FADO E-LIST (December 2009)

December 2009

 

INDEX

1. EVENT: FADO Performance Art Centre presents Misinformed Informants

Curated by Lisa Visser

2. EVENT:  Salon Automaton and The Keith Cole Experience

Dates: December 1-12, 2009: Source: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

3. EVENT: Wit In Love

Dates: December 2-13, 2009: Source: DNA Theatre

4. EVENT: PAVES at Performance Art Platform

Dates: December 6-13; Source: Sinead O’Donnell

5. JOB POSTING:  Tenure-Track Position in Performance Studies

Deadline date: January 8, 2010; Source: New College, Arizona State

6. WORKSHOP:  ABSTRACT BUFFOON

Dates: January 18-22, 2010; Source: Studio 303

7. NEW RELEASE:  Canadian Theatre Review winter issue

Date: Winter 2010; Source: Audrey Greenwood

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

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

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

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

10. NEW RELEASE: new DVD of Ten Years of IMAF Performances

Date: unspecified; Source: Nenad Bogdanovic

11. CALL FOR PARTIPANTS: BLINDED TOURIST

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

12. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:  CAMP art at the Drake Hotel

Deadline date: January 31, 2010; Source: Colleen O'Reilly

13. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: FIMA 11TH Edition

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

14. ANNOUNCING: Performance Matters

Date: unspecified; Source: Live Art Development Agency

 

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1. EVENT: FADO Performance Art Centre presents Misinformed Informants

Curated by Lisa Visser

 

FADO is pleased to present Misinformed Informants, the latest in our annual Emerging Artists Series. Curated by Lisa Visser, Misinformed Informants is the first event in this series that brings together regional emerging artists, from Kingston, London, Montreal, Quebec City and Toronto. Join us for one spectacular evening of performance and visit the gallery afterwards to see the exhibition of works and remaining performance ephemera.

 

Fragments, fleeting words, fights. You’re not listening to me.

 

Misinformed Informants invites emerging artists to answer to the idea of miscommunication, misunderstanding, misplaced lines of agreement. Responses range from antiquated expressions of communication to suggestions, covert signals, mis-remembrance and the unapologetically false. Diverse interpretation converges into an overhead problem of mistrust. In trusting the informant (who may be misinformed) misinformation is communicated as true information. Truth and reality negate the very premise of this performance event. I begin to doubt the truth I communicated. And yet: I would never lie to you. But: this is about lies.

 

XPACE Cultural Centre

58 Ossington Avenue, Toronto

 

Performance Event:

December 17, 2009

7:30pm

$5 / PWYC

 

Exhibition:

December 18 + 19, 2009

Gallery hours: 12 – 8PM Friday / 12 – 6PM Saturday

 

ARTISTS

Guillaume Adjutor Provost

Corina Kennedy

Sophie Castonguay

Julia Mensink

Stacey Ho

Joshua Schwebel

Henry Adam Svec

 

For full artist bios, project descriptions and curatorial essay, visit: www.performanceart.ca

 

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2. EVENT:  Salon Automaton and The Keith Cole Experience

Dates: December 1-12, 2009: Source: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

 

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents the English language premiere of

Salon Automaton

LAST WEEKEND!

 

A Momentum Production

Created and Performed by Nathalie Claude

 

A performance for one actress and three life-like dolls.

A stunning display of art and technology.

 

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

12 Alexander Street, Toronto

www.artsexy.ca

 

AND 

The Keith Cole Experience

The Monthly Event in Toronto!

 

Friday December 11th, 2009 – 4th Issue

Doors: 10:30pm // Showtime: 11:15pm

Featuring: Sir Clement, Miss Conception, K-AMP, Pepper Highway, Billeh Nickerson and 

Shane MacKinnon & Jill Camarta

DJ K-Tel

$8.00

 

Be there as Keith Cole serves up a delicious selection of Toronto's most fabulous performers and a few slices of his life. Sexy results guaranteed. Performers include Toronto’s premiere lesbian party raucous rock n’ roll duo Sir Clement, the most excellent Miss Conception, Euro superstars K-AMP, a special SKYPE performance by the ever reclusive Pepper Highway, a special short reading of Maurice Podbrey’s (former Artistic Director of Montreal’s Centaur Theatre) theatrical thriller autobiography “Half Man Half Beast – Making a Life in Canadian Theatre” (published in 1997) will be read by poet extraordinaire Billeh Nickerson. And finally, taking us to the dance-floor the real couple behind “Dancing With The Stars” Shane MacKinnon & Jill Camarta.

