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FADO E-LIST (February 2016)INDEX +++ 1. FADO Performance Art Centre presents MONOMYTHS MONOMYTHS Presented by FADO Performance Art Centre Works performed in English / Nêhiyawêwin / L'nuwi'ktuk / ASL interpreted ARTISTS ARTIST BIOS can be found on the FADO website: ADMISSION ABOUT MONOMYTHS Joseph Campbell’s influential book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) prescribes a common pattern to all of the world’s mythic narratives. According to this fundamental structure, the archetypal hero is challenged to embark on a monumental quest. Over the course of the hero’s journey, trials and obstacles must be overcome until a victory is won and the hero returns home with new knowledge about himself and the world. Campbell’s concept of the monomyth (‘one myth’) is a recognizable motif in both ancient mythology and contemporary culture, including film, music, literature, sports, and advertising. A current trend in popular visual culture replaces the male character with a female one, in spite of the fact that our heroine–from the get-go–would make different choices if the conditions, and conditioning, allowed. While each MONOMYTHS stage stands alone, the work of each presenting artist is interdependent and connected. These independent visions, when stitched together through the audience’s collective presence, form an exquisite corpse of a larger experimental narrative. The year-long MONOMYTHS project is presented in three sections over the course of a year. Radically interpreted by artists from First Nations, Canada, Mexico and the USA, part one of MONOMYTHS at Progress 2016 presents the first five stages of the journey: The Ordinary World / Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, Meeting of the Mentor, Crossing the Threshold, and Belly of the Whale. ACCESSIBILITY AT PROGRESS/THEATRE CENTRE The Theatre Centre sits on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat peoples. ABOUT PROGRESS www.thisisprogress.ca +++ 2. PERFORMANCE: MONOMYTHS: Stage 1 STAGE 1: The Ordinary World / Call to Adventure Nikamon Ochi Askiy (Ke'tapekiaq Ma'qimikew): The Land Sings Post-Performance / Conversation-Action Nikamon Ochi Askiy (Ke'tapekiaq Ma'qimikew): The Land Sings is an audio-based endurance performance by Ursula Johnson created in collaboration with Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and is offered as an apology to the land for the ways in which our human impact has shifted and shaped the landscape, displacing the voices of many First Nations. Following The Land Sings, Maria Hupfield presents a hybrid performance and conversation with Ursula Johnson and Cheryl L'Hirondelle on how revitalization, collaboration, and the act of refusal are used in performance art to shape current dialogue on Reconciliation. For all events in MONOMYTHS, there will be limited seating available at the door or you can reserve through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/monomyths-ursula-johnson-cheryl-lhirondelle-maria-hupfield-stage-1-tickets-20105888253?ref=ebtn +++ 3. PERFORMANCE: MONOMYTHS: Stage 2 STAGE 2: Refusal of the Call The Call Refused or Your Local Sky Tonight ASL interpreted by Sage Lovell and Amanda Hyde Part planetarium show, part rumination on Alice in Wonderland, the nature of rabbits and heroes, in The Call Refused or Your Local Sky Tonight Canadian performance art duo Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan deliver an off-kilter guide to the stars. For all events in MONOMYTHS, there will be limited seating available at the door. Reservations for Stage 2 are now full! +++ 4. PERFORMANCE: MONOMYTHS: Stage 3 STAGE 3: Meeting of the Mentor The Exquisite Course ASL interpreted by Amanda Hyde and Christopher Desloges The Exquisite Course, presented by the Feminist Art Gallery (FAG), is an evening of short lectures by feminist and/or queer artists and creative folks from a variety of disciplines, interests, and positions. A mixture of fiction and non-fiction, The Exquisite Course collages real-life stories and performance mythologies around the microphone campfire to stitch together tales of meeting real-life mentors. The Feminist Art Gallery is–a response, a process, a site, a protest, an outcry, an exhibition, a performance, an economy, a conceptual framework, a place, and an opportunity. We host we fund we advocate we support we claim. The Feminist Art Gallery (FAG) is our geographical footprint located in Toronto, Canada and is run by Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue. For all events in MONOMYTHS, there will be limited seating available at the door or you can reserve through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/monomyths-the-exquisite-course-with-fag-stage-3-tickets-20112207153?ref=ebtn +++ 5. PERFORMANCE: MONOMYTHS: Stage 4 STAGE 4: Crossing the Threshold Armando Minjarez’s performance is part of his long-term international participatory art project AlieNation, which is grounded on his personal experiences