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FADO E-LIST (April 2013)

INDEX
1. FADO EVENT: FADO presents Film: Rope by Francesco Gagliardi
Dates: April 12-14 and 16, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada
2. FADO EVENT: A Memory Lasts Forever: Althea Thauberger at The Images Festival
Date: April 12, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada
3. FADO EVENT: The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information (Hospitality 5)
Date: April 23, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada
4. EVENT: New Art Contact presents Fake Finns and Wannabe Swedes
Date: April 5-6, 2013; City: Helsinki, Finland; Source: New Art Contact
5. EVENT: 27th Annual Performance Mix Festival
Date: April 8-14, 2013; City: New York, USA; Source: Karen Bernard
6. EVENT: R.I.T.E.S: Rooted in the Ephemeral Speak 
Date: April 11, 2013; City: Singapore; Source: R.I.T.E.S
7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: torinoPERFORMANCEART
Deadline date: April 21, 2013; City: Turin, Italy; Source: TPA
8. EVENT: DUO DAYS
Date: April 29-May 5, 2013; City: Belfast, N.Ireland; Source: Hugh O’Donnell
9. WORKSHOP: Performance Art Workshop with Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill
Date: April 29-May 1, 2013: City: Belfast, N.Ireland; Source: Hugh O’Donnell
10. CALL FOR WORK: Dimanche Rouge Estonia 2013
Deadline date: May 1, 2013; City: Tallinn, Estonia; Source: Dimanche Rouge
11. EVENT: Mayworks presents spatial profiling by Francisco-Fernando Granados
Date: May 2, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Mayworks Festival
12. EVENT: 2 SHOWS ONLY with Cathy Gordon and Chad Dembski
Date: May 3 and May 5; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Cathy Gordon
13. EVENT: Hitparaden Festival for Performance art and New Theater 
Date: May 16-19, 2013; City: Copenhagen, Denmark; Source: liveart.dk
14. WORKSHOPS: PAStudies #30 and PASresidency
Deadline date: May 20, 2013; City: various: Source: PAS
15. WORKSHOP: MayDay Intensive Performance Art with VestAndPage
Date: May 21-28, 2013; City: Venice, Italy; Source: Venice International Performance Art Week
16. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Parkdale Film & Video Showcase, 2013!
Deadline: May 27, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: PBPS
17. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: VISUALEYEZ 2013
Deadline date: May 31, 2013: City: Edmonton, Alberta; Source: Todd Janes
18. WORKSHOP: Between Intimacy and Architecture with Victoria Stanton
Date: July 29-August 2, 2013: City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Victoria Stanton
19. CALL FOR PAPERS: esse: RENOVATION
Deadline date: September 1, 2013: Source: esse
 
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1. FADO EVENT: FADO presents Film: Rope by Francesco Gagliardi
Dates: April 12-14 and 16, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada
 
FADO Performance Art Centre presents
Film: Rope by Francesco Gagliardi
 
Performed by Michael Caldwell, Francesco Gagliardi, Marcin Kedzior and Cara Spooner
Co-presented with The Images Festival
 
The Theatre Centre Pop-Up
1095 Queen Street West, Toronto
 
PERFORMANCES
April 12, 13, 14 @ 3pm
April 16 @ 7pm
 
Tickets: $10/$5 students
Tickets available at the door // one ticket is good for all performances
 
ARTIST TALK / FREE
April 14 @ 4:30pm
Moderated by Andrew James Paterson
Pick up your copy of Andrew James Paterson's commissioned essay "Dangling That Rope" at The Theatre Centre Pop-Up starting on April 12, and on the FADO website.
 
IMAGES ARTIST TALK / FREE
April 15 @ 4pm
Urban Space Gallery (401 Richmond Street West)
Performance and Media Art: Tools with Which to Deconstruct
With Francesco Gagliardi, Tanya Lukin Linklater and Duane Linklater
 
Film: Rope explores the relationship between cinematic space and the space of live performance, and our ways of interpreting and recollecting the experience of movement within the film frame.
 
"In Film: Rope, Gagliardi has accentuated the simultaneous clash and fusion of different disciplines by using as source material a film that has been controversial at a number of different levels: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948). Rope is something of an anomaly within the Hitchcock canon, as it is directed to appear as if consisting almost entirely of one continuous shot. In this respect it breaks the modernist dictum that film should not appear simply to be recorded theatre. The film eschews montage altogether." (Andrew James Paterson, Dangling That Rope)
 
Rope (1948) is considered one of Alfred Hitchcock's most experimental films. Containing only four unmasked cuts, it was shot in single 10 minute takes (the length of a camera roll), tracking in an out of black surfaces (the back of a jacket or a piece of furniture) to create the illusion of even longer continuous shots. This virtuoso technique, which required the constant shifting of stage walls, furniture, and props to make way for the camera, was partly developed by the director in order to convey the illusion of theatrical real time and continuous space.
 
