Motivation (max. one A4) 3 Photo’s of your work (size max. 72 dpi or 1024 x 768) Short description of your work (max one A4) Link to your website (optional) How will you travel to Amsterdam NL and what will it cost?  To: info@mariellevideler.nl or marleen@w139.nl www.W139.nl

www.mariellevideler.nl

 Love, Mariëlle Videler

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7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Just Act Natural

Dates: Deadline January 20, 2010; Source: Lisa Visser

Call for Submissions: Just Act Natural

Open call for Undergraduate, Graduate student artists or artists with an Emerging creative practice interested in animal studies. Artists are invited to submit up to 3 pieces of work for this interdisciplinary exhibition “Just Act Natural” to take place in June 2010 at Studio 22 Gallery, in Kingston, Ontario. 

Deadline for submissions: January 20th, 2010. 

The curatorial premise of the exhibition Just Act Natural focuses on a developing interspecies dialogue, identifying the private lives of animals and respecting their public lives. Just Act Natural invites artists to explore the differences between instinct and intuition, to consider the ongoing tensions between spectacle and snuggle, and the answer to the question: "How do you get the animals to do that?" Artists are encouraged to incorporate a critical and contemporary analysis of animals and animality within art.

 Submissions for 2 and 3 dimensional work, performance, audio and video work will be accepted, encouraging interdisciplinarity. The exhibition will include a reception featuring performance, film screenings, and artist talks on Saturday, June 26th, 2010. 

Submit for each proposed work (at a maximum of three works): -up to 3 jpeg images of the proposed work (or relevant work) -a description of the proposed work, including physical qualities, spatial and hanging needs, technical requirements, etc (max. 150 words) -artist statement (max. 500 words) -brief biography and/or CV 

Please contact Lisa Visser (visser.lisa@gmail.com) if you have any questions. 

Submissions will be accepted in email or mail format. visser.lisa@gmail.com   341 Delaware Avenue  Toronto, ON M6H 2T7   The exhibition Just Act Natural will coincide with the academic conference: Animals and Animality Across the Humanities and Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (June 26-27, 2010, in Kingston, Ontario)

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8. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: FIMA 11TH Edition

Deadline: February 5, 2010; Source: Marie-Chantal Scholl

FIMA - 11th edition

July 1-11, 2010

FIMA (Festival International Montréal en Arts) is inviting multidisciplinary artists in performance and/or installation to submit a project for its performance art chapter, called

Contemporary Experiences at THE FIMA...

FIMA is an arts festival that occupies the street every summer. It is taking place in the heart of downtown Montreal, on the famous St. Catherine Street, between St. Hubert and Papineau. For 11 days, over 200 artists and artisans meet the public on the street and in a big top called Gallery Space. Live arts are a great part of the festival, with numerous performance art interventions, live demonstrations and multimedia performances. Each year, the FIMA welcomes almost 100 000 visitors daily (from Thursday to Sunday).

The Contemporary Experiences consist of a series of creations and contemporary artistic initiatives that guide the public into concrete psychological and/or physical experiences that are stimulating, unsettling and surprising. Its second edition, in 2009, was the festival's most popular event. An interesting advantage for performance and installation artists of contemporary style is that they can have a direct access to a very wide public of wandering adults (mostly), diversified, relaxed and curious, but not necessarily familiar with performance art and/or installation. It is an experience for you as much as for them.

LE FIMA OFFERS YOU...

-A promotional partnership (description of your performance in the program, on the Web site, in the press release, indications on site, etc.)

-On-site support (technical manager)

-Technical equipment (basic audiovisual material)

-Welcome desk service and security

-Possibility of transportation and housing for artists from out-of-town

A comment book is made available for the public. The comments are transcribed and sent to the artists after the event. Each performance will be subject to a signed contract.

YOUR PROJECT

We favour interactive material and interventions, actions, minimalist stagings, interactive installations, strange, awkward and even disturbing performances. We are open to poetic action and physical art. Multimedia projects are welcome. Keep in mind that this is taking place outdoors, in the street, in a "fair type" environment, at the heart of a local and touristic summer event.

THE VENUES

Three performance spaces are at your disposition:

-St. Catherine Street itself

-In a tent (with access to electricity and the possibility to be opened or closed)

-an industrial container (decorative possibilities and access to electricity)

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

-Detailed description of the project (1,000 words maximum)

-The resume and/or bio of each participating artist, and a summary of the company's history, as the case may be.

