FADO E-Bulletin for October 2012
INDEX
1. FADO NEW WRITING on the FADO website by Christine Pountney
2. FADO EVENT: FADO presents 3 artists at the 2012 7a*11d Festival
Date: October 24-28, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada
3. EVENT: The Lion’s Share by Rita McKeough
Date: October 4, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Tanya Mars
4. EVENT: CO-LAB Editions 10 presents Jelili Atiku and Lan Hungh
Date: October 7, 2012; City: Berlin, Germany; Source: Márcio Carvalho
5. EVENT: Momentum #6 Performance-Art Festival
Date: October 5-7, 2012; Brussels, Belgium; Source: Alice De Visscher
6. EVENT: October 2012 issue of PAErsche
Date: October 9-11, 2012: City: Köln, Germany: Source: Boris Nieslony
7. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Yukon College
Date: October 9, 2012; City: Dawson, Yukon; Source: Kyla MacArthur
8. WORKSHOP: Fall Classes 2012 - Intro to Scores/Class/Solo Dancing
Date: October 11, 2012 (start date); City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Dawn Christie
9. EVENT: PAiN Dinner Tour - an all senses meal-experience
Date: October 12, 2012; City: Norrbotten, Sweden; Source: Johannes Blomqvist
10. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Canada Council for the Arts
Date: October 18, 2012; City: Ottawa, Ontario; Source: Canada Council for the Arts
11. EVENT: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art – Toronto
Date: October 24-28, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: 7a*11d
12. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Margaret Dragu as Nuestra Senora del Pan
Date: October 31, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Pam Patterson
13. EVENT: SYSTEM HM2T at Ulster Bank Belfast Festival
Date: October 31, 2012; City: Belfast, N.Ireland: Source: Helge Meyer
14. EVENT: Performance and Recent Videos by Shana Moulton
Date: November 2, 21012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Tom Taylor
15. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: To Act
December 14, 2012; City: Montreal, Canada: Source: unspecified
16. CALL FOR ARTISTS: Artist-based research project by Lezli Rubin-Kunda
Date: unspecified: City: The World; Source: Lezli Rubin-Kunda
17. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: GalataPerform 8th Visibility Project
Date: October 25, 2012; City: Istanbul; Source: GalataPerform
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1. FADO NEW WRITING on the FADO website by Christine Pountney
Please check out two new essays on the FADO website, written by Christine Pountney, on the performance work of Andrea Saemann and Claudia Bucher, who presented new solo performances at FADO on September 8, 2012.
On Claudia Bucher:
www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=pubarticle&id=43
On Andrea Saemann:
www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=pubarticle&id=44
Christine Pountney lives and works in Toronto and has published two novels, Last Chance Texaco and The best way you know how (Faber & Faber). Her third, Sweet Jesus, was released in September with McClelland and Stuart. She is currently exploring the world of children's stories and will soon begin a serialization of Madeline stories on her forthcoming website. She is mother to a four-year old son, Leo.
PLUS
Check out the new image galleries here:
www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=page&id=53
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2. FADO EVENT: FADO presents 3 artists at the 2012 7a*11d Festival
Date: October 24-28, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada
FADO Performance Art Centre is proud to be partnering with the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art once again to present the work of three of Scandinavia's most interesting performance artists: Tomasz Szrama, Denis Romanovski and Magnús Logi Kristinsson.
Magnús Logi Kristinsson (Iceland/Finland)
October 24, 2012 @ 8pm
Magnüs Logi Kristinsson was born in1975 in Reykjavík, Iceland. He moved to Amsterdam in 1999 to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, where he discovered performance art, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Masters of Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, where he now lives and works. Kristinsson’s main focus has been creating performances where he reads various lists. He also makes durational performances where he blends in with the general public. From 2005 to 2007 Kristinsson performed with the interdisciplinary performance group Oblivia. Kristinsson has presented his works throughout Europe and the USA.
www.maggilogi.com
Denis Romanovski (Belarus/Sweden)
October 25, 2012 @ 8pm
Denis Romanovski was born in 1970 in Minsk, Belarus. He currently lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He works in performance art, experimental forms of digital media, and artistic research. His work has been presented in international festivals and exhibitions in Belarus, Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Thailand, UK, and the USA. He is also an active performance art organizer, including international performance art festivals: Navinki 1991-2008 (Belarus), Navinki-Weld 2008 (Sweden), No-budget Performance: a Stockholm Odysssey 2010-2011 (Sweden), PALS - Performance Art Links 2012 (Sweden).
