INDEX
1. FADO CALL FOR PROPOSALS: FIVE HOLES: a matter of taste
Deadline: August 26, 2005
2. FADO CALL FOR PROPOSALS: IDea (2006-07 season)
Deadline: September 30, 2005
3. CALL FOR PAPERS: "Performance and Possibility: Theatre for Social Change in the 21st Century" (UK)
Deadline: July 8, 2005; Source: Artsadmin E-digest 182
4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Wegway Magazine - 4th Annual International Juried Exhibition’"
Deadline:July 15, 2005; Source: Akimbo
5. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Faculty for Radical Aesthetics (Europe)
Deadline: July 27, 2005; Source: European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies
6. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Media Masquerade"Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax)
Deadline: August 1, 2005; Source: Instant Coffee
7. CALL FOR APPLICANTS: "International Prize for Performance 2005" age 35 or under (Italy)
Deadline August 1, 2005; Source: Myriam Laplante
8. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Drive By Performance Series" (USA)
Deadline: August 8, 2005; Source: SeepArt
9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: audio works, alectric audio (Corner Brook)
Deadline: August 10, 2005; Source:alectric audio
10. CALL FORSUBMISSIONS: "VIRIDIS" emerging performance night, Artery Gallery (Kitchener)
Deadline: August 31, 2005; Source: Artery Gallery
11. CALL FOR VIDEOS: INPORT International Video-Performance Art Festival (Estonia)
Deadline: September 15, 2005; Source: IAPAO
12. NEWS: House of Commons Changes Criminal Code to Eliminate Defence of Artistic Merit
Source: Ontario Association of Art Galleries
13. FADO EVENT: "The Sun is Crooked in the Sky; My Father is Thrown over my Shoulders"
June 29, 7 pm – July 3, 10 pm, 2005
14. EVENT: "My Barbarian: Gods of Canada" The Power Plant
July 1-3, 2005
15. EVENT: >> A Work in Progress <<, Toronto Free Gallery
July 2, 2005; Source: Articipation Collective
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1. FADO CALL FOR PROPOSALS: FIVE HOLES: a matter of taste
Deadline: August 26, 2005
FIVE HOLES: a matter of taste
Curated by Paul Couillard
FIVE HOLES is an ongoing series examining the significance of the body and the senses. Fado invites artists to submit proposals for a matter of taste, the final installment in the FIVE HOLES series. We seek performance art works, including conceptual, site-responsive and installation-based performances, that deal with the sense of taste. Approximately seven proposals will be chosen to create a simultaneous ensemble of events to be held in the summer of 2006 in Toronto. The focus will be on Canadian artists (i.e. at least four of the projects will feature Canadian artists).
Taste is perhaps the most 'personal' of all the senses. It is both primal -- providing the impulses that drive consumption -- and individualized: one person’s desire is another’s poison. While the word ‘taste’ is often associated with the concept of aesthetic discernment, a matter of taste places its emphasis on a specific, visceral definition of taste: the perception of flavour (and perhaps texture) that takes place inside our mouths. This series will focus on projects that explore the implications of a sense that operates through the placement of foreign material inside one’s body.
a matter of taste is not concerned with the familiar social terrain of banquets and dinner parties so much as the links between physical sensation, unconscious/conscious drives, and our mouths as a point of contact with the external world. How does one orchestrate a performance for another’s mouth? What are the dynamics that seduce, persuade or convince others to put things in their mouths? What intentions are bound up in the impulse to stimulate one’s taste buds? What does our sense of taste reveal about our internal desires and external projections?
Deadline for submissions: August 26, 2005
Please include:
•1-page proposal
•c.v.
•documentation of previous work
[NTSC video in VHS, mini-DV or DVD format; Mac-readable CDs; URLs; and/or slides]
•e-mail submissions will not be accepted except with prior approval (no large digital files!)
•press material optional
•only submissions with self-addressed stamped envelope or funds to cover shipping and packaging costs will be returned
Send proposals to:
Fado
"FIVE HOLES proposal"
273B Carlton St.
Toronto, ON
Canada M5A 2L4
info: http://www.performanceart.ca or email info@performanceart.ca
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2. FADO CALL FOR PROPOSALS: IDea (2006-07 season)
Deadline: September 30, 2005
IDea (2006-07 season)
Curated by Paul Couillard
TORONTO, Canada ... IDea is an multi-year international performance art series focused on issues of identity. Fado seeks proposals for performance art projects for the 2006-07 season of IDea, including conceptual, site-responsive and installation-based performances.
