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FADO E-LIST (October 2007)

FADO E-LIST (October 2007)

The e-list is both a bit late and a little early this month. Please take note of the various event dates, some are have just passed and some are coming up fast! Apologies to those whose events have already happened or are happening as you read this post. Nonetheless the enclosed information, even though the date may have passed, is still very valuable! Love, Fado
 
INDEX:
 
1. FADO EVENT: Maria Cosmès and Carlos Piña (Toronto, Canada)
Date: October 6, 2007
2. EVENT: NICoAF '07 1st Nagano International Communication Art Festival (Tokyo)
Dates: September 23-30, 2007; Source: IAPAO/ Seiji Shimoda
3. EVENT: Future of Imagination 4 International Performance Art Event (Singapore)
Dates: September 27 to 29, 2007; Source: Lee Wen
4. EVENT: Explorations into Labour, Leisure and Sport (Nanaimo, BC)
Date: September 28, 2007 (4-9pm); Source: John G. Boehme
5. EVENT: CAFKA.07 HAPTIC Calendar of Events (Kitchener, ON)
Date: Friday September 28, 2007; Source: CAFKA
6. EVENT: NOBILE A week-long performance by Ivan Civic (New York)
Dates: September 25-29, 2007 (12noon-6pm); Source: Artist’s Space
7. EVENT: Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery + Video Pool present Rockstars & Wannabes
Date: September 29, 2007; Source: Video Pool
8. EVENT: Nuit Blanche (Toronto, Canada)
Date: Saturday September 29, 2007; Source: www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca
9. EVENT: Interview with Martha Rosler (London, UK)
Date: September 29, 2007: Source: Art Monthly
10. EVENT: Hot Latin Dance Party – All Night Free Salsa Lessons (Toronto, Canada)
Date: Saturday September 29, 2007; Source: Lina Rodriguez
11. EVENT: Maju-Chaor Dab! International Performance Art Festival (Indonesia)
Date: October 1, 2007; Source: Cultura Info
12. EVENT: The Scent Bar by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (Winnipeg, Canada)
Dates: October 3-6, 2007; Source: The New Gallery
13. EVENT: Performance Studio presents Lilith by Night (Sweden)
Date: October 6, 2007; Source: teaterlilith
14. EVENT: BBB Johannes Deimling Next Performances (Poland, France, Germany)
Dates: September/October 2007; Source: BBB Johnannes Deimling
15. EVENT: Dariusz Fodczuk/A Furniture and A Literature 2007 Tour (Poland, France, Holland)
Dates: September 18-October 19, 2007; Source: Dariusz Fodczuk
16. EVENT: DIALOG project of performative travel (Poland, Austria)
Dates: September 11-October 4, 2007; Source: Angelika Fojtuch
17. EVENT: FLUXUS EAST (Berlin, Germany)
Dates: September 27- November 4, 2007; Source: Artpool Research Centre
18. EVENT: Tari Ito + Sakiko Yamaoka (Tokyo, Japan)
Date: October 8, 2007; Source: Sakiko Yamaoka
19. EVENT: Live Performance Art Biennale (Vancouver, BC)
Dates: October 11-October 28, 2007; Source: Randy Gledhill
20. WORKSHOP: Boris Nieslony To Be To Create (Kowloon)
Dates: October 15-16, 2007; Source: Siu Lan Ko
21. WORKSHOPS at Hysteria Festival (Toronto, Canada)
Dates: October 25 – November 3, 2007; Source: Moynan King
22. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Tou Works 1 (Norway)
Deadline: November 5, 2007; Source: Johanna Tuukkanen
23. SURVEY: OAAG Member FYI: survey for artists (Ontario)
Source: ARCCO
 
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1. FADO EVENT: Maria Cosmès and Carlos Piña (Toronto, Canada)
Date: October 6, 2007
 
Fado Performance presents:
ès and Carlos Piña (Barcelona)
 
Maria Cosmès and Carlos Piña in performance
Saturday October 6, 2007
Lower Ossington Theatre
100A Ossington Ave. Toronto
7:30pm
$5
 
On October 6, 2007 Fado is pleased to present Barcelona-based artists Maria Cosmès and Carlos Piña in their Toronto premiere. 
 
www.performanceart.ca/intl/home.html
 
Maria Cosmès and Carlos Piña are Barcelona-based installation and performance artists and long time collaborators. They are the organizers and programmers of eBent International Festival of Performance Art (an annual festival in Barcelona and Madrid that attracts artists from all over the world), and founders of Club 8: difusió de la performance, a highly active performance art community in Barcelona. Cosmès and Piña are the founders of the Collective Stidna! and their work, both solo and collaborative, has been presented at festivals and for performance events throughout Spain, France, Turkey, Finland, Germany, USA and in Montréal Canada. 
 
Cosmès and Piña are two of three artists from Spain who make up Fado’s 2007 International Visiting Artist Series roster. Inaugurated in 1993, this on-going series reflects Fado's commitment to fostering international dialogue by spotlighting work and trends by artists from different countries. Most importantly, this series gives Canadian audiences a chance to see work that would not otherwise be accessible.
 
Maria Cosmès: When we were weaving
Cosmès’ work is informed by her cultural position as an anthropologist and focuses on the relationships, links and connections that bind one person with the ‘other’ (the French word ‘lien’ means ‘bond’, and combined with the English word ‘aliens’ has become the title for a large series of performances by Cosmès entitled Liens). Using simple materials like rope, string, thread and household products like rubber gloves, Cosmès builds her performance in collaboration with the audience. Each performance is informed by time, space and place. As an anthropologist and an artist, she is particularly interested in the difference ways site, time and culture informs interaction.
 
