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FADO E-LIST (July 2016)INDEX +++ 1. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Animating Historic Sites (TAC) TAC’s Animating Historic Sites grants program deadline: July 14, 2016. Info sessions and site tours in June. Toronto Arts Council has partnered with City of Toronto Museum Services and the Evergreen Brick Works to provide opportunities for artists to re-imagine and animate six Toronto Heritage sites and the Brick Works through engagement with their histories, local contexts, and communities. The heritage sites are Scarborough Museum, Spadina Museum, Gibson House Museum, Montgomery's Inn, Todmorden Mills and Zion Schoolhouse, four of which are located outside the downtown core. Programming Grants provide opportunities for curators/producers to present a series of programs and events at selected sites and Evergreen Brick Works. Exploration Grants are smaller grants that provide the opportunity for curators/producers to engage with community, landscape, volunteers and the site staff to explore ideas for future projects. Museum Services and Evergreen Brick Works are contributing matching support in the form of space, historical knowledge and research resources, extended hours, staffing, marketing and promotion. Information sessions and site tours: Strategic Program Grants Info Session: Wed, June 29, 2pm-4pm, Toronto Arts Council, 200-26 Grand Trunk Crescent. Join grants officers Christy DiFelice, Rupal Shah, and Erika Hennebury for a grants info session for applicants interested in Strategic Programs: Animating Toronto Parks, Animating Historic Sites, Artists in the Libraries and Open Door, and TAC Cultural Leaders’ Lab. Animating Historic Sites grant guidelines and application can be found online. Please contact Erika Hennebury for information. The next deadline for Animating Historic Sites: July 14, 2016 +++ 2. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: hub 14 Season Residencies Lead by our team of artistic directors and supported by our volunteers, hub14 is a self-sustaining studio and performance incubator nestled in the Queen West area of Toronto. Space is our biggest asset. Our mission: hub14 aims to provide affordable space for the independent contemporary performance community in Toronto and beyond. We support artists through an evolving roster of programs including artistic residencies, workshops and presenting opportunities as well as a variety of community-engaged initiatives. Our vision: Our vision is to be a cultural hub for independent contemporary artists to explore, critically examine their art and refine their training without exterior commitments and less financial pressure. We encourage conversation between artistic disciplines. Professional artists at all stages of their career who want to explore within or outside of their core discipline(s) as well as artists from a diversity of backgrounds and experience are encouraged to apply. hub14 encourages inventiveness and excellence by granting free and discounted space so that artists may afford more time for process-based and developmental research. As a residency artist, you’ll be provided with a blog, an interview, artist profile and video-documentation along with support from hub14’s artistic directors. RESIDENCY PROGRAMS: research hub // We offer up to 40 hours of studio time free of charge or heavily subsidized. The program offers the opportunity for showings although these are not mandatory. We are looking for ideas at their early stages, and/or which have not been previously workshopped. launchpad // Geared toward work that is already commissioned or programmed, yet underfunded. We offer up to 40 hours of studio time. live-in // Intended for artists living outside of Toronto. Artists are invited to live and create at hub14 for a maximum of two-week stay in April/May 2017. A minimum of one showing and documentation are required throughout the Residency. An interview is required. community chest // Special initiatives proposed by and/or supporting the community. Examples include community workshops, performance series, artist discussions, etc. gallery series // Proposals for all-access gallery pop-ups of up to 3 days. Submissions can include film, photography, installation, visual art works, etc. Applications may be scheduled as solo exhibitions or a mixed program; this will be determined in context of the proposals reviewed. 2016/17 PROPOSALS SHOULD INCLUDE: Please send as PDF, labeled “LASTNAME_residencytype”. Please respect the word count. 1. Name of Applicant Please use the online portal and include your receipt number: www.hub14.org/rent Deadline: Friday, July 15th, 2016 @ midnight For more information and to apply, please contact info@hub14.org +++
3. EVENT: 10th Encuentro / eX-céntrico: dissidence, sovereignties, performance
Date: July 17–23, 2016; City: Santiago, Chile; Source: Encuentro The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and the Universidad de Chile invite scholars, artists, and activists from all disciplines to formulate and present work around the theme of eX-céntrico: dissidence, sovereignties, performance, at our Xº (10th) Encuentro, to be held in Santiago, Chile from July 17-23, 2016.
