FADO E-LIST (March 2015)

INDEX
1. EVENT: FLOWCHART
Date: March 5-April 16, 2015; City: Toronto; Source: Benjamin Kamino
2. EVENT: /*semble*/
Date: March 7-8, 2015; City: Singapore; Source: Jason Lee
3. EVENT: Belfast International Festival of Performance Art (BIFPA 15)
Date: March 9-14, 2015; City: Belfast, N.Ireland; Source: Brian Connolly
4. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The Kim Fielding Award
Deadline date: March 13, 2015; City: international; Source: Paul Hurley
5. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Internal Democracy
Deadline date: March 16, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: claude wittmann
6. EVENT: LINK & PIN performance art series presents PERFO SOIR
Date: March 19, 2015; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: Adriana Disman
7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Copycat Academy: Second Edition
Deadline date: March 20, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Cathy Gordon
8. EVENT: Radical Acts Unconference
Date: March 21, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: AGO
9. EVENT: Yvonne Rainer in Toronto
Date: March 21, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: AGO
10. PUBLICATION: Performance Art in Ireland: A History, Edited by Áine Phillips
Date: now; City: the world; Source: Áine Phillips
11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Performance Research, Volume 21, Number 1: On Sleep
Deadline date: March 30, 2015; City; the world; Source: Performance Research
12. RESIDENCY: Unlearning Practices
Deadline date: March 31, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Teresa Ascencao
13. RESIDENCY: LUMINOUS BODIES
Deadline date: March 31, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Teresa Ascencao
14. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RedPlexus
Deadline date: April 20, 2015; City: Marseille, France; Source: Christine Bouvier
15. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Compass Points Program 2015
Deadline date: April 24, 2015; City: Ottawa, Canada; Source: Magnetic North Theatre Festival
16. RESIDENCY: ALCHEMY
Deadline date: May 15, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Teresa Ascencao
17. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: PROCESS Series / A Call for Performers and Presenters
Deadline date: unspecified; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: lo bil

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1. EVENT: FLOWCHART
Date: March 5-April 16, 2015; City: Toronto; Source: Benjamin Kamino

March 5 – April 16, 2015
Hub 14 (14 Markham Street, Toronto)

Happening with much excitement at the tail end of the colder months in this part of the world I am delighted to present to you the second full, but fourth ever, iteration of 
FLOWCHART.

March 5th: With Simon Portigal, Matt Smith, and Philip McKee
March 26th: With Zeesy Powers, Alicia Grant and Zoja Smutny/Brendan Jensen
April 16th: With Alice Chauchat and Randall Gagné


ADMISSION: $10/night (cash at the door)
Advance tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/flowchart-a-series-of-performance-tickets-15885754720



Flowchart is a series of small-scale multidisciplinary performance curated by dance artist Amelia Ehrhardt. It shows work by artists engaging with the choreographic from the perspective of multiple fields; work which pays attention to organizing movement in space + having it be affected by/also itself affect time. By contextualizing non-dance works within the choreographic, an engagement with these ideas becomes newly visible. Flowchart is interested in works that centralize the body and offers a curiosity about what happens to non-dance works when they are presented in the scope of a field that inevitably does so. 

Supported by Hub 14. This is a Community Chest residency project.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/718766088222784

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2. EVENT: /*semble*/
Date: March 7-8, 2015; City: Singapore; Source: Jason J S Lee

/*semble*/ is an interactive art – installation – performance that will take place at the former KTM Tanjong Pagar Railway Station on March 7-8, 2015.


/*semble*/ is free entry to the public from 3pm on March 7, and from 12pm on March 8. 2015. Event ends at 8pm on both days.

Participating TAV Artists:
Ben Puah
Chand Chandramohan
Ezzam Rahman
Farah Ong
Gilles Massot
Jacquelyn Soo
Jason J S Lee
Kai Lam
Lina Adam
Natasha Wei
Post Museum
Shin-young Park
Urich Lau
Guest Artist: KIDCUCUMBERINC.

Organized by The Artists Village, /*semble*/ will feature performances and installations of various mediums and tones with an underlying tribute to the nation’s 50th year of independence, symbolically on the site of a stretch of land that once upon a time; via train, connected both Singapore and Malaysia.

/*semble*/ will take place at the main lobby, otherwise once referred to ‘that big hall where you bought tickets and waited for your train’, a solemn spot that will once again be bustling for different reasons this time round. This juxtaposition of work would be an apt narrative of the artistic developments and endeavours that have taken place within the Singapore demographic on a site that still stands; unmoved and unchanged.

This event is supported by the National Arts Council and Arts Fund, and administratively partnered with Casual Concepts Communications.

For more details and latest updates, please visit:
www.tav.org.sg/semble
www.facebook.com/theartistsvillage
For enquiries, please contact Jason: Jason@tav.org.sg



[/*semble*/ - a format which functions as a comment that could be used in a typical coding language. 'semble' can be found in few other words which contains the same spelling structures in part of their vocabulary structure (assemble, dissemble, etc.) or be simply used as a single term.]

