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FADO E-LIST (January 2012)

FADO Performance Art Centre
E-Bulletin for January 2012

INDEX
1. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Intra Muros I by Martine Viale
Date: February 2 - 4, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: FADO
2. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Expectations by Sian Robertson Davies
Dates: February 15-19, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: FADO
3. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: The Milk Truck needs your stories
Date: immediately; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: FADO
4. CALL FOR VIDEOGRAPHER: The Milk Truck needs you!
Date: immediately; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: FADO
5. EVENT: Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak #01-2012
Date: January 28, 2012; City: Singapore: Source: R.I.T.E.S
6. EVENT: 8Fest
Dates: January 28 - 30, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: 8Fest
7. EVENT: The Artists Soup Kitchen
Dates: January 9-February 13, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Jess Dobkin
8. EVENT: 666_events
Dates: January 23 and 28, 2012; City: everywhere; Source: Matthew Lee Knowles
9. EVENT: The Ends of Audience Interdisciplinary Workshop
Deadline date: January 30, 2012; City: London, UK; Source: Darren ODonnell
10. EVENT: iUi # 2.5: International Festival of Contemporary Theatre & Performance
Dates: February 3-11, 2012; City: Yangon, Myanmar; Source: Theatre of the Disturbed
11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival
Deadline date: February 15, 2012; City: Chicago, USA: Source: Joseph Ravens
12. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival
Deadline date: February 17, 2012; City: Kuopio, Finland; Source: ANTI
13. WORKSHOP: Performing (Queer) Failure with Keith Hennessy
Dates: February 18-19, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Buddies in Bad Times
14. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Generation Dissemination, Le Labo
Deadline date: Feb 24, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Maggie Flynn
15. EVENT: Hardworkin Homosexuals present....EXPLAIN YOURSELF!
Date: February 26, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Keith Cole
16. EVENT: Labour: Performances by Northern & Southern Irish female artists
Dates: February + March 2012 (various); City: UK/Ireland; Source: Jess Dobkin
17. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Month of Performance Art (MPA)
Deadline date: March 1, 2012; Source: Andrés Galeano
18. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: International Laboratory Festival of Performance
Deadline date: March 5, 2012; City: Marseille, France: Source: Red Plexus
19. INTENSIVE PERFORMANCE ART WORKSHOP with Sylvie Tourangeau
Dates: March 30-April 1, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Sylvie Tourangeau
20. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: VISUALEYEZ 2012
Deadline date: April 27, 2012; City: Edmonton, Alberta; Source: Todd Janes
21. JUST RELEASED: IMAF 2011 Festival Catalogue
Date: unspecified: Source: Nenad Bogdanovic
22. CONFERENCE: PSi#18 conference
Dates: June 27-July 1, 2012; City: Leeds, UK; Source: Dr. Laura Cull

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1. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Intra Muros I, by Martine Viale
Date: February 2 - 4, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: FADO

FADO Performance Art Centre presents Intra Muros I
A performance installation by Martine Viale

Thursday February 2 -- Saturday February 4, 2012
Artscape Triangle Gallery
38 Abell Street, Toronto

Performance installation in progress: February 2 + 3, from 2pm-7pm
Closing performance action: Friday February 3, at 8pm (reception follows)
Artist talk: Saturday February 4, from 1-3pm
All events PWYC

Through self-displacement, successive actions and minimal materials, Intra Muros I proposes a sense of contemplation, as the artist gradually tries to accumulate meanings through a constant folding and unfolding of images. Pursuing a process based on persistence, Viales work suggests multiple stages of working, rather then presenting a completed product. Transformation through time and accumulation plays a major role in the elaboration of the work. The artists body becomes a doing body engaged in creating, layering and collecting traces of actions, which progressively transform the space and the artist herself.

Martine Viale is a Montréal based performance artist. Viale creates installations using the process of performance. In her work she values time, a direct engagement with the space and process action, allowing her to develop many perspectives at once. Her work has been presented in Montreal, and across Canada and internationally in Brazil, New York, Boston, The Philippines, France, Belgium, Serbia, Scotland, Spain and Denmark.

