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FADO E-LIST (September 2008)FADO Performance Art Centre E-Bulletin - September 2008
FADO News 1. What is Important? Performance Art Workshop with BBB Johannes Deimling
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FADO NEWS
1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Performance Art Workshop What is Important? Performance Art Workshop With BBB Johannes Deimling
Presented in cooperation with FADO Performance Art Centre and in conjunction with the 7a*11d International Festival Friday October 17-Tuesday October 21, 2008
In cooperation with FADO Performance Art Centre, internationally recognized performance artist and educator BBB Johannes Deimling will be offering an Intensive Performance Art Workshop in Toronto from October 17-21, 2008. Entitled What is Important? this intensive workshop rounds up after 5-days with public performances presented during the start of the 7th biannual 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. Workshop participants will have the unique opportunity to experience the local, Canadian and International performance art scene as it converges on Toronto for the 7th International 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art.
The aim of this 5-day intensive workshop is to develop an Art-Performance. Workshop participants will present these new works during a public presentation at the festival.
Workshop Objectives and Strategies: Over the course of the workshop, participants will:
PLEASE NOTE Participants are responsible for paying for travel, accommodation and personal expenses. It is our goal to offer this workshop at a reasonable fee and to facilitate finding the best possible options for travel and accommodation. Please contact FADO Performance Art Centre for all general inquiries.
Application forms can be obtained by contacting: info@performanceart.ca http://www.bbbjohannesdeimling.de
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2. FADO Publications now available: From Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars
Available from: Please contact info@performanceart.ca for more information on these and other FADO publications.
+++ 3. Upcoming FADO presentations: êkâya-pâhkaci by Cheryl L'Hirondelle
Presented in conjunction with the 2008 imagineNATIVE Festival FADO Performance Art Centre presents êkâya-pâhkaci [ee-guy-uh-puck-a-chee] (don’t freeze up) by Cheryl L’Hirondelle. êkâya-pâhkaci operates through an intersection of nomadic site-specificity, visual patterning, language, narrative, movement and rhythm. In this work, Cheryl stages a performance presented under an adaptable traveling tent from where she relates and offers information to the audience using her body, voice and graffiti/tagging. The audience, by proximity and in accepting her invitation to witness her activities 'comes in from the cold' and becomes part of her 'camp'.
Cheryl L’ Hirondelle (aka Waynohtêw, Cheryl Koprek) is an Alberta born halfbreed (Metis/Cree-non status/treaty, French, German, Polish) artist and musician. Her creative practice is an investigation of the junction of a cree worldview (nêhiyawin) in contemporary time and space. Since the early 80's, L'Hirondelle has created, performed and presented work in a variety of artistic disciplines, including: music, performance art, theatre, performance poetry, storytelling, installation and new media. In the early 90's, she began a parallel career as an arts consultant and programmer, cultural strategist/activist, and director/producer of both independent works and projects within national artist-run networks. L'Hirondelle's practice as a musician has also garnered her several nominations and awards, including Award for Best Female Traditional Cultural Roots Album (2006) and the 2007 Best Group Award from the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, for Fusion of Two Worlds, the first CD from her Aboriginal Women's ensemble, M'Girl.
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A Space Gallery presents a performance by Claudia Bernal September 10 at 6pm
Claudia Bernal’s video installation and performance Made of the Same Blood addresses what is considered a collective drama in Colombia as well as in many other regions of the world: the forced displacement of entire communities as a result of armed conflicts and violence. Thousands of lives have been shattered in the incessant crossfire between right-wing paramilitary forces, drug cartels and left-wing guerrilla armies for over 50 years. Made of the Same Blood epitomizes the impact of such collective trauma-the threat not only of eviction but of extinction-and captures Aboriginal and African women's struggling presence by incorporating fragmentation of space and elements from the area's coastal region. Traces of isolation, movement, and uprooting are evoked by the artist.
