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FADO E-LIST (December 2021)

INDEX

1. OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS: DARE-DARE Classe neige

Deadline date: December 6, 2021; Location: Montréal, Canada; Source: DARE-DARE

2. EVENT: -AND- (12-HOUR on-line event  /  FADO presents HOUR 1)

Date: December 12, 2021; Location: on-line; Source: Christof Migone

3. EVENT: Fragment: video performance exhibition by Rebecca Belmore

Date: continuing to Dec 12, 2021; Location: Québec City, Canada; Source: Le Lieu

4. EVENT: Live Art Ireland presents Virtually Alive & Steaming

Date: December 14, 2021; Location: in-person & on-line; Source: Kate Barry

5. EVENT: M. Gros [Mr. Big] by Geneviève & Matthieu

Date: continuing to December 18, 2021; Location: Montréal, Canada: Source:  G&M

6. TO WATCH: VestAndPage’s momentum series with Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Date: Available now (posted Aug 31, 2021); Location: on-line; Source: VestAndPage

7. TO WATCH: VestAnd Page’s momentum series with Stelarc

Date: Available now (posted Oct 24, 2021); Location: on-line; Source: VestAndPage

8. TO WATCH: P A C E, film by Sue Murad | PACE by Sandrine Schaefer

Date: December 21, 2021; Location: on-line: Source: Sandrine Schaefer

 

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1. OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS: DARE-DARE Classe neige

Deadline date: December 6, 2021; Location: Montréal, Canada; Source: DARE-DARE

 

For the winter of 2022, Espace Critique Committee (Critical Space Committee) is offering an edition of Fabuler L'École under the "classe neige" formula. Anchored in a non-urban context, it aims to extract ourselves from our domestic and everyday spaces in order to fully engage in the collective experience in nature, to experiment with other forms of public space and to question the influence of context on exchange and transmission. 

Fabuler L'École is a pedagogical and artistic adventure that began as part of the Espace Critique Committee (Critical Space Committee) of the artist-run center DARE-DARE in 2019.

 

Since then, it has been creating a collective learning space in the form of a transdisciplinary experimental school. Fabuler L'École is a laboratory with plural rhythms and co-existing temporalities, based on the desire to reflect together on engagement through art in public space, on the processual dimension of practices, on the potential of sharing and on ways of occupying space from a decolonial perspective. 

Fabuler L'École is aimed at artists, thinkers and undisciplined practitioners who wish to engage in the invention of new forms and pursue a quest for (de)formation. The project proposes the exchange and sharing of practices, gestures, perceptions and experiences in order to create collective intelligence and heterogeneous knowledge.

 

Examples of what could be shared/experienced/engaged through co-presence:

 

—Reading circles, group reading

Movement / meditation / wandering workshops

Sharing knowledge and know-how

Observation walks

Outdoor activities (snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, sliding, playing in the snow)

Writing exercises

Free time

Livelihood activities (with grocery assistance)

Fabulations

 

For more information and to apply: http://dare-dare.org/en/events/open-call-fabuler-lecole-classe-neige

 

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2. EVENT: -AND- (12-HOUR on-line event  /  FADO presents HOUR 1)

Date: December 12, 2021; Location: on-line; Source: Christof Migone

 

-AND-

ONLINE EVENT

December 12, 2021

 

Organized by Christof Migone

 

Presented in partnership with: Alt Space Loop (Seoul), Arraymusic (Toronto), Avatar (Québec), CRiSAP (London UK), Errant Bodies Press (Berlin), FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto), Radius (Chicago), Resonance Extra (London UK), squint _ _ _ _ _ _ press (Québec/Toronto), Wave Farm (Acra NY), Western University (London, ON), Zone Sound Creative (Taipei)

 

The second in a series of twelve annual events taking place on December 12 from 12 noon to midnight (EST). Each year the event will move through each word of the 12-word phrase ‘you and I are water earth fire air of life and death’ and activate the word of the year in myriad ways. This year the word is ‘and’, consequently the focus is on repetitions, conjunctions, and duos. Last year it started with ‘you’, this year we connect you to anything and everything that you are together-with. Or, we get stuck in the very act that ‘and’ opens up, into the enormity that the so-what-next that ‘and’ implies. ‘And’ is all possibilities in a nutshell.