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2. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Expectations by Sian Robertson Davies
Dates: February 15-19, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: FADO

FADO Performance Art Centre is pleased to be co-presenting Expectations by Sian Roberston Davies, part of Buddies in Bad Times Theatres 33rd Rhubarb Festival

Wednesday February 15 -- Sunday February 19, 2012
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexandra Street, Toronto

Expectations started with the question; what do I hope to gain when going to see a performance? As I have spent a fair amount of time over the past couple of years doing them, seeing them and talking about them, Expectations is way of thinking about what it is in performances that leaves me feeling dissatisfied. Sian Robertson Davies studied at Goldsmiths in London. Her work has been presented and in art festivals and comedy nights throughout the UK. This will be the artists first time performing in North America. www.buddiesinbadtimes.com/show.cfm?id=857

*** Tickets for Sian Roberston Davies performance are sold through Buddies in Bad Times Theatre only. Tickets are $20 for an Evening Pass - which would include the chance to see Sians hilarious and charming performance about performance, as well as a roster of other great works.

THE RHUBARB FESTIVAL
Feb 8 -- 19, 2012
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Wed -- Sun, Evening Pass $20
Sunday Afternoons, PWYC
One-to-One Performances, PWYC
Mobile Works, FREE
Box Office 416-975-8555

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3. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: The Milk Truck needs your stories
Date: immediately; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: FADO

FADO Performance Art Centre presents The Milk Truck in Toronto
Part of New Maternalisms curated by Natalie Loveless
March 23-25, 2012

Ever breastfed your child in Toronto? The Milk Truck wants to hear from you.

Whether it was two weeks ago or twenty years ago, we want to hear your story. We are collecting stories of mothers breastfeeding experiences in the Toronto area - the good, the bad, the ugly. As part of the New Maternalisms performance art event presented by FADO Performance Art Centre, artist Jill Miller will head north in The Milk Truck from March 22-25, taking the truck on the road for the first time. Working in conjunction with the local breastfeeding community, Miller will visit local sites and businesses to discuss and commemorate the stories she receives from mothers. She will read letters, speak with business owners, and give awards and demerits as needed.

Maybe you were asked to leave an establishment for nursing in public. Or maybe a particular business offered you a glass of water in kindness as you nursed your baby. All stories are relevant as we try to create a collective snapshot of the city from the point of a breastfeeding mother and child. You need not be a local Toronto resident to tell your story. You simply need to have the experience of breastfeeding in the city of Toronto.

Contact: Jill Miller, The Milk Truck
jill@jillmiller.net
www.themilktruck.org

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4. CALL FOR VIDEOGRAPHER: The Milk Truck needs you!
Date: immediately; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: FADO

FADO Performance Art Centre presents The Milk Truck in Toronto
Part of New Maternalisms curated by Natalie Loveless
March 23-25, 2012

The Milk Truck is looking for a local videographer to document The Milk Trucks travels in Toronto, including its visits to local businesses who have discriminated against nursing mothers. Jill Miller, the creator of The Milk Truck, will read letters and texts, and open a dialogue with local business owners.

The Milk Truck is looking for someone to record and edit a video depicting the trucks travels for the weekend of March 22-25. This is an unpaid position; however, you will receive credit as the documentarian and editor of a video that will be shared widely amongst the art and motherhood community. Great exposure!

Please contact Jill Miller for more information: jill@jillmiller.net

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5. EVENT: Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak #01-2012
Date: January 28, 2012; City: Singapore: Source: R.I.T.E.S

Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak #01-2012 presents
Daniela Beltrani (Singapore/UK)
Kurt Johannessen (Norway)
Sinead ODonnell (Ireland)

7.30pm, Saturday, 28 January 2012
Gallery, Block B, Goodman Arts Centre
90 Goodman Road Singapore 439053

This is a free event, donations are welcomed.

More info: www.rootedintheephemeralspeak.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rootedintheephemeralspeak

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6. EVENT: 8Fest
Dates: January 28 - 30, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: 8Fest

Friday, January 27 at 11pm
Bagerooooo, five! Part 1 recent small-gauge filmmaking!

