INDEX
1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: FADO’s Emerging Artists Series 2014
Deadline date: December 15, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada
2. FADO EVENT: Art Nomade @ FADO
Date: October 25-27, 2013: City: Toronto, Canada
3. EVENT: Art Nomade – 3rd Edition
Date: October 1-31, 2013; City: Saguenay, Quebec; Source: Francis O’Shaughnessy
4. EVENT: Buying & Selling
Date: September 21-October 13, 2013; City: Markham, Canada: Source: DoUC
5. EVENT: VIVA! ART ACTION
Date: October 1-6, 2013; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: VIVA!
6. EVENT: Biennale Internacional de Curitiba 2013
Dates: October 3-6, 2013; City: Curitiba, Brazil; Source: Fernando Ribeiro
7. EVENT: City of Women Festival
Date: October 2-13, 2013; City: Ljubljana, Slovenia; Source: City of Women
8. WORKSHOP: How to Survive “Survival” by Catastrophe and Chaos
Date: October 7-8, 2013; City: City: Ljubljana, Slovenia; Source: City of Women
9. EVENT: Perform Now! #3
Date: October 3-6, 2013; City: Source: Winterthur, Switzerland; BBB Johannes Deimling
10. EVENT: PAS | Performance Art Studies presents COSMONAUT 200
Date: October 3-6, 2013; City: Source: Winterthur, Switzerland; BBB Johannes Deimling
11. EVENT: EnChance Public Performances
Date: October 4-5, 2013; City: Chicago, USA: Source: Carron Little
12. EVENT: Kunst der Begegnung V / Art of Encountering V
Date: October 5-18, 2013; City: Bonn, Germany; Source: asabank
13. WORKSHOP: Life/Art Performance Lab: Fall Series with Andrea Mapili
Date: October 10-November 28, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Andrea Mapili
14. EVENT: Lilith Performance Studio presents Mass Line by Liina Siib (EST)
Date: October 10-12/17-19; City: Malmo, Sweden; Source: Lilith Performance Studio
15. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: La Centrale
Deadline date: October 15, 2013; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: La Centrale
16. CALL FOR PERFORMERS: Embroidery for the Forgotten Dead of History
Date: immediately; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Adriana Disman
17. Kill Joy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House by Allyson Mitchell
Date: October 16, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: AGYU
18. EVENT: Buddies presents Strange Sisters
Date: October 25, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Mark Aikman
19. EVENT: MAKING SPACE
Date: October 30-November 3, 2013; City: Singapore; Source: Daniela Beltrani
20. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AGYU Artists’ Book of the Moment competition
Deadline date: November 15, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Kate Barry
21. LAUNCH: A history of performance art at Gachet
1998-2011
Date: now; City: the world; Source: Irene Loughlin
22. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Present Tense
Deadline date: December 17, 2013; City: the world; Source: The Present Tense
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1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: FADO’s Emerging Artists Series 2014
Deadline date: December 15, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada
FADO Performance Art Centre: Emerging Artists Series 2014
11:45PM
Co-presented with Xpace Cultural Centre
Curated by Kate Barry
Durational performance is mode of live art where the artist works directly with the medium of time. Over the course of hours, days or longer the performer and the audience can experience a physical, mental, spiritual and/or emotional transformation. Durational performance functions to bring the performer and the audience into the moment; time is made palatable and visceral. Artists like Teching Hsieh, Alastair MacLennan, and most famously, Marina Abramovic, demonstrate how durational performance art can use mental and physical endurance to challenge the commoditization of art by offering an experience of art that is ephemeral by nature.
FADO is seeking proposals of durational performance works from emerging artists to be presented in our 2014 edition of the Emerging Artists Series, entitled 11:45PM. Performances should be a minimum of 6-hours and a maximum of 4-days. FADO and Xpace define emerging artists as those who are 2-3 years out of school, are at the beginning stages of their careers, and have not yet had the opportunity for a professional presentation of their work.
The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2013.
Submissions should include:
-CV
-artistic statement
-brief biographical information
-description of proposed work
-documentation of previous work (maximum of 10 images, and / or 2-3 short documentation videos to a maximum of 5 minutes)
Please note that this series seeks to highlight the work of Toronto and Canadian artists. This is NATIONAL call only. Please direct enquiries to info@performanceart.ca
Please mail submissions to:
FADO Performance Art Centre
445-401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8
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2. FADO EVENT: Art Nomade @ FADO
Date: October 25-27, 2013: City: Toronto, Canada
Henri Louis Chalem (Quebec)
Danny Gaudreault (Quebec)
Lynn Lu (Singapore)
Mathieu Bohet (France)
Performances:
Friday October 25, 8pm (Henri Louis Chalem / Danny Gaudreault)
Saturday October 26, 8pm (Lynn Lu / Mathieu Bohet)
($10 suggested donation)
Artist talk:
Sunday October 27, 3pm
(FREE)
FADO Performance Art Centre is pleased to be partnering with Art Nomade – International Meeting of Performance Art of Chicoutimi to present four of the festival’s artists in Toronto. Founded in 2007, Art Nomade takes place once every two years in Saguenay, Quebec. Curated by Francis O’Shanghnessy, Art Nomade 4th edition, also serves as a networking platform that works with partner organizations to present invited artists in regional and provincial artist-run centers, galleries and museums. Partners for this edition of Art Nomade include La Pulperie (Chicoutimi), Langage Plus (Alma), Musée amérindien de Mashteuiatsh (Mashteuiatsh), Caravansérail (Rimouski), VIVA! Art Action (Montreal), Praxis Art Actuel (Sainte-Thérèse), Le Lieu (Quebec), L’Oeil de Poisson (Quebec), Folie/Culture (Quebec), Gallery 101 (Ottawa), AXENEO7 (Gatineau), Galerie SAW Gallery (Ottawa), and FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto).
