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FADO E-LIST (April 2014)INDEX 1. EVENT: FADO presents 2014 Emerging Artists Series: 11:45PM Date: March 8-29, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada 2. PUBLICATION LAUNCH: monograph on the career Alain-Martin Richard Date: March 31, 2014; City: Quebec, Canada; Source: Paul Couillard 3. EVENT: _Toronto_05apr2014_by Hector Centeno Date: April 1, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: alucine 4. EVENT: FADO presents a special screening of the film works of VestAndPage Date: April 16, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada 5. WORKSHOP: FADO offers intensive performance art workshop with VestAndPage Date: April 14-19, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada 6. EVENT: A Problem So Big It Needs Other People Date: March 22, 29/April 12, 16, 2014; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: SBC 7. EVENT: Balancing on the Edge/Age featuring Rocio Boliver and Begoña Grande Date: March 29, 2014; City: Chicago, USA; Source: DfbrL8r 8. CALL FOR PERFORMERS: ROOMS at LINK&PIN’s event LONG-TERM Date: immediately; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Adriana Disman 9. EVENT: Exchange Norge-Espana Date: March 29-April 6, 2014; City: Oslo, Norway; Source: Ana Matey Maranon 10. EVENT: HOW TO STOP MAKING ART by Coman Poon Date: April 2-4, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Coman Poon 11. EVENT: Performative Haiku by Francis O’Shaunghnessy Date: April 5, 2014; City: Montréal, Canada; Source: Francis O’Shaunghnessy 12. EVENT: RIPA (Rencontre Interuniversitaire de Performance Actuelle Date: April 5-6, 2014; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: RIPA 13. EVENT: Interval °2 Performance Festival Date: April 5-9, 2014; City: Essen, Germany; Source: asabank 14. MASTER CLASS: The Copycat Academy by Hannah Hurtzig Deadline date: April 7, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Laura Nanni 15. EVENT: 4th edition of the RAVY Festival Date: April 7-13, 2014; City: Yaoundé, Cameroon; Source: Serge Olivier Fokoua 16. EVENT: stromereien Performance Festival is back! Date: April 7-13, 2014; City: Zurich, Switzerland; Source: stromereien 17. EVENT: LINK&PIN presents LONG-TERM Date: April 12-13, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Adriana Disman 18. EVENT: Pain presents Between Body and Place by Julischka Stengele Date: April 23, 2014; City: Umeå, Sweden; Source: Johannes Blomqvist 19. EVENT: Pain presents Between Body and Place by Julischka Stengele Date: April 23, 2014; City: Umeå, Sweden; Source: Johannes Blomqvist 20. EVENT: PALS 2014 - International festival for performance art Date: April 25-27, 2014; City: Stockholm, Sweden; Source: PALS 21. EVENT: The Ballad of _______ B by Francisco-Fernando Granados Date: April 26, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Facebook 22. PERFORMANCE ART RESIDENCY: Are you OUT of your MIND! Adrian Stimson Deadline date: April 30, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Tomas Jonsson 23. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: FRIKTIONERFRICTION Dates: May 14-17, 2014; City: Uppsala, Sweden; Source: FriktionerFriction 24. WORKSHOP: IPA in Istanbul Date: June 15-29, 2014; City: Istanbul; Source: John Boehme
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1. EVENT: FADO presents 2014 Emerging Artists Series: 11:45PM Date: March 8-29, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada
***LAST WEEKEND: Friday March 28 and Saturday March 29 Xpace Cultural Centre 2-303 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto ARTISTS Anthea Fitz-James (Toronto) Emma-Kate Guimond (Montréal) Jessica Karuhanga (Toronto) Akadi Lavoie Lachapelle (Montréal) Rah Saneie (Ottawa)
Co-presented by 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 Tehching 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. 11:45PM will present a collection of durational works, spread out over the course of March, throughout the gallery.
PERFORMANCES 6 hours 6 minutes 6 seconds by Akadi Lavoie Lachapelle March 28, 6pm - 12am
For this performance, the audience is encouraged to bring with them, or to drop off at the gallery anytime during gallery hours from March 8-28, items from their homes that represent evil to them. Can be any kind of object, from a banal household item to a talisman. Object must be wrapped, so the contents are not known. All objects will be used in the performance.
Ululation by Rah Saneie March 29, 12pm - 6pm
PANEL DISCUSSION What Happens After Midnight: Artists Panel Moderated by local durational performance legend Tanya Mars With the artists and series curator Kate Barry
ABOUT Emerging Artists Series Initiated in 2022 by Tanya Mars, FADO’s Emerging Artists Series was created to provide a professional platform for emerging artists from Toronto and beyond. Working within a curatorial framework, the series is intended to nurture new work and ideas, provide direction and mentorship, and to showcase the work of the community’s newest perspectives in performance art. The 2014 Emerging Artists Series was curated by FADO Board Member Kate Barry in consultation with Xpace and a committee of local artists (including Xpace Director Amber Landgraff, Videofag founder Jordan Tannahill, theatre artist Audrey Dewyer, and Xpace intern Humboldt Magnussen.
For artist bios and project descriptions, please visit: www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=272
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2. PUBLICATION LAUNCH: monograph on the career Alain-Martin Richard Date: March 31, 2014; City: Quebec, Canada; Source: Paul Couillard
Launch of a major monograph on the career Alain-Martin Richard
Monday March 31, 2014, from 5-7pm CERCLE 228, rue St-Joseph Est, Québec
Alain-Martin Richard Performances, manœuvres et autres hypothèses de disparition/Performances Manoeuvres and other Hypotheses for Disappearing
Dive into the unique creative journey of artist Alain-Martin Richard with the launch of an impressive new bilingual monograph. In this book, authors Paul Couillard, Doyon/Demers, Hélène La Roche, Paul Ouellet, Nicolas Reeves, Clive Robertson, Guy Sioui Durand and Marianne Trudel join Alain-Martin Richard to provide a comprehensive picture of Richard's career and practice, from his theatrical experiments of the 1970s to his global "manoeuvres" in the 2000s.