Sponsored by FADO Performance Art Centre

The 8 fest received enough submissions this year that we again decided to split our yearly Bageroo screening, devoted to this years highlights, into two programmes. These films were selected from an international call for recent Super 8 and Regular 8 films. Films by Zoë Heyn-Jones, caleb miller, Albert Trivino Masso, Aubrey Reeves, Leslie Supnet, Jason Halprin, Stephen Broomer and Christopher Boyne. Augmenting the selection of recent work are two commissioned works by Canadian artists Thirza Cuthand and Stefan St. Laurent, as well as a leadoff film-related performance by Halifax-based artist Eleanor King.

www.the8fest.com

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7. EVENT: The Artists Soup Kitchen
Dates: January 9-February 13, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Jess Dobkin

The Artists Soup Kitchen: Free Hot Lunches for Artists
January 9-February 13, Toronto

For six Monday afternoons this winter, artists can come to the ARTISTS SOUP KITCHEN for a FREE hot lunch. Each week is hosted by different artists who will bring their creative practices to the Soup Kitchen. We kick off the Kitchen on Monday, January 9 with a Dr. Seuss homage by artist Ulysses Castellanos, offering green eggs and ham. Then join us on January 16 for Mystic Pizza Crust divination readings by Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling. See below for the full menu of participating artists. A printed catalogue/recipe book will be made available in the spring.

THE ARTISTS SOUP KITCHEN
FREE hot lunches for artists
* a different menu each week! *
Mondays from 12-3pm
January 9 - February 13
at the Raging Spoon Cafe
761 Queen Street West, Toronto
Wheelchair accessible space
www.facebook.com/events/26104346394954

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8. EVENT: 666_events
Dates: January 23 and 28, 2012; City: everywhere; Source: Matthew Lee Knowles

I am sharing this global performance event with you, called 666_events. You can do it wherever you are in the world between the 23rd and 28th January 2012 and document your actions to share with the world.

See the links below for how to get involved:

Here is the vimeo group page:
http://vimeo.com/groups/sixhundredandsixtysixevents

Facebook event page:
www.facebook.com/events/349844671699183

Main Website:
www.sixhundredandsixtysixevents.com

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9. EVENT: The Ends of Audience Interdisciplinary Workshop
Deadline date: January 30, 2012; City: London, UK; Source: Darren ODonnell

www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/qmedia/audience/

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10. EVENT: iUi # 2.5: International Festival of Contemporary Theatre & Performance
Dates: February 3-11, 2012; City: Yangon, Myanmar; Source: Theatre of the Disturbed

iUi # 2.5 : International Festival of Contemporary Theatre & Performance

DATE & TIME

-Seminar: 3-4 February, 2012 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
-Special Screening & Lecture on Christoph Schlingensiefs theatre works: 5 February, 2012 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
-Open course: 6-9 February, 2012 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
-Performance presentation: 10-11 February, 2012
Screening (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) & Live performance (6 p.m. to 10 p.m.)

VENUE
Institut Francais de Birmanie
340, Pyay Road, Yangon, MYANMAR
Phone: + 95 (1) 536 900, 537 122

CONTACT
theatreofthedisturbed09@gmail.com
contact@theatreofthedisturbed.org
www.theatreofthedisturbed.org

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11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival

Deadline date: February 15, 2012; City: Chicago, USA: Source: Joseph Ravens

 

RAPID PULSE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
01 - 10 JUNE 2012 / DEFIBRILLATOR - CHICAGO - USA 

 

DEFIBRILLATOR performance art gallery is now accepting proposals for the first annual RAPID PULSE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL. Opening 01 JUNE and closing 10 JUNE 2012, the festival aims to represent a vast range of styles and forms in order to provoke thought and stimulate discourse surrounding performance art.
RAPID PULSE embraces work that is profoundly influenced by time and is therefore transitory, fleeting, or temporary. We are seeking proposals for performance art, art actions, durational performance, public interventions, installations, site specific performance, social sculpture, or any other time-based form that does not sit comfortably within pre-established genres or disciplines. 


DEFIBRILLATOR provides a place to conceive, present, and promote performance art. Now in it’s second year, DEFIBRILLATOR invigorates Chicago by bringing to the city artists from around the world. Dynamic programming, decidedly varied and unique, is a priority at DEFIBRILLATOR. In an effort to cultivate appreciation for performance among the general public, we encourage visiting artists to present workshops, artist talks, lectures, or other forms of discourse.  


The festival will contain six evenings of performance. Every event will feature three artists/groups. The first is invited from the US or abroad. The second is an artist from anywhere in the world who is selected through this CALL FOR PROPOSALS. The third is an artist from the American Midwest who is either invited or selected through this CALL FOR PROPOSALS.