For information about the artists:
www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=268
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3. EVENT: Art Nomade – 3rd Edition
Date: October 1-31, 2013; City: Saguenay, Quebec; Source: Francis O’Shaughnessy
Art Nomade: International Meeting of Performance Art of Chicoutimi
October 18-20
Amaia Urra (France / Espagne)
Cindy Dumais & Mathieu Tardif (Saguenay)
Danny Gaudreault (St-Ambroise)
Henri-Louis Chalem (Québec)
Mathieu Bohet (France)
Michela Depetris (Italie)
Lynn Charlotte Lu (Singapour)
Zeljka Jovic (Bosnie)
October 24-27
Boris Nieslony & Jacques Van Poppel (Allemagne & Hollande)
Constanza Camelo Suarez (Colombie / Saguenay)
Denis Romanovski (Biélorussie)
Esther Ferrer (Espagne)
Johanna Householder (Toronto)
Richard Martel (Québec)
Maanalainen seurakunta laulaa (Jari Kallio et Antti Jussila) (Finlande)
Tero Nauha (Finlande)
Marko Alastalo (Finlande)
Aapo Korkeaoja (Finlande)
Leena Kela (Finlande)
October 5-31: Network Art Nomade
Langage Plus (ALMA) October 5-15
Cégep Chicoutimi, Collège Alma, (SAGUENAY LAC SAINT JEAN) October 16
Cégep Chicoutimi, Opening BANG, (SAGUENAY) October 17
Espace Virtuel, (SAGUENAY) October 20
L'Oeil de Poisson (QUE), Caravansérail (RIMOUSKI), October 23
AXENE07 (GATINEAU), October 23
Folie Culture (QUE), UQAC (CHICOUTIMI), Galerie SAW (OTTAWA), October 24
FADO (TORONTO), October 25-27
Le Lieu, centre en art actuel (QUE), October 30-31
ABOUT ART NOMADE
Art Nomade is an international meeting of regional, provincial, and international performance artists, showcasing the breadth and depth of contemporary performance art. Founded in 2007 by performance artist and Artistic Director, Francis O'Shaughnessy, the Meeting is produced by the artist-run center Espace Virtuel. Art Nomade takes place every two years in Saguenay, Quebec. The Meeting consists of a series of evening events during which 3-5 performances are presented. To compliment these performances, parallel events are scheduled, such as conferences, lectures and workshops, facilitated by the participating artists. The Meeting also serves as a networking platform that allows the artists to perform in different artist-run centers, galleries and museums both on the provincial and national levels.
Art Nomade is spreading its wings this year by proposing a two-week program in Chicoutimi, doubling the one-week schedule of first two editions, and a networking platform program that will run throughout the month of October. Taking place at the magnificent patrimonial site, the Pulperie de Chicoutimi, the Meeting will present no less than twenty artists from four continents, which will represent the most important international presence that Art Nomade has ever programmed.
The Meeting's new deployment will also take place into the networking platform. Therefore, the 2013 edition proposes to double the number of partners and to perform in 15 to 20 different sites throughout Quebec and Canada. This networking strategy considerably increases the notoriety and the visibility of the event itself, that of the artists, as well as that of the partners. The Meeting also participates actively in the promotion of performance art throughout the country. Therefore, in terms of pan-Canadian diffusion, Art Nomade becomes one of the most important performance art festivals in Canada.
www.artnomadeperformance.ca
www.facebook.com/pages/Art-Nomade-rencontre-internationale-dart-performance-de-Chicoutimi/10150093207325468
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4. EVENT: Buying & Selling
Date: September 21-October 13, 2013; City: Markham, Canada: Source: DoUC
Department of Unusual Certainties with Sara French presents:
Buying & Selling
Buying & Selling is co-presented by FADO Performance Art Centre
Presented in the context of Land/Slides: Possible Futures exhibition
There is no choice, except when you have one.
~Reena Smith, Community Outreach Officer for 7 Continents
The ways we live are complex and diverse. It is our basic needs that unite us a humanity- how we meet our wants, is what separates us. Buying & Selling explores the possibilities that exist in a global housing market and how it can enrich the lives for the residents of Markham.
Homeowners, renters, nomads, and the property-curious, are invited to have a truly international experience that celebrates difference and provides choices you've never known. Join us at the Buying & Selling pavillion, located in the former Strickler home within the Markham Museum, opening September 21st, 2013, and running until October 13th, 2013. Guided tours are available daily.
Buying & Selling is a co-creation between Department of Unusual Certainties (DoUC) and Sara French. Commissioned to make a project for the Land/slide exhibition DoUC created a fictional housing sales centre, activated by a performed "Real" Estate Agent named Reena Smith, who is the Community Outreach Officer for an organization called 7 Continents. The sales centre includes three spaces where buyers can interact with the agent to obtain information, hear a sales pitch, and lastly, close the deal.
Reena Smith will be performing during the opening hours of the exhibition as follows:
Monday: closed
Tuesday-Wednesday: 12-5pm
Thursday-Saturday 12-10pm
Sunday: 12-5pm
ABOUT Land/Slide: Possible Futures
Land/Slide Possible Futures is a groundbreaking large-scale public art exhibition which responds to a world in transition where the past, present and future collide. The landscape of Markham will be transformed by the work of 30 plus national and international artists to explore themes of multiculturalism, sustainability, and community.
The site-specific artist projects are housed at the 25-acre, open-air Markham Museum and Historical Village from September 21 to October 14, 2013. Markham, Ontario is Canada’s fastest growing and most culturally diverse city in one of the most agriculturally rich regions in North America. This, and the Markham Museum’s 80,000 historical artifacts including 30 pioneer buildings from the 1820-1920s, make it a fascinating backdrop for artists to explore some of the most pressing issues facing Canadians today: how to balance ecology and economy, farming and development, history and diversity.
Working with everything from digitized diaries, 3D projections and augmented reality, the artists will propose new histories and new futures for the use of land on this planet. Land/Slide will bring artists, urban planners, ecologists, educators, civic leaders and the general public together in a unique community engagement initiative that pays homage to the past and imagines possible futures.
www.landslide-possiblefutures.com
ABOUT Departing of Unusual Certainties
Department of Unusual Certainties (DoUC) operates under a self-imposed public mandate with the aim to create projects that are for a public good. Meaning we expose and experiment with the multiplicity of systems that govern our society, creating results in a way where citizens and non-citizens alike can engage with, reflect on, or react to the information and experiences present in the project. From 2011- 2012 DoUC were the Innovators in Residence at the Design Exchange, Canada’s national design museum, and in 2012 were a strategic partner of the Migrating Landscapes Organizers, curators of the Canadian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. DoUC is Christopher Pandolfi and Simon Rabyniuk. www.DoUC.ca
ABOUT Sara French
Sara French is a multidisciplinary artist. Her practice is multi-faceted, simultaneously manifesting elements of embroidery, drag, craft, drawing, writing and video. Within these medias she has developed an experimental methodology, in which performance is core. After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts and Art History at the University of Windsor she went on to receive her Masters of Applied Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2011. Since graduating, Sara has participated in a variety of group exhibitions throughout Vancouver, including 221a, the Lion’s Den and Gam Gallery. In November 2013 she will begin a year-long residency with Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, in Edmonton.
www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=265
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5. EVENT: VIVA! ART ACTION
Date: October 1-6, 2013; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: VIVA!