www.romancovski.se
Tomasz Szrama (Poland/Finland)
October 26, 2012 @ 8pm
Tomasz Szrama (b. 1970) graduated from the Fine Art Academy in Wroclaw, Poland (1998) and he currently lives in Helsinki, Finland. Since 2005, he has been one of the organizers of New Art Contact performance art events, and in 2011 he co-organized the Fake Finn Festival of Experimental Art. Szrama also documents experimental art festivals and live art events. He presently works at the Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP).
For more information on the festival go to: www.7a-11d.ca
For more information on the artists on the FADO website: www.performanceart.ca/index.php
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3. EVENT: The Lion’s Share by Rita McKeough
Date: October 4, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Tanya Mars
The Lion’s Share by Rita McKeough
Doris McCarthy Gallery
UTSC – University of Toronto Scarborough Campus
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~dmg/
Join us this Thursday, October 4 as we (offically) celebrate our new exhibition, Rita McKeough: The Lion's Share. From 6 - 8 pm, Rita will deliver an ongoing performance throughout campus. Visitors are welcome to watch the performance at any point, for as long as they wish, and to gather at the gallery for a reception from 7 - 9 pm (the artist will be present, post-performance). We're not lion, it's going to be a great evening!
Free shuttle bus to the DMG departs Hart House (7 Hart House Circle) at 6 pm, to return at 9:30 pm.
October 4 is also ARTSIDEOUT, the annual student-run, campus-wide festival of the arts at the University of Toronto Scarborough. With installations, performances and exhibitions across a wide range of disciplines, ARTSIDEOUT is a showcase of student work and creative activity.
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4. EVENT: CO-LAB Editions 10 presents Jelili Atiku and Lan Hungh
Date: October 7, 2012; City: Berlin, Germany; Source: Márcio Carvalho
COLLABORATION BETWEEN
JELILI ATIKU (NIGERIA), LAN HUNGH (TAIWAN)
Residence Time: 03/10 TO 08/10/2012
Work Presentation: Sunday October 7, 2012
Doors Open @ 7pm (FREE)
SAVVY CONTEMPORARY
Richardstrasse 43/44, 12055 Berlin
http://co-labeditions.blogspot.de/
Within the 2 years that CO-LAB editions performance series has run, the program explored many formulas for collaborative art practice. Accomplishing 9 editions with 22 artists from an array of cultural backgrounds, Co-Lab challenged pairs of artists to negotiate their personal artistic practice, share praxis and production information, and collaborate on new co-authored, performance work. By observing and reviewing these 9 editions, it became apparent that often times in these collaborations, the artists' personal artistic authorship was a secondary concern in the final performance collaboration.
In Co-Lab 10, the final chapter in the Co-Lab series, we pose the question whether artists can take this idea of co-authorship, which happened naturally within the conditions of the program, to yet another level and forgot it all together. For this edition we invite artists, Jelili Atiku and Lan Hungh, to test their desire and ability to give up creative authorship by engaging and allowing audience members to act as co-collaborators and creators of an artwork.
The performer/audience relation is often a key factor in performance art, with many works being lead and dictated by the participation of the audience, whether in an active or passive role. Therefore, the idea of collaboration between performer and audience already exists, although the audience is not credited as a co-author/ creator of the performance. However, what would happen when artist and audience have the same agency? Can it be possible to erase the lines between performer and audience, resulting in an equally shared creative authorship? Co-Lab 10 is excited to investigate the practicalities and problematics of expanding authorship to the audience, thus redefining its boundaries and the artist/audience relationship.
Jelili Atiku (Nigeria) is a multimedia artist with political concerns for human rights and justice. Through drawing, installation sculpture, photography, video and live art performance; he strives to help viewers understand the world and expand their understanding and experiences.
Lan Hungh (Taiwan) has a practice that consists of performance, music, installation, video, sculpture and curatorial work. Influenced by Asian culture, Hungh artistically employs subtle references to denounce violence and question contemporary ways of life.