The Xº Encuentro seeks to examine the eX-centric—that which stands apart, on the peripheries of power—as a site of identity, struggle, creativity, and political power. We understand the eX-centric as the dissident, that which stands apart, creating a space outside that makes possible other futures, subjectivities, and ways of doing and knowing. We seek to explore politics and aesthetics generated from without, from an outside that marks its distance and non-desire to be written in dominant codes, destabilizing common sense and disarranging the blueprints of the possible. We are drawn to the proactive and creative charge of these un-framings, to their capacity to generate sovereignties in bodies and territories that yield eX-centric subjects and collectivities —styles and poses, movements and nations, traversed by indigeneity, disability, queerness, blackness, as well as punk, trans, proletarian, and migrant sensibilities. These sovereignties resist and interpellate the centers of power with aesthetic ruptures, liberatory autonomies, and disobedient body politics. In this context, performance —performance art, theater, underground cultures, occupations of public space, digital corporealities, body art, drag, cabaret, the music that animates the nightlife of social movements— is a central tool both for the creation of new meaning and for the transmission of knowledge, memory, and identity.
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4. EVENT: Two-way Mirror
Date: July 22–August 13, 2016: City: Singapore; Source: Daniela Beltrani Two-way Mirror Performance artist Daniela Beltrani invited 22 colleagues she had met on the local and international performance art circuit, to take part in an exhibition that introduces and delves into their shared practice of photographing fellow artists during their performances. More than just an exhibition of arresting images from performance art, Two-way Mirror considers alternative approaches to photography by the artists engaged in this practice. Within the context of performance art events and festivals, often lasting several days, the artist does not only present her own work, but she becomes active part of dialogues in art and life with her colleagues and thus, naturally, witness and audience of their works through her presence and often also by taking photographs of/for them. Therefore, Two-way Mirror also offers the opportunity to gain a clearer understanding and more connected appreciation of performance art, an art form existing at the very junction between art and life. The resulting presentation, far from being concerned with photographic skill and technique, offers a selection of human bodies caught in authentic moments of artistic creation that range from vulnerability, pain and desperation to beauty, magic and hope. A programme of diverse events will complement the exhibition, with the purpose of engaging the interested audience in more participatory ways. Please, see below. A catalogue with ISBN will be printed in limited copies. Available in August 2016. Kindly contact Daniela to express interest in receiving a copy in PDF format. Date: 22 July to 13 August 2016 Programme: Additional tours can be arranged directly with Daniela during the gallery’s opening times. Artists: For further media queries, please contact: +++ 5. EVENT: Manifestacao internacional de performance (MIP3) Manifestacao internacional de performance (MIP3) The CEIA - Experimentation and Information Center of Art - is an initiative that for over 10 years in Brazil performs actions aimed at stimulating production and training in contemporary art. In Belo Horizonte the CEIA already held eight international events of fine arts, focusing on various languages and establishing areas of training and exchange for many artists locally, nationally and internationally. For 2016, CEIA proposes to carry out the third edition of Performance International Manifestation that, like the other two editions of the event, will bring together artists from all over the world in various activities involving more than twenty guest artists of various nationalities: workshop, roundtables, performances presentations. The MIP3 theme will be guided performance and urban intervention. The intention is to provide experiences that stimulate look and experience the city as a propellant body, where the meeting of the particular culture of each individual brings possibilities of exchanges and transformations. For more information: http://ceiaart.com.br/br/mip3 +++ 6. EVENT: Summerworks 2016
Date: August 4–14, 2016; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Summerworks The SummerWorks Performance Festival is Canada’s largest curated performance festival of theatre, music, dance and live art. Every August for 11 days, SummerWorks takes over Queen Street West in a celebration of new and essential voices across from across Canada and beyond. This year’s Festival, running from August 4th to August 14th, features 69 unique projects, as well as parties, events and workshops. The 2016 program travels landscapes and languages, genres and locations - from ensemble pieces to one-on-one experiences and from main stages to secret, immersive locations. Tickets are PWYC to $15.
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7. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance
Deadline date: August 5, 2016; City: Glasgow, Scotland; Source: LADA
Adrian Howells (1962 – 2014) was one of the world’s leading figures in the field of one to one and intimate performance. Over two decades he developed an artistic practice that focused on the particular power and transformative possibility that could be achieved through creating a profound, immediate and personal connection to his audiences. Through these works and the care he took in every aspect of the experience he was often able to deeply affect those who participated in these encounters.
The Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance is an opportunity for a Scottish based artist to develop and present a new performance based project in Glasgow and London. The Award aims to celebrate the intimate work that the Adrian pioneered and excelled at, as well as providing an opportunity to explore new territories in the field of one to one and intimate performance.
