INDEX
1. EVENT: FADO presents Silent Dinner with Amanda Coogan and collaborators
Date: February 7, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada
2. EVENT: 3rd Biopolar International Meeting of Performance Artists: Body Slang
Date: January 9-10, 2015; City: Sopot, Poland; Source: Arti Grabowski
3. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RIPA 2015
Deadline date: January 11, 2015; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: RIPA
4. WORKSHOP: Winter Kinetics with Fiona Griffiths
Date: January 12-February 16; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Berenicci Hershorn
5. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Feminist Art Conference (FAC)
Deadline date: January 15, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Jordana Franklin
6. EVENT: Open Weekend & Performances
Date: January 16-17, 2015; City: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Source: Barbara Van Lindt
7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Link & Pin performance art series
Deadline date: January 20, 2015; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: Adriana Disman
8. OPEN CALL: Stories about Hair by Lindsay Allgood
Deadline date: January 20, 2015; City: Dallas, Texas; Source: Lindsay Allgood
9. EVENT: Performatorium 2015: Making it Difficult
Date: January 22-24, 2015; City: Regina, Canada; Source: Gary Varro
10. EVENT: KIPAF 2015
Date: January 23-26, 2015; City: Kolkata, India; Source: Francesca Fini
11. EVENT: The 8-Fest
Date: January 30-February 1, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Andrew J. Paterson
12. WORKSHOP: Performance Art Workshop with Victoria Stanton
Date: February 13-15/20-22, 2015; City: Toronto/MTL, Canada: Source: Victoria Stanton
13. NEW PUBLICATION: catalogue of the first edition of the VPAW 2012
Date: current; City: Venice, Italy; Source: Francesca Fini
14. NEW PUBLICATION: Monika Günther/Ruedi Schill
Date: current; City: Luzern, Switzerland; Source: Ruedi Schill
15. OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PAS #38
Deadline date: March 1, 2015; City: Athens, Greece; Source: BBB Johannes Deimling
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1. EVENT: FADO presents Silent Dinner with Amanda Coogan and collaborators
Date: February 7, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada
FADO Performance Art Centre presents: Silent Dinner
Created in collaboration with Amanda Coogan (Ireland) and local collaborators*
Saturday February 7, 2015
Performance: 1pm-9pm
Post performance talk: 9-10pm (**ASL interpretation will be provided)
Tickets: FREE (audience is free to come and go during the performance)
Presented in the context of Progress: an International Festival of Performance and Ideas
FADO Performance Art Centre presents Silent Dinner, created with artist Amanda Coogan, and in collaboration with local artists, performers and non-performers. Silent Dinner is an 8-hour performance in which 10 people prepare, cook, and eat a dinner in complete silence. The participants are a combination of Deaf, CODA (children of Deaf adults) and hearing artists, performers and non-performers from Toronto.
In Silent Dinner, silence is transformed from a potential born of discomfort or newness, and transformed into the landscape in which direct communication between people who don’t share the same language is negotiated. The dinner table becomes a meeting place for the intersection of culture and language (hearing and Deaf culture, English and ASL, performance as language) via a performance score in which the participants arrive to an empty space, collectively arrange a rudimentary working kitchen, and then proceed to prep food, cook, set a dining table, and consume a shared meal, all in complete silence.
The audience is invited post-performance for dessert and conversation with Coogan and collaborators.
**PLEASE NOTE: ASL interpretation will be provided.
ABOUT AMANDA COOGAN
Amanda Coogan’s practice concentrates on durational performance installation, and group performance made in collaboration. Recent work with the Dublin Theatre of the Deaf is touring in the UK. She has performed and exhibited her work extensively in Ireland (The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Hugh Lane Gallery) and internationally in Amsterdam (Van Gogh Museum), Barcelona (Galeria Safia), New York (PS1) and Paris (Centre Culturel Irlandais) and at The Venice Biennale and the Liverpool Biennial. She was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art prize in 2004.
*Please stay tuned to our website for updated list of collaborators in January. Thanks to Signs Restaurant (Toronto), Deanne Bradley-Coelho (George Brown University), and Nicka Noble for their help and guidance with this project.