as an undocumented Mexican immigrant living in the USA. AlieNation examines mass migration and the disturbing trend of dehumanizing the migrant– an alien without a home, without rights or a defined identity. Racism and identity politics remain prevalent threads in the fabric of America, existing in a constant tension of mine vs. ours and black vs. white, a dangerous game hidden behind the veil of diversity and progress. This constant denial of a history of oppression and white supremacy has normalized a language of hate and hostility toward communities of color throughout the USA. This performance serves as a mirror of America’s denial of self. Only through self-awareness can the process of healing begin. Armando Minjarez has traveled and conducted research on displacement and migration of people in the USA, Mexico, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia. The project will eventually travel to Southern Mexico and Central America to follow the steps of displaced Central American minors. For all events in MONOMYTHS, there will be limited seating available at the door or you can reserve through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/monomyths-armando-minjarez-stage-4-tickets-20112948370?ref=ebtn +++ 6. PERFORMANCE: MONOMYTHS: Stage 5 STAGE 5: Belly of the Whale In Jefferson Pinder’s Thoroughbred, four performers work themselves to exhaustion running on treadmills that are remote controlled by the artist who sits at a single controller. Thoroughbred, “skillfully exhumes a corpse of black captivity and subjugation of black bodies in America that started four hundred years ago and brings it in into the foreground into our present day experience.” (Fo Wilson, The Evidence of Things Not Seen) POST-PERFORMANCE join us for in the Theatre Centre café for a reception where audience is invited to meet and speak with the artist and performers of Thoroughbred, and to celebrate the last performance in MONOMYTHS and the closing of Progress. For all events in MONOMYTHS, there will be limited seating available at the door or you can reserve through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/monomyths-jefferson-pinder-stage-5-tickets-20113994499?ref=ebtn +++ 7. SCREENING: Out of Site Chicago Out of Site Chicago Screening We are hosting the fifth year of Out of Site documentaries on public performances produced in 2015 at the Ballroom Projects. We curate unexpected encounters in public space in Chicago, U.S. Laura Mitchell is the videographer and editor of the series. She has edited 5minute documentaries on each artist. Artists choose their location, time and duration in the neighbourhood of Wicker Park/Bucktown. Artists from 2015 include: Sheryl Oring, Ballenarca, Duff Norris, Jeremy Pauly, CV Peterson, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Michal Samama, Coral Short, Fereshteh Toosi, Janet Schmid, Adriana Disman and Sara Zalek. For more information about Out of Site please visit: www.outofsitechicago.org BIO ABOUT +++ 8. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Naked State Art Residency International Call Naked State is a 10-day residency to create artworks that explore the nude human body in context of nature, culture and art. For the duration of the residency, the artists and residency Facilitator live as *naturists (in the nude) within the Bare Oaks naturist community to create works that explore questions such as: What is nudity? Does stripping away clothing rid us of class, gender, and personal expression?; Do the connections between our bodies and the land change when nude? Is nudity always sexual? What is the role of the nude in historical and contemporary art?; Is an animal with fur naked? Is it possible to be civil in the nude?; Is there a natural state for human being? Residents work individually or collaboratively to create artworks that explore these questions through media of their choice, such as photography, video, installation, drawing, painting, performance art, dance, sound art, media art, etc. Artists will have opportunities to socialize and integrate with the Bare Oaks naturist community at campfires, swimming, and sharing meals. This programmed residency offers workshops, group discussions with naturism advocate *Stéphane Deschênes, guest visits by artists and members of the Bare Oaks community, and plenty of studio time. Critiques of residents’ works occur on a regular basis, individually with the Facilitator and through facilitated group discussions. There will be a closing event, whereby artists present their creative explorations to the Bare Oaks community. Naked State art residency welcomes people in all walks of life and genders into a journey of creative exploration and self-discovery. *Naturism is the practice of complete nudity in a social setting. Though nudity is the most obvious aspect of naturism, it is simply a tool to reach closer to a natural state. The purpose of naturism is to promote wholesomeness and stability of the human body, mind, and spirit. It also promotes wellbeing through complete contact of the body with the natural elements. For a full description of naturism, visit BareOaks.ca/index.php/en/about-naturism. Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park is a year-round naturist park near Toronto in Canada, where individuals and families experience traditional naturist values in a modern setting. It is nestled among the natural wilderness of the Ontario Greenbelt and Oak Ridges Moraine. Its varied landscape includes open spaces, forests, ponds, streams and a small lake. Amenities include a store, restaurant, sun deck, TV and sports lounge, outdoor pool, whirlpool, saunas, exercise room, laundromat, and a small common kitchen with microwave and fridge. Wireless Internet can be purchased at the front desk. The Outback common room will be dedicated as a large shared studio space for the duration of the residency. Private, shared and campsite accommodations are available. There is some wheel chair accessibility. Please discuss accessibility details with the Facilitator. Bare Oaks is located in Gwillimbury, just 30 minutes North-East of Toronto. For more information visit BareOaks.ca and watch some videos. For details and how to apply visit: www.NakedState.ca +++ 9. PERFORMANCE: Ishi: The Archive Performance by James Luna James Luna performs Ishi: The Archive Performance with Jeneen Frei Njootli February 16, 2016 @ 8pm The Toronto Premiere is co-presented by Indigenous Visual Culture @ OCADU & Woodland Cultural Centre. Special thanks to Culture Storm. “James Luna is a visionary, a truth teller, a romantic, and a hanging judge.” –Paul Chaat Smith “Through irony, humour, and strong sense of narrative, his internationally recognized installation and performance art has challenged us to be more critically aware of the commonly held stereotypes of Aboriginal people.” - Stephen Foster, Associate Professor, Creative Studies UBC Kelowna. Written and performed by James Luna and featuring artist Jeneen Frei Njootli, ISHI: The Archive Performance tells the story of Ishi, an Indigenous man who walked into the small northern California town of Oroville. His sudden appearance inspired fright, laughter, and pity from the populace. The civic leaders contacted an anthropologist who came to the conclusion that Ishi was in deed the last of his tribe. It was decided that for his welfare and for the advancement of science that he would occupy the Museum on the University of California Berkeley’s campus, where he lived out his remaining years as a living specimen. The archives suggest there is more to this story, which has never been told. James Luna has created a performance that explores this significant life. Many questions about Ishi’s experience, both mysterious and uncomfortable are evoked by this performance. Ishi’s story remains as a grim reminder of Western fascination with Indigenous cultures and its detrimental disregard of humans, forgetting that we are all sentient beings. James Luna is a Pooyukitchchum/Ipai native who presents his stories to share his political and social commentary through performance art. He uses monologues, visual examples, and antics to tell stories that delve deep into the strife and misconceptions of ethnicity in America. He is a powerful force in performance art today and has received numerous grants and awards and his performances have toured Internationally. In 2005, he was selected as the first Sponsored Artist of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presented at the 2005 Venice Biennale’s 51st International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy. In 2012 James was awarded Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM. www.jamesluna.com Jeneen Frei Njootli is a Gwich’in artist who is gaining recognition for her work in visual and performance art, touring across Canada. She is a founding member of the ReMatriate collective and has been working with James Luna since 2015. For additional information please contact: njohnson@woodland-centre.on.ca (Naomi Johnson) +++ 10. PUBLICATION: The Performance Art of Marilyn Arsem Original e-book available for free download now! Enhanced e-book available through iBooks featuring 8 videos, 4 audio clips, and 21 slideshows, with essays by Edward Saywell and Liz Munsell. This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device. Multi-touch books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device. Books with interactive features may work best on an iOS device. iBooks on your Mac requires OS X 10.9 or later. It is a free download until the end of Arsem’s performance of 100 Ways to Consider Time at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on February 19th, after which it will be available for purchase. The final chapter on 100 Ways to Consider Time will be updated after completion of the performance, and will include photos, some audio and video, as well as writing by Arsem and audience members. https://itunes.apple.com/book/performance-art-marilyn-arsem/id1052288139?mt=13is Marilyn Arsem