RAPID PULSE will also include random public performances, screenings, workshops, lectures and conversations. Spilling over to other venues in the Wicker Park neighborhood, the festival will be fully publicized and, given it’s novelty and the popularity of DEFIBRILLATOR, should garner a moderate amount of press coverage.

Though we are seeking additional funding, we regret that at this time we are not able to pay for travel. However, up to six days of accommodation and meals will be provided. There is also a small budget for props, materials, or shipping. It is possible that artists might receive a modest stipend based on attendance, donation, or additional funding. The artists will receive a printed catalog and access to their documentation. Formal letters of invitation will be given to the selected artists so they may find funding in their home countries. Notification will be given on March 1, 2012.

In order to apply for the RAPID PULSE FESTIVAL you must submit a link to online work samples (for example, tumblr or vimeo).


CLICK HERE to fill out the ONLINE APPLICATION

 

12. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival

Deadline date: February 17, 2012; City: Kuopio, Finland; Source: ANTI

 

ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, 25 – 30 Sept 2012, Kuopio, Finland
Call for Proposals 2012
Wanted: Live Art for Children!

ANTI is an international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space. Over the past 10 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 the spaces of everyday life.
 
We are looking for innovative and exciting live art works for children. ANTI has a long history of presenting ground breaking projects for children and this year our annual call out is focused on finding something truly inspiring. We especially invite proposals from contemporary performance makers who have not made work for children before but would like to produce something for a young audience. In previous years companies and artists like Gwendoline Robin, Lone Twin and Mammalian Diving Reflex have presented outstanding work for children at ANTI. That’s the tradition we want to continue: great work made by great contemporary artists for children.
 
Your project can take any form – it may be participatory and children do something with you, or it might be something a young audience encounters by surprise, or anything in between. Your project may last 30 minutes or seven days. It may be for an audience of one, or hundreds and projects should be targeted at specific age groups – from new-borns to teenagers.
 
ANTI is a site-specific festival – we do not show work in traditional art spaces, neither do we show touring street theatre: all our projects have a direct relationship with the spaces and places they are shown in. When proposing a project please make it very clear where your project would ideally be located, and why. Before making your proposal please visit http://www.antifestival.com and spend some time with the archive to get a sense of the festival and Kuopio.
 
All proposals must be sent using the electronic form on the festival website: www.antifestival.com/2011/eng/info/proposals/ 


The form allows a link to be made to any online documentation artist’s may have of previous work and for artists to attach their CV and three images of their work. Any proposals that do not conform to these guidelines will not be considered. The proposal deadline is February 17th 2012.

Further information: info@antifestival.com 

 

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13. WORKSHOP: Performing (Queer) Failure with Keith Hennessy

Dates: February 18-19, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Buddies in Bad Times

 

PERFORMING (QUEER) FAILURE:

A WORKSHOP WITH KEITH HENNESSY

 

February 18-19 | 1-5pm | Hub14

 

Buddies and Hub 14 are thrilled to work together to offer this very exciting, FREE workshop with internationally-acclaimed performance artist Keith Hennessy as part of The 33rd Rhubarb Festival.

 

Working in relationship to queer - as perspective, practice, tactic, handicap and identity - participants will spend two days investigating failure. Failure as generative. Failure as politically subversive. Failure as disappointment. Acknowledging and then exploiting the gap between ideal and real.

 

This a free workshop, but space is limited. To register, send a brief paragraph (maximum 1-page) introducing your work, experience and any questions or ambitions you are currently exploring to laura@buddiesinbadtimes.com - applications are due Tuesday, January 31.

 

More info on Keith Hennessy's work at circozero.org

 

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14. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Generation Dissemination, Le Labo
Deadline date: Feb 24, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Maggie Flynn

Call for Proposals: Generation Dissemination

It's natural for artists to want to make history – for their work to be known and recorded. It's a very different goal for artists to participate in the recording of history in general. The production of documentation (of art and as art) is a practice that intertwines and dialogues with the reportage of current events. When artists use documentation in their practice, they construct an interpretation of their artwork or subject. The choice of medium and distribution method of art documentation then determines its trajectory into the world and into the future. The relation between documentation and its subject is more complicated than ever: an installation is live streamed, net art leaves a constant digital trace, everyday activities are documented as a performance for video. How might the methods of the documentation and distribution of art affect the recording and framing of history made today? How will today's history be read tomorrow?

