FADO Performance Art Centre E-Bulletin for April 2015
INDEX
1. EVENT: aluCINE Latin Film & Media Arts Festival Performances
Date: April 2-16, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: aluCINE
2. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Art and the Politics of Engagement
Deadline date: April 2, 2015; City: Saas-Fee, Switzerland; Source: Susanna Hood
3. OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Workshop Series 2015 Venice Art Week
Deadline date: April 6, 2015; City: Venice; Italy; Source: Johannes Deimling
4. PERFORMANCE: We Don’t Need Another Hero
Dates: April 8-12, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Meagan O’Shea
5. PERFORMANCE: No Context or Studio Place or Decentralize or…by Amelia Ehrhardt
Date: April 9, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Cara Spooner
6. EVENT: TONIGHT
Date: April 10 and 18, 2015; City: Turku/Helsinki, Finland; Source: Tomasz Szrama
7. PERFORMANCE: How Many Performance Artists Does it Take…by Jess Dobkin
Date: April 16, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Jess Dobkin
8. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Performance by Jess Dobkin at The Images Festival 2015
Date: April 16, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Jess Dobkin
9. EVENT: Double Dialogue: Performance as Photography/Photography as Performance
Date: April 20, 2015; City: Boston, USA; Source: Daniel Deluca
10. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RedPlexus
Deadline date: April 20, 2015; City: Marseille, France; Source: Christine Bouvier
11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Compass Points Program 2015
Deadline date: April 24, 2015; City: Ottawa, Canada; Source: Magnetic North Theatre Festival
12. EVENT: Extra! Extra! An artists newsstand is opening in Toronto!
Date: May 1, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Jess Dobkin
13. WORKSHOP: AUTHENTICITY/INTEGRITY/EQUALITY with Sylvie Tourangeau
Deadline date: May 5, 2015; City: Ste-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Québec; Source: Sylvie Tourangeau
14. RESIDENCY: ALCHEMY
Deadline date: May 15, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Teresa Ascencao
15. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: PROCESS Series / A Call for Performers and Presenters
Deadline date: unspecified; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: lo bil
16. Open Call for Workshop Participants: MAYDAY with VestAndPageDeadline date: June 15, 2015; City: Düsseldorf, Germany; Source: Verena Stenke
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1. EVENT: aluCINE Latin Film & Media Arts Festival Performances
Date: April 2-16, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: aluCINE
Feelings
Beaver Hall Gallery
29 McCaul Street, Toronto
This exhibition proposes to examine the element of feeling and emotion in media art as a means to disrupt the homogenous and immersive space of the mediatic and virtual realms. The artists in the exhibition negotiate the dynamics between emotional affect, and its portrayal through the sterility and distance of media art.
Historically, the subject of embodiment, or the transition of the human body from a physical to a virtual space, has taken centre-stage to media artists' concerns. In Latin America and its diaspora, media and performance artists have featured the body precisely due to its precarity amidst geo-political and social violence. However, this exhibition attempts to move beyond the discussion of embodiment to include the dimension of psychology and the spectrum of emotions (such as anger, love, hate, resentment, admiration, and devotion) as a politicized state of being that is activated through media. In the context of aluCine, and filmmaking as a genre, this exhibition will also explore the formal tropes and stereotypes of the Latin-American dramatic character.
All artists in this exhibition use video and performance to disturb embedded social cues for conveying emotion, and reorganize the senses in ways that allow for a multiplicity of subjectivities and inter-textual relationships to emerge. There will be two performances presented in the context of the “Feelings” contemporary art exhibition.
Featuring Artworks by:
Nelly César (Mexico)
soJin Chun (Toronto)
Ximena Cuevas (Mexico)
Gabriela Golder (Argentina)
Christian Jankowski (Germany)
Curated by: Maria Alejandrina Coates
Performance by Nelly César Marín: April 2 at 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Performance by Gricel Severino: April 16 at 6:30pm to 7:30pm
At 7:30pm of the opening night, Nelly César will perform her piece “Mi Gusto Es” as part of the exhibition. This performance consists of the artist singing a live version of the popular Mexican song in attempt to emulate her father’s rendition, which will be playing on a TV screen in front of her. In an attempt to reconstruct from memory the same tempo, rhythm, and melody, the artist uses familial love to create a dissonance that subverts its coding within a patriarchal discourse.
