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FADO E-LIST (April 2016)INDEX +++ 1. EVENT: MONOMYTHS: Stage 6 with Michelle M. Wright MONOMYTHS: Stage 6: Tests, Allies, Enemies TALK READING GROUP Please note that the Helen Gardiner Playhouse is wheelchair accessible. This lecture is presented in partnership with the University of Toronto Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. FADO picks up the epic MONOMYTHS series in May with Stage 6: Tests, Allies, Enemies. This stage will be addressed by Dr. Michelle M. Wright in a performative talk entitled Physics of Blackness: Understanding Beyond Linear Time. Please join us for the talk on May 5, and for a reading group led by Michelle Wright on May 7. (No prior reading or knowledge required. Texts will be provided on the day.) In this talk, Physics of Blackness: Understanding Beyond Linear Time, Michelle M. Wright shows how our current struggle to be diverse and inclusive in our worldview has more to do with Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravity than most would realize. Blackness, for example, can only be understood accurately by drawing on different understandings of time and space--specifically going beyond linear time and the myth of universal progress. Moving from discussions of 17th century physics to 3rd century Christian religions, to 21st century African travel narratives to Black European postwar histories to Black Caribbean settlement in 18th century Australia, Physics of Blackness goes around the globe through all spaces and times to show us the unexpected ways Blackness reveals and encounters itself. Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/897660403680057 ABOUT MICHELLE M. WRIGHT ABOUT MONOMYTHS Joseph Campbell’s influential book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) prescribes a common pattern to all of the world’s mythic narratives. According to this fundamental structure, the archetypal hero is challenged to embark on a monumental quest. Over the course of the hero’s journey, trials and obstacles must be overcome until a victory is won and the hero returns home with new knowledge about himself and the world. Campbell’s concept of the monomyth (‘one myth’) is a recognizable motif in both ancient mythology and contemporary culture, including film, music, literature, sports, and advertising. A current trend in popular visual culture replaces the male character with a female one, in spite of the fact that our heroine–from the get-go–would make different choices if the conditions, and conditioning, allowed. While each MONOMYTHS stage stands alone, the work of each presenting artist is interdependent and connected. These independent visions, when stitched together through the audience’s collective presence, form an exquisite corpse of a larger experimental narrative. The year-long MONOMYTHS project is presented in three sections starting in February 2016 and concluding in February 2017. The series is conceived and curated Jess Dobkin and Shannon Cochrane. Part 1 (February 2016) Part 2 (May 2016–January 2017) Part 3 (February 2017) +++ 2. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Franklin Furnace Fund 2016-2017 The Franklin Furnace Fund awards grants annually to emerging artists to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York. Grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace. To apply, please click the following FF Application link to access the required Eligibility Questionnaire. If the questionnaire confirms your eligibility you will be provided with a link to the application. FF Application: http://franklinfurnace.org/artists/franklin_furnace_fund/ff_application.php Please make sure to also consult our application guidelines, which have recently changed: We recommend submitting your application before the deadline in case you encounter any technical difficulties or have any questions. Please note that technical support for the application is only available Monday-Friday from 10am–7pm Eastern Standard Time. You may also drop off any physical materials to our office at Pratt Institute. We will be open on Friday, April 1 from 10am until 6pm. If you would like to drop off your physical materials before the deadline please call us to schedule a date and time at (718) 687-5800. Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. For questions contact Franklin Furnace at proposals@franklinfurnace.org +++ 3. PERFORMANCE: Flowchart curated by Amelia Ehrhardt Here we go–it is happening Third and last night in the series! Germaine Liu April 7, 8pm, $10 Artscape Sandbox TICKETS: ABOUT FLOWCHART www.facebook.com/events/938987716183765/ +++ 4. SCREENING: Images presents How Should a Person Be? Images Festival presents the On Screen program, "How Should a Person Be?"April 17, 7pm How Should a Person Be? Program includes: Pivot The Splits Ticketing Check www.imagesfestival.com for online ticket sales links and look out for our new ticketing applications! Ticket giveaways will also take place leading up to and during the festival. Follow @imagesfestival on Facebook and twitter to hear about it! ABOUT IMAGES +++ 5. EVENT: Performance