“In [the performance series] Liens, María Cosmès acts as mediating interpreter allowing herself to be bound and handled by real ropes which end up forming an autonomous network in which our movements become ambivalent, longing to escape, soothe or submit, in short, they relive that everyday monster, sometimes pleasant or seductive, which at the bottom is the most terrible of all pitiful ghosts: society.”
-Déborah Puig-Pey
 
Carlos Piña: Duty of Memory VI
Piña’s current work is primarily concerned with collective memory, informed by the observance that in order to prevent the suffering one has lived through, one must preserve and be conscious of the ‘duty of memory’ we have to our children and communities. Using the events of the Spanish Civil War and working with the concepts of amnesia and reminiscence, Piña’s work aims to investigate histories of power construction, the truth of memory and collective silence. Believing that all historical events, though removed, are relatable of one’s own personal history, Piña’s work addresses the gradual process of forgetfulness we all experience, both individually and as a society, caused by an overabundance of information from the mass media, living in a society in which the past is discarded in favour of a constant search for the new. 
 
“We live in societies in which the silence has been imposed, where the impunity has been established under the name of reconciliation, where the amnesia has been promoted so that the powerful do not have to ask for pardon for they did in the past. We are silenced persons, sons and grandchildren of silenced persons, generations plenty of silence. Ignoring the pain that our ancestors have suffered, we live as unknown and incomplete persons; we are, therefore, persons without past for the loss of our historical, family and cultural memory.”
-Carlos Piña
 
Fado is pleased to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their support of our ongoing activities.
 
Fado Performance
448-401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
 
(T) 416.822.3219
(E) info@performanceart.ca
www.performanceart.ca
 
2. EVENT: NICoAF '07 1st Nagano International Communication Art Festival (Tokyo)
Dates: September 23-30, 2007; Source: IAPAO/ Seiji Shimoda
 
Participating Artists
 
Morgan O'Hara (USA/Italy)
Istvan Kantor (Canada)
Victor Sulsar (Mexico)
Ronaldo Ruiz (Philippines)
Ronald Apriyan (Indonesia)
Kazunori Kitazawa (Hotaka)
Koji Oike (Tokyo)
Harumi Terao (Aichi)
Makoto Maruyama (Nagano)
Seiji Shimoda (Nagano)
 
Schedules:
Sept. 21 (Fri) Foreign Artist arrival Narita airport, Welcome reception in Tokyo.
Sept. 22 (Sat) what is NICoAF? Tokyo presentation and performance event in Tokyo 
PROTO Theater, Takada no Baba, Shinjuku, 03-3368-0490
 
Performance by NICoAF and NIPAF artists: Morgan O'Hara, Istvan Kantor, Victor Sulsar, Ronaldo Ruiz, Ronald Apriyan, Seiji Shimoda, Koji Oike, Osamu Kuroda, Makoto Maruyama, Harumi Terao, Naho Wakabayashi, Syouhei Nomoto, Asao Sekine, Izumi Sekiya, Kyoko Hashimoto
 
Sept. 23 (Sun) Research day, project presentation by participant artists and welcome reception, 5;00 PM -9;00 PM, Restaurant YAMA, Toigosyo, Nagano, 026-232-4634
Sept. 24 (Monday/Holiday) Research 2nd day
Sept. 25 (Tue) 7 PM Final Presentation at International Exchange corner Monzen Plaza
Sept. 26 (Wed) - Sept. 30(Sun) NICoAF '07 in Nagano City
Sept. 27 (Thu) NICoAF 2nd day
Sept. 28 (Fri) NICoAF 3rd day.
Sept. 29 (Sat) - Oct. 7(Sun) NICoAF '07 Exhibition at NIPAF HOUSE
Sept. 30 (Sun) NICoAF 5th day.
Oct. 1 (Mon) Artists leave from Nagano.
 
Organizer: Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF) 
Executive Committee (Director: Seiji Shimoda)
More Info: 090-1652-9127 E-mail:nipaf@avis.ne.jp
Co-organizer: Tokyo NIPAF and Nagano NIPAF
Cooperate: PROTO theater, Nagano Monzen Plaza
International Exchange Corner, Restaurant Yama, Platform Asian Performance Art (PAPA) Japan Committee
Support: Japan Arts Fund
 
Seiji Shimoda/Nippon International Performance Art Festival
IAPAO
www.iapao.net
 
3. EVENT: Future of Imagination 4 International Performance Art Event (Singapore)
Dates: 27 to 29 September 2007; Source: Lee Wen
 
Future of Imagination 4 international performance art event
27 to 29 September 2007
Venue: TheatreWorks (Singapore) Ltd
72-13 Mohamed Sultan Rd Singapore 239007 
(located next to The Pier)
Tel: 6737 7213
email: tworks@singnet.com.sg
www.72-13.com
 
30 September 2007
FOI4 conference 
Venue: Post-Museum, 107/109 Rowell Road, Singapore 208033
 
“Future of Imagination 4” intends to cross-examine performance and live art practice within the international context. Featured this year are guest artists from Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Scotland, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, as well as Singapore artists. It is a curated performance art gathering of artists whose works has questioned or attempt to share a continuing interest in the cultural constructs of identity in the global situation and current trends of contemporary art practice. In the present age of intense globalization we as artists organizers sincerely believe that such an event will help increase international cultural exchange and understanding as well as being an accentuation of our artistic practice, research and development.
The artists will make live presentations to articulate ideas and engage the audience in a sincere, revelatory and immediate form. We also hope to stimulate discussion by holding forums to question the status of performance art in our rapidly changing society. 
 