Website: www.alucinefestival.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/946240478728017/
Twitter: @aluCineTO
Instagram: @aluCineTo
Facebook: aluCineFestival
#aluCine15
#aluCineAMIGO
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2. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Art and the Politics of Engagement
Deadline date: April 2, 2015; City: Saas-Fee, Switzerland; Source: Susanna Hood
The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art is a new initiative happening in Saas-Fee, Switzerland that focuses upon the politics of art making and thinking. It is associated with but not part of the European Graduate School. Each summer different topics will be explored and emphasized. This session will concern Art and the Politics of Estrangement.
Inquisitive students and professionals hailing from artistic discourses such as painting, drawing, film making, sculpture, performance and sound studies as well as the aligned fields of poetry, cultural studies, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, sociology and politics, are asked to apply.
Directors: Warren Neidich and Barry Schwabsky
Esteemed faculty: Armen Avanessian, Franco Berardi, Anselm Franke, Charles Gaines, Suzana Milevska, John Rajchman, Gerald Raunig, Dorothee Richter, Hito Steyerl, Ben Vickers
Art and the Politics of Estrangement
June 5–June 23
This year's Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, engages a range of contemporary discourses to renegotiate a seminal idea formulated in high modernism, ostraniene or estrangement: the process or act of endowing an object or image with strangeness by removing it from the network of conventional formulaic, stereotypical perceptions and linguistic expressions. Times have changed since the term's coinage, and so has the surrounding discursive environment. What are the implications for artistic ostraniene today? For instance, in the networked environment of "super signifiers" and branded associations, can we still contravene in the stereotypical perceptions they engender? If so, would that be a form of emancipation in which artistic production can play a role, or is it trapped in the new spirit of capitalism and its cycles of recuperation? The Summer Institute uses the term estrangement as a foundation on which to collage a multiplicity of contemporary metaphysical and epistemological practices and terminologies: the Anthropocene, Speculative Poetics, Cognitive Capitalism, Accelerations—can any of them help find an answer to the question of estrangement? For art students and recent graduates seeking a deeper theoretical understanding of their practice, or for those in the fields of critical theory, philosophy, politics, neuroscience, and media and literary theory who aspire to challenge their presuppositions, this course will provide a theoretical bridge to these important emerging discourses.
School and program: Twenty students will be selected to attend the school. Applications will be assessed by members of the faculty. Two scholarships will be available for students with financial needs.
Application submission: Please go to the website for details. Applications by email must arrive by 11:59pm UTC+1 April 2. For more information please contact SAAS-FEE Summer Institute of Art coordinator: saasfeesummerinstituteofart@gmail.com
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3. OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Workshop Series 2015 Venice Art Week
Deadline date: April 6, 2015; City: Venice; Italy; Source: Johannes Deimling
In the framework of the Learning Program of the Venice International International Performance Art Week, Studio Contemporaneo in collaboration with Live Arts Cultures are glad to present the second of a series of practical workshops on performance art in Venice.
CREAKING WOODEN FISH by PAS (Performance Art Studies)
Intensive studies on the praxis of performance art
May 17 - 24, 2015
Saturday May 23: Final public presentation
Arrival: Saturday May 16 / Departure: Monday May 25
Applications are now being accepted until April 6, 2015
VENUE: C32performingartworkspace, Forte Marghera, Via Forte Marghera, Venice (IT)
CREAKING WOODEN FISH - PAS#39
According to G. Marconi, a sound never stops to propagate. It means that by emitting a sound we give life to a process that, theoretically, never ends and produces waves advancing in space and time, encountering fluids, bodies, objects and other waves.
John Cage closed himself in an anechoic chamber, perfectly soundproof, looking for the pure silence. But once adapted to the noise of silence, he started to hear and feel the vibrations of his heartbeat and the flow of his own blood. According to Cage’s experience we could say that where there is life, there is sound.
We perceive sound and noise in form of vibration that can stimulate both the thin membrane of our inner ear and nerve receptors in our skin. We can hear the buzz of the hummingbird's wings, feel the vibrations of a pneumatic hammer on our chest, be woken by an alarm clock, follow the sound of a voice, enjoy the silent atmosphere of a natural environment -like on a mountain -, or the rhythmic repetition of the waves -like on a shore, or tremble, without knowing it, to the rhythm of a washing machine. Actually, in term of vibrations, we can hear or feel a sound all over the body. We can be touched, caressed, even overwhelmed by a violent sound, or by a light vibration. In everyday life we are like a surface, which unconsciously collects vibrations of every nature and kind. That's why we need to be able to listen: with the entire body.
A wooden fish is a percussion instrument with sacred features in Eastern religions and cultures, -which is a curious thing, because the fish (no mention of Mammals) is the best known example of dumb animal, which produces no sound. Perhaps it is because silence is a pre-condition for the occurrence of the sound and listening to it, that in certain temples they start praying hitting the symbol of silence itself: the fish, the muteness.