ZuHause Festival Performance ZuHause Festival ARTISTS From the 21st till the 24th of April 2016, the Performance ZuHause Festival will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Performance Zuhause (German for “at home”) Festival, as the name suggests, means that the public is invited to the private homes of artists Gustavo Solar, Jenny Toro Salas, Anderson Feliciano and Graciela Ovejero Postigo, in order to experience each home as a performance setting on four consecutive evenings. Prior to these performances, German artist katharinajej will have moved into the home of each of the above artists for two weeks to develop each performance together, whilst living and working on-site. By exploring the existential experience of home, thus of taking roles as guest or host, being a stranger to the home of another person, or sharing private space with a stranger, the performance will be developed on-site. The artistic work in the context of its surroundings aims to broaden the scope of the respective home as a space for creative freedom. The festival’s first iteration took place at the end of January 2015 in Cologne, Germany, involving local artists Sebastian Zuhr, Diane Müller and Lala Nomada. Just as in its Argentinian sequel, the Cologne performances were developed in advance by katharinajej and the respective artists, who had previously accommodated katharinajej at their homes. In addition, a “PerformanceZuHauseFestivalParty” took place at the home of Sebastian Zuhr and an artist talk joined by all involved artists, was held and accompanied by soup and wine at the home of katharinajej. Private living space is a central characteristic of the city and its streets lined with terraced housing, detached houses and apartment blocks. Yet, ringing strangers’ doorbells and entering the private space of their homes is still placed under a taboo. Despite being so close to us, most of the homes of people we do not know personally remain closed and inaccessible to us. The Performance ZuHause Festival opens up these private worlds to its audience. By entering a home, the audience member transforms his/her initial role of being a stranger and becomes familiar with the home and its resident(s). In turn, the previously private home temporarily turns into a public space—as a result, the line between private and public gets blurred. But the Performance ZuHause Festival will take the audience one step further than just entering a home. The space where one normally just lives in, turns into a performance venue where life and art embrace one another, hence, everyday-life space turns into art space. For full artist bios, go to: http://performancezuhausefestival.de/kuenstler For more information and tickets, go to: http://performancezuhausefestival.de +++ 6. EVENT: Hatch presents He said it. Monologue by Francesco Gagliardi He said it. Monologue April 23, 8pm In its probable world premiere, Francesco Gagliardi stages Gertrude Stein’s masterful, still-hypnotizing 1915 play – twice. With careful imprecision, “there will be one thing after another and sometimes a few things at one time.” Francesco Gagliardi is a performance artist and occasional filmmaker based in Toronto. He trained as an actor with Luca Ronconi at the National Theatre School of Turin and worked as an actor and director for nearly a decade before moving to performance art. His long conversation with Gertrude Stein includes productions of Photograph in Turin, Italy, 1993, and Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights in Rome, 2000, as well as the 2005 film Short Sentences: 1993-2005. ABOUT HATCH The projects in HATCH 12 reflect on moments when domestic, trivial, ornamental or private subjects resist themselves and change their form. These four projects converge on the scene of the tumultuous but persistent relationship between instruction and action; on the blurriness between writing and reading; and on theatre as a carefully staged – but nonetheless really occurring–accident. ABOUT HATCH TICKETS/ADMISSION HATCH presentations are ticketed events and all tickets are offered on a “Pay What You Want” basis. Tickets are available for purchase in-person only, from 1:00pm on the date of the performance, at the Harbourfront Centre Box Office. Please call the Box Office at 416-973-4000 for further details. www.harbourfrontcentre.com/hatch/ +++ 7. PERFORMANCE: Images Festival presents Juliana Huxtable There Are Certain Facts that Cannot Be Disputed Presented by the Images Festival in partnership with FADO Performance Art Centre, The Power Plant, and Available Light April 23, 9pm Realized in collaboration with an ensemble of music, sound, video, and lighting artists, the performance is composed of three vignettes which address the vexed relationship between the ephemeral nature of digital information and the drive for historical documentation in cyberspace, particularly as it relates to closed servers, bounced URLs, and Google cache. Juliana Huxtable, who approaches the Web as a vital resource for narratives that are usually discarded or placed in the margins of history, considers how the Internet has evolved from a largely text-based medium to one propelled by the power of visual symbols. She imagines these virtual spaces as twilight zones of desire, where music, dramatic oration, video, and the presence of human and digital characters coalesce into an immersive, schizophrenic experience that traverses topics as diverse as black samurai, trans-healers in South Africa, pre-colonial globalism, and human evolution. There Are Certain Facts that Cannot Be Disputed was originally co-commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art and Performa. Juliana Huxtable is an American poet, artist, model and DJ living in New York City. She studied at Bard College and was included as an artist in the 2015 New Museum Triennial. Tickets