Presented by FADO Performance Art Centre in association with Progress.
ABOUT PROGRESS
SummerWorks, in partnership with The Theatre Centre and a roster of Toronto theatre and performance organizations/presenters and companies including: FADO Performance Art Centre, Buddies in Bad Times, Dancemakers, Why Not Theatre, Video Fag, and Volcano Theatre brings the world to Toronto with Progress: an International Festival of Performance and Ideas, February 4-15, 2015.
Working in collaboration with multiple local performance-based companies, Progress brings together international performances and ideas under one umbrella, engaging in a larger conversation about language, accessibility and what progress means to Toronto’s performance ecology. Progress’s lineup includes international shows, workshops and conversations. Each project has been specifically curated by a Toronto company.
All Progress performances take place at The Theatre Centre (1115 Queen St W), host venue of the festival.
www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=284
www.thisisprogress.ca
@SummerWorks
#ProgressTO
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2. EVENT: 3rd Biopolar International Meeting of Performance Artists: Body Slang
Date: January 9-10, 2015; City: Sopot, Poland; Source: Arti Grabowski
3rd Biopolar International Meeting of Performance Artists: Body Slang
Presented by the National Gallery and Arti Grabowski
Curated by Arti Grawbowski
National Gallery
Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie st. 10, Sopot, Poland
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Franziska Baumann
Helge Meyer
Marek Chołoniewski
Nicola Frangione
Kamil Guenatri
Mehdi Farajpour
Mathew Silver
Cassils Heat (video)
PLUS: Concert by Concrete Underpass
EVENT INFO: www.facebook.com/events/400109436816072
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3. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RIPA 2015
Deadline date: January 11, 2015; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: RIPA
RIPA (Rencontre Interuniversitaire de Performance Actuelle) is looking for emerging artists and student interested in taking part in an evening of performances to be held on May 2nd, 2015 in Montreal, Canada.
Proposals concerning performance art (whether or not including new media) and its variations; action art, public intervention, stealth art, reenactment, etc. Projects as media archive will also be considered. The performance will be a maximum of 15 minutes, but can also adopt a split-off or punctual format. The team is ready to provide support for hosting research for the duration of the event.
Your application must include IN ONE PDF FILE (10 MB max):
-A curriculum vitae (maximum 2 pages)
-A short text on your practice (maximum 250 words)
-A description of your project (maximum 350 words)
-A maximum of 10 digital images with the following information:
title, date, duration, platform or site (s) web broadcast
-A link to a video documentation is strongly recommended (Vimeo or YouTube)
-A list of your technical requirements (hardware, the number of people required (approximate)
in the development of your installation). The artist will provide installation and technology with volunteers of the organization. Some audio-visual pieces may also be provided.
Please send your application in a single PDF file to the following email address: ripa.contact@gmail.com (contact: Manoushka Larouche and Janick Burn)
Please note that incomplete applications will not be forwarded to the selection committee.
Deadline: January 11, 2015 before midnight. No applications will be accepted after this date.
INFO: www.ripa-performance.org
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4. WORKSHOP: Winter Kinetics with Fiona Griffiths
Date: January 12-February 16; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Berenicci Hershorn
6 classes of release work to mobilize vertebrae, ease rib connections, and soften all those tense back and belly muscles. Reclaim your alignment, improve balance and enjoy your long and lovely neck and floating head.
Mondays, 6:30-8:30pm, January 12 to February 16
6 classes: $115.00 (students $75.00)
Toronto Dance Theatre Studios, 80 Winchester Street at Parliament Street
Please contact Fiona for further information or to register: filogriff@yahoo.ca
The first 2 classes will focus on the details of this fabulous ball technique. We will play with weight and tension, explore alignment and revel in sensory moving. How do you stand? Where are the tensions that hold you in misalignment? How does it feel to be 'up'?
