FADO E-Bulletin for April 2012
RIP Bob Raymond. Thanks for everything.
INDEX
1. ARTICLE: The first rule of Mobius is you don’t talk about Mobius
Release date: NOW; Source: Natalie Loveless
2. EVENT: Programme Rencontres d’Arts Visuels de Yaoundé (RAVY)
Dates: April 2-8, 2012; City: Yaounde, Cameroon; Source: Olivier Fokoua
3. EVENT: Performance Event Cologne
Date: April 11, 2012; City: Cologne, Germany, Source: Boris Nieslony
4. EVENT: PALS – Performance Art Links
Dates: April 20-22, 2012; City: Stockholm, Sweden; Source: Denis Romanovski
5. EVENT: Là-bas
Date: April 25-29, 2012; City: Helsinki, Finland; Source: Irma Optimist
6. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Transform the internalized oppressor
Date: April 28, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Claude Wittmann
7. EVENT: Month of Performance Art
Dates: May 1-31, 2012; City; Berlin, Germany; Source: Andrés Galeano
8. WORKSHOP: PAStudies / Object Trouvé
Dates: April 27-May 9, 2012: City: Rotterdam, NL: Source: BBB Johannes Deimling
9. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: VISUALEYEZ 2012
Deadline date: April 27, 2012; City: Edmonton, Alberta; Source: Todd Janes
10. EVENT: RIPA Interuniversity meeting of current performance art
Dates: April 28, 2012; City: Montréal, Canada: Source: Francis O'Shaughnessy
11. EVENT: New Performance Turku Festival
Dates: Mat 3-5, 2012; City: Turku, Finland; Source: Leena Kela
12. RESIDENCY: TRANSMUTED Residency Program
Deadline date: May 7, 2012; City: Mexico City; Source: Pancho López
13. EVENT: Friktioner International Performance Festival
Dates: May 31-June 3, 2012; City: Uppsala, Sweden: Source: SU-EN
14. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Deadline date: May 31, 2012; City: Yangon, Myanmar; Source: Aye Ko
15. WORKSHOP: Intensive Performance Art Workshop with Rachel Echenberg
Dates: July 29-August 3, 2012; City: Toronto; Source: Johannes Zits
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1. ARTICLE: The first rule of Mobius is you don’t talk about Mobius
Release date: immediately; Source: Natalie Loveless
Great article in Art New England about our friends at MOBIUS:
http://artnewengland.com/ed_picks/the-first-rule-of-mobius-is-you-don%E2%80%99t-talk-about-mobius/
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2. EVENT: Programme Rencontres d’Arts Visuels de Yaoundé (RAVY)
Dates: April 2-8, 2012; City: Yaounde, Cameroon; Source: Olivier Fokoua
RAVY - Yaounde Visual Arts Festival, 3rd edition
April 2-8, 2012
April 2: 9am-4pm, Workshop "Cultural Management", On Invitation
April 3: 6pm: performances evening (Institut Français)
April 4: 10am: Conférence: Contemporary art in our society (French Institut Yaoundé) and 2pm: official opening (Contemporary art gallery) vernissage
April 5: 9am-4pm, Meeting of artists and curators
"Organization of Visual Arts and Performance Festivals"
6pm: Launching of exhibition: Video art, installations and performances (Goethe-Institut)
April 6: 3pm: street performances and 6pm: performances evening (CC Hell)
April 7: 3pm: Exposition et installation in situ – vernissage (Centre de Créateurs de Mode de Camerun CCMC) and 6:30pm: performances (centre culturel Francis Bebey)
April 8: Visits of working places of artists in Yaoundé and last day of the festival
In addition to the festival activities a workshop will be organised at Limbe between April 11-14, participants 8 Cameroonian and Nigerian artists, subject of the workshop is Bakassi.
RAVY is an international visual arts festival that is held every two years in Yaounde. For one week, the participation of the Yaounde city dwellers will be solicited for spontaneous artistic interventions in public space and public performances. Other artists will exhibit their works indoors, either in galleries, museums or cultural places. In April, the RAVY festival will receive artists coming from several countries of the world to present their works of painting, sculpture, photography, art video, installation of performances in Yaounde. The festival is also an occasion to enrich the experience of artists and curators through workshops on the practice of contemporary art and on the management of cultural projects.