The 4th edition of VIVA! Art Action will be held from October 1-6 at the Bain St-Michel in Montreal. Fruit of a collaboration between the six artist-run centers that initiated the biennial event in 2006 – articule, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Le Centre Clark, DARE-DARE, Praxis Art Actuel and Centre des arts actuels Skol – and newcomers OBORO (since 2011) and Verticale – centre d’artistes (since 2013), VIVA! will offer a remarkable programming of performances, public and participatory interventions, infiltrations, exhibitions, conferences and workshops, which showcase the works of over 20 local and international artists, and just as many participants.
ARTISTS:
Anne Parisien &
Christian Bujold (QC)
Bartolomé Ferrando (ESP)
Basil AlZeri (CAN/PSE)
Belinda Campbell (QC)
Brad Butler &
Karen Mirza (GBR)
Camila Vasquez (QC)
Carlos Martiel (CUB)
Celeste Marie Welch (USA)
Chelsea Knight (USA)
Claude Wittmann (ON)
Contrary Collective (ON, AB)
Csenge Kolozsvari (QC)
Étienne Boulanger (QC)
Helena Martin Franco (QC)
Hugo Gaudet-Dion &
Véronique Guitard (QC)
Jean-Baptiste Farkas (FRA)
Jean-Sébastien Vague (QC)
Justene Williams (AUS)
Kineret Haya Max (ISR)
Macarena Perich Rosas (CHL)
Marie-Claude Gendron (QC)
Marlène Renaud-B. (QC)
Paul Maheke (FRA)
Robin Brass (SA)
SP 38 (QC)
Steven Cohen (ZAF)
Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio (NLD)
Tomasz Szrama (POL/FIN)
Victoria Stanton (QC)
At the heart of the festival, five evenings of action art programming will occupy the VIVA! headquarters and fill the pool as of 8pm, introducing the public to a variety of eclectic, vibrant and disruptive practices. The first four programs will be followed by Tableau Noir, an open-ended experimental platform dedicated to spontaneous actions by artists and members of the VIVA! community. On the final day of the festival, Verticale – centre d’artistes invites the public to jump aboard a shuttle bus heading to Laval for an afternoon program of performance by local emerging artists. With the intention of deepening the formal dialogue around performance art practices, the festival is also hosting a series of conferences, which include The Transformation of Life Into Art (with Bartolomé Ferrando, presented in collaboration with Artexte and Formats), Feminist Issues Through Performance (with Barbara Klausen, Elvan Zabunyan, Tamar Tembeck and Thérèse St-Gelais, presented by La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse) and Furtive Actions, Visibility, Mediation (with André Éric Létourneau, Claude Wittman, Jean-Baptiste Farkas and Manon Tourigny, presented by DAREDARE).
The VIVA! blog, hosted by guest bloggers Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf and Jacob Wren, proposes another convivial bilingual space for discussion, daily reflections and creative feedback on the programming.
More than a performance festival, VIVA! puts forward an inclusive, expandable and permeable concept at the crossroads of disciplinary currents in contemporary art. A platform for exchange and discussion, the VIVA! kitchen will be activated daily by chef and artist Basil AlZeri, who will nourish the bodies and souls of participating artists and the public with delicious and affordable community suppers served every evening at 6:30pm. On October 5th, the performances will transition into a closing party and fundraising event. Set to the rhythmic beats of selected DJs and punctuated by musical performances by Douce Angoisse and Police des Moeurs, this big celebration will surely also include some surprise happenings!
VIVA! Art Action
Bain St-Michel
5300, rue St-Dominique, Montréal
www.vivamontreal.org
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6. EVENT: Biennale Internacional de Curitiba 2013
Dates: October 3-6, 2013; City: Curitiba, Brazil; Source: Fernando Ribeiro
www.bienaldecuritiba.com.br
Please join us for the Biennale Internacional de Curitiba 2013, with a special performance art program curated by Fernando Ribeiro, with events and performances happening in public places around the city. The performance program is divided into three sections, creating three small performance festivals.
Oct 03 - 06, 2013
Margit Leisner (Curitiba, Brazil)
Vivian Cáfaro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Marco Paulo Rolla (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Sakiko Yamaoka (Tokyo, Japan)
Nov 7 - 10, 2013
Lauro Borges (Curitiba, Brazil)
Maíra Vaz Valente (São Paulo, Brazil)
Ieke Trinks (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Tzitzi Barrantes (Bogota, Colombia)
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7. EVENT: City of Women
Date: October 2-13, 2013; City: Ljubljana, Slovenia; Source: City of Women
19th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women
LET'S CREATE A PLACE FOR OURSELVES
2-13 October 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.cityofwomen.org
All Different! All Equal!
This year's 19th edition of the City of Women festival entitled Let's create a place for ourselves is all about public space. Why public space as a starting point and why an appeal to reclaim a place for ourselves?
Current social and political events that have significantly marked the last two years have in the spirit of occupying public spaces inhabited the streets, parks and squares at different parts of the world. Public space has been re-established as an important venue of protest, public debates and aspirations for changes as well as preservation of values such as equality of rights, solidarity and justice, which are all disappearing. It has become a venue for fighting against autocratic political regimes, political elites and exploitative capitalism, fighting to preserve human rights, the right to work, social and economic security, rights to equality, freedom of political expression, the dignity of every human being, the right to be different… The concern about the fact that our society is extremely stratified and that the differences are only increasing triggered the mobilisation of people and their political activity. The awareness of the significance of community and solidarity has risen, as well as that of the necessity to actively participate in social and political processes in order to change the system that pushed us into such a deep crisis. The effects of said processes and efforts are difficult to assess because they are not over yet.
Read the entirety of Festival Director Mara Vujič’s statement here:
www.cityofwomen.org/en/node/3735/
The festival is already underway! For a full schedule of events, please visit:
www.cityofwomen.org/content/2013/timetable
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8. WORKSHOP: How to Survive “Survival” by Catastrophe and Chaos
Date: October 7-8, 2013; City: City: Ljubljana, Slovenia; Source: City of Women
You are invited to apply for an interdisciplinary workshop How to Survive “Survival” in the context of DDDK (Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful Disaster) project. The workshop is held by Selma Banich, Deana Gobac, Nataša Govedić, Roberta Milevoj and Iva Nerina Sibila, the members of the Zagreb-based Institute for Catastrophe and Chaos.