-A technical estimate

-Artist fee(s)

-The full contact information of project manager, technical director, etc.

-Any relevant material (synopsis, extract, DVD, photos, etc.)

All applications must be sent by February 5th, 2010, at the following address:

SPDAC / FIMA

Marie-Chantal Scholl

576 St.Catherine Street East, Suite 211

Montreal (Quebec) H2L 2E1

If you wish to redeem your material, please include a pre-stamped and self-addressed envelope. It is also possible to send your application by email: mchantal@festivaldesarts.org

All applicants (with a completed submission) will receive an answer starting February 20th, 2010. Selection will be done according to the mandate and artistic orientation of the Contemporary Experiences. Priority will be given to simple and original propositions.

If you have questions or comments, please write us at mchantal@festivaldesarts.or and visit our Web site at www.festivaldesarts.org.

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9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Dare-Dare

Deadline date: February 15, 2010; Source: Jannick Rousseau

With Dis/location: projet d'articulation urbaine, DARE-DARE established a framework for research and presentation of contextual and public art practices. This urban exploration is achieved through successive moorings of socially and politically rich projects within the City of Montreal. Thus, since 2004, the mandate of DARE-DARE has been to promote interventions in the urban environment.

In July 2008 DARE-DARE began the third phase of Dis/location and the eventual move from Cabot Square. By the summer of 2009 its two administrative office trailers had been located at the intersection of Dufresne and Larivière streets near the Frontenac métro. For more information on the Faubourgs district and on the Center please visit DARE-DARE’s Web Site at www.dare-dare.org.

Call for intentions

Since the beginning of Dis/location, DARE-DARE has explored presentation contexts by supporting emergent artistic practices focused on experimentation and risk-taking. Through the theory and experimentation that both emanates from and forms the Center, DARE-DARE is looking to the 2010 and 2011 artistic programming schedule to push the limits and extend the innovative concept of the Center. DARE-DARE is looking for audacious projects that question the operational realities of the Center

and/or projects of a contextual and public art nature that use infiltration, interference, furtiveness, and diversion/variation. The projects, which interact with reality - with the everyday - could use satellite locations, could evolve or could be developed through circumstance. DARE-DARE invites artists to speculate on the future of the Center and on art in the urban context by rethinking ideas of displacement, uncertainty and precariousness through the infiltration of various locations and contexts. DARE-DARE is searching for geographically, theoretically, poetically or politically focused proposals that feed the reflexive and experiential notions of Dis/location.

Your proposals can take different forms. Be inventive!

Create possible infiltration scenarios. Shaped fables or stories about spaces of diversion/variation produced by/for Dis/location? Through an infiltrating or speculative project image how Dis/location could operate differently. Fantasizing about the ideal context for presentation beyond the confines of walls? Your intended project could take the form of public intervention, performance, event, round-table, publication, conference/workshop, Web site or others that could be a specific period, variable duration or repeated over time. A preliminary selection will be taken from the proposals and the research intentions received. Following this, DARE-DARE could invite selected artists to provide more precise details about their project, after which the final selection will be made, sometime in early spring 2010. With an ecological mind, DARE-DARE invites you to submit your dossier on a CD/DVD.

Your dossier should comprise:

-A text describing your research intention (max. 200 words) (.doc, .pdf),

-A curriculum vitae (.doc, .pdf),

-A detailed text describing your work (.doc, .pdf),

-Ten (10) digital images (max. 1 MB),

-A short list describing the images (.doc, .pdf),

-One audio or video (max. 5 mins.) and all related documents,

-Press clippings (if available) (.doc, .pdf)

The Center does not accept proposals via email. You may include a self-addressed-stamped-envelope for the return of your documents (the Center will not keep unclaimed proposals). The Center respects the CARFAC fee structure.

DARE-DARE offers:

-Exhibition fee of $ 1700

-Author’s rights of $ 50

-Project promotion

-Organization and gaining all necessary authorization and permits

-Material and production fee up to $ 800

Mandate

DARE-DARE Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal is a flexible and open artist-run center dedicated to research and education. The Center supports and develops emergent artistic practices through the exploration and diversification of modes of production, the presentation and the diffusion of artistic works and interventions.