  

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3. EVENT: Wit In Love

Dates: December 2-13, 2009: Source: DNA Theatre

 

WIT IN LOVE

A performance installation by DNA Theatre

 

Wit is none other than Ludwig Wittgenstein - arguably the greatest, most influential philosopher of the last century. And who is he in love with? Well, among others, his brilliant brother. Wit must visit him. Why?

 

Created by Hillar Liitoja and Magdalena Vasko

Written by Sky Gilbert   (w/mild edits by Hillar Liitoja)

Dramaturgy by John Delacourt

Performed by Hillar Liitoja

Directed + designed by Hillar Liitoja and Magdalena Vasko

 

December 2-13, at 8:00PM

Ticket Prices: $20 (Sundays PWYC)

Location: 133 Bathurst St, Toronto (between Richmond + Adelaide)

 

Very limited seating – Reservations Essential

hillar@dnatheatre.com or 416 - 504 - 5099

 

If you do not cancel your reservation at least 48 hours in advance you must do the honourable thing and send us a cheque for the ticket(s) cost to:

 

DNA Theatre

133 Bathurst St, Toronto ON, M5V 2R2

 

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4. EVENT: PAVES at Performance Art Platform

Dates: December 6-13; Source: Sinead O’Donnell

 

PAVES is a year-long collaboration between the women artists Poshya Kakl (Kurdistan-Iraq), Anne Bean (UK), Vlasta Delimar (Croatia), Efi Ben-David (Israel) and Sinead O’Donnell (Ireland). These artists have all used their bodies in their work to make powerful and passionate performance art works where the interplay of personal and political meet and have vivid ‘conversations'. 

 

PAVES is a collaborative journey supported by the British Council Creative Collaboration program that has already taken place in the UK, Croatia, Ireland and now in Israel.The overall aim of the Creative Collaborations program is to enrich the cultural life of Europe and its surrounding countries and to build trust and understanding across communities by generating dialogue and debate.

 

In the past year, the artists have gathered for joint work in each of their countries. Now, on their visit to Israel, they will work together from the experiences they have accumulated in the past locations of the project and the experiences that will be added here. They will respond to the place and to each other in many ways: sharing ideas, actions and impressions and all the things that inform their creative process.

 

Anne Bean, the initiator of the PAVES project, grew up in Zambia. She has spent time in Iraq and Croatia and has been struck by the different ways in which recent political upheavals directly or indirectly affected the work of artists and, particularly, of certain women artists. The PAVESproject came out of reflections on how this intense, wider political context inevitably sculpts an artist’s work.

 

Poshya Kakl, the young artist form Kurdistan Iraq, was denied a visa to travel so she has not been physically present in the project so far. Contact with her has been made via email and skype and actions have been performed with her sharing time but not space. Her physical absence has become a strong part of the process, influencing the work of the other artists. During the visit to Israel, the artists will travel to Jordan in a quest to finally meet Poshya.

 

PAVES has proved an incredible arena for the exploration of edges of being, of places, of identities, of definitions. The artists' work as a group; as women from different territories, as artists from various influences, their diverse ages, their allegiances and alliances, their prejudices, their interactions and intense shared experiences, their definitions of identity, their grappling to find what PAVES means for each of them - have all become the work.

 

From Dec 6th to Dec 13th the Performance Art Platform in Tel Aviv will host the PAVES project.

 

At the end of the visit, on Saturday, Dec 12th, at 20:30, the artists will present their performance art works, at their current point in the process.

The evening will take place in Performance art platform, in the new central bus station, 116 Levinsky street, Tel Aviv. 4th floor.

 

Admission Fee: 25 NIS

 

For more info about the project:

http://www.annebean.net/current-projects/108

Source: Studio 303

 

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5. JOB POSTING:  Tenure-Track Position in Performance Studies

Deadline date: January 8, 2010; Source: New College, Arizona State

 

The Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HArCS) in the New College at Arizona State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Performance Studies to begin in August 2010. HArCS is interdisciplinary and committed to a critical examination of human meanings, values and experience.

 

The successful candidate will be expected to teach and develop courses in relevant areas and to engage in creative/collaborative performance practices. Scholarly research and/or creative activity and service to ASU and the profession appropriate to tenure track guidelines are expected. Only candidates with a Ph.D. or M.F.A. at the time of hire and college teaching experience will be considered. Desirable qualifications include technical expertise and potential for interdisciplinary collaboration.