In the framework of the regional project of the Goethe-Institut “Moving Afrika” several artists and curators from the sub-Saharan region are invited. From Germany the artists and curators Martin Baasch (Künstlerhaus / Mousonturm, Frankfurt, curator performance Festival “Plâteaux”), Harro Schmidt (visual arts, Hannover) and Mark Thomann (curator, Pony Pedro, Berlin) will participate with lectures and presentations.
PARTICIPANTS:
Emkal Eyongakpa (Cameroun) mixed media
Landry Mbassi (Cameroun) intervention
Emile Youmbi (Cameroun) performance
Guy Didier Nguepi (Cameroun) painting
Blondelle Sopze (Cameroun) performance
Salifou Lindou (Cameroun) installation & performance
Christian Etongo (Cameroun) performance
Dieudonné Fokou (Cameroun) performance
Joseph Sumegne (Cameroun) painting
Ginette Daleu (Cameroun) photography
Jean Gerard Bessala (Cameroun) performance
Justine Ngaga (Cameroun) painting
Taiye Idahor (Nigeria) sculpture
Ogunlade Folashade (Nigeria) painting
Richardson Ovbiebo (Nigeria) installation
Jelili Atiku (Nigeria) performance
Philippe Nyirimihigo (Rwanda) photography
Edson Chagas (Angola) photography
Raphael Chikukwa (Zimbabwe) curator
Kirsten Wechselberger (Namibie) curator
Bobb Muchiri (Kenya) photography
Zeferino Tomas Chicuamba (Mozambique) sculpture
Sam Bamda (Malawi) curator
Harro Schmidt (Allemagne) art video
Martin Baasch (Allemagne) curator
Mark Thomann (Allemagne) performance
Marcio Carvalho (Allemagne/Portugal) performance
Ingrid Jejina (hollande) installation & performance
Dominique Gayman (France) installation & art video
The project is coordinated by Serge Olivier Fokoua, the president of the collective Kamer pallets:
http://ravy-cameroun.org/index.php
www.ravy2010.blogspot.com
palettesdukamer@yahoo.fr
fokoua76@yahoo.fr
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3. EVENT: Performance Event Cologne
Date: April 11, 2012; City: Cologne, Germany, Source: Boris Nieslony
Startingpoint: April 11, 2012
Orangerie-Theater im Volksgarten, volksgarten 25, 0677 Cologne
8:00 pm (20:00 Uhr)
Solo performances by:
Michael Dick
Nyan Lin Htet
Waltraud Caspari-Philips
Béatrice Didier
Marita Bullmann
Following an Open Source Performance with different participants
for more information:
0221 952 27 08 (Oranbgerie)
0211 76 34 28 (E.P.I. Zentrum)
asabank@asa.de
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4. EVENT: PALS – Performance Art Links
Dates: April 20-22, 2012; City: Stockholm, Sweden; Source: Denis Romanovski
The 20th to 22nd of April Fylkingen (Stockholm) has the great pleasure of inviting you to PALS, a brand new festival for performance art in Stockholm! The core of performance art is to be found in its presence in the now, in the unique meeting between the artist and her audience. During three days we show works by internationally renowned performance artists -live, here, and now from: Japan, Canada, Germany, Poland, Rumania, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Belarus, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
During the festival startup week we are holding a workshop where a number of experienced artists work together with art students from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland and USA. The students will together with the other festival particiants during the Sunday participate in the concluding part of the festival : "A Performance art guide to ordinary life". Welcome! Free entrance!
www.palsfestival.se
ARTISTS
Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja (Finland)
Agnes Nedregard (Norway)
Bartolome Ferrando (Spain)
BBB Johannes Deimling (Germay)
Gusztav Uto (Romania)
Marcel Sparmann (Germany)
Marta Bosowska (Poland)
Myriam Laplante (Italy)
Sakiko Yamaoka (Japan)
Shannon Cochrane (Canada)
Sinead O'Donnell (Ireland)
Tony Schwensen (Australia/USA)
Yuras Barysevich (Belarus)
Chuyia Chia (Singapore/Goteborg )
Guds Soner (Stockholm)
Joakim Stampe (Goteborg )
Johannes Blomqvist (Gammelstad)
Klas Eriksson (Stockholm)
Maline Casta (Stockholm)
Marit Lindberg (Malmo)
Pernilla Ljungkvist (Goteborg)
Sten Hanson (Stockholm)
Workshop tutors:
Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja (Finland)
Agnes Nedregard (Norway)
Chuyia Chia (Singapore/Sweden, Goteborg )
Johannes Blomqvist (Sweden)
PAS: Marcel Sparmann (Germany)
Lecturers:
Ileana Pintilie (Romania)
BBB Johannes Deimling (Germany)
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5. EVENT: Là-bas
Date: April 25-29, 2012; City: Helsinki, Finland; Source: Irma Optimist
Live art project Là-bas->, active since 2000, is organising - with many collaborators - the second international Lá-bas biennale Concept of Performance for performance art, live art and performed forms of media art in Helsinki 25-29 April 2012.