Chris Barker writes that cultural politics are about "the power to name; the power to represent common sense; the power to create 'official versions'; and the power to represent the legitimate social world." These powers speak to identity in a territorial, institutionalized framework, but performance practices offer the possibility of turning their presumed weaknesses -- contingency, ephemerality and aterritoriality -- into strengths, by offering a potentially decolonized, non-institutional forum.
The concept of identity has been at the forefront of art discourse since the 1980s. Performance artists have been particularly concerned with how our various identities are constructed, how they mark us and how they influence self-understanding. At the same time, artists have also used performance tactics to problematize and transform their identities. In recent years, the debate has shifted to examine identity issues in subtler, less didactic ways, using the territory of identity as a ground for complex and often ambivalent readings of subjectivity, hybridity and representation. IDea seeks to add to this growing body of work.
The series considers a broad range of identity labels, including gender, skin colour, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical appearance, familial role, economic status, political affiliation and profession, to name a few of the more obvious possibilities. In blunt terms, the series will circulate around an underlying set of interrelated questions. How do we accept or resist these multiple identities? Which do we choose to embrace, and why? What identity labels are misleading, unhelpful or irrelevant, and in what ways? How do these labels intersect with one another? How do they determine the nature and quality of our lives? How do they contribute to a sense of belonging or alienation?
While these questions inform the series, they are only a contextualizing lens, not a prescription for how individual projects should or will be structured. IDea is not about representation, or the politics of difference, which is to say that the intention is not to assemble a collection that presents one of each kind. We are not encouraging strident political statements (though there is certainly room for them), but rather, featuring works that reveal something about how the creators understand and situate themselves. Along the way, we also hope to track how artists use performance tactics to circumvent prescribed attitudes and behaviours around identity.
IDea seeks to consider a range of bodily identities -- physical, social, political, emotional, and spiritual. To provide further context for the series, we will commission critical texts that respond to each of the performances. These texts will come from an interdisciplinary variety of thinkers in the realms of philosophy, religion, politics and science.
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2005
Please include:
•1-page proposal
•c.v.
•documentation of previous work
[NTSC video in VHS, mini-DV or DVD format; Mac-readable CDs; URLs; and/or slides]
•e-mail submissions will not be accepted except with prior approval (no large digital files!)
•press material optional
•only submissions with self-addressed stamped envelope or funds to cover shipping and packaging costs will be returned
Send proposals to:
Fado
"IDea proposal"
273B Carlton St.
Toronto, ON
Canada M5A 2L4
info: http://www.performanceart.ca or email info@performanceart.ca
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3. CALL FOR PAPERS: "Performance and Possibility: Theatre for Social Change in the 21st Century" (UK)
Deadline: July 8, 2005; Source: Artsadmin E-digest 182
Performance and Possibility: Theatre for Social Change in the 21st Century
16 - 18 September 2005
In response to the widespread interest and popularity of activist political theatre, Liverpool Hope University College in partnership with Collective Encounters announces a conference that will bring together scholars, researchers and artists to examine, debate, present and share current practices and ideas.
Full details from:
Sarah Thornton
Deanery of Arts and Community
Hope at Everton
Haigh Street
Liverpool, L3 8QB
Tel: 0151 291 3256
thornts@hope.ac.uk
DEADLINE: 8 July
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4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Wegway Magazine - 4th Annual International Juried Exhibition’"
Deadline:July 15, 2005; Source: Akimbo
Wegway Magazine - 4th Annual International Juried Exhibition
August 10-27 at the Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
All media will be considered: painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography and photo-based work, performance, video, new media and so on. The jurors are Fran Hill, Director of the Fran Hill Gallery and Steve Armstrong, Publisher of Wegway.
Deadline for entries July 15.
Application Fee only $10 per entry
Accepted artists will participate in a group show at the Fran Hill Gallery in Toronto.
The jury will announce a $1000 prize winner at the opening reception Saturday, August 13.
Selected entries will be published in Wegway and distributed across North America.
Your work will also be posted on the Wegway website, including a link to your own website, or an email contact if you wish.
And if you submit 3 images or more, you will receive a free one year subscription to Wegway. Published artists will receive 5 free copies of their issue.