The evening is the culmination of several years of work by its co-publishers, Paul Couillard for FADO and Nicholas Pitre for SAGAMIE. Alain-Martin Richard has also invited several artists to intervene in an impromptu fashion during the launch to spice up this evening of surprises.
Alain-Martin Richard lives and works in Quebec. As an artist, he has presented manoeuvre and performance works in North America, Europe and Asia. He also works as a curator, critic and essayist, publishing articles in numerous journals on theatre, performance, installation and manoeuvre. He was a member of the former collectives Inter/Le Lieu and The Nomads , and remains active with Les Causes perdues in© and Folie/Culture. His works often deploy multiple planes of reality as in l'Atopie textuelle (2000) and The Route to Rosa (2006). Alain-Martin Richard is currently a visiting professor at Laval University's School of Visual Arts, and he is in the midst of preparing a major project for the seventh edition of Manif d'art.
Alain-Martin Richard: Performances, manœuvres et autres hypothèses de disparition/ Performances, Manoeuvres and other Hypotheses for Disappearing is published by FADO in collaboration with SAGAMIE édition d’art and Les Causes perdues Inc.
ISBN 978-0-9730883-3-5 (FADO) ISBN 978-2-923612-38-6 (SAGAMIE) Regular price: $40 Special Launch Price: $35
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3. EVENT: _Toronto_05apr2014_by Hector Centeno Date: April 1, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: alucine
aluCine Latin Film and Media Arts Festival presents
Sponsored by FADO Performance Art Centre
_Toronto_05apr2014_ is a multichannel sound performance that creates subtle soundscapes through virtual three-dimensional sonic spaces. The artist makes sound-field recordings prior to the event while performing attentive sound walks within the city. The experiences and recordings gathered are then used as the source for live improvisation, allowing the artist to explore the concepts of ecology and awareness through sound.
New Media Artist Hector Centeno works with sound and technology. His interactive sound installations and performances have been presented at the Sounds Electric ’05 Festival in Ireland, Sound Travels Festival and SOUNDplay Festival in Toronto, among others, and internationally in Colombia and Uruguay. Motivated by the experience of mindfulness, Centeno seeks to strike a balance between intuition and rationality.
ABOUT aluCine aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival showcases and disseminates the work of emerging and established Latin artists living in Canada and the Diaspora through an annual festival, year-round events and touring exhibitions in Latin America. aluCine is one of the largest Latin media arts festival in North America; screening independent films of all genres along with new media installations, video performance and video art. Every year aluCine features unique programming reflecting a broad range of issues, identities and currents from Latin-America, Canada and abroad.
aluCine is presented at the prestigious Jackman Hall in the Art Gallery of Ontario.
70+ films, 4 galleries, 7 exhibitions, performance, music, new media installations, artist’s talks, and several events throughout the month of April as part of the Hispanic Heritage month at several venues such us: Bavia Arts Gallery, Creative Blueprint Gallery, NAISA Gallery and Toronto Arts Council Gallery.
14th aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival April 3-6, 2014
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4. EVENT: FADO presents a special screening of the film works of VestAndPage Date: April 16, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada
sin∞fin The Movie (Episode 1 & 3) By VestAndPage
DATE: Wednesday April 16, 2014 TIME: 7:30PM LOCATION: Artscape Youngplace (180 Shaw Street, Toronto) ADMISSION: $20 (*Screening + Artist Talk to follow // Plus refreshments!)
TICKETS -Tickets are available at the door (limited number) -FADO office (email: info@performanceart.ca or call 416-822-3219)
sin∞fin The Movie, is a trilogy of films of collaborative performances by artist duo VestAndPage in epic locations around the world. Teetering between the real and the visionary, the films feature the two protagonists undertaking surreal and ephemeral acts. Amplified by the unfamiliar environments, the performances reflect on universal human experiences such as altruism, partnership and the transient nature of existence.
Episode #1, "Performances at the End of the World", set in Chilean Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (2010) thematically focuses on the intimate, inner domain of the individual and the couple. The concluding episode, "Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass", filmed in Antarctica (2012) engages with narratives on nature and the universe. There is no script or storyboard and the artists’ actions evolve in direct response to the surroundings in which they find themselves. The camera records what possible spectators would view, yet the movie is not a documentary. Instead the works are pieced together organically, forming an autonomous story generated through the process of making to be read by each viewer in a personal way.
Diving into the absurdness of the quotidian, performances and installations were developed in response to each individual site. Based on the ethos of live performance, the two protagonists are primarily themselves - there is no acting in their actions; actions which appear poetic, but are based on real life. And still, sin∞fin The Movie is not a documentary, as the single acts are finally puzzled together organically, to generate a new story that enfolds through the dynamics that have been created, instead of through imposed intentions.