 

WATCH on YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qFmapbDj_4

 

PROGRAMME

 

-AND- HOUR 1 (beginning at 12h EST)

FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto) PRESENTS Erika DeFreitas (Toronto) and Adrian Piper (Berlin)

Seriation #2: Now (1968) & Seriation #2a: _and (with thoughts of Adrian Piper) (2021)

 

In #2, DeFreitas performs Piper's audio work Seriation #2: Now with visuals created by DeFreitas to question our presence in the ‘now’. In #2a, DeFreitas creates a score based on Piper’s essay “Passing for White, Passing for Black” by isolating the word ‘and’ on the pages it appears.

 

For full programme information: https://youandiarewaterearthfireairoflifeanddeath.com/

 

-AND- HOUR 2 (13h EST)

Radius (Chicago) PRESENTS Anna Friz (Santa Cruz) and Jeff Kolar (Chicago)

 

-AND- HOUR 3 (14h EST)

Zone Sound Creative (Taipei) PRESENTS Po-Hao Chi (Taipei)

  

-AND- HOUR 4 (15h EST)

Resonance Extra (London UK) PRESENTS James Greer & Neil Luck, Merlin Nova, and Milo Thesiger-Meacham

 

-AND- HOUR 5 (16h EST)

ALT SPACE LOOP (Seoul) PRESENTS Byungjun Kwon (Seoul) 

-AND- HOUR 6 (17h EST)

CRiSAP (London UK) PRESENTS They are all of them themselves and they repeat it and I hear it (Anna Barham & Irene Revell) (London UK)

  

-AND- HOUR 7 (18h EST)

squint press (Québec/Toronto) PRESENTS Different From The One You Are In Now with Mary Walling Blackburn, Allison Cameron,Barbara Campbell, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Darren Copeland, Renato Grieco, Michaela Grill, Sarah Hennies, Marla Hlady, Seth Kim-Cohen, Francisco Meirino, Salomé Voegelin.

 

-AND- HOUR 8 (19h)

Array (Toronto) PRESENTS Renée Lear (Toronto) and Christof Migone (Toronto)

 

-AND- HOUR 9 (20h EST)

Western University (London ON) PRESENTS Ellen Moffat (London ON) & Eeva Siivonen (London ON)

 

-AND- HOUR 10 (21h EST)

Avatar (Québec) PRESENTS Béchard Hudon (Montréal)

 

-AND- HOUR 11 (22h EST)

Wave Farm (New York) PRESENTS LoVid (New York)

 

-AND- HOUR 12 (23h EST)

Errant Bodies Press (Berlin) PRESENTS undo (Christof Migone (Toronto) & Alexandre St-Onge (Québec)

 

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3. EVENT: Fragment: video performance exhibition by Rebecca Belmore

Date: continuing to Dec 12, 2021; Location: Québec City, Canada; Source: Le Lieu

 

Fragment

Rebecca Belmore

 

November 13–December 12, 2021

Le Lieu, centre en art actual

Québec City, Quebec

https://inter-lelieu.org

 

The performances in this exhibition are a small part of what I have made so far. It is strange to see oneself moving through time, captured on camera and now projected as light and sound. I see myself in the distance—working and witnessing time.

 

Rebecca Belmore has presented a number of actions at Le Lieu. First in 1990 during the First biennial d'art contemporain de Québec; in 1994, in the company of Reona Brass; and in 2000 at the Rencontre internationale d'art performance. We appreciate its commitment, its inclusion in terms of aesthetic praxis as well as its political and societal implication. We participated in international activities with her, a tour of several German cities in 1991 as well as the 4th Biennial of La Habana in Cuba. We notice its audacity and its positioning in the social relations that the performative act can offer us and in its realization of the creative device where the body, its ideologies and historical traces are affirmed.

 

Rebecca Belmore's video performance installation will be presented from November 13 to December 12, 2021. The “fragment” exhibition will be open to the public from Thursday to Sunday from 12–5pm. A maximum of 20 people will be allowed inside the gallery.

 

ABOUT REBECCA BELMORE

A member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe), Rebecca Belmore is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist. Rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities, Belmore's works make evocative connections between bodies, land and language. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at institutions including Audain Art Museum, Canada (2020); MAC, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada (2019); AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (2018). Belmore's work has been presented in major international exhibitions including the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2019); documenta, Kassel, Germany (2017); and 51st Venice Biennale, Italy (2005). Belmore has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2016); Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2013); Hnatyshyn Visual Arts Award (2009); and Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation's VIVA Award (2004).

 

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4. EVENT: Live Art Ireland presents Virtually Alive & Steaming

Date: December 14, 2021; Location: in-person & on-line; Source: Kate Barry

 

Live art Ireland is excited to present a hybrid live/online event on the 14th of December at 6pm (IST). Both Irish and International artists will present live art performance works and films designed for simultaneous online and live presentation.