Send your stuff to:
Wegway Primary Culture
P.O. Box 157
Station A
Toronto, ON
Canada M5W 1B2
Or save postage - Email entries are welcome. Wegway also accepts PayPal.
Application Forms and more information at <http://www.wegway.com />www.wegway.com or email <mailto:contact@wegway.com>contact@wegway.com
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5. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Faculty for Radical Aesthetics (Europe)
Deadline: July 27, 2005; Source: European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies
In the context of two research projects starting in autumn 2005 the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies ) will organize a transnational pilot course for Radical Aesthetics. The components of this one-year course will take place in different European cities (Barcelona, Linz, Lüneburg, Napoli, Paris, Vienna). Aimed at fostering the transnational exchange and discourse on art and activism, they will reflect on concrete activist and critical projects, accompanying them with discursive events and theoretical workshops.
Activists, artists and students are invited to send their applications to <mailto:contact@eipcp.net>contact@eipcp.net by July 27th.
Course Duration: 10/2005-09/2006
Cooperating institutions: eipcp, MACBA Barcelona, Universität Lüneburg, Kunstuniversität Linz, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli
Further information: <http://www.eipcp.net/radicalaesthetics.html>http://www.eipcp.net/radicalaesthetics.html
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eipcp - european institute for progressive cultural policies
a-1060 vienna, gumpendorfer strasse 63b
<mailto:contact@eipcp.net>contact@eipcp.net
<http://www.eipcp.net>www.eipcp.net
<http://www.republicart.net>www.republicart.net
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6. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Media Masquerade"Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax)
Deadline: August 1, 2005; Source: Instant Coffee
Media Masquerade
The Inner Dialogue of women in masquerade
In feminist theory, the discussion of the masquerade has raised questions about how societal values constrain or release feminine energies. Masks, costumes and the masquerade represent forms of oppression in contemporary society, yet during a Masquerade one is freed of certain social, marital and feminine expectations. Media Masquerade: The Inner Dialogue of Women in Masquerade suggests that true feminine-expression can flourish. The Masquerade is a tool of self-expression and contradicts the assumption that one is hindered by the act of masquerading.
This Centre for Art Tapes event will have two components: A two-week all-women installation of multi-media projects in collaboration with the Anna Leonowens Art Gallery connected to the Nova Scotia College of Art University; and a closing reception where music, dancing, costumes and performance will close the Media Masquerade. Media Masquerade: The Inner Dialogue of Women in Masquerade is co-curated by Mib and Tania Sures.
Submissions should address the theme of the feminine masquerade and its psychological complexity.
Please include CV, Artist Statement, One page description of your proposal, and support material.
Mail your submissions to:
Centre for Art Tapes
5600 Sackville St, Suite 207
Halifax, NS
Canada B3J 3S9
For More Info: (902)420-4002
Formats Accepted: VHS, DVD, CDR, Slides, MiniDV
Deadline: August 1, 2005
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7. CALL FOR APPLICANTS: "International Prize for Performance 2005" age 35 or under (Italy)
Deadline August 1, 2005; Source: Myriam Laplante
The Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, in collaboration with drodesera>centrale fies, with the support the of the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio of Trento e Rovereto, announces the “International Prize for Performance”.
The prize is reserved for young artists of all nationalities who are no older than thirty-five years old at the time of the expiration of the present announcement.
Among those who would like to participate, 12 (twelve) finalists will be selected to present a performance on the evenings of September 9th and 10th, 2005 in the Centrale di Fies (Dro, Trento).
The first prize is fixed at 5,000 (five-thousand) euros (net) and can not be divided. There will also be minor prizes awarded.
The competition has two entrance possibilities. The first, for artists of all nationalities and origins, is to send a specific project to the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea. The second is reserved only for residents of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Fruili – Venezia Giulia, Lombardia, Emilia Romagna, Austrian Tyrol, who, through a direct selection, will realize a performance at the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento on Thursday and Friday evenings from June 16th to July 21st, 2005.
All artists, of all nationalities and origins, from all backgrounds (visual arts, dance, theatre, music, poetry, etc.) are invited to participate by completing the electronic application located on the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea’s website (directly send to performance@galleriacivica.it).