Seeking proposals from artists working in (but not limited to) video, film, interactive art, net art, performance or installation. Artists are asked to propose a layered work that involves an “original” gesture, and documentation of or through that gesture. Original gestures may take place anywhere outside of the gallery (ex: site-specific installation, distant geographic location, private performance) and should take place within the dates of the exhibition. Documentation of this gesture will be produced by the artist and mounted in the gallery before the closing of the exhibition. Proposed projects should consider the exhibition format. The use of documentation should be a central aspect of the work. Questions or clarifications are welcome at the contact address below.

This exhibition is curated by Maggie Flynn for Le Labo's curatorial mentorship program under the guidance of Alissa Firth-Eagland. Le Labo (www.lelabo.ca) is an artist-run centre with a mandate to produce and promote francophone media art and interdisciplinary projects. This project will accept proposals from both francophone and non-francophone artists. The exhibition will take place in April 2012. Artist fees will be paid and modest travel costs may be accommodated.

Proposals should include:
- CV
- Artist statement (1 paragraph)
- Description of the proposed project (1 page max: Include technical/materials information. Describe site and context of the original gesture, the process of documentation.)
- Support material (5 -10 images, links or video/audio of past work)
- Support material list (include context, duration, date)

Please send submissions to: contact@maggieflynn.ca
Deadline: Friday February 24, 2012

 

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15. EVENT: Hardworkin’ Homosexuals present….EXPLAIN YOURSELF!

Date: February 26, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Keith Cole

 

EXPLAIN YOURSELF! is a new performance series brought to you by the Hardworkin’ Homosexuals – the super great people who brought you Cheap Queers for so many years. 

 

A one-night-only affair, EXPLAIN YOURSELF! is the first in a new series that creates events around select publications that take up the topic of Queer literature, performance, theory and culture. For the first edition of EXPLAIN YOURSELF! we celebrate the launch of Canadian Theatre Review: Queer Performance: Women and Trans Artists. This edition of The Canadian Theatre Review was edited by Moynan King and features the performance script of Jess Dobkin’s Everything I’ve Got and articles on The Boychoir of Lesbos, Trey Anthony, Nathalie Claude, Hope Thompson plus several other influential Canadian women, lesbian and trans performers. Dayna McLeod is set to host this inaugural event!

 

EXPLAIN YOURSELF! is a performance event that asks artists to perform an analysis, from a personal point of view, of current Queer culture in any shape of form they desire – the forum is wide open but time is of the essence – the audience can expect rapid fire performances lasting 2 – 5 minutes. 

 

EXPLAIN YOURSELF! is a response to the recent explosion of Queer Theory not only as critical theory but as a performative practice. Plus it is a great place to meet Tops! A complete list of confirmed performers to be announced soon.

 

EXPLAIN YOURSELF! First Edition! Practice Your Queer Theory! Experience Creative Probing! Meet Tops!

 

Hardworkin’ Homosexuals are: Moynan King, Keith Cole and Jonathan Da Silva and we are pleased to be back in business to celebrate the launch of Canadian Theatre Review (issue #149) Queer Performance: Women and Trans Artists edited by Moynan King.

 

Hardworkin’ Homosexuals presents EXPLAIN YOURSELF! First Edition

Hosted By: Dayna McLeod

One Night Only! Sunday February 26th, 2012 @8pm

Goodhandy’s, 120 Church Street – www.goodhandys.com

Admission: $6.00 at the door // $5.75 if you are or bring a Top

 

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16. EVENT: Labour: Performances by Northern & Southern Irish female artists

Dates: February + March 2012 (various); City: UK/Ireland; Source: Jess Dobkin

 

Anne Quail

Elvira Santamaria Torres 

Amanda Coogan

Pauline Cummins

Ann Maria Healy

Chrissie Cadman

Frances Mezzeti

Áine O’Dwyer

Áine Phillips

Helena Walsh

Michelle Browne

 

LABOUR is a touring exhibition of Live Art, featuring eleven leading female artists who are resident within, or native to, Northern and Southern Ireland. LABOUR offers audiences unprecedented access to a huge body of live performance work by some of the most radical and exciting women artists emerging from an Irish cultural context. 

