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FADO E-LIST (May 2008)FADO E-LIST (May 2008) INDEX
1. FADO news: Publication Launch
From Iconic to Ironic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars
Date: Saturday May 10, 2008
2. FADO news: Bruce Barber in conversation
Date: Saturday May 3, 2008
3. EVENT: TAMA '08
Date: April 23-30, 2008; Source: Tama
4. EVENT: Claudia Wittmann in performance
Dates: May 1-31, 2008; Source: Claudia Wittmann
5. EVENT: Tanya Mars at Lilith Performance Studio
Dates: May 2 and 3rd, 2008; Source: Lilith Performance Studio
6. EVENT: John Court at Trace Artspace
Date: May 3, 2008; Source: Sinead O’Donnell
7. EVENT: Perfopuerto Publication Launch at Catalyst Arts
Date: May 3, 2008; Source: Sinead O’Donnell
8. EVENT: Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice festival
DATE: May 14-17, 2008; Source: Natalie Loveless
9. EVENT: The Sudden Change
Date: May 10-30, 2008: Source: Mideo Cruz
10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Between Video and Performance
Date: May 30, 2008; Source: Western Front
11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Mix Festival
Date: June 2, 2008; Source: Mix Festival
12. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: openEPAF
Date: June 10, 2008; Source: W. Tatarczuk
13. CALL FOR ENTRIES: Harvestworks Video Art Festival #003
Date: June 16, 2008; Source: Maya Suess
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1. FADO news: Publication Launch
From Iconic to Ironic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars
Date: Saturday May 10, 2008
Fado is proud to present the launch of the latest publication in the Canadian Performance Art Legends Series
Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars
Publication Launch at Art Metropole
788 King Street West (2nd Floor), Toronto
Saturday May 10, 2008
1-3 pm
Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars
2008, softcover, FADO, Toronto, edited by Paul Couillard
253 pp plus 32 pp colour insert with DVD
$32.95
Fado is pleased to announce the launch of Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars, a new book about Canadian performance art legend and 2008 Governor General Award recipient for Visual and Media Art, Tanya Mars. Please join us at Art Metropole on Saturday May 10th from 1-3 pm to meet the artist and celebrate the publication's release.
Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars is a comprehensive look at Tanya’s career, from the 1970s to the present. The book features extensive photo documentation and includes a DVD documenting her site-specific work, Tyranny of Bliss (2004).
Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars includes contributions by Paul Couillard, Tagny Duff, Jennifier Fisher, Randy Gledhill, Nelson Henricks, Will Kwan, Paul Ledoux, Joanna Nash, Jennifer Oille, John Oughton & Pam Patterson, Andrew James Paterson, Kim Sawchuck and Dot Tuer.
Paul Couillard, the former director of Fado and editor of the book, sums up the importance of the artist's work: "Tanya’s Women and Power series during the 1980s – Pure Virtue, Pure Sin, Pure Nonsense, and finally, Pure Hell – not only gave us enduring images like the fire-breathing Queen Elizabeth I or a dildo-wielding Alice-in-Wonderland, but also proved that feminism had grown up enough to include humour in its arsenal of weapons. Mars has relentlessly shown us that the best way to the jugular is through the funny bone, creating a series of compelling 'three-dimensional pictures' that have made her one of Canada’s most acclaimed and important performance artists."
Tanya Mars is a feminist, performance and video artist who has been involved in the Canadian art scene since 1973. She was a founding member and director of Powerhouse Gallery (La Centrale), in Montreal, the first women’s art gallery in Canada; editor of Parallelogramme magazine for 13 years; and contributed to ANNPAC (the Association of National Non-Profit Artist-run Centres) for 15 years. Mars’ work is often characterized as visually rich layers of spectacular, satirical feminist imagery. She has performed widely across Canada, in Valparaiso (Chile), Helsinki and Sweden. In 2004 she created and performed Tyranny of Bliss, a 7-hour durational performance involving over 30 performers who created 14 tableaux in-and-around Queens Park, Toronto. She is co-editor, with Johanna Householder, of Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women (2004), published by YYZ Books. She is also a member of the 7a*11d Collective which produces a bi-annual international festival of performance art in Toronto. She currently teaches performance art and video at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, and is part of the graduate faculty at the University of Toronto. Mars was named Artist of the Year (2004) by the Untitled Arts Awards in Toronto, and in 2008 she received a Governor General Award for Visual and Media Arts. In the autumn of 2008, Mars will be the Canada Council’s International Artist in Residence in Paris, France.