In addition to the application, participants must send:
- a never before seen performance project (descriptive, no longer than 3,000 characters, spaces included; if necessary, also designs or images);
- an artistic resume;
- a scan of a current identification document;
- two to four excerpts from previous performances (in mpeg format, more or less one minute each).
Participants may also send, at their discretion, descriptions of previous performances (no more than three of narrative character, no longer than 1500 characters each one), and images (no more than 10 total). Additionally, they may also send no more than two reviews appearing in catalogues, magazines or newspapers.
The paper material must be written in either Italian or English languages.
The video material may be sent in diverse languages whenever the comprehension of discourses is not considered a necessary element in order to understand the sense of the performance.
Together all of the sent material must not exceed 4 megabites.
The expiration date for the application and materials is fixed at 5 PM on August 1st, 2005 (Italian time).
Among all projects presented in this modality, eight will be chosen to be presented during the final evenings.
The artists that reside in Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Fruili – Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna, Austrian Tyrol, also have the possibility for a privileged access road to the finals. They can directly participate by presenting a performance in the spaces furnished for the exhibition La Galleria dell’Amore at the Galleria Civica, curated by Marina Abramovic and realized by members of IPG (Independent Performance Group), a non-profit organization she founded in 2003. For those who agree with this form of participation, can utilize the same system by sending materials according to this modality number six or contacting the Galleria Civica directly at +39 0461 985511. Application acceptance is entirely at the discretion of the Galleria Civica.
Of those who will present performances in the evenings at the Galleria Civica, four artists or groups of artists will be selected to participate in the finals. The four selected are obliged to present a never before seen project for the final evenings.
The performances can be any length of time. They may not succeed 20 minutes whenever it is dealt with as a narrative performance, valued entirely on its development. The performances can be extensive in length as long as the concept is comprehensible without needing to be viewed entirely. It is also possible to present a project consisting of more than one performance whenever the comprehensive length will not exceed 20 minutes. The performance can be executed directly by the artists, or with the intervention of actors, musicians, or other personnel. They can be conducted without the use of human beings and it is also possible to involve the public. It is also possible utilize video or other technological interaction; however, only video or video installation proposals are excluded.
The performances presented in the Galleria Civica from July 16th – 21st, 2005 will be judged by a local jury consisting of: Fabio Cavallucci (Director of the Galleria Civica), Marco Tomasini (collaborator of the Galleria Civica), Barbara Boninsegna (drodesera>centrale fies), Dino Sommadossi (drodesera>centrale fies), Orietta Berlanda (art critic), Mariella Rossi (journalist “Il Corriere del Trentino”), Denise Cattani (journalist “L’Adige”), Tomasso Pasquini (journalist “Il Trentino”), Raffaele Macrì (video-theatrical troup Ziggurat).
The projects sent to the Galleria Civica will be selected by August 16th, 2005 by an international jury composed of Marina Abramovic (artist), Renato Barilli (art critic), Mathias Lilienthal (Director Hebbel Theater of Berlin), Andrea Lissoni (Xing Association), Virgilio Sieni (dance company “Virgilio Sieni”), Barbara Boninsegna (drodesera>centrale fies), Fabio Cavallucci (Director of the Galleria Civica). The eight pre-selected projects may participate in the final presentation, to which there will be an additional four projects chosen amongst the participants in the pre-selection at the Galleria Civica.
The participants in the final selection are guaranteed travel expenses and hospitality for the time needed to realize the performance in Trento. Production costs will be sustained directly by the organization. It will be an assessable element on the part of the jury in the selection phases, as well as the relationship between the final effect and the economic commitment required for the production of the performance. The specific request for actors or other possible personnel involved in the performance will be organized by the artist or group.
The following people can not participate in the Prize: members of IPG (International Performance Group) and those that have a familiar relationship or are in strict collaboration with the members of the jury.
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea
Via Belenzani 46
38100 Trento
Italia
T: +39 0461 985511/986138
F: +39 0461 237033
E: galleria_civica@comune.trento.it
W: www.workartonline.net
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8. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Drive By Performance Series" (USA)
Deadline: August 8, 2005; Source: SeepArt
Links Hall and Seep request proposals for site-specific work inside moving vehicles. Artists may be drivers, passengers, or instigators who are outside the car. Links Hall will serve as a taxi stand from which audiences can catch rides to experience each piece, but the real location will be both inside the car and simultaneously anywhere within driving distance. There is a possibility that the car doesn’t go anywhere. There is a possibility that the car drives to a specific place, or that it drives around in circles. Maybe the performance gets out of the car at a certain point, or maybe it is an event which is best viewed from the window of a speeding car. What is important is that proposals are centered around the car as a place and an idea.