 

LABOUR will launch in London, on the 9th and 10th of February, then tour to Derry/Londonderry (Feb 24th and 25th). The final exhibition and surrounding events will take place in Dublin on March 9th and 10th to coincide with International Women’s Day 2012. 

 

LABOUR interrogates the gendered representational frameworks prevalent within an Irish cultural context that produce, limit and devalue, various forms of female labour. In each durational exhibition participating artists will perform simultaneously for eight consecutive hours, reflecting the duration of an average working day. Set within the shadows of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries, LABOUR explores current shifts in the political and economic climate within an Irish cultural context.

 

LABOUR aims to develop critical and creative dialogues around the female body in an Irish cultural context and its broader geo-political significance. The live events will be accompanied by a programme of scheduled conversations with the artists (London & Derry/Londonderry), a symposium (Dublin) and the exhibition of materials and documents from Brutal Silences: Live Art and Irish Culture - a Study Room Guide commissioned by the Live Art Development Agency and authored by participating artists Ann Maria Healy and Helena Walsh (London). 

 

Event Dates & Times

All Artists talks and the Dublin symposium are free to attend, but booking is essential. To secure your booking at any of these events, please contact the LABOUR Team at: labourliveart@gmail.com - All performances are free to attend and audiences may come & go as they please over the course of the 8 hour duration. 

 

London:

Thursday 9th Feb: Live performance from 1pm-9pm ]performance s p a c e [

Unit 6 Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, Hackney Wick E95 EN.

9th to 16th of Feb: Materials and documents from Brutal Silences: Live Art and Irish Culture will be accessible to audiences in ]performance s p a c e [from  9th to 16th of February.]

 

Friday 10th of Feb: Post–show dialogue, 6.30-9pm, The Pinter Studio, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

 

Derry / Londonderry:

Friday 24th Feb: Artist talk, 6.30-9pm,Void Gallery, Patrick Street BT48 7EL

Saturday 25th Feb: Live Performance 11-7pm Void Gallery, 

 

Dublin:

Friday 9th March:  Symposium 12-5pm, The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 

Saturday 10th: Live performance 9.30am-5.30pm, The Lab. 

 

LABOUR is curated by: Chrissie Cadman, Amanda Coogan and Helena Walsh. The project has been produced by Benjamin Sebastian of ]performance s p a c e [ and supported by the Live Art Development Agency, Sheena Barrett of the Lab, Dublin, Maoliosa Boyle of Void Gallery, Derry / Londonderry, The Drama Department of Queen Mary University of London, The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (Gradcam), Dublin and The University of Ulster, Belfast, The Arts Council of Ireland.

 

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17. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Month of Performance Art (MPA)

Deadline date: March 1, 2012; Source: Andrés Galeano

 

BERLIN – MAY 2012

DEADLINE: MARCH 1ST, 2012

 

The MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART is a month-long platform dedicated to intersecting, promoting and highlighting Berlin’s independent and contemporary Performance Art scene and its players. Running for its second year, and due in May 2012, the MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART brings together artists, curators, producers, venues, networks and organisations which operate beyond and across the boundaries of institutionalised performing arts structures, with the objective of:

-facilitating connections and developing actions of cooperation amongst hosting venues, curators and other independent players working in the field of Performance Art;

-promoting, and drawing attention to a thriving but often overlooked community of artists and Performance Art practitioners whose work challenges, explores and embodies a multiplicity of artistic forms and languages;

-fostering innovative critical discourses and practice-based exchanges and interactions, between Performance Art makers and audiences;

-documenting, and thus tracing as well as enriching, the contemporary history of Performance Art practices existing in the city through the annual Berlin Performance Art Report.

 

With this Call for Participation, we would like to hear from potential venues, organisations, and networks, as well as curators and producers interested in contributing to the programming of the MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART as hosting partners. As a hosting partner you will be in charge of curating the artistic programming of your space during the MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART in May 2012. In return, we will provide a platform (website, promotion, production support), which will:

-bring wider exposure of your activities and curatorial practices, through press and PR work;

-establish a broad intersecting national and international network of independent Performance Art practitioners, which you will be part of;

-include your activities in the annual Berlin Performance Art report

 