Full details of the event can be found on our website www.foi.sg www.foi.sg
 
4. EVENT: Explorations into Labour, Leisure and Sport (Nanaimo, BC)
Date: September 28, 2007 (4-9pm); Source: John G. Boehme
 
Explorations into Labour, Leisure and Sport
Nanaimo Art Gallery 
Exhibition and performance
OPENING
Friday Sept 28th 4:00 to 9:00 PM
PERFORMANCES
FORE MIEN
Get it Got it Good 
 
John G. Boehme 
mailto:JohnGBoehme@shaw.ca
www.people.finearts.uvic.ca/~jgboehme/
"Yours in perpetual service"
 
5. EVENT: CAFKA.07 HAPTIC Calendar of Events (Kitchener, ON)
Date: Friday September 28, 2007; Source: CAFKA
 
Anne Hamilton Art Talk (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo)
7:30 PM
 
Anne Hamilton studied textile design before completing her MFA in sculpture at Yale University. Her practice explores a number of disciplines, including installation, performance, photography, video, and sculpture. “My first hand is still a textile hand", she has said and that practical aesthetic has assisted her in making some of the most intensely conceived and realized installation projects in contemporary art. Her commitment to work as a way of making beauty is extraordinary, and her use of material in unexpected ways is breathtaking. Ann Hamilton has received countless honours in her remarkable career such as fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation, and inclusions in major international art exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (1999) and the Carnegie International (1991, 1999).
 
$15/ticket
$10/student online at www.perimeterinstitute.ca/members/
 
For a complete listing of artist's projects and related events visit www.cafka.org
 
READ MORE ON OUR WEBSITE 
CAFKA
141 Whitney Place,
po Box 1122
Kitchener, ON N2G 4G1
519-744-5123
 
6. EVENT: NOBILE A week-long performance by Ivan Civic (New York)
Dates: September 25-29, 2007 (12noon-6pm); Source: Artist’s Space
 
Curated by Marina Abramovic
 
Ivan Civic’s piece, NOBILE, was first staged at the 2007 Dance and Performance Biennale in Venice, as part of Body and Eros, a project by IPG (Independent Performance Group), curated by Marina Abramovic. Civic’s performance at Artists Space further explores the obsessive narcissism and dependency on perfected images in Western culture. The work is also inspired by highly ritualized exercises in auto eroticism developed by nobility in the late 17th century.
 
NOBILE is the second installment of When Time Becomes Form, an ongoing performance series of long-durational work, curated by Marina Abramovic for Artists Space. The series explores and questions issues of concentration, will power, and determination, and involves the artists’ use of the entire gallery space for 6 hours during each day of their performance. Twelve distinct, but interrelated, durational performances, each created and presented by a different performance artist (a member of the Independent Performance Group (IPG)), will occupy the Main Space galleries between exhibitions. The entire series will unfold over the course of the next two years.
 
Artists Space
38 Greene St. 3rd Fl, NY NY 10013
email: artspace@artistsspace.org
phone: 212-226-3970 
web: www.artistsspace.org
 
7. EVENT: Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery and Video Pool Media Arts Centre present Rockstars & Wannabes
Date: September 29, 2007; Source: Video Pool
 
Curated by Cathy Mattes, this exhibition features: Warren Arcand, Kevin Ei-Ichi deForest, Skawennati Fragnito, and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay. 
 
Dates: September 29 – November 10, 2007 
Opening Reception: September 29, 2007 @ 8 PM 
Location: Urban Shaman Gallery –  203-290 McDermot Ave 
Mediums: Video and Installation and live performance
 
With the emergence of MTV and Much Music in the early 1980s, a new form of escapism, and role play surfaced for young people.  How youth connected with popular singers and bands changed drastically thanks to vee-jays spinning flashy music videos that provided visual narratives to follow along with popular music. In basements and bedrooms across the land, youth held brushes as microphones, envisioned themselves in music videos, and mimicked the music stars they admired…  
 
Rockstars & Wannabes locates artists who examine the impact of the music industry on identity, using music videos, karaoke, and popular TV talent searches as catalysts. Music as an aid in escaping cross-cultural boundaries, the longing for validation or substance in one’s life, and the lengths some will go to locate and express their inner rock star is investigated. 
 
Warren Arcand’s contribution to Rockstars & Wannabes is a video installation  that explores “how youth turn to Rock music as a form of magical thinking, or who alternatively may be used by Rock to refresh and revitalize its own iconography. Within this exchange there are many hazards and casualties, not the least of which is boundary control.” – Warren Arcand. 
 
Kevin Ei-Ichi deForest uses Karaoke to out existing stereotypes within popular music and explores the struggle to culturally fit in for those of mixed ancestry. By presenting imagery of Japanese music icons, cityscapes, and the impact of American pop-culture on Japanese youth, his video works expose how cultural perceptions are internalized, while simultaneously reminding viewers about the potential of music to bridge existing gaps. 
 
Skawennati Fragnito locates like-minded adults who grew up in the ‘80s, and dreamt of being in music videos like those seen on Much Music and MTV. Her video work 80 Minutes, 80 Movies, 80s Music, is an ongoing digital-video project which invites Generation X-ers  from diverse cultural backgrounds, professions, and locations to live out their ‘80s rock star dreams in 80 second music videos created by Fragnito. New additions to 80 Minutes, 80 Movies, 80s Music will be featured in the exhibition. 
 
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay’s video and installation work provide a glimpse of his intimate relationship with certain pop music icons. History, sexuality and identity collide in Audition Tape, a musical monologue inspired by outtakes from American idol competitions. In Jimmy, a heraldic flag and documentation of a performative marathon honours British gay pop hero Jimmy Somerville.  Referencing a fan's obsessive sensibility, Jimmy explores the rewriting of narratives about who gets canonized and honoured in popular culture.  
 
Rockstars & Wannabes Highlights: 
 
Join us at the free public opening reception on Saturday, September 29, 2007, which will include an '80s dance party after 10 PM.  
Come to the curatorial talk/karaoke night at Urban Shaman – date TBA 
 
Biographies and sample images are available by visiting: http://videopool.blogspot.com/2007/09/rockstars-wannabes.html 
8. EVENT: Nuit Blanche (Toronto, Canada)
Date: Saturday September 29, 2007; Source: www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca
 
An all night contemporary art thing: from 7:03pm-7:00am
 
There are too many Nuit Blanche events to mention, but if this year is anything like last year, there will be performance and performance art all over the city, all night long.
 