has created over 180 works of performance art since 1975, and in the process she has helped to define the genre itself. This monograph on her life’s work is among the first of its kind to embrace e-books’ capacity to convey key aspects of durational, live art through multimedia. It grants access to rare videos and slideshows of Arsem’s past performances, as well as to newly conducted audio interviews with the artist. Arsem discusses performance art on her own terms in a preface and a final chapter about her current work, and MFA curators contextualize her practice and recurring themes in an introduction and entry-based chapters on women’s work, cultures of violence, natural resources, and time and mortality. This enhanced e-book celebrates an artist who has spent her career pushing the boundaries of artistic experience, and at the same time, expands the established boundaries of how books present performance. About the Authors:Liz Munsell is Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & MFA Programs, position supported by Lorraine Bressler, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Edward Saywell is Chair, Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, and Arthur K. Solomon Curator of Modern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. +++ 11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Intra Action (Xpace) About Intra Action: Live Performance Art Evening Xpace will be hosting our first evening of live performance for emerging artists to showcase new, old or in progress performance and/or performative art pieces on Thursday, March 10th from 6-8pm. This performance event welcomes the public to come together to form a critical and inclusive space for the development and demonstration of performance art. There will be snacks and drinks! Email submission as ONE pdf to: programming@xpace.info Submission Guidelines: Deadline: February 21st, 2016 at 11:59pm Info: www.xpace.info/exhibition-event/live-performance-evening-call-for-submissions/ About XPACE Cultural Centre +++ 12. EVENT: EDGY REDUX: THE END After 23 years of exploring the complexity of contemporary feminism, through fun, experimental, and community-building artistic events, Edgy Women/Redux is on its way out as 2016 marks the final edition of Edgy activities at Studio 303. A meditation on Edgy's 23-year history, this last offering looks back on the festivals' love of experimentation and thrill for emerging performance practices by guiding our audience through a 3-step grieving process in the form of visitation, famous last words, and digital interment. ALL NUIT LONG (NUIT BLANCHE) In keeping with mourning traditions of the funeral wake, we invite the audience to come and stay up late to view the (Edgy) body (of work). For this open (video) casket, Miriam Ginestier, founder and long time artistic director, will curate a retrospective of Edgy Women videos while Sonja Zlatanova serves provocative dishes and a funereal cocktail. CABARET EDGY: FAMOUS LAST WORDS Featuring the highly anticipated return of EmCees Nathalie Claude and Dayna Mcleod, this ultimate farewell edition of Cabaret Edgy offers a mix of six familiar and fresh faced feminist performers. Alexis O’Hara, Alvis Parsley (TO), Claudia Chan Tak, Judy Virago (TO), Marie-Chantal Scholl, and T.L. Cowan (NYC) will guide the audience to the light at the end of the tunnel via eclectic explorations of the theme: The End WIKI-THON Edgy is dead; long live Edgy. This Wikipedia digital internment is a chance for anyone to help us archive 23 year history online for posterity’s sake while increasing the web-visibility of feminist interdisciplinary performance and the artists that have been featured in the festival over the years. Amber Berson will provide a tutorial (see website for all information). Information and artists' biography: www.edgywomen.ca +++ 13. PERFORMANCE: LEGS Zürich LEGS Zürich 2016 Corner College Zürich Performed by a lot of invited artists / performers from and around Zurich LEGS is a format with no budget and no curating, a long, continuous performance which brings together the consecutive short contributions of many artists with different artistic approaches (on a schedule in the manner of a relay), with no fuss, very directly and effectively. The viewers/public can come and go as they wish. The originating edition of LEGS took place in Montreal in February 2015, invented and organized by artists with the idea of LEGS being transferred to other networks in a similar relay fashion. The second iteration of LEGS (entitled LEGS, TOO) took place in Toronto in October 2015. The LEGS event is transmitted to a new network through the participation of one or more artists who have taken part in one LEGS before. Contact Dorothea Rust for more information: rust.doro@bluewin.ch www.corner-college.com/Veranstaltungen/1456527600/1073 +++ 14. OPEN CALL: 4th Cyprus International Performance Art Festival 2016 ”New Synchronicities: (no)one's action, everyone's celebration” The Cyprus International Performance