Riding on the nation's 50th year of independence, /*semble*/ consists of site-specific exhibitions and performances that touches on the issues of history, memories, architectures and spaces. Through presenting ephemeral works in a national monument, /*semble*/ interplays contextual lineage and attempts to create dialogues between the physical site and artworks; while simultaneously seeking to investigate the omnipresence of urban development in our homeland. The title is open to participating artists for individual creative interpretation. Artworks are to consist of installations, mixed-media, and LIVE art performances.

Venue: Former KTM Tanjong Pagar Railway Station (main hall)
Address: 30 Keppel Road, Singapore 089059
Dates: 07 – 08 March 2015

Organized by: The Artists Village
Conceived by: Jason J S Lee
Administrative Partner: Casual Concepts Communications
Supported by: National Arts Council and Arts Fund
Special Thanks: XPC

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3. EVENT: Belfast International Festival of Performance Art (BIFPA 15)
Date: March 9-14, 2015; City: Belfast, N.Ireland; Source: Brian Connolly

Belfast International Festival of Performance Art (BIFPA 15)
As part of the Ulster University Festival of Art 2015
March 9-14, 2015

Performances, Workshops, Seminars, Lecture, Book Launches, etc.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Helge Meyer
Pauline Cummins
Marilyn Arsem
Jennifer Hanley
Maurice Block
Wahshi Kuhi
Hugh O’Donnell
Fergus Byrne
Mads Floor Andersen
Aliansyah Caniago
Christoff Gillen
Peter Morgan Barnes
Sinead Keogh
Paddy Bloomer
Sculpture/Lens 
Students School Children from Strangford College

View the full schedule of events and read about the artists at: www.ulsterfestival.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/BIFPA-15-Belfast-International-Festival-of-Performance-Art/1405359069774911

Contact: Brian Connolly at brianconnollyartist@btinternet.com

Special thanks to: Pollen Studios, Prime Collective, Cultural Development, Karine Talec, Amanda Coogan, Alastair MacLennan, Jayne Cherry, Jordan Hutchings, Max Surin, Sculpture/Lens Student Volunteers and all Staff & Students involved.

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4. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The Kim Fielding Award
Deadline date: March 13, 2015; City: international; Source: Paul Hurley

The Kim Fielding Award is a brand new £5000 award for a creative individual or group. Applications are now open, deadline 13th March 2015.

Kim Fielding was a legendary figure of the Welsh arts scene - artist, curator and co-founder of the experimental art space tactileBOSCH, in Cardiff. After Kim's sudden and untimely death last year, a group of friends and artists close to him have set up an award in his name. It is thus with great pleasure and anticipation that the Kim Fielding Award announces its inaugural call for submissions. Having worked tirelessly to get to this point, the KFA is thrilled to be able to put to good use some of the amazing funds raised last year. 

The KFA is seeking applications from creative individuals and groups (artists, performers, musicians, filmmakers, collectives, troupes, etc.) at any stage of their career, based in the UK or internationally. We are looking for projects that demonstrate some transformative potential for the awardee(s) as well as some public event element to take place in Cardiff, UK - this may be an exhibition, a performance, or something else entirely. We want to be excited, surprised, inspired and moved, and hope that the award - a package not just of money but of professional support and networking - will somehow make a big difference, as Kim Fielding did for so many.

Full details of the award are at the website below (where there's also press info if you need it), and we urge you to help us spread the word - to individuals you'd like to suggest apply, or via networks you're connected to.

www.kimfielding.org

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5. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Internal Democracy
Deadline date: March 16, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: claude wittmann

Internal Democracy
Concept by and work with claude wittmann
Presented in the framework of the 2015 Deep Wireless Festival

Preparation: Monday morning or afternoon in April and May 2015, in closed room at City Hall
Final improvisation: one Thursday evening in May, in the open space of the Rotunda at Toronto City Hall
Registration and commitment required. Please send me your questions/registration at: clowittmann@gmail.com
Deadline: March 16, 2015

Internal Democracy will aim at expressing what the body authentically voices when meeting the abstract concept of equality and its translation into the present of encounters with other human beings. Internal Democracy is inspired by my current project Radio Equals and by voice work with voice teacher, performer and writer Fides Krucker.

The piece will start with sessions of work in a closed room at Toronto City Hall and end with a group improvisation, on the ground floor of City Hall, i.e. the Rotunda. This improvisation will be streamed on the New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA - http://www.naisa.ca/naisa-radio/) internet radio, with the technical support of NAISA on both our and their ends.

I will guide the work on the basis of my past experience with workshop-performances, such as Temporary Trans Radio, Something about the Public Space, Transform the Internalized Oppressor, Something about Gender. I will also take advantage of my personal discoveries with voice work and experience with radio. I will put particular attention on adjusting my tools to the group of people I am working with and I will aim at slowly shifting my guidance into a democratic space of decisions.