Between the necessary presence of the silence and the chaotic symphony of everyday life, every culture finds ways to play that symphony, or listen to it, and every person can play the body itself to the rhythm of that music, or can even play that music through her/his body. Whatever way we approach the theme of the sound, it interrogates us on the level of consciousness of our perception, and on the dominance of some senses compared to others, revealing the potential of listening as a means of interpretation, communication and action in relation to the environment and people around us. “Shut your eyes and see”, wrote Joyce in his Ulysses to let Stephen Dedalus hear and perceive beyond his eyes, walking on a shore.
PAS │ Performance Art Studies is an independent educational program offering intensive studies to young artists, art students and others interested in performance art, since 2008. The aim of these studies is to provide the participants with a comprehensive form of teaching on performance art, everywhere in the world and always in cooperation with performance art festivals, art academies, museums and galleries. Facilitated by BBB Johannes Deimling and Francesco Kiais.
GUEST TEACHERS: Andrigo&AliprandiDancer and performer Marianna Andrigo and artist Aldo Aliprandi have been collaborating since 2009, combining their interest in movement, sound, video, site-specific performances and installations. Sound and space are the elements that, together with the action, build the vision that can lead to different interpretations in the viewer. Since 2012 they are co-curators of C32 performingartworkspace in Venice, producing performing arts and hosting international artist-in-residence programs.
WORKSHOP FEE: 250 Euro (includes: 8 days intensive workshop, for a total of about 64 hours; Closing with a final public presentation. There are 14 places available.)
ACCOMMODATION: 160 Euro (includes: Shared sleeping facilities at the Forte Marghera guesthouse (100 Euro for 9 nights); Shared daily dinners (60 Euro for 8 days).
Applications are now being accepted until April 6, 2015. Please send an email with information on you and your research, as well as a letter of interest to pas@bbbjohannesdeimling.de
Participants will stay in shared rooms at the Forte Marghera guesthouse. Considering the ART WEEK | WORKSHOP SERIES as a time of healthy learning and artistic exchange, we provide for shared daily dinning. C32 is equipped with a kitchen and dining room, and a range of nutritional meals will be prepared. The workshop process as well as the final performances will be documented in photograph and video, and become part of the archive of the Venice International Performance Art Week, to be screened at the next edition. At the end of the workshop a certificate with formative credit points value, will be issued to each participant.
For further information and an application, please contact the facilitator BBB Johannes Deimling at pas@bbbjohannesdeimling.de
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4. PERFORMANCE: We Don’t Need Another Hero
Dates: April 8-12, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Meagan O’Shea
In association with Stand Up Dance's DanceWorks CoWorks event
We Don't Need Another Hero
The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen Street West, Toronto
April 8 - 12, 2015
Interdisciplinary Performance, Communal Catharsis - Experiential Spectacle
Inspired by the Occupy movement and the struggle between action and inertia, “We Don't Need Another Hero” reflects on our place in the universe through our perspective as individuals, in couples and within community. Exploring how to come together, where truth lies: head, heart or guts and what to stand up for, Hero includes duets for 5 dancers, dance-theatre solo with different language translator each performance, and a choir.
April 8 @ 8 pm (French)
April 9 @ 8 pm (Finnish & Swedish)
April 10 @ 1pm (Japanese)
April 10 @ 2 pm (French)
April 11 @ 2 pm (Hungarian)
April 11 @ 8 pm (Tamil)
April 12 @ 2pm (French)
www.theatrecentre.org
www.standupdance.com/blog
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5. PERFORMANCE: No Context or Studio Place or Decentralize or…by Amelia Ehrhardt
Date: April 9, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Cara Spooner
April 9, 2015
8:30pm
The Citadel, 304 Parliament Street (south of Dundas Street East)
$10 admission / $15 catalogue
Due to an overwhelmingly positive response, Amelia Ehrhardt (www.ameliaehrhardt.com) will perform her new work No Context or Studio Place or Decentralize or We Actually Maybe Right Now Have Everything We Need for a second time on April 9th at the Citadel.
Commissioned by the Nomadic Curatorial Collective, No Context is a new choreography in conversation with archival documents from 15 Dance Lab, Toronto’s first dance artist-run centre, a hub of experimental performance which ran from 1974 to 1980.
In No Context Ehrhardt has created: “something between a sector study and a love letter, a wagging finger, and an upturned palm” to today's Toronto dance community, while paying homage to 15 Dance Lab.
