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FADO E-LIST (February 2010)

February 21, 2010

INDEX

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

Date: Friday February 26, 2010

2. EVENT: Tanya Mars – Six Images in Search of an Artist: Remix

Dates: March 18-19, 2010; Source: Theatre Centre

3. WORKSHOP: Performing Intimacy with Jess Dobkin

Dates: March 22-26, 2010; Source: Studio 303

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

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

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

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

 

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

Date: Friday February 26, 2010

 

THIS FRIDAY!!

 

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 urges you not to miss this evening of new performance works from two of N. Ireland’s rising generation of performance artists, Sinead O’Donnell and Hugh O’Donnell. The artists, who are siblings, have often created performances together. In these premiere Toronto works, each artist inhabits a different physical space in the gallery. The work of both artists is exemplified by their deeply personal image-making response to site, and a provocative use of and relationship to their chosen materials – salt, milk, liver, a stack of white dinner plates, a gallery lined in patterned fabric.

 

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. She is highly active in the local Belfast performance art scene, working with Bbeyond and other local organizations to foster performance art activity and mentor emerging artists in her community. 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: Tanya Mars – Six Images in Search of an Artist: Remix

Dates: March 18-19, 2010; Source: Theatre Centre

 

EXCLUSIVE 2 FOR 1 OFFER TO FADO E-SUBSCRIBERS 

 

Experience Tanya Mars’ latest performance installation, her first since winning the 2008 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, for just $5.

 

Tanya Mars - Six Images in Search of an Artist: Remix

FREE FALL 10

Presented by The Theatre Centre

In partnership with Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage

 

Mars’ new work explores and exploits the senses, as influenced by the images in the French medieval tapestry Tenture de la Dame à la Licorne:  taste, touch, sight, hearing, smell and “à mon seul désir” as the sixth sense. 

 

During the 14-hour performance installation a series of beautiful, allegorical tableaux will grapple with some weighty, perhaps unanswerable, philosophical questions about the nature of truth and reality. Is what we see, hear, smell, touch, taste real? Or is what we think is real/true an illusion? How does intuition affect our perceptions of truth and reality? Can ‘the heart’ triumph?

 

Thursday 18 – Friday 19 March from 3 - 10pm

(patrons can drop in and out at any point throughout the performance) 

Venue: The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West

www.theatrecentre.org

Ticket Offer: 2 tickets for just $10. 

To Book: call The Theatre Centre box office 416 538 0988 and quote ‘Fado offer’

 

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3. WORKSHOP: Performing Intimacy with Jess Dobkin

Dates: March 22-26, 2010; Source: Studio 303

 

PERFORMING INTIMACY with Jess Dobkin (Toronto)

Dates: March 22-26 mars, 10am to 1pm

Site: Studio 303

Cost: 75$ (Emploi-Québec)

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Studio 303, danse et arts indisciplinés

372 Ste-Catherine Ouest

Montréal Qc H3B 1A2

Tél. 514.393.3771

www.studio303.ca

Twitter: twitter.com/Studio303

Facebook: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9038792463&ref=ts

 

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4. 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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5. 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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