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5. EVENT: Momentum #6 Performance-Art Festival
Date: October 5-7, 2012; Brussels, Belgium; Source: Alice De Visscher
On the 5th, 6th and 7th of October MOMENTUM#6 proposes an entire weekend dedicated to Performance Art, including a workshop and diverse parallel events.
MOMENTUM - Platform for Performance-Art is a now biennial international festival focusing on visual art performance.
MOMENTUM offers a platform for internationally renowned artists and young upcoming artists who consider Performance-Art as their primary medium. Throughout the festival the audience has the opportunity to discover the many facets of Performance-Art. Momentum is a place where public, artists and curators can meet and exchange ideas.
Momentum#6 is supported by the artists and the organizers themselves, as well as the collaborating partners: Charleroi-Danse-La Raffinerie, Q-O2, Okno, ARTS2, La Cambre Arts Visuels, Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.
ARTISTS
Andrés Galeano (ES/DE)
Eglantine Chaumont (BE)
John Boehme (CAN)
Nick Defour (BE)
Rachel Echenberg (CAN)
Sandra Johnston (IRL)
Sofia Greff (DE)
Tamar Raban (IL)
Willem Wilhelmus (FIN)
Ieke Trinks (NL)
Performances:
Friday 5 @ 20:00
23 Henegouwenkaai 1080 Brussels
Performances by Willem Wilhelmus, Sofia Greff, Eglantine Chaumont, Rachel Echenberg Collectif Auquai : Quai du Hainaut
Saturday 6 @ 20:00
(23 Henegouwenkaai 1080 Brussels
Performances by John Boehme, Nick Defour, duo Andres Galeano/Ieke Trinks, Sandra Johnston, Tamar Raban, Collectif Auquai : Quai du Hainaut
Sunday 7
Q-O2 : Quai des Charbonnages 30-34 Koolmijnenkaai 1080 Brussels
@ 11:00 public presentation by the participants of Tamar Raban workshop
@ 13:00 Brunch and round table
Events at Art Schools:
Wednesday 3 @ 15:00
Erg Ècole de recherche graphique : rue du Page 87 Edelknaapstraat, 1050 Brussels
Performance/lecture by (Rachel Echenberg
Thursday 4 @ 10:00 -17:00
sARTS2, …cole supÈrieure des arts : rue de Nimy 7, 7000 Mons
Workshop by Sandra Johnston and Willem Wilhelmu
Friday 5 @ 10:00
Lecture by Andres Galeano
La Cambre, …cole nationale supÈrieure des arts visuels : Abbaye de La Cambre 21 Abdij Ter Kameren, (1000 Brussels
Workshop
Monday 1 - Sunday 7
10:00-17:00
Workshop by Tamar Raban
Charleroi/Danses - La Raffinerie : Rue de Manchester 21 Manchesterstraat 1080
www.momentum-festival.org
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6. EVENT: October 2012 issue of PAErsche
Date: October 9-11, 2012: City: Köln, Germany: Source: Boris Nieslony
PAErsche will organize the October issue 2012
„Displacing Time II - Aus-Setzen“
09.10.2012 / 20:00
Invited are for Künstlerforum / Bonn following artists
Poppy Jackson
Béatrice Didier
Pia Müller
Christian Schmidt-Chemnitzer
Ieke Trinks
The evening will end with a PAErsche "Open Source Performances" including the invited guests.
10.10.2012 / 20:00
Invited are for the Orangerie-Theater / Köln following artists
Surya Tüchler
Christian Schmidt-Chemnitzer
Peter Baren
Tim Tiedemann
The evening will end with a PAErsche "Open Source Performances" including the invited guests.
11.10.2012 / 20:00
Invited for the Maschinenhaus Zeche Carl / Essen following artists
Frank Hohmeyer
Tim Tiedemann
Evamaria Schaller
Susanne Helmes
Mark Met
The evening will end with a PAErsche "Open Source Performances" including the invited guests.
More information:
www.PAErsche.org
www.facebook.com/pages/PAErsche/151899561534106
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7. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Yukon College
Date: October 9, 2012; City: Dawson, Yukon; Source: Kyla MacArthur
Yukon College: Program Director
The Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA) is an accredited art school located in the historic town of Dawson City. Through a partnership between the Dawson City Arts Society, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation and Yukon College, the school offers a unique Foundation Year Arts program integrating studies in traditional and contemporary art practices, history and theory. The SOVA Foundation Year is entering its sixth year of programming.