ABOUT VestAndPage German artist Verena Stenke and Venetian artist and writer Andrea Pagnes have been working together since 2006, generating art in the mediums of live performance, filmmaking and writing, and through independent curatorship. Their works have been presented widely across Europe, Asia, the Americas, Australia and Africa. Their practice is process-led and conceived psycho-geographically in response to architecture, natural surroundings or historical sites. It examines the fragility of the individual within different social or environmental spheres. Exploring what, as human beings, we still have to offer, VestAndPage question our existence within a humanity characterized by social exclusion and global atrocities. Animated by a nomadic, confrontational spirit, they apply the themes of acceptance, resistance, crisis and endurance with a poetic bodily approach to art practice. www.vest-and-page.de
EPISODE #1: sin∞fin - Performances at the End of the World (Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, 2010)
The two characters move through the rooms of a house that has no address: the structure of their interior spaces, stuffed with visions and memories. Patagonia is a hybrid of pathos and agony. Here the Magellan feeling arises by opposing surreal dream-sequences to situations of everyday life. The winds and climate of the land situated at the end of the world cause and favour a continuous disintegration and consequential transformation of beings. The vastness of the area, its isolation and solitude, tell repeatedly of a unique nature, permeated by mystery and surrealism, inside which the individual adapts him/herself searching to find a home.
TRAILER: www.sinfin-themovie.de/SINFIN/sinfin___Episode_1.html Chile / Italy / Germany, 2010 DVD PAL, color, 00:38:52, 16:9, English with subtitles A VestAndPage production 2010 In coproduction with CONFL!CTA Contemporary Art and Science Research, Punta Arenas (Chile)
EPISODE #3: sin∞fin - Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass (Antarctica, 2012)
Here the two characters move through the deserted, icy Vastness of an oneiric land. They find themselves creatures being torn between life and death, absence and misleading mirages, fortune and emptiness. The flux of nature is mercilessly immense, where the wind sings its laments and silences its lullaby. All paradises are merciless, in a search for Beauty where anything is a Mirror. Is there any game left to be played, is there someone left to call for, when clocks don’t display time anymore, and no compass is guiding one’s way? Who’s the player and who’s the pawn, and whose turn is it, when civilization has lost its quotidian schemes, and just basic rules count? In the backdrop of Antarctica, a place where humans have neither roots, nor future, but only a frail and temporary presence always at risk, all questions inevitably lead to humbleness.
TRAILER: www.sinfin-themovie.de/SINFIN/sinfin___Episode_3.html Argentina / Italy / Germany, 2012 DVD PAL, 00:45:42, color, 16:9, English with subtitles A VestAndPage production 2012 In coproduction with DNA Dirección Nacional del Antártico, Buenos Aires; Thetis Spa, Venice. With soundscape by Zai Kuning, Angie Seah, Black Sea Hotel and recordings of Weddell seal callings under the ice by the courtesy of Douglas Quin.
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5. WORKSHOP: FADO offers intensive performance art workshop with VestAndPage Date: April 14-19, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada
FADO is pleased to offer a 6-day intensive performance art workshop facilitated by VestAndPage (Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes).
***ONLY 3 SPOTS LEFT!!!
WORKSHOP DATES: April 14-19, 2014 (Daily from 9am-6pm) COST: $150 LOCATION: Artscape Youngplace (Flex Studio), 180 Shaw Street, Toronto PUBLIC Presentation: Saturday April 19, 7pm
The workshop culiminates in a public presentation of the performance art works created during the week by the workshop participants. All welcome / FREE
In this 6-day intensive MayDay performance art workshop, participants experience VestAndPage’s unique method through the process of making a performance art piece. Through practical exercises and reflecting on the use of the body as a tool, the workshop will focus on introspection as a way to develop authentic modes of expression and artistic action, and participants will be provided with the means to conceive, develop, and realize their own performance piece. Through methodology aimed at understanding prevailing behavioral patterns, participants will develop new ways of communicating and overcoming fears created by conflicting contemporary conditions. The workshops will also offer insight into the framework of process-led and conceptual art practice, with the aim to provide basis for future material. Participants will develop a heightened awareness of mind and body, with the means to stimulate artistic personal action though inner sensitivity.
For more information on the artists and their workshop approach, please visit: www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=273
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6. EVENT: A Problem So Big It Needs Other People Date: March 22, 29/April 12, 16, 2014; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: SBC
A Problem So Big It Needs Other People: Performances & Discussions Curated by cheyanne turions
Participants: Basil AlZeri Daina Ashbee Tanya Lukin Linklater Annie MacDonell Gabrielle Moser cheyanne turions Chelsea Vowel
SBC - Galerie D’Art Contemporain du Belgo 372 Ste-Catherine West, Montreal FREE Admission
For more information about the performances and discussions: www.sbcgallery.ca/#!event-a-problem-so-big-it-needs-other-p/cwmv
For more information about the exhibition: www.sbcgallery.ca/#!cheyanne-turions/cv2d
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7. EVENT: Balancing on the Edge/Age featuring Rocio Boliver and Begoña Grande Date: March 29, 2014; City: Chicago, USA; Source: DfbrL8r
Balancing on the Edge/Age featuring: Rocio Boliver (Mexico) and Begoña Grande (Spain)
Performance in the windows by Lucha Clara (Mexico/US) Piercing by Happy Dave
DfbrL8r Gallery 1136 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago
$15 donation at the door $10 donation in advance: http://rocioboliverchicago.eventbrite.com/
MAJESTY OF FLESH is a series of exhibitions and discussions initiated by Defibrillator to examine extreme uses of the body as site, research, and practice. Through this project we aim to build appreciation and awareness regarding the underrepresented genre of body art within time-based practices. SUKA OFF (Poland) kicked off the series in October 2013 followed by RON ATHEY in January 2014. Boliver completes the series with BALANCING ON THE EDGE/AGE.
ROCIO BOLIVER (Mexico) also known as La Congelada de Uva, is one of the most important women working in body art today. An underground culture icon in Mexico City, Boliver criticizes repressive ideological burdens that women endure, primarily in Mexico. Her performance, BALANCING ON THE EDGE/AGE, explores themes surrounding beauty, femininity and the aging body. Boliver studied Performance Art at the Tisch School for the Arts, New York University, with Richard Schechner; and history of performance at Arts Plastiques du Cégep de l'Abitibi, Quebec, Canada. With a background in television and theater, Boliver has also worked in music, literature, and academia. In 1992 she began her performance career by reading her porno-erotic texts. Since then her work has been presented at festivals in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.