This performance is part of an exhibition entitled Pilgrimage of Wanderers (see below for more information)
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A Space Gallery presents Pilgrimage of Wanderers Curated by Tamara Toledo Opening Reception: Friday September 5, 2008 6-9pm Exhibition runs from September 5th to October 10th, 2008
Pilgrimage of Wanderers attempts to tackle a peripheral terrain of unexpected arrivals and departures by not only presenting a graphic spectacle of trauma, but by leaving an imprint of the ordeal of violence. Attached to memory and inspired by a distant place, the artists share a humble yet fervid voice determined to pursue redemption. Through performance, video, installation, sculpture and drawing the artist’s address and embody issues of mobility, displacement, nomadism, and exile. A Space Vitrines: Suspiros Archivados / Archived Sighs Guillermina Buzio The multi-layered altarpiece installation, spaced throughout four encased vitrines, shows us the artist's travels and adaptation through life journeys, refracted through an offering of homage to individuals who have shared the space she once inhabited. The artist offers a testimony, a reconstruction of a mausoleum, time for retrieval, a voice given to the unheard, and a space for commemoration.
Decaying Empire Performance at 401 Richmond Street West Parking Lot (Friday Sept 5, 5-6pm) Montreal-based artists' Decaying Empire shares a mysterious tale based on socio-political hierarchies. The iconic image of an isolated and arrogant queen is adorned by extravagant clothes, decorated with layers of make-up; we witness the cracking of skin, deterioration of image and the queen's endless effort to hide the disintegration and decomposition of an old regime. Surrounded by kitsch objects with a backdrop of graffiti, she presides over a parking-lot stage doomed to displacement and disappearance.
Co-presented with Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace
A Space Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday 11 AM-6 PM, Saturday noon-5 PM For further information please
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6. EVENT: Awaiting Your Return
Awaiting Your Return
Gallery 44 (401 Richmond St. W #120) Opening: Friday September 5, 6-9pm
Wednesday September 10 2008, 7-9pm
Chilean Art and Action: Subverting Order, Performing Change Josefa Ruiz Caballero: Where are They? Absence and Presence of a Body Made Image Caballero delves into the problems of photography as a media of representation and provides two examples in which artists use images of the A.F.D.D. (Families of the Detainees and Disappeared). Awaiting Your Return is presented in conjunction with the Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace
Biographies Josefa Ruiz Caballero graduated with honours in Theory and Art History from the University of Chile. Ruiz has published essays in Punto de Fuga and has collaborated in various art projects in Santiago, Canela, and Toronto.
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7. EVENT: Anthropometry Revision, solo exhibition by Lee Wen
SooBin Art Int'l cordially invites you to the opening of Anthropometry Revision Wednesday 10 September 2008
Performance & Installation
Performance: 10pm till late, 10 September 2008 Exhibition of installation continues from 11 to 17 September, 11am to 6pm
Anthropometry Revision: Yellow period (after Yves Klein) #2 On 13 April 2008, Chengdu, China, I collaborated with Jiang Jing, He Liping in a performance re-visiting the historical performance of Yves Klein’s “Anthropometries” (1958 & 1960) with reference to my own contexts as well as within local conditions. On 10 September 2008 I will collaborate with Arai Shinichi, Lynn Lu with music by Kai Lam and Jeremy Hiah to re-visit Yves Klein’s "Anthropometries" highlighting different aspects and circumstances. Klein conducted some models in using the female body as 'living brushes' to make body prints and paintings on paper. While the "Monotone Symphony" was being performed, with a nine-piece orchestra playing one single note. Yves Klein had three nude models cover themselves in blue paint and affix their body prints on the white papers, laid out on the gallery walls and floor. In using the models as if paint brushes, Klein's motivations were based on that of "removing the hand" of the artist.
Based on these explorations by Yves Klein, I have re-opened discussions of Klein's work in contemporary situation such as: ALSO Launching 'Anthropometry Revision', an 82 pages catalog will be launched on 10 September with colored plates and 5 essays by: Lee Wen, Adele Tan, Ray Langenbach, Zha Zhangping and Lukasz Guzek.
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8. EVENT: European Performance Art Festival (EPAF 2008)
Participating Artists: lectures, discussions:
curator: Waldemar Tatarczuk Centre for Contemporary Art 'Ujazdowski Castle'
cooperation:
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9. EVENT: The City Re-imagined, Re-invented!
The City Re-imagined, Re-invented! aceartinc., Urban Shaman Gallery, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art are thrilled to present (in) visible cities-a performance art festival in Winnipeg's Exchange District from September 6th to 13th, 2008. Transforming, Shape-shifting Artists!