Yukon College is seeking a highly motivated professional to work with the College and the SOVA Governance Council to lead SOVA into the next phase of its development. The Program Director and Chair will be responsible for meeting student recruitment targets, developing and implementing strategic plans for marketing and recruitment and building the profile of SOVA locally, nationally and internationally through relationship building and community outreach. Academic management and continued growth and development of SOVA programming are also key responsibilities of this position.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of a Master’s degree in Fine Arts, Education or a closely related area, plus a certificate and/or equivalent experience in Arts Administration combined with experience in post-secondary education and in managing and coordinating programs and people in a cross-cultural environment. Previous experiences in teaching Visual Arts and in writing successful grant proposals are also required.
Working knowledge of a variety of digital media, hardware and software, experience teaching in a post-secondary and/or having other teaching experience and experience working in a post-secondary context would be considered assets.
Please send your resume to:
Human Resource Services
Yukon College, Box 2799
Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4
Fax #: (867) 668-8896
Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
More information here:
www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/info/hr_12.111
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8. WORKSHOP: Fall Classes 2012 - Intro to Scores/Class/Solo Dancing
Date: October 11, 2012 (start date); City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Dawn Christie
Introduction to Scores
$200/10-class series*
Maximum 12 participants; drop-ins welcome if space allows
Open to all
Thursdays October 11-December 13 2012, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Gabriella Studio (180 Sudbury St., 1 block east of Dufferin south of Queen St. W.)
”My interest in dance is rekindled in a lovely new way... I feel like I understand the secrets of why we move a little better. The idea of dance is no longer limited, in my mind, to the performance of gestures and the mastery of athleticism...”
Taking time to identify and locate our bones, the skeletal system will be our first improvisational structure or score, providing the basis for an exploration of ease a warm-up that moves first through the joints, then in and out of the floor, through space and with each other. From there, the group will investigate compositional scores, developing a common language with which to create. Witnessing and sharing our experiences are integral aspects of this class that reveals dance in its simplest, richest places. Guests are welcome to attend the final session.
Class
$250/10-class series*
Maximum 6 participants; no drop-ins.
Previous dance/movement/performance experience and an interest in creation is required. (Thursdays October 11-December 13 2012, 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon
Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Gabriella Studio (180 Sudbury St., 1 block east of Dufferin south of Queen St. W.)
“I think about our work in relation to everything I do.”
What are the tools we need to access the instrument of our selves in service of the work we want to create? This is an atelier, a gathering place for embodiment, movement exploration and creative process. Class comes into being organically as exercises from a wide range of bodywork and improvisation sources are offered in response to a guided discussion of participants experiences and evolving artistic interests.
Solo Dancing
$300/10-class series*
Maximum 3 participants; drop-ins welcome for first class only.
Additional class groups will be scheduled as needed.
Open to dancers and practitioners of related disciplines seeking advanced study.
Sundays October 14-December 16 2012, 3:00-5:00 p.m
Parkdale Prana Room (1273A Queen St. W., 2 blocks west of Dufferin at Elm Grove)
“This was an exceptional experience for me that has enriched my perspective on performance and choreography.”
In this masterclass-style approach, the pared-down structure of unaccompanied solo improvisation will be used to discover what each participant is doing when they improvise, to clarify what they would like to be doing, and to practice staying connected to and discovering the full potential of their chosen intention in performance. Beginning with one-minute improvisations, students will be led in a focused process involving dancing, reflecting, observing and more dancing as they build toward 10-minute improvisations in the final class. Additional exercises will be introduced to elucidate key concerns as they arise. Each class begins with 30 minutes of silent, self-directed warm-up/practice. An optional informal showing of work will take place during the final class.
This class is designed for dancers interested in moving beyond habitual patterns and limitations, increasing presence, skill and impact in improvised performance and developing their own body of improvisation-based work.