$20 General $15 members, students, seniors, underemployed Check www.imagesfestival.com for online ticket sales links and look out for our new ticketing applications! Ticket giveaways will also take place leading up to and during the festival. Follow @imagesfestival on Facebook and twitter to hear about it! ABOUT IMAGES +++ 8. EVENT/OPEN CALL: The Artists Newsstand is closing and needs BUSKERS! The one-year experiment of an artist-run newsstand comes to a close on April 30. It has been an incredible ride at Chester Station and we have a few more exciting events still ahead of us. If you haven’t yet come to visit the Newsies at Chester Station, now is the time! Performance by Anand Rajaram April 13–15 Drawing Installation by Zanette Singh April 18–29 EVERYTHING MUST END (closing party!) Thursday, April 28 FINAL SALE on snacks, drinks, books, zines, artists multiples and more The kiosk continues to operate Monday-Friday from 3pm–7pm until the end of April. Come by for a visit if you haven’t yet had the chance to see the newsstand in action. OPEN CALL FOR BUSKERS +++ 9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Compass Points Program 2016 Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Whitehorse, Yukon) Now in its ninth 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 Magnetic North Theatre Festival will be held in Whitehorse, Yukon, this year from June 9–18. The Compass Points Program will run from June 11–16, 2016. Ideal Candidates Are: Your submission must include: First time applying or want support writing your application? We highly encourage applicants to email compasspoints@magneticnorthfestival.ca with the subject line “Compass Points Application 2016–Your Region” (Regions: Territories, British Columbia, Prairies, Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic) and you’ll be put in touch with a representative from your region to assist you with the application. Magnetic North prioritizes making all aspects of theatre more inclusive and accessible. We encourage all applicants to apply regardless of their culture, disabilities, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, marital status, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. Francophone applicants may submit their application in French. However, please note the main programming of Compass Points will be conducted in English. If you have any general questions about the program, fees, or the submission process, please contact Compass Points Curator, Brian Postalian, at brian@magneticnorthfestival.ca Please submit your completed application by Friday April 29, 2016 Full application details and application form are available at: +++ 10. OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: in/FUTURE presented by Art Spin in/FUTURE: a transformative art experiencePresented by Art Spin Deadline: April 29, 2016 Art Spin is seeking submissions of performance art and performative interdisciplinary projects for in/FUTURE, an event that will transform the iconic west island of Ontario Place from September 15-25, 2016 as it’s never been seen before. Our open call will launch on Wednesday April 6th. Bookmark www.infuture.ca and after April 6 visit the site for details on how to submit! in/Future is multidisciplinary art and music festival presented by Art Spin in association with Small World Music Festival that will re-animate the west island of Ontario Place, a scenic 14-acre waterfront urban oasis within Toronto for the first time since its closure in 2012. This unprecedented partnership with the Ontario Place Corporation will gather together over 60 of the most exciting contemporary artists and art organizations from across Ontario and beyond to re-imagine this historic space through an immersive celebration of art and culture. For over seven years Art Spin has been activating unique, decommissioned venues and alternative public spaces along with curating bicycle-led art tours to showcase newly commissioned contemporary art projects. in / FUTURE is our most ambitious project to date and promises to host a massive audience at this spectacular site to experience a cross-disciplinary range of art work from a new perspective. www.infuture.ca / submissions@infuture.ca +++ ABOUT FADO 445-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 To unsubscribe from this e-bulletin, please follow this link:
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