Go to: www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/ for all the details
 
Check out:
Zone A
“Night School” with Darren O'Donnell, Will Kwan, Tej Ajji and others
Aime Henderson “Open Field Study, All Together Now”
Emergency Room
 
Zone B
Vessna Perunovich “Midnight Mirage”
McKendree Key “31 Baldwin Street to Beverley & Cecil Streets”
 
Zone C
Misha Glouberman “Terrible Noises for Beautiful People: Music for a participatory noise choir”
 
And much much more!
 
9. EVENT: Interview with Martha Rosler (London, UK)
Date: September 29, 2007: Source: Art Monthly
 
Art Monthly interview book launch & live interview with Martha Rosler
 
Tate Modern 
Saturday 29 September 
2-3.30pm interview in the Starr Auditorium, 3.30-5pm drinks reception and book launch in the adjacent foyer
 
Talking Art: Martha Rosler interviewed by Iwona Blazwick
 
Martha Rosler, currently featured in both Documenta 12 and Münster Sculpture Projects 07, whose work tackles issues ranging from gender stereotyping and advertising, to war and the media, poverty and homelessness, is best known for her pioneering video, Semiotics of the Kitchen, and the seminal phototext work, The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, both 1974/75.
 
Interview tickets £8 (£6 concessions), booking required. 
For tickets, visit www.tate.org.uk/tickets or call 020 7887 8888.
 
Talking Art: interview with artists since 1976
Since it was founded in 1976 Art Monthly has consistently published interviews with leading contemporary artists. The interviews collected in this book offer unique insights into the thought processes and working practices of artists.
 
From Russian Constructivists of the 1920s to Turner Prize winners, this collection of interviews constitutes an entertaining and alternative history of 20th-century art written in the first person. Essential Reading.
 
Contributors include: Naum Gabo, Clement Greenberg, Victor Pasmore, Robert Motherwell, Agnes Martin, Anthony Caro, Brice Marden, Alan Charlton, Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, John Baldessari, Hanne Darboven, Hans Haacke, Richard Serra, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Michael Snow, Gilbert & George, David Tremlett, Jasper Johns, George Segal, Claes Oldenburg, Mark Boyle, Gustav Metzger, Ed Ruscha, Patrick Caulfield, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, RB Kitaj, Ilya Kabakov, Leon Golub, Joseph Beuys, Stephen Willats, Barbara Kruger, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Terry Atkinson, Jeff Wall, Liam Gillick, Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor, Bill Woodrow, Sophie Calle, Gary Hill, Jimmie Durham, Thomas Struth, Willie Doherty, Mark Wallinger, Anya Gallaccio, Steve McQueen, Douglas Gordon, Tacita Dean, Simon Patterson, Angela Bulloch, Mike Nelson
 
edited by Patricia Bickers and Andrew Wilson
essay by Iwona Blazwick
introduction by Patricia Bickers
www.artmonthly.co.uk
 
£19.95 
608pp;paperback 
Co-published by Ridinghouse and Art Monthly 
ISBN 978-1-905464-04-3 
www.karstenschubert.com/publications/
 
Orders through Cornerhouse 
Telephone:+44 (0) 161 200 1501 
www.cornerhouse.org
 
10. EVENT: Hot Latin Dance Party – All Night Free Salsa Lessons (Toronto, Canada)
Date: Saturday September 29, 2007; Source: Lina Rodriguez
 
ENGINE GALLERY is proud to present: HOT SPOT by Lina Rodriguez
 
With Noloves & Diana Cadavid
NUIT BLANCHE (Toronto)
September 29, 2007
7:03 pm to 7:00 am
Engine Gallery (1112 Queen St. W)
 
Co-presented by Evento Digital 2007
Sponsored by aluCine Toronto Latin@ Media Festival
 
A performance/installation that questions stereotypes of nationalism by de-constructing the different narrative and visual strategies used by tourist videos and broadcast news. Images of women's bodies, underdevelopment and violence become merchandise that contributes to sell the "new Colombia" brand to the world. HOT SPOT reflects on our role of spectators, dancers and consumers of "Latino" culture and images in the First World… OR it will give YOU pointers on how to dance salsa like there is no tomorrow!
 
Lose it to Salsa with Noloves' flavourful Latin tunes!
 
HOT LATIN DANCE PARTY – ALL NIGHT FREE SALSA LESSONS
Contact
Lina Rodriguez
416-850-8342
lina.rodri@gmail.com
 
11. EVENT: Maju-Chaor Dab! International Performance Art Festival (Indonesia)
Date: October 1, 2007; Source: Cultura Info
 
Dear Friends, Families, Artists, Activists, Social Workers, Researchers, Writers, Curators, Art Lovers and Publics,
 
We are the MAJU JAYA - CHAOS Dab! International Contemporary Performance Art Festival Committee to invite all of you in the opening of the festival:
 
Monday 1 October 2007 - 03.30 pm
 
Jogja National Museum
Jl. Amri Yahya 1, Gampingan, Wirobrajan, Jogjakarta, 55253 Indonesia
 
After the opening will be directly connected with the program of performance art workshop on 04.00 - 06.00 pm, any artist will create any workshop interact with any other artist or any audience.
 
2 - 4 October will be held action art / performance art program each morning 10.00 am - 09.00 pm.
 
Will be free talking discussion 4 October 10.00 am - 12.00 am about the action art medium and the today chaotic world on our mother earth and the human race.
 
Will be held cycling convoy global warming solidarity, any body can join, will be started from the festival going to Mangkubumi street, through Malioboro street and come back to the festival and will be end up with dinner together / break fasting for the moslem.
 
The closing festival 07.00 pm - 11.00 pm there will be 5 DJs: DJ DASH, DJ 8Megabicth, DJ Maria Osawa, DJ Fesha, DJ Bambang Toko.
 
