INDEX
1. EVENT: FADO Performance Art Centre presents Duorama #122
Date: September 27, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada
2. WORKSHOP: Kinetics with Fiona Griffiths
Date: Sept 22-Nov 17, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Berenicci Hershorn
3. EVENT: ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival
Date: September 23-28, 2014; City: Kuopio, Finland; Source: ANTI
4. EVENT: 7th Mountain Standard Time Festival (M:ST)
Date: September 26-October 11, 2014; City: Calgary, Canada; Source: Tomas Jonsson
5. WORKSHOP: PAS Youth studies in cooperation with the M:ST Festival
Date: Sept 27-Oct 3, 2014; City: Calgary, Canada; Source: BBB Johannes Deimling
6. EVENT: Paersche presents Interval °4 Performance Art Festival
Date: September 26-27, 2014; City: Essen, Germany; Source: Marita Bullman
7. EVENT: Malmo Gallery Night / Dafna Maimon and Performance Voyage 4
Date: September 27, 2014: City: Malmo, Sweden; Source: Elin Lundgren
8. EVENT: New Performance Turku Festival
Date: Sept 29-Oct 5, 2014; Turku, Finland; Source: New Performance Turku Festival
9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Living Arts of Tulsa 2015-2016 Season
Deadline date: October 1, 2014; City: Tulsa, USA; Source: Living Arts
10. ACTUS III: Interventions Solo of Performance Art and Open session
Date: October 1, 2014; City: Brussels, Belgium; Source: Béatrice Didier
11. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Bbeyond Administration / Finance Officer
Deadline date: October 2, 2014; Belfast; N.Ireland; Source: Bbeyond
12. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Split Chorale for Viljo Revell at Nuit Blanche
Date: unspecified; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Elaine Gaito
13. RESIDENCY: Pulau Ubin Artists-in-Residency Programme 2014-2015
Deadline date: October 10, 2014; City: Singapore; Source: The Artists Village
14. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Mayworks Festival
Deadline date: October 15, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Mayworks
15. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: On Institutions (Performance Research)
Deadline date: October 27, 2014; City: the world; Source: Performance Research
16. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
Date: October 29-November 2, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: 7a*11d
17. FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Rapid Pulse
Deadline date: unspecified; City: Chicago, USA; Source: Julie Laffin
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1. EVENT: FADO Performance Art Centre presents Duorama #122
Date: September 27, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada
Duorama #122 by Paul Couillard and Ed Johnson
Saturday, September 27, 2014
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Centre Island Pier, Toronto Islands
Since February of this year, FADO has been pleased to present a series of new performance works in the Duorama series by Paul Couillard and Ed Johnson. The series (co-curated with various partners and presented in a range of contexts) has been sprinkled throughout the year, starting with a Duorama #114 in February, and culminating in Duorama #122 on September 27th. Duorama is created by FADO's former Performance Art Curator / founding Director Paul Couillard, and founding member Ed Johnson. Partners in life and art, Paul and Ed have been creating the Duorama series for the last 14 years. For this last image in the series, the artists present a 3-hour turning meditation on the Centre Island pier, a kinetic and visual action designed to connect land, water and sky.
Details on Part 1 of the series: www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=271
Details on Part 2 in the series: www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=280
PUBLICATION LAUNCH
FADO is also pleased to be launching the second in our Golden Book series (which started with Franceso Gagliardi's Film: Rope in 2013, with a 4-book 'zine chronicling the entire Duorama series to date, from #1 - #120. The books are divided by year, and present one image for each performance in the series. You can get your Duorama Golden Book at our watery publication launch on the 2:30pm ferry to Centre Island, or the 6:45pm ferry home.
HOW TO GET THERE
Take the Toronto Island Ferry to Centre Island! The ferry leaves the city every 30 minutes on the half hour. There is a ferry at 2:30, 3:00, 3:30 etc. Join us on the pier. The performance will end at 6pm, and we will take the 6:45pm ferry back to the city. For more information and a complete ferry schedule, click here.