BEGOÑA GRANDE (Spain) searches for the freedom of the soul through performance and poetry. She fights for the survival of art as a medicine. Her work is a continuous mutation, a paralysis between time and space, a transparent reflection. Forced to have a degree in the university, she started studying Communication. Her concern for finding something beyond, for breaking the schemes established by society, led her to discover the immense emptiness of the humanoid system. After several years where fear and loneliness were her best colleagues, she decided to begin working with the video performance format. One of her works, “Emptiness” was selected as the most representative video of bizarre art in the short film festival “Caostica V”, in Bilbao. Since then, she has worked with national and international artists such as Marcel.li Antunez, Rocio Boliver, Cuco Suarez, and in places like Mexico, Portugal, Morocco, Poland, or Basque Country. With a scholarship by the Center of Artistic Research Ladines, she ventured to experiment with performance in its purest state. Nowadays she investigates the modified states of consciousness, working with Alter Consciens, an association devoted to the research and social outreach of transdisciplinary activities on the border between performing arts, new technologies and the diverse states of consciousness.
LUCHA CLARA (Mexico/US) has a hybrid identity stemming from her cultural upbringing in Mexico City and the United States. She draws upon cliché, kitsch, Mexican folklore and her love of sensuality. Clara fetishizes and gestures toward not only cultural objects, but also herself as a cultural object. Through seduction and humor, she struggles to navigate the various roles of her cultural upbringing and the ones set upon her by society. Her performance in the Windows, ANTISTAR, explores powerful Mexican female personas in popular culture.
Committed to presenting a vast range of styles and forms of time-based art, DEFIBRILLATOR PERFORMANCE ART GALLERY (a.k.a. dfb or DFBRL8R) is a non- profit 501c3 arts organization dedicated to fostering local talent while invigorating the Chicago art community with artists from around the globe. Contextualizing performance within visual art, we embrace action-based or conceptual work by artists who look to the body, objects, space, and time for inspiration, research and practice.
Defibrillator is partially supported by grants from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Illinois Arts Council Agency, and Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
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8. CALL FOR PERFORMERS: ROOMS at LINK&PIN’s event LONG-TERM Date: immediately; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Adriana Disman
Performance installation duo, ROOMS, is looking for eight performers to perform in Ritual No. 1: Counting Birds, for LONG-TERM - an event in the LINK & PIN series featuring extended durational work to be shown at HUB14. The performance is approximately four hours long and requires very little performance experience but a level of endurance is required to stand and "speak" with a minimal set of movements is necessary. While stamina is required, Counting Birds is an unforgettable meditative experience for both performers and audience.
The performance is on Sunday April 13th at 2pm at HUB14 @ 14 Markham St. Performers would be called at 12:00 PM to learn the piece, rehearse, and get into costume. ROOMS is comprised of husband and wife, Marrakesh and Todd Frugia based in Chicago, USA. ROOMS maintains the belief that the power of art lives within the visceral reaction to the questions that mystery and ambiguity provoke. Please visit roomsgallery.com for past artwork. Video to see Ritual No. 1: Counting Birds first performed in ROOMS gallery can been seen here: http://vimeo.com/61550456
Please contact: marrakesh72@gmail.com Leave your email address and phone number if you are interested.
Info on ROOMS: Web site: http://roomsgallery.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/roomsgallery Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/user6847553
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9. EVENT: Exchange Norge-Espana Date: March 29-April 6, 2014; City: Oslo, Norway; Source: Ana Matey Maranon
The project is supported by EEA Grants and the Norwegian Embassy in Spain. An exchange between Spanish and Norwegian performance artists.
LOCATION: Atelier Nord ANX (Olav Ryes Plass 2, Oslo) DATE: March 29th to April 6th, 2014. EVENT: Saturday April 5th 2014 at 17:00 // Nkr 50,- (cash only)
ARTISTS From Spain: Ana Matey, Domix Garrido, Sergio Muro and Isabel León From Norway: Franzisca Siegrist, Inger-Reidun Olsen, Ida Grimsgaard and Susanne Irene Fjørtoft
EXCHANGE España - Norge is a performance exchange project between Spain and Norway. Four Spanish artists will be in Norway for 10 days, working with four Norwegian artists will work together and develop performance art works. The result of this working period will be presented to an audience on Saturday April 5th. After the presentation of the performances we invite the audience to a discussion with the artists. Both the working process and the presentation will be at Atelier Nord ANX.
The main goal of the exchange is to enrich both the artists of the project, the audience and the society they are part of. The project brings together south and north of Europe, builds a bridge between two countries, which have big cultural and economic differences. This exchange gives a possibility of understanding and an approach between cultures, based on the reflection of artistic creation.