For more information and to register, please contact Dawne Carleton at 416-530-2960 or dawnecarleton@yahoo.com
Instructor Dawne Carleton is a dance artist who specialises in improvisation. She currently performs movement-listening, a sensory exploration which emerged from her 20-year practice of Contact Improvisation. She received professional training at the European Dance Development Center in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Carleton has been described as a choreographer who is examining what the art form is... enhanc[ing] our understanding of who and what we are as embodied creatures (The Dance Current). She also works as a creative process facilitator.
*A 50% non-refundable deposit is due at time of registration; remainder of fees are due at first class. Please contact instructor if fees are a barrier to participation.
A podcast of Dawne speaking about her work and classes with Evidances Ted Fox and Samara Thompson is available at www.evidanceradio.com/home/podcasts/1 (interview begins at 37:30).
www.facebook.com/events/471860692844324/
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9. EVENT: PAiN Dinner Tour - an all senses meal-experience
Date: October 12, 2012; City: Norrbotten, Sweden; Source: Johannes Blomqvist
The artist Elisabet Yanagisawa Avén (Stockholm) has together with the PAiN-ensemble transformed the raw materials of Norrbotten to art-experiences for the senses, whom the audience will explore through seeing, smelling, feeling, sensing, hearing & tasting through various performances. Through meetings in shape of touch and consistence, the audience is guided through a story during the meal and gets to experience a multi-sensible athmosphere of Norrbotten.
The ensemble is Sofia Breimo (performance artist, Luleå), Stina Engman (performance artist, Haparanda/Luleå), Yessiqa Lövbrand (dance/performance artist, Luleå), Jenny Abdelkader (dance/performanceartist, Tärendö), Caroline Lundström (poet/performance artist, Piteå) and Lisa Stenberg (composer/sound artist, Piteå/Stockholm). Elisabet Yanagisawa Avén is an artist and PhD student in artistic research at HDK, GU with an emphasis on materia and form.
PAiN - Performance Art in Norrbotten is a platform for performance art and sets up a various amount of performance events inside and outside of Norrbotten. PAiN Dinner Tour is produced in co-operation with Danspoolen/Dans i Nord and tours during the autumn of 2012 to Umeå (Galleri Verkligheten 12/10), Luleå (Norrbottens Museum 14/10 and Tromsö (Galleri Kurant 16/11). Producer: Johannes Blomqvist.
See more at: www.painperformance.com
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10. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Canada Council for the Arts
Date: October 18, 2012; City: Ottawa, Ontario; Source: Canada Council for the Arts
Canada Council for the Arts is presently recruiting for the Head of the Visual Arts Section, Arts Disciplines Division position. Please post this vacancy internally or forward this e-mail to candidates that may be interested in this position.
www.canadacouncil.ca/aboutus/employment/at129931598043841689.htm
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11. EVENT: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art Toronto
Date: October 24-28, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: 7a*11d
7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art: October 24- 28, 2012
Toronto’s own 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival is back with the 9th edition, showcasing the best of performance and action artists from around the world, jam-packed into 5 days. As always, invited artists hail from a wide range of generations, geographies, and artistic points of view. Canadian and international artists electrify Mercer Union each night with provocative live performance, action art, sound and media works. PLUS join us for daytime public interventions around the city. To add to the experience, every afternoon 7a*11d presents Performance Art Daily at Toronto Free Gallery, a talk-show inspired program of artist talks (served up with free lunch!)
FESTIVAL VENUES
Mercer Union: 1286 Bloor St. West, Toronto
Toronto Free Gallery: 1277 Bloor St. West, Toronto
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
CANADA
Carl Bouchard & Martin Dufrasne
b. burroughs
Sylvie Cotton
Margaret Dragu
Rachel Echenberg
Maria Hupfield
Nobuo Kubota
Irene Loughlin
Christof Migone
Camille Turner
INTERNATIONAL
Márcio Carvalho (Portugal)
Patrycja German (Poland/Germany)
Nyan Lin Htet (Myanmar)
Jeff Huckleberry (USA)
Paul Hurley (UK)
Anna Kalwajtys (Poland)
Magnús Logi Kristinsson (Iceland/Finland)
Guadalupe Neves (Argentina)
Denis Romanovski (Belarus/Sweden)
Nopawan Sirivejkul (Thailand)
Tomasz Szrama (Poland/Finland)
Waldemar Tatarczuk (Poland)
Agnes Yit (Singapore)
Éminences Grises 2012
Each festival features two seminal Canadian artists as Éminences Grises: a person who exercises power or influence secretly. This year we highlight Governor General's Award laureates Margaret Dragu (2011) from Vancouver and Toronto local Nobuo Kubota (2009). Nobuo Kubota is beloved by Toronto audiences as an electro-acoustic improvisor and member of the historic Artists’ Jazz Band and the CCMC (Canadian Creative Music Collective). Margaret Dragu is a pioneer in the feminist politics of domesticity, to which she brings a fierce humour and a hint of James Bond glamour. La Dragu starts each day of the festival at 10am with performance art yoga sessions (bring your own mat).