If you would like to participate to the MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART 2012 please fill out the application form found on the website, and email it back to info@mpa-b.org by MARCH 1ST, 2012. We look forward to hearing from you, and should you have any query please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

www.mpa-b.org

www.performberlin.wordpress.com

www.facebook.com/pages/Perform-Berlin/151724864888247

www.flickr.com/photos/mpa-berlin

 

Nathalie Fari, Hosting Partners Coordinator

nathalie@mpa-b.org

 

For further information please contact:

Francesca Romana Ciardi: francesca@mpa-b.org

Stefan Riebel: stefan@mpa-b.org

 

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18. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: International Laboratory Festival of Performance

Deadline date: March 5, 2012; City: Marseille, France: Source: Red Plexus

 

International Laboratory Festival of Performance

RedPlexus, network of exchanges and diffusion of new forms of performance

Dates: 19-29 September 2012 - Marseille, France

 

The financial crisis, bank’s debts, OWS, protest movements, arab revolutions, police repression, increasing precarity, the feeling of insecurity...How do you continue to live in this world in crisis? How do you react as an artist? What kind of artistic devices can we invent, what kind of artistic actions can we make in public space in order to live in another way in urban space? How can we explore what’s possible? How can we make our daily life more intense? How can we play with codes and conventions?

 

PDU is a Festival laboratory combining artistic demands and experimentations. 10 days of Experimentations, of Exchanges, of artistic Confrontations and of Diffusion of Performance in urban places of Marseille leading to Important Moments. 10 days of unannounced moments which take place in urban and social context which are discovered by chance and of RV communicated to the public (Avis de Chantier, Désordre en Friche, Itinéraire de Désordre, Préavis d’Insomnie, meetings in bars, Cartes blanches)

 

The spirit of the 6th edition:

How do you continue to live in this world in crisis?

How do you make the public sphere more enchanted?

How do you propose new forms of exchange in the city in a context of security drift?

 

We’re particularly interested in projects that: urban dwellers can share with performers and sometimes even become part of the performance and can fit to social abandoned urban places

 

For submission guidelines and festival information: www.redplexus.org

 

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19. INTENSIVE PERFORMANCE ART WORKSHOP with Sylvie Tourangeau

Dates: March 30-April 1, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Sylvie Tourangeau

 

PLACE: Roseneath Theatre Studio Space (651 Dufferin Street, 3rd Floor)
COST: $250.

PARTICIPANTS: 8

 

PERFORMANCE ART I and II

This collective, experimentation workshop is being offered to artists who are interested performance as a means of expression.

 

Through a gradual yet intensive learning process, this workshop will introduce participants to what is involved in the creation of a live action piece. Participants will work on presence, precision of intention and direct channeling practices, eventually working with more personalized, unpredictable and precise performative actions and structures.

 

The workshop will focus on various exercises such as centering, observation, energy storing and intensity channeling, mock performances, individual activities and short solo and group presentations.  The intention of this workshop is enable the participants to develop a distinctive practice by thus learn to:

-Understand some basic principles of performance

-Manifest an authentic presence

-Communicate in accordance with performance art practice

-Personalize their approach by combining movements, words, images, objects, words, sound research etc.

 

This workshop aims to inspire the artistic process of each participant, regardless of their discipline and their artistic creation interests.

 

GENERAL METHODOLOGY

Thanks to a progressive learning process, hands-on exercises, presentations with instructions, dynamic feedback, constructive commentaries, individual coaching before the group, and analysis of basic principles, the participants will discover how to be conscious of the present moment, and experience various states of mind in the context of structuring performative actions. 

 

PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH

A highly regarded pioneer of performance art in Quebec, Sylvie Tourangeau has developed an active pedagogical approach intricately linked with her artistic research by giving form to notions such as dynamic motivation-connection-amplitude-action, inter-action, underlying self-coherence, etc.

 

The distinctiveness of Sylvie Tourangeau’s teaching comes from over twenty-five years experience as an instructor of intensive performance art workshops during which she acquired a specialized expertise in the performative mode. This performer-teacher pays particular attention to each participant’s singularity and thus concentrates on the development of a distinct artistic work process.

 

“Let your own performative attitude go into action before establishing a relationship with the performer who you are.”

 

BIOGRAPHIC NOTE ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Sylvie Tourangeau, who has been active in performance art since 1978, is interested in the unfolding of performative consciousness through minimal actions, which amplify the quality of presence, underpin intensity and personify the connection with the viewer. Performance, relational art, occasional ritual and workshop teaching are practices she has carried out for nearly 30 years. She has collaborated in the creation of artist books and written over thirty articles.