The workshop will take place on Monday and Tuesday, October 7th and 8th, between 11 am and 5 pm (with an hour lunch break) at Dance Theatre Ljubljana (Prijateljeva 2, Ljubljana).
All workshop participants willing to take part in the final DDDK performance (October 9th at 8 pm) should reserve their time for rehearsals, a dress rehearsal and performance on Wednesday, October 9th!
The workshop will address the following questions: Why actually agree to the constant political mode of “survival” and a “continuous catastrophe”? Where in such a social and private situation has the possibility of realizing full creative potentials disappeared to? What is actually happening to us under the dictates of “permanent catastrophe”? To what extent do such states reduce us to just the elementary needs?
We kindly invite all female artists (theatre, performance, music, visual arts, literature) as well as other women interested in the workshop’s topic. The conditions for applying for the workshop are the ability to communicate in English and participation on both days of the workshop (October 7th and 8th). The willingness to take part in the final DDDK performance (October 9th) is desired but not a prerequisite for participating in the workshop.
Applications can be submitted up to October 4, 2013 at the latest. Please send us a brief letter of intent, a short CV, and contact info (email and phone number). The number of workshop participants is limited, which makes the application mandatory. Participation is free.
www.cityofwomen.org
workshop@cityofwomen.org
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9. EVENT: Perform Now! #3
Date: October 3-6, 2013; City: Source: Winterthur, Switzerland; BBB Johannes Deimling
PERFORM NOW! #3
Performance Art Festival in Winterthur, Switzerland
3. – 6. October 2013
ARTISTS
Glynis Ackermann / Thomas Zollinger (CH)
Bill Aitchison (UK)
Bello Benischauer (ART IN PROCESS) (AUS/AT)
BBB Johannes Deimling (NO/D)
Cie Nicole Seiler (CH)
Cie Prototype Status (CH)
Duo fatale (CH/F)
Werther Germondari (IT)
Andreas Glauser (CH)
Stefanie Grubenmann / Patrick Becker (CH)
Hideto Heshiki / Andrea Boll (CH)
San Keller (CH)
Kollabor (CH)
kozek hörlonski (AT)
Lili Mihajlović (SI/D)
Violetta Perra (CH)
Geneviève Favre Petroff (CH/F)
Porte Rouge (CH)
Richter/Meyer/ Marx (D)
Urnamo (CH)
Annie Vigier / Frank Apertet (les gens d'Uterpan) (F) / CACTUS p.a.c. (GB)
Gregory Hari (CH)
Katja Kunz (CH)
Nagi Gianni Naegeli (CH)
Björn Neukomm (CH)
Organized by: Thomas Lang, Dorothea Rust, Jasmin Glaab
More information: www.perform-now.ch/index.php/de/
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10. EVENT: PAS | Performance Art Studies presents COSMONAUT 200
Date: October 3-6, 2013; City: Source: Winterthur, Switzerland; BBB Johannes Deimling
COSMONAUT 200 at the performance art festival PERFORM NOW!
ARTISTS
David Frankovich (CA)
Katharina Kastl (DE)
Vena Naskrecka (PL)
The concept
Marco Polo is known as a traveler and great discoverer; he is still a vivid figure in our imaginations and dreams about leaving the world as we know it. In Italo Calvino’s novel “Invisible Cities” Marco Polo appears as a messenger who creates a complete new language based on imagination, body based pictures and the use of objects to translate these stories in order to open a dialogue. Centuries later, the physical experience of weightlessness arrived in the human historiography with Yuri Gagarin, the first human who traveled into the outer space. For the first time, our narratives were amazingly shaken and connected with technical innovations and visions. Imagine if Marco Polo would have had Gagarin’s technical possibilities and utopistic understanding. How would have has it changed these tales speaking about magical discoveries? How would it influence his uses of objects or embodied images to create a unique language? What would remain after a long time?
We are questioning the contemporary language of Performance Art, like Marco Polo and Yuri Gagarin questioned philosophical and physical principals in their times.
Continued…
More information: http://tinyurl.com/PAScosmonaut
PAS | Performance Art Studies
Web: www.pas.bbbjohannesdeimling.de
Mail: pas@bbbjohannesdeimling.de
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11. EVENT: EnChance Public Performances
Date: October 4-5, 2013; City: Chicago, USA: Source: Carron Little
EnCHANCE PUBLIC PERFORMANCE CURATED BY OUT OF SITE
CHICAGO FOR WEST TOWN ART WALK
Out of Site Chicago public performance series is presenting EnChance a program of five public performances for West Town Art Walk on Friday October 4 from 6pm to 10pm and Saturday October 5 from 2pm to 10pm. Sara Zalek will open the performances with a dance piece entitled Fall From Freedom on the Chicago Ave Interstate Bridge. Antibody Corporation will start at 6pm at Damen and Chicago heading east on Chicago Ave and Honey Pot Performance will invite the audience to engage in a performance about the economy. Mothergirl will be on a bus at some point and then on the West Town Trolley from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday. Rachel Bunting and The Humans will perform on Saturday intermittently from 2pm to 8pm at the Chicago/ Ashland intersection.
Some people call it dancing on the streets! OoS brings art to everyone, our mission is to create a more culturally vibrant city by commissioning public performance focusing on abandoned areas and bringing joy and wonder to peoples lives. Join us for a performance extravaganza - EnChance! OoS is the brainchild of Carron Little (Director of Eyeporium Gallery) and Whitney Tassie (Ex- Director of Monique Meloche Gallery). They were thinking about how amazing it would be if when people came home from work on a Friday night they might happen across a dance performance by Rachel Bunting and The Humans at the Polish Triangle or Martine Viale becoming a sculptural element of the space. Please check the website for locations which vary from week to week and those who seek shall find!
www.outifsitechicago.org
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12. EVENT: Kunst der Begegnung V / Art of Encountering V
Date: October 5-18, 2013; City: Bonn, Germany; Source: asabank
Kunst der Begegnung V
Art of Encountering V
7 artistic positions of the Philippines encounter diverse artists from the European towns: Linz/A + Bale/Ch + Cologne, Bonn, Essen from NRW/DE. The goal is to show various methods and models of artistic strategies of action art and performance art. The purpose of those actions, movements, interventions, interactions and performances is to interact with those medias to deal with the public and the urban space.