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE: www.eventbrite.ca/e/extra-show-no-context-or-studio-place-or-decentralize-or-we-actually-maybe-right-now-have-tickets-16302237431
Website: www.nomadiccuratorialcollective.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/NomadicCuratorialCollective
Twitter: @NomadicCurators
Instagram: nomadic_curatorial_collective
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6. EVENT: TONIGHT
Date: April 10 and 18, 2015; City: Turku/Helsinki, Finland; Source: Tomasz Szrama
Participating artists:
Shannon Cochrane (CA)
Beate Linne (GE)
Alice De Vissher (BE)
Mireia Arnella (BE)
Tomasz Szrama (FI)
Tanja Koistila (FI)
Philip Luddite (FI)
Siiri Nevalainen (FI)
Anna Matveinen, Katja Paju ja Linda Inkeroinen (FI)
Tonight is going to Turku!
On Friday, April 10 at 23:59 - Saturday, April 11 at 06:00
Kutomo
www.ehka.net/kutomo
Tonight in Helsinki
Friday, April 17 at 23:59 – Saturday, April 18 at 06:00
Suomenlinna in Gallery Augusta
Tonight is telepathic working environment. Nothing is agreed, no thing is arranged, no organizing happens. Only the event appears. It simply materializes once in a while. First it seemed that it could be most likely found in Suomenlinna in Gallery Augusta. Now it looks like there is no guarantee. We cannot tell if it is getting anxious or wants to travel just for fun. For more fun. It must be curious. So young. But already so experienced. Somehow. Contradictions. Was it ever fun really? But makes difference for sure. God. How can I tell?? I was there each time, and still. Somehow now going to city of Turku. EHKÄ productions made moves and Tonight is inspired and on the way to Kutomo. Come and spend the night with us. We can not give any promises. It wouldn’t be the same if so.
www.blacktonight.fi
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7. PERFORMANCE: How Many Performance Artists Does it Take…by Jess Dobkin
Date: April 16, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Jess Dobkin
How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb (For Martha Wilson)
By Jess Dobkin
Presented in the context of the 2015 Images Festival
Co-presented by FADO Performance Art Centre
Thursday April 16, 2015
7:00pm-11:15pm
Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, 106 Trinity Street (at King Street East), Toronto
Admission: Suggested $10/Pay What You Can
Made in response and as an ode to one of America’s foremost groundbreaking performance artists, Martha Wilson, performance artist Jess Dobkin’s newest work, “How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb (For Martha Wilson)”, is at once a question, a joke, and a reflection on the ways we see.
Taking a direct cue from Wilson’s 2005 video “The History of Performance Art According to Me”, Martha Wilson, Dobkin takes on the complex and riddled history of performance art, defining its terms and conditions, while acknowledging the slippery temperament of her task. Wilson is also the founder and director of the renowned Franklin Furnace, a legendary artist run space in New York City that once served as a venue, and in more recent years, exists as a virtual archive with the mission of “making the world safe for avant-garde art.”
In Wilson’s oral history of the history of performance art, she by direct address to the camera, relates the following joke:
Q: How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?
A: I don’t know. I left after 4 hours.
True to the character of the light bulb joke oeuvre where deviations occur over time and regions, Dobkin adds an additional variation of this joke concerning performance artists:
Q: How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?
A: One to change the light bulb and 40 to document it.
As a manifestation of these jokes and as a reflection of our screen dependent culture, Dobkin has developed a four plus hour durational performance where a performance artist (Dobkin) will change a light bulb with at least forty people documenting the piece through an exhaustive list of forms. From the ever-present phone camera, social media fanfare, and GPS locator, Dobkin also turns to the generations of how performance art has been documented, revisiting the various models of photography, video recording, film formats, drawing, writing, along with treaded analogue technologies.
“How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb (For Martha Wilson)” will be an attempt to overwhelm the definitions and intersections of performance, documentation, the archive and image reproduction to investigate the nature of performance itself.
Questions at stake include: how is performance shared, transmitted, recalled, remembered? How do we understand the lifespan of a performance? How does the form and quality of the documentation impact our understanding of the original work? How have technological advances in documentation and image making changed our understanding and definition of performance art practices?
Performed by Jess Dobkin and forty volunteer documenters, with special guest appearance by Martha Wilson.
POST-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSON
How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Eat Brunch
Brunch Talk Saturday April 18, 2015
11am – 1pm
Onsite Gallery at OCAD University, 230 Richmond Street WestFree
Join Jess Dobkin and Martha Wilson for an intimate conversation and reflection on the performance, “How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb (For Martha Wilson)” and discussion of the relationship between contemporary live performance and documentation.