Open to anyone with absolutely no requirement regarding experience with voice or performance or group work. The point is to do something, to experiment from where we are, not to produce the thing we have in mind. We start from "I do not know what will come out of me, if anything actually comes out; I am a citizen."

Money: no charge for the workshop part of the work, equal share of my artistic fee after the final work.

http://claudiawittmann.ca
www.naisa.ca 

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6. EVENT: LINK & PIN performance art series presents PERFO SOIR 2
Date: March 19, 2015; City: Montreal, Canada; Source: Adriana Disman

LINK & PIN performance art series presents PERFO SOIR 2
Gallerie RATS 9 (327 Ste-Cath. Ouest, Belgo Building, 5th floor / Suite 530, Montreal
ADMISSION: $10, personne ne sera refuser/ no one turned away

ARTISTS:
Rachel Echenberg (MTL)
Johnny Forever (MTL)
Holly Timpener (TO)

Commissaire par/curated by Adriana Disman

PLEASE NOTE: Holly Timpener presents a durational piece from 4pm onwards, that will culminate in an action at 7pm.

ARTIST BIOS:
Rachel Echenberg is a Montreal-based visual artist. Her performances explore the permeable boundaries between personal, social and political space. Since 1993 her work has been exhibited, performed and screened across Canada as well as internationally in Belgium, Chile, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Morocco, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and the United States. She currently teaches in the Fine Arts Department of Dawson College in Montreal. She is a board member of VIVA! art action, and Optica centre for contemporary art.
http://rachelechenberg.net

Johnny Forever* (Magdalena Nawracaj) is an multidisciplinary artist currently based in Montreal. They work in soft sculpture, video, and drag-inflected performance to create immersive environments and build mythic narrative. Their drag wraps itself around love, loss and longing with a particular investment in these themes as furtive in trans and queer storytelling.
www.jnawracaj.ca

Holly Timpener completed her studies in musical theatre in Toronto at the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts, where she earned a certificate in the Triple Threat program. After graduating, she became involved in interpretative dance, and began to seek out avenues other that theatre through which she could explore the performing arts. Through her work with performance artists Sylvie Tourangeau, Claude Wittman, Victoria Stanton, and Johannes Zitts, she found the medium she was looking for. Holly has taken part in workshops with astounding performance artists all over Canada, and has had the pleasure of showing her work in Summerworks, Long Winter, the AGO, and the University of Toronto. She has performed in the Phantom Wing project, the M.S.T. and is preparing for a performative installation that she has been invited to create with Jack Bride at the Stride Gallery in Calgary.
http://htimpener.wix.com/hollytimpener

FACEBOOK EVENT: www.facebook.com/events/1611758465714233
WEBSITE: https://linkandpinperformance.wordpress.com
CONTACT: linkandpinperformance@gmail.com

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7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Copycat Academy: Second Edition
Deadline date: March 20, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada: Source: Cathy Gordon

Luminato Festival is pleased to announce the second edition of The Copycat Academy at Luminato Festival: A weeklong masterclass with an absent master.

Applications are now open for the 2015 program, running June 21 to 28, 2015 at The Theatre Centre (1115 Queen St. W) in Toronto, Canada.

A project by Hannah Hurtzig/Mobile Academy Berlin
Commissioned and produced by the Luminato Festival

Each year, The Copycat Academy models its curriculum after the work and the biography of a different artist, without his or her consent. The 2014 pilot “hijacked” one of the most influential artist collectives of the late 20th century, the Toronto-based General Idea. The absent master in 2015 will be David Cronenberg and the script for this year’s program is based on his first fiction book, “Consumed: A Novel” (Scribner, 2014).

The relationship between the absent master and The Copycat Academy could be described as one of parasitic inhabitation: participants lodge on the body of an oeuvre, in order to experimentally extract an instruction manual for copying processes. In other words, replicating themselves in the host means that they can observe new meanings emerge through bastardization or mutation. However, with Cronenberg, copying is an infectious process, and a dangerous one at that, for it transforms both the identity of the original as well as the status of the copy.

To learn more about the program and to apply, please visit our site. Applications are due by March 20, 2015.

Read about the 2015 program and curriculum here:
https://luminatofestival.com/media/The%20Copycat%20Academy%20Program%20and%20Curriculum.pdf

To apply or learn more about the application process follow this link:
www.copycatacademytoronto.com/submissions

Read selection committee bios click here:
https://luminatofestival.com/media/The%20Copycat%20Academy%20Selection%20Committee.pdf

Confirmed faculty for The Copycat Academy 2015 include:
Jonathan Beller (New York)
Marcus Boon (Toronto)
Bojana Cvejić (Belgrade)
Gisèle Gordon (Toronto)
Dr. Mojgan Hodaie (Toronto)
Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino (Brazil)
Pedro Neves Marques (Lisbon/New York)
Kent Monkman (Toronto)
Archer Pechawis (Toronto)
Jochen Roller (Berlin)
Meg Stuart (Berlin/Brussels)
Amy Taubin (New York)