"Good posture is all the muscles of the body working as little as possible" Irene Dowd
Kinetic Awareness, developed by Elaine Summers of Judson Church Dance Theatre, offers movement education, experiential anatomy, skeletal re-alignment, injury and chronic pain relief and major stress reduction. It is an essential tool in connecting with the somato-sensory system and in rejuvenating the body/mind. Kinetics is a sensory experience of weight and tension developed through personal observation of proprioceptive and kinaesthetic processes. Lying on various sized air-filled balls, massaging soft tissue, exploring anatomy with slow, gentle movements; relaxes the muscle, quiets the mind, releases joints and allows the unwinding of the fascial highway. The body and mind commune and reconnect to the intuitive self as you explore your unique movement possibilities. This beneficial work is user friendly and with the completion of the course you will be able to use Kinetics for your everyday needs.
Fiona Griffiths (RN, MFA, MA) teaches theatre and movement to actors, clowns, and dancers. She is an acclaimed multimedia artist with an extensive performing & touring experience in dance, theatre and clown. Fiona has taught in the many university theatre programs including York and Yale Universities, Central School for Speech and Drama and choreographed and coached for many professional theatre and dance companies. Recent projects include performance coaching for Lillia Leon, Kemi Contemporary Dance Projects and directing The Spinster Seminars for the Toronto Fringe. As well as running independent workshops, Fiona teaches at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, The Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance and Ryerson University. She also has a private practice in CranioSacral Therapy, fitness and health.
For more information please check: www.fionagriffiths.com
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5. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Feminist Art Conference (FAC)
Deadline date: January 15, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Jordana Franklin
FAC Presents: You’re Not Here
NOTE: The FAC 2015 conference will be held at OCADU September 24-27 with an accompanying exhibition (taking place from March 3 – March 31, 2015). For the month of March the curator of Daniels Spectrum has invited FAC to produce an exhibition for their recognition of International Women’s Day.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Feminist Art Conference is seeking visual artists for a month long art exhibition for International Women’s Day, at Daniels Spectrum (formerly called the Regent Park Arts and Culture Centre). Drawing upon its new home in Regent Park, where plans for revitalization have forced residents to relocate during the transition, the show will feature a spotlight theme that explores the concept of displacement, uprooting, and relocation. Artists are invited to submit work that examines this theme and its various causes, including community housing redevelopment, land disputes, immigration conflicts, and threats of violence. Priority will be given to works that explore the topic from a women's perspective and/or within a feminist framework including trans women, transfeminine persons and gender nonconforming individuals.
The deadline for submission is Thursday, January 15, 2015. Please send submissions to facmarch2015@gmail.com with “FAC Exhibition” in the subject line. Accepted artists will be notified the last week of January.
Submission questions should be sent to FAC curator Jordana Franklin at: jordanayfranklin@gmail.com
This exhibition space is a public space within a community centre. The centre does have security and has a three-year history of being a safe space for numerous monthly exhibitions. However, if you are uncomfortable with your work being unattended in such an environment, consider your commitment to this unique exhibition before applying.
Submission Guidelines (Submit the following in PDF format):
-An artist statement (1 page max)
-A 150-word biography and other supporting material you would like to include (web links, reviews, catalogues, etc)
-Images that are representative of the work(s) you would like to display (max 7)
-An image list indicating artist name, title, medium, dimensions in inches, and year
-Optional: A description of how this theme has personally impacted you or someone you know (1 page max). Please note: this content will not be used in any form without your permission.
SPECIAL NOTE: The Feminist Art Conference Toronto is a grassroots, not for profit, volunteered-based organization. While we actively seek and engage in a variety of partnerships, FAC functions as an independent base, not specifically affiliated with any corporation, university or non-governmental organization. We will be fundraising for the costs associated with the production of this exhibition and as such, we cannot provide artist fees
at this time.
About Feminist Art Conference
Feminist Art Conference (FAC) is a Toronto-based organization that brings together artists, academics and activists to consider feminist issues through art. Founded in 2013 by artist Ilene Sova, FAC began initially as an event to link feminist artists with each other as well as providing a forum in which to discuss our content. A call for organizing help was included in the first call for submissions and a large committee was formed to organize the FAC 2013 on March 9th for International Women’s Day. The first Feminist Art Conference caught the interest of over 70 participating artists and 175 attendees. FAC 2014 was held at OCAD University and doubled in size with 350 attendees and 90 participating artists. With astounding interest both nationally and internationally, the FAC Committee has made an on-going commitment to facilitating interdisciplinary and inclusive arenas for feminist art.