 

ARTISTS

Kate Barry (Canada)

Day Magee (Ireland)

Simona Pavoni (Italy)

Amanda Millis (US)

Niamh Seana Meehan (Ireland)

Mary Wycherley (Ireland)

Rob Monaghan (Ireland)

 

Curated by Deej Fabyc & Carol Kennedy

 

WAYS TO WATCH:

In person: www.live-art.ie/2021/11/18/virtually-alive-steaming/

Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/events/605338404045436

Instagram Live: www.instagram.com/live_art_ireland/

 

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5. EVENT: M. Gros [Mr. Big] by Geneviève & Matthieu

Date: continuing to December 18, 2021; Location: Montréal, Canada: Source:  G&M

 

M. Gros [Mr. Big]


Geneviève & Matthieu


Evolving and protean work, 2020–



 

November 15–December 18, 2021

Pierre_Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain

Montréal, Canada

 

Do you have a special relationship with your sculptures? What if they were the ones performing? How would they do it?

From theater to gallery, M. Gros takes many forms. A performative version was presented at La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines in October 2021, and it appears as an installation at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.

 

This new installation-performance by Geneviève & Matthieu is inspired by the Canadian investigative technique called Mr. Big which allows an undercover police officer to obtain a confession from a suspect of a serious, unsolved crime. Led by shape-shifting characters, living sculptures, dual weapons and a televisual soundscape, M. Gros tackles identity issues relating to surveillance, infiltration, idea theft and copying; but moves beyond classic investigative games with a narrative that pays special attention to a contemporary art flora.

 

Performances during the exhibition:

In the window: December 16, from 4–6:30pm


In the gallery: December 18 (details soon)

 

More information: www.pfoac.com

 

ABOUT GENEVIÈVE & MATTHIEU

The duo Geneviève & Matthieu, from Rouyn-Noranda in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, started working in the late 1990s. Their work combines art, performance, music and everyday life. Playing on interdisciplinarity, from happenings to musical composition, and from performance to installation, this duo creates collective representations and stagings of social tableaux that are at times festive, but always human. Since 2001, their catalogue of recordings includes five titles. Between the baroque, abstract expressionism and arte povera, their works have been presented across Canada, the United States, France and Belgium. Actively involved in their community, Geneviève & Mathieu have been developing the artist-run centre l'Écart and the Biennale d'art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda for over 20 years.

 

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6. TO WATCH: VestAndPage’s momentum series with Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Date: Available now (posted Aug 31, 2021); Location: on-line; Source: VestAndPage

 

VestAndPage’s momentum series

How to Survive the Pandemics?

In a poetic exchange with Guillermo Gómez-Peña

 

Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage) has been in a poetic exchange with the artist, activist and poet Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Over the course of one and a half years since February 2020, they have exchanged over a series of video meetings and online documents. They collected their poetic and philosophical considerations on what they saw evolving—testimonies of their times. We see them documenting a chronicle response to multiple pandemics, including COVID-19, the viruses of fear, racism, confinement, forced displacement and mental illness. Pagnes and Gómez-Peña shed a radical light of words onto the abysses of our times, such as white supremacy, oppression, violence, digital isolation, and ultimately: the survival of it all through art-making.

 

Welcome to the momentum of the pandemics.



 

WATCH HERE:

 

www.vest-and-page.de/post/how-to-survive-the-pandemics-in-exchange-with-guillermo-gomez-pena

 

ABOUT GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue, and artistic director of La Pocha Nostra's performance troupe. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978, and since 1995, his three homes have been San Francisco, Mexico City and the "road". His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates on cultural, generational, and gender diversity, border culture and North-South relations. For over 30 years, he has been staging seminal performance art pieces. His award-winning solo performances mix experimental aesthetics, activist politics, Spanglish humour and audience participation to create a "total experience" for the audience member/reader/viewer. Gómez-Peña is currently a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency and a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.

 

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7. TO WATCH: VestAnd Page’s momentum series with Stelarc

Date: Available now (posted Oct 24, 2021); Location: on-line; Source: VestAndPage

 

VestAndPage’s momentum series

How to Augment, Insert and Interface?

In conversation with Stelarc

 

In the fifth episode of our momentum series, Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage) talks with artist Stelarc about his major performance works and his vision and understanding of the human body. The two artists elegantly slide through the sciences of biology, physics and engineering, to philosophy confronting existential questions about notions of space, time, freedom and ultimately: life and death. They examine and interrogate representations and replicas, technology and the illusion of agency. They see the human in an evolutionary oscillation between the actual and the virtual, within comparative anatomies and the possibilities and limits of the biological body.