To read full bios of the 2015 Faculty, follow this link:
https://luminatofestival.com/pages/faculty-bios-copycat-academy/

Please contact Cathy Gordon, Associate Producer, Luminato Festival, with any questions or concerns at cgordon@luminato.com

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8. EVENT: Radical Acts
Date: March 21, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: AGO

DATE: Saturday March 21, 2015
TIME: 10am to 5pm

LOCATION: Weston Family Learning Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto
ADMISSION: Members $30 / Public $45 / Students $25
 (Conference admission Includes lunch)

Purchase tickets here:
https://tickets.ago.net/purchase.aroid=650590&month=03&day=21&year=2015&sum=AGO%20Talks%20and%20Lectures

FOR MORE INFO: www.ago.net/radical-acts

Radical Acts, scheduled in conjunction with the exhibition “Introducing Suzy Lake” and Feminist Art Gallery (FAG)’s residency at the Art Gallery of Ontario, will explore questions of feminism, performance, and self-representation raised by the exhibition. What is a radical act? Who is visible? Who is invisible? How do we redress the incomplete history on display in most museums?  These issues will be taken up by Radical Acts, attendees: feminist artists and thinkers in a one day event that begins with structured small group conversations and concludes with open discussions generated by participants in the room, following an unconference model.

Please note that attendees of this event will be granted free entry into Artist Talk: Yvonne Rainer.

For more information about this talk, follow this link: www.ago.net/artist-talk-yvonne-rainer

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9. EVENT: Yvonne Rainer in Toronto!
Date: March 21, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: AGO
Yvonne Rainer, on the occasion of Radical Acts Unconference at the AGO, will give a keynote lecture on Saturday March 21, from 7pm – 8:30pm

DATE: Saturday, March 21, 2015
TIME: 7 - 8:30 pm
LOCATION: The Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto
ADMISSION: Members $10 / Public  $12 / Students $8

Yvonne Rainer, a co-founding member of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, made a transition to filmmaking following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer/dancer (1960-1975). After making seven experimental feature films — “Lives of Performers” (1972), “Privilege” (1990), “MURDER and murder” (1996), among others — she returned to dance in 2000 via a commission from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation for the White Oak Dance Project (“After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”). Her dances since then include “AG Indexical, with a little help from H.M.”, “RoS Indexical”, a Performa07 commission, “Spiraling Down”, “Assisted Living: Good Sports 2”, and “Assisted Living: Do You Have Any Money?” Her dances and films have been shown world wide, and her work has been rewarded with museum exhibitions, fellowships, and grants, most notably two Guggenheim Fellowships, two Rockefeller grants, a Wexner Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and retrospective exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz and Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2012), the Getty Research Institute, L.A. and Raven Row, London (2014). A memoir — “Feelings Are Facts: a Life” — was published by MIT Press in 2006. A selection of her poetry was published in 2011 by Paul Chan’s Badlands Unlimited.

To purchase tickets, please follow this link:
https://tickets.ago.net/purchase.aroid=650589&month=03&day=21&year=2015&sum=AGO%20Talks%20and%20Lectures

Please note that attendees of the Radical Acts Conference will be granted free admission to the Yvonne Rainer talk.

www.ago.net/artist-talk-yvonne-rainer

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10. PUBLICATION: Performance Art in Ireland: A History, Edited by Áine Phillips
Date: now; City: the world; Source: Áine Phillips

Published by Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books, 2015.
17 x 23 cm, 336 pages, paperback, with 32 page colour section.
Trade Orders: Intellect Books
ISBN: 9781783204281

For more information, see the Distribution information here:
www.thisisliveart.co.uk/publishing/lada-publishing-trade-orders-and-distribution-information

This book, the first devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland, brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academics. It features rigorous critical and theoretical analysis as well as historical commentaries that provide an absorbing sense of the rich histories of performance art in Ireland. Presenting diverse visual documentation of performance art practices, this collection shows how performance art in Ireland engaged with—and in turn influenced and led—contemporary performance and Live Art internationally.


Contributors: André Stitt, Karine Talec, Amanda Coogan, Anthony Sheehan, Danny McCarthy, Megs Morley, EL Putnam, Kate Antosik-Parsons, Helena Walsh, Michelle Browne, Fergus Byrne, Cliodhna Shaffrey, Áine Phillips

Áine Phillips is a performance artist and head of sculpture at Burren College of Art at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

“The collection makes a convincing case for the distinctiveness of Irish performance art, arising from the manner in which performance allowed artists in Ireland to address the specificity of their political, cultural and historical situation. Given the prominence of Ireland-based performance artists and their prolific output, a publication such as this is long overdue.” - Heike Roms, Professor in Performance Studies, Aberystwyth University

“The scope of the book is impressive. The authors come with a wealth of personal experience as artists and curators, and their understanding and sensitivity to their topic and to the nuances of practice in this form is very exciting. Editor Áine Phillips is mindful of the need to discuss the porousness of Ireland’s boundaries, and the publication covers the whole island of Ireland, the work of Irish artists in other places, and the work of visiting live artists and their influence.” - Catherine Marshall, Curator, Art Historian and Co-editor of Art and Architecture of Ireland, Twentieth Century.

