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Life=Art=Life Presented by Blank Slate with support from the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. Life=Art=Life is curated by neoist addict Istvan Kantor. Life=Art=Life is designed to be an exploratory forum evaluating the past and present trends of performance art in the context of everyday life. Under the auspices of Blank Slate, the weekend event will bring together local and international artists and theorists to present and discuss their work. The artists include local tableau-vivant diva, Louise Liliefeldt; art-action ambassador Richard Martel from Quebec City; writer, professor and Dr. of destruction and art theory Kristine Stiles from North Carolina; and self declared non-artist Tehching Hsieh from New York City forever famous for his one year performances. Among guests at the Sunday panel discussion will be One Night Only, a Regina based performance art collective, in Toronto for their event Home Repair hosted by Fado. The six members of the group are Adam Budd, Felipe Diaz, Blair Fornwald, Tanis Keiner, Tammy McGrath, and Anna Scott. Today it seems to us, that performance art, as a rebellious and revolutionary force, has completed its mandate by infiltrating every aspect of life. The life=art=life theory, historically supported by the avant garde, has never been more relevant than today. If it is true that performance art, as a social engine and generator of change, has accomplished its mission, then what is its’ place in current artistic activities and everyday life? Blank Slate hosts forums for discussions, critical talks, conferences, workshops and interdisciplinary events, conducted in a non-intimidating environment. Participants are encouraged to freely express their ideas concerning today's artistic activities, new trends, theoretical issues and practical methods. The purpose of Blank Slate is to encourage everyone in the exploration of creative ideas and critical thinking, blending together science, technology, philosophy, politics and art.
February 20, 7:30pm,
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS My idea is that time becomes the main thing, how I pass the time is my main concern. It doesn’t matter what I do, I pass time. Toronto based painter, teacher and curator, Louise Liliefeldt, is today highly regarded internationally as a performance artist. Her work is often presented in a public setting where she installs herself in site specific locations, creating environments that incorporate self made objects or video projections. Liliefeldt’s concerns focus on political issues of gender and race, cultural conventions of spectatorship and the links between expanded emotional and psychological states with the physical experience. She is a member of the Shakewell Performance art Collective, Class Act, and is co-founder of 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art in Toronto. Richard Martel is a multidisciplinary artist who has vested the majority of his artistic experiences in Quebec. As a performance artist, writer, curator, theorist, teacher, Martel is particularly interested in the dissemination of avant-garde principles and practices in the fields of contemporary art and cultural production. Martel is a founding member of the renowned contemporary art journal Inter, and in 1982 he co-founded Le Lieu, an artist-run centre located in Quebec City. Kristine Stiles is an associate professor of (Art History) at Duke University. She is a prolific writer on contemporary art theories, a multi-disciplinary artist and an academic. Her performances have been widely celebrated with such fellow artists as Yoko Ono, Francesco Conz and Sherman Flemming. Stiles co-edited Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (1996). Currently, she is working on five books.
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