http://www.performanceart.ca/legends/home.html
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2. FADO news: Bruce Barber in Conversation
Date: Saturday May 3, 2008
Saturday May 2, 2008
12:00pm
VMAC Gallery
401 Richmond Street West (4th floor), Toronto
Artist, cultural historian and and NSCAD professor, Bruce Barber will discuss his new YYZ books with performance colleagues Paul Couillard, Johanna Householder, Clive Roberston and Jessica Wyman.
Presented by Fado, Voicepondence Media Art Publishing and YYZ Books.
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3. EVENT: TAMA '08
Date: April 23-30, 2008; Source: Tama
5th.international.action.art.event presents Tupada REVOLT
DATE: April 25 – 30, 2008
VENUES: Kanlungan ng Sining, Manila & Dagupan City, Pangasinan
The Tupada Action and Media Art Fifth International Action Art Event entitled TUPADA REVOLT begins on April 25, 2008, Friday at 1:00 pm., with performances by local and international artists at the Kanlungan ng Sining, Luneta Park. The event then travels to Dagupan City for simultaneous action art events at CSI the City Mall, City Plaza and Bonuan Tondaligan Beach from April 28 to May 1, 2008.
Tupada started in 2002 with ambush performances by artists from diverse disciplines in various public spaces, exposing the masses to creative articulation where they themselves were located – on an overpass, in open parks, streets, cafes, beach and alternative art spaces. It has since grown into an art collective organizing international performance events, creating connections with local and foreign artists in the spirit of meaningful cultural and information exchange, and melding concepts, directions and personalities together to create an independent ground for art expressing concerns.
International performance artists Jiang Jing, Liu Chengying (China), Mary Babcock (Hawaii) Wen Yau (Hong Kong), Nicola Frangione (Italy), Kana Fukushima, Tomoki Kimpara, Osamu Kuroda, Shohei Nomoto, Harumi Terao, Seiji Shimoda (Japan), Gim Gwang Cheol, Gim Ji Hee (Korea), Moe Satt, Phyu Mon (Myanmar), Arti Grabowski, Bartek Lukasiewicz, Artur Tajber (Poland), Juliana Yasin (Singapore), Barbara Sturm (Switzerland) and Shih-Chung Cheng (Taiwan) have been invited to participate in this event, along with Filipino artists Patrick Bacolor, Baguio Artists, Sherwin Carillo, Buddy Ching, Jhay Colis + Jose Tolentino, Noel Soler Cuizon, Dagupan Artists Circle, Thom Daquioag, Maricris David, Boni de Guzman, Boyet de Mesa, Rommel Espinosa, Mark Louie Gonzales + Don Balboa, Vim Nadera, Kaye O’Yek, Yuan Mor’O Ocampo, Pangasinan Art Group, Sam Penaso, Arnel Ramiscal, Ronaldo Ruiz, Cristine Sioco, Gelo Suarez + Costantino Zicarelli, Anthony Tañedo, Wire Tuazon, Mannet Villariba and others executing concurrent and spontaneous live art.
TUPADA REVOLT is sponsored by the Japan Foundation, Metrobank Foundation and Dagupan City Government, and supported by the Art Association of the Philippines, Dagupan Artists Circle, Ambasciata d’ Italia, Henrich Boll Stiftung Southeast Asia, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Nippon International Performance Art Festival and Studio of Performance Art Academy of Fine Arts Krakow, All events are free and open to the public.