Best,
MAJU JAYA - CHAOS Dab! Committee
Contact : Rachel +628175471125, Ronald +628157913720
 
12. EVENT: The Scent Bar by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (Calgary, AB)
Dates: October 3-6, 2007; Source: The New Gallery
 
What's this? Another opportunity to further artistic culture in Calgary? FANTASTIC! Follow your nose to ScentBar, a performance by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan happening at ArtCentral from October 3-6. Artists Dempsey and Millan have collaborated on performances, films, videos, publications and public art projects since 1989. Their provocative, humourous, feminist performance art pieces have toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, and their art video and film works have been screened in venues ranging from women’s centres in Sri Lanka to the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Want to know more? Read on, friends, read on....
 
At Scentbar, clients are asked a variety of questions about their memories. Using the results of these questions, a technician then creates an individualized formula to reflect the clients’ anxieties and desires. The perfumes are blended from an odour palette that includes ubiquitous, modern scents. Unlike mass-produced consumer products that cannot possibly make one “unique”, Scentbar delivers truly one-of-a-kind fragrances in just 30 minutes. Each fragrance is as personal as our memories, hopes and fears. Scentbar welcomes the audience into a performance installation that provides a service and a sense of participation in an exclusive consumer-cultural experience. However, comfort, cleanliness and luxury are undermined by the promotional video of malodourous disasters, and by the product itself, which draws upon ambivalent memory-evoking contemporary scents such as rental car and light industry.
 
“But how can I get involved?” you may be asking... Not only can you book your scent reading but you can also volunteer to assist the artists in two hour time slots!\
The hours of operation are as follows:
October 3-6: Wed, Fri and Sat: 12pm-3pm and 4pm-6pm
First Thurs: 12pm-3pm and 5pm-9pm
 
Contact TNG to volunteer and be a part of a scent-sational Calgary event!!
The New Gallery would like to thank our volunteers, members, and the following granting organizations, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Calgary Arts Development, Canada Council, and The City of Calgary.
 
The New Gallery
Unit B27, 200 Barclay Parade SW 
Eau Claire Market
Calgary, AB
 
New Mailing Address:
TNG
P.O. Box 22451
Bankers Hall RPO
Calgary, AB
T2P 5G7
p 403.233.2399 f 403.290.1714
 
Hours: Tues. - Sat. 11am to 5pm
Admission: FREE
 
www.thenewgallery.org
 
Melissa Berry, Gallery Director 
info@thenewgallery.org
 
The NEW Gallery -- supporting and promoting contemporary art and artists since 1975.
 
13. EVENT: Performance Studio presents Lilith by Night (Sweden)
Date: October 6, 2007; Source: teaterlilith
 
www.teaterlilith.com/index2.html
 
LILITH BY NIGHT 6 OCTOBER 2007
Lilith by Night – the 7 hour performance festival of Southern Sweden is back at Lilith Performance Studio
 
Teater Lilith in Malmö.
This year we will present 14 openings on one evening by some of the most influential artists in the region. The artists have all been invited to make new performance works in close collaboration with Lilith Performance Studio. It will be a festival of contrasts with 6 women fencing and a piano in dramatic Caravaggio light, a live mic stand and songs from a whole block of flats in the neighbourhood. There will be stripped down humoristic minimalism and a parental talk where the play is slowly being consumed by the text. Peggy-Sue will receive a tribute by the new alter ego Mr J. Meese, and something about being 20 meters off the ground with dumbbells and Carmen. A Cock Fight, an Ego Show and Absolute Exotic. An intrusive sound performance, a repetitive physical meeting, a café like no other, interactive super8 gymnastics, an investigation of bodily displacements and two girls from Karlstad on vacation.
 
We are proud to present the following artists during Lilith by Night 2007: Elisabet Apelmo, Beata Berggren, Katarina Nitsch, Johanna Gustavsson, Kajsa Karlström, Anna S. Nilsson, Marit Lindberg, Mathias Kristersson, Christina Erman Widerberg, Jenny Grönvall, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Emma Pilipon, Kristina Matousch, Saralunden, Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson.
 
We will also screen works by two artists invited to Lilith Performance Studio this winter/spring: the Indonesian artist Melati Suryodarmo and Norweigan Jannicke Låker. Two artists with very different artistic approaches invited for their singularity, courage and focus. The 300 square meter space in the industrial quarters in Södra Sofielund in Malmö will be transformed to a festival area indoors as well as outdoors. Running for the 5th time Lilith by Night proves the relevance of exclusive events like this in Malmö
 
For further information about the participating artists, press images, or interview with any of the artists, please contact us at +46 (0)40 789 97 or mailto:info@teaterlilith.com
 
14. EVENT: BBB Johannes Deimling Next Performances (Poland, France, Germany)
Dates: September/October 2007; Source: BBB Johnannes Deimling
 
Next Performances
 
September 18.-19, 2007 - Performance
Malamut, Performancefestival, Ostrava, Czech Republic
 
September 21, 2007 – Performance with Dariusz Fodczuk
Mechaniczna Pomara?cza, Performancefestival, Katowice, Poland
 
September 23 – 30, 2007 – Performance and research
Préavis de désordre urbain, Performancefestival, Marseille, France
 
October 7, 2007 - Discussion
visioning, project by Lucia Dellefant, in discussion with Gabriele Obermaier, Prof. Klaus Siebenhaar, Heiko Mehnert and Mari Brellochs, Europacenter, Berlin, Germany
 
15. EVENT: Dariusz Fodczuk/A Furniture and A Literature 2007 Tour (Poland, France, Holland)
Dates: September 18-October 19, 2007; Source: Dariusz Fodczuk
 
September 18, 2007
Malamut Performance Art Festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic
 
September 21, 2007
Mechaniczna Pomarancza Performance Art Festival
Sektor 1, Gallery GCK, Katowice Poland
 
September 23-30, 2007
Preavis de desorde urbain Performance Art Festival, Marseille France
 
October 3, 2007
Creatures in the City of Jeroen Bosch Performance Art Festival, Hertogenbosch Holland
 