About Daniels Spectrum
Daniels Spectrum is a platform for cultural exchange and collaboration, with programming rooted in Regent Park and open to the world. It is a place where people come to be inspired, to learn, to share, to create. It showcases artistic talent, acts as an incubator for creativity and a workshop for social and cultural innovation. This 60,000 square foot facility buzzes with energy from community members, artists, social entrepreneurs and the general public. It is home to seven tenant organizations including ArtHeart Community Art Centre, Centre for Social Innovation, COBA Collective of Black Artists, Native Earth Performing Arts, Pathways to Education, Regent Park Film Festival and the Regent Park School of Music. The facility also [and] features several performance, event, exhibition and public spaces. Daniels Spectrum is managed by Artscape, a not-for-profit urban development organization that makes space for creativity and transforms communities.
www.factoronto.org
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6. EVENT: Open Weekend & Performances
Date: January 16-17, 2015; City: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Source: Barbara Van Lindt
We look forward to welcoming you on the 16th and 17th of January 2015. As part of our Open Weekend, there will be performances by current DasArts students on both days.
On Friday the 16th of January at 8PM, Agustina Muñoz and Leila Anderson will present the performances they recently developed at DasArts. Mor Shani will show Ecclesiastes, the film he produced this semester. We also would like to welcome you to stay for the after-talk.
Saturday the 17th of January between 2 and 7PM is a great occasion to discover more about the DasArts programme. Get to know the current students, alumni and the DasArts team. There will be plenty of time for conversations, and don’t forget to visit our ‘curriculum room’. We also will be giving a workshop about the unique feedback delivery method developed at DasArts. The Grootlab, our future building, will be the location for a performance by Lucia Marneañu. What’s more, a light meal will be served in the evening.
On the evening of Saturday the 17th of January, we invite you to join us at 8 PM at Frascati 4. Orion Maxted will present his performance [THE MACHINE], which arose out of his studies at DasArts. Ahmed Khaled will show Dreams of Environment, a work he developed before starting his studies this year at DasArts.
If you want to attend the Open Weekend, please send us an email at dasarts@ahk.nl. We will send you more details about the programme, locations and time slots.
Application Procedure and Deadline for Applications: Thursday 22 January 2015. For more information about the application procedure, please see www.dasarts.nl.
Annual Publication: If you haven’t received a copy of Talking with Places, this year’s publication in the post yet, send your name and address to dasarts@ahk.nl and we will mail you your free copy!
Save the Date!
Margo van de Linde is presenting Translating Lola, her Master’s Proof Project, on Monday 2 February and Tuesday 3 February 2015 at Het Veem Theater. Please RSVP: dasarts@ahk.nl.
DasArts - Master of Theatre
Mauritskade 56, 1092 AD Amsterdam
www.dasarts.nl
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7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Link & Pin performance art series
Deadline date: January 20, 2015; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: Adriana Disman
LINK & PIN performance art series: Open call for submissions
DEADLINE: 20 JANUARY 2014
LINK & PIN performance art series is moving to Montreal for 2015-16! To broaden L&P’s knowledge of practicing performance artists and avoid insularity, we are offering this open submission. The submittal is open format—it can be as simple as your name and web site, or a description of a piece you want to present, or a text on why you want to perform here, etc. Include whatever you think we should see to get a sense of your practice. Local, international, established, and emerging artists are all welcome.
Submissions will not be treated as “accepted/not accepted” but rather accrued towards a bank of artists that we can return to whenever we are programming.
IMPORTANT: All artists should read the mandates (below) before submitting, as it’s imperative that all programming aligns with these. As well, L&P has zero funding and cannot offer any artist/material fees or housing. We are happy to provide letters of invitation for grant applicants!