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11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Performance Research, Volume 21, Number 1: On Sleep
Deadline date: March 30, 2015; City; the world; Source: Performance Research

Vol. 21, No. 1: ‘On Sleep' (February 2016)
Issue Editor:  Ric Allsopp [AMATA/ Falmouth University]

This issue of Performance Research 'On Sleep' sets out to gather research and speculative articles, artist's pages and images, critical and creative writings on the performance of sleep, and on how sleep - 'great nature's second course’ (Shakespeare, Macbeth Act 2, Scene 2) - as a state of being, as an image, as a metaphor, as a passivity or as an activity, can act as a catalyst for performance, or is performed. Can we talk about a scenography, a poetics or a philosophy of sleep in terms of, or in relation to, forms of performance? 

Sleep (and sleeplessness) as a trope, as a pictorial or literary image has been a consistent cultural representation since antiquity. Artists (and audiences) often operate generatively in the transitions between waking to sleeping, at the borders where conscious and unconscious states merge with each other. A recent history of contemporary/ performance art and theatre provides a number of familiar and compelling examples in the work of Andy Warhol, Samuel Beckett, Bill Viola, Janine Antoni, Jim Findlay, and others.

These works attest to our cultural fascination with the invisible realm of sleep and its association with forms of darkness, night, and death. The worlds that sleep contains, borders, or performs, are worlds that not only inform or influence our waking lives, but also inform our relation to insomnia, as troubled and disturbed sleep, as somnambulism, and our inability to navigate the thresholds of sleep. To perform sleep is perhaps to be caught or suspended at these thresholds.

Topics for proposal might include:
-Performances that seek the condition of sleep
-Sleep and Theatre
-Sleep and (In)attention
-Sleep, Darkness and Night
-Insomnia, Sleeplessness and Sleep deprivation
-Sleep and Performance Art/Installation
-Commodity culture and the externalization of sleep
-Sleep and Narrative
-Performance of written/ literary images of sleep
-Sleep and Time
-Durational performance and the desire for sleep
-Sleep and the Performance of Food
-Performance and/as sleep walking
-Sleep and Performance Training/ Research
-Sleep and Performance Philosophy
-Sleep and Scenography - the place(s) of sleep, slumber and reverie
-Sleep and the Digital domain
-Sleeping audiences and drowsiness as a purposeful attribute of audience reception

We would also like to include in the issue some short contributions (in word and or image form) on memorable performances that have induced sleep.

Schedule:
Proposals: March 30, 2015
First Drafts: July 2015
Final Drafts: October 2015
Publication Date: February 2016

ALL proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct to the Journal at: info@performance-research.org

Issue-related enquiries should be directed to issue editor, Ric Allsopp at: ricallsopp@mac.com

General Guidelines for Submissions:
-Before submitting a proposal we encourage you to visit our website (http://www.performance-research.org/) 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.
-If you intend to send images electronically, please contact the Journal first to arrange 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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12. RESIDENCY: Unlearning Practices
Deadline date: March 31, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Teresa Ascencao

Unlearning Practices
Programmed Art Residency
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island
Facilitators: Zoe Kreye and Catherine Grau

Program Dates: June 1 to June 14, 2015
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015

Cost including taxes in CAD: $1115 (private bedroom) or $850 (shared bedroom). Includes: 2-weeks accommodation, large shared studio, facilitation, and final event.

Unlearning Practices Residency is a two week facilitated exploration of other ways of knowing and being. Unlearning is an active practice of de-conditioning our bodies and minds – and researching through embodiment and expanding our ability to feel. Drawing from years of research in the fields of somatic practices, performance art, alternative pedagogy, social justice and eco-feminist philosophy, Unlearning Practices will facilitate both personal and shared explorations of how to re-wild inner landscapes and open up our senses and perception to the living world around us. On the natural setting of Toronto Island, the residency will be structured as a creative workshop retreat, offering daily facilitated exercises, hands-on tools and resources for individual exploration, embodied research methods, individual studio time, communal meals, and the opportunity to collaboratively produce a final event. For anyone working with embodiment, performance art, dance, alternative pedagogy, land art, social justice, healing, or simply craving to realign through creative processes – this residency will offer the space and tools to nourish and regenerate yourself while opening up to new sources of inspiration. There is more to life than we know!

Artscape Gibraltar Point (AGP) is an artist retreat nestled against the magnificent natural backdrop of Toronto Island. It offers rich potential for the creation of artworks amongst its blue-flag beaches and natural surroundings of Lake Ontario, forests and gardens filled with flowers, fruit and vegetables. On the island, there are tiny quaint homes, a historic lighthouse, a hobby farm and antique carnival grounds. Cozy up in a furnished studio and bedroom, and enjoy amenities such as a fully equipped common kitchen, shared bathrooms, laundry facilities and free wireless Internet. AGP is barrier free and an inclusive environment. The Toronto city core is just a 15-minute ferry ride away! 