Proposals should contain a 1-2 page overview, resume, and work sample (DVD, NTSC VHS, photos, slides, relevant notes, etc.) Also, please indicate the following: approximate length of piece (ideally 15 minutes to one hour), any equipment needed, whether you are able to provide your own car, whether the piece is repeatable, dates of availability (for November 2005). Audiences will be charged a small entry fee per ride to cover gas, and to compensate you for your work. While the aim is to explore radical aesthetic possibilities of the car, please keep in mind basic safety and feasibility on a limited budget.
Submissions from outside Chicago:
We are open to proposals from anywhere, but unfortunately cannot provide travel expenses. We will secure informal accommodation for your stay in Chicago, and we will assist you in any way we can to secure funding from your own sources. Proposals from within driving distance of Chicago are especially welcome.
Drive By will be held on three Saturday afternoons: November 5/12/19, 2005.
Please mail or drop off your proposal to
Links Hall (3435 N. Sheffield, 2nd Floor, Chicago IL 60657) by August 8th, 2005.
Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope if you require any materials returned.
Proposals will be reviewed and artists selected by Deva Eveland on behalf of the curatorial collaboration Seep.
Queries may be emailed to seepart@aol.com
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9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: audio works, alectric audio (Corner Brook)
Deadline: August 10, 2005; Source:alectric audio
We're currently looking for anything and everything aural, or at least what can be sent to us on a CDr. There are no limitations to thematic content. However, we do ask that all submissions consider that we issue all our releases under a Creative Commons License.
If accepted, your audio work will be released with many others through alectric:audio. You will be required to allow alectric:audio to offer the work for download for at least a period of one year. alectric:audio cannot afford to pay artist fees at this time.
Send us a CDr burned to play on any old generic home CD player (so no data CDs, .wav or .aiff or whatever files), as well as: a short statement on the work (100 words max), a brief bio (50 words max), and a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope if you wish to have your work returned.
Due Date: August 10, 2005 (postmarked)
Send your package to:
alectric:audio
c/o Mark Prier
312-14 Beothuck Cres.,
Corner Brook, NL
A2H 6A6
CANADA
NOTE FOR SUBMISSIONS OUTSIDE CANADA: Please include International Postage Certificates with your Self-Addressed Envelope. Make sure that you send enough certificates! Also write "For Cultural Purposes Only" on the package you send to us, declaring "$0, No Commercial Value" on the customs sticker.
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10. CALL FORSUBMISSIONS: "VIRIDIS" emerging performance night, Artery Gallery (Kitchener)
Deadline: August 31, 2005; Source: Artery Gallery
VIRIDIS: emerging performance night at Artery Gallery, 158 King St. W, Kitchener, Ontario (Canada)
Artery Gallery is currently seeking proposals for "Viridis", an evening of performance art to be held in October of 2005.
As a Visual Arts collective we support vital contemporary art practices and initiatives. We hope to fulfill a responsibility to the artistic community by providing a venue for outstanding emergent art.
Artists are invited to submit proposals for this event, titled Viridis, Latin for green. We are particularly interested in artists in the first stages of their careers, and while this project is aimed at showcasing emerging artists, we also welcome established artists who are beginning new work. Up to three artists will be selected for the evening depending on the length of performances and collaborations between artists are very welcome. Artists are permitted to submit more than one description of a performance.
The space available is a storefront gallery, measuring approximately twenty feet across and one hundred feet deep. The gallery is not equipped with sound, and Artery will assume costs for rental of equipment if needed. Each artist will be paid $300 each and $50 for transportation to Kitchener. Artery will promote the event in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph area through posters and print media. There will be some allowance for materials for the performances, however artists are asked to keep in mind that we are on a limited budget. There is no application fee.
Artists are asked to send via electronic mail:
-a short written description of the proposed performance and length
-a curriculum vitae detailing your exhibition and education history
-an artist statement describing your practice
-a description of materials needed and costs
-a list of Thursday nights you&Mac226;re available in October of 2005
Artery's mandate is to provide a space for exhibitions and to serve as a platform for artist talks and discussions of art within the community, maintaining a close relationship to events within surrounding areas of Kitchener Waterloo.