RATS 9 Gallery Mandate:
RATS 9 is a DIY feminist and queer artist-run centre. Its mandate is to support and disseminate the work of artists whose practices broach questions of identity or tackle systems of oppression. RATS 9 aims to be a safe(r) space, a place where, through art, we can start a discussion about feminist, post/decolonial, and queer issues. *RATS 9 is wheelchair accessible
LINK & PIN Mandate:
LINK & PIN’s mandate is to present performance art specific works. Though I am not interested in policing what is and isn’t “performance art” the goal of this mandate is to offer space to work that is not supported via the plethora of dance and theatre institutions in Montreal. We love you but if the work you’re showing could be programmed there, go there.
Send submissions or questions to: linkandpinperformance@gmail.com
LINK & PIN: http://cargocollective.com/LINKPIN
RATS 9: www.facebook.com/we.are.rats.9
DEADLINE: 20 JANUARY 2014
Note: We encourage local artists to submit as soon as possible since there may be some performance opportunities in January.
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8. OPEN CALL: Stories about Hair by Lindsay Allgood
Deadline date: January 20, 2015; City: Dallas, Texas; Source: Lindsay Allgood
OPEN CALL FOR WOMEN: STORIES ABOUT HAIR
Hair is a defining part of the female body and in many ways shapes our experience as a female being. This is an open call for women’s stories about hair. Your stories will be incorporated into a performance that exhibits an experimental narrative. Your memories can be written in any format: short stories, poems, random musings, journal entries. They do not have to be pretty and publishable as I will be deconstructing and reconstructing the texts into one storyline, essentially creating a single narrative out of all our experiences in an abstracted, surreal, and evocative manner. I am especially interested in stories that examine the female experience with vulnerability, intimacy, love, nurture, and traditional female roles (mother, daughter, lover, etc.)
I encourage you to think of the different types of hair, locations on the body, hair separated from the body, hair experienced at different ages, what hair signifies in different societies, hair as an “Othering” or “Anothering” device in social situations, separateness, connectedness, and physical, emotional and psychological change.
I also request your actual hair, if possible. You may mail snippets, ponytails, one strand, 100 strands, one inch, one foot--whatever you feel complements your story. Please include the following info: bodily location; (approximate) date hair was removed from body; method of removal; alterations such as hair dye, etc.
Email writings to Lindsey Allgood at HairTales2015@gmail.com as a .doc or .docx. by January 20, 2015.
Mail hair in secure packaging to 519 S. University Blvd. #13, Norman, OK 73069
The performance will be presented at BEEF HAUS in Dallas, TX on February 14th, 2015. Curated by Alison Starr, MFA.
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9. EVENT: Performatorium 2015: Making it Difficult
Date: January 22-24, 2015; City: Regina, Canada; Source: Gary Varro
Perforatorium 2015: MAKING IT DIFFICULT
Curated by Gary Varro
Participating Artists:
Ron Athey (USA)
Kris Grey (USA)
Jess Dobkin (Canada)
Martin O’Brien (UK)
Anya Liftig (USA)
Homo Monstrous (Canada)
Queer City Cinema will be presenting Performatorium 2015: Festival of Queer Performance, January 22 -24 in Regina. This annual festival will present the work of regional, national and international artists.
The focus of Performatorium 2015, entitled Making It, Difficult, will present work by performing artists whose work is challenging and difficult to perform and watch – physically and mentally for the artist and visually/aesthetically/emotionally and perhaps ethically and politically for audience. The festival will address how art and performance can be cathartic, personal, controversial and demanding for its creators and those experiencing live performance.