For more details, please contact TAMA ’08 Artistic Director Ronaldo Ruiz at 4286287 or 09155962047, email tupada.ph@gmail.com and visit www.tamatupada.multiply.com
ARKA (H.C.E.) presents InterActions 21st Festival
2008, April 24th> May3rd
SPAZIO ARKA
via Tevere, 47
ASSEMINI (CA)
Sardinia - Italy
+39/070946057
arkamax@tiscali.it
Annalisa ACHENZA (Italy)
Kiki ADAMEK (Germany)
Sara ARESU (Italy)
Gianni ATZENI (Sardinia)
Massimiliano ATZENI (Italy)
Peter BAREN (The Netherlands)
Wimo BAYANG (Indonesia)
BLUE BLUES Quartet (Italy)
Elia CASU (Sardinia)
Simone DULCIS (Italy)
Paul GREGOIRE (Québec-Canada)
Fadda/Misha/Pat (Italy)
Reza FISINA (Indonesia)
Mari FURUKAWA (Japan)
Matthias JACKISCH (Germany)
Paula KAO (Sardinia)
Edwige MANDROU (France)
Helge MEYER (Germany)
Catherine MEZIAT (France)
Alberto MORI (Italy)
Maria Spissu NILSON (Italy)
Francesca PILI (Sardinia)
Mario PISCHEDDA (Italy)
Roberto ROSSINI (Italy)
Paolo SANNA (Sardinia)
Enno STAHL (Germany)
Roi VAARA (Finland)
Watermelon Theatre (Italy)
Willem WILHELMUS (Finland)
Max ZANASI (Sardinia - Italy)
Zazalie Z. (Canada)
in collaboration with:
RAS - Independent Region of Sardinia
Province of Cagliari - City of Assemini
Department of Culture - Italy
A.Te.S. - Sardinian Theatres Association
FEDIC - Italian Film & Video Federation
FRAME – The Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
Kulturamt Dresden – Germany
CALQ - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Japan Foundation
CRANE - Centre de ressources (Burgundy - France)
I.C.Zone - Influences & Competences Zone (international label)
Emergency - Life Support for Civilian War Victims
AmbientArt - Interior Design - Assemini
PoliArtStudio Gallery - Cagliari
Pensamentus - Sardinia
ARTISTIC DIRECTION: MASSIMO ZANASI
ORGANIZATION: PAOLA CAO
PUBLIC RELATIONS: MONICA PISTIDDA
TECHNICIANS: ANGELO ARESU, MAURIZIO KESSA, STEFANO FARCI
ASSISTANCE: ANGELA ARDU, CLAUDIA PICCIAU,
MONIQUE PIRAS, MATILDE SANNA
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4. EVENT: Claudia Wittmann in performance
Dates: May 1-31, 2008; Source: Claudia Wittmann
Projet qui commence avec l'homme étendu devant moi*
site-specific butoh residency, May 1-31, 2008
by Claudia Wittmann
with source coach Paul Couillard
at Offthemapgallery, 712 Landsdowne Ave (back building)
Opening performance: May 1, 7pm (Paul and I will slowly meet with the space)
new moon and full moon all night drop-in, May 5 and May 20
performances May 28, 29, 30 at 9pm
Closing performance May 31st,7pm
drop-in: every friday, saturday and sunday, 4-7pm; drop-in is free, performances are donations only, suggested $10
www.offthemapgallery.com
www.claudiawittmann.ca
*project which begins with the man lying in front of me
"This project has to do with identity. With what is, with deep contradictions. it is going to be negotiated in a site-specific way. Source coach Paul Couillard will often be with me in the gallery and my door will be open to the public on some days of the week. there is something in this project about the tension that i feel between going into deep
material and negotiating a certain presence -identity?- with the outside world."
Claudia Wittmann at OFFTHEMAPGALLERY 08
May 1 - 31, 2008
A site-specific butoh residency
projet qui commence avec l’homme étendu devant moi
(project which begins with the man lying in front of me)
by Claudia Wittmann with source coach Paul Couillard
OPENING performance: May 1, 7pm
Drop-in times: every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 4-7pm
New Moon and Full Moon all-night drop-in: May 5 and May 20
Performances May 28, 29, 30, 9pm
Closing performance May 31st, 7pm
Drop-in times are free, performances are donations only, suggested $10
“THIS PROJECT is about the process through which we form identity. At the moment, I am tapping into fear -peur-, loneliness, nausea, exhaustion, and I sometimes can see the fine line that exists between self-rejection and sexual energy. I know that offthemapgallery can evoke both, and separately, my mother and my father and I know for now that I can't hold the concept of gender identity in my mind with calm. I am working with source coach and performance artist Paul Couillard who will often be working in the gallery with me. Opening my process to the public is something profoundly integral to this project. I am looking for a thread of transformation."