Facilitators:

Zoe Kreye and Catherine Grau have been collaborating as artists on the theme of unlearning for over six years. They have accumulated a repertoire of tools, exercises, methods and approaches and their art practice can be understood as a living unlearning environment: looking for new ways of activating perception and finding perspectives that enable creative criticality. Interested in invisible and often dismissed forms of learning, they use performativity, play and ceremony as way to counter the overly rational, exploitative, neo-liberal and patriarchal systems we exist within. Their projects are process-based and participatory, often inviting the public into sensorial performances, walks, processions and workshops. Their collaboration has recently evolved from looking to reclaim and activate contested public space to digging deeper into the fabric on the human condition and creative acts of healing. Recent projects and exhibitions include: Measures for Saving the World #5 - Center for Contemporary Art, Graz AU; Unlearning Retreat for FOReCAST - Responsive Art in the Public Realm, ADRIART (International Master Study Program in Contemporary Arts), Graz AU; Collective Walks / Spaces of Contestation - Unit/PITT Gallery, Vancouver CA; Unlearning Weekenders - Goethe Satellite, Vancouver CA; How to Walk Together - {HotelMariaKapel} Resdiency, Hoorn NL; Collective Tasks for Überlebenskunst - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin DE. For more information on the Facilitators visit: zoekreye.com and catherinegrau.tumblr.com.

Unlearning Practices Residency is limited to 13 residents selected through an application process. The cost for the two weeks including taxes is $1115 for private accommodation, or $850 for a shared room. The fee includes private sleeping quarters, large shared studio, facilitation, workshops, and final event. Arrivals are on June 1 after 1pm and before 3pm, and departure on June 14 before 11am.

For more information about submissions, facilities and the Artscape program, contact Teresa Ascencao at: info@residencycoordinator.com. For more information about the Unlearning Practices Residency, contact Zoe and Catherine at: unlearningweekenders@gmail.com. Submissions are accepted until March 31st. 

To apply, fill out the online form and include your website or a drop box link with images of your work. http://artscape.wufoo.eu/forms/online-application-for-artscape-gibraltar-point/

LINK: http://www.torontoartscape.org/artscape-gibraltar-point/residencies#unlearning-practices

APPLY: http://artscape.wufoo.eu/forms/online-application-for-artscape-gibraltar-point/

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13. RESIDENCY: LUMINOUS BODIES
Deadline date: March 31, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Teresa Ascencao

LUMINOUS BODIES
International Call: Programmed Art Residency
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Canada
Facilitator, Teresa Ascencao

Program Dates: July 3 – 17, 2015
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015

Cost including taxes: $1015 for private bedroom, or $750 for shared bedroom (package includes accommodation, large shared studio, workshop facilitation, and an exhibition)

Luminous Bodies is a two-week residency to create artworks that shed new light on the human body. Its objective is to challenge “normativity” and Otherness. Its goal is to reinvent and re-present the body in most inclusive and diverse ways. Audio-visual screenings, guest artist talks followed by studio visits, a gallery tour and readings, uncover how our bodies are culturally and aesthetically constructed, displayed and controlled. Cinema, artworks, philosophy, theology, transpersonal psychology, post-colonialism and social movements are explored for ideas in transgressing these forces. Residents work individually or collaboratively to create artworks that reinvent the body through media of their choice, such as photography, video, installation, drawing, performance art, new media etc. Critiques of residents’ work in progress occur on a regular basis. There will be a closing exhibition of artworks created during the residency. The essence of Luminous Bodies is about bringing to light heterogeneous bodies. It welcomes people in all walks of life and genders into a creative journey of critical innovation and self-discovery.

Artscape Gibraltar Point (AGP) is an artist retreat nestled against the magnificent natural backdrop of Toronto Island. It offers rich potential for the creation of artworks amongst its blue-flag beaches and natural surroundings of Lake Ontario, forests and gardens filled with flowers, fruit and vegetables. On the island, there are tiny quaint homes, a historic lighthouse, a hobby farm and antique carnival grounds. Cozy up in a furnished studio and bedroom, and enjoy amenities such as a fully equipped common kitchen, shared bathrooms, laundry facilities and free wireless Internet. AGP is barrier free and an inclusive environment. The Toronto city core is just a 15-minute ferry ride away! 

Teresa Ascencao is a media artist whose work deals with gender and sexuality constructs through unique cultural perspectives and technological approaches. Ascencao was born to Azorean parents in Sao Paulo, Brazil and immigrated to Canada at a young age. She graduated with distinction from the University of Toronto's Honours Fine Art Studio program, and received her MFA from OCAD University specializing in Media Art and Sex-Positive Feminism. Her work has been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. Ascencao lives and works in Toronto and teaches at OCADU. 