 

HArCS is one of three divisions that comprise ASU's New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. It includes several degree programs: Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance; Women and Gender Studies; English; History; Integrative Studies; American Studies; Religion and Applied Ethics; Philosophy. There are two M.A. programs: Interdisciplinary Studies and Applied Ethics and the Professions. The Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance (IAP) degree program is the only one of its kind in the Southwest. IAP offers courses in: Digital Media, Music and Electronic Sound Art, Performance Studies, and Theater/Performance. 

 

Performance Studies should be conceived in the broadest sense. A candidate's areas of expertise may include but are not limited to those above, with scholarly and/or creative/practice performance specialization in: documentary, documentary studies, sexuality/gender studies, cross-cultural performance, performance/cultural theory, community/social performance, performance and technology, Southwest Studies, and/or other fields and areas.  

 

Send a letter of application, statements describing your research and/or creative program and teaching philosophy, curriculum vitae, a sample of two pieces of scholarship and/or creative activity, and three reference letters electronically to Jamie.Howell@asu.edu (Performance Studies Search Committee, Attention: Jamie Howell, Arizona State University at the West Campus, 4701 W. Thunderbird Road, P.O. Box 37100, Phoenix, AZ  85069-7100). All application materials should be submitted as electronic documents (CDs or DVDs of single artistic works can be mailed under separate cover).

 

DEADLINE for applications, including materials, is January 8, 2010. 

 Arizona State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. 

 

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6. 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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7. NEW RELEASE:  Canadian Theatre Review winter issue

Date: Winter 2010; Source: Audrey Greenwood

 

The Canadian Theatre Review is the major magazine of record for Canadian theatre. It interests a wide spectrum of the theatre community in Canada — performers, directors, academics, teachers, critics, and the theatre-going public. 

 

UPCOMING ISSUE

CTR 141, Winter 2010

Edited by Marlis Schweitzer with Laura Levin

 

This issue of Canadian Theatre Review joins a growing body of scholarship on the phenomenon now widely referred to as “celebrity culture.” Since the mid-1990s, the ubiquitous and surprisingly long-standing appeal of reality television, the proliferation of online gossip sites and photo agencies, the popularity of blogs and social networking sites from Facebook to Twitter, and the incredible success of YouTube have dramatically increased the number of venues through which average citizens can view and vie for fame and fortune. Celebrities living their “everyday lives” are subject to constant surveillance by the paparazzi and by extension the fans who view “candid” celebrity photos and videos online. Indeed, now more than ever, celebrity appears to be tantalizingly within reach of anyone with a camera, an amusing, cute, or shocking idea, and the guts to make a spectacle of themselves.

 

Celebrity culture is therefore an ideal subject for theatre artists and scholars to investigate, particularly those interested in the processes whereby the bodies, ideas, and images produced within a theatrical context are transmitted from stage to auditorium, and across borders of culture, ethnicity, race, class, gender, and nation. The authors gathered here explore a range of issues related to the acquisition, performance, and promotion of celebrity in both traditional (i.e. the Stratford Festival, Fringe festival) and non-traditional (i.e. Fan Expo 2008, Facebook) theatrical contexts. As this issue shows, there is a great deal to say about celebrity culture in Canada, especially as it continues to influence everything from theatre casting practices and season planning to marketing and funding decisions.  Goto  www.utpjournals.com/ctr

 

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8. 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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9. 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. 

 

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.

 

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10. NEW RELEASE: new DVD of Ten Years of IMAF Performances

Date: unspecified; Source: Nenad Bogdanovic

 

TEN YEARS OF IMAF 1998 - 2008 

DVD catalogue

Duration: 60 minutes

 

Video of live performances: 

Balint Szombathy, Nenad Bogdanovic, Nikola Sindik, Jaroslav Supek, Sandor Gogoljak, Hero Itoh (Japan), Aleksandar Jovanovic, Uto Gusztav (Romania), Eva Vajda (Romania), Yasunori Shiobara (Japan), Michiko Shiobara (Japan), Yea_Net Poett (Hungary), Sinead O’Donnell (Ireland), Kenny McBride (United Kingdom), Peter Zacek (Switzerland), Jorg Köppl (Switzerland), Ksenija Kovacevic, Dragana Hajduk, Mihajlo Hajduk, Nikola Sapundzic, Ana Milovanovic, Roddy Hunter (United Kingdom), Justin McKeown (United Kingdom), Era Milivojevic, Yu Kuramoto (Japan), Angel Pastor (Spain), Martin Zet (Czech Republic), Milan Grahovac, Hugh O’Donnell (Northern Ireland), Emilio Morandi (Italy) Franca Morandi (Italy), Radoslav B. Chugaly, Ryosuke Cohen (Japan), Andre Stitt (United Kingdom), Nikola Vukobratovic, Katherina Zakravsky (Austria), Nicola Frangione (Italy), Vassya Vassileva (Bulgaria), Marilyn Arsem (USA), Phill Babot (United Kingdom), Gabrijel Savic Ra, Zorica Jovanovic, Dragan Ignjatov, Jozsef R. Juhasz (Slovakia), Peter Küstermann (Germany), Adina Bar-On (Israel), Joseph Ravens (USA), Nela Antonovic, Lidija Antonovic, Group MP, Juniper Perlis (USA), Joan Casellas (Spain), Gertrude Berg (Austria/USA), Martine Viale (Canada), John G. Boehme (Canada), Brian Connoly (Northern Ireland), Jovana Dimitrijevic, Leo Devlin (Northern Ireland), Marko Bogdanovic, Marko Nektan, Tamar Raban (Israel), Alastair McLennan (Scotland/Northern Ireland), Dragan Vojvodic, Nieves Correa (Spain), Malgosia Butterwick (Poland)