Art Society is thrilled to invite artists from all over the world to participate in the 4th Cyprus International Performance Art Festival 2016, for the creation of an innovative event held in the very heart of the island in June. A 7-day site-sensitive workshop held by Cyprus based performance artist, and founder of the CIPAF, Christina Georgiou, will take place prior to the festival’s public event. The aim is to build connections between nature, art and people. Our world is rapidly changing due to manmade influences and in the subsequent demand for effectivity and production we tend to disconnect from nature. We underestimate both the powers and vulnerabilities of the natural world, and the connections we share. With this event we are seeking ”New Synchronicities” through artistic means in order to rekindle and shape a new relationship - a new synchronicity - with our environment. The intention is to work and live collectively on the mountain site, and from this process devise new performance art works that will be presented to the audience during the public part of the festival, which takes place on the 11th and 12th of June 2016. NO SUBMISSION OR ATTENDANCE FEE. 8-10 artists will be selected to partake in the workshop and to the public event of the festival. Dates of the workshop and the public event are 3rd–12th of June 2016. The location of the festival is the beautiful area of Mitsero, Cyprus. Selected artists will be notified via email by 4th March 2016. For more information and submission procedure please visit: +++ 15. ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: Asiatopia Artist in Residence Asiatopia Artist in Residence Principle: This residency program is specifically for visual performance, time-based and interdisciplinary art practice, artists will stay and work in residency at Baan Namkrog Mai village, Nan, Thailand. Artists are not required to present their works, but can be arranged if artists request. Artists must give 1 public speaking engagement about his/her own work and /or 1‐3 day(s) workshop with local young people. At the end of residency artists should share his/her documents for the center’s archive. Duration of the residency is 1‐2 months, where artists will be working in village environment in a quarter hectar area. To apply,contact and information about residency, email: concretehouse@empowerfoundation.org Current artist in resident is Sinéad O'Donnell (Ireland). To access Sinéad's process here www.sineadodonnell.com/projects/sinead/asiatopia-artist-residence +++ 16. RESIDENCY: LUMINOUS BODIES International Call: Programmed Art Residency Program Dates: July 4–18, 2016 Cost including taxes: $790 for shared accommodation or $1075 for private 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. Visual and textual references, guest artist talks, gallery tours, and studio visits by members of the local art community, help uncover how our bodies are culturally and aesthetically constructed, displayed and controlled. Cinema, artworks, philosophy, theology, transpersonal psychology, post-colonialism and social movements may be 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, painting, 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 (if preferred, artists may show in open studio fashion). 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. AGP (Artscape Gibraltar Point) is an artist retreat nestled against the magnificent natural backdrop of Toronto Island. It offers a distraction-free environment to focus on art creation, and a rich potential for the creation of corporeal artworks amongst its blue-flag beaches (one of them being clothing optional) 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 wireless Internet. AGP is a barrier free and inclusive environment. The Toronto city core is just a 15-minute ferry ride away. Teresa Ascencao is a multimedia artist whose work toys with social forces that shape gender, seduction, consumption, and class. She was born to Azorean parents in Sao Paulo, Brazil and immigrated to Canada at a young age. Ascencao holds a Graphic Design Diploma from Humber College and graduated with distinction from the University of Toronto’s Honours Fine Art Studio program. She holds an MFA specializing in Media Art and Sex-Positive Feminism from OCAD University. Ascencao’s work has been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. She lives and works in Toronto and teaches at OCADU. Luminous Bodies is limited to 22 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 4 from 1pm to 3pm, and departures on July 18 before 11am. For more information visit: www.LuminousBodies.com To apply, fill out the online form and include your website and indicate you are applying to Luminous Bodies. Questions? Cntact Teresa Ascencao at info@LuminousBodies.com Online form: www.artscape.wufoo.eu/forms/online-application-for-artscape-gibraltar-point/ +++ ABOUT FADO 445-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 To unsubscribe from this e-bulletin, please follow this link: |