October 4-9, 2007
The Differences IPAF, Warsaw Poland
 
October 19, 2007
Projekt Slownik Sytuacji, BWA Gallery, Jelenai Gora, Poland
 
16. EVENT: DIALOG project of performative travel (Poland, Austria)
Dates: September 11-October 4, 2007; Source: Angelika Fojtuch
 
DIALOG project of performative travel
curator & organizing
Poland: Angelika Fojtuch
Austria: Elisa Andessner, Nora Riedl, Wolfgang Tragseiler
 
artist - Elisa Andessner (AU), Noemi Auer (AU), Paulina Braun (PL), Angelika Fojtuch (PL), Anna Kalwajtys (PL), Nora Riedl (AU), Wolfgang Tragseiler (AU)
 
sponsor - Program Linz Kultur "LinzEXPOrt 2006"
 
date & place of the work in the public space 
12-15.09.2007 Gdansk
16-19.09.2007 Poznan
20-22.09.2007 Krakow
23-26.09.2007 Wien 
27-30.09.2007 Graz 
01-04.10.2007 Linz
 
The presentation in ON gallery in Poznan 18.09.2007, 7 pm
Thanks to Agnieszka Okrzeja
 
Seven artists (three from Poland, four from Austria) meet in Gdansk to travel together to their Austrian and Polish hometowns. They go together from town to town with a car. Following: Gdansk, Poznan, Krakow, Wien, Graz, Linz. In every town they stay three to four days. They use the time to get know places, which reflect the everyday-life and the reality of a town. The ambition is to realize performances in every town, which arise from the processing of the collected impressions. A performance can take place directly in the town, through spontaneous interaction in the public space or in an art gallery, or the artist finds a material/an impression/a topic on a certain place which she/he works with for a longer period. The performative travel and the individual works will be documented with photography and video. The collected materials will be shown in an exhibition in Linz and in Gdansk in 2008.
 
DIALOG projekt performatywnej podrózy
praca kuratorska i organizacyjna
Polska: Angelika Fojtuch
Austria: Elisa Andessner, Nora Riedl, Wolfgang Tragseiler
 
artysci - Elisa Andessner (AU), Noemi Auer (AU), Paulina Braun (PL), Angelika Fojtuch (PL), Anna Kalwajtys (PL), Nora Riedl (AU), Wolfgang Tragseiler (AU)
 
Projekt jest finansowany przez program Linz Kultur "LinzEXPOrt 2006"
 
data i miejsce dzialan w przestrzeni publicznej
12-15.09.2007 Gdansk
16-19.09.2007 Poznan
20-22.09.2007 Krakow
23-26.09.2007 Wien 
27-30.09.2007 Graz 
01-04.10.2007 Linz
 
17. EVENT: FLUXUS EAST (Berlin, Germany)
Dates: 27 September - 4 November 2007; Source: Artpool Research Centre
 
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
 
FLUXUS EAST
FLUXUS NETWORKS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
 
FLUXUS EAST represents a first stocktaking of the diverse Fluxus activities in the former Eastern Bloc; the exhibition shows parallel developments and artistic practices inspired by Fluxus, which are still adopted by some young artists today. Besides the “classic” Fluxus objects, the display will include photographs, films, correspondence, secret police files, interviews and recordings of music that document the presence of Fluxus in the former Eastern Bloc.
 
With Gábor Altorjay, Eric Andersen, Tamás St. Auby, Azorro, Robert Filliou, György Galántai, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Tadeusz Kantor, Milan Knízák, Alison Knowles, Július Koller, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Vytautas Landsbergis, George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Larry Miller, Ben Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Slave Pianos, Endre Tót, Gábor Tóth, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, Jirí Valoch, Ben Vautier, Branko Vucicevic, Emmett Williams
 
As an interactive exhibition, FLUXUS EAST aims to facilitate a profound encounter with ideas, works and texts — some presented as facsimiles to permit intense study. 
Several pieces of the documents, publications and objects come from the Artpool archive. It is possible to play at FLUX PING PONG (Maciunas' table and rackets were reconstructed by György Galántai, and first exhibited at Artpool P60 in 2001), and visitors are also invited to explore the POIPOIDROME by Robert Filliou
 
(The "Real Space-Time Poipoidrom No. 1" was installed and presented in Budapest by Robert Filliou and Joachim Pfeufer at the Young Artists' Club in 1976. The parts of the dismounted installation layed in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts as a deposit until 1998, when György Galántai reconstructed it for the inauguration of Artpool P60. The Poipoidrome' space hosted that year several performances in hommage of Filliou for ex. by Jean-Jacques Lebel and Monty Cantsin - and this was also the moment when became known worldwide that this unique work of art has been preserved.)
 
curator: Petra Stegmann
 
international partners of the exhibition: Artpool, Budapest / Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius / Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków / Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
 
Further exhibition venues: Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (November 30, 2007 - January 13, 2008), Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (February 7 - March 30, 2008), Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest (April 17 - June 1, 2008).
 
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue (German/English, ca 250 pages, ca 200 images, hardcover).
 
www.artpool.hu/lehetetlen/real-kiall/nevek/galantai_pingpong.html
www.artpool.hu/Fluxus/Filliou
www.bethanien.de
www.fluxus-east.eu
 
Artpool Art Research Center 
http://www.artpool.hu 
H-1061 Budapest, Liszt Ferenc ter 10. 
tel.: +36-1-2680114, fax: +36-1-3210833 
Postal address: H-1277 Budapest, Pf. 52
 
18. EVENT: Tari Ito + Sakiko Yamaoka (Tokyo, Japan)
Date: October 8, 2007; Source: Sakiko Yamaoka
 
Performance / Action in Ueno,Tokyo
Tari Ito + Sakiko Yamaoka
 
15:00~16:00
8th October, 2007
K's Green Gallery
 
near Yanaka Cemetery
2-13-3 Uenosakuragicho Taitoku Tokyo , Japan
 
Sakiko Yamaoka
 
sakikohechima@nyc.odn.ne.jp
www1.odn.ne.jp/~hechima
 
blog:
www.hechimasoon.blogspot.com
 
Missing in Yokohama (still working):
www.missinginyokohama.blogspot.com
 
19. EVENT: Live Performance Art Biennale (Vancouver, BC)
Dates: October 11-28, 2007; Source: Randy Gledhill
 
WELCOME TO LIVE 2007
The LIVE Performance Art Biennale was born Live at the End of the Century, a one-time festival celebration of the 20th anniversary of the legendary 1979 Living Art Festival; a milestone in the long, rich and dynamic history of performance art in Vancouver. It proposed a unique model by inviting the participation of Vancouver’s leading art galleries and institutions to curate and produce performance art under a single festival umbrella. This collaborative and symbiotic relationship became a new and functional model, a diversified multi-platform delivery system to present a comprehensive, varied and engaging festival of contemporary performance art in Vancouver.
 