The award is open to any proposal that seeks to explore the form of intimate performance. Some areas that you may wish to consider:
The impact of the size and proximity of the audience
The audience as active in the performance
The use of autobiography
The creation of immersive environments
The personal as political
The ethics and duty of care around the relationship to the audience
The Award provides:
-An opportunity to explore a project idea in two stages – initially in Glasgow and then with a further development phase in London at Battersea Arts Centre.
-£4,000 towards the awardee’s fee and expenses for the creation of the proposed project and performances in Glasgow and London.
-Development/rehearsal space at the University of Glasgow and National Theatre of Scotland for the initial phase (exact dates tbc, and subject to availability) and then at Battersea Arts Centre for the subsequent development (in April 2017).
We will work with the awardee to define the correct context for the sharing of the project. We would like there to be a public outcome in Glasgow during February or March 2017 and in London in April 2017 but we do not necessarily expect this to be a finished work. We will also work with the awardee to determine the most appropriate location for the sharing. It may be best suited to a Glasgow venue and BAC but they may want to follow Adrian’s path of using sites or participatory/community settings.
The Glasgow and London presentations will be subject to separate letters of agreement with the awardee, and may include a mutually agreed level of technical, marketing and event support by the presenting venues; please note that this support many be constrained by the spaces and context needed for the performance, and will be subject to separate discussions with the awardee.
Two weeks residency accommodation in BAC, April 2017.
Return travel to London for the BAC stage.
Mentorship from Professor Deirdre Heddon of the University of Glasgow.
Advice, guidance and practical support from Jackie Wylie as the project Producer as well as representatives of the other project partner organisations.
Eligibility: Applicants must be based in Scotland and been working professionally for a minimum of three years. You do not need a track record in intimate or one to one performance but you will need to demonstrate a commitment to exploring this field in your application.
Timeline:
Deadline for Submissions: Midday 5 August 2016
14 September 2016: Interviews in Glasgow (tbc.)
February / March 2017: Glasgow performances
April 2017: London performances
Application Process
Please send proposals to aftertheopendoor@gmail.com and provide up to two pages that include:
-An introduction to who you are.
-Your reason for applying for the Award and why you are interested in working in intimate performance.
-A description of your proposed project. We will assess the proposals on the quality of the ideas and would like you to be realistic about what can be achieved within the given budget.
-A broad outline timeline and how you propose to spend the £4,000 Award.
In addition you may also include:
-An up-to-date CV.
-No more than 2 video clips of your previous work.
-If you would like to apply via a video message, please do so, and ensure it contains the same information as requested above, within a 5 minute maximum duration.
NB. We may not be able to provide detailed feedback on all proposals.
Background to the Award
The Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance is an opportunity for an artist to develop and present a new performance based project in Glasgow and London. The Award aims to celebrate the intimate work that Adrian pioneered and excelled at, as well as providing an opportunity to explore new territories in this field of practice.
In recent decades intimate performance and one to one has emerged as a growing area in contemporary arts practice. Adrian’s legacy illustrates how powerful these experiences can be and how influential this work now is. When considering Adrian’s work we can define intimate performance practice as that which aims to connect at a direct and immediate level with a small audience including the form of one to one - the act of staging an event for one audience-participant at a time. We also recognize that exciting new developments in this field might offer further definitions, for example work that deliberately plays with and disrupts ideas of intimacy, authenticity and the relationship to the audience. (These definitions are informed by the new publication It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells, edited by Deirdre Heddon and Dominic Johnson.)
‘Howells would devise performance situations of ‘accelerated friendship’ that were often powerfully affecting and responsive to contemporary conditions of living …. provoked by his own personal questions – about love, intimacy, wellbeing, and learning, and the impediments life poses to these goals. His performances were therefore concerned fundamentally with care, safety, generosity, affirmation, and pleasure. Such affirmative aspirations were nevertheless tempered, in performance, with discomfort, embarrassment, risk, and grief, as sometimes-unwelcome effects of the practice of personal and intimate exposure…. [delivering] sophisticated insights into what it means to be together with another person in a social relation, to be connected, and, outside that provisional relation, what it means to be thrown back upon oneself once again, alone.’ Deirdre Heddon and Dominic Johnson
We would like to provide a creative opportunity to an artist who is passionate about this field and who would benefit from an opportunity to explore the complexities, challenges and risks that are inherent within this practice. We know that it would be impossible to replicate the unique combination of elements that defined Adrian Howells’ work. Rather we are looking for a project idea that looks to the future and is open to taking this area of performance forward in new and surprising directions. Although Adrian was perhaps best known for his one to one works we are not specifically looking for a proposal for one audience member. (Although this equally may be the awardee’s chosen practice). We have left this open to allow for contemporary interpretations and challenges to the form of intimate performance.