The five-day biennale includes dozens of solo performances, group actions, durational and processing works in different locations of the biennale. These occur in variouos spaces of contemporary art musem Kiasma, Kattilahalli and Esitystaiteen Keskus (Suvilahti), sound art gallery Akusmata, Student Theatre, Vapaa Taidetila, in urban spaces, Gallery Augusta (Suomenlinna) and on Harakka island.
www.labas.fi
The site contains information about the participating artists, links to their websites and the whole biennale program schedule. The renewed Là-bas website will also become a new forum for discussion on live art.
ARTISTS
Black to Comm
Jaap Blonk
Cleaning Women
Shannon Cochrane
FixC
Juha Forss
Gunk
Eeva-Mari Haikala
Jukka Hautamäki
Rasmus Hedlund & Tuomo Väänänen
Stein Henningsen
Helinä Hukkatavaival
Ikihevonen
Tari Ito
Jozsef Juhász
Shinji Kanki
Tanja Koistila
Leevi Lehto
Osku Leinonen
Maanalainen Seurakunta laulaa
Alastair MacLennan
Thierry Madiot
Messianic Research Centre for Visual Ethics
Kimmo Modig
Nihil Interit
Noises of Russia
Eirikur Örn Norddahl
Anneli Nygren
Irma Optimist
Kaarina Ormio
Ornic'art
Mimosa Pale
Pink Twins
Pilvari Pirtola
Cia Rinne
Alexander Rishaug
Mari Rogers
Peter Rosvik
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
Masha Salangina
Tomasz Szrama
Janne Särkelä
Artur Tajber
Marko Timlin
Adachi Tomoni
Steve Vanoni
Timo Viialainen
Wen Yau
Zenial
Ö
Contact:
Irma Optimist (+35844 359 4227, irmaoptimist@hotmail.com),
Lauri Luhta (+35844 370 5490, lauriluhta@hotmail.com)
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6. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Transform the internalized oppressor
Date: April 28, 2012; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Claude Wittmann
Call for participants/performers by Claude Wittmann, for "transform the internalized oppressor", which will be performed at “Occupations,” the 11th Annual Graduate Conference in Communication and Culture at York University and Ryerson University, in Toronto, on Saturday afternoon April 28, 2012.
Claude says: "transform the internalized oppressor" is a body-based intent that I developed at St-James Park during the occupation. It started as a structured improvisation with musicians from Occupy, became a solo in the dirt of the garden and finally moved to be a duet with Buffalo Runner. It is now a simple yet specific practice that contacts internal oppressors and our own spirits and energy. It requires only to be human and it acts as an opportunity to listen to (the political layers of) our bodies and give them their voices. It is very energizing and clarifying.
Anybody welcome. Please contact Claude Wittmann at clowittmann@gmail.com.
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7. EVENT: Month of Performance Art
Dates: May 1-31, 2012; City; Berlin, Germany; Source: Andrés Galeano
The Month of Performance Art program is now online!
www.mpa-b.org/2012-programme.html
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8. WORKSHOP: PAStudies / Object Trouvé
Dates: April 27-May 9, 2012: City: Rotterdam, NL: Source: BBB Johannes Deimling
PAStudies / Object Trouvé
27th of April - 9th of May 2012
Rotterdam (NL)
In cooperation with Performance Art Festival PAE (www.performanceartevent.nl)
Open Call!
12 places!
Deadline for applications: 15th of April
Early bird price: by confirmed registrations before the 1st of April
Information’s: http://tinyurl.com/PAStudies-2012
Please contact us under: marcel@bbbjohannesdeimling.de to get the application form
The use of material in Performance Art is very open and often marked by the specific articulation of this art form. Material has symbolic character, which is needed for to underline the act or the gesture of the artist. In connection with the body, or the figure material changes often the meaning. As performance artists we are highly attracted to objects, because we are able to create traces through them, we are able to visualize abstract ideas and make them directly touchable. An object allows us to extend our body and imagination.
