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FADO E-LIST (October 2016)Dear FADO friends–there is so much happening in performance art in Canada in the month of October, that we couldn't resist sending another E-Bulletin to tell you all about. Enjoy! x, fado +++ INDEX +++ 1. FADO presents MONOMYTHS: STAGE 8 with Syrus Marcus Ware Training Session for Freedom Fighters Sunday October 30, from 12pm–6pm ASL interpretation provided from 2pm–5pm *Rain plan: indoors in the main space at Daniels Spectrum (585 Dundas Street East) FADO's MONOMYTHS series invites a diverse collection of artists, scholars, and activists to revise Joseph Campbell’s conception of the hero’s journey through performance art, lectures, workshops, and other offerings. This new assemblage of non-linear un-narratives proposes a cultural, political and social feminist re-visioning of the world. The MONOMYTHS perception of the universal journey dispels the notion of the lone patriarchal figure on a conquest to vanquish his demons–both inner and outer–in consideration of community, collectivity, and collaboration. In this stage, the hero must confront and be initiated by whatever holds the ultimate power in life. All the previous stages of the journey have been moving into this place; all that follow will move out from it. This stage is frequently symbolized by an encounter with someone or thing with incredible power, often conceived of as masculine, through the patriarchal heterosexist imagining of the state. In MONOMYTHS: Stage 8 / Training Sessions for Freedom Fighters, Syrus Marcus Ware invites you to join in the present moment (after, back then, just before, in the future), wherein the potential directions are seemingly endless, yet also hyper-focused. In this confrontation with the Father State, we move past what we have been training for, and into what we are creating anew. We move into the prefigurative political dreams we have been working towards. All participants (heroes) will participate in collective struggle that harnesses all the activisms that have come before and that will lead us into the future together. This work will be rooted in the often invisibilized labour behind the scenes, work often done by those on the margins of the struggle. It celebrates the powerful behind the scenes hustle that facilitates–and is its own kind of–direct action. Participants (heroes) will meet on the field in Regent Park to create a 2500-square foot banner, in four connected pieces. The 4-piece banner will be themed around 4 phrases that guide our heroes' journey:
Separately the phrases convey hope, fear, confidence and uncertainty. Together they tell a broader story about the decidedly hopeful uncertainty of our current struggle–the struggle against the supremacist state with the future of humanity and our planet in the balance. The banner will be gifted to the movement for use in future actions, bringing all participants into the process of supporting this life giving work. As a collective journey, as heroes we are all witness and archive to this behind the scenes labour; and as allies to the struggle for self-determination of all people through the liberation of black people, we are all implicated in the shared risks and responsibilities of this work. For more about MONOMYTHS: http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=297 +++ 2. EVENT: Biennial performative art of Rouyn-Noranda At Noranda, even in Rouyn, will be a meeting of genres. A festival of performance art where the improbable is obvious: a one-legged dog, the Illuminati amphibians, a métamorphiste ambiguity unbridled table-show, a dance forest, transfigurationniste, a wizard of birch bark pieces, a collective imagination, ghosts and even a Abdigradationnistes. Wow. They have traveled the world for the quality of their presence, their commitment and their desire for transformation. I'll be there. Yes. I confirm. 12-13-14-15. When that happens, the large gathering, do not miss it. Open your heart, change up, worse between. Geneviève et Matthieu, Artistic Directors of the 8th Biennial of performance art PARTICIPATING ARTISTS +++ 3. EVENT: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art Since 1997, the Toronto Performance Art Collective has been building a platform for performance art presentation in Canada by playing host to a roster of artists from around the world and showcasing the breadth and depth of contemporary progressive performance art practices for Toronto audiences. We’re back in October for our 11th festival in 20 years, with a carefully selected roster of the best of local, national and international contemporary performance art. The festival’s main activities include evening events with multiple artists, off-site and in-situ walking and durational performance works, and Performance Art Daily, our talk series features the artists of the festival engaging in lunchtime talks about performance ecologies, issues, and theory. For artist bios and performance descriptions: www.7a-11d.ca ARTISTS FESTIVAL VENUES ABOUT 7a*11d +++ 4. EVENT: M:ST Performative Festival The Mountain Standard Time Performative Festival (M:ST) The Mountain Standard Time Performative Festival is a contingent site of encounter and exchange: a gathering of individuals and organizations in a tensioned, fragmentary, generative, and complex confluence. We acknowledge our presence on the traditional territories of the First Nations of Treaty 7 and the Metis Nation, and acknowledge the presence of a multitude of other bodies who, over time, have come to inhabit this place. As an embodied enactment of our being on this land, our words, acts, and selves have agency, resonance and implication. The artists included in this year’s festival will engage in an unfolding dialogue in time and in place. Over the coming weeks the generous labour of these coalescing energies will generate many points of intersection , creating spaces of exchange and contestation. We welcome you into this dynamic space to contribute and bear witness with your presence. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS For information about the festival schedule and venues: http://mstfestival.org/schedule/ +++ 5. PERFORMANCE: Reimaging & Remembering
by Tharmila Rajasingam Reimaging & Remembering As part of the In Situ Multi Arts Festival October 28 & 29, 2016 Small Arms Building Co-Presented by FADO Performance Art Centre and SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) Reimaging & Remembering is a site-specific performance that collects and documents drawings of the Small Arms Building visitors over the period of In Situ. The piece is an evolvement of a previous memory building project that uses blind contour drawing technique as a way to preserve memory, through repetitive and organizational procedures. The drawings of the visitors will be installed on the windows of the Small Arms Building (an abandoned WWII munitions inspection building), as the drawings are created. The faces of the visitors will embody the physical space of the Small Arms Building, when looking in or out, the faces will help viewers remember the community that help to reimagine the possibility of the space. ABOUT Tharmila Rajasingam ABOUT In Situ Multi Arts Festival For tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-situ-tickets-27937520877 www.savac.net +++ 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. 445-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 To unsubscribe from this e-bulletin, please follow this link: |