As the founder of the Franklin Furnace, a pioneering artist-run space that has led the exploration, promotion and preservation of performance art, Wilson has been a trailblazer in preserving the history and documentation of live art practices. Speaking to the role of documentation in live art from the 1970s to present day, topics of interest will include the role of the archive, performing for the camera, and the ever-evolving relationship between live art and new technologies.
www.imagesfestival.com
www.jessdobkin.com
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8. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Performance by Jess Dobkin at The Images Festival 2015
Date: April 16, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Jess Dobkin
Dear friends,
I’m presenting a new performance for the Images Festival on Thursday, April 16 and am seeking volunteer participants to be part of the work. The performance will be on Thursday, April 16 from 7pm-11:15pm at the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, a heritage building on Trinity Street. I hope you might be interested and available to participate.
The performance is titled, "How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb? (For Martha Wilson)" and it will be a performance of the joke:
Q: How many performance artists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: I don’t know. I left after the first 4 hours.
A: One to change the light bulb and 40 to document it.
I'm creating a 4-hour performance where I will change a light bulb with more than 40 people documenting. The documentation will be exhaustive in form and material - from the generations of photography, video, film, and social media to old-school technologies of writing and drawing, and potential face-offs where the etch-a-sketch rumbles with the Telefon printer. A poet, a lyricist, a courtroom stenographer! The documentation will be collected at the end of the evening for use in a future exhibition of the work. All documenters will be credited for their contribution to the project. Martha Wilson will be in attendance, and she will have a fabulous cameo role in the performance.
I'm seeking volunteers to document - both artists and writers. In some cases, volunteers will document the full duration of the performance, for others, we will schedule shorter shifts. Attached is more information about the project.
Please email me directly at jess@jessdobkin.com if you are interested or have questions.
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9. EVENT: Double Dialogue: Performance as Photography/Photography as Performance
Date: April 20, 2015; City: Boston, USA; Source: Daniel Deluca
Drawing on Manuel Vason’s latest collaborative project Double Exposures, ‘Double Dialogues’ will forward conversations into the relationship between photography and performance. In this event Manuel Vason will present Double Exposures and discuss ideas around the bridging of performance and photography with Mobius artist Marilyn Arsem. The discussion will be moderated by Mobius director Daniel S. DeLuca and be followed by an open Q&A. A limited number of signed copies of Double Exposures will be available on the night of the event.
Mobius, Inc.
55 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, Boston USA
7pm-9pm
Free and Open to the Public!
For more information please visit the event page on our website!
http://mobius.org/events/double-dialogues
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10. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RedPlexus
Deadline date: April 20, 2015; City: Marseille, France; Source: Christine Bouvier
International Laboratory Festival of Performances
RedPlexus, network of exchanges and of diffusion of new forms of performance.
Dates: September 14 -19, 2015
Where: Marseille, France
Préavis de Désordre Urbain is a laboratory-festival, 6 intense days dedicated to experimentation, to meeting and artistic creation. Each Preavis festival explores the body in public space and focuses on theme, artistic schedule, time to re-build the project of performance and adapt it to the context of the city of Marseille. Impertinent and subversive proposals are welcome.
Theme of Préavis 2015: EMERGENCY STOP PERFORMANCES
Flow, circulation, transports punctuate urban life. Urban trajectories are often traced to the millimeter, they should not leave the rail. And if we introduced a grain of sand on an urban route....It is vital to create Emergency Stop Performances on these transit urban routes. Emergency Stop Performances dedicated to the body, desires and rituals. We can explore and inhabit these urban routes in other ways and propose to the public to share an artistic and existential experience. The performances will take place on trips in the city, in public transport or at bus and tramway stops. The car, private sphere into the public sphere, may also be a space of performance.
The performances may take place in a bus or tram, on the outside, on the route, at bus and tramway stops, in a car parked in a parking lot, outside of a car (the public being inside) etc. The selected artists adapt their project to the context of urban space, of a theatre and of Friche la Belle de Mai.
Every artist commits to:
-Participate to the residency in public space and to 3 programmed moments
-Create a radio live performance in the studios of Radio Grenouille (10mn)
-Participate in meetings in bars
Artistic Field: All disciplines focused on Performance: Dance, Theatre, Urban arts, Visual arts, Installation-Performance, architecture/townplanning
Financial and other conditions:
-Honorary fee: 500 € (700 € for 2 artists and more)
-We offer Accommodation, Food ; Technical and logistic help
-We can help you to find money for your travel (consulates, embassy)
Submission/Application:
-Application form, completed on-line
-Description of the project (concept, biographical detail, artistic statement, motivation , technical requirements, photos, websites links etc.)