Artery Gallery has been open since October of 2004 and is operated by faculty and students at the University of Waterloo, through support from the City of Kitchener. Artwork is selected on the basis of artistic excellence and our hope is to encourage an open dialogue between the artist and the public, with the goal to reach out to the community by gaining appreciation and interest.
Please send submissions to:
sofa_artery@hotmail.com
subject line: Viridis
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11. CALL FOR VIDEOS: INPORT International Video-Performance Art Festival (Estonia)
Deadline: September 15, 2005; Source: IAPAO
Performance artists all around the world are invited to send proposals for INPORT, International Video-Performance Art Festival, in Tallinn, Estonia on November 2005.
INPORT would like to bring artists from all around the world closer to Estonian audiences. This is non-profit Festival and unfortunately we have a very small budget so we can only show your video/videos on a single screen. We can't offer artistic fees, accommodation or travel expenses. After the Festival we will produce an on-line catalogue on the Festival web-site (http://www.inport.tk).
Last year we received nearly 260 videos from 19 countries; INPORT Festival presented 36 videos by artists from around the world.
Performance artists are invited to submit proposals for Festival in the following categories:
Video-performance (performances made specially for camera)
Video documentary (video documentations of performances)
Formats accepted: VHS (PAL only), miniDV (PAL only), VCD, DVD
There's no limit of length, but please don't send the masters!
There are no official entry forms or entry fees!
Enclosed with the video/videos you must send the following (with e-mail or CD-R/Word document):
Performance artist or group name
Performance title
Statement of performance
Performance date, venue, Festival or event where it was first performed
Brief resume of the performance artist
Contact info (e-mail, postal address, etc.)
Deadline: 15.September 2005 (postal stamp)
Materials will not to be returned, but will be kept in the Festival archive for the projects in the future and for interested curators and art festival organizers!
Send all materials to:
Gert Hatsukov
(INPORT curator and organizer)
Pikk 4-11
Paide
Estonia
All deliveries from international participants must be marked:
"NO COMMERCIAL VALUE - FOR CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY"
If you have any questions, please contact: inport.festival@mail.ee
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12. NEWS: House of Commons Changes Criminal Code to Eliminate Defence of Artistic Merit
Source: Ontario Association of Art Galleries
On Thursday, June 9, 2005, notwithstanding prior advice over the past two years by arts service organizations across Canada of significant potential harm to Canadian visual artists and galleries, the House of Commons of Canada passed Bill C-2, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (protection of children and other vulnerable persons) and the Canada Evidence Act.
The Bill is in the process of Senate approval.
The Criminal Code was amended in this area in 1993 by a then-minority government. Within six months of the amendment, Ontario police invoked the opportunity of public response to an art exhibition review in a national newspaper to lay charges against both the exhibiting visual artist and the director of a non-profit artist-run centre in Toronto. Works of art seized in the raid at the time of the charges were held for a year and subjected to a trial to determine whether or not they would be destroyed or returned to the artist.
Bill C-2 further amends the Criminal Code of Canada to eliminate the language of defence of artistic merit and replace it with what is being called the legitimate purpose defence.
Legitimate Purpose Defence: The legislation narrows the test for the child pornography defence. The new defence would only be available if (1) the act in question has a legitimate purpose related to the administration of justice, or to science, medicine, education or art, and if (2) the act does not pose an undue risk of harm to children. This single legitimate purpose defence incorporates the harm-based standard used by the Supreme Court of Canada in upholding the existing child pornography provisions in 2001.
The new Act broadens the definition of child pornography to include both audio and written material.
Bill C-2 criminalizes voyeurism. The new offences prohibit secret observation (by any means) or recording, in circumstances where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, in three cases:
when the person observed or recorded is in a place where a person is expected to be in a state of nudity, or engaged in sexual activity (such as bedroom, bathroom or changing room); or
when the person is in a state of nudity or engaged in sexual activity and the purpose is to observe or record the person in such a state or activity; or
when the observation or recording is done for a sexual purpose.
The second voyeurism offence involves distribution of voyeuristic material and requires that the accused knew the material was created during one of the circumstances described above.