Philippine artists: Patrick Ka Hyan Chong; Super Thom Daq; Boyet De Mesa; Rommel G. Espinosa; Yuan Mor'O Ocampo; Kaye O'yek; Mannet Villariba
Artist from Aktionslabor NRW / PAErsche: Marita Bullmann; Petra Deus; Béatrice Didier; Rolf Hinterecker; Karin Meiner; Evamaria Schaller
Artists from Switzerland: Dominik Lipp; Glynis Ackermann; Ariane Andereggen; Simone Etter; Thomas Zollinger; Pascale Grau und Irene Maag
Local artists Linz; Sibylle Ettengruber; Theresa Gindlstrasser; Claudia Hochedlinger; Christine Pfarrhofer; Doris Roth; Ilona Roth; Betty Wimmer and some more and artists from Austria: Aldo Giannotti; Veronika Merklein; Katrin Wölger
Bale / CH - Kaskadenkondensator
October 5: 19h, Night with performances, indoor, Cirqu’enflex, Warteck Areal, Bale: 7 Philippine artists + 5 Swiss artists
October 6: 15h, Performance walk outside at the harbour areal, Dreiländereck, Bale: 7 Philippine artists and 7 Swiss artists
Bonn / D
October 9: solo-performances by 7 Filipino artists in the Künstlerforum Bonn
October 10: joint performance of the Filipinos - and the PAErsche artists in the public area of Bonn, starting point – Am Hofgarten. Info phone: 0172 603 8288
Essen / D
October 12: interventions in the public area of Essen, starting point Freiheit / Hbf Essen, Info phone: 0176 235 12133
Köln / D
October 16 + 17: 13 solo-performances in the Orangerie-Theater Cologne
October 18: there are the option for a walking art in the urban space of Cologne
Info
Linz: Die Fabrikanten: www.fabrikanten.at/philippines
Linz: FAMA. Elisa Andessner - Elisa.andessner@gmx.at
Info - Bale: Gisela Hochuli - nexus@giselahochuli.com
Info - facebook PAErsche: www.paersche.org; www.asa.de;
Info Bonn - Küfo: www.kuenstlerforum-bonn.de/typolight/index.php,
Info Köln - www.orangerie-theater.de
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13. WORKSHOP: Life/Art Performance Lab: Fall Series with Andrea Mapili
Date: October 10-November 28, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Andrea Mapili
Mindful Abandon's 8-week Life/Art Performance Lab will help unleash your creativity by developing your on-stage presence, nurturing your sense of play and encouraging risk-taking and spontaneity! Rooted in techniques of awareness and movement, each class will utilize voice, drawing and text. You will identify and explore personal narratives and use them as the source material for improvised solo and group pieces. This series will enable you to immerse yourself fully into the exploration of process. Join me and play with your creativity!
This series is for aspiring and professional artists who are interested in performance, improvisation and creativity. Actors, dancers, performance artists, visual artists and musicians welcome as well as those who want to make art a part of their everyday lives! No previous experience required. Each class is 2.5 hours of empowered creativity. Hope to see you there!
LOCATION:
Cahoots Creation Studio
388 Queen St. East, Unit #3 Toronto, ON, M5A 1T8
(Entrance off of Trefann St., 1 block northeast of Parliament and Queen)
WHEN:
Class 1: Thursday, October, 10, 6:15-8:45pm
Class 2: Thursday, October, 17, 6:15-8:45pm
Class 3: Thursday, October, 24, 6:15-8:45pm
Class 4: Thursday, October, 31, 6:15-8:45pm
Class 5: Thursday, November, 7, 6:15-8:45pm
Class 6: Thursday, November, 14, 6:15-8:45pm
Class 7: Thursday, November, 21, 6:15-8:45pm
Class 8: Thursday, November, 28, 6:15-8:45pm
COST: Thanks to an anonymous benefactor, this series has been subsidized and is offered at a reduced introductory rate!
8-class pass: $100 ($12.50/class)
4-class pass: $70 ($17.50/class)
Drop-in per class: $20
Cash only please! Drop-ins welcome, space permitting.
*Please let me know if cost is a barrier.
RSVP: Email mindfulabandon@gmail.com to reserve your spot!
WHAT TO EXPECT IN A CLASS:
We start with a movement warm up. We engage with simple exercises to get us out of our heads and into our bodies. From there, we start to play using improvisation exercises (or 'scores') that build a sense of self and ensemble and expand movement & sounding range. Then, we delve into identifying and exploring personal mythology through movement, drawing and writing. Next, we begin to dialogue with our stories and develop them through solo and group improvised performance. Please dress in comfortable attire that you can move freely in.
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14. EVENT: Lilith Performance Studio presents Mass Line by Liina Siib (EST)
Date: October 10-12/17-19; City: Malmo, Sweden; Source: Lilith Performance Studio
MASS LINE merges China and the western world’s political ideologies to a peculiar, thorough analysis and practice-oriented observation of systems, prohibitions and orders, both big as well as small ones. Throughout the performance, we ask us the question what space can we claim when there aren’t any.
Mass Line is distinctly political but yet at the same time a highly poetic performance, where most of the part is based upon the artist’s own observations and life experience from living in a closed country. In Mass Line Siib plays with big political and social systems we all have to follow in order to be part of the group. Systems whose intensions are to keep us occupied, to act correct and keep us in line.
In countries with strict leadership and control system people use to perform, to be someone else in public than at home. Everyone becomes an actor ready to stage what the system expects from them, performing ideologies as one’s second nature as a wise survival tactics of everyday life. At the end it is impossible to decide what is a performance and what is not.
With a reckless radical attitude that roots in Liina Siib’s long standing commitment in questions regarding social issues in relation to alienation and class differences, she’s now creating a new, her own, Siibic system. A system where western characters like James Bond can turn into a world leader and role model, and where the dictator’s propaganda machinery takes form as karaoke and entertainment for the people is a cheap western copy of a Beijing Opera. The performance is divided into two parallel worlds with simple regulations, but where things are not what they appear to be, like an illusion, a trompe l’oeil in real time.
Liina Siib is one of Estonia’s most prominent artists right now.
Several of her work has a starting point in the experience of living in a both socialistic and capitalistic system, and in the antagonism that appears in shifting between two systems. She works primary with video and photography in recurring researches she focus on femininity, social space and structures and humans daily routines.