LIVE has gone on to produce new festival editions in 2001, 2003 and 2005; and has to date presented works by some 140 artists. LIVE is dedicated to making performance art a vital part of our community and our culture. This year we are challenging people in radical new ways. The curatorial theme of LIVE 2007 is ‘Public’ and our strategy is to take much of the performance art into the public realm. Through the theme of ‘Public’ and our intent on siteresposivity, we are integrating into the city to initiate new engagement, participation and discourse between the artists and the public.
 
This, the 5th edition of the LIVE Performance Art Biennale offers more than 30 original performance art events throughout Vancouver -- ranging from the spectacular, to the relational, to the interventional and the durational. LIVE 2007 is also for the first time curating, producing and co-producing a new core of 8 feature presentations.
 
Randy Gledhill Executive Director / Curator LIVE Performance Art Biennal
 
For more information and for exact times and locations, go to:
www.livebiennale.ca
 
'PUBLIC'
For 2007, LIVE proposes the curatorial theme of ‘Public’. Public is always local - yet defines global. Who and where are we? Who and where are others? How are we similar? How are we different? What do we have in common? In interpreting ‘Public’, performative art might manifest as; an action presented in public, an intervention into public, the participation of public, or a descriptive reference to public. Intent, form and expression can shift and change. The theme of ‘Public’ affords us occasion to examine performance art both locally and globally. A new generation of artists is reinventing boundaries through an exploding world-wide network of organizations, venues, symposia and festivals.
 
With the internet as the highway, talent is emerging everywhere and everyone is talking to one another. This awakening is inclusive of anyone from anywhere, regardless of background, privilege, training or theoretical pretext and celebrates a new democratization of intellect. Freed from materialist economics, temporal artistic activity is by nature demonstrative, social and political. Like the world-music phenomenon, like the multicultural mosaic of our city, this transcultural blending of identities, histories and politics is mashing expression.
Appropriate to the theme, we are examining performance art that describes the world we live in; art that addresses issues of community and identity, art as activism, art as a mechanism for social change, art that questions the nature of power, art that celebrates life. Lets take this opportunity to adventure outside the white box and the black box and into the public domain.
 
Work by:
Archive (USA)
ATSA (Canada)
Marilyn Arsem (USA)
Shannon Cochrane (Canada)
Paul Couillard (Canada)
Mideo Cruz (Philippines)
Randy Lee Cutler (Canada)
Glynn Davies-Marshall (UK)
Andre Stitt (UK)
Racquel De Loyola (Philippines)
Robert Ladislas Derr (USA)
Naufus Figueroa (USA)
Kevin Hamilton (USA)
Terrence Houle (Canada)
Jeff Huckleberry (USA)
William Hunt (UK)
Roddy Hunter (UK)
iKatun (USA)
Todd Janes (Canada)
The National Bitter Melon Council (USA)
Velveeta Krisp and Tyler Wheatcroft (Canada)
Tanya Mars (Canada)
Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov (Canada/Germany)
Robin Poitras (Canada)
Sal Randolph (USA)
Igor Santizo (Canada)
Second Front (Cyberspace)
Sinag Bayan (Canada)
Artur Tajber (Poland)
Theatre Replacement (Canada)
Iwan Wijono (Jakarta)
 
20. WORKSHOP: Boris Nieslony To Be To Create (Kowloon)
Dates: October 15-16, 2007; Source: Siu Lan Ko
 
Hong Kong On the Move
Performance Art Project
Da Dao Live Art Event 2007
Organized by: Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society
 
Workshop by Boris Nieslony: To Be To Create
 
Boris Nieslony is one of the most important Performance artists in the world. He has been performing, teaching and curating performances for more than 30 years. He founded the group Black Market International, their unique style of group happening opened up a new genre in performance. In this first workshop Boris will conduct in Hong Kong, you will discover the force to express your creativity in alternative ways that you have never imagined/dare. If you are in art profession, education, community action, if you are looking for creative methods in your professions, creations and everyday life, you will find the workshop especially insightful.
 
Boris Nieslony, Black Market International
 
Veune: FM Theatre Power Studio, 2nd floor, 104 -106 Bedford Road, Taikoktsui, Kowloon.
 
Date/Time: 15-16/10/2007
7:30pm – 10:30pm (total : 6 hours)
 
Fee: HK$450, For early birds (until 8th Oct 07), HK$550
 
Enquiry:
Mr Eric Ng 2891 8482 / 9747 8878
Mr Mok Chiu Yu 9800 7169
 
The workshop is conducted in English 
Sponsored by: Hong Kong Arts Development Council
 
21. WORKSHOPS at Hysteria Festival (Toronto, Canada)
Dates: October 25 – November 3, 2007; Source: Moynan King
 
Hysteria: A Festival of Women
October 25 - November 3, 2007
Exciting new workshops for 2007: Registration is now open!
To get information on the many workshops, go to: www.buddiesinbadtimestheatre.com
 
Featuring: 
Virtual Bodies Workshop with Anita Ponton (UK) 
October 28 – November 3, 2007 (Six Classes)
 
Fee: $125
Max: 12 participants
Presentation of completed projects during the festival on November 3rd at 1pm
Contact Moynan by email to register: moynan@artsexy.ca
 
Brief outline:
Virtual Bodies is a short, but intense, workshop aimed at artists/dancers/performers who are interested in live performance practices, within technologised spaces. The workshop will explore the relationships of the body in performance to the technologies used to make the work, and to the context and spaces in which the work exists. Taking an approach that is part practical, part critique, we will be focusing on how a live body interacts with technologised representations.
 