Luminous Bodies is limited to 15 residents. Skills guidance is available in photography, video editing and installation. Prices include sleeping quarters, large shared studio, facilitation and exhibition. Arrivals are on July 3 from 1pm to 3pm, and departures on July 17 before 11am.

Website: www.LuminousBodies.com
LINK: https://www.scribd.com/doc/121127507/Luminous-Bodies#fullscreen=1
APPLY: http://artscape.wufoo.eu/forms/online-application-for-artscape-gibraltar-point/

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14. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RedPlexus
Deadline date: April 20, 2015; City: Marseille, France; Source: Christine Bouvier

International Laboratory Festival of Performances
RedPlexus, network of exchanges and of diffusion of new forms of performance.

Dates: September 14 -19, 2015
Where: Marseille, France

Préavis de Désordre Urbain is a laboratory-festival, 6 intense days dedicated to experimentation, to meeting and artistic creation. Each Preavis festival explores the body in public space and focuses on theme, artistic schedule, time to re-build the project of performance and adapt it to the context of the city of Marseille. Impertinent and subversive proposals are welcome.

Theme of Préavis 2015: EMERGENCY STOP PERFORMANCES

Flow, circulation, transports punctuate urban life. Urban trajectories are often traced to the millimeter, they should not leave the rail. And if we introduced a grain of sand on an urban route....It is vital to create Emergency Stop Performances on these transit urban routes. Emergency Stop Performances dedicated to the body, desires and rituals. We can explore and inhabit these urban routes in other ways and propose to the public to share an artistic and existential experience. The performances will take place on trips in the city, in public transport or at bus and tramway stops. The car, private sphere into the public sphere, may also be a space of performance.

The performances may take place in a bus or tram, on the outside, on the route, at bus and tramway stops, in a car parked in a parking lot, outside of a car (the public being inside) etc. The selected artists adapt their project to the context of urban space, of a theatre and of Friche la Belle de Mai.

Every artist commits to:
-Participate to the residency in public space and to 3 programmed moments
-Create a radio live performance in the studios of Radio Grenouille (10mn)
-Participate in meetings in bars

Artistic Field: All disciplines focused on Performance: Dance, Theatre, Urban arts, Visual arts, Installation-Performance, architecture/townplanning

Financial and other conditions:
-Honorary fee: 500 € (700 € for 2 artists and more)
-We offer Accommodation, Food ; Technical and logistic help
-We can help you to find money for your travel (consulates, embassy)

Submission/Application:
-Application form, completed on-line
-Description of the project (concept, biographical detail, artistic statement, motivation , technical requirements, photos, websites links etc.)

Deadline: April 20, 2015
Email: communication.redplexus@gmail.com
Contact Christine Bouvier: redplexus@free.fr
www.redplexus.org

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15. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Compass Points Program 2015
Deadline date: April 24, 2015; City: Ottawa, Canada; Source: Magnetic North Theatre Festival

Now in its eighth year, Compass Points is a 6-day intensive program designed to inspire and nurture the careers of emerging artists from across the country. It provides a firsthand introduction to the professional theatre industry and fosters lifelong collaborative relationships among a peer community of Canada’s next generation of theatre creators. The program will focus on providing participants with new tools, inspiration, and ideas to fuel their creative practices while engaging in a critical discourse on artistic creation and criticism.

The Compass Points program provides participants with a three-fold approach:

Workshops & Panels – Engage with Canada’s top professional artists and theatre practitioners from across the country. Topics and events vary from year to year to complement festival programming and address current concerns and questions.

Mentorship – Each participant will be paired with one other member of the Compass Points Program. Together they will be partnered with an established artist and their company involved in the 2015 Magnetic North Theatre Festival. The participants will have unique access to the show, and the artists and practitioners involved in creating the work. 

Performances – The group will attend all the performances that comprise the Magnetic North Theatre Festival. Participants will be exposed to some of the best and most daring work currently being produced across the country.

We accept applications from emerging artists across the country and of diverse cultural backgrounds who are passionate and curious about Canadian theatre and have an interest in being a part of the national community. 

Ideal Candidates Are: 

1. Emerging artists who have a strong interest in engaging in the national and local arts community, developing their craft as an artist, and artistic leadership.

2. In their final years or recently graduated from post-secondary theatre, dance, and music programs, or emerging artists who have been in the arts industry for up to four years since graduating.

3. Available for the entire duration of Compass Points (June 6-11, 2015).

Full application details and application form are available at http://magneticnorthfestival.ca/2015festival/compasspoints/

If you have any questions about the program or the submission process, please contact Compass Points Curator, Brian Postalian, at brian@magneticnorthfestival.ca

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16. RESIDENCY: ALCHEMY
Deadline date: May 15, 2015; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Teresa Ascencao

ALCHEMY
Programmed Art Residency
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Canada

Program Dates: August 7– 17, 2015
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2015

Cost including taxes: $950 for private bedroom, or $800 for shared bedroom (package includes accommodation, shared meals, large shared studio, workshop facilitation, and an exhibition)

Alchemy is a 10-day residency devoted to the exploration of the synergy between artistic practice and the growing, cooking and sharing of Island cultivated food (Friday, August 7-Monday, August 17). Residents will have the opportunity to launch projects individually or collaboratively to create art, sculpture, photography, performance art, writing or video inspired by the garden and shared through a closing exhibit for work created during the residency. Residents will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in their own practice during the garden’s lush summer season with opportunities to join our gardeners and volunteers in the garden or share culinary creativity for communal dinners during the residency. Menus will be based on the Group’s appetite for sharing what is available from the garden in mid to late summer. There will be readings and discussions about the creative intersection of food and art, guest talks will help us better understand the magic and inspiration created by making and sharing art and food.

