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FADO E-LIST (February 2010)

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February 2, 2010

 

INDEX

 

1. EVENT: FADO presents Sinead O’Donnell & Hugh O’Donnell

Date: Friday February 26, 2010

2. EVENT: Prefix presents The King’s Gambit by Guido van der Werve

Date: Opening on February 4, 2010; Source: Prefix

3. EVENT: Julie André T. Solo Performance

Date: Thursday February 18, 2010; Source: Modern Fuel

4. EVENT: Andre Stitt at The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

Date: January 29 – March 6, 2010; Source: e-artnow.org

5. CATALOGUE: National Review of Live Art 30th Anniversary

Source: Wen Lee

6. WORKSHOP: Performance Art Studies: Extension (Berlin)

Dates: July 2-11, 2010; Source: BBB Joannes Deimling

7. WORKSHOP: Performance Art Studies: Territories (Killeshandra, Ireland)

Dates: May 7-16, 2010; Source: BBB Joannes Deimling

 

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1. EVENT: FADO presents Sinead O’Donnell & Hugh O’Donnell

Date: Friday February 26, 2010

 

Spotlight on Belfast: Sinead O’Donnell & Hugh O’Donnell

Friday February 26 @ 7:30PM

Toronto Free Gallery (1277 Bloor Street West)  $5 / PWYC

 

www.performanceart.ca

 

FADO Performance Art Centre is pleased to present an evening of new works from two of N. Ireland’s rising generation of performance artists, Sinead O’Donnell and Hugh O’Donnell. 

 

Sinead O’Donnell has been creating performance, installation, site and time-based art since 1998. Encountering a place's territoriality, and frequently referencing Ireland, Sinead chooses actions or situations that demonstrate complexity, setting up confrontations between matter and memory, timing and spontaneity, site and space, and intuition and methodology. Sinead O’Donnell is based in Belfast, N. Ireland and her performance work has been presented in Ireland, South America, Middle East and Eastern Europe. This will be Sinead’s first performance in Toronto.

 

Hugh O'Donnell’s has been creating installation, video and performance works since receiving his MFA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster. His performance practice is informed by drawing, found and made objects. Often of an auto-personal nature, O’Donnell’s work is material-based and conceptual, and is concerned with notions of gender and sexuality.  Hugh O’Donnell is based in Belfast, N. Ireland and his performance work has been exhibited in Ireland and internationally in Switzerland, Serbia, Romania and Quebec City. Currently he works with Bbeyond, a Belfast based performance organization established to preserve and promote performance art exchanges within Ireland/N. Ireland and abroad. This will be Hugh’s first performance in Toronto. 

 

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2. EVENT: Prefix presents The King’s Gambit by Guido van der Werve

Date: Opening on February 4, 2010; Source: Prefix

 

Prefix

Opening: Thursday February 4, 2010, from 7-10PM

124-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto

Exhibition runs from February 4-April 24, 2010

 

As its first exhibition of the new year, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is proud to present The King’s Gambit, a selection of recent video and sculptural installations by Dutch wunderkind Guido van der Werve.

 

Curated by Scott McLeod, the exhibition features the Canadian premiere of the installation Nummer Twaalf: Variations on a Theme … (2009) with accompanying “chess piano,” which is his most ambitious work to date. 

 

Consisting of both a video and a sculptural element, van der Werve’s newest work maintains his interest in exploring impossible or hypothetical scenarios. For the video component, the artist has created a three part, forty-minute epic based on several impossible, irresolvable problems: opening a chess game with the “king’s gambit” (a suicidal move which leaves the king vulnerable), tuning a piano perfectly, and counting the stars in the sky. Each of these three parts were filmed in appropriately sublime settings: the famed Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan (of which Marcel Duchamp was a member), the active volcano of Mount St. Helens in Washington, and the San Andreas Fault in California.