From the following link:
<http://www.parl.gc.ca/38/1/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/government/C-2/C>http://www.parl.gc.ca/38/1/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/government/C-2/C-2_3/C-2-3E.html
"SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Criminal Code to
(a ) amend the child pornography provisions with respect to the type of
written and audio material that constitutes child pornography,and with
respect to the child pornography offences,defences and penalties;
(b ) add a new category to the offence of sexual exploitation of young
persons and make additional amendments to further protect children from
sexual exploitation;
(c) increase the maximum penalty for child sexual offences,for failing to
provide the necessaries of life and for abandoning a child;
(d ) make child abuse an aggravating factor for the purpose of sentencing and
direct the courts to give primary consideration to the objectives of
denunciation and deterrence in sentencing for offences involving abuse of
a child;
(e) amend and clarify the applicable test and criteria that need to be met for
the use of testimonial aids,for excluding the public, for imposing a
publication ban, for using video-recorded evidence or for appointing counsel
for self-represented accused to conduct a cross-examination of certain
witnesses;and
(f )create an offence of voyeurism and the distribution of voyeuristic
material.
This enactment also amends the Canada Evidence Act to abolish the
requirement for a competency hearing for children under 14 years of age."
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13. FADO EVENT: "The Sun is Crooked in the Sky; My Father is Thrown over my Shoulders"
June 29, 7 pm – July 3, 10 pm, 2005
The Sun is Crooked in the Sky; My Father is Thrown over my Shoulders
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
(100-hour continuous performance)
June 29, 7 pm – July 3, 10 pm
Implant (58 Wade Ave. Unit 12)
Toronto, Canada
FREE
On June 29, 2005, Fado kicks off its new IDea series with The Sun is Crooked in the Sky; My Father is Thrown over my Shoulders a continuous 100-hour performance by Guatemalan-born Canadian artist Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa.
The Sun is Crooked in the Sky; My Father is Thrown over my Shoulders is a visceral, searching visual and action-based exploration of aspects of the artist’s personal history. In his notes for the performance, Ramirez-Figueroa writes:
“The artist’s family, like many other Guatemalan -- and Latin American -- families, has dealt with common, though taboo issues of class and race differences that have affected the family dynamic. In the case of Ramirez-Figueroa there is a history of indigenous women having the children of whiter men, men who become fathers unwilling to recognize the children as their own. By using metaphorical elements of his childhood -- like powdered milk -- and through sleep deprivation, Ramirez-Figueroa will push the limits of his endurance with the purpose of reaching an altered state of consciousness through which to meditate upon a genealogy of absent white fathers.”
About the artist
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa is a performance and visual artist based in Vancouver. For the past 7 years he has performed and exhibited at various Canadian artist-run centers and in galleries and museums in Latin America. Ramirez-Figueroa’s work attempts to create an opening for dialogue around ethics and inter-personal relations in issues such as racial cleansing, economic globalization, and love.
About the IDea series
Issues of identity are at the centre of IDea, Fado’s newest new multi-year international performance art series. The concept of identity has been at the forefront of art discourse since the 1980s. Performance artists have been particularly concerned with how our various identities are constructed, how they mark us and how they influence self-understanding. At the same time, artists have also used performance tactics to problematize and transform their identities. In recent years, the debate has shifted to examine identity issues in subtler, less didactic ways, using the territory of identity as a ground for complex and often ambivalent readings of subjectivity, hybridity and representation.
IDea considers a broad range of identity labels, including gender, skin colour, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical appearance, familial role, economic status, political affiliation and profession, to name a few of the more obvious possibilities. In blunt terms, the series will circulate around an underlying set of interrelated questions. How do we accept or resist these multiple identities? Which do we choose to embrace, and why? What identity labels are misleading, unhelpful or irrelevant, and in what ways? How do these labels intersect with one another? How do they determine the nature and quality of our lives? How do they contribute to a sense of belonging or alienation?
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14. EVENT: "My Barbarian: Gods of Canada" The Power Plant
July 1-3, 2005; Soucre: Akimbo
My Barbarian: Gods of Canada
On-site, outdoor performance at The Power Plant
Friday 1 July, 5 pm / Saturday 2 July, 4:30 pm / Sunday 3 July, 4 pm
Los Angeles performance group My Barbarian explores the far reaches of entertainment through site-specific spectacles that play with our expectations of Broadway dance, musical theatre, improv comedy and epic drama. For their residency at The Power Plant, they present Gods of Canada, a part-nautical, part-musical pageant dedicated to the perception of Canada as the last refuge of the North American Left. Drawing on a variety of indigenous influences, Gods of Canada provides a skewed perspective on the ever-present differences between Canada and the U.S.A.