This workshop will focus on the supportive and enriching aspect of objects within a performance. So how do I decide what is the best matching object for my idea? What is the specific characteristic of an object and where are potential traps during the use?
We are looking for a complete practical approach to all these questions and want to invite you to explore your personal material which support your own artistically language. Not every nice object is a good object for a performance. So where is the difference?
www.performanceartevent.nl
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9. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: VISUALEYEZ 2012
Deadline date: April 27, 2012; City: Edmonton, Alberta; Source: Todd Janes
The Thirteenth annual Visualeyez festival of performance art happens from 10–16 September 2012 in the downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta, exploring on the curatorial theme of loneliness.
Visualeyez takes place over a period of seven days and it is required that all invited artists are able to attend for the entire length of the festival. Artists experience the work of other artists; engage in discussion groups, meals and other activities that enhance the work of individual artists and the performance art community within Canada and beyond. It is important that prior to submitting that artist is available for a minimum of six days during the festival. Please visit www.visualeyez.org for the past festival information.
Curator and Founder of Visualeyez, Todd Janes states, “Visualeyez 2012 builds upon notions of an ever-expanding and more urban city. This theme will explore issues such as emotional versus social isolation, chronic and transient states of loneliness within the city and our inter-relationships with crowds, emptiness and intimacy. I want to present artists that will explore the theme of loneliness and enhance dialogues regarding the societal issues, community connectivity and understanding of the concept and its impact on individuals and society as a whole.”
Proposals should include: a CV; artist statement; a detailed description of the work you wish to present, or explore; and support material that can include images, video, print or digital documentation of your work, catalogues, and press.
If you would like your materials returned to you, please also include sufficient postage or courier materials. Artists shall be contacted by mid-June 2012 regarding the status of their proposals.
Proposals by post to:
Visualeyez 2012
Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture
10248 106 Street, Edmonton, Alberta Canada T5J 1H5
Attention: Todd Janes, Executive Director
Proposals by email to: todd.janes@latitude53.org.
Please be courteous of image size and materials that you are sending.
Please place Visualeyez 2012 submission in the subject line.
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10. EVENT: RIPA Interuniversity meeting of current performance art
Dates: April 28, 2012; City: Montréal, Canada: Source: Francis O'Shaughnessy
It is with real pleasure that we are inviting you to the opening of the 1st edition of RIPA, interuniversity meeting of current performance art that will take place at the Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier on Saturday, April 28th at 7 pm.
2450 Rue Workman, Montréal
(Métro Lionel-Groulx)
RIPA is an event initiated by Catherine D’Avril, Marilyne Fournier and Francis O’Shaughnessy, three Arts students at UQAM. Together, they developed a large-scale event in which students from Quebec and Ontario - UQAC, Laval, UQAM, Concordia, UQO and University of Ottawa - will come to Montreal to defend their artistic distinctiveness in performance art. On this occasion, a professional artist will be invited to perform with the newcomers. RIPA’s goal is to develop the network of performance art in Quebec between the different universities to promote meetings and exchanges between students. The idea is to bring together emerging performers to expose a current art in all its differences.
The featured artists are:
Les Abramovique
Étienne Boulanger
Maxime Bisson
Marilyne Fournier
Nicolas Lapointe
Olivier Lavoie
Gabriel Morest
Sarah Poirier
Snövit Hedstierna.
The artists performing in the RIPA were selected for their fresh outlook in performance art and for the significant contribution they so far brought to their respective communities. This invitation to take part in an event, in a professional context, will build up their confidence and give the performers experience for their future artistic careers.
Tickets for the event will be sold for $5 in presale and $6 at the door. You can contact us through Facebook at the following address: https://www.facebook.com/pages/RIPA -rencontre-interuniversitaire-de-performance-actuelle/305100236212665
RIPA would like to thank its numerous partners, sponsors and collaborators for their support. Without them, the scale of this event would not have been as large.