Venues:
Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum
University of Regina
Artesian on 13th
For all the details, ticket info and program info:
www.queercitycinema.ca/performance2015/?s=home
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10. EVENT: KIPAF 2015
Date: January 23-26, 2015; City: Kolkata, India; Source: Francesca Fini
KIPAF 2015 (Kolkata International Performance Art Festival)
January 23-26, 2015
kipaf2015@gmail.com
http://kipaf.blogspot.in
www.facebook.com/events/562091873893870
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS (check website for updates and program):
Arijit Bhattacharyya & Team
Augustine Thilak
Dimple B. Shah
Hemant Puri
Inder Selim
Mangala Anebermath
Manmeet Devgun
Monica Nanjunda
Murari Jha
Prakash Lakshman
Preeti Singh
Rohan Dumbre
Sajan Mani
Victoria Niveditha
Afsana Sharmin Zhumpa (Bangladesh)
Di Ball (Australia)
Dorothea Rust (Switzerland)
Irene Müller (Switzerland)
Katarina Rasic (Serbia)
Meherun Sumi (Bangladesh)
Palash Bhattacharjee (Bangladesh)
Pavi Mehta (USA)
Seiji Shimoda (Japan)
>Sumana Akter (Bangladesh)
Francesca Fini (Italy)
Christina Georgiou (Cyprus)
Chelsea Coon (USA)
BBB Johannes Deimling (Germany
Maya Kovskaya (USA)
Tamar Raban (Israel)
Eliu Almonte (Dominican Republic)
Jessica Hirst (USA)
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11. EVENT: The 8-Fest (Canadian North Program)
Date: January 30-February 1, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Andrew J. Paterson
With works by:
Dan Sokolowski (Dawson City)
Lindsay Sarazin (North Bay)
Karen Hime & Lulu Keating (Dawson City)
Tyson Carlson (North Bay)
Jules Koostachin (Sudbury)
Tanya Lukin Linklater (North Bay)
Eric Boissonneault (North Bay)
Lulu Keating (Dawson City)
Laurent Vaillancourt (Hearst)
Christian Chapman (Thunder Bay)
And more!
FADO Performance Art Centre is pleased to be sponsoring the Canadian North Program.
ABOUT THE 8-FEST
The 8-Fest is a unique Toronto-based film festival that presents all forms of small-gauge film: 8mm, Super 8 and 9.5mm, as well as works in installation, loops, and 'proto-cinema devices' like zoetropes. The 8-Fest is a festival for anyone using small-gauge to create rough little gems on film – personal, handmade, experimental, animations, diaries, essays, collage, cut-ups, performance/film, music/film.
We present the general public with films from Toronto, across Canada and from small-gauge creators and communities around the world. The 8 fest showcases the 70+ year history of small-gauge film – from artists' work in the form since the 50's and 60's, to it's wider cultural use in home movies, instructional loops and beyond. The 8-Fest provides a forum for filmmakers who want to show their work on small-gauge and for people who want to see this work in its original formats. The 8-Fest is committed to keeping the exhibition of small-gauge film a viable presentation medium.
Venue: SPK Polish Combatants Hall, 206 Beverley Street, Toronto
For program info: http://the8fest.com/
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12. WORKSHOP: Performance Art Workshop with Victoria Stanton
Date: February 13-15/20-22, 2015; City: Toronto/MTL, Canada: Source: Victoria Stanton
Between Intimacy and Architecture: subtle and relational performance in public place
With Victoria Stanton
Two Workshops This Winter!
MONTREAL: FEB 13 – 15, 2015 (bilingual, French and English)
TORONTO: FEB 20 – 22, 2015
TO REGISTER or for more info:
Montreal: contact the RAIQ at 514-380-3093 or info@raiq.ca
Toronto: contact Victoria at victoria@bankofvictoria.com
Deadline to register: February 13, 2015
Description of Workshop
How do we listen to each other? How do we interact? How do we respond to the landscape around us? How do we engage with time and space? Cultivating attentive awareness, empathetic presence and peripheral vision, this workshop will explore the multiple and very personalized ways in which we experience and foster intimacy and connection – in ourselves, towards others, and in relation to place. We will explore how time and space are intimately connected and linked to how we develop a relationship to the space and people around us; how repetition of an action (over time) within a particular space necessarily creates familiarity with that space, within the various contexts in which we find ourselves to be. We will also explore how the ways in which a "non-productive" use of time, as carried out in public (place) activates a space. Finally, we will attempt to create contexts to explore ways of experiencing various kinds of “in-betweens,” (the spaces between thought and action, between actions, between each other, between ourselves and the spaces around us.)
Key ideas:
-Activating space
-Holding space
-Connecting to space
-Connecting to others
The importance in relational/public practices to be able to also activate:
-Empathetic / compassionate presence (1. towards yourself, 2. towards others)
-Non-judgment
-Attentive awareness/ full observation
-Groundedness (what is your container)
-Faith, Trust
Performance Philosophy:
Whether working in participatory, durational, task-based or audio-visual performance, the constant thread in my work is an investigation into the ability (and the desire) to hold a space, to appropriate and disrupt the quotidian, to create spontaneous intimacy, to tread vulnerability. Investing a performative presence and consciousness within multiple spaces/times, I continuously underscore the complex aspects of “transaction” and the possibility for transformation.