Claudia Wittmann was born in Switzerland and has lived in Toronto since 1998. She works as a butoh performer and has been presenting her own solo shows in Toronto since 2003. Her work deals with body memory and it aims at exploring vulnerability,
transformation and issues related to intimacy. Claudia's process is based on her butoh training with SU-EN (Sweden) and on her regular work with Toronto-based artist Paul Couillard who has been guiding her through the curricula of Jerzy Grotowski since January 2006. Claudia has a background in biology and in the philosophy of science.
For more information contact Antonia at: 416-642-2113
OFFTHEMAPGALLERY
712 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto
The Back Building
http://www.offthemapgallery.com
mailto:info@offthemapgallery.com
Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday from 2-5pm
DIRECTIONS TO THE GALLERY: From the Bloor/Lansdowne subway station, walk north to Wallace and then another halfblock. It is on the WEST side in the back building of a yellow storefront. NOTE: ONLY USE THE WEST SIDE NUMBERS
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5. EVENT: Tanya Mars at Lilith Performance Studio
Dates: May 2 and 3rd, 2008; Source: Lilith Performance Studio
TANYA MARS (Canada)
In Dulci Jubilo
Mat 2 and 3, from 7pm
Tickets: SEK 40. Address: Bragegatan 15, Malmö, Sweden
http://www.lilithperformancestudio.com
+46 (0)40-789 97
For the first time ever in Sweden: Lilith Performance Studio proudly presents the legendary performance artist Tanya Mars. Tanya Mars recently received the prestigious Canadian General Governor’s Award in Visual & Media Art, the first woman performance artist to do so. Since 1974, Tanya has been one of the most active artists in the Canadian performance scene where she has worked as an artist, writer, editor and professor of performance influencing an entire generation of students. In her theatrical and visually bombastic performances Tanya uses humor to poke fun at patriarchy and to critique those art forms (performance) and ideologies (feminism) that she cares most about. In her work, Mars has been inspired as much by Dada and Surrealism as by cheerleading and burlesque vaudeville.
Before staging her spectacular performance piece and tableau vivant Tyranny of Bliss in 2004, which received a Chalmer’s Fellowship, Tanya Mars had primarily used cabaret and more traditional performance strategies. Tyranny of Bliss consisted of 14 live- tableaux, of 7 hours duration each, taking place at the same time at different locations around Toronto during one day. At Lilith Performance Studio Tanya Mars has once again been given the opportunity to work on a large scale. In Dulci Jubilo (“O Sweet Joy” (dulci in Latin and Italian also translates as dessert, cookie) will be a long-durational work developing over the course of two days, and beginning several hours before the doors open to the public. This new work will be a sugar sweet and humorous jubilee revolving around the conflict between generosity and selfishness, where Tanya will transform the space at Lilith Performance Studio to create a surreal image with 150 cakes, a thousand white dessert plates, magic tricks and fire. A new video work shot in an elevator in Malmö and a sound piece based on the hymn played by a medieval clock in the Lund Cathedral – In Dulci Jubilo – and the Swedish alphabet, also play important parts in this new piece.
Throughout her career Tanya Mars has consistently investigated the boundaries and expectations surrounding women’s lives, using the absurd or humorous as her point of departure. In the 1980’s she did a performance trilogy on the theme of women-and-power, titled Pure, where she embodied Queen Elisabeth I (Pure Virtue, 1984), the curvy
Hollywood sex symbol Mae West (Pure Sin, 1986) and Alice in Wonderland (Pure Nonsense, 1987). But in Mars’ versions, the Virgin Queen breathes fire, Mae West reveals that she in fact is the real Snow White, but she drifted; and when Alice in Wonderland lifts her crinolines it turns out that she is wearing strap-on-dildo with the text ”Why does a Venus not have a penis?”
Tanya Mars (b. 1948 in the US) lives and works in Canada. She is a Senior Lecturer and Program Supervisor of the Visual and Performing Arts/Studio Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough. In 1973 Tanya Mars was one of the founding members of Powerhouse Gallery (La Centrale) in Montreal, which was one of the first feminist art collectives; from 1976 to 1989 she was the editor for the art magazine Parallellogramme; she has been the President of the performance artist-run centre FADO; she is a member of 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art collective in Toronto and has also taught and given workshops at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Together with the performance artist Johanna Householder she edited the book Caught in the Act: an Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women, 2005. In May of 2008 the first biography about her work will be published: From Ironic to Iconic – The Performance Works of Tanya Mars, by Paul Couillard (published in the series ”Canadian
Performance Art Legends”) and as well Mars has received a Canada Council grant for ‘International Artist in Residency’ in Paris in the fall of 2008.
