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FADO E-LIST (December 2018)INDEX 1. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Cock and Bull by Nic Green TWO PERFORMANCES: January 30 & February 2, 2019 2. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Documents by Autumn Knight ONE NIGHT ONLY: February 8, 2019 3. PUBLICATION: 9Questions, an artist project by Gustaf Broms Published by FADO Performance Art Centre and Centre for Orgchaosmik Studies NOW AVAILABLE FOR ORDER
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1. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Cock and Bull by Nic Green TWO PERFORMANCES: January 30 & February 2, 2019
Cock and Bull Conceived and directed by Nic Green Performed by Nic Green, Rosana Cade and Laura Bradshaw
Curated and presented by FADO Performance Art Centre for Progress
Originally conceived for the eve of the 2015 UK general election, Cock and Bull sees three females convene to perform their own, alternative, party conference.
Exploring power, voice, agency and sustainability, they use the most heard phrases from Conservative governmental rhetoric, to dismantle and redress dominant paradigms of power and Politics. Responding to the meaninglessness and repetition of empty political promise, the privilege of the governmental elite and the deep discontent of an increasingly disproportionate and divided society, this work is part protest, part catharsis, part exorcism. It becomes, in part, a demonstration of togetherness. Cock and Bull is a transforming choreography of words and a passionate speech of the body, underpinned with the real-time energy of political dissatisfaction and tory tongue-speak.
For the Toronto premiere of Cock and Bull, two iterations are performed: the original short version (one hour) and the long version lasting the length of an average sitting of the House of Commons (over 7 hours). Presented as bookends in the first week of Progress, audiences are afforded the unique opportunity to investigate the performance’s structure and form as it expands (and contracts) over time.
Winner of the Total Theatre Award for best visual/physical theatre, Edinburgh (2016)
“A quiet, luminously brilliant, meditation on politics and pain.”
★★★★ “A blistering, beautiful act.”
★★★★ “Astonishing…Unforgettable performances.”
SCHEDULE Wed | January 30 | 7:30pm (short version) Sat | February 2 | 2:00pm (long version)
DURATION January 30 | 60 minutes February 2 | 7 hours & 41 minutes
CREDITS Conceived and Directed by Nic Green Created with Laura Bradshaw and Rosana Cade Performed by Laura Bradshaw, Rosana Cade and Nic Green (short version) Performed by Rosana Cade and Nic Green (long version) LX design Eleni Thomaidou Technical support Murray Wason
LANGUAGE Performed in English
TICKETS January 30 | $25 February 2 | $15 (or free, with a purchased ticket to January 30 performance)
PLEASE NOTE: February 2nd is a durational performance. Audience is invited to come and go with your wristband as space allows. Tickets for this performance are available at the door only, starting two hours before performance start time.
PROGRESS FESTIVAL This year's Progress Festival takes place between January 30–February 17, 2019. Progress is collectively curated by FADO Performance Art Centre, F-O-R-M, Native Earth Performing Arts, SummerWorks, The Power Plant, the red light district, The Theatre Centre, Uma Nota Culture and Why Not Theatre. Produced by SummerWorks in association with The Theatre Centre.
Single Tickets: $25 | PURCHASE TICKETS 3-Show Progress Pass: $60 | PURCHASE PASS Box Office: 416-538-0988
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2. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Documents by Autumn Knight ONE NIGHT ONLY: February 8, 2019
Documents Conceived by Autumn Knight
Curated and presented by FADO Performance Art Centre for Progress
Documents centres uses dialogue, gesture and the voice of both the artist and the audience to uncover and critique structures of power. Troubling the division of labour between the performer and the audience divisions, Documents involves a public reading of the documentation that serves to authenticate or legitimize citizenship. Central to this work is a filing cabinet that both holds the props required for the performance, while also serving as a portrait or trace of the artist. The interactive reading of the documents in the files addresses the embodied specificities of race, class, gender, sexuality to contest whether these categories accurately reflect the bodies they are meant to represent—while underlining how different audiences and relationships to power may influence this reading.
SCHEDULE Fri | February 8 | 7:30pm
DURATION 75 minutes
CREDITS Conceived and Directed by Autumn Knight
LANGUAGE Performed in English
TICKETS $25
PROGRESS FESTIVAL This year's Progress Festival takes place between January 30–February 17, 2019. Progress is collectively curated by FADO Performance Art Centre, F-O-R-M, Native Earth Performing Arts, SummerWorks, The Power Plant, the red light district, The Theatre Centre, Uma Nota Culture and Why Not Theatre. Produced by SummerWorks in association with The Theatre Centre.