 

Edited in 300 copies 

Price: 15 Euro / 22 USA $

 

To purchase a copy of this live DVD catalogue contact:

nb.liveart@googlemail.com

 

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11. 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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12. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:  CAMP art at the Drake Hotel

Deadline date: January 31, 2010; Source: Colleen O'Reilly

 

CAMP art at the DRAKE HOTEL

Toronto, Ontario

 

Camp, [kæmp]

Adj.

1. Providing sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.

2.  Adopting of a teasing, theatrical manner, esp. for the amusement of others.

3.  So extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal

 

“Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration…The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.” - Susan Sontag, “Notes on Camp,” 1964

 

Camp has been defined as an aesthetic of the tasteless and the ostentatious – its appeal comes from its gaud.  It has been used to throw conventional values into question, and to point out the fallacies in the concept of style by embodying them. 

 

We seek submissions of existing or proposed works of any shape or medium that reflect the theme of camp. 

 

The selected works will respond to and accentuate the dynamic nature of the lobby and stairwell spaces of the Drake Hotel. The show is scheduled to take place in summer 2010.

 

Please submit 3-5 images with an explanation of the work or proposed work, as well as 3-5 images of previous work and artist bio to drakecamp@gmail.com by January 31st, 2010.  

 

This show will be curated by York University graduate students Meghan Bissonnette, Anastasia Hare, and Colleen O’Reilly.

 

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13. 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 the project manager and technical director, as the case may be.

-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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14. ANNOUNCING: Performance Matters

Date: unspecified; Source: Live Art Development Agency

 

Performance Matters: rethinking why performance matters through the matter of performance

 

The Performance Matters website is now live:

www.thisisperformancematters.co.uk 

 

Performance Matters is a three-year creative research project bringing together artists, curators and academics to investigate the challenges that contemporary performance presents to ideas of cultural value. A collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, Roehampton University, and the Live Art Development Agency the project asks whether such forms of cultural practice are now being taken seriously in culture more broadly, and how they may possess the potential to refashion understandings of what, and how, things matter in the contemporary world.

 

Performance Matters will comprise numerous events and activities: collaborations between artists and writers on creative dialogue projects; a series of practical workshops; two public international symposia; the publication of a substantial book; the development of two innovative PhD projects; and a series of talks focused around the project’s concerns. 

 

The Performance Matters website will carry information about collaborators and events, announce news stories and updates on activities, as well as being a space for expanded writings, ideas and images about and around the issues at the heart of Performance Matters.

 

Between 2009 and 2012 Performance Matters will move through three themed years of interlinked research activities – Performing Idea, Trashing Performance and Potentials of Performance. In the first year, Performing Idea (2009/10) will investigate the shifting relations between performance practice and discourse, event and writing. In the second year, Trashing Performance (2010/11) will explore marginal and degraded performance practices in order to produce critical and cultural innovations through non-institutional manifestations and informal disseminations. The final year of the project, framed under the theme Potentials of Performance (2011/12), will culminate its processes in the creation of a book that will focus on questions of performance affect, political and cultural possibility.

 

Performance Matters will be of interest to a range of scholars, artists, curators, cultural workers and audiences across the fields of visual art, performance, theatre and dance. Performance Matters seeks to generate a new field of possibilities for research on, and as, contemporary performance; one which will find further fruit in the future practices of new generations of artists, performers and theorists.

 

To register your interest and keep up to date with Performance Matters, send an email to info@thisisperformancematters.co.uk with the subject heading ‘Register me’.

 

Performance Matters is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

www.thisisperformancematters.co.uk

 

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