Artscape Gibraltar Point (AGP) is an artist retreat nestled against the magnificent natural backdrop of Toronto Island. It offers rich potential for the creation of artworks amongst its blue-flag beaches and natural surroundings of Lake Ontario, forests and gardens filled with flowers, fruit and vegetables. On the island, there are tiny quaint homes, a historic lighthouse, a hobby farm and antique carnival grounds. Cozy up in a furnished studio and bedroom, and enjoy amenities such as a fully equipped common kitchen, shared bathrooms, laundry facilities and free wireless Internet. AGP is barrier free and an inclusive environment. The Toronto city core is just a 15-minute ferry ride away! 

Alchemy will be curated and facilitated by three strong advocates for the Gardens at AGP and its integration into artistic life and practice at Gibraltar Point. Claire M. Tallarico is a trained chef, urban gardener and emerging visual artist passionate about exploring the intersection between creative practice and food. AGP Head Gardener Pat Jeffries is a visual artist and farmer interested in food and art on a variety of levels, ranging from the pleasures and gift of food and how current political, economic and climatic events threaten our food security. Luisa Milan is a textile artist, chef and shape maker of many creative mediums. 

Alchemy is limited to 10 residents. Skills guidance is available in culinary arts, painting, music making, activist art. Prices include sleeping quarters, large shared studio spaces, facilitation and exhibition. Arrivals are on Friday August 7 from 1pm to 3pm, and departures on Monday August 17th before 11am. For more information please contact Claire M. Tallarico at maven623@gmail.com or Teresa Ascencao at info@residencycoordinator.com. 

To apply, fill out the online form: artscape.wufoo.eu/forms/online-application-for-artscape-gibraltar-point (Please provide a website or link to your greening, culinary or artworks online).

LINK: http://www.torontoartscape.org/artscape-gibraltar-point/residencies#alchemy

APPLY: http://artscape.wufoo.eu/forms/online-application-for-artscape-gibraltar-point/

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17. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: PROCESS Series / A Call for Performers and Presenters
Deadline date: unspecified; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: lo bil

http://processperformances.tumblr.com/?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

The summer series brought out many artists and audiences who wanted to see PROCESS continue… in response i invite artists for this ongoing series, running on the last Sunday each month. 

lo bil of the Intergalactic Arts Collective is inviting proposals from performance artists, movement-based artists, sound-based artists, text-based artists, visual artists of any medium, curators, film makers, academics, and other cultural practitioners for our public programme “PROCESS” - a performance series taking place on the last Sunday of every month in the Artscape Youngplace Centre at 180 Shaw Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The aim of the programme is to consider performance-making as a way of being in the world, just as much as it is a part of making art. I include artists who usually perform as well as artists who might not regularly perform, to perform something of their process or to talk about their process, as a way of opening new channels of interest in how we think about our work. 

Invited artists can show new works in progress, revisit work they would like to revisit, present research, meet one another, collaborate conversationally, and/or reflect on their performance and process with audiences and other programmed artists. There will be both formal and informal components programmed into each night to encourage conversation that artists are invited to participate in if they feel open to do so. We also offer a space for artists to do something that is helpful to them in their work, i.e. wanting feedback and/or to see how something works with an audience.  

The Intergalactic Arts Collective is a group of 12 independent movement-based artists who share Studio 103. We aim to facilitate collaborative exchange fostering new ideas and projects. With these nights we hope to create opportunities for audiences and artists to engage with one another, and to create some dialogue around:
-how work is made 
-what a work in progress might be 
-how audiences perceive work-in-progress 
-how these artists might take their work forward 
-how our process affects our performance objectives, our aesthetic perspectives, our cultural place, and other aspects of our collective lives. 

This venture is not funded at this initial stage, but artists will be offered a small honorarium based on attendance the evening of their showing. We make this offering in the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration, peer feedback, and good conversation. 

To apply to PROCESS please answer the following questions:
1. Name and Contact details
2. What would you like to perform or present?
3. Though not mandatory, if you have any images or links related to your work you would like to share, please feel free to attach or mention.
4. Are there any dates you would be able/not be able to be programmed on? 

Send your application or any questions to lbil@rogers.com with the subject heading “PROCESS”.

I will keep all submissions and try to programme as many artists as possible. Thank you for your interest in working with us on this series!

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