 

For the sculptural component, the artist has devised an interactive installation consisting of a custom-built chess table (with two piano benches) which houses a mechanized piano. Developed through a complex transcription of chess notation into musical notation, van der Werve’s “chess piano” transforms each of the game board’s sixty-four squares into a piano key. Viewers are invited to sit-down and “play” the chess piano, with each movement on the game board contributing to the musical score of the piece. The special presentation of this interactive component will be for a limited engagement only, running from Thursday, February 4th to Saturday, February 13th, 2010.

 

Accompanying Nummer Twaalf are two videos that, like many in his oeuvre, depict the artist in what he refers to as “possible scenarios of imaginary realities.” In Nummer Acht: Everything Is Going To Be All Right (2007), the artist walks on the frozen ice of the Finnish Gulf of Bothnia, pursued by a massive icebreaker. The stark drama of this situation, replete with the sound of crushing ice and blowing snow, generates a meditative, hypnotic atmosphere that transforms it into a mythic, never-ending journey. In

Nummer Negen: The Day I Didn’t Turn with the World (2007), the artist stands on the North-Pole axis for twenty-four hours, turning clockwise while the world beneath him turns counter-clockwise. Through this de-synchronization, the artist achieves an unearthly feeling of momentary suspense and separation, which is heightened by the use of time-lapse photography to condense the day-long performance into nine minutes.

 

About the Artist

Guido van der Werve was born in 1977 in the Netherlands and currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Trained as a classical pianist, he studied industrial design, classical archaeology, and Russian literature and culture before completing his visual art education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam). Now only performing on film, his diversified education has enabled him to interweave music, visual art and text into slow, sweeping cinematic gestures. In less than ten years, he has commanded international attention for his melancholy yet humourous, performance-based film and video works. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as in Africa, Asia and South America. Recent solo exhibitions include the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington), Hayward Gallery (London), Kunsthalle Basel, and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), as well as a two-person show at the DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art in Montréal. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, he recently completed a residency at the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York.

 

Acknowledgements

For their support of Guido van der Werve’s The King’s Gambit, Prefix gratefully acknowledges its Official Catering Sponsor à la Carte Kitchen and its Official Hotel Sponsor the Sutton Place Hotel. Also, Prefix gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, the Mondriaan Foundation, the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

 

For more information, print-ready images or to schedule an interview with the artist or curator, please contact:

Jayne Wilkinson

416-591-0357

info@prefix.ca

 

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3. EVENT: Julie André T. Solo Performance

Date: Thursday February 18, 2010; Source: Modern Fuel

 

Julie Andrée T. Solo Performance at Modern Fuel
Artist’s Talk: Wednesday February 17, 2010 at 7pm
Performance: Thursday February 18, 2010 at 7pm
Where: Modern Fuel Gallery, 21 Queen St., Kingston ON

For Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, performance artist Julie Andrée T. will be exploring the possibility of using the body as a canvas, to create a moving drawing suggesting a changing landscape. Without a stable point of reference, the performer oscillates between being a body with an identity and a body-object. Inspired and fascinated by tragic moments, Julie Andrée T. is searching for a universal language while telling a story. She asks, “What if the story is just a deviation to walk towards abstraction?”

The iconoclastic Julie Andrée T. dazzles audiences with disconcerting, moving and unclassifiable performance pieces that deploy an astounding transformation of the body. She has had outstanding success with her unsettling and fascinating works that are a hybrid of performance-installation and theatre. “Not Waterproof” and “Rouge,” for example, will play the Festival TransAmériques this June in Montreal. Julie Andrée T. is now returning to performance presented in the “traditional” way in the experimental space of alternative art galleries, as she explores a new series of performances dealing with the body and drawing.

Join Julie Andrée T. for a discussion of her artistic practice on Wednesday February 17, 2010 at 7pm, and attend the performance on Thursday February 18, 2010 at 7pm.  Both events are at Modern Fuel. Admission is free.

Julie Andrée T. is an installation and performance artist whose works have been shown in Canada, U.S.A, South America, Asia and Europe. From 2008-2009 she taught Performance Art as a guest artist at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (USA). She is also on the programming committee at Inter/Lieu (Quebec City) an artist run center dedicated to Performance and Installation.

Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre
21 Queen St, Kingston Ontario
www.modernfuel.org
Phone: (613) 548-4883
Admission is free, we hope to see you soon!

 

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4. EVENT: Andre Stitt at The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

Date: January 29 – March 6, 2010; Source: e-artnow.org

 

Andre Stitt: Substance

The Golden Thread Gallery

 

www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk

 

Contact: info@gtgallery.co.uk

Phone: 0044 +(0)28 90330920

 

The Golden Thread Gallery

84-94 Great Patrick Street

Belfast. BT1 2LU

Northern Ireland, UK

 

January 29 - March 6, 2010

 

The Golden Thread Gallery, supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council would be delighted if you would join us at the launch of Substance: a major solo exhibition by André Stitt.

 

Stitt is one of Northern Ireland's most important contemporary art exports. He is currently based in Cardiff but the themes that inform his practice are rooted in his formative years in Belfast. His work is highly charged, generally hard hitting and may not be suitable for all audiences. Nevertheless, it is important that we take this opportunity to bring this substantial exhibition to a local audience.

 

Like a hybrid catalogue/retrospective, Substance provides valuable insights into Stitt's performances or 'akshuns' and includes a significant number of pieces that have never been displayed before. The project was conceived by the Spacex Gallery in Exeter and has been expanded and further developed for this exhibition in the Golden Thread Gallery.

 

André Stitt's performance work focuses on difficult and traumatic themes including alienation, oppression, coercion and conflict and often refers back to his experiences of Belfast in the 70s and 80s. We feel that the time is right to revisit this work afresh. As well as a cooling of the political climate, there is now an adequate distance between the events that incited his 'akshuns'and the documentation or residue of his performances to look at the work from a more objective viewpoint.

 

A short film documentary by Lee Stitt, Finbar Maginn & Séan Kaluarachchi in conversation with André Stitt will also be shown for the duration of the exhibition.

 

About the artist

Born in Belfast, N. Ireland in 1958, Stitt is considered one of Europe's foremost performance and interdisciplinary artists. He has worked as an experimental artist since 1976 creating hundreds of unique works at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world.

 

Recent work includes: Venice Biennale 2005, Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, England 2005, The Drawing Centre, New York, 2006, Artspace, Sydney 2007, Asiatopia, Bangkok 2008, Spacex Gallery, England 2008, The Lab, New York, 2009, MCAC, Northern Ireland 2009. In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious Creative Wales Award. He is Professor of Performance and Interdisciplinary Art at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and is the director of the Centre for Fine Art Research at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Wales, UK. In 2000 he opened trace: Installaction Artspace in Cardiff initiating a robust programme of international time based work.

 

About the Gallery

The Golden Thread Gallery is Northern Ireland's leading international contemporary art space, rooted in the local. The gallery offers residents and visitors to Belfast a diverse programme of high quality contemporary art exhibitions and participatory events. As one of Northern Irelands largest visual arts venues the Golden Thread Gallery acts as a platform for a mix of the very best international and local artists, hosting six large-scale exhibitions in the main gallery spaces and twelve exhibitions in its project space. The project space openings are not to be missed and always take place at 6.00pm on the first Thursday of the month as part of Belfast's Late Night Art.

Outreach is at the core of the gallery's activities, working off-site and in partnership with a wide range of communities and groups, devising challenging and innovative projects in addition to providing a range of contextual activities such as artists' talks, gallery tours and workshops. The gallery also publishes exhibition catalogues and books exploring further contemporary practices.

 

Over the last ten years the Golden Thread Gallery has established an excellent reputation for creating exhibitions exploring art from the North Ireland, delivering exhibitions to international audiences through its touring programme. The gallery has delivered numerous curated exhibitions to venues across the UK and Ireland, Europe, North America, China and more recently Taiwan.