Deadline: April 20, 2015
Email: communication.redplexus@gmail.com
Contact Christine Bouvier: redplexus@free.fr
www.redplexus.org
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11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Compass Points Program 2015
Deadline date: April 24, 2015; City: Ottawa, Canada; Source: Magnetic North Theatre Festival
Now in its eighth year, Compass Points is a 6-day intensive program designed to inspire and nurture the careers of emerging artists from across the country. It provides a firsthand introduction to the professional theatre industry and fosters lifelong collaborative relationships among a peer community of Canada’s next generation of theatre creators. The program will focus on providing participants with new tools, inspiration, and ideas to fuel their creative practices while engaging in a critical discourse on artistic creation and criticism.
The Compass Points program provides participants with a three-fold approach:
Workshops & Panels – Engage with Canada’s top professional artists and theatre practitioners from across the country. Topics and events vary from year to year to complement festival programming and address current concerns and questions.
Mentorship – Each participant will be paired with one other member of the Compass Points Program. Together they will be partnered with an established artist and their company involved in the 2015 Magnetic North Theatre Festival. The participants will have unique access to the show, and the artists and practitioners involved in creating the work.
Performances – The group will attend all the performances that comprise the Magnetic North Theatre Festival. Participants will be exposed to some of the best and most daring work currently being produced across the country.
We accept applications from emerging artists across the country and of diverse cultural backgrounds who are passionate and curious about Canadian theatre and have an interest in being a part of the national community.
Ideal Candidates Are:
1. Emerging artists who have a strong interest in engaging in the national and local arts community, developing their craft as an artist, and artistic leadership.
2. In their final years or recently graduated from post-secondary theatre, dance, and music programs, or emerging artists who have been in the arts industry for up to four years since graduating.
3. Available for the entire duration of Compass Points (June 6-11, 2015).
Full application details and application forms: http://magneticnorthfestival.ca/2015festival/compasspoints/
If you have any questions about the program or the submission process, please contact Compass Points Curator, Brian Postalian, at brian@magneticnorthfestival.ca
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12. EVENT: Extra! Extra! An artists newsstand is opening in Toronto!
Date: May 1, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Jess Dobkin
Extra! Extra! An artists newsstand is opening in Toronto!
GRAND OPENING: May 1, from 5pm - 8pm
A small and mighty collective of artists are transforming a vacant Gateway Newsstand kiosk at The Chester Avenue TTC subway station into an alternative newsstand and artists space. We will be presenting site-specific exhibitions, screenings, performances and community arts projects. You are invited to our Grand Opening on May 1 from 5-8pm at the kiosk.
For more information and to contribute to our fundraising campaign:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/artistsnewsstand/extra-extra-an-artists-newsstand-is-coming-to-toro
And to keep up with our goings-on, check us out on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/artistsnewsstand
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13. WORKSHOP: AUTHENTICITY/INTEGRITY/EQUALITY with Sylvie Tourangeau
Deadline date: May 5, 2015; City: Ste-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Québec; Source: Sylvie Tourangeau
SUMMER 2015: summer workshop/residency in performance art
AUTHENTICITY/INTEGRITY/EQUALITY
July 19 to July 25, 2015
This offer is an opportunity for a residence with a focus on your own specificities as a performance artist while in the context of a collective living and a close contact with nature. The themes for the week are authenticity, integrity and equality and the proposition is to work with these themes at a level at which we are in dialogue with our several layers of identity, with others and with our environment.
Transgender artist claude wittmann, whom I have invited to join us as a second animator, will create radio-based devices to investigate and foster egalitarian relationships between us. Please read his bio below.
In terms of our living formula, I can say: we will be in the countryside (see location below); we will develop our work over five days; we will have lots of moments for individual coaching; we will establish contacts with some ten other artists; one person is going to be hired to cook for us; we will sleep in a dormitory; and not least… we will see the stars in the sky at night and will make beautiful fires before going to bed…
Our house will be quite large, with an inside working area. We will also work outside, walking and doing actions in the woods.
Three volunteers will function as assistants. All the people who will accompany you will have taken workshops with me.
ABOUT CLAUDE WITTMANN
He was born in Switzerland and now lives in Toronto where he works as a bicycle mechanic and in performance art. Until recently, "transform" was his line of work, which he manifested in gender-identity focused solos. Now, he tries to be more in "practice", "meet" and "face and this new horizon of life and work has asked for voice, radio, interactions and more collective work. Claude wants to be "real". He is a citizen. www.claudiawittmann.ca
PRACTICALITIES
Dates: July 19 - July 25, 2015 (5 full days)
Location: la Shède, Ste-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Québec http://www.lashed.caCost: $ 575, housing for 6 nights and meals included
Contact: Sylvie Tourangeau at perfostourangeau@gmail.com
Number of participants: 10
If all this seems to have a good taste, tickles your heart or starts a new and appealing thinking process, please do not hesitate to contact me! If you want to reserve a spot, please do this as soon as possible. We will arrange that you send me a $100 deposit. The final deadline for registration is May 5, 2015. Please note that the deposit is not reimbursable. It will however be valid for two years, if you were to register for another workshop of mine.