ABOUT DUORAMA
Since 2000, Paul Couillard and Ed Johnson have worked together on the performance art series Duorama. Playful, beguiling and often minimalist, these pieces explore notions of relationship, and draw on collaborative and competitive tensions that underlie all partnerships. Responding to site and examining cultural attitudes toward male intimacy are key elements of Duorama. Recurring themes revolve around shifting interpretations of what is political and what is personal. Many of the works can be read in terms of the current social and political climate surrounding gay culture, offering askance references to issues such as gay marriage, HIV-status, and portrayals of gay culture. To date, 113 Duorama performances have been presented at galleries, festivals and various events in Canada, France, Poland, Croatia, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, the USA, Singapore, Ireland and the UK.
www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=283
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2. WORKSHOP: Kinetics with Fiona Griffiths
Date: Sept 22-Nov 17, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Berenicci Hershorn
Kinetics will be continuing in the fall with releasing ball work for your lower body. Get those hips and legs ready for frolicking in leaves and snow.
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 September 22 - November 17 (no class October 13)
8 classes: $135.00 (students $90.00)
Please contact Fiona for further information or to register: filogriff@yahoo.ca
The first 2 classes will focus on the details of this fabulous ball technique. We will play with weight and tension as well as examining alignment. How do you stand? Where are the tensions that hold you in misalignment? How does it feel to be 'up'? The course will continue with Kinetics for feet, calves, thighs and hips.
Read on for more information on Kinetics. Kinetic Awareness, developed by Elaine Summers of Judson Church Dance Theatre, offers movement education, experiential anatomy, skeletal re-alignment, injury and chronic pain relief and major stress reduction. It is an essential tool in connecting with the somato-sensory system and in rejuvenating the body/mind. Kinetics is a sensory experience of weight and tension, which provides an opportunity to explore and develop your unique movement possibilities from release to high velocity and power. Lying on various sized air-filled balls, quieting the mind, relaxing muscles and using slow movements to release joints allows the unwinding of the fascial highway. The body and mind commune and reconnect to the intuitive self. This beneficial work is user friendly and with the completion of the course you will be able to use Kinetics for your everyday needs.
Fiona Griffiths (RN, MFA, MA) teaches theatre and movement to actors, clowns, and dancers. She is an acclaimed multimedia artist with an extensive performing & touring experience in dance, theatre and clown. Fiona has taught in the many university theatre programs including York and Yale Universities, Central School for Speech and Drama and choreographed and coached for many professional theatre and dance companies. Recent projects include coaching for Lillia Leon, Kemi Contemporary Dance Projects and directing The Spinster Seminars for the Toronto Fringe. As well as running independent workshops, Fiona teaches at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, The Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance and Ryerson University. She also has a private practice in CranioSacral Therapy, fitness and health.
www.fionagriffiths.com
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3. EVENT: ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival
Date: September 23-28, 2014; City: Kuopio, Finland; Source: ANTI
ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival is an international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space. ANTI Festival presents live, sonic, visual and text-based art from today’s most exciting and innovative artists in the Finnish town of Kuopio. Free of charge ANTI Festival is a meeting place for artists and audiences fascinated by how art shapes and responds to the places and spaces of everyday life.
Children and teenagers will be the focus of this year's ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, which presents site- and time-specific works made for public space. The international festival programme consists of work where the youngest family members or youngsters nearing adulthood are either the theme or an active part of the production. Children and young people as a theme of a Finnish contemporary arts festival is a unique phenomenon as the performances here are not targeted at an audience of children. The winner of the new and significant Finnish art award, the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, will be announced at the Festival. The prize is funded by the Saastamoinen Foundation. An international jury, chaired by Ruth Mackenzie (UK), has chosen the winner from six nominees. The 13th ANTI Festival will expand its operations to public spaces in Northern Savo at the end of September and audiences will be offered events to watch and also to participate in.
2014 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Ars Libera (FI)
Lenine Bourke (AU)
Nicola Conibere (UK)
Emma Fäit and Arka Paikka (FI)
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey (AU)
Kris Grey and Noora Hyvärinen, Duettosarja / Duet Series (US/FI)
Tuomas ja Ilari Laitinen, Duettosarja / Duet Series (FI)
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Mammalian Diving Reflex (CA)
Minun Kuopioni –työpajat / My Kuopio workshops
Suvi Nurmi (FI)
Pilvi Porkola and Anton, Duettosarja / Duet Series (FI)
www.antifestival.com
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4. EVENT: 7th Mountain Standard Time Festival (M:ST)
Date: September 26-October 11, 2014; City: Calgary, Canada; Source: Tomas Jonsson
The seventh edition of the Mountain Standard Time Festival will take place from September 25 to October 11, 2014. Alberta’s only biennial of performative art, M:ST celebrates innovative and critically engaged performative art in the southern Alberta region.