Lilith Performance Studio is the first combined production space and arena for new performance in Europe. Swedish and international artists are invited to working periods of around one month to realize their dream project and present this new work to an audience. Since the start in January 2007 we have presented 30 artists from Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Iceland, The Netherlands, The Philippines and Indonesia, in 11 solo productions and one performance festival. On our websist you will find documentation films from all our productions, video interviews with all artists and a complete backlist from the Teater Lilith productions 2001-2006.
http://www.lilithperformancestudio.com
Lilith Performance Studio is supported by: Stiftelsen framtidens kultur, Malmö Kulturnämnd, Statens Kulturråd, Folkuniversitetet, Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne and Kulturkontakt Nord. The studio collaborates with: Malmö Art Academy, Beckers färgservice, AV-SYD and Svanströms Repro AB.
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6. EVENT: John Court at Trace Artspace
Date: May 3, 2008; Source: Sinead O’Donnell
TRACE: INSTALL-ACTION ARTSPACE : CARDIFF
John Court [Finland]
ŒART TRA¹
Sat. 3rd May 2008
duration performance 11.00 - 19.00
ŒART TRA will be a durational piece of 8 hours that expresses physically the frustration and confusion dyslexia causes for me. It will be a continuation of the body of work I have produced over the last ten years as a performance artist using the materials of traditional image making from the history of art: pencils, erasers, paper and paint. Instead of a conventional statement, I am submitting an illustration of dyslexia: all and any of these permutations of the word ³art² can appear to be identical to someone who suffers from dyslexia¹
Originally from England John Court has been based in Finland for several years. His work has been exhibited throughout Scandanavia and featured at several prestigious events in Europe including: the Venice Biennale [2005], and the Liverpool Biennale [ 2004]
4th - 31st May 2008
installation exhibition
[call for appointment]
TRACE: Installaction Artspace
26 Moira Place
Cardiff CF24 0ET
m: +44 [0] 7968 183864
t: +44 [0] 2920 407338
http://www.tracegallery.org
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7. EVENT: Perfopuerto Publication Launch at Catalyst Arts
Date: May 3, 2008; Source: Sinead O’Donnell
Perfopuerto was an exhibition residency at Catalyst Arts with nine Chilean artists in December 2007 that was part of Fix 2007. The nature of the event was time based (the artists spent two weeks in Belfast) but its legacy, a fully illustrated book, has been in progress ever since. Saturday May 3rd 5-7pm sees the launch of this book and like the event itself it will be active, engaging and forward-looking.
Sofia Greff (Transylvania/Frankfurt) and Alejandra Herrera (Chile), performance artists, will be responding to both the space and the project, simultaneously reminding and introducing people to the activity and movement that was Perfopuerto.
Sofia Greff was not part of the original Perfopuerto, her response to it is based on, incorporating her art into the living, yet the longevity of such activities can only be assured through the validity of such a response. Alejandra Herrera was part of the Perfopuerto process but due to a bureaucratic error was unable to make it to Belfast to participate. Both of their performances will attempt to discuss these issues, with Alejandra Herrera stating, “encounters hold a valuable discourse in which the artist’s and audience’s bodies become equally vulnerable, and a different dynamic is exposed.”
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8. EVENT: Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice festival
DATE: May 14-17, 2008; Source: Natalie Loveless
A conversation with a chimpanzee? A game called "Dead in Iraq!" An information portal for the local bio-fuel community! A stretch limo art bar! A rant recorder, an experimental Green Wedding, an inflatable outdoor museum, art and film in the streets! It must be the Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice festival hosted by UC Santa Cruz.
Breaking the boundaries of conventional arts practice, the interventions festival takes art performance, websites, objects and events out of the gallery and into other social and public spaces to explore politics and everyday life. For the month of May 2008, artists will create work up and down the coast from San Francisco to San Jose to Santa Cruz, convening at UC Santa Cruz for the first West Coast interventions conference. The Yes Men, Nato Thompson, Suzanne Lacy, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Helen and Newton Mayer Harrison, Linda Montano, Marilyn Arsem, Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, Neighborhood Public Radio and many more artists, critics, and theorists explore what it means to make and consider art as performance and social practice.