EXCHANGE España-Norge invited us with these questions: How can social, political and cultural difference affect artistic collaboration? How will this affect the artists and their work? What about diversity in work method? Will language and difference in our backgrounds be a disability?
http://accion-exchange.blogspot.com.es
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10. EVENT: HOW TO STOP MAKING ART by Coman Poon Date: April 2-4, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Coman Poon
The Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency in partnership with Videofag present: E̶X̶P̶E̶R̶I̶M̶E̶N̶T̶I̶N̶G̶ ̶W̶I̶T̶H̶̶ HOW TO STOP MAKING ART By Coman Poon April 2,3,4, 2014
Coman Poon is poised to take the lid off the box. Over a dozen banker boxes, actually. In E̶X̶P̶E̶R̶I̶M̶E̶N̶T̶I̶N̶G̶ ̶W̶I̶T̶H̶̶ HOW TO STOP MAKING ART, Coman Poon invites the public to join him in a process of inquiry. Recently moved into his new, long-term housing, Coman found himself finally able to retrieve all his belongings from various storage spaces, and for the first time in seven years, bring all his worldly possessions home. Finally surrounded by the items he had held onto for so long, he realized he was surrounded by things to let go of. During the The Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency, Coman worked with the architecture of the old Island Natural Science School, crawling deep under the floorboards (literally) of interstitial spaces he found at the site and within himself, via his theoretical research, performance rituals, studio time and critiques with visiting artists and curators. As an artist whose practice has included a sublime consideration of objects, costume, movement and gesture, Coman takes this opportunity for a 72-hour exhibition, hosted by Videofag, to ask himself to choose something he sought after and cherished, something hard to let go of and hard to give away, and release it. What are the stakes of engagement in the act of releasing? In deconstructing the container of our expectation of the gallery experience, Coman's exhibition is not an exhibition but rather a proposition, with a title struck through. When transitioning from transient to located, or mobile to fixed, we hold on to our materials until we are ready to embrace the consequences of letting go.
E̶X̶P̶E̶R̶I̶M̶E̶N̶T̶I̶N̶G̶ ̶W̶I̶T̶H̶̶ HOW TO STOP MAKING ART is open to the public on April 3, (9am - 5pm) and April 4, (9am - 5pm)
April 2 / day 1 - closed to the public (10 - 5) April 3 / day 2 - open to the public (9 - 5) April 4 / day 3 - open to the public (9 - 5), finissage 3 - 5
Videofag 187 Augusta Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5T 2L4
The Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency is an annual summer residency on the Toronto Island at Artscape Gibraltar Point, offering a juried cohort of LGBT artists free room, board and studio space in which to develop projects critically engaged with Queer political histories. Tobaron Waxman, Artistic Director www.facebook.com/ILGBTArtistResidency
Videofag is a storefront cinema and performance space in Toronto's Kensington Market dedicated to the creation and exhibition of video, film, new media, and live art. www.videofag.com
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11. EVENT: Performative Haiku by Francis O’Shaunghnessy Date: April 5, 2014; City: Montréal, Canada; Source: Francis O’Shaunghnessy
Performative Haiku: An art project on the concept of overcoming the love letter Silk Landscape: Thesis performance project of the PHD in the Études et pratique des arts program at UQAM
CIRCA 372, Ste-Catherine West, Suite 444, Montreal 5pm
Francis O’Shaunghnessy will present a new performance at CIRCA on April 5, 2015 at 5pm in the Galerie 1. This project is the synthesis of his doctoral research in the Études et pratique des arts program at Université du Québec à Montréal.
CIRCA is an artist-run centre for contemporary art, presenting the work of Québec, Canadian and international artists for over 25 years.
Silk Landscape O’Shaughnessy fell in love with a woman while on a performance tour. However, it was not the woman he fell in love with, but rather the landscape surrounding this woman. It was following this episode that love became the main motivation for his artistic process. Using the concept of a love letter, the artist developed what he calls the performative haiku: an approach combining love and performance art. He attempts to present poetic images that express the essence of an inner experience: an act of faith in love. In his performances, O’Shaughnessy endeavours to transmit positive energy and convey joy. For him, love is an interior resonance that is experienced in solitude; it is an occasion for self-discovery.
Biography Born in 1980, Francis O’Shaughnessy is a Québec visual artist of international repute. Since 2002, he has presented 120 performances in 22 countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Recently his work was seen at the Nippon International Performance Art Festival (Japan, 2014), at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (Poland, 2013), at the Weekend des musées in Alsace (France, 2013) and at Tehdas Teatteri (Finland, 2013). He has been the co-curator and artistic director of 20 large-scale events such as Art Nomade, Rencontre international d’art performance de Saguenay (2013), and has organized the exchanges Québec/Poland (2013) and Québec/Finland (2013). He regularly gives lectures and workshops on performance art to students at colleges and universities. He lives in Montreal.
CIRCA Hours: Open from Wednesday to Saturday between 12pm and 5pm
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12. EVENT: RIPA (Rencontre Interuniversitaire de Performance Actuelle) Date: April 5-6, 2014; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: RIPA
Performance Event: Saturday April 5, 2014, 19hr Salle SH4800, UQAM (200 rue Sherbrooke O., Montreal) Admission: $5 advance / $7 door
Emerging Artists: Jean-Michel René (UL) Jack Wong (NSCAD) Beck Gilmer-Osborne (NSCAD) Marie-Claude Gendron (UQAM) Catherine Lescarbeau (UQAM) Carolyne Paquette (UQAM) Pier-Antoine Lacombe (UQAM) Kyle Martens (NSCAD) Steven Girard (UL)
Invited Artist: Shannon Cochrane Performance artist & Director of FADO Performance Art Centre
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Round-table discussion: Sunday April 6, 13hr – 17hr Salle SH4800, UQAM (200 rue Sherbrooke O., Montreal) Free admission
1) Le collectionnement, la mise en exposition et la diffusion de la performance. Shannon Cochrane (FADO) Amélie Giguère (Chercheuse indépendante) Lesley Johnstone (Conservatrice, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal)
2) La pratique, l’histoire, le langage et les codes de la performance Discussion entre praticiens de la performance, présentée par Sophie Castonguay (performeuse et chargée de cours à l’UQAM) et François Morelli (artiste et professeur à l’Université Concordia).