FEATURING
Arbour Lake Sghool, sophia Bartholomew, John G. Boehme, Alysse Bowd, Robin Brass, Cedar Tavern Singers, Bogdan Cheta, Raphaëlle de Groot, BBB Johannes Deimling, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Tanya Doody, Kenneth Doren, Nadège Grebmeier Forget, Andrés Galeano, Emma-Kate Guimond, Johanna Householder, Instant Places, Jake Klein-Waller, Alberto Kurapel, Chris Lloyd AKA The Everyday Goalie, Takashi Makino, Jacqueline Mann, Rita McKeough, Andrew McPhail, Stephen Mueller, Francis O’Shaughnessy & Etienne Boulanger, Perfect Uncle, Guillaume Adjutor Provost, Coral Short, Joshua Vetivellu, Adam Waldron-Blain, Matt Walker, Cora-Allan Wickliffe, D’Arcy Wilson, Allison Wyper, Terrance Houle & Sam Fox, Johannes Zits.
PRESENTED BY: Alberta College of Art + Design, Avalanche ICA, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Contemporary Calgary, EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society, Nickle Galleries, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Stride Gallery, The New Gallery, Theatre Outre, TRUCK Contemporary Art, University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, Untitled Art Society
www.mstfestival.org
www.mstfestival.blogspot.com
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5. WORKSHOP: PAS Youth studies in cooperation with the M:ST Festival
Date: Sept 27-Oct 3, 2014; City: Calgary, Canada; Source: BBB Johannes Deimling
The title of this PASyouth studies was given by a young boy who asked this question right after we had finished a PASyouth studies in Dresden 2014. It was a pure expression of realizing that from tomorrow on his world will be different and changed.
The question touches common feelings about our future and provokes doubts, wishes and desires. We mainly ask ourselves this question in order to understand a change or a shift that has happened to us, but it also encourages us to orientate ourselves, and it activates our curiosity to search.
By nature, teenagers are on a constant search and a hunt for possibilities of seeing and understanding the world in which they live, yet this endeavor often collides with so-called “reality”. During the PASyouth studies we want to confront this “reality” with performativity to formulate artistic visions of ‘what is tomorrow?’ and try to turn the question into a direction. We will facilitate and encourage the young people in the Studies to use performative strategies in order to arrive at an understanding of their personal visions and aesthetics. As the closing searches are made, we will come together and share our final performances at a public event as part of the M:ST Festival. BBB Johannes Deimling and Emily Promise Allison will support the young people with their creative processes.
Call for participants: This 6-day workshop will take place Saturday to Sunday, and Monday to Friday (3-6 pm). A final presentation of works will take place on Sunday October 5, 2-5 pm.
To register, please contact Tomas Jonsson: director@mstfestival.org
Here is the link to the PAS website: http://tinyurl.com/PASyouth-WIT
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6. EVENT: Paersche presents Interval °4 Performance Art Festival
Date: September 26-27, 2014; City: Essen, Germany; Source: Marita Bullman
Very welcome to the Performance Art Festival: Interval °4 in Essen
with soloperformances, interventions and actions
with the invited artists of Bbeyond Belfast, North-Ireland
26th of September 2014 at 5pm
BetonSalon in the City of Essen (1. Weberstrasse Ecke Kastanienallee)
27th of September 2014 at 7pm with Soloperformances
Artspace ERDgeschosse, Emmastrasse 1a, 45130 Essen
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Chrissie Cadman, Christof Gillen, Fergus Byrne, Sandra Johnston, James King
Brian Patterson and Elvira Santamaria
www.paersche.org
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7. EVENT: Malmo Gallery Night / Dafna Maimon and Performance Voyage 4
Date: September 27, 2014: City: Malmo, Sweden; Source: Elin Lundgren
Malmo Gallery Night
September 27, 2014
6:00pm-12:00pm
Lilith Performance Studio invites to a film premiere of Dafna Maimon (FIN/ISR) newest short film, “The She The Same” and a screening of Performance Voyage 4 - a series of international video performances by 15 artists.
”The She The Same” by Dafna Maimon (FIN /ISR)
Dafna Maimon latest short film, “The She The Same” processes love and desire with a narrow and intimate narrative. The film is part of a bigger homonymous project consisting of a 20 min short film, a performance, and artifacts in which the experience of our true other is set parallel to phantom limb pain. By looking back at mythologies in which each human was once separated from his or her other half in the beginning of times, this lost other could be considered to be a phantom limb or body.