Adrian relished his roles as teacher and mentor, and he himself was driven to continuous learning both in academic contexts and through artistic residencies. We are interested in the quality of the awardee’s project idea and additionally we would also like this to be a developmental opportunity. Although we suggest that there is a public sharing at the end of the project we will work with the chosen artist to frame and contextualize the work in acknowledgment that given the project budget it may still be in process and development.
The Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance is produced and developed by Jackie Wylie. Supported by the National Theatre of Scotland, Battersea Arts Centre, the University of Glasgow and the Live Art Development Agency.
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8. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Body Mapping Lab with Nathalie Fari & Rafael Dernbach Deadline date: August 20, 2016; City; Berlin, Germany; Source: Nathalie Fari
In this Body Mapping Lab we want to investigate the practice and notion of developing a site-specific performance, in this case starting from the so called «lost place» Teufelsberg in Berlin-Charlottenburg. During eight days we want to explore this kind of performance practice by using the concept and method of Body Mapping. In the core of this concept, the space is not only treated as a place for the creation of the plot (map, score or action). More than this, the place serves as a platform to observe, experience and especially «embody» it from the inside. To this aim, the body is used as a translator who is encouraged to adapt habitually to the place by reinterpreting it and by generating other types of expression and presence. Which future scenarios can be seen or devised from the perspective of the Teufelsberg area? How can such scenarios be transformed into a performative language and which spatial and narrative means are available for this? And which roles do subjective and especially collective bodies play for the development of such a language? These questions are pivotal to us. This Body Mapping Lab will examine those questions while working on a collaborative performance to be presented on the last day.
Body Mapping Lab Program - 6 hours per day:
-Physical training that combines teaching principles from body work (Yoga and BMC®) with art- and theatre pedagogical approaches based on the modes and notions of ‚site specificity‘.
-Spatial and social analysis of the characteristics of the Teufelsberg focusing on some core topics: the relations between inner and outer space, between private and public, the specific atmosphere and the occupation and transformation of space.
-Reading and discussion about some specific texts by using the procedures of ‚performative writing‘ and by creating a kind of ‚expedition- and research diary‘.
SHORT INSIGHT INTO THE HISTORY OF THE TEUFELSBERG
Since the Allies evacuated the ‚Field Station Berlin‘ two decades ago in 1992, the area of the Teufelsberg has been a crystallisation point for ever new soaring plans, wild projects and sometimes absurd ideas. The ‚flying meditating ioguies' couldn’t land and David Lynch pulled of in a huff. One of the panorama towers became a swimming pool for frogs and stickleback. When the owners buried their building plans, left the ground and suspended custody, it didn’t take long until the Berlin party scene discovered the area. With it came the copper and metal robbers, who carried the technical equipment out of the abandoned buildings and left but non-salvageable residues on the abandoned estate.
The three domes and the tower, an exciting symbol of a divided city and memorial of a time in which the warring blocks stood face to face, are broken. The covering of the central tower ist largely destroyed. But there is new life emerging on the historically charged site. Graffiti art, project studios, a dealer of antique building elements, sculptors. Many different artists are coming. What they find is a place where they can realise their utopian ideas. It is a growing scene for which Berlin is, and has always been, fertile ground: in search of a society the driving force of which isn’t mainly commercial interested and towards a new outline of living together.
Location:
Teufelsberg project space
Dates:
03. - 10.09.2016 / 14h - 20h
(the full program will be announced two weeks in advance)
Participation Fee:
320,00 € / 15,00 % Discount for payment until the 03.08.2016
120,00 € / 2 selected grants for students or researchers
(LIMITED PLACES / OPEN FOR ALL)
Information and Registration:
ABOUT
NATHALIE FARI (born 1975 in São Paulo) is a performer, researcher, art- and theatre educator and yoga teacher. She has been exploring various methods and forms of performance and bodywork for 20 years. Under her production label atelier obra viva, she develops and produces collaborative, educational and research based projects with the focus on the relation between body and space, body and city. She completed a Master of Arts degree in Space Strategies - Exploratory Art in Public Contexts at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin. From 2011-15 she was co-organiser of the independent Platform Month of Performance Art Berlin and since 2016 she is part of the Study Circle Practicing Communities of the Nordic Sommer University. She has been designing her Body Mapping Labs in Brazil and Germany.