By paradoxically attempting to re-embody and transpose the movements and positions of the characters in the film in relation to a live audience, Film: Rope perversely exposes and explores the discontinuities and incongruities between cinema and live performance.
 
 
Part of the 26th Images Festival
The 26th Images Festival runs from April 11-20, 2013
www.imagesfestival.com
 
Thanks to Lisa Kiss Design, Chris Gehman, Henry Chan, and The Theatre Centre.
 
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2. FADO EVENT: A Memory Lasts Forever: Althea Thauberger at The Images Festival
Date: April 12, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada
 
The Images Festival 2013 Canadian Spotlight
A Memory Lasts Forever: Althea Thauberger
April 12, 2013
6:30pm
Jackman Hall 
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Admission: $10 general/$5 members, students, seniors
 
Co-presented by The Power Plant and FADO Performance Art Centre
 
When I was a tree-planter, long before I started art school, I started a yearly performance event (rather unremarkably) called Poetry Night. It was held during a party in the camp. Each planter had to take a turn presenting a poem, song, speech or skit of his or her own invention. After living and working for a season in severe wilderness conditions, people were often a little nutty and knew each other more intimately than they would have preferred. Imagine an abject scene with a group of scruffy twenty-somethings drinking heavily and entertaining themselves with performances about themselves and each other. These events were painful and hilarious and transformational in the way that the best art is transformational. They were totally site-and community-specific and changed my ideas of what a performance could be.
- Althea Thauberger
 
Our 2013 Canadian artist spotlight features the work of Vancouver-based Althea Thauberger. Often addressing concepts and themes concerning nature and its representation in popular culture, Thauberger also experiments with atypical forms of performance, improvisation and models of documentation. Working in both film and photography, her works feature the monumental and mannered formality of classical genre painting while addressing present-day issues in a hyper-realist style.
Often working with specifically defined communities or social groups - soldiers, teenage girls and tree-planters, among others - she works together with her subjects to develop performances that provide opportunities for self-presentation in relation to social structures. Her documentation of these collaborations results in a startling slippage between drama and documentary, between the real and the fake, simultaneously distancing viewers and enticing them into an intricate web of reference and representation.
 
SCREENING PROGRAM
not afraid to die // 2001, VIDEO, 6 MIN
Oh Canada // 2001, VIDEO, 4 MIN
A Memory Lasts Forever // 2004, VIDEO, 31 MIN
Northern // 2005, VIDEO, 8 MIN
Zivildienst = Kunstproject // 2006, VIDEO, 18 MIN
Msaskok // 2012, VIDEO, 6 MIN
 
Thauberger’s exhibition Marat Sade Bohnice is on view at The Power Plant until May 5, 2013.
 
 
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3. EVENT: The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information (Hospitality 5)
Date: April 23, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada
 
FADO Performance Art Centre, Mercer Union Contemporary and PME-ART present: The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information (Hospitality 5)
 
By Caroline Dubois, Claudia Fancello & Jacob Wren
Collaborators: Mathieu Chartrand, Sylvie Lachance & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh
 
Thursday April 23, 2013
7pm-10pm
 
Mercer Union
1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto
 
A pile of records and a record player. For every record we have one story at the ready. For each performance we will play different records in a different order and tell the stories that go with them. This creation by PME-ART - part five of the HOSPITALITÉ-HOSPITALITY Project - explores the way music infiltrates our personal and social lives, affecting our ongoing understanding of love, work and how we think society should operate.
 
Focusing on artistic collaboration, the work of PME-ART is an ongoing process of questioning the world, of finding the courage to say things about the current predicament that are direct and complex, of interrogating the performance situation. PME-ART’s past works include the installation HOSPITALITY 2: Gradually This Overview, and the performances HOSPITALITY 3: Individualism Was A Mistake and HOSPITALITY 1: The Title Is Constantly Changing, as well as Families Are Formed Through Copulation/La famille se crée en copulant, Le Génie des autres/Unrehearsed Beauty and En français comme en anglais, it’s easy to criticize. PME-ART's performances have been presented over the last twelve years in thirty-five cities in Quebec, Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States.
 
In 2012, PME-ART was nominated for the Conseil des arts de Montréal’s Grand-Prix and was short-listed for the first 1% dedicated to performance art (Integration of Art in Artchitecture Program), commissioned by the new building 2-22 art actuel, in Montréal.
 
A PME-ART creation, in co-production with FFT-Düsseldorf. In collaboration with Studio 303 and the Norderzoon Festival-Groningen. PME-ART would like to thank The Conseil des arts de Montréal, The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec & The Kunststiftung NRW (Germany).
 