This project, developed with the help of a neuroscientist, explores the way in which we construct our own bodies and those of our lovers. How does the perception of these constructed bodies manifest in reality and affect our psychology even after their disappearance? Simultaneously the idea of a double body or our true other half is a convenient tool for the production of expectation, desire and the romantic industries such as the capitalist ventures that profit from societal construct of romance and love.
Dafna Maimon’s work explores human dramas through constructed autobiographical characters that battle with the configuration of individuality, alienation, the body, and the perception of reality. Her projects showcase the economy of close personal ties as well as materialize through them, placing value on the idea of community on a grassroots level. Equally central within Maimon’s practice is the research and employment of the constructs of cultural artifacts such as cinema, TV, theater and science.
Dafna Maimon is a Finnish/Israeli artist (b.1982) that currently lives and works in Berlin. She grew up in Finland and studied in The Netherlands, she holds a BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, and an MFA from The Sandberg Institute. She has been a resident at Iaspis Stockholm, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council New York and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Maine.
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PERFORMANCE VOYAGE 4
A series of international video performances by 15 artists.
During the Malmo Gallery Night Lilith Performance Studio also show the Artists' Association MUU’s, from Helsinki, annual international performance video program - Performance Voyage.
Performance Voyage 4 is an extensive program of international video performances by 15 artists and collectives from different part of the world. The tour will be screened across Europe and globally at various venues in Sweden, Norway, Germany, USA, Canada, Russia and more and covers nearly 20 events in 11 countries.
The theme of Performance Voyage 4 is SELF-PORTRAIT. The works challenge spectators to reflect upon their own self as well. It also includes identity as an act and as a process; autobiography and everyone’s right to their own story; the artist in a social context; the self in relation to others and otherness; and more.
The Artists: Anastasia Ax & Marja-Leena Sillanpää, Alex Bodea, Elina Brotherus, Cristian Chironi, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Allison Halter, Constantin Hartenstei,Marja Helander, Marianne Myungah Kim, Verica Kovacevs, Julia Kurek, Marika Orenius, Benas Sarka, Minna Suoniemi.
ABOUT LILITH PERFORMANCE STUDIO
Lilith Performance Studio is the first combined production studio and arena for visual art
performance in Europe. The studio originates new large-scale performances by inviting visual artist to create exceptional performance pieces in a close collaboration with the Studio, from conceptualization to presentation. Since its inception, Lilith Performance Studio has produced over 35 large-scale site specific performances in collaboration with artists from around the world. The Studio is found and run by the Artists and the Artistic Directors Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson.
http://lilithperformancestudio.com/
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8. EVENT: New Performance Turku Festival
Date: Sept 29-Oct 5, 2014; Turku, Finland; Source: New Performance Turku Festival
International festival of performance and Live Art presents audience as expert!
New Performance Turku Festival is an international festival for performance and live art which takes place at various venues around Turku, Finland. The festival will present the latest works by leading artists in performance and performing arts. In their works these renowned artists combine elements from a variety of art genres. The theme for the New Performance Turku Festival 2014 is professional practices in a variety of fields and arts. The festival will also invite audience members as experts to activate the dialogue between performance art and different fields of expertise, between the performer and the audience.
This year we are excited to present artists from New Zealand who will represent the lively and diverse live art scene in their country with their collection of works. We come from far away. The works from Mark Harvey, val smith, Stephen Bain and Nisha Madhan explore questions involving otherness, nationality, gender and strangeness. The collection is curated by Mark Harvey in collaboration with New Performance Turku Festival. The emerging artists from Europe performing at the festival are Anaïs Héraud (FRA/GER) and Mac Ophélie (FRA/BEL). White on White is a performance theatre duo by Iggy Malmborg (SWE) and Johannes Schmit (GER) whose intelligent and challenging work has been gaining increasing notoriety across Europe. From Finland we have return visits to the festival from Eero Yli-Vakkuri who will present his ambitious project Trans-Horse HKI-TKU-HKI, and choreographer Maija Hirvanen who will perform her site-specific city tour project Walkapolis. From Essi Kausalainen there will also be a new performance installation Volatile Signals that is based on biological plant communication.