The month long series of exhibitions and a three-day conference focuses on three topics: interrupting hierarchies, art and life, and subversive complicity. Art events will take place throughout the month of May on UCSC’s campus, in and out of gallery spaces, on street corners, beaches, and projected onto the side of buildings. Events will be held at UC Santa Cruz Sesnon Gallery (featuring work by Martha Rosler and others), the LAB San Francisco, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Santa Cruz Film Festival. Outdoor performances will be hosted in collaboration with the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In, the KFC collective, the Santa Cruz Film Festival and more. A complete event program can be found on line at http://may2008.artintervention.org/.
Conference outline University of California, Santa Cruz:
May 14: Visual and Performance Studies (VPS) pre-conference Seminar 5–7pm
May 15: Interruption of Hierarchies: the academy and the gallery
How do galleries and academic institutions accommodate interventionist art's demands on audiences?
Panelists: Josh Greene, Shannon Jackson, Larry Rinder, Tina Takemoto, and Nato Thompson
Creative lunch and afternoon interventions and performances
Keynote address: Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison 6:00 pm University Center
The Show Starts On the Sidewalk screenings begin, and continue nightly
May 16: Art and Life, Life and Art: creating community
How do interventionists address the everyday as art?
Panelists: Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Linda Montano, Judith Rodenbeck, Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens
Creative lunch with writer Terri Cohn and Laura Parker, afternoon interventions and performances, Inflatable museum and Sesnon Gallery opening
May 17: Subversive Complicity: community, protest and resistance
How do artists subvert and influence systems to explore political, public and private concerns?
Panelists: Laurel Beckman, EG Crichton, Sharon Daniel, Dee Hibbert-Jones, Bradley McCallum, Jacqueline Tarry, The Yes Men; moderated by Jennifer González
Creative lunch with theorist Dore Bowen & the SJSU Archival Lounge
Closing Event: Green Wedding by the Love Art Lab’s Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens
Exhibitions and public events hosted by:
Sesnon Gallery at Porter College, UCSC
April 16 - May 17: Interruption of Hierarchies exhibition
http://arts.ucsc.edu/sesnon/
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
March 28- May 17: Art and Life exhibition: This Show Needs You
http://www.sjica.org/
The LAB, San Francisco
May 1 - May 24: Subversive Complicity exhibition
http://www.thelab.org/
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Atrium installation by Robin Lasser & Adrienne Pao
http://www.santacruzmah.org/
The Show Starts at the Sidewalk
Nightly screenings in San Jose, Santa Cruz and San Francisco
http://www.nomitalisman.info/NewsOpenCall.htm
For full details visit http://may2008.artintervention.org/.
Curators & Organizers:
E.G. Crichton, Allegra Fortunati, Shelby Graham, Clare Haggarty, Dee Hibbert-Jones, Lindsay Kelley, Natalie Loveless, Jamie McMurry, Heather Mikolaj, Lissette Olivares, Susan O'Malley, Elizabeth Stephens, Catherine Soussloff, Jane Sullivan, Nomi Talisman & Bill Basquin, Grant Wilson
Sponsors:
UCSC sponsorship: Arts Research Institute, the Dean's Fund for Excellence, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Museum Without Walls/Center for Art and Visual Studies planning, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Porter College, the Vice Chancellor of Research, Visual and Performance Studies.