 
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4.  EVENT: New Art Contact presents Fake Finns and Wannabe Swedes
Date: April 5-6, 2013; City: Helsinki, Finland; Source: New Art Contact
 
 
Program FF&WS
Friday 5 April, 7 - 10 p.m.
Irina Anufrieva
Egle Oddo, Timo Tuhkanen, Hannu Karjalainen & Isabel Pathirane
Hiroko Tsuchimoto
Maurice Blok
Wenche Tankred
 
Saturday 6 April, 7 - 10 p.m.
HyunJoo Min
Denis Romanovski, H. Tsuchimoto, Lovisa Johansson & Erik Wijkström
Beate Linne
Dorinel Marc
Karolina Kucia
 
Galeria Augusta, Suomenlinna, Helsinki. Ferry 6.40 p.m. from Kauppatori
 
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5. EVENT: 27th Annual Performance Mix Festival
Date: April 8-14, 2013; City: New York, USA; Source: Karen Bernard
 
New Dance Alliance presents
27TH ANNUAL PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL
The Flea Theater on April 8-14, 2013 
 
New Dance Alliance presents the 27th Annual Performance Mix, a weeklong festival with twenty-five outside-the-box performance and video dance artists. Some highlights: we will feature full-length performances by International Artists in Residence Mayday/Melanie Demers presenting Goodbye as seen at the Festival Transamerique in Montreal; from France, the compagnie à contre poil du sens/Matthieu Hocquemillers’ Bonne Nouvelles; picking up from last year’s festival, Valerie Striar’s newly completed work Marguerite and Robert, part 2 (New York City); a sneak peek at Karen Bernard’s Suspending and Other Tricks; and many other performance artists on the move from near and far – Robert Tyree ( Portland, Oregon); Michael Samama, Oren Barnoy, Special Projects/Melinda Ring, and Maverick Dance Experience (New York City); video artists Charles Dennis (New York City) and Livia Daza Paris (Quebec); and a closing performance of Rhythm and Schmooze hosted by Jane Goldberg with tap aficionados Roxane Butterfly, Cheryl Johnson and Michela Marino Lerman.
 
Location: 
All events take place at The Flea Theater, 41 White Street between Church and Broadway except the Closing Party to be held at NDA’s Loft, 182 Duane Street between Hudson and Greenwich
 
Tickets available at:
212-352-3101
 
WITH:
Maverick Dance Experience
Rosy Simas
Nina Winthrop and Dancers
Darcy Works
Roxane Butterfly
Cheryl Johnson
Michela Marino Lerman
T.L. Cowan
Oren Barnoy
Robert Tyree
Mélanie Demers
Tumi Johnson
Barbara Mahler
Emily Wexler
Matthieu Hocquemiller
Charles Dennis
Michael Freeman
Michal Samama
Ben Spatz
Nicoletta Cabassi
Renee Archibald
Bob Eisen
Ori Flomin
Jil Guyon
Karen Bernard
Valerie Striar
Livia Daza Paris
 
New Dance Alliance is an arts service organization whose mission is to support and promote dance and interdisciplinary artists. NDA accomplishes this by providing opportunities for artists to share their work with each other and the public. Today, NDA has expanded and adapted services as the needs of this community change.
 
 
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6. EVENT: R.I.T.E.S: Rooted in the Ephemeral Speak 
Date: April 11, 2013; City: Singapore; Source: R.I.T.E.S
 
Rooted in the Ephemeral Speak PRESENTS
Farah Ong (Singapore)
Agnes Yit (Singapore)
Rudi Abdalah (Indonesia)
 
Thursday April 11, 2013
8:00pm
 
The Substation Theatre
45 Armenian Street
Singapore, 179936
 
Entry by donation
 
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7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: torinoPERFORMANCEART
Deadline date: April 21, 2013; City: Turin, Italy; Source: TPA
 
performance art international festival
June, 14-15 2013, Turin (Italy)
 
tpa festival aims to promote performance art, creating an opportunity for exchange between artists of national and international scene. Open to all artists interested in producing performance art / video performance (NO dance or theater projects). tpa is committed to providing logistical support to the artists selected, meals and two nights of accommodation (only live section artists).
 
The material must be received no later than April 21st, 2013. All the material will remain as archive of tpa. The selected artists will be notified by mail by May 30th, 2013. They should therefore confirm their presence within 3 days from that date, if not they will be excluded from the Festival.
 
Team tpa 2013:
director: manuela macco / curators: manuela macco (live section), guido salvini (video section) / organization: jorge tobon, carlotta laugelli, paola spola, elisabetta vacca.
 