 

Welcome to the momentum of the autumn 2021.



 

WATCH HERE:

 

www.vest-and-page.de/post/how-to-augment-insert-interface-in-conversation-with-stelarc

 

ABOUT STELARC

Stelarc is a Cyprus-born Australian performance artist whose works focus on augmenting and amplifying the capabilities of the human body. Most of his projects are centred on his concept that “the human body is obsolete.” Stelarc pioneered the frontiers of the human body, using his own body as both a medium of expression and as a host for a work of art. Artist, phenomenon, and articulate thinker, Stelarc continues to generate new scenarios speculating about the body in the technological terrain that it now inhabits. His radical performances often involve sophisticated technological devices, prosthetics, robotics, the internet, virtuality and biotechnology integrated with his body. In numerous performances, he has suspended himself in flesh hook suspensions, and in 2006 he had an ear surgically constructed and cell-grown on his left arm. In 2010, he was awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica Hybrid Arts Prize. In 2015, he received the Australia Council’s Emerging and Experimental Arts Award. Stelarc’s artwork is represented by the Scott Livesey Galleries in Melbourne, Australia.



 

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8. TO WATCH: P A C E, film by Sue Murad | PACE by Sandrine Schaefer

Date: December 21, 2021; Location: on-line: Source: Sandrine Schaefer

 

"P A C E" is a film made by Sue Murad that documents Sandrine Schaefer’s yearlong performance artwork, "Pace Investigations No. 6." Beginning on the 2017 Autumnal equinox, "Pace Investigations No. 6" repeated at dawn and dusk on the equinoxes and solstices for one year. Sited on a public pathway nestled between the historic Waltham Watch Factory building and Mount Feake cemetery in Waltham, MA, the actions and materials of the performance were site-specific.

 

The duration of the performance adapted to changes in sunrise and sunset times from season to season. The piece explored Waltham's historic role in the mass synchronization of mechanical time, considered pre-colonial understandings of time buried by industrialization, and proposed ways time might be measured in the future. Like Sandrine’s performance, the film "P A C E" unfolds in 4 parts. In this virtual sharing of the film, each part will be available from sunrise to sunset on the first day of its corresponding season. 

 

Release schedule 

winter: December 21, 2021 from 5:28am–5:56pm ET

spring: March 20, 2022 from 5:13am–8:30pm ET

summer: June 21, 2022 from 2:52am–10:39pm ET

fall: September 22, 2022 from 4:57am–8:15pm ET

 

WATCH HERE: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8955710

 

ABOUT SANDRINE SCHAEFER

Using a site-sensitive approach, Sandrine Schaefer’s work offers opportunities to gather and proposes ways to share time not accessible elsewhere in life. Sandrine’s work often presents as performance art installations that intend to break traditional viewing behaviors by de-privileging sight as the primary sense to engage the work; rewarding the curious; and using extended duration and repetition to cultivate spaces for return. Their work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, performance art festivals, and non-art designated spaces. Sandrine believes it is an artist's responsibility to uplift the work of others. To put this belief into practice, Sandrine's work extends into art organizing, curatorial projects, writing and teaching. Sandrine's writing on contemporary art has been published in numerous international publications. They co-founded a number of artist-run initiatives including The Present Tense, MEME, Rough Trade Artist Exchange, and the Contaminate International Performance Art Festival. Sandrine has taught interdisciplinary art at universities throughout Greater Boston, is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Coastal Carolina University and serves on the Artist Advisory Council at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

 

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ABOUT FADO PERFORMANCE ART CENTRE
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Art Centre is a not-for-profit artist-run centre based in Toronto, Canada. FADO provides a stage and on-going forum in support of the research and development of contemporary performance art practices in Canada and internationally. As a year-round presentation platform 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 perspectives.



 

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
FADO acknowledges that as settlers, we are not the first people to gather, live and work on the land where we currently operate and present our activities, currently referred to as the city of Toronto. In truth, Toronto's real name is tkaronto, meaning "place where trees stand in the water" and it is the traditional and unceded territory of many First Nations and peoples including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. We work and live here in the spirit of the traditional treaty—the Dish with One Spoon treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee—that binds and protects the land.



 

Artistic + Administrative Director


Shannon Cochrane



 

Board of Directors


Julian Higuerey Núñez, Chair


Jennifer Snider Cruise, Vice Chair


Cathy Gordon, Treasurer


Clayton Lee, Secretary


Francesco Gagliardi


Freya Björg Olafson



 

FADO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

 

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