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13. EVENT: Interval °2 Performance Festival Date: April 5-9, 2014; City: Essen, Germany; Source: asabank
ANNOUNCEMENT 1: Feel warmly invited to the second performance festival Interval °2 in Essen April 5, 2014: ERDgeschoß, Emmastrasse 1a, 45130, Essen, 7:00pm April 6, 2014: Schurenbachhalde, Altenessen, 3:00pm Outdoor and collaborative performances
Invited artists: ] performance space [ London BEAN / Dani Ploeger / Annalaura Alifuoco / Fabiola Paz / Christopher Mollon
ANNOUNCEMENT 2: PAErsche has the pleasure to invite warmly to Spatio Temporal °2 - transposition April 8: Orangerie-Theater, Volksgartenstrasse 25, 50672 Köln, 8:00 Uhr April 9: Künstlerforum Bonn, Hochstadenring 22-24, 53119 Bonn, 8:00 Uhr
Invited artists: ] performance space [ London BEAN / Dani Ploeger / Annalaura Alifuoco / Fabiola Paz / Christopher Mollon
The main focus lies onto the long durational performance. What can be created and is developed during a longer period of time in a space. Especially BEAN and Christopher Mollon are focused onto long duration. Fabiola Paz & Annalarua Alifuoco perform as a duo and Dani Ploeger transforms his body into a medical guinea pig. PAErsche members will end the evening with an Open Source Groupperformance.
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14. MASTER CLASS: The Copycat Academy by Hannah Hurtzig Deadline date: April 7, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Laura Nanni
The Copycat Academy: a weeklong master class with an absent master Date: June 9-15, 2014 Place: The Theatre Centre, Toronto, Canada Extended Application Deadline: Monday, April 7th, 2014
The Copycat Academy takes the work and biography of an artist as the model for its curriculum. Over a one-week, intensive learning experience an artist's method of production will be hijacked and subjected to a temporary parasitic inhabitation. The 2014 pilot will start with one of the most influential artist collectives of the late 20th century, Toronto based General Idea.
Featuring full day curricula under the direction of Bruce LaBruce, Jennifer Doyle, Kobe Matthys and Mårten Spangberg; a sudden attendance by Terence Koh; an encyclopedia by Philip Monk, and long durational talks by Kendell Geers as well as Doyle and Spångberg; presentations and interventions by Marcus Boon, Gisèle Gordon, Sheila Heti, Lemi Ponifasio, and Chrysanne Stathacos. Of course, AA Bronson will not be teaching.
Check out the curriculum and application process at: www.luminatofestival.com/events/2014/copycat-academy
All participating artists will be provided with hotel accommodation and per diem for the duration of the week, as well as access to other Luminato Festival events. Note: travel support for artists from outside of Toronto is available.
A project by Hannah Hurtzig. Commissioned and produced by the Luminato Festival.
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15. EVENT: 4th edition of the RAVY Festival Date: April 7-13, 2014; City: Yaoundé, Cameroon; Source: Serge Olivier Fokoua
LES PALLETTES DU KAMER, in partnership with the Crane Lab, is pleased to announce the 4th edition of the RAVY festival (Yaoundé Visual Arts Encounters) from 07 to 13 April 2014 in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Today the festival focuses more on what is called "site specific art" including performance art. The festival will further provide more space to artists whose approach breaks down social barriers, aesthetic, philosophical or religious. GUEST CURATORS: Storm Janse Van Rensburg (Germany)
www.facebook.com/pages/RAVY/588385431248835 email: palettesdukamer@yahoo.fr
16. EVENT: stromereien Performance Festival is back! Date: April 7-13, 2014; City: Zurich, Switzerland; Source: stromereien
Self-management! - or: What if everything will be a performance?
With contributions by: Johanna Bruckner (AT) Krõõt Juurak (EE) mit Alex Bailey Cuqui Jerez (ES) Alexander Tuchacek (AT/CH) Amélie Brisson-Darveau (CA/CH) Balz Isler (DE/CH) Laura Kalauz (AR) Blood for Roses (NO/DE) Brigitta Javurek (CH) mit Achille Gwem (CM) Souleymane Kone (BF), Goran Basic (CH) und Jelena Javurek (CH)
Including: Yoga, Vegan Lunch/Dinner, Get-Abstract Book-Club and Auction Art Sessions.
Life and work conditions have changed due to socio-political and technological shifts demanding intense work on the self from all individuals. Our working situations and daily life are measured constantly. Social media and wearable technology makes body and cognitive labor comparable. We unconsciously increase our data output and try to manage this situation. stromereien 2014 will focus on these changes through performance. What is "performance" today and how are artists working with performance? How can we separate artistic performance from a common one? With these questions in mind a rethinking of venues is needed as well as questions of media and documentation. What is a festival today and what is the position of the spectator? How are the working conditions for artists in contemporary society if every job description includes a creative imperative? Are we all artists? Nine artists have been invited to create their own performance concept to open up new perspectives on the present.
Detailed time schedule and information about the festival are soon online: https://twitter.com/stromereien
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17. EVENT: LINK&PIN presents LONG-TERM Date: April 12-13, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Adriana Disman
LONG-TERM Co-curated by Adriana Disman and Sandrine Schaefer Part of LINK & PIN performance series Co-presented with FADO
Saturday, April 12, 2014 – Sunday, April 13, 2013 hub 14 14 Markham Street, Toronto
The work featured in LONG-TERM investigates extended duration, collaborative practices of various artist duos. Unfolding over 2 days, the event addresses the complexities involved in creating, balancing, and evolving a shared creative process.