 
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8. EVENT: DUO DAYS
Date: April 29-May 5, 2013; City: Belfast, N.Ireland; Source: Hugh O’Donnell
 
Bbeyond presents DUO DAYS, a performance art event inviting artist couples (artists in a relationship, collaborating in performance) to investigate the theme of duality.
 
Through collaborative performances we observe how two people who co-exist and co-inhabit through performance art as well as domestically, utilise this closeness and intuitiveness which their relationship affords, providing opportunity to further test the nature of relationships; from domestic life to social ethics, from mind and body to art and audience.
 
ARTISTS
Sinead O’Donnell and Shiro Masyuama
Elvira Santamaria and Brian Patterson
Pavana Reid and Kurt Johannessen
Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter
Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill
Paul Couillard and Ed Johnson
Victoria Gray and Nathan Walker
 
DUO Days includes:
-Workshops
-Performances
-Roundtable talks
-Monthly Bbeyond meeting
 
Duo Days is organised by Bbeyond and curated by Hugh O’Donnell / Anne Quail.
 
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9. WORKSHOP: Performance Art Workshop with Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill
Date: April 29-May 1, 2013: City: Belfast, N.Ireland; Source: Hugh O’Donnell
 
Times: 11am - 3pm daily
Location: Catalyst Arts Belfast.
Fee: £50.00
Participation outcome of workshop Wednesday 7pm onwards.
For more information: http://duodays.info/
 
Monika Günther / Ruedi Schill
Günther and Schill have been working together as a duo in Performance Art since 1995.
Performances in Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Mexico, Canada, Belgium, Belarus, Vietnam, Singapore, Italy, Spain, Chile, Bali, Java, Greece, Japan, Israel, Scotland, Sweden, Thailand, Northern Ireland, Norway since 1995 also teaching Performance Art at several Art Schools and Universities. They were awarded the  
2004 Art Price of the town of Luzern (Switzerland) and the 2008 Swiss Performance Art Prize. Since 1998, they have shared the artistic direction of the International Performance Art Turbine Giswil (Switzerland).
 
About the workshop:
Training in Performance is about gaining experience through touch, gesture and language; and through acoustic, visual and physical stimuli. The lessons encourage playful spontaneous activity, full of enjoyment as well as systematic investigation. Through mutual improvisation, participants attain skills in communication and interaction. All together you strive for the dawning of consciousness about your own bodies, and for the discovery that images can also emerge through action. When observing the work of others, it is important to be able to concentrate and persevere, without constantly losing attention and focus.
 
Specialties for the workshop in Belfast: 
1) Two lectures mainly with images:
- CHILDHOOD AND PERFORMANCE ART 
- RELATION OF ANIMAL, HUMAN BEING AND ART
”Do cows give more milk when they hear music?”
2) Performance Art body exercises. 
3) Talks about how to find an idea, a way to create your own performance-piece.
 
To book a place on this workshop please contact:
hughyod@hotmail.com or phone 0044 (0) 7814954707
 
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10. CALL FOR WORK: Dimanche Rouge Estonia 2013
Deadline date: May 1, 2013; City: Tallinn, Estonia; Source: Dimanche Rouge
 
Dimanche Rouge is currently considering proposals for experimental performances for its festival in Tallinn, Estonia from October 17th till the 20th, 2013.
 
Dimanche Rouge has rapidly grown into one of the largest monthly experimental performance festivals in Europe, presenting the work of over 600 artists from more than 60 countries in Paris and abroad since February 2011. The festival will be hosted at some of the most important Estonian art institutions including Kumu Art Museum, one of the largest art museums in the Baltics; Kultuurikatel, a unique international cultural center and former power plant where Tarkovsky filmed Stalker; Culture Factory Polymer/ Art Container, one of the main strong points for alternative culture in Tallinn, as well as at the iconic Sokos Hotel Viru. Artists will also be able to take advantage of a program of roundtable discussions, workshops and talks. Performances proposed must be experimental and contain a live element.   
 
Work we program:
-multimedia, dance, performance art, video, sound, interventions, street art, spoken word, installations
-performances from other disciplines usually not included in art festivals such as hairstyle, cuisine, tattoo, massage, sports, the sciences and any other performative acts done in an experimental way
-artwork without a live component provided that the artist produces a piece live.  For instance, painters could show their work if they produce a painting during the festival.
 
Work we DO NOT program
-video screenings and other artwork that does not have a live component. If you wish to submit a video of your work to be screened, please apply for our weekly cable television program on Souvenirs From Earth: http://www.dimancherouge.org/tv 
 
Dimanche Rouge will provide free accommodation for foreign artists for two nights - a maximum of two artists per performance. Dimanche Rouge will be unable to assist with travel funds and artists fees/costs, but can issue an official letter of invitation.
 