Much recent work explores the elusive “in-between” – that invisible, liminal space between myself and the audience (whether a group or just one person) or between myself and my object/action/location – whether appearing “on stage” (in a black box, white cube, bar or loft) or “out in the world” (in public sites and “non-art” contexts). The “in-between” is my inquiry into transitional space: as manifested on stage (has the performance ended?), as presented through relational exchange (is this a performance? Is this Art?), and as experienced out in the world through geopoetic meandering, and the conscious inhabiting of non-places found in the built environment. These subtle forms of testing the limits of vulnerability make up an overall practice (and multiple research processes) as an artist working in – and with – space and time.
About the Workshop Facilitator:
Victoria Stanton is an interdisciplinary artist working with live action, human interaction, video, film, photo, drawing, and writing. Continually exploring within such diverse media, while the outward results of her practice manifest in a multiplicity of forms, performance is the unifying central focus and invariable core of her research. Her time-based work includes performance for stage, performance for the camera, actions in public spaces, and one-on-one encounters in intimate contexts.
Stanton has presented exhibitions, performances, interventions, and films/videos in Canada, the U.S., Europe, the U.K., Australia, Japan and Mexico. Her creative and critical writings have been published in Canadian and American anthologies and art/literary/lifestyle magazines. She is the co-author with Vincent Tinguely of Impure: Reinventing the Word (conundrum press, 2001) and is currently working on a new book with the TouVA Collective (comprised of Anne Bérubé, Sylvie Tourangeau and Stanton) developing salient notions on how performance is practiced and on the question of ‘the performative.’ http://www.bankofvictoria.com
IN MONTREAL: Location tba
Dates: Feb 13 – 15, 2015
Cost: $100
Max number of participants: 12
Application Deadline: February 13, 2015
For more info and to register contact the RAIQ at 514-380-3093 or info@raiq.ca
http://raiq.ca/node/12320
Organized by the Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec (RAIQ), the workshop is made possible through le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, le Conseil des arts du Canada, le Conseil des arts de Montréal, le Conseil québécois des ressources humaines en culture, Emploi Québec and its members.
IN TORONTO: Location, Artscape Youngplace
Dates: Feb 20 – 22, 2015
Cost: $300
Max number of participants: 12
Application Deadline: February 13, 2015 ($50 deposit required to reserve your spot)
***Possibility for sliding scale or service exchange for limited number of participants; please get in touch and we can discuss.***
For more info and to register contact Victoria at victoria@bankofvictoria.com
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13. NEW PUBLICATION: catalogue of the first edition of the VPAW 2012
Date: current; City: Venice, Italy; Source: Francesca Fini
Now available the catalogue of the first edition of the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK 2102
Hybrid Body - Poetic Body
With documentation of the works presented at the 1st Venice International Performance Art Week 2012 including: Yoko Ono, VALIE EXPORT, Hermann Nitsch, Jan Fabre, Ilija Šoškić, Boris Nieslony, Jill Orr, Lee Wen, Gonzalo Rabanal, Helena Goldwater, Manuel Vason, Joseph Ravens, Suka Off, Snežana Golubović, Jason Lim, Prem Sarjo, Nelda Ramos, Shima, BBB Johannes Deimling, VestAndPage, Santiago Cao, Francesca Fini, Francesco Kiàis, Wanda Moretti | Il Posto, Gabriela Alonso, Alperoa, Andrea Morucchio, Macarena Perich Rosas, Marcus Vinicius, Weeks & Whitford, Zierle & Carter, David Dalla Venezia.
ESSAYS by Bojana Kunst, Dana Altman, Andrea Pagnes, Francesco Kiais, Gabriela Alonso, Richard Martel, Daniela Beltrani.
Venice: VestAndPage press, 2014
Hardcover, pp. 128.