2011 she represented Estonia at the 54th Venice Biennal with the project “A Woman Takes Little Space”. She has had over 30 solo exhibitions in Estonia, Belgium, France, Finland and Lithuania, and participated in group-shows in Europe, Asia and USA.
Lilith Performance Studio is the first combined production studio and arena for visual art performance in Europe. The studio originates new large-scale performances by inviting visual artist to create exceptional performance pieces in a close collaboration with the Studio, from conceptualization to presentation. Since its inception, Lilith Performance Studio has produced over 35 large-scale site specific performances in collaboration with artists from around the world. The Studio is found and run by the Artists and the Artistic Directors Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson.
Open hours: 7-9 PM
Book at: boka@lilithperformancestudio.com
Price: 80 SEK
Place: Lilith Performance Studio, Bragegatan 15, Malmö
Booking is required! The audience will be entering the performance in smaller groups. Email your reservation with preferred date and you will be appointed a time.
www.lilithperformancestudio.com
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15. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: La Centrale
Deadline date: October 15, 2013; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: La Centrale
La Centrale expands on a 40-year history of presenting underrepresented and feminist art practices. We are an artist-run centre that aims to provide a platform for contemporary art in dialogue with feminist thought, gender theory, as well as intercultural and transdisciplinary practices. This involves the development of artistic and professional exchange at the local, national and international levels. We are seeking exhibition and project proposals related to our mandate from artists and curators of all genders. Please consult our website at www.lacentrale.org for our mandate, gallery plans and submission guidelines.
Two deadlines per year: October 15 and March 15
Send your dossier to the attention of:
Comité Programmation
LA CENTRALE
4296 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
Montréal, Québec, Canada H2W 1Z3
Or by DROPBOX at: dossiers@lacentrale.org
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16. CALL FOR PERFORMERS: Embroidery for the Forgotten Dead of History
Date: immediately; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Adriana Disman
Helene Vosters is seeking 25 performers for two upcoming performances. You can participate in one or both! If you're interested, please contact the artist at hvosters@yorku.ca
Project Description:
Embroidery for the Forgotten Dead of History: Shot at Dawn
At dawn, on 11 November 2013, twenty-five performers will stand in front of the University of Toronto’s Soldiers’ Tower. Each participant will wear a blindfold embroidered with the name and date of execution of one of the twenty-five Canadian First World War soldiers who were killed by firing squads made up of their peers, under the orders of their military commanders. The first of an ongoing series of Embroidery for the Forgotten Dead of History memorial projects Shot at Dawn uses embroidery to draw attention to and disrupt narratives produced through the nationalist and militarist commemorative practices which act as frames that inscribe certain events and losses into social memory, while casting “others” (events and populations) beyond the realm of our (dominant) collective memory (Butler 2010).
PERFORMANCE DATES/TIMES
Preview performance
Hub 14's LINK & PIN Performance Series
2PM, Sunday, October 20 2013
Remembrance Day Performance
WIAprojects: Babble (Babel)
Soldiers Tower, University of Toronto
Dawn, Monday, November 11 2013
Helene Vosters is a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at York University (Toronto) where her performance and research focus is on the role of public mourning practices in the construction of narratives of death related to militarism and war. Helene performed her durational memorial projects Impact Afghanistan War and Unravel: A meditation on the warp and weft of militarism throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Shot at Dawn, to be performed 11 November 2013, will be the first of an ongoing series of Embroidery for the Forgotten Dead of History memorial projects and performances. www.helenevosters.com
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17. Kill Joy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House by Allyson Mitchell
Date: October 16, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: AGYU
Lesbian Rule. Forget the dead this Hallowe’en. Feel the pulsing throb of something larger than life in Kill Joy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House. Holey Hell House!
Each Hallowe’en radical evangelical groups all over the USA and Canada build hell houses. Beginning in the 70’s, these performer-animated installations showcase a gruesome retribution for the sins of fornication, abortion, suicide, occultism, and— of course—same-sex relationships. This Hallowe’en Toronto artist Allyson Mitchell reclaims this hellish scenario with her crowd-sourced, lesbian-feminist, queer-fear-fighting celebration Kill Joy’s Castle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House located at 303 Lansdowne Ave (at the crotch of Dundas and College), Toronto.
Wrapping this American Gothic Hell House tradition with yard upon illustrated, elaborately decorated yard of spirited craft aesthetic, Mitchell mobilizes her “deep lez” commitment to radical queer world-making potential. Through it, she conjures new kinds of representations of feminist sexuality and queer concepts of community and activism.
Rug-hooked, crocheted, and paper maché’d constructions are womb-like wonders for visitations of the undead lesbian community, who are hell-bent on remaining nightmarishly non-assimilated. Casting the spells of freaky feminist skill sharing and paranormal consciousness raising together with ghouls, bio-engineered monsters, indoctrinators, and avengers, this hell house is designed to pervert, not convert.
Deep Lez becomes Creep Lez—Just in time for Hallowe’en
(Insert witchy cackle here)
October 16 marks the grand opening of Kill Joy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House. Dare to be scared by gender-queer apparitions, ball-busting butches, and never-married, happy-as-hell spinsters. For one night only, get down on riot ghouls and radical vampiric grannies while channeling your inner consciousness hell-raiser. Bite down on some beaver tails and suck back some fish tacos while you experience over 25 live performances, rock bands, video projections and much more fun too frightening to reveal…just yet.
Take a guided tour through the glorious and grisly detritus of Kill Joy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House from October 17 – 30, as this haunted house becomes an immersive art installation. Kill Joy’s Kastle will be open each day from 4 – 8 pm (or by appointment) and groups are welcome, especially the unruly kind. This ground-up, maximalist, not-to-be-missed haunted house—nailed, knit, and glued by a coven of dedicated feminists over the course of the past three months—provides a rare glimpse into Allyson Mitchell’s legendary craftivist world-view.
To book viewing appointments or class tours please contact: Emelie Chhangur at emelie@yorku.ca or Allyson Mitchell at mail@allysonmitchell.com.
Allyson Mitchell’s Lesbian Hell House is “fearfully” brought to you by the Art Gallery of York University. AGYU is a university-affiliated public non-profit contemporary art gallery supported by York University, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, and our membership. Allyson Mitchell would like to thank the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the York University Faculty Association (YUFA) for their financial support of this project. Boo.