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11. EVENT: New Performance Turku Festival
Dates: Mat 3-5, 2012; City: Turku, Finland; Source: Leena Kela
New Performance Turku Festival is an international showcase for new performance and Live Art from 3rd to 5th May 2012 in Turku, Finland
A strange looking woman is sliding onto the stage wearing a cheerleader’s uniform and shouting cheers for herself. In the gallery people are discussing their relationship to different kinds of machines and devices. A man dressed up as a triangle is playing an electric piano. Two people stand under the light of two sunlamps and whisper love stories into the ears of passers-by. Where does our notion of freedom evolve from and how is it acted out in performance art?
New Performance Turku is an international festival for performance and Live Art, which takes place at various venues around Turku from 3rd to 5th May 2012. The festival presents a program of both international and national artists from the field of new performance art. The performance venues are Titanik Gallery, Gallery Berner, The Old Town Hall Gallery, Fluxee club at the TEHDAS Theatre, Dynamo Club, Biological Museum, Kutomo, Breathing Pop-Up Space and Wiklund Screen at the Market Square. Some of the works will take place in public spaces around the city.
New Performance Turku Festival wants to examine what is actually happening in the international arena of experimental performance and Live Art, what is new and where do the influences come from. The festival artists are Wathiq Al-Ameri & Ali Al-Fatlawi (Iraq/Switzerland), Oreet Ashery (Israel/Great Britain), Maija Hirvanen (Finland), Łukasz Jastrubczak (Poland), Lynn Lu (Singapore/Great Britain), Kate McIntosh (New Zealand/Belgium), Tero Nauha (Finland) and Gary Stevens (Great Britain). The festival will also present the premier of Performance Voyage II – a collection of performance art videos produced by Artists’ Association MUU. The New Performance Turku Festival is curated and organised by Leena Kela, regional artist of performance art and Christopher Hewitt, Berlin based independent curator. The festival is produced by Framil Network of Performing Arts in Southwest Finland and Arts Council of Varsinais-Suomi.
Tickets:
Nightclubs at Dynamo and Fluxee 5 / 7 € Bookings: + 358 45 2574383
Free entrance to other venues
www.newperformance.fi
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12. RESIDENCY: TRANSMUTED Residency Program
Deadline date: May 7, 2012; City: Mexico City; Source: Pancho López
The Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts, Ex Teresa Arte Actual and the TRANSMUTED International Performance Network, in collaboration with Taller Multinacional, invite you to participate.
The TRANSMUTED Residency Program
1) Eligible candidates are visual artists dedicated to performance, from any nationality, 18 years and older, who would like to develop a performative project in Mexico City.
2) 3 artists will be selected to take part in the residency.
3) Selected artists will be invited to present a performance work at Ex Teresa Arte Actual Museum, as well as an artist talk at Taller Multinacional. Installations are not accepted.
4) The organizers will provide technical assistance towards the production, presentation and production of the new work.
5) The Residency Program only covers rooming and local transportation costs (to and from the airport). Travel to Mexico City, meals, and other expenses are covered by participating artists. Organizers will provide a place for the artists to stay equipped with basic services, wi-fi, and mobile phone.
6) Material and equipment costs for the piece are responsibility of the artist. The Residency Program is not responsible for any damage to materials or equipment.
7) The Residency Program is not responsible, under any circumstance, in case of accident, illness or death.
8) There will be 3 residency periods. Each period will receive each of the selected artists. The dates of the final presentations at Ex Teresa Museum will be: Friday, June 29th; Friday, August 24th; Friday, October 26th. The dates are set and not subject to change.
9) The organizers determine the dates for the artist talk at Taller Multinacional.
10) Proposals should be sent via email to: residence@transmuted.net
11) Please include a text document (.doc .pdf. txt) with the following information: title, name of the artist, telephone number, email, mailing address, brief biography (one page maximum).
12) Deadline: May 7, 2012.
13) The names of the members of the jury will be made public after decisions have been made. They will select resident artists based on the quality, originality and viability of the application. The decision is final.
For more information, please contact:
residence@transmuted.net
www.transmuted.net
Ex Teresa Arte Actual
Lic. Verdad 8
Centro Histórico, México D.F.
C. P. 06060
5522 9093 / 55222721
xteresa_arteactual@yahoo.com.mx
www.exteresa.bellasartes.gob.mx
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13. EVENT: Friktioner International Performance Festival
Dates: May 31-June 3, 2012; City: Uppsala, Sweden: Source: SU-EN
We are now preparing for Friction 2012. Our main collaborator for 2012 is Uppsala Concert House. 18 international acts have been invited.