Are you thinking of somebody else who could benefit from the residency? If yes, please forward the information to them. Would you like to know a bit more about it? We can schedule a phone call and speak together.
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14. RESIDENCY: ALCHEMY
Deadline date: May 15, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Teresa Ascencao
ALCHEMY
Programmed Art Residency
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Canada
Program Dates: August 7– 17, 2015
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2015
Cost including taxes: $950 for private bedroom, or $800 for shared bedroom (package includes accommodation, shared meals, large shared studio, workshop facilitation, and an exhibition)
Alchemy is a 10-day residency devoted to the exploration of the synergy between artistic practice and the growing, cooking and sharing of Island cultivated food (Friday, August 7-Monday, August 17). Residents will have the opportunity to launch projects individually or collaboratively to create art, sculpture, photography, performance art, writing or video inspired by the garden and shared through a closing exhibit for work created during the residency. Residents will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in their own practice during the garden’s lush summer season with opportunities to join our gardeners and volunteers in the garden or share culinary creativity for communal dinners during the residency. Menus will be based on the Group’s appetite for sharing what is available from the garden in mid to late summer. There will be readings and discussions about the creative intersection of food and art, guest talks will help us better understand the magic and inspiration created by making and sharing art and food.
Artscape Gibraltar Point (AGP) is an artist retreat nestled against the magnificent natural backdrop of Toronto Island. It offers rich potential for the creation of artworks amongst its blue-flag beaches and natural surroundings of Lake Ontario, forests and gardens filled with flowers, fruit and vegetables. On the island, there are tiny quaint homes, a historic lighthouse, a hobby farm and antique carnival grounds. Cozy up in a furnished studio and bedroom, and enjoy amenities such as a fully equipped common kitchen, shared bathrooms, laundry facilities and free wireless Internet. AGP is barrier free and an inclusive environment. The Toronto city core is just a 15-minute ferry ride away!
Alchemy will be curated and facilitated by three strong advocates for the Gardens at AGP and its integration into artistic life and practice at Gibraltar Point. Claire M. Tallarico is a trained chef, urban gardener and emerging visual artist passionate about exploring the intersection between creative practice and food. AGP Head Gardener Pat Jeffries is a visual artist and farmer interested in food and art on a variety of levels, ranging from the pleasures and gift of food and how current political, economic and climatic events threaten our food security. Luisa Milan is a textile artist, chef and shape maker of many creative mediums.
Alchemy is limited to 10 residents. Skills guidance is available in culinary arts, painting, music making, activist art. Prices include sleeping quarters, large shared studio spaces, facilitation and exhibition. Arrivals are on Friday August 7 from 1pm to 3pm, and departures on Monday August 17th before 11am. For more information please contact Claire M. Tallarico atmaven623@gmail.com or Teresa Ascencao at info@residencycoordinator.com.
To apply, fill out the online form: artscape.wufoo.eu/forms/online-application-for-artscape-gibraltar-point (Please provide a website or link to your greening, culinary or artworks online).
LINK: http://www.torontoartscape.org/artscape-gibraltar-point/residencies#alchemy
APPLY: http://artscape.wufoo.eu/forms/online-application-for-artscape-gibraltar-point/
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15. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: PROCESS Series / A Call for Performers and Presenters
Deadline date: unspecified; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: lo bil
http://processperformances.tumblr.com/?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma
The summer series brought out many artists and audiences who wanted to see PROCESS continue… in response i invite artists for this ongoing series, running on the last Sunday each month.
lo bil of the Intergalactic Arts Collective is inviting proposals from performance artists, movement-based artists, sound-based artists, text-based artists, visual artists of any medium, curators, film makers, academics, and other cultural practitioners for our public programme “PROCESS” - a performance series taking place on the last Sunday of every month in the Artscape Youngplace Centre at 180 Shaw Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The aim of the programme is to consider performance-making as a way of being in the world, just as much as it is a part of making art. I include artists who usually perform as well as artists who might not regularly perform, to perform something of their process or to talk about their process, as a way of opening new channels of interest in how we think about our work.