 

To secure your spot, a $50 deposit (not refundable) is required before March 10, 2012.

For more information, contact: perfostourangeau@gmail.com

 

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20. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: VISUALEYEZ 2012

Deadline date: April 27, 2012; City: Edmonton, Alberta; Source: Todd Janes

 

The Thirteenth annual Visualeyez festival of performance art happens from 10–16 September 2012 in the downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta, exploring on the curatorial theme of loneliness. 

 

Visualeyez takes place over a period of seven days and it is required that all invited artists are able to attend for the entire length of the festival. Artists experience the work of other artists; engage in discussion groups, meals and other activities that enhance the work of individual artists and the performance art community within Canada and beyond. It is important that prior to submitting that artist is available for a minimum of six days during the festival. Please visit www.visualeyez.org for the past festival information. 

 

Curator and Founder of Visualeyez, Todd Janes states, “Visualeyez 2012 builds upon notions of an ever-expanding and more urban city. This theme will explore issues such as emotional versus social isolation, chronic and transient states of loneliness within the city and our inter-relationships with crowds, emptiness and intimacy. I want to present artists that will explore the theme of loneliness and enhance dialogues regarding the societal issues, community connectivity and understanding of the concept and its impact on individuals and society as a whole.”

 

Proposals should include: a CV; artist statement; a detailed description of the work you wish to present, or explore; and support material that can include images, video, print or digital documentation of your work, catalogues, and press.

 

If you would like your materials returned to you, please also include sufficient postage or courier materials. Artists shall be contacted by mid-June 2012 regarding the status of their proposals.

 

Proposals by post to:

Visualeyez 2012

Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture

10248 106 Street, Edmonton, Alberta Canada T5J 1H5

Attention: Todd Janes, Executive Director

 

Proposals by email to: todd.janes@latitude53.org.

Please be courteous of image size and materials that you are sending.

Please place Visualeyez 2012 submission in the subject line.

 

Visualeyez is supported, in part by Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Edmonton, Alberta

 

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21. JUST RELEASED: IMAF 2011 Festival Catalogue

Date: unspecified: Source: Nenad Bogdanovic

 

The 13th International Multimedial Art Festival – IMAF 2011

September - November 2011

 

CD catalogue in PDF format, Edition of 400 copies 

Texts in English

Video of live performances

 

IMAF 2011 participants:

Bada Dada (Hungary), Marko Bogdanovic (Serbia), Radoslav B. Chugaly (Serbia),

Elena Italia (Italy), Peter Baren (The Netherlands), Stanisa Krstic (Serbia), Jozsef Biro (Hungary), Aleksandar Jovanovic (Serbia), Robert Pugh (United Kingdom), Shaun Caton (United Kingdom), Seiji Shimoda (Japan), Laszlo Lantos-Triceps (Hungary), Mari Falcsik (Hungary), Nenad Bogdanovic (Serbia), Cristobal Yanez Lanzarini (Chile)

 

A lot of photos from live art performances! With text by Nenad Bogdanovic.

 

To purchase this catalogue, contact: nb.liveart@gmail.com

 

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22. CONFERENCE: PSi#18 conference

Dates: June 27-July 1, 2012; City: Leeds, UK; Source: Dr. Laura Cull

 

PSi#18 conference - registration now open

PSi#18 performance: culture : industry
27th June -1st July 2012, University of Leeds, UK
www.psi18.org

We invite academics, artists and other practitioners to debate, develop, contest and celebrate the relationships between culture, industry and performance - now, in the past, and in possible futures. We have the following areas in mind; and our minds are open to more:

Value and efficacy
Commercial and amateur
Cultural articulations
Relations and determinations
Training, labour and innovation
Economy / Ecology

We have planned over 400 sessions presented by more than 550 scholars, artists and activists from all corners of the globe.
In the same week as the conference  Ludus Festival Leeds, a festival of international theatre and performance in venues across Leeds, will also be running. The programme for Ludus Festival Leeds will be announced shortly.

The deadline for proposals has now passed but you can register to participate as a delegate from here: http://www.psi18.org/registration/

Dr Laura Cull
Lecturer
Performing Arts
Department of the Arts
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne

 

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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.