You! Work it! Mix it up!
Performance and Activism in Everyday Life, led by Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, is a two-day workshop expanding ideas of performance art practice in relation to collaboration, community, and activism. Freestyle SoundHack, led by Jessica Thompson, is a one-day workshop/performance involving the creation of wearable sound pieces that generate and broadcast electronic beats as users move through urban environments. Meet the Artists! Exchange Ideas! Incite! Morphing, Resonating Cities!
You are invited to witness and participate in events that expand possibilities for performative agency while also speaking to the politics of place-of cultural visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, utopia and urban myth, renewal and resistance. Through (in) visible cities we offer new forms for imagining how urban dwelling, telling, exchange, site and history can be reinvented. A full festival schedule with dates, times and venues will be available by mid-August. For more information about (in) visible cities, contact: Urban Shaman Gallery
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10. EVENT: On A Sunnyside Mourning, 2008
A performance by: Emma Baron, Annie Onyi Cheung, Adam Herst, John Loerchner, Laura Mendes, Gram Schmalz, and Laura Smith The Sunnyside Amusement Park was a popular tourist destination that was demolished in 1956 as the Gardiner Expressway rumbled its way through and severed Parkdale's relationship with the lakefront and eliminated a thriving beachside village. This collective of artists will perform a site-specific durational work: some clad in beachwear from the period basking and enjoying the beach, while others dressed as construction workers will begin to bury the beachgoers under a pile of gravel. The performance evolves into an ominous sculptural installation as the beachgoers remain buried, embodying the history of Parkdale.
This performance will be part of the Queen West Art Crawl + PLAY/GROUNDS program. Information and a listing for all performances and installations for PLAY/GROUNDS can be found at this link:
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11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Flax International Residency
To apply please submit a single-page proposal, CV and up to ten examples of your work. Applications should be posted or emailed to: Brendan Jamison, Programme Coordinator, Flax Art Studios, United Optical Deadline for applications: 10am on 15 September 2008
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12. EVENT: INFR'ACTION '08
The fourth edition of Infr'Action - Festival International d'Art Performance will take place in Sète from September 17 to 22. We continue actively to do our best to establish a scene for performance art in France. A place where art lovers can go to discover major international artists as well as emerging new talent. It is also an event where you can go and have a nice time, in the splendid milieu of the Mediterranean city of Sète. Infr'Action also takes on the issue of cultural democracy, trying to find new ways to facilitate peoples access to contemporary art. Infr'Action is keen to answer to questions concerning gender and multiculturalism.
Each year the festival invites a country of honour, like Finland (2006), the United Kingdom (2007). This year the honour has come to Canada. No need to ask why. The Canadian scene of performance art is very strong, with a new generation of emerging artists, beside having a strong tradition.The fourth edition of Infr'Action sees its first co-curator in the person of Sylvette Babin, Canadian artist and director of the Montréal based contemporary art magazine esse-arts + opinions.
This years theme focus on the theoretical and practical notion that "everybody is an artist". Performances from:
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13. EVENT: Préavis de Désordre Urbain à Marseille
PREAVIS DE DESORDRE URBAIN
Artists performers from Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Japan, Canada, France, Belgium, Netherlands propose to public and passer-by artistic actions in real context which metamorphose the urban dailylife. 4 strong moments: One day of Urban disorder itinerary from the Joliette area to the FRAC (contemporary art centre), indoors in Friche la Belle de mai, Avis de Chantier in Réformés area and Préavis d'Insomnie in Point de Bascule. The artists are invited to Préavis to participate to a residency-laboratory just before the festival. These moments of research, experimentation, confrontation and exchanges are linked to Red Plexus, resource centre devoted to contemporary performances created by Ornic'art.
Artists:
For more information, email: Preavisdedesordreurbain@gmail.com
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14. EVENT: Nomadic Residents with Orlan
Join the Ontario College of Arts and Design and Partners in Art in welcoming the third artist in the Nomadic Residents program: Orlan. Tuesday September 30, 2008
From plastic surgery interventions and performances to photography and digital works, ORLAN has been a formidable international presence in contemporary art for over four decades.
"Few artists have dismantled our ideas of who and what we are as forcefully as ORLAN."
15. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Performance Research (Vol. 14 No.2)
Performance Research
Issue Editors:
Training-it's a word that many university academics learnt early on not to use. They in the university did education while others, somewhere else, somewhere lesser, did-well-the other thing. For this issue of Performance Research interested specialists-who may of course include university academics – are invited to submit contributions on the matter of training. Contributors are invited to reflect on one or more of these approaches, or indeed to challenge their assumptions. Contributions can, as usual, take a variety of print-based forms and work in a range of reflective and analytic modes. Visual material could include diagrams of training exercises, photographs of training regimes, their bodies and contexts. The editors would like there to be a wide spread of disciplinary engagement with training, so that, for example, a reflection on the training of an actor, acrobat or dancer sits alongside a similar reflection on a priest, a soldier, an athlete. And these reflections may then sit alongside accounts of the training experience from a magician to a casualty nurse, a suicide bomber to a holiday rep. Deadlines are as follows: Sandra Laureri
performance-research@aber.ac.uk
Issue specific enquiries should be directed to:
16. EVENT: M:ST Festival announces participating artists in 2008 festival
In the spirit of creating exciting relationships between artists, organizations, and communities, the fourth edition of the Mountain Standard Time Festival will take place from October 3rd to 17th 2008. Alberta’s only biennial of performative art, M:ST celebrates innovative and critically engaged performative art in the southern Alberta region. Kelly Jaclynn Andres This year's festival is not to be missed!
17. EVENT: exist in 08, a live art event/symposium
exist in 08 a live art event/symposium October 2008 Queensland, Australia
exist in 08 brings local, national and international Live Art practitioners together in a curated event that includes afternoon & evening performances, creative development projects, artists talks, forums, screenings and durational installations. exist in 08 is calling for performance works on DVD (PAL format) to be screened in the foyer of the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts each afternoon and evening of the festival from 5pm-10pm Wednesday October 22nd-Saturday October 25th.
The screenings installation is an opportunity for artists to present documented Live Art works to a new audience, in the context of an international event. exist in 08 offers no funds for the screenings program. Accepted works will feature in the event catalogue alongside international and national work.
The curators’ decision regarding screenings will be final and no negotiations with proponents will be entered into. Artists wishing to propose a DVD should email a brief project description, a bio, an artists’ statement or manifesto (all in no more than two pages of A4), by 5pm September 1st. DVDs should be forwarded to:
Please included stamped addressed envelope for DVD returns.
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18. EVENT: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
7a*11 International Festival of Performance Art
Toronto...7a*11d is pleased to announce the 7th biannual International Festival of Performance Art to Toronto audiences from October 23 to November 2. Presented in association with our festival and gallery partners, daily and evening performance art events take place at Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto Free Gallery, The Theatre Centre and various outdoor public sites around the city.
7a*11d is proud to announce our forthcoming 7th full-scale festival, a culmination of 11 years working together as an artist-run collective. In order to celebrate this accomplishment, the 2008 7a*11d festival promises a unique and wide-ranging mix of progressive and provocative new performance works by over 30 of the global performance art community’s most exciting and innovative contemporary performance artists. Established in 1997, 7a*11d is Toronto's only international festival of performance art. For the 2008 festival, we have assembled a roster of emerging and established artists from Burma, Japan, Singapore, Serbia, Poland, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Mexico and the US, plus Toronto artists and national icons from across Canada. The festival hosts residencies, performance art events, panel discussions, artists talks, video/performance screenings and workshops in 11 jam-packed days. Festival Highlights include:
The Residents:
d2d = direct to documentation: FADO Performance Art Centre presents Will Kwan (Toronto), Sakiko Yamaoka (Japan), Angelika Fojtuch (Poland) and BBB Johannes Deimling (Poland/Germany), PLUS offers a special 5-day intensive performance art workshop with BBB Johannes Deimling.
PLUS performances from:
Full schedule available on-line in September
www.7a-11d.ca Get on the mailing list by emailing info@performanceart.ca Presented in association with our 2008 partners: Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto Free Gallery, FADO Performance Art Centre, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Festival, Vtape, and Pleasure Dome. 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art is pleased to acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts Inter-arts and Visual Arts Programs, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and the Swiss government funding agency, Pro-Helvetia.
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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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