Collaborative sponsorship: the LAB in San Francisco, Museum of Art and History Santa Cruz, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, Santa Cruz Film Festival, Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In
Artists & Panelists:
Marilyn Arsem; Julie Bacon; Adina Bar-On; Chris Barr; Laurel Beckman; Elisheva Biernoff; Dore Bowen & the SJSU Archival Lounge; Julia Bradshaw, James Morgan, & Bennett Goble; Nao Bustamante; Cheto Castellano; the Center for Tactical Magic; Shannon Cochrane; Susanne Cockrell & Ted Purves; Terri Cohn; Cesar Cornejo; Holly Crawford; E.G. Crichton & Lauren Crux; Sharon Daniel; Joseph DeLappe; Angela Ellsworth; Lori Gordon; Kianga Ford; Guillermo Gómez-Peña; Josh Greene; Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison; Alejandra Herrera; Geoffrey Hendricks; Bryan Hewitt and Vita Hewitt; Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman; Shannon Jackson; Packard Jennings; Lindsay Kelley; Hiroko Kikuchi; Pawel Kwasniewski; Suzanne Lacy; Robin Lasser & Adrienne Pao; Heike Liss & Ellen Lake; Chip Lord & Curtis Schreier; Natalie Loveless; Stephanie Loveless & EE Miller; Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry; Christina McPhee; Dan McKereghan; Linda Montano; Nancy Nisbet; Lissette Olivares; Jennifer Parker with Matthew McGuinness; Laura Parker; Alison Pebworth; Sasha Petrenko; Johanna Poethig with VPA Painting and Mural Class (CSUMB); Larry Rinder; Judith Rodenbeck; Lizabeth Eva Rossof; Martha Rosler; Alyssa C. Salomon; Markuz Wernli Saito; Jonathan Santos; Randy Sarafan; Joseph Schultz; Ann Simonton; Michael Smit; Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle; Tina Takemoto; Sara Thacher; Nato Thompson; Michael Trigilio; Lee Wen; Sherri Lynn Wood; Veronica Wiman; the Yes Men; and others
Individual artists sponsored by:
Israeli Consulate General of the Pacific Northwest, National Arts Council Singapore, Santa Cruz Public Arts Commission
For more information about this event, or to schedule interviews with the artists, please call Lindsay Kelley at (831) 440-8964 or email interruptions.coordinator@gmail.com.
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9. EVENT: The Sudden Change
Date: May 10-30, 2008: Source: Mideo Cruz
cultural and environmental inspection and creation project of the Three Gorges Dam area
May 10-30, 2008
Sichuan Province China
CaiQing (Singapore)
Jerome Ming (Singapore)
Paisan Plienbangchang (Thailand)
Jittima Pholsawek (Thailand)
Mideo M Cruz (Philippines)
WangChuYu (China)
ZhouBin (China)
Yangtze River as the most important river in China encompasses a very large ecosystem, which was the breeding ground of the ancient Chinese civilization, carrying a unique memory of the culture history. All these important cultural properties have been drastically changed since the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. The water level in Yangtze River raises 175 meter. Numerous valuable archaeological and cultural sites have been destroyed. Millions of people were forced to abandon homes where they lived for generations. The significant adverse effects upon wild life and cultural memories are brutal. We wish to present our self-criticism and concerns through this art project.
For this art event, some contemporary artists from different Asian countries will spend 10 to 15 days in Three Gorges Dam area. Through observations and interactions with the local population, they will experience the huge transformation in the area and express their position through their art.
We are convinced that through this project we will encourage the Asian artists to express their feeling towards the drastically changing world surrounding them.
Director: ZhouBin
Organizer: Chengdu UP-ON Live Art Space
Support: ARTSNETWORKASIA
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10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Between Video and Performance
Date: May 30, 2008; Source: Western Front
Media Arts Residency, September 2008
The Western Front Society, Vancouver
In 2008, it still remains a fact that the most successful artists are male: 86.5% to be exact. (Artifacts.net Top 100).
Western Front Media Arts seeks proposals for new works in feminist video and performance for a unique residency at The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada that will commence in September 2008. In October and November 2008, the produced work will be included in a forthcoming exhibition of feminist video art at the Western Front, co-curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland and Candice Hopkins.
Media Arts Residencies at the Western Front
The Media Arts Residency Program at the Western Front promotes experimentation and innovation by inviting local, national, and international artists to research and produce new works in media arts. In keeping with the Western Front's emphasis on interdisciplinary practices, this program forefronts unique explorations of undefined creative arenas including, but not limited to: site-specific gestures, experimental projects, process pieces and unusual initiatives in media art practice today. The focus of this residency is to support the production of a new experimental work for presentation within the larger context of feminist creative practices.
Western Front Media Arts seeks to present a range of artists; artists from all levels of experience are strongly encouraged to apply, as are artists from diverse backgrounds. Applications from artists from other disciplines who wish to expand their creative practices into media arts are welcomed.