Printed in a limited edition of 300.
TO ORDER A COPY: www.veniceperformanceart.org/index.php?page=237&lang=en
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14. NEW PUBLICATION: Monika Günther/Ruedi Schill
Date: current; City: Luzern, Switzerland; Source: Ruedi Schill
Performance Art
Monika Günther/Ruedi Schill
Since the 1980s, Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill have been instrumental in the development, support and dissemination of performance art. In 1995, they began working collaboratively, which has resulted in a unique body of work. They focus on human behaviour, rituals and patterns of perception, as well as engaging with social issues from a distinctly aesthetic viewpoint. Their work has attracted significant recognition internationally. This is the first compilation of their extensive performance documentation. A large selection of photographs offers an impression of the physical presence of the artists and their live performative events. At the same time, this book aims to stimulate debates surrounding performance art and the exceptional fascination it holds.
Performance Art
Monika Günther/Ruedi Schill – monograph
Edited by Helen Koriath
320 pages, 17 °— 23 cm, sewn, cloth binding with dust jacket, text in German and English
by Helen Koriath, Fanni Fetzer and Urs Bugmann
ISBN 978-3-909090-65-5
Published by Vexer Verlag, Josef Felix Müller
Brauerstrasse 27 b, ch-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland
info@vexer.ch
www.vexer.ch
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15. OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PAS #38
Deadline date: March 1, 2015; City: Athens, Greece; Source: BBB Johannes Deimling
PAS | Performance Art Studies #38 | Places of duration
27. March - 6. April 2015 / Athens, Greece
In cooperation with epitelesis - performance art foundation, Athens, Greece
With guest teachers Andreas Pashias and Francesco Kiais
Hosted by Cheapart Athens
As soon as something is created, built or set up, time begins to work on its consumption. This happens with houses, streets, electronic devices, cars, nature, and human beings, as well as with feelings, moments, situations and memories.
In its own existence, every single thing is in motion and temporary. For some, this fact can be terrifying, and for some this is a quality signature of life. The attempt to preserve things for a longer duration can be seen in processes such as food conservation, art restoration and traditional rituals or celebrations. The will to work against the force of time, is everywhere visible and active. This is demonstrated by the insistence to document, archive, remember, and the attempt to leave traces of our existence, as individuals and as a civilization.
Traditionally, in art it was the painting, and especially the sculpture, which expressed our aspiration to eternity. On the other hand, photography (and more specifically its digital form) reflects, almost as a mirror image, a present dimension in terms of a ‘constant ephemeral’ - another kind of eternity - as a witness of the already gone and lost moments. Through research on the ‘duration’ of these art forms, we can approach the temporary and suspensive character of performance art, which is ideally existing only in the moment, and try to touch another dimension of eternity - the memory, the remembering.
The immense knowledge of Greek sculpture, the breadth of its production and meaning, as well as the key role it played in the formation of aesthetic culture of the whole Western world, can be the reason to hold these studies in Athens where - in a current framework of growing social instability and doubt - we are given the opportunity to hold a corporeal discussion on what it means to have a position or ‘stance’ within a specific context of space-time or towards an issue of urgency.
By bringing this sculpturesque ‘stance’ into performance art, we will focus on the form of still-life performance and long-duration performance, by moving ourselves within the triangle of space-time, document-memory and artistic idea, playing between materiality and the ‘fading’, the ephemeral and the eternal, in order to situate duration into a device of visual significance and find inspiration for works which can develop in it.
“Place always opens a region in which it gathers the things in their belonging together.” [Martin Heidegger, “Die Kunst und der Raum”, E. Verlag, St. Gallen, 1969, Trans. by C. H. Seibert]
In “Places of Duration” we can find and offer space-time to meet, gather and connect, we can create places where everybody is invited to stay and be for a moment.
Details:
Deadline for applications is 1st March 2015
Send your application (CV and work examples) to pas@bbbjohannesdeimling.de
Price: 280 €
Price does NOT include travel and accommodation costs
During the studies we will share food and have self-catering
... be part of PAS and join the studies!
More information: http://tinyurl.com/PAS-38-PlacesOfDuration
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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. FADO presents 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.
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