Running across six sessions, the workshop will culminate in a public presentation of the developed projects, as part of the Hysteria Festival. Participants should come prepared with an idea or project that they want to develop and experiment with, and while performance experience is useful, it is not necessary. The workshop would also be useful for re-considering or re-working an existing piece of work.
 
Examples of strategies that will be considered include (but are not limited to): live performance with projection and/or sound, performance for camera, video performance and virtual presence. Participants will be encouraged to be ambitious as well as practical and supportive of each other. Virtual Bodies offers participants the opportunity to experiment and explore with new ways of working and to bring a project to presentation stage, within a creative and dynamic environment.
 
Class Schedule: (all classes at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
Oct 28 1pm-4pm
Oct 29 5pm-8pm
Oct 30 5pm-7:30pm
Nov 1 5pm-7pm
Nov 2 5pm-7pm
Nov 3 10am-1pm
Performance: 1pm November 3rd in the Cabaret
 
For more info on Anita go to: www.anitaponton.com
 
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexander Street 
Toronto, M4Y 1B4 
Box Office: 416-975-8555 
Administration: 416-975-9130
 
22. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Tou Works 1 (Norway)
Deadline: November 5, 2007; Source: Johanna Tuukkanen
 
The east side of Stavanger is expanding rapidly, incorporating culture, business and residents. The city’s habits and patterns are changing at a speedy rate but what kind of changes does this imply? Looking at the route that starts at Nytorget, Pedersgata ending up at Tou Scene, this project invites artists, citizens, city planners and local businesses to comment the route, a 15-minute walk. We hope these comments will highlight the route as an extraordinary experience/walk in itself and question and explore this specific environment.
 
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Creative people from all artistic fields are invited to propose work inspired by sites on this route. The selected artists will be offered a 10 days research period developing work in Stavanger followed by a 5-day showing/event and 2 days of aftermath. The artists will be sharing their process and working methods during the workshops and participate in work tasks, lectures and a seminar as a shared process. Each artist selects a site that will be negotiated with the curators and the local residents. Private homes, shop windows, the public restrooms of the old square, a street corner and a bush can all become hosts for artistic triggers and the work be everything from alternative road signs, ephemeral shops/temporary cafés, people as places/sites, walk in cinema etc. Work can result in installations, interactions, sound pieces and live work, the sky is the limit and we hope to get surprised, shocked or amazed by your suggestions!
 
SCHEDULE 2008
1. A 10-day workshop/research 14- 23rd of March
2. 5 days of showing 4th and 8th of June
3. 2 day seminar/aftermath 29th – 30th August
 
Artist fees: travel and accommodation will be covered. You will also receive payment for workshop, showing and seminar which is €150 (NOK1200) per day.
 
The deadline for the proposals is the 5th of November 2007.
Application form can be found at: www.touscene.com/touworks
 
Curators:
Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh: Performance artist and curator of an annual Performance Day in Stavanger, Norway. Project manager of an artist residence and lecturer of art theory. www.annemarte.wordpress.com
 
Johanna Tuukkanen: Founder and artistic director of the ANTI –Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland. An international festival focusing on site-specific work made for public spaces. She is also a practicing artist working in the fields of performance, live art and contemporary dance. www.tuukkanen.net
 
Tou Works is a series of new-art-productions at Tou Scene, Center for Contemporary Arts, Norway. The project is supported and in collaboration with Stavanger2008 European Capital of Culture.
 
Artistic board: Nils Henrik Asheim, Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh, Kenneth Varpe and Hege Tapio.
 
Contact:
Geir Lindahl, Producer
E-mail geir@touscene.com
Phone +47 51530595 / +47 48191787
Post box 1590 N-4093 Stavanger Norway
 
23. SURVEY: OAAG Member FYI: New professional development needs survey for artists
Source: ARCCO
 
OAAG has been requested to draw the following professional development needs survey to the attention of visual arts curators, writers and professional artists in the field. [Note in advance: There is a question that asks you to estimate the amount of money spent on your own professional development training as an artist in the past year that may require you to consult your own records. DC]
 
New Needs Survey: Professional Development for Artists
 
On behalf of Cultural Careers Council Ontario, also known as WorkinCulture, we would like to invite you to complete an online survey about professional development for artists in Ontario’s cultural sector. CCCO has commissioned Ipsos Reid to conduct the online survey among professional artists. The survey was launched on Tuesday, September 18, and will be accessible for a short period of time only. The survey will improve understanding of professional development needs for artists. The research is supported by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. It is an important follow-up to the Ministry of Culture’s 2006 Report on the Status of the Artist and a unique opportunity to influence funding for those needs.
 
Your participation in the survey is very important and greatly appreciated. The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete. We ask that you complete the survey as soon as possible.
 
www.surveys.ipsos-or.com/wix/p74750690.aspx
 
To complete the online survey, please click on the URL above, or copy it into the address/ location bar of your browser. (Please make sure you copy the whole link since it will sometimes wrap to the following line.)
 
All information you provide will be kept STRICTLY confidential. Results will be reported in aggregate form only. This survey is for research purposes only, and is not intended to sell or market any products.
 
CCCO is a sectoral council advocating for better human resource practices in arts and culture. It offers services, programs and publications and is home to the popular job board at www.workinculture.ca.
 
Should you like to confirm the validity of this research, or have any questions/concerns about the study or CCCO, please contact Robert Johnston, Susan Cohen or Karen Ennis at 416.340.0086 or info@workinculture.ca
 
Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey today. Thanks very much for your participation! 
 
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