Please apply by clicking on the following link: www.dimancherouge.org/dimanche-rouge-estonia
Deadline: May 1, 2013
 
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11. EVENT: Mayworks presents spatial profiling by Francisco-Fernando Granados
Date: May 2, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Mayworks Festival
 
spatial profiling...
by Francisco-Fernando Granados with Margaret Dragu and Nathalie Lozano Neira
 
Thursday May 2, 2013
Performance at 6pm, Free
HUNTCLUB 
709 College St. West
Toronto, Canada
 
spatial profiling… is a performance/installation project that incorporates elements of drawing, video and text. Presenting the figure of the working artist as a slow, steady and determined migrant body, this multidisciplinary exhibition stages artistic labour in an act of turning away: a turn away from the conservative politics of over-determined identification in the context of Canada’s recent shifts in immigration law, and the proposition of a turn towards abstraction and multiplicity that signals a shift in the performance of the politics of liberation.
 
Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts festival that celebrates working class culture. Founded in 1986 by the Labour Arts Media Committee of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council, Mayworks is Canada’s largest and oldest labour arts festival. The Festival was built on the premise that workers and artists share a common struggle for decent wages, healthy working conditions and a living culture.
 
 
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12. EVENT: 2 SHOWS ONLY with Cathy Gordon and Chad Dembski
Date: May 3 and May 5; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Cathy Gordon
 
Friday May 3 & Sunday May 5, @ 8PM
hub14 (14 Markham Street, Toronto)
http://www.hub14.org
 
ok/ok/ok
By Chad Dembski
A personal performance colliding original live music, manifesto, stand up, dance, and confession.  A celebration of chaos through seemingly random index cards that together form a series of clues to this vunerable solo show. A fantasy of possible ways of being, both to confront the past and to dream about the future self. Influenced by the work of performance artists such as John Bock, Marcus Coates and NYC experimental performance company Radiohole. Originally presented at the 2012 Phenomena Festival at Casa del Popolo in Montreal. http://surpriseperformance.blogspot.ca/
 
HAMMER
By Cathy Gordon 
Using bits & pieces of past performance, this new solo underlines how our experiences continue to live in the body for years, even decades. Interweaving personal facts and fictions, HAMMER offers fanciful "processing techniques" for rage, compliance, feminism, and social responsibility. The audience starts at safe distance and then slowly succumbs to a final act of trust. www.cathygordon.com
 
These shows are built for studio audiences. Intimate. Simple. A bit messy. Not quite casual enough for a bar. Not quite big enough for a stage. Good for the studio, a place where we can work things through.
 
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13. EVENT: Hitparaden Festival for Performance art and New Theater 
Date: May 16-19, 2013; City: Copenhagen, Denmark; Source: liveart.dk
 
WITH:
Gwendoline Robin (BE)
Christian Falsnaes (DK)
Stuart Lynch (AU)
Iggy Malmborg (SE)
Johannes Schmit (SE)
Olof Olsson (SE)
Dariusz Fodczuk (PL)
Melanie Jame Wolf (AU)
Andre Stitt (IE)
Ellen Friis (DK)
Norpol (SE/DK)
Brian McCorkle (US)
Esther Neff (US)
Anya Liftig (US) 
….and many more
 
More info on: www.liveart.dk
 
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14. WORKSHOPS: PAStudies #30 and PASresidency
Deadline date: May 20, 2013; City: various: Source: PAS
 
PAStudies #30
The moment when the end suprises the beginning 
29th of May – 09th of June 2013
Nicosia [cy] as part of 1st Cyprus International Performance Art Festival, curated by Christina Georgiou. We are happy to announce that VestAndPage [de/it] will take part in PAS#30 as guest teacher (http://vest-and-page.de)
 
Deadline for applications: 20th of May 2013
Early bird price: by confirmed registrations before the 1st of April 2013
 
Please contact us at: pas@bbbjohannesdeimling.de to get the application form
 
AND
PASresidency with Antoni Karwowski [pl]
21st  – 27th of April 2013, Chociwel, Szczecin [pl] in cooperation with Antoni Karwowski
Deadline for applications: 15th of April 2013
 
Please contact us at: pas@bbbjohannesdeimling.de to get the application form
 
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15. WORKSHOP: MayDay Intensive Performance Art with VestAndPage
Date: May 21-28, 2013; City: Venice, Italy; Source: Venice International Performance Art Week
 
Venice International Performance Art Week presents Workshop Series
MayDay - Intensive workshop on the praxis of Performance art
 
In the framework of the formative activities of the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK, Studio Contemporaneo and C32 performingartworkspace are glad to present the first of a series of practical workshops on Performance art in Venice: “MAYDAY - Intensive workshop on the praxis of Performance art“
 
ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN:
www.veniceperformanceart.org/index.php?page=92
 
DATES: 21 - 28 May 2013
From 10 am to 6 pm, for 7 consecutive days.
(Arrival 20.05. / Departure 29.05, with the possibility to prolong your stay individually for assisting the preview days of the 55° Venice Biennale of Arts 29.-31.05.)
 