The performance begins on a speedboat careening through the Inner Harbour. Toting flags that collage icons of Canadian and Californian patriotism, My Barbarian will land at Harbourfront Centre and parade to a stage at the southern entrance of The Power Plant. There they will perform a song cycle that pays tribute to universal health care, gay marriage, our lax drug policy and the American liberal's mythologized vision of Canadian citizenship.
For more information: <http://thepowerplant.org>http://thepowerplant.org and <http://www.mybarbarian.com/goc-index.html>http://www.mybarbarian.com/goc-index.html
Or call: 416 973 4949
The Power Plant is located at 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2G8
To arrive by TTC, take the 509 (Exhibition/Union Station) or 510 (Spadina/Union Station) streetcar to Harbourfront Centre.
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15. EVENT: >> A Work in Progress <<, Toronto Free Gallery
July 2, 2005; Source: Articipation Collective
ARTICIPATION presents >> A Work in Progress <<
Saturday July 2, 2005. 7pm.
Toronto Free Gallery, 660 Queen Street East
Embrace the expressway because acknowledgement of the problem is half of the battle.
Local artists are invited to make site-specific works under the Gardiner Expressway in an attempt to make use of orphaned spaces and breach the concrete curtain.
We feel the area under and around the Expressway could use a lift. Each artist will visit a chosen area of the expressway several times in the course of the week. The Toronto Free Gallery will be used to house the tools and remains of the enhancements made by each artist. This buildup of artworks both under the expressway and inside the space will culminate on the night of the wrap up at the Toronto Free Gallery. If you would like to pArticipate with us please feel free to make your own addition to a space under the expressway. Then document it and bring that documentation to our closing party. (photos, drawings, dv tape footage etc...)
The event has been organized by the Articipation Collective: City Beautification Ensemble, Brenda Goldstein, Maria Legault, Fedora Romita, Zoe Stonyk and featuring our special guest Erin Zimmerman.
Come out and have some fun in the east end!
The City Beautification Ensemble
Our modern cities can be difficult to take in and at times can be considered problematic. Concerned with the aesthetic environment of the city in terms of its architecture and public spaces the members of the CBE came together to devise a solution to the problem known as 'BLIGHT'. Working at night our intent has been simply to surprise and engage Torontonians upon the light of day. Therefore, as a trio we conspired to colourize some of the more down-trodden or ugly areas of the city. We felt adamant that a severe lack of colour and a very real and over whelming use of concrete had a tangible and negative effect on people's general mood and spirit and we also began referring to this affliction as Grey-Nausea. Over the years the City Beautification Ensemble have been working with community groups, business improvement associations and other artists to mask much of the offending Grey-Areas within the City of Toronto with site-specific and mood enhancing colours.
The CBE is Jason van Horne, Duncan Walker & Redmond Weissenberger.
www.beautification.ca
Brenda Goldstein
"Sit at your own Risk"
The project was conceived to 'improve the social life of the street' by creating a series of portable lightweight benches that can be temporarily installed on a city block or any other urban area that needs more contemplation. The benches were made to create a space for people to stop and enjoy their environment, but also to think about the precariousness of their position.
Maria Legault
FREE SUGAR HOME,
I will gather discarded materials around the Gardiner Expressway and combine them with pink icing to create a home. Guests will be invited in my home for treats refreshments on the evening of the closing party.
Fedora Romita
Twelve people will work in pairs to measure 6 different intersections throughout the downtown east end of Toronto. The data will be collected by these individuals and returned to the gallery where it will be organized and available for viewing.
Zoe Stonyk
En Plein Air: Underneath The Arches
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but sometimes a little effort needs to be made to turn bland into fabulous. With the right attitude and a few cosmetic alterations, even the desolate urban decay of a forgotten piece of land under the expressway can be made over into an elegant spot for cocktails and canapes. "En Plein Air: Underneath The Arches" infuse the mundane with glamour. By bringing a group of revelers in formal attire to an otherwise dreary location to partake in an evening of witty banter and hors d'oeuvres, Zoe Stonyk hopes to challenge our ideas of how and why we gather socially in public spaces.
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