Not scared yet? Require more information or images? Please contact Emelie Chhangur, Assistant Director/Curator, AGYU, +1.416.736.5169 or emelie@yorku.ca
www.heAGYUisOutThere.org/everywhere/
The Art Gallery of York University is a university-affiliated public non-profit contemporary art gallery supported by York University, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and our membership.
The AGYU is located in the Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele Street Toronto. Gallery hours are: Monday to Friday, 10 am–4 pm; Wednesday, 10am–8 pm; Sunday from noon–5 pm; and closed Saturday. Admission to everything is free.
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18. EVENT: Buddies presents Strange Sisters
Date: October 25, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Mark Aikman
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents STRANGE SISTERS
Curated by Kim Crosby & Gein Wong
www.buddiesinbadtimes.com
Award-winning artist, activist, and educator Kim Crosby and acclaimed theatre creator Gein Wong bring back a Buddies tradition, celebrating the work of queer women and trans folks in performance.
For it’s 35th Anniversary Season, Buddies brings back the iconic Strange Sisters – a long-held and much-loved tradition celebrating the work of queer women in performance. Leading this exciting new adventure are two highly acclaimed artists, activists, and community organizers: Kim Crosby (co-founder, The People Project and co-curator of Raunch and Resistance at The 34th Rhubarb Festival) and Gein Wong (Say Their Names, Remember at the AGO and artistic director of Eventual Ashes), with Jade Lee Hoy (Womanifesto space designer and Manfiesto Creative Director)
The curators have put together an eclectic program that features artists from across North America working in performance, spoken word, burlesque, dance, music, and more, showcasing the astonishing talents of women and trans artists. On the Strange Sisters stage, audiences will see raucous celebrations that defy expectations and find joy and strength in the things we are told to be ashamed of.
THE LINE-UP FOR STRANGE SISTERS INCLUDES:
A hot & complex sex work confessional from Juliet November
A mime interpretation of the dominatrix from Alvis Parsley
A new spoken word piece from Oakland’s yvonne fly onakeme etagh
Pole dancing and aerial performance from Oakland’s India Davis
Former Buddies Young Creators Unit member Cassandra Walker’s right of passage ritual for intersex folk
An anthem for femme identity from burlesque superstar Catherine ‘Legs’ Hernandez
A collective video performance from Masti Khor
Visual art from Fonna Seidu and Sun Sun
And prolific writer /poet Donna Michelle St. Bernard performs an interactive new work via Skype
BUDDIES BRINGS BACK ONE OF ITS MOST CELEBRATED TRADITIONS
First presented in 1990 and not seen on our stage since 2007, Strange Sisters has long been an important platform for female artists at Buddies in Bad Times. Buddies is excited to work with curators Kim Crosby and Gein Wong bring back this audience favourite. The curators will bring audiences an event unlike any Strange Sisters before it. Moving beyond the traditional cabaret-style performance showcase, the new Strange Sisters will feature new collaborations, group projects, and visual art along side individual works by each artist. Crosby and Wong have also expanded the scope of the festival to include work by trans artists. These changes reflect important changes within Buddies’ sexual and artistic communities – welcoming new ideas in performance, a more community-focused curatorial practice, and acknowledging the long standing contributions and artistic exchange with trans-identified people.
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents STRANGE SISTERS
Curated by Kim Crosby
co-curator Gein Wong
featuring Juliet November, Cassandra Walker, Catherine Hernandez, Alvis Parsley, yvonne fly onakeme etagh, Masti Khor, Donna Michelle St. Bernard, India Davis, Fonna Seidu & Sun Sun
Friday, October 25, 2013 at 8pm
Tickets $20
Box Office 416-975-8555 or www.buddiesinbadtimes.com
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexander Street, Toronto
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19. EVENT: MAKING SPACE
Date: October 30-November 3, 2013; City: Singapore; Source: Daniela Beltrani
MAKING SPACE intends to propose a platform for the exchange and discourse amongst emerging and established performance artists based in Southeast and East Asia. With such precursors as Womanifesto initiated in Thailand in 1997 and inspired by a more recent exchange programme for female artists based in Southeast Asia which took place at the end of September 2012 in Yangon, Myanmar, MAKING SPACE focuses solely on female artists.
Ultimately, far from being a presentation of the best performances, MAKING SPACE ‘s primary concern is to create an environment conducive to the exploration of performance art practices relevant to the body and consciousness of the female psyche in Asia. As such presence of both emerging and established artists will offer the opportunity of uncovering the personal and artistic achievements and challenges of practitioners at different stages of their career, whilst exploring notions of art and life within the female perspective.
Escaping the tempting label of feminist event and therefore the risk of being received as a mere reaction to a male-dominated environment, whereby its focus may risk shifting onto an antagonistic position, MAKING SPACE intends to literally offer a physical and metaphysical space for female performance artists to express their concerns and share the richness of their superimposing experience as women and as artists from their specific ever changing political, social and cultural climate.
MAKING SPACE will unfold in several directions to include platforms for theoretical and practical discourse.
A workshop conducted by Arahmaiani Feisal will be open to the invited artists, female art students and women interested in developing a deeper and practical understanding and experience of performance art.
A forum, Anatomising Performance, open to all, will present the opportunity to bring the discussion on the theme of female body and consciousness and the process of construction of performances to the public in order to achieve a wider understanding of this practice.
And finally, three evenings of performances will try to engage the public into the richness and possibilities of performance art.
MAKING SPACE, BODY AS WOMAN
A performance art event organised and curated by Daniela Beltrani
This event is a parrallel event to the Singapore Biennale
30 October – 3 November 2013
SCWO Centre, 96 Waterloo Street, Singapore 187967
Artists confirmed:
Arahamaiani Feisal (Indonesia)
Andree Weschler (Singapore/France)
Chand Chandramohan (Singapore)
Cristiana De Marchi (U.A.E./Italy)
Daniela Beltrani (Singapore/Italy)
Jacquelyn Soo (Singapore)
Lina Adam (Singapore)
Lisa Bauer (Germany/Taiwan)
Malvina Tan (Singapore)
Natasha Wei (Singapore)
Willis Turner Henry (Singapore/Indonesia)
Programme:
30 October 2013, 14:00–18:00, Performance art workshop by Arahmaiani Feisal
31 October 2013, 19:00-22:00, Performances
1 November 2013, 19:00-22:00, Performances
2 November 2013, 18:00-22:00, Performances
3 November 2013, 14:00-18:00, Forum: Anatomising Performance
A catalogue will be published post-event. For more details, please contact Daniela Beltrani at missdaniela68@gmail.com or 9109 6211.
www.singaporebiennale.org
About the Singapore Biennale
The Singapore Biennale was established in 2006 as the country’s pre-eminent platform for international dialogue in contemporary art. It places Singapore’s artists within a global context, and fosters productive collaborations with the international arts community. In this way, the Biennale provides new opportunities for local visual artists, arts organisations and businesses, and cultivates deeper public engagement with the arts. It complements achievements in other areas of arts and culture, collectively enhancing Singapore’s international profile as a vibrant city in which to live, work and play. The 2006 and 2008 editions of the Biennale were organised by the National Arts Council. As with the 2011 edition, Singapore Biennale 2013 is organised by the Singapore Art Museum of the National Heritage Board, and supported by the National Arts Council.