Invited artists can show new works in progress, revisit work they would like to revisit, present research, meet one another, collaborate conversationally, and/or reflect on their performance and process with audiences and other programmed artists. There will be both formal and informal components programmed into each night to encourage conversation that artists are invited to participate in if they feel open to do so. We also offer a space for artists to do something that is helpful to them in their work, i.e. wanting feedback and/or to see how something works with an audience.
The Intergalactic Arts Collective is a group of 12 independent movement-based artists who share Studio 103. We aim to facilitate collaborative exchange fostering new ideas and projects. With these nights we hope to create opportunities for audiences and artists to engage with one another, and to create some dialogue around:
-how work is made
-what a work in progress might be
-how audiences perceive work-in-progress
-how these artists might take their work forward
-how our process affects our performance objectives, our aesthetic perspectives, our cultural place, and other aspects of our collective lives.
This venture is not funded at this initial stage, but artists will be offered a small honorarium based on attendance the evening of their showing. We make this offering in the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration, peer feedback, and good conversation.
To apply to PROCESS please answer the following questions:
1. Name and Contact details
2. What would you like to perform or present?
3. Though not mandatory, if you have any images or links related to your work you would like to share, please feel free to attach or mention.
4. Are there any dates you would be able/not be able to be programmed on?
Send your application or any questions to lbil@rogers.com with the subject heading “PROCESS”.
I will keep all submissions and try to programme as many artists as possible. Thank you for your interest in working with us on this series!
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16. Open Call for Workshop Participants: MAYDAY with VestAndPage
Deadline date: June 15, 2015; City: Düsseldorf, Germany; Source: Verena Stenke
MAYDAY: One-Week Intensive Workshop On The Praxis Of Performance Art
Facilitated by VestAndPage (Verena Stenke/DE & Andrea Pagnes/IT)
WORKSHOP DATES AND HOURS: Thu, 20 to Wed, 26 August 2016, every day between 10:00 to 18:00h. With a final public presentation on Wednesday, 26 August at 19:00h.
VENUE: Atelier Performative Künste, Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth
APPLICATION PERIOD: April 1 to June 15, 2015
CONFIRMATION: June 30, 2015
Workshop languages are English and German.
No previous experience in the arts is required.
18+
For information on how to apply please write to verena@vest-and-page.de
The intensive MAYDAY workshops follow VestAndPage’s unique method through the process of making a performative piece. Through practical exercises, participants will be provided with the means to conceive, develop and realize their own performance piece. Through 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. Through methodology aimed at understanding prevailing behavioural patterns as well as the individual and social responsibility of art, participants will develop new ways of communicating and even overcoming the fears of our 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 artists’ material. Therefore, as well as gaining further understanding of VestAndPage’s collaborative art practice, participants will develop a heightened awareness of mind and body, with the means to stimulate artistic personal action though inner sensitivity.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
German artist Verena Stenke and Venetian artist and writer Andrea Pagnes have been working together since 2006 as VestAndPage, generating art in the mediums of live performance, filmmaking and writing, and as independent curators. They are experienced workshop facilitators for students, art professionals of different backgrounds and non-art participants, either normally endowed or differently abled, of any age. They have been invited to hold practical workshops, research lectures and teachings in institutions worldwide. Their practice is contextual, process-led, situation-responsive and conceived psycho-geographically in response to natural surroundings, social contexts, historical sites or architecture, hence unrepeatable and subdue to the given conditions. In a poetics of relations it examines notions of perception, reality, communication, fragility and failure of the individual and the collective within 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, endurance and union with a poetic bodily approach to art practice. Their works have been produced and presented internationally in museums, galleries and a variety of sites, and have been described as transfixing, confronting, spellbinding, humble, uncomfortable, carrying fresh iconography, cathartic, visceral, liminal, otherworldly, shamanic, tensional, silent, delicate or mysterious. Between 2010-2012, VestAndPage produced the experimental art film trilogy “sin∞fin The Movie”, a complex visual research realized during three years in Antarctica, South America and Asia. The project examines the relationship between the ephemeral art form of performance with filmmaking. They are the initiators and independent curatorial force behind projects such as the live art exhibition project Venice International Performance Art Week (2012/2014) and the global art initiative FRAGILE global performance chain journey (since 2010). VestAndPage further collaborate with international theatre companies, cultural institutions and organizations in production and education, presenting a lectures and methodological workshop series. Their writings have been published in various books and magazines of contemporary art among which Performance Research, Flash Art, Art&Education, Studio Research, Re-tooling Residencies, Research Catalogue, Nexus. Their book “The Fall of Faust - Considerations on Contemporary Art and Art Action” (2010) investigates the intimate tissue of creativity, questioning performance art as an urgency.
www.vest-and-page.de
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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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