VENUE: C32 performingartworkspace - Parco del Contemporaneo - Forte Marghera, Via Forte Marghera 30, Venice, Italy
 
PLACES AVAILABLE: 15
FEE: 250,-€ / Students: 200,-€
Including:
-7 days workshop, for a total of 56 hours
-Shared sleeping facilities at the venue’s guesthouse
-One meal a day
 
For more INFORMATION please visit: www.veniceperformanceart.org or contact info@veniceperformanceart.org
 
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
"MayDay" is a 7 days intensive workshop on the praxis of Performance art, following Performance artist duo VestAndPage unique method through the process of making a performative piece. During the practical exercises, under various conditions, the participants are provided with means to conceive, develop and realize a performance, mainly only using their own body as a tool:
-To work towards touching point zero in perception, introspection, judgement (on one self and on the others) and intention, to then rebuild a new way of authenticity-based perception and expression, for finally transforming visions and ideas into a concrete artistic action.
-To take distance from merely being virtuous by establishing, evaluating, and energizing the personal action in se.
-To free oneself from common behavioural patterns so as to create new ways of encountering, collaborating and living.
-To overcome the fragile constituent limits, may they be based on physicality, fears or social patterns.
-To touch and strengthen the most human inner sensors in order to activate personal and universal memories, for using as germinal matter for future artistic substance.
 
Actions and exercises are innovative but inspired by Dynamic Breathing, Social Theatre, Living Theatre, Macro and Micro Spherology, Inner Library, Liminality, Archetypes, Rituality, Memory activation, Body-Space-Object, Time-Duration-Rhythm, Voice/Sound, Emotional Atmosphere, Inter-activity.
 
The goal of the workshop is to provide the participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge and artistic sensitivity to conceive a final, individual performance. Workshop language is English (Italian, German and Spanish, additionally if needed). Open to participants over the age of 18. No previous experiences required.
 
THE FACILITATORS
German artist and dancer Verena Stenke and Venetian artist, writer and curator Andrea Pagnes have been working together under the name of VestAndPage in Performance art, filmmaking, writing and curatorship since 2006. They are experienced workshop leaders and facilitators for students, art professionals from different backgrounds and non-art participants, either normally endowed or differently abled, of any age. They have been invited to hold practical workshops, research lectures and teachings in institutions worldwide such as Centre for Community Cultural Development and Lingnan University (Hong Kong), UNEARTE Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Artes (Caracas), Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan), Universidad Austral (Valdivia, Chile), University of Fine Arts and Theatre (Santiago, Chile), EMBA (Buenos Aires), Alumnos47 Foundation (Mexico City), TeaK Theatre Academy (Helsinki), Seoul Art Space (Seoul), The Substation (Singapore), BITEF Theatre (Belgrade), NYU Steinhardt School of Culture (Venice/New York), Social Theatre Academy IsoleComprese (Florence) among others.
 
VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK is a live art exhibition project focused on Performance art. The 1st edition was held in December 2012 at Palazzo Bembo, in which 31 international artists, ranging from pioneers to emerging artists, were presented in an intensive 7 days program of exhibitions and live performances. www.veniceperformanceart.org
 
C32 PERFORMINGARTWORKSPACE is a project by Marco Polo System g.e.i.e. for Forte Marghera - Parco del Contemporaneo. Curated by Aldo Aliprandi and Marianna Andrigo. It works in production and activation of a variety of formative projects including, but not limited to, performance, experimental music and dance. Its 500sqm space is divided into dance/rehearsal hall, living room and guesthouse with bathroom and kitchen. It is conceived to host artist residencies, workshops and work-in-progress activities, collaborating with local and international artists and institutions to create opportunities for exchange and experimentation in the contemporary arts.
 
LOGISTICS
Sleeping: Participants will stay in shared rooms at the C32 guesthouse.
Dining: Considering MayDay as a time of healthy learning and artistic exchange, we provide for shared dinning. C32 is equipped with a kitchen and dining room, where a range of nutritional meals are prepared daily and particular attention is paid to the use of organic and natural products that have not been treated with chemical additives: cheese from the province of Maso Dobbiaco in South Tyrol; salami and cold cuts from a small company in Belluno; fruit and vegetables are purchased directly from farmers as well as biological pasta, rice, coffee, bread, etc. In line with our focus on avoiding waste and cutting down on pollution, we do not to use plastic plates, cups or cutlery.
 