The aim of the New Performance Turku Festival is to examine what is actually happening in the international arena of experimental performance and Live Art, what is new there and where do the influences come from. The festival showcases works that transcend the existing boundaries of performance art – often coming from a diverse range of backgrounds and forms while still remaining experimental and challenging. The festival approaches both its artworks and audience with an open mind and with love.
www.newperformance.fi
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9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Living Arts of Tulsa 2015-2016 Season
Deadline date: October 1, 2014; City: Tulsa, USA; Source: Living Arts
LIVING ARTS OF TULSA
CALL FOR ARTISTS 2015 – 2016 SEASON
http://livingarts.org/callforartists15-16
PROPOSALS MUST INCLUDE:
1) A brief description of your proposal within 100 words (Describe what your work is, media included, not philosophy);
2) Artist’s Statement (tell us more about your concept and what is behind your work);
3) 10-15 images of representative work in JPEG format (if your work has visual parts only). Each image MUST be labeled with the artist’s last name (i.e. martinez 1. Jpg, martinez 2, and so on);
4) A list of weblinks of your work (if your work has movement and/or sound);
5) Please include a list of titles numbered in viewing order of each still image of video work submitted with description of your work (media, size, etc)
Example:
smith 1.jpg: “Untitled”, oil on canvas, 14”x21”
smith 2.jpg: “Untitled”, oil on canvas, 21”x30”
“Untitled Video”, Animation, 4min45sec and so on;
6) Minimum technical requirements you will want Living Arts to provide to present the work and time needed to install;
7) *For artists who are not in the general area only: estimated travel or freight expense (our policy is to pay for out-of-area artists’ return shipping if budget allows);
8) Dates available.
SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL, and for more information: http://livingarts.org/callforartists15-16
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10. ACTUS III: Interventions Solo of Performance Art and Open session
Date: October 1, 2014; City: Brussels, Belgium; Source: Béatrice Didier
Ricochets and the Academy of fine arts J-J.Gailliard are glad to invite you to ACTUS III
Interventions Solo of Performance Art and Open session.
With An Debie, Alice De Visscher (BE), Monali Meher (BE/IN), Marita Bullman, Boris Nieslony, Evamaria Schaller (DE), Fergus Byrne, Chrissie Cadman, Alex Conway, Christof Gillen, Sandra Johnston, Brian Patterson et Karine Talec (IE)
Wednesday, October 1, 2014, from 7pm
Academie des Beaux-Arts J-J.Gailliard
Rue de l'Hotel des Monnaies, 108-110 1060 Saint-Gilles
ACTUS III
Fully dedicated to Performance Art, ACTUS events are an opportunity for an encounter between performance artists who are active on the stage of contemporary art and the audience. Ephemeral, Performance Art is a unique experience of sharing time, space, action. It happens only once and is based on the actual presence of the various protagonists. The actions proposed by performers are generally plastic, non-theatrical, without artifice or effects control. They leave the viewer the freedom of a subjective reading.
After the platform ACTUS I which was held in February 2012 at les Brasseurs, in collaboration with the ULG, the residency ACTUS II which led to a public presentation at la Fabrique in Frameries, ACTUS III will host for an exceptional evening some artists from PAErsche and from Bbeyond who will collaborate with three artists living in Belgium to propose some interventions solo of performance art in different spaces of the Academy, before going on an Open Session in the Drawing Studio of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014, Academy of Fine Arts J-J.Gailliard
7- 8pm: Interventions solos
8- 9pm: Open Session, followed by a drink / discussion between artists and audience
Booking required before September 30: ricochets@scarlet.be or 0495/601414
For more information about:
PAErsche: www.paersche.org
Bbeyond: www.facebook.com/BBEYOND.PerformanceArt
ACTUS: www.facebook.com/Actusricochets
Academy of St Gilles: www.acasaintgilles.be
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11. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Bbeyond Administration / Finance Officer
Deadline date: October 2, 2014; Belfast; N.Ireland; Source: Bbeyond
Bbeyond wishes to employ an Administration and Finance Officer under a freelance contract for 480 hours between mid October 2014 and mid June 2015. An amount of £3840 has been allocated to this post; a work schedule to be agreed with the successful candidate.
Bbeyond is a membership organization committed to promoting the practice of Performance Art and artists in Northern Ireland and further afield. Bbeyond was established in 2001 and to date has initiated and organized a range of international projects and exchanges, involving over 340 artists from 32 countries. Bbeyond also works at the local level through a range of activities including: workshops, monthly performances in public space and publishing books relating to contemporary Performance Art in Northern Ireland.