ARTISTS Miller and Shellabarger (Boston) JV (Boston) BestAndPage (Germany/Italy) Duorama (Toronto) Rooms (Chicago)
BIOs of each of the artist duos can be found at the following link: http://cargocollective.com/LINKPIN/About-2
SCHEDULE Saturday, April 12, 2014 2PM-6PM Miller and Shellabarger (outdoors) 2PM-6PM JV 6:30-8PM Dinner break 8PM-10PM VestAndPage
Sunday, April 13, 2014 2PM-6PM Duorama (outdoors) 2PM-6PM Rooms 6:30-8PM Dinner break 8PM-10PM VestAndPage
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18. WORKSHOP: My body my studio with Helge Meyer Deadline date: April 18, 2014; Bergen, Norway; Source: PAB
A performance workshop with Helge Meyer: “My body my studio” - Experimental approaches to public space, body and time
23-25 April 2014
About the workshop In this practice based workshop, the students work on various body exercises which deal with the specific needs to create a Performance Art –piece. The tasks will vary between the creation of body related images with simple and at least no material and also with pushing the limits of the physical possibilities of each participant. Beside this a deep awareness of time and space will be reached through experiments in duration and space-related imagery. In theoretical discussions, the students will value the differences of media-based work and “pure” pieces of body-related work. In the final section of the workshop, the students may create a work in the public space to experience the difference between a so-called “safe area” of a classroom and the interaction with an unconscious audience in the streets of Bergen.
Helge Meyer formed the Performance Art Group System HM2T (with Marco Teubner) in 1998. Since 2000 Meyer is associated with the international association Black Market International. He performed in festivals like Exit in Finland, in Italy, at Aozora Art in Japan, Open Art festival in China, PiPaf in the Philippines and intensively in Canada and the USA. Helge Meyer works parallel with Black Market, System HM2T and solo. Meyer owns a diploma in Cultural Studies (University of Hildesheim, Germany). He is a writer for art magazines like Inter (Canada) and teaches performance art workshops and theoretical classes. As a researcher he is interested in questions of pain, duo work, cooperation and the history of images. In 2007 he finished a doctoral thesis about the image of pain in Performance Art (Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany). http://www.performance-art-research.de/
Time: 09:00-13:00/ 14:00-18:00 Place: Bergen Old County Jail Price: 1000 NOK (300 NOK for PAB members) Language: English
Sign up before the 18th of April by sending an e-mail to post@performanceartbergen.no
Performance Art Bergen in cooperation with the Bergen Academy of Art and Design.
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19. EVENT: Pain presents Between Body and Place by Julischka Stengele Date: April 23, 2014; City: Umeå, Sweden; Source: Johannes Blomqvist
Between Body and Place Julischka Stengele
PAiN - Performance Art in the North proudly presents the German artist Julischka Stengele, who creates a durational performance/installation for the Glass House at Rådhustorget in Umeå 23/4. To investigate the relation between a specific body and its specific environment is central in Julischka’s work. She creates exciting tableaux vivants, atmospheres and encounters.
During her stay in Umeå Julischka also holds the workshop ‘Body, Image & Self/Re/Presentation’ 19-20/4. You can read more about the workshop here: http://painperformance.com/wpcontent/uploads/2014/01/HERE.pdf
As a part of the project PAiN also presents a performance by Julischka at PALS - Performance Art Links Festival in Stockholm 25-27/4.
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20. EVENT: PALS 2014 - International festival for performance art Date: April 25-27, 2014; City: Stockholm, Sweden; Source: PALS
The 25-27th of april Fylkingen has the great pleasure to invite you to PALS - Stockholms international performance art festival! The core of performance art is to be found in its prescence in the now, in the unique meeting between the artist and her audience. During three days we show the works of internationally renowned performance artists live -here and now.
PALS 2014 - performance art links. International festival for performance art 25-27th of april at Fylkingen
The time has come for the follow-up to the much appreciated festival PALS 2012! The 25-27th of april Fylkingen has the great pleasure to invite you to PALS - Stockholms international performance art festival! The core of performance art is to be found in its prescence in the now, in the unique meeting between the artist and her audience. During three days we show the works of internationally renowned performance artists live -here and now. We have brought together artists of different ages, from various countries and circumstances as part of the continous linking of different contexts happening in the international performance art scene.
During the week before the festival we are hosting a workshop where a number of experienced artists work together with art students from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark Poland and USA. The students will also take part in the festival program alongside the other artists of the festival.
The program in short: Friday 25/4 18.00-24.00. Gala premiere! The festival is opened with pomp and circumstance at Fylkingen. The fully packed performance art program goes on until midnight.
Saturday 26/4 18.00-24.00 Performance Kulturnatt! Performancefestival at Fylkingen as a part of Kulturnatt Stockholm.
Sunday 27/4 12.00 – 16.00.Performances at Slussen! The festival is concluded on sunday with performances in public space at Södermalmstorg/Slussen.
Contakt: www.palsfestival.se // www.fylkingen.se
Münchenbryggeriet, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2 Free admission!
These artists participate in PALS festival 2014: Jelili Atiku (Nigeria) Marylin Arsem (USA) Alejandra Herrera Silva (Chile/USA ) Helene Matte (Canada) VaidaTamoševičiūtė (Lithuania) Arti Grabowski (Poland) Victor Petrov (Belarus) Jozsef R. Juhasz (Slovakia) Julischka Stengele (Germany) Stuart Lynch (Denmark) Pavana Reid (Norway/Thailand) Katri Kainulainen (Finland) Elin Wikström (Sweden) Johannes Bergmark (Sweden) Marie Gavois (Sweden) GIDEONSSON/LONDRÉ (Sweden) Makode Linde (Sweden) Liv Strand (Sweden) Iris Smeds (Sweden)
PALS festival 2014 is realized with support from: Stockholms stad, Kulturrådet, Nordisk kulturfond.
And in cooperation with: Kulturnatt Stockholm, Polska institutet, Rumänska kulturinstitutet, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Kungl.Konsthögskolan Konstfack, PAiN - Performance Art in the North, Svefi - Sverigefinska Folkhögskolan i Haparanda, Göteborgs konstskola, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, The Copenhagen Film & Theatre School, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , Academy of Fine Art in Krakow.