2012 FESTIVAL CATALOGUES AVAILABLE NOW!
@ Mercer Union, Toronto Free Gallery and FADO Performance Art Centre (401 Richmond Street West
NEW WEBSITE COMING SOON: www.7a-11d.ca
416-822-3219
ABOUT 7a*11d (7a*11d was established in 1997 by a group of local performance artists and organizers, keen to create a forum for performance, live and action art in Toronto. Since then, Toronto has proven itself to performance art-centric, and 7a*11d has continued to grow and offer audiences the best of contemporary performance art from around the world. 7a*11d is proud to work once again with long-time festival presentation partner FADO Performance Art Centre, and 2012 festival partners imagineNATIVE, Toronto Free Gallery, OCADU, Splice and WIA Projects. 7a*11d gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
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12. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Margaret Dragu as Nuestra Senora del Pan
Date: October 31, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Pam Patterson
Come and perform with Governor General Award winning performance artist Margaret Dragu as Nuestra Senora del Pan as part of a 2-day event Food=Need presented by WIAprojects in collaboration with DPNC & 7a*11d Festival.
Stories of life (and death) and food come together at the Davenport Perth Neighborhood Centre (DPNC) and Dufferin Grove Park. On Wednesday Oct 31st from 1pm-3.30pm (talk from 3.30pm- 4pm), Dragu is performing at the DPNC, 1900 Davenport Road, Toronto. We need people (please bring an apron) to help bake bread, maybe do tea towel dances, facilitate & join in storytelling, distribute bread all over the Centre and on the street.
Contact for Dragu performance: Trisha Lamie at lamie@utsc.utoronto.ca
More Food=Need Info: Pam Patterson at info@wiaprojects.com
www.wiaprojects.com
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13. EVENT: SYSTEM HM2T at Ulster Bank Belfast Festival
Date: October 31, 2012; City: Belfast, N.Ireland: Source: Helge Meyer
System HM2T
October 31, 2012 @ 9pm
Two men meet. They are having dinner together. But after a few minutes, the audience recognises that their expectations will not be fulfilled. The situation escalates and leads into surprising images between nightmares and sticky dreams…
Dealing with cliché as a metaphor for desire and national identity, Prost! mixes sarcasm, irony and humour with very physical endurance. Is it a fight, a complex dance, or just revenge?
Formed in 1998 by performance artists Helge Meyer and Marco Teubner, System HM2T aims to visualise human behaviour. They are not about superlatives, sensation or entertainment, but rather simple acts with a potential for deep and direct affection.
More information:
www.belfastfestival.com/EventStore/Name,335979,en.html
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14. EVENT: Performance and Recent Videos by Shana Moulton
Date: November 2, 21012; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Tom Taylor
Shana Moulton in Person Performance & Recent Videos
Friday November 2, 7 pm @ Tallulah's Cabaret (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street)
Artist Talk: Saturday November 3, 2 pm @ CineCycle (129 Spadina Ave.) Co-presentation with Vtape.
http://pdome.org/
Pleasure Dome is pleased to present a screening and expanded cinema performance by New York-based artist Shana Moulton. With video and performance works spanning a decade, Moulton’s Whispering Pines series combines an unsettling, wry humour with a low-tech, pop sensibility. The series features Moulton’s alter ego Cynthia as she navigates the enigmatic and sometimes magical properties of home décor, holistic healing and wellness products and treatments. In her domestic fantasy world, New Age consumer goods take on heightened meaning and signification through acts of intimate ritual and belief, while simultaneously being exposed for their commodification. Culled from this series, Shana Moulton will present a program of videos followed by a new performance created with this location in mind.