Single Tickets: $25 | PURCHASE TICKETS 3-Show Progress Pass: $60 | PURCHASE PASS Box Office: 416-538-0988
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3. NOW AVAILABLE: 9Questions, an artist project by Gustaf Broms Published by FADO Performance Art Centre and Centre for Orgchaosmik Studies
9Questions, an artist project by Gustaf Broms
Publication: $20 Publication & postage for Toronto: $25 Publication & postage to Canada/USA: $30 Publication & postaget to UK/Europe: $35
Pay via PAYPAL, credit or debit. Email info@performanceart.ca to place your order.
Or purchase a copy through Unbound: www.thisisunbound.co.uk/collections/books/products/9questions
In 2014, Swedish performance and visual artist Gustaf Broms composed a list of nine questions that he started to circulate to fellow performance artists—many he had a personal connection with and many more he had never even met. The questions covered a range of paired concepts—the bricks and mortar of performance practice (including Material/object, Audience/receiver, Sound/silence, Time/rhythm, Space/emptiness)—and grounded by questions about personal experience, lineage and language. The impulse to gather this collection arose from a conversation Broms had had with another artist; but what makes this volume first and foremost an artist’s book is that the questions are asked from the specific perspective of Broms’ deep personal understanding that, as a practice, performance resides at the permeable borders between the conscious and subconscious, and the meeting of the concrete world of form and the spiritual realm. For Broms, these are the essential questions. The responses collected are as diverse and wide-ranging as the artists and their own approaches, from the practical, to the abstract to the simply far-flung, in addition to some reassuring and surprising overlapping ideas and connections.
The roster of contributors to the 9Questions book project is an impressive array of international performance artists whose work covers a range of performance and performative multi-disciplinary approaches, including: Adina Bar-On, Alastair MacLennan, Andrea Saemann, Antoni Karwowski, Arahmaiani, Artur Tajber, Barbara T. Smith, Bartolomé Ferrando, Boris Nieslony, Brian Connolly, Dorothea Rust, Elvira Santamaria-Torres, Esther Ferrer, Fausto Grossi, Guadalupe Neves, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Gustaf Broms, He Yunchang, hermann nitsch, Irma Optimist, Jamie McMurry, Jill Orr, Johanna Householder, John Duncan, Kurt Johannessen, Leif Elggren, Linda Mary Montano, Macarena Perich Rosas, Margaret Dragu, Mariel Carranza, Marilyn Arsem, Martha Wilson, Monika Günther & Ruedi Schill, Myriam Laplante, Nigel Rolfe, Nobuo Kubota, Paul Couillard, Pekka Kainulainen, Rocio Boliver, Roi Vaara, Ron Athey, Serge Olivier Fokoua, Shannon Cochrane, Stelarc, Tanya Mars, Tehching Hsieh, Tomas Ruller, Valentin Torrens, Zbigniew Warpechowski and Zhu Ming.
ABOUT GUSTAF BROMS Gustaf Broms is a Swedish visual artist working in performance, video and photography. His performance work has presented work across Europe, Asia and North America. His practice is engaged with the exploration of the nature of consciousness, the dualistic concept of "I," as the biological reality of being in the BODY, and being MIND, as the perceived experience of the flow of phenomena. He is a co-founding member of REVOLVE Performance Festival in Uppsala. He was the subject of 2012 film, The Mystery of Life – An Art Apart: Gustaf Broms by Carl Abrahamsson.
Published by FADO Performance Art Centre and Centre for Orgchaosmik Studies Edited by Gustaf Broms and Shannon Cochrane Translations by Paula Alvarado, Robert Rowley, Nicolas Scrutton, Jie Wang Design: Lisa Kiss Design
ISBN 978-0-9730883-4-2 (FADO Performance Art Centre, Canada) 978-91-639-8460-0 (Centre for Orgchaosmik Studies, Sweden)
This publication project is supported by Stiftelsen Längmanska kulturfonden. FADO Performance Art Centre acknowledges the suport of the Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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ABOUT FADO PERFORMANCE ART CENTRE Established in 1993, FADO Performance Art Centre is a not-for-profit artist-run centre based in Toronto, Canada. FADO provides a stage and on-going forum in support of the research and development of contemporary performance art practices in Canada and internationally. As a year-round presentation platform, FADO exists nomadically, working with partner organizations and presenters, and utilizing venues and sites that are appropriate to individual projects. 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 perspectives. FADO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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