 

In recent years the Golden Thread Gallery has been working with a number of artists living and working in Northern Ireland to create a 'not-for-profit' form of artists' representation and has championed their work at national and international art fairs, such as the London Art Fair, Berliner Liste and Scope New York as well as establishing a dedicated in-house sales room. For further information visit our website – www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk, join us on Facebook or call us on ++44(0) 2890 330920

The Golden Thread Gallery is a registered charity and admission is free.

 

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5. CATALOGUE: National Review of Live Art 30th Anniversary

Source: Wen Lee

 

Dear Friends,

The NRLA has published a limited edition Catalogue - or Box Set to celebrate its 30 year history. You can now pre-order by downloading the form available from the New Territories website.

 

The direct link to this is http://www.newmoves.co.uk/pdf/Catalogue_Pre-Order_Form.doc
Pre-ordered Box Sets are also discounted (£35 rather than £45).

The NRLA's 2010 Brochure is posted at:

http://www.newmoves.co.uk/national-review-of-live-art

 

The 2010 NRLA programme features more than 100 artists who have played a part in the festival's thirty-year history including: Akademia Ruchu, Alastair MacLennan, Forced Entertainment, Ian Smith, Julia Bardsley & Andrew Poppy, Kira O'Reilly, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Ian Hinchliffe, La Ribot, Lee Wen, Lei Cox, Michael Mayhew, Neil Bartlett, Ron Athey and Stelarc.

 

Since the 1970s the NRLA has offered a unique festival focus for the live art community, combining work by established practitioners and introducing many new artists to a national and international audience for the first time.

 

Tickets are on sale now and advance booking is strongly recommended

(+44 (0)141 565 1000)

 

The NRLA (17 to 21 March) is part of New Territories 2010

International Festival of Live Art, Scotland 

 

2 - 21 March at The Arches, CCA, GFT, G12 and Tramway, Glasgow.

 

www.newmoves.co.uk

 

The festival is produced by New Moves International and funded by The Scottish Arts Council, Glasgow City Council and the EU Culture Programme 2007-2013.

 

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6. WORKSHOP: Performance Art Studies: Extension (Berlin)

Dates: July 2-11, 2010; Source: BBB Joannes Deimling

 

From July 2-11, 2010 Performance Art Studies (PAS) will take place in Berlin in cooperation with Andres Galeano and Grimmuseum with the topic "Extension". 

 

"Extension aims to create a Performance network, in order to promote the critical and theoretical discourse on Performance Art and to widen the understanding of this relatively young media through active dialogue between artists, critics and audience. Extension is a Performance Art plattform in Berlin presenting international emerging artists. It offers space, infrastructure and time for invited artists to develop new works, discuss their positions with the audience and research new methodologies in the documentation of performances. Extension hosts the tension of the process and extends the performance moment." (taken from Extension Series concept). The Workshop in Berlin will focus on the idea of Extension Series and will try even to extend it.

The aim of this 10-day intensive workshop is to develop an Art-Performance based on the topic of the studies. Workshop participants will present these new works during a public presentation in Berlin. 

 

Workshop Objectives and Strategies

With the guidance and direction of the workshop facilitator, participants will use a variety of techniques and exercises to focus perception of one’s own personality, develop skills to communicate with the body, and transform ideas into a performative work. Personal perception and experience colour and characterize how we communicate and deal with the body in time and space during performance. The main objective of the workshop is to understand the body as a tool and to use this tool to communicate effectively in performance. In addition to the artistic offer, the workshop provides some cultural specials. 