RAFAEL DERNBACH (born 1988 in Gießen) is a writer, researcher and currently PhD candidate at University of Cambridge. As a Gates scholar he researches the social construction and aesthetics of futures, from science fiction to scenario planning. His texts, videos and essays have been published by several media outlets including ZDFinfo, Zeit Online and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Assistance:
PETTERSON COSTA (born 1976 in São Paulo) is a performer, producer and DJ. He graduated in Communication and the Arts of the Body at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. In 2009 he established the dance collective Núcleo de Garagem with the focus in investigating the urban space as a place for artistic and poetic creation. He has been practicing Aikido for 11 years and organising trainings and courses with national and international performing artists at the Sala Crisantempo in São Paulo.
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9. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CAMH Queen Street Redevelopment Project
Deadline date: September 29, 2016; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Scott Miller Berry CALL TO ARTISTS!
ARTWORKS FOR CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH (CAMH) QUEEN STREET REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is undergoing a multi‐phased redevelopment of its Queen Street site in downtown Toronto. CAMH is building a new kind of hospital for the 21st century: advancing treatment, revitalizing our community and changing attitudes toward those with mental illness and addictions. With two phases already complete, CAMH’s Redevelopment Project is integrating its 27-acre site on Queen Street West with the community, weaving together new cutting-edge hospital facilities with shops, residences, businesses, parks, and through-streets, creating an inclusive, healing neighbourhood. Nothing quite like this has ever been done before.
For the current phase (1C), CAMH envisions art installations woven throughout the property. Part of daily life, art will be experienced by all–patients, families, staff and visitors. CAMH’s art program will be founded in its mission to transform lives. As an integral part of the therapeutic environment, art will inspire hope and support recovery. Art works will be a reflection of CAMH’s drive for innovation and excellence and will take many forms and media. Approximately 35 unique installations of different scales and types are proposed. Our Guiding Principles are to:
-Engage the community at large in the urban neighborhood -Enhance patient and visitor experience through the healing power of art -Serve as intuitive wayfinding landmarks -Foster connection and dialogue-Interpret the sensory and restorative aspects of the natural world. We aspire to commission art works that are an expression of the diversity of human experience and reflect the cultural and demographic diversity of the community. Art is a powerful form of story‐telling – sharing, learning, giving pleasure – an instinct and practice as old as humanity. We have a supportive team in place, so artists should not hesitate to submit their credentials even if they have not previously completed a public art commission.
To secure the “Call to Artists” package of information and submission forms, please visit: www.camh.ca/redevelopment
If you have any questions, please contact Karen Mills at camhpublicart@gmail.com
Closing Date for Submissions is September 29, 2016 11:00PM. Preference will be given to artists who are resident in Ontario.
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10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Duration & Dialogue II
Deadline date: September 30, 2016; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Johannes Zits DURATION & DIALOGUE II PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL 2017 KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY The Duration & Dialogue Collective is proud to announce a call for submissions for the Duration & Dialogue II Performance Art Festival at Katzman Contemporary, curated by Natasha Bailey, Dario Del Degan, and Johannes Zits. Duration & Dialogue II will run from January 27 to 29, 2017, exploring the theme of “duration.”
This call is for performance art submissions that explore the theme of “duration” within a maximum time frame of 12 hours. Artists are also welcome to propose live stream performances from remote locations. To enlarge the focus on performance art and to further promote the dialogue of aesthetics within our contemporary context, artists participating in this festival will be paired with an industry professional to lead a post-performance discussion with audience members. Artists selected to perform in the Duration & Dialogue II Performance Arts Festival will be paid a small honorarium for their participation. All production costs are the responsibility of the artists; however, the gallery will offer its resources as available. Proposals should include: Please send files as PDFs. You may include images, videos, print, or digital documentation of your work as links, PDFs, or image files. Please be courteous of image size and materials that you are sending. Ensure that attachments total to less than 10MB; if more space is required for time-based or intermedia work, you may provide a link to a Dropbox. Send your proposal by email to info@katzmancontemporary.com with a subject line of Duration & Dialogue II. The deadline for submissions is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 by midnight. Artists selected to participate will be contacted by Monday, October 17, 2016 by 5:00pm. +++
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. 445-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 To unsubscribe from this e-bulletin, please follow this link: |