For an application pack, please contact: bbeyondrecruitment@gmail.com
Completed applications to be sent by email to: bbeyondrecruitment@gmail.com no later than 5:00pm on 2nd October 2014. Short-listed candidates will be asked to attend for interview on the 8th October 2014.
This is a newly created post supported by the Arts Council for Northern Ireland. Bbeyond is a charity registered with HMRC No. XT19063. We are committed to equal opportunity in all aspects of our work.
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12. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Split Chorale for Viljo Revell at Nuit Blanche
Date: unspecified; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Elaine Gaito
Love to sing? Gentlemen, we need your voices at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche!
We're actively seeking male singers, ages 21 through 75, to participate in a large-scale chorus work to be performed live in the City Hall Rotunda this October 4th, from dusk 'til dawn.
The piece, entitled “Split Chorale for Viljo Revell” by American artists Kathryn Andrews and Scott Benzel, will be a multimedia marathon drone chorus involving up to 300 performers, led by members from some of Toronto's most established male choirs.
You don't need to be able to read music or have perfect pitch, but a love of singing and enthusiasm is a must!
Find out how you can play an important role in an original, specially-commissioned Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2014 piece:
www.workinculture.ca/The-Job-Board/jobs/Voices-Need-at-Scotiabank-Nuit-Blanche-2014!
Contact Project Co-ordinator Elaine Gaito directly at egaito@toronto.ca with your name, address, phone number, email, whether you're interested in being a Section Leader or Member, natural musical range (if you know it), and preferred shift (early, late, or all night).
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13. RESIDENCY: Pulau Ubin Artists-in-Residency Programme 2014-2015
Deadline date: October 10, 2014; City: Singapore; Source: The Artists Village
The Artists Village is conducting an open call for artists and non-artists to apply for the Artists-In-Residency programme (AIR) located on the island of Pulau Ubin. We welcome applications from various disciplines, e.g. dancers, musicians, art critics, writers, curators, environmentalist, scientists, etc to apply and to engage themselves in working with the natural environment on Pulau Ubin. Applicants are highly encouraged to propose projects relating to the environmental, natural and communal content on the island Pulau Ubin.
The Artists-in-Residency programme consists of two phases. For the first phase, the programme offers applicants the option of up to a maximum of 3 months residency on the island. Due to work commitments of local applicants, we hope that with this flexibility, we can provide the artists ample time to perform in-depth researches into their projects. During their residency, applicants are committed to give artist talk(s) on their progress in their researches, conduct a workshop and present their works for an end-residency exhibition.
Phase Two of the programme offers applicants the added opportunity to take part in a 1-month exchange programme with one of our collaborating partners in China, Vietnam and South Korea. This exchange will provide applicants a chance to experience living in another country and form interactions and communications with the foreign art communities.
We have a vision to use the island as a canvas to create art and it is an attempt to attract cultural and art practitioners to work in close contact with this relatively untainted natural environment in Singapore. Through this residency, we hope to provide a chance for artists to develop different perspectives from the experience of living on the island and at the same time, inculcate new outlook towards working in and with nature along with eco-friendlier art practices in this unique residency.
This residency programme is open to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents only. For more information and submission details, please visit the website. This project is organized by The Artists Village and is supported by the National Arts Council of Singapore.
www.tav.org.sg/artistsinresidency/opencall.html
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14. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Mayworks Festival
Deadline date: October 15, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Mayworks
The 30th ANNUAL MAYWORKS FESTIVAL
Open Call for Submissions | Deadline: October 15, 2014
Mayworks Festival – Toronto is pleased to invite submissions for its 30th festival season. Applications are accepted from groups and individuals in a range of disciplines, including: visual art, music/ poetry, film, video, interdisciplinary, and theatre.
To apply:
-Review the 2015 Mayworks Festival Open Call for Submissions
-Download the 2015 Mayworks Festival Submissions Form. Complete submission form and support material and send to festsubmissions[at]gmail.com by October 15, 2014.
www.mayworks.ca
Artistic Vision:
Mayworks Festival is a multi-disciplinary arts festival that celebrates cultural production working class culture. We seek to showcase high calibre art by artists at all stages in their careers that are politically and socially engaged with labour realities. Mayworks Festival is especially committed to providing a platform to support the underrepresented labor of Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, migrants, women, queer-identified people, people of color, and youth.