Casier postal 320

Succursale C

Montreal Quebec

H2L 4K3 CANADA

514. 793.7002

prog@dare‐dare.org

www.dare‐dare.org

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10. CALL FOR SUBMMISSIONS: ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2010 Deadline date: February 19, 2010: Source: ANTI Festival

 ANTI Festival 2010 will focus on textual, written and language-based responses to site specificity. We encourage artists working across a range of media to consider the following areas of enquiry, these include, but are not limited to:  

-Page and screen-based responses to site - contextual approaches to publication and dissemination

-Mapping and mark-making - geographic and topographic textual processes

-Inscription - the materiality of writing

-Language and translation – nationhood and place

-Writing as performance - live writing as contextual and site-based practice

-Performance texts and site-based processes – spatial/contextual engagement and live utterance

 ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will be held in Kuopio, Finland between Sept 29th – Oct 3rd 2010.   ANTI is an international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space. Over the past eight years ANTI has presented live, sonic, visual and text-based art from today’s most exciting and innovative artists. A truly international festival and Finland’s foremost presenter of Live Art, ANTI is a meeting place for artists and audiences fascinated by how art shapes and responds to the places and spaces of everyday life.   ANTI’s emphasis is on site-specificity. The festival understands this term in an expanded sense; proposals may suggest works that deal with a site geographically, culturally or by association etc. The proposal form asks artists to state their preferred site for their project. Please think carefully about where and how a project will be sited. The festival will undertake all negotiations to allow projects to use public/private space. Please remember that ANTI does not programme works for gallery or theatre spaces.    As ANTI festival takes place in public space it is essential proposals consider a site’s pre-existing ‘audience’; be they passers-by, customers or residents. Alongside those who purposely visit the festival, a substantial part of ANTI’s audience are members of the public who come across the works by chance.  Proposal form   All proposals must be sent using the electronic form on ANTI Festival’s website (ANTI 2010). The form allows a link to be made to any online documentation artists may have of their work and for artists to attach their CV and one image of their work. In addition ONE piece of supporting material (i.e. DVD, CD-ROM) can be submitted as hardcopy.  The proposal deadline is February 19th 2010. Please send your supporting material, clearly marked with your name and project title, to:  ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival Minna Canthin katu 4, 4th Floor 70100 Kuopio, Finland.  All materials must reach the above address by February 19th 2010.    Further information:  www.antifestival.com  info@antifestival.com  +358 50 3052 485

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11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Junction Arts Festival 2010

Deadline date: unspecified; Source: Michael Menegon

The Junction Arts Festival is now accepting creative proposals for the 2009 Junction Arts Festival. The Festival runs from September 8 to 12, 2010 with a two-day street closure of Dundas Street West September 11 and 12.

We are currently accepting proposals only from performance based artists and art installation works of any combination including but not limited to Indoor and Outdoor Installation Artists, Street Dance and Theatre groups as well as any multi-arts ideas that we may be able to support. Our emphasis in 2010 will be for large-scale outdoor work but we are accepting all proposals. Fees will be determined on a per-artist-basis.

Additional calls for Visual art and Music will be forthcoming in the next few months.

Approximately 200,000 people attend the festival each year, experiencing interactive works that both engage and enthrall.

Proposals should include the following:

-Artist or group contact info

-Bio and history

-Example of past work

-Video and or photo examples of proposed work. If proposing a new work please include a description plus technical requirements.

If proposing a new work please be as specific as your present process allows at this time. Also inform us if you are applying for any creative funding from other sources. If applications for government funding precede any agreement between artist and festival, then a letter of intent may be issued on our part.

The Junction Arts Festival has been running its present programming since 2007 but the festival’s history dates back to 1991 with the street closure since 2000. ‘Where the Arts meet the Street’ is the basis for this ever growing multi-arts Festival that includes visual art, galleries, installation art, main stage music, dance, theatre, poetry, performance art, traveling minstrels and anything in between and beyond.

Toronto, National and International applications accepted.

All inquiries should be directed to Festival Director Michael Menegon via email at junctionartsfest@bellnet.ca

Packages should be sent to; Junction Arts Festival 3047 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6P 1Z3 Canada

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About FADO Established in 1993, FADO Performance Inc. (Performance Art Centre) is a not-for-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO exists to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art. Currently, we are the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. We present the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and new perspectives. Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their on-going support of our endeavors.

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