 

OFFER: 

- develop an Art Performance with technical, pedagogical and artistical guidance 

- performative exercises in various conditions, in- and outdoor (focus on: body, time, space, concentration, endurance, in groups and individual) 

- final public presentation of the performance (media promotion, poster, mailing) and final celebration 

- video- and photo documentation of the workshop (DVD), 

- documentation on BBB Johannes Deimling’s and other Performance Art related websites 

- contacts to artists, curators and art institutions in Germany 

- meeting and cooperate with other like-minded people from other countries 

- context of the place, german history and culture, plus the Berlin Biennale that will take place during the period of the studies

- free accommodation in Berlin (10 days) 

 

NOTE:

- Price: (without travel, food and personal expenses) 400 € (350 £, 575 $, 590CHF, 1600 PLN, 6260 EEK) 

Confirmed registrations before the 1st of June 2010, the workshop will cost: 350 € (308 £, 503 $, 516CHF, 1420 PLN, 5480 EEK)

- teaching language: english 

- during the workshop we will have self supply 

- The workshop is open to all people, both emerging and established performance artists, as well as students (minimum age 18 years) 

- The workshop take place at least with 8 participants. 

 

Application forms: download here www.bbbjohannesdeimling.de 

Deadline for applications 25th of June 2010 

Questons, please contact: bbb@bbbjohannesdeimling.de  

 

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7. WORKSHOP: Performance Art Studies: Territories (Killeshandra, Ireland)

Dates: May 7-16, 2010; Source: BBB Joannes Deimling

 

From May 7-16, 2010, Performance Art Studies (PAS) will take place in Ireland, in Killeshandra, Cavan county with the topic "territories". 

 

Animals within their territories don't know about walls, barricades or barbwires, their living grounds are often simply marked by their own smells. Human territores become more complicated, we need passports, money, flags, national identities and uniforms. History has taught us, that these territories often only exist temporarily. After each war or conflict borders have to be remarked and identities are renewed.

 

The PAS Workshop in Ireland will deal with the wounds that still exist from the civil war in Ireland, similar to a lot of other European countries. The topic of the workshop will also ask questions about the territories of an artist and his/her work. The relationship between an art piece and its viewer can create barriers which the artist has to break down, or to build up. The stimulating surroundings of Killeshandra; an extraordinary landscape and an amazing natural environment, will help to find new ways to mark personal, political and artistic territories. The aim of this 10-day intensive workshop is to develop an Art-Performance. Workshop participants will present these new works during a public presentation in the landscape around Killeshandra. 

 

Workshop Objectives and Strategies 

With the guidance and direction of the workshop facilitator, participants will use a variety of techniques and exercises to focus perception of one’s own personality, develop skills to communicate with the body, and transform ideas into a performative work. Personal perception and experience colour and characterize how we communicate and deal with the body in time and space during
performance. The main objective of the workshop is to understand the body as a tool and to use this tool to communicate effectively in performance.   

Besides this artistical offer the workshop provides some cultural specials. 

 

OFFER: 

- develop an Art Performance with technical, pedagogical and artistic guidance 

- performative exercises in various conditions, in- and outdoor (focus on: body, time, space, concentration, endurance, in groups and individual) 

- final public presentation of the performance (media promotion, poster, mailing) and final celebration 

- video- and photo documentation of the workshop (DVD), 

- documentation on BBB Johannes Deimling’s and other Performance Art related websites 

- contacts to artists, curators and art institutions in Ireland 

- meeting and cooperate with other like-minded people from other countries 

- context of the place, Irish history and culture 

- free accommodation in Killeshandra (10 days) 

 

NOTE:

- Price: (without travel, food and personal expenses) 400 € (350 £, 575 $, 590CHF, 1600 PLN, 6260 EEK) 

Confirmed registrations before the 1st of April 2010, the workshop will cost: 350 € (308 £, 503 $, 516CHF, 1420 PLN, 5480 EEK)

- teaching language: english 

- during the workshop we will have self supply 

- The workshop is open to all people, both emerging and established performance artists, as well as students (minimum age 18 years) 

- The workshop will take place at least with 8 participants. 

 

Application forms: download here www.bbbjohannesdeimling.de  

Deadline for applications 2nd of May 2010 

Questions please contact: bbb@bbbjohannesdeimling.de  

 

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About FADO
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Inc. (Performance Art Centre) is a not-for-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO exists to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art. Currently, we are the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. We present the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and new perspectives. Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their on-going support of our endeavors.

 

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