Mandate:
Though Mayworks Festival is fully committed to paying artists’ fees, we are not a funding body. We work in partnership with unions and co-presenters to present events that fit our mandate.
Timeline:
Submissions are due no later than October 15, 2014. Proposals selected will be notified by email by December 2015. The festival dates (TBD) will be in early May 2015.
Inquiries:
Do you have questions about the application process? Please contact Dianah Smith at performance[at]mayworks.ca.
Are you an organization interested in co-sponsoring an event at Mayworks Festival? Please contact Nausheen Quayyum: outreach@mayworks.ca
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15. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: On Institutions (Performance Research)
Deadline date: October 27, 2014; City: the world; Source: Performance Research
Volume 20, Number 4: On Institutions
Deadline: 27 October 2014
Vol. 20, No. 4: ‘On Institutions’ (August 2015)
Edited by Gigi Argyropoulou and Hypatia Vourloumis
Outline:
The aim of this issue is to explore the relation between performance and institutions building on the premise that institutional structures are formed through repeated sets of practices, patterns and relations. Through a performance studies lens that approaches the figure of the institution as verb, the editorial thinking behind this issue considers how institutions are performance and in turn how performance practices may enforce or destabilise institutions and initiate new modes of organisation. Although often read as abstractions of seemingly objective, entrenched and systematic structures, institutions, whether formal or informal, are always social processes. Thus, if institutional constructions and resources are established through repeated modes of action and arrangements, how might certain performance practices constitute radical acts, becomings and socialities, and by extension, potential performances of instituting otherwise? The aim of this issue is to bring to the fore theoretical discourses and artistic production that explicitly negotiate with institutions through experimental praxes from within, through and beyond them.
At present, formal educational, cultural and art institutions, whether public or private, comply with neoliberal economic policies or prove un-sustainable. These conditions have spurred diverse opinions regarding the engagement and involvement with and within official institutions. Many argue for an exit as institutional re-structuring becomes increasingly complicit with market rules and neoliberal governmental agendas. As Boltanski and Chiapello amongst many others have shown, artistic practice and critique are often incorporated into the system as an extracted new set of values, attitudes and structures so as to re-legitimise dominant institutions. At the same time many argue that to effect change we must necessarily and simultaneously work from both outside and within current institutions as interconnected sites for social transformation. In what ways can performance practice critique or even attempt to change the conditions it often appears to serve?
In refusing an easy binary between the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of institutional frameworks and between artistic and social performance, the issue aims to offer insights into the ways all of us engage in practices of instituting while maneuvering within, through and against institutional parameters. Historically and in the present, dominating and governing institutional structures are constituted through hierarchical bureaucracies and divisions of labour bound up with the production, function and management of race, gender, sexuality and class. At the same time, the last two decades have seen what Athanassiou and Butler call a “perfomativity in plurality”: new global forms of organisation and resistance including guerilla art practices, activist-artist occupations of state-owned theaters, boycotts of art and educational institutions, worker-run factories, occupied square movements, emergent community assemblies and economies, self-organised art and publishing spaces, relational participatory structures and critical experimental performance. Questions on how practices of performance and mis-performance facilitate other forms of sociality play a key role in interrogating and re-imagining participation, collaboration, collectivity and decision-making. How can an emphasis on institutions as performance and performances of instituting or non-instituting offer examples of contingent and resistant forms, aesthetics, strategies, theories and methods? How do we constitute institutions as they constitute us? Finally, how can a theatre and performance studies approach on institutions augment and complicate current discourses of institutional performance and critique?
This issue seeks to bring together diverse approaches and methodologies of institutional critique past and present as well as propositions for new forms and alternative practices. The editors anticipate the inclusion of both articles and artists’ pages. We strongly encourage theoretical examinations, artists' writings, analyses of performances, written exchanges and proposals from various fields.
Questions may include:
-The role of institutions and politics of resistance in the current sociopolitical landscape.
-Performance practices (including but not limited to theatre, dance, music, visual and performance art) negotiating with questions of institutional arrangements, borders, aesthetics and norms.
-Interrelations between institutions and performance practice. Effective modes of research, artistic practice and critical engagement and its relation to current institutions.
-Institutions as performance, institutions of performance, performance as institution and instituting or non-instituting otherwise.
-Can performance and cultural practice effect, challenge and re-invent current institutional formats?
-Performance practices as potential alternatives to ideas of hegemony and the “long march through institutions?”
-Performances of governance, institutionalised biopolitics, necropolitics and countering performances.