Shana Moulton creates evocatively oblique narratives in her video and performance works. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny.
Shana Moulton works in video and performance. Shana Moulton studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, where she received her MFA. Moulton has also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, and studied at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Her video work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at Art in General, New York, Migros Museum, Zurich; Contemporary Museum of Art, Uppsala; Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris; Aurora, Edinburgh; Dark Light Festival, Dublin; Impakt Festival, Utrecht; Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen; Broadway 1602, New York; and Gimpel Fils, London. Moulton’s performances have been presented at venues including The Kitchen, New York; PERFORMA 09, New York; Aurora Picture Show, Houston; Electronic Arts Intermix, New York; The Bluecoat, Liverpool; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; among others.
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15. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: To Act
December 14, 2012; City: Montreal, Canada: Source: unspecified
TO ACT
International Symposium of Contemporary Art of Baie-Saint-Paul
August 2-September 1, 2013
Call for Artists
By Serge Murphy Guest Curator of the 31st edition
In our XXIst century, virtually all western societies experience turmoil caused by antagonism that is often firmly linked to visions and values which, at first glance, appear to be so different as to be forever irreconcilable. Are there really only two ways to conceive today’s world? One that places the individual at the very heart of his destiny, and another that considers the community as the only territory for the human adventure? In Québec, as elsewhere, we have experienced the tensions caused by visions that are in constant opposition. This can occur in our individual, everyday interaction with other people, as well as in a more global context that is political in the broadest sense. Following the publication of Refus global, Québec artists have proposed a model that hinges on the transformation (by art) of society. These artists are responding to a summons which implies that “this must be done”.
Artists are dynamic actors within their society. Not only are they sensors of the rumblings that occur underground and in the air, but they are also the ones who will go forward to check the air in tomorrow’s weather. Often, they strive against the prevailing current, and they challenge and give names to the head winds, the ones that shake up our certainties. The commitment of the artists toward themselves as well as toward their society is an accepted fact. Their works often tell it like it is and, more often still, they challenge directly our beliefs and our certitudes. The works can throw us off balance and even instil in us a feeling of anxiety or of insecurity. But they can also open yet unexplored byways and thus contribute to our self-fulfillment. TO ACT in order to take part in and to enrich the social debate, whether by direct intervention or, in a more subtle manner, with works that promote awareness that is enlightening and beneficial for all. The subject matter could be, for example, issues related to politics in a broad sense, to religious or spiritual concepts, to feminism, to popular or queer culture, to the defence and safeguarding of one’s own identity or to any other question which interrogates the presence of men and women in a social context.
The 31st International Symposium of Contemporary Art of Baie-Saint-Paul invites artists from Québec and other parts of Canada and other countries, who place their personal quest at the very heart of society and whose works frequently take the form of questions rather than answers, to send in their applications in response to this call.
The Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul (MACBSP) is designated as the organization that manages the event entitled International Symposium of Contemporary Art of Baie-Saint-Paul. Twelve artists will select on the following basis : Six artists originating from the province of Québec, one of which is from the Montmorency-Charlevoix-Côte-Nord federal district, three Canadian artists, and three International artists. All projects are to be approved by the committee. The
By December 14, 2012 (postmark) provide a complete file (on paper) containing:
-Letter of introduction with complete contact information
-Curriculum vitae
-Visual on digitalized support with technical information (maximum of 20 images)
-Media File
-Text defining your artistic approach (maximum one page)
-Text describe your project (maximum one page) with the following specifications:
-The approximate size of the work to execute
-The equipment required: specifics materials, electrical installation, darkroom, Internet connection
-Sketch of the project you propose to enable
-Postal money order of $20 CDN to cover administrative costs (emit to MACBSP)
More information
www.symposium-baiesaintpaul.com/english.aspx
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16. CALL FOR ARTISTS: Artist-based research project by Lezli Rubin-Kunda
Date: unspecified: City: The World; Source: Lezli Rubin-Kunda
Working title: ”Artists’ Place: Artistic Strategies for Connecting to Locale”
I am looking for artists who would be interested in participating/contributing to this project. The focus is on artists whose interaction with their immediate physical environment is a critical aspect of their artistic practice. What are the ways in which artists relate to their locale - the spaces, terrain, materials, the specificity of the urban or suburban, the rural or wild places in which they live and work.