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20. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AGYU Artists’ Book of the Moment competition
Deadline date: November 15, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Kate Barry
Every year, give or take, we take the time to consider the artists' book. And every year, give or take, we think to ourselves, these things deserve recognition or a prize or something. And every year, give or take, we do that.
The Art Gallery of York University is now accepting submissions to the fourth AGYU Artists' Book of the Moment competition, aka the ABotM. All entries will appear on our website from submission date (give or take) to the announcement of the shortlist. The short-list of ABotMs will be announced online in January, and the books so deigned will be available for public browsing in our lobby/book-store. Then, in February, the finalist, the top of the ABotM 2013, will be revealed.
As with previous ABotMs, the winning entry will receive $1,500 CAD and our undying love [until next year].
Need more information and submission requirements? Check the website at:
www.theAGYUisOutThere.org/abotm or contact Michael Maranda of the ABotM team via: abotm@theagyuisoutthere.org
The Art Gallery of York University is a university-affiliated public non-profit contemporary art gallery supported by York University, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and our membership.
AGYU
Accolade East Building
4700 Keele Street, Toronto
Gallery hours:
Monday to Friday, 10 am - 4 pm
Wednesday, 10am - 8 pm
Sunday from noon - 5 pm
Closed Saturday
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21. LAUNCH: A history of performance art at Gachet
1998-2011
Date: now; City: the world; Source: Irene Loughlin
Gachet presents the launch of:
l’état de folie perçu/the state of perceived folly
A history of performance art at Gachet
1998-2011
Produced by Irene Loughlin
Available for purchase online at:
http://www.blurb.ca/b/4409548-l-etat-de-folie-percu-the-state-of-perceived-folly
http://gachet.org/
We are pleased to announce the launch of a historical overview of Performance Art at Gachet. Covering the period from 1998 to 2011, with writing by Fei Shi, Hamed Taheri, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa and Irene Loughlin, the book seeks to examine the impact of Gachet art production within this time period.
Fei Shi’s work comments on “the excessive moment of encounter… (in the works, which) …irretrievably breaks the normative structure of representational recognition and points to a restructuring of our political orientation, to feel the other in our body.” (p. 5)
Hamed Taheri’s 13 Theses On A Burning Asylum explores the performance by Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, as accompanied by Adriana Contreras. “When the man stops to whisper, the woman begins to talk. The death of his murmurs gives birth to her speech. The sacrifice of the voice heralds the arrival of new meaning.” (p.14)
In the essay Sketch, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa addresses the subject of ‘drawing, sketching, and improvisation’ in relation to performance art, commenting on the “metaphors and references to drawing in their performances which aren’t so far from the daily artistic practices of these artists.” (p.16).
Irene Loughlin provides an overview of performance at Gachet, citing important works produced by Gachet and DTES artists, including CR Avery, Marie Baker, Sven Black/Lucy Fur, Francisco Fernando-Granados, Pedro Guillen Cuevas, Diane Jacobs, Zola Novak, Francisco Ortiz, Paula Potter, Rocco Trigueros, Paula Urrutia, Karenza T. Wall, Danny Wickert, Samatha Zahorchak, as well as the creative contributions and support of Glenn Alteen, Reona Brass, Kim Dawn, Guillermo Galindo and Berengere Parizeau, Randy Gledhill, Bryan Mulvihill, Archer Pechawis, and Alvin Tolentino.
"Perhaps, at a future moment, contemporary art institutions will navigate this uneasy relationship between able-bodied assumptions and disability perspective than that of the past, where in so many instances such perspectives have been co-opted or rejected (i.e. through biographical/curiosity exploitation resulting in financial gain for the ableist institution, or through a disavowed position to any subject matter that might align historical 'romanticized' notions of suffering or mental illness with artistic production.) We call for a new paradigm that recognizes a neurologically and emotively diverse, creative climate. This document serves as a witness and as a contribution to the history and development of such an aspect of contemporary art production and discourse."
~Irene Loughlin, editor and contributor.
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22. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Present Tense
Deadline date: December 17, 2013; City: the world; Source: The Present Tense
The Present Tense is currently accepting submissions for its next round of thematic posts that feature artists working with the same materials/concepts. We are interested in live artworks that investigate the following concepts:
-DREAMS/SLEEP
-TRAVEL
-FAMILY
-HEIGHTS
-IF A TREE FALLS DOES IT MAKE A SOUND? (artist accounts from performances that had no witness)
www.thepresenttense.org
If you are an artist working with any of these ideas/materials, please send the following information to thepresenttense@gmail.com by December 17, 2013. Artists will be notified regarding their acceptance in January 2014. Documentation of selected works will be featured on The Present Tense’s web archive throughout 2014.
Artist statement (100 words)
Artist bio (100 words)
Examples of past work (images and/or video)
Maximum of 10 images (150 dpi no larger than 8 by 10 inches)
1-2 links to video not to exceed 20 minutes each (hosted on Vimeo, Youtube etc.)
Still images and video must be accompanied by an image list containing the following information:
-title of piece
-year of creation
-location
-brief description of piece
Please specify which theme/s you are submitting for in the subject line of the email.
For questions and curiosities, email ThePresentIsEternal@gmail.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.
2013 is FADO’S 20th Anniversary! STAYED TUNED all year for special events and projects in celebration of this amazing milestone.
Special thanks to the Ontario Arts Council’s Arts Investment Fund for support of activities related to our Archive Project. Please visit our gallery pages on our website to see images and video from nearly 20 years of FADO activity.
Photo Galleries
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