-What strategies and forms of performance may challenge established practices and ways of doing? Can performance produce new forms of institution?
-Performances within and against state and private institutions, including but not limited to the institution of language, economic and monetary institutions, algorithmic and logistical institutions, religious, health, educational and art institutions.
-Fugitive planning before, within and beyond institution: queer, feminist, black radical traditions, interventions and the undercommons.
-New forms of instituting: collective, emergent, social and self-organised structures.
Beyond these guiding questions, we also welcome other responses to the theme. Contributions to the issue might take the form of articles, reviews, artworks, interviews, dialogues and manifestos.
Schedule:
Proposals: 27 October 2014
First Drafts: February 2015
Final Drafts: April 2015
Publication Date: August 2015
ALL proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct to:
info@performance-research.org
Issue-related enquiries should be directed to the Issue Editors:
Gigi Argyropoulou: 01crash@gmail.com
Hypatia Vourloumis: hypvour@gmail.com
General Guidelines for Submissions:
-Before submitting a proposal we encourage you to visit our website and familiarize yourself with the journal.
-Proposals will be accepted by e-mail (MS-Word or RTF). Proposals should not exceed one A4 side.
-Please include your surname in the file name of the document you send.
-DO NOT send images electronically without prior agreement.
-Submission of a proposal will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
-If your proposal is accepted, you will be invited to submit an article in first draft by the deadline indicated above. On the final acceptance of a completed article you will be asked to sign an author agreement in order for your work to be published in Performance Research.
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16. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
Date: October 29-November 2, 2014; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: 7a*11d
The 10th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art takes place in Toronto from October 29 to November 2, 2014. Organized by a non-profit collective of artists, 7a*11d offers a professional venue for new and progressive performance art works. The artist organizers select emerging and established artists of the highest quality from around the world to showcase the breadth and depth of contemporary performance art.
We need volunteers for before, during, and after the festival to help us with:
-catalogue and poster distribution
-preparing or sourcing artists' materials
-setting up for performances
-assisting with front of house during performances
-documenting performances
-tearing down after performances
-additional tasks as per event schedule
Qualifications you should have include:
-a keen interest in, and knowledge of, performance art
-strong inter-personal skills
-ability to work both independently and effectively with other team members
-able to communicate with a variety of individuals
-experience working on events is an asset.
-Smart Serve card is an asset
If you'd like to volunteer, please send an email with "Volunteer" in the subject line to: performance@7a-11d.ca.
For more information about this year's festival, please visit our web site at www.7a-11d.ca.
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17. FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Rapid Pulse
Deadline date: unspecified; City: Chicago, USA; Source: Julie Laffin
About Rapid Pulse
RAPID PULSE presents a dynamic range of styles and forms of performance art. The festival embraces the local and the global simultaneously. We aim to invigorate Chicago by bringing to the city artists of exceptional calibre from around the world with dynamic programming, decidedly fearless and unique.
Sitting between visual art, theatre, music and dance, Performance Art can happen anywhere and for any length of time. Performance Art explores the body, objects, space and time to create works that are experimental or conceptual. Setting aside story or plot, Performance Artists sculpt an experience. Spilling over to other venues in the neighborhood for two weekends Thursday – Sunday with different programming each day: Discourse with Artist Talks and Panels Video Series, as part of the evening program Performances in the Gallery, Electrodes, Public & the Hub
Fellowship description:
This is a 10-month fellowship with the Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival curatorial team: Joseph Ravens, Julie Laffin, Steven L. Bridges, and Giana Gambino. The fellowship provides curatorial training and supports scholarly research related to a dynamic range of styles and forms of performance art. The fellow will assist with several areas in developing the June 2015 iteration of Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival. The fellow is fully integrated into the curatorial team with duties, privileges, and status equivalent to those of an assistant curator. Time is divided between general curatorial work and specific projects, which include organizing curatorial meetings, note taking, data management, contributing to the selection process and reviewing applications, researching and applying for specific grants for invited artists, offsite project coordination, production assistance, catalogue development & production, and PR & social media for RP15.
Eligibility:
Consideration is given to candidates with a specialized interest in performance art and related experience. Masters degree preferred (or the equivalent). School credit awarded or chance of small stipend.
Please email: gianagambino@rapidpulse.org:
-Letter of Interest
-Current resume
-10-15 images of curatorial work with descriptions
www.rapidpulse.org
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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. FADO presents 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.
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