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21. EVENT: The Ballad of _______ B by Francisco-Fernando Granados Date: April 26, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Facebook
The Ballad of _______ B By Francisco-Fernando Granados
Part of HATCH 2014 series: www.harbourfrontcentre.com/hatch
Francisco-Fernando Granados presents a new site specific, participatory performance project at Harbourfront Centre’s HATCH on April 26 in the Studio Theatre. The Ballad of _______ B is a performance installation for the stage that explores the queerness of the imagination through experiences and language in exile. A striking visual piece for three performers, The Ballad of _______ B is loosely based on an interview given by Granados as a teenager to a Vancouver newspaper that was later appropriated and re-published in the Canadian Mosaic section of an ESL (English as a Second Language) workbook, without consultation or approval. Blending participatory theatre with interactive performance art, The Ballad of _______ B addresses poetic structure and migration politics through an unpredictable and highly experimental collaboration with the general public.
The Ballad of _______ B involves an interactive script containing a series of open spaces, or blanks, in the narrative. The script will be available online April 18 to the general public, one week prior to the start of rehearsals. Readers are encouraged to participate in the narrative development of The Ballad of _______ B by filling in the blanks. The results of this randomized public collaboration will help shape the performance in unpredictable and exciting ways, while Granados and his team of collaborators incorporate digital media, narrative and recitation into the work.
The artist would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, and from the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
www.facebook.com/events/364220867052313
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22. PERFORMANCE ART RESIDENCY: Are you OUT of your MIND! Adrian Stimson Deadline date: April 30, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Tomas Jonsson
Program Dates: June 2- 14, 2014 Application Deadline: April 30, 2014 Price: $900 + HST
This residency will engage participants in critical discourse on contemporary performance art theory and praxis with a focus on yet not exclusive to indigenous experience. The residency will explore the history, current climate and ideas within performance art. Indigenous knowledge and practice will be engaged to understand ideas of the "other", and how we can become the "other" through performance practice. Being "othered" by society can create a open space that can be activated, this residency will assist you in finding your voice that will be activated through action. It will get you into your body and out of your mind.
This residency is an opportunity to overview indigenous performance art theory and praxis. While this workshop is based in indigenous praxis and knowledge, all people are welcome to explore and participate in "other" trajectories of performance practice. The workshops will take place over 8 days and will give participants the opportunity to view and discuss theory, history, current climate and ideas within contemporary performance practice. The discussions will link participants to other movements, current socio-cultural, political and activist trends. This residency will be fun, serious and completely different.
Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in southern Alberta. He is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator with a BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art & Design and MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. Adrian was awarded the Blackfoot Visual Arts Award in 2009, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003 and the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 for his human rights and diversity activism in various communities. He is represented by the Darrell Bell Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he currently resides.
Residencies Artscape Gibraltar Point offers affordable short-term studio and accommodations rentals for artists and creative types who want to focus on their work in a distraction-free environment. Artists enjoy clean and cozy private accommodations, bright and spacious studios, a shared kitchen and lounge, free Wi-Fi, bike rentals, beautiful outdoor spaces and spectacular views of the lake from the Gibraltar Point Beach. It’s just a short ferry ride away from Toronto’s city centre.
The residency program at Artscape Gibraltar Point is ideal for artists who are conducting research, working to meet a deadline, collaborating with others or who require temporary workspace.
We offer two types of residencies: Self-directed and Programmed. Artists can apply to do a self-directed residency at any time, and can apply to take part in a thematic/programmed residency when opportunities are available (see below).
http://torontoartscape.org/artscape-gibraltar-point/residencies
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23. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: FRIKTIONERFRICTION Dates: May 14-17, 2014; City: Uppsala, Sweden; Source: FriktionerFriction
The International Performance Art Festival will take over the city of Uppsala! This year the theme is Freedom of Action and the festival is part of the larger theme of Peace in Uppsala city. The festival is coordinated by the Uppsala Art Museum and SU-EN is the curator. Around 13 internationally established performance artists have been invited to the curated program and will create various works of art in the city, at the Uppsala Art Museum and the Botanical Garden.
FRIKTIONERFRICTION: The festival is now looking for VOLUNTEERS, to assist the artists and take part in the work connected to the festival.
If you are interested in being a volunteer please contact: Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Uppsala Art Museum at e-mail: rebecka.wigh-abrahamsson@uppsala.se
To read more about the festival see: www.friktionerfriction.wordpress.com
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24. WORKSHOP: IPA in Istanbul Date: June 15-29, 2014; City: Istanbul; Source: John Boehme
For the third time, IPA will happen in Istanbul. Next Step: The Power to Save the World ! June 15th – June 29th, 2014
We are happy to announce the IPA İstanbul Summer 2014 included the third edition of the Platform for Young Performance Artists which will happen in İstanbul again early this summer. The IPA Summer Workshops and the Platform for Young Performance Artists -Istanbul, has been for three years a highlight of Turkey’s arts event calendar and aims to be an event for encouraging the practice of performance art by uniting performance art lovers, as well as emerging artists from all over the world in an exchange of ideas and experiences.
Last year’s theme was “Next Step”. This year IPA İstanbul 2014's conceptual frame will be formed around the theme 'Next Step: Power to Save the World’: www.ipapress.i-pa.org/download
2014 Summer Teachers: John Boehme (Canada) Nezaket Ekici (Turkey/Germany) Jürgen Fritz (Germany)
INFO: info.istanbul@i-pa.org
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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. To subscribe or unsubscribe from this mailing list, please visit the home page: http://www.performanceart.ca
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