Projects are made possible through access to production facilities and technical support from an expert team of qualified staff and volunteers. Financial support is available in the form of travel expenses and artist fees. For further details, visit www.front.bc.ca or contact media@front.bc.ca.
The exhibition will present a range of video-based practices that explore the relationship between liveness and media, the roots of feminist video, persona development as a critical methodology, and the performance of gender. This exhibition will feature the works of Canadian feminist art pioneers Kate Craig and Wendy Geller as well as works by local and international artists. In association with the Vancouver Art Gallery's WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the exhibition is conceived as a contribution to the larger discourses of WACK! and highlights women artists using videomaking as a strategy and proposes alternatives to dominant narratives of contemporary art.
How to Apply
Artists wishing to be considered for Between Video and Performance - New Feminist Strategies Media Arts Residency in September 2008 are invited to submit proposals on or before Friday May 30th, 2008. Candidates must send a project description, production schedule, technical specifications and CV by post only, to:
Between Video and Performance - New Feminist Strategies
Media Arts Programme
The Western Front
303 East 8th Avenue
604-876-9343
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11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Mix Festival
Date: June 2, 2008; Source: Mix Festival
2009 performance mix application
Deadline (Post-Marked or Delivered): Monday, June 2, 2008
The Performance Mix Festival presents the developing work of over 30 experimental choreographers, composers, video artists, and multi-disciplined artists annually in the spring (2009 dates and location TBA). Works must be under 15 minutes in length. Longer pieces will be accepted by invitation only. We will not accept proposals from artists who are being presented during the 2008-09 season at Joyce SoHo or by another presenting organization or self-produced in Spring 2009. Artists receive a fee, complimentary video documentation, and rehearsal space. Selected artists will be considered for presentation through the NDA Exchange, multi-city touring in Philadelphia and Montreal, and participation in artist residencies at White Oak in Yulee, FL, and Earthdance in Plainfield, MA. Artists are selected by a panel of past participants, headed by NDA Director Karen Bernard. If you have questions, please e-mail us at kb@newdancealliance.org.
New Dance Alliance 182 Duane Street New York, NY 10013 (212) 226-7624
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12. CALL FOR PROPOSALS - openEPAF
Date: June 10, 2008; Source: W. Tatarczuk
Call for proposals: Open programme of the European Performance Art Festival
openEPAF 2008
The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw/Poland invites emerging performance artists to submit performance proposals for the open programme of the European Performance Art Festival open EPAF 2008. The festival will take place from 11 to 13 September 2008. We would like to invite 10 artists to take part in openEPAF. Artists who qualify to participate in the festival will receive: materials, equipment and CCA space required for performance; board and lodging during the festival; photographic and video documentation of the performance presented during the festival; the author s fee of 1000 PLN and travel costs. Performances to be presented at openEPAF will be selected by a jury consisting of artists and art critics.
In order to participate in openEPAF, you have to submit an application
containing the following:
1. first name and surname, biographical note, address
2. short description (not longer than 2000 characters) of the proposed
performance, including the duration of the performance, materials,
equipment and space required for the performance
3. video material with the documentation of previous performances (with a
description containing the title, date and place of the performance) 3
photographs documenting previous performances
Proposals should be submitted by 10 June 2008 personally or by mail at the following address:
EPAF 2008
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle
ul. Jazdow 2
00-467 Warszawa, Poland
and by email (only the information specified in 1 and 2 above) at:
openepaf (at) csw.art.pl
Decision of the jury will be announced before the end of June 2008. If you have questions or need clarification or some information, please
write to us email: openepaf (at) csw.art.pl
Waldemar Tatarczuk / EPAF Curator
Wojciech Krukowski / Director of CCA Ujazdowski Castle
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13. CALL FOR ENTRIES: Harvestworks Video Art Festival #003
Date: June 16, 2008; Source: Maya Suess
Founded by artists in 1977, Harvestworks Digital Media Center (HDMC) has helped a generation of artists create new works using technology. HDMC invites artists to submit videos of all types (experimental, animation, music video, documentary, performance-art, silent, short, etc) for a guest curated video art festival. Works selected from this call, as well as by private invitation, will be featured in a series of themed screenings in September 2008.
Postmark Deadline: June 16, 2008
Details and entry form available at http://www.harvestworks.org
Contact: videoscreening003@harvestworks.org
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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 sponsorship of our ongoing activities.
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