DOCUMENTATION
The workshop process as well as the final performances will be documented in photograph and video, and become part of the archive of the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK, to be officially screened at the next event edition. The participants will be provided with a booklet publication afterwards. At the end of the formative workshop a certificate with formative credit points value, will be issued to each participant.
 
VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK | WORKSHOP SERIES are presented by Studio Contemporaneo and C32 performingartworkspace. They are part of Parco del Contemporaneo, an initiative by Regione del Veneto, Città di Venezia and Marco Polo System g.e.i.e.
 
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16. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Parkdale Film & Video Showcase, 2013!
Deadline: May 27, 2013; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: PBPS
 
The Parkdale Beauty Pageant Society Presents...
The Parkdale Film & Video Showcase, 2013!
 
Welcome to a whole new year with the Parkdale Film & Video Showcase! We’re happy to announce our Call for Submissions and New Site Launch for the 2013 Festival:
 
 
This year’s festival is scheduled to take place in July 2013. Be sure to check our site for updates as we work on the schedule for this year’s programming!
 
We’re accepting submissions in a whole new way this year, so be sure to check out our new Submissions page and then go to our FAQ if you have any questions about sharing your film & video work. The deadline for submissions is Monday May 27th, 2013.
 
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17. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: VISUALEYEZ 2013
Deadline date: May 31, 2013: City: Edmonton, Alberta; Source: Todd Janes
 
The fourteenth annual Visualeyez festival of performance art happens from 10–16 September 2013 in the downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta, exploring on the curatorial theme of Vulnerability.
 
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. 
 
Curator and Founder of Visualeyez, Todd Janes envisions Visualeyez 2013 as a conversation that begins by asking artists to explore issues around the curatorial theme of Vulnerability on an individual level and to confront issues of access, the body and social anxiety. Aiming to connect with communities of people with disabilities and aging individuals, this theme will explore issues such as emotional and physical vulnerability within urban environments and our struggles, through enhanced dialogues regarding societal issues, community connectivity, and understanding of vulnerability’s impact on individuals and society as a whole.
 
Situating part of the festival within our new barrier-free facility we desire to highlight many important choices that our organization has deliberately made to involve greater disability communities and artists. Now in its 14th year, Visualeyez—Canada’s only Annual festival of performance art—will situate work in site-specific locations and raise awareness to social issues including homelessness, shelter and access.
 
Proposals should include: a CV; artist statement; a detailed description of the work you wish to present, or explore; and support material which can include images, video, print or digital documentation of your work, catalogues, and press.
 
The deadline for submission is Friday, 31 May 2013, 2300h MST.
If you would like your materials returned to you, please also include sufficient postage or courier materials. 
 
Artists shall be contacted by late-June 2013 regarding the status of their proposals.
 
Proposals by post to:
Visualeyez 2013
c/o Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture
10242 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 2013 submission in the subject line.
 
Visualeyez is joyfully supported in part by Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Edmonton, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Province of Alberta, the Edmonton Downtown Business Association, and Latitude 53’s members, volunteer and donors.
 
 
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18. WORKSHOP: Between Intimacy and Architecture with Victoria Stanton
Date: July 29-August 2, 2013: City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Victoria Stanton
 
Between Intimacy and Architecture: subtle and relational performance in public place
With Victoria Stanton
 
Location: Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Toronto Canada
Dates: July 29 – August 2, 2013, with a final performance by participants on August 3
Costs: $675 + HST (includes private accommodation for the duration of the workshop)
Application Deadline: May 15, 2013
 
Description of Workshop
How do we listen to each other? How do we interact? How do we respond to the landscape around us? How do we engage with time and space? Cultivating attentive awareness, empathetic presence and peripheral vision, this workshop will explore the multiple and very personalized ways in which we experience and foster intimacy and connection – in ourselves, towards others, and in relation to place. We will explore how time and space are intimately connected and linked to how we develop a relationship to the space and people around us; how repetition of an action (over time) within a particular space necessarily creates familiarity with that space, within the various contexts in which we find ourselves to be. We will also explore how the ways in which a "nonproductive" use of time, as carried out in public (place) activates a space.
(Workshop organized by Johannes Zits)
 
Performance Philosophy
Whether working in participatory, durational, task-based or audio-visual performance, the constant thread in my work is an investigation into the ability (and the desire) to hold a space, to appropriate and disrupt the quotidian, to create spontaneous intimacy, to tread vulnerability. Investing a performative presence and consciousness within multiple spaces/times, I continuously underscore the complex aspects of “transaction” and the possibility for transformation. Much recent work explores the elusive “in-between” – that invisible, liminal space between myself and the audience (whether a group or just one person) or between myself and my object/action/location – whether appearing “on stage” (in a black box, white cube, bar or loft) or “out in the world” (in public sites and “non-art” contexts). The “in-between” is my inquiry into transitional space: as manifested on stage (has the performance ended?), as presented through relational exchange (is this a performance? Is this Art?), and as experienced out in the world through geopoetic meandering, and the conscious inhabiting of non-places found in the built environment. These subtle forms of testing the limits of vulnerability make up an overall practice (and multiple research processes) as an artist working in – and with – space and time.
 