My questions include:
What are the different strategies that artists have been developing for interacting with their surroundings? How can one’s art practice be a means for establishing a sense of place and belonging, of feeling at home in one’s environment and in the world.
What are the ways in which these art practices relate to artists’ daily life?
I am interested and open to any form of practice, any media within the contemporary art scene that directly addresses these themes- from traditional, two and three dimensional works, photography, video to new, experimental, inter-arts practices and site interventions. I would like to hear from, and hopefully meet with artists from a wide range of geographical and cultural contexts within the Canadian art scene, from different regions and backgrounds, with different connections to their locale - Aboriginal, historic and recent immigrant groups reflecting various cultural traditions and language groups; artists who have returned to their childhood landscapes, or who have adopted new ones…I am looking for artists who would be willing to engage in an open-ended inquiry with me on these issues, to share their work and their thoughts and reflections.
Ideally, I would like to meet with you in your own environment; alternatively, we can communicate online, via skype: or your contribution can be more formal - sending me information about your work- images, links, website, writings, etc.
The resulting work may take a number of possible formats, including an article or series for arts journals, video documentation, art lectures, an exhibition and/or catalogue format (including artist’ works, interviews, etc).
TIMEFRAME: I am collecting materials now. I will be contacting interested artists for studio visits in September and early October (2012) (primarily on the west coast and in the Toronto-Montreal area), and then again in February 2013, and next summer/fall 2013, when I hope to travel further afield.
BIO: I am a multidisciplinary artist, with an interest in site-specificity, exploring environments through body, live action, material, drawing; beginning from my immediate home, and moving out to places of personal meaning to me, in natural and urban locations, investigating their physical as well as cultural/historical or metaphoric dimensions. I have been teaching multidisciplinary art for many years in different educational institutions. I am Canadian, I grew up and studied in Toronto; I have been living for many years in Tel Aviv, Israel, and working both there and in Canada, negotiating the complex relations and connections between place, practice and context.
I am on the faculty of the Architecture Department at the Technion University in Haifa, Israel, where I teach a range of courses relating to art and environment.
Please contact me at the following:
www.lezlirubinkunda.com
lrubinjunda@gmail.com
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17. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: GalataPerform 8th Visibility Project
Date: October 25, 2012; City: Istanbul; Source: GalataPerform
LOOKING FOR ARTISTS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF COMMUNITY ARTS FOR ISTANBUL’S 8TH VISIBILITY PROJECT!
GalataPerform is active since 2003, in a second floor apartment, in the historical district of Galata. It has been the production space and main stage of Ve Diger Seyler Theatre Company (VEDST), founded by the playwright and theatre director Yesim Ozsoy Gülan, and has been open to artists and audiences of different disciplines. Recently its main axe is concentrated on providing a space for new writing in contemporary theater and performance while keeping its concentration on providing an independent alternative space. Various projects include Performance Art Days, Exchange Projects, Visibility Projects and New Text New Theatre Projects.
Since 2005, Visibility Project has been creating a special dynamism in the district of Galata; a special place for artists, visitors and belief systems. The project pushes the artists into the streets, out of their work spaces to interact with the public. The concept of visibility is operating between the artists and the people and also in between the different disciplines of the art itself, bringing great emphasis on the independent expression in theatre and also dynamism to the region while making the region and its agents visible to the general public.
This year Visibility Project 8 will take place on November 3rd. The Project involves a workshop period with end results being exhibited in just one single day; November 3rd 2012. The project aims to present 12 different stories in relation to Galata district’s current cultural situation bringing together works of performance executed in public sphere.
We would like to invite for Visibility Project 2012 three artists specifically working in public sphere with the community in the fields of performance and sound art from Romania, Poland and Egypt between October 25th and November 4th to create works for the Project.
The works can be adapted to Istanbul and the project but preferably we request the artists to create work specific to the project. The project aims to open a discussion through panels, workshops and presentations to aspects of community art.
Artists interested could send to the e-mail below a short biography with samples of their works. GalataPerform will cover travel and accommodation fees (plane ticket, hotel, per diem)
galataperform@gmail.com
www.galataperform.com
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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.