ARTISTS
André Stitt, Cardiff/UK
Tobias Bernstrup, Stockholm/SWE
Gustaf Broms, Vendel/SWE
Anna-Karin Brus & Tomas Bodén, Uppsala/SWE
Åsa Cederqvist c/o Konsthuset, Stockholm/SWE
The Children of Guts, SU-EN & Hans T Sternudd, Almunge & Hjärup/SWE
Shannon Cochrane, Toronto/CAN
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, DK/PHL
Imre Dénes, HUN
Monika Günther & Ruedi Schill, CHE
Peter Johansson/Barbro Westling, Malmö/SWE
István Kovács, HUN
Ko Siu Lan, Beijing & Toronto/CHN/CAN
Agnes Nedregard, NOR
Clemente Padin, URY
Barthélémy Toguo, CMR/FRA
Johanna Tuukkanen, FIN
Elisabet Yanagisawa Avén, SWE
http://friktionerfriction.wordpress.com/2012-2/
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14. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Deadline date: May 31, 2012; City: Yangon, Myanmar; Source: Aye Ko
Opening Call for international artists
INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Instituted of French in Yangon, Myanmar
From: New Zero Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar
Date: NOVEMBER 23-25,2012.
Deadline for proposal: 31-May -2012
Subject: International applicants are welcome for International multimedia art festival
Painting, installation, performance art, documentary, photo art and video art. If you are interested in this international multimedia festival in Yangon, Myanmar, please send us:
-CV
-five-photo of your art work
-for video art: three- video art work
SCHEUDLE
23.11.2012 Opening Exhibition - 6:00 PM Institute of French, Yangon, Myanmar
24.11.2012 Symposium – 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Performance show – 6:00 to 9:00 PM Institute of French, Yangon, Myanmar
25.11.2012 Symposium - 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Performance show - 6:00 PM to 9:00PM Institute of French, Yangon, Myanmar
-You can send your video art Work by DHL and by post. Please no email. Our country’s condition is not possible to download all files.
-If you want to send your artwork photos by email, don’t forget maximum size is 1MB.
Financial conditions
-We will provide Hotel fee and daily food.
-We can’t provide Air ticket and other cost.
-Artists are responsible for all other expenses, including travel, visa and materials.
-But if you need some grant for other foundation and government, we can send invitation letter.
If you have some questions for this Project, you can mail to ayekoart@gmail.com.
http://www.newzeroartspace.com
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15. WORKSHOP: Intensive Performance Art Workshop with Rachel Echenberg
Dates: July 29-August 3, 2012; City: Toronto; Source: Johannes Zits
DATES: July 29th – August 3rd (5 days) from 10 to 6 pm
PLACE: Fireplace room, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island
443 Lakeshore Avenue, Toronto
COST: $375 ($75 per day x 5 days)
PARTICIPANTS: 10
This 5-day intensive workshop is geared to artists who are interested in an exploration of performance art and the creative process, regardless of participants’ usual discipline. Participants will use bodies, objects and sites as malleable material that they will construct, expand, invert, reinvent and rediscover within performance actions.
The workshop will confront the performative gesture from several angles: within the unfolding moment, as a context specific relationship, and as a sensorial image. Notions of presence and invisibility will be explored through live and camera-based actions. Hands-on exercises, thematic discussions, and individual coaching will support the creation of these live works within the setting of Toronto Island. Each day of the workshop will explore different themes that will build upon each other towards a public presentation of participant's work at the workshop's conclusion, Saturday August 4th.
Montreal multi-disciplinary artist Rachel Echenberg has been making performance-based work for twenty years. She is continually interested in possibilities for active empathy and how distance and proximity affect exchange with audience and surroundings within the performative act. Her work has been performed, screened and exhibited since 1992 across Canada as well as internationally in Chile, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Morocco, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and the United States. http://rachelechenberg.net
GENERAL INFORMATION
As there are no bedrooms available at Artscape Gibraltar Point for this time period and the facilities at the residency will be restricted to those staying on the Island, participants should bring their own food to the Island each day. Using a bicycle to get on and off the Island is also highly recommended.
To register contact Johannes Zits: zipijo@sympatico.ca
To secure your spot, a $50 deposit is required before July 1, 2012.
For more information about the workshop, contact Rachel Echenberg: rachelechenberg@hotmail.com
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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.