About the Workshop Facilitator
Victoria Stanton is an interdisciplinary artist working with live action, human interaction, video, film, photo, drawing, and writing. Continually exploring within such diverse media, while the outward results of her practice manifest in a multiplicity of forms, performance is the unifying central focus and invariable core of her research. Her time-based work includes performance for stage, performance for the camera, actions in public spaces, and one-on-one encounters in intimate contexts. Stanton has presented exhibitions, performances, interventions, and films/videos in Canada, the U.S., Europe, the U.K., Australia, Japan and Mexico. Her creative and critical writings have been published in Canadian and American anthologies and art/literary/lifestyle magazines. She is the coauthor with Vincent Tinguely of Impure: Reinventing the Word (conundrum press, 2001) and is currently working on a new book with the TouVA Collective (comprised of Anne Bérubé, Sylvie Tourangeau and Stanton) developing salient notions on how performance is practiced and on the question of ‘the performative.’ 
 
 
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19. CALL FOR PAPERS: esse: RENOVATION
Deadline date: September 1, 2013: Source: esse
 
Send your text (750-2,000 words, footnotes included) to redaction@esse.ca before
September 1, 2013. Please include a short biography (50-80 words), an abstract of the text (80-100 words), as well as postal and e-mail addresses. We also welcome submissions (reviews, essays, analyses of contemporary art issues) not related to a particular theme.
 
RENOVATION
It its next issue, esse wishes to explore the phenomenon of renovation, which is broached in various artistic practices and experienced on the fringe of artistic activities by both artists and arts venues. Numerous works are primarily linked with the field of renovation through their use of particular materials and tools, but also by having recourse to devices that emphasize site, construction, building site development, or the project implementation process. In this perspective, we are interested in texts analyzing corpora of works which—on a real or metaphorical level—question (re)construction processes or directly involve rebuilding. This raises various questions. First of all, from a historical viewpoint, how does renovation differ from the tabula rasa of the avant-garde? Do these practices problematize a relationship with the past, a return to a former state, or the restoration of an initial situation, or, on the contrary (or even simultaneously), is it rather a question of the desire to transform and renew? Do works that call on renovation revive the key issues and challenges of the in situ intervention at specific sites charged with history or a non-artistic vocation? Do they somehow strive to call into question the concept of the work of art as a finished object?
 
In addition, it is important to question whether artists approach renovation as a means to lay emphasis on recycling and recuperation, or whether their focus is turned towards the new—the consumption or overconsumption of new materials. Clearly, taking up the phenomenon of renovation also means considering artistic practices that examine the notion of productivity in relation to the economy (growth or recession), lifestyles, and perhaps even, from a critical perspective, the renovation industry, as lauded by magazines and reality TV shows devoted to home improvements and interior decoration. The interest of artists in renovation could equally touch on issues specific to architecture, design, and urban renewal.
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
Theme: RENOVATION
esse arts + opinions no. 80
Deadline: September 1, 2013
 
This theme is also a stark reminder of the role that renovation plays in the lives of many manually skilled artists who take on jobs in the renovation industry to earn a living wage, or who develop personal projects to improve their own living environments. This reality also affects those responsible for arts venues and production spaces, especially when they are obliged to move premises or to improve their spaces, often on a minimal budget. This is all too indicative of the precarious socio-economic circumstances of these central actors of the arts milieu in face of profit-hungry property developers who anticipate astronomical gains for projects in neighbourhoods made desirable by the presence of artists. In this vein, do these very tangible situations experienced by arts venues and practitioners permeate the artworks? Do they have an observable effect on the creative process? Or do they create new perceptions of the figure and role of the artist? We invite authors interested in these questions to submit articles that will shed light on this complex phenomenon.
 
EDITORIAL POLICY
Our comprehensive editorial policy can be consulted online at esse.ca/en/callpapers
All articles are reviewed by the Board, which reserves the right to accept or refuse a submitted article. Selection of articles may take up to 6 weeks after submission by the writer. The Board’s decision is final. A refused text will not be re-evaluated. With the exception of the expressed consent of the Editorial Board, the writer agrees to submit a previously unpublished, original text. The Editorial Board does not consider articles that may represent a potential conflict of interest between the writer and the content of the article (i.e., a text written by the curator of an exhibition).
 
For info please communicate with redaction@esse.ca
 
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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. To subscribe or unsubscribe from this mailing list, please visit the home page: www.performanceart.ca
 
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