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FADO E-LIST (November 2007)
FADO E-LIST (November 2007) INDEX
1. Fado News 2. EVENT: Queer Publics (Toronto, ON) Date: Friday November 9, 2007; Source: Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry 3. EVENT: Claudia Bernal Performance (Montreal, PQ) Date: November 10, 2007; Source: Claudia Bernal 4. EVENT: David Khang Performance (New York) Dates: November 10, 2007; Source: David Khang/Franklin Furnace 5. CALL FOR ENTRIES/PARTICIPATION: Tremor Live Arts presents Tremor _4 Dates: November 8-11, 2007; Source: Vassya Vassileva 6. EVENT: Artists Space and Performa07 co-present Eva and Franco Mattes Date: November 13, 2007; Source: Artists Space 7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: M4 Tachometer (Berlin) DATES: unspecified; Source: BBB Johannes Deimling 8. EVENT: Next Performances by BBB Johannes Deimling Dates: November/December (various); Source: BBB Johannes Deimling 9. EVENT: Next Stammtisch - Second Coming Date: November 12, 2007; Source: Dominik Walther 10. RESIDENCY: Istanbul and Turkey (Finnish artists) Dates: November 14, 207, Source: Frame 11. EVENT: Gala Fundraiser for Critical Art Ensemble Founder Steven Kurtz (Toronto) Date: November 22, 2007; Source: Lina Rodriguez 12. CALL FOR PAPES: Performance Research Dates: November 22, 2007; Source: Performance Research 13. EVENT: Caroline Dubois and Julie Favreau (Montreal, PQ) Dates: November 9, 16 and 24; Source: Dare-Dare 14. EVENT: Workshop/Performance with Laure Ottmann and Jacob Wren (Montreal, PQ) Dates: November 19-23, 2007; Source: Studio 303 15. EVENT: Lilith Performance Studio Performances Dates: November and December 2007; Source: Lilith 16. EVENT: Old Wive’s Tales - Performance by Ensemble 209 (Israel) Dates: November 20, 22, 29 and December 1, 2007; Source: PAP 17. EVENT: Perfopuerto at Catalyst Arts (Ireland) Dates: November 30 – December 11, 2007; Source: Sinead O’Donnell 18. RELEASED: liveartwork DVD issue 7, October 2007 Date: October 2007; Source: Christopher Hewitt 19. Call for Contributions: 1 Litre of Blood 100kgs of Bullets Dates: December 8, 2007; Source: Rebecca Cunningham 20. ANNOUNCING: ComPeung Artist-in-Residency program 2008 Dates: No fixed dates; Source: ComPeung 21. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Jamie McMurry’s The New Forest of Joseph Beuys Dates: no specified date; Source: Jamie McMurry 22. ANNOUNCING: New artist space (Makati City, Philippines) Dates: unspecified; Source: Bobby Nuestro
1. FADO NEWS Fado upcoming events: Cheryl L’Hirondelle (February 2008) Pam Patterson (February 2008) Nezaket Ekici (March 2008) Poetica Vivencia (March 2008) curated by Erika DeFreitas, with Keith Cole, Diana Soto-Lopez, John Marriot, Suzanne Caines, Diane Borsato and Stacey Sproule
I just returned from visiting and participating in the Live Performance Art Biennale in Vancouver, BC. Expertly hosted and arranged by Randy Gledhill and the Live Festival Board of Directors, the festival was a great success, lots of great work to be seen, and time to catch up with the global performance art family. Check out their website and the festival blog for all the news you missed!
http://livebiennale.ca/ http://livebiennale.blogspot.com/
2. EVENT: Queer Publics (Toronto, ON) Date: Friday November 9, 2007; Source: Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry
QUEER PUBLICS A Conversation with Paul Couillard, Deirdre Logue, John Paul Ricco and Jason St-Laurent
Part of A Potential Toronto Initiated by Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (TSCI) More info: http://www.tsci.ca/ or email tscinquiry@gmail.com
Friday, 9 November at 7:30pm Toronto Free Gallery - 660 Queen Street East (w. of Broadview)
In Toronto, queer publics have a powerful creative and political presence. LGBT artists have worked hard to construct counter-publics by working collaboratively, building production networks, and constructing events. These practices challenge regimes of heteronormative identity and capital competition through their emphasis on forms of intersubjectivity beyond couple, family and state, and politics based in desire rather than regulation. How might the codes, protocols, laws and imperatives of heteronormativity, interiority, and the public/private divide be refused and reconfigured?
What creative potentials for redefining intersubjectivity emerge through the formation of queer publics, and counter-publics. How does the production of minor spaces and practices change the life of the city? And when these spaces are subsumed by dominant practices and politics, how can queer publics re-politicize themselves? Local curators, artists and educators Paul Couillard, Deirdre Logue, John Paul Ricco and Jason St-Laurent talk about the erotic, aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of queer publics.
Paul Couillard has been working as an artist, curator, and organizer since 1985, focusing on performance art with forays into video, installation, and holography. He has created well over 100 solo and collaborative performance works in more than a dozen countries, often working with his partner Ed Johnson. Couillard was the Performance Art Curator for Fado from its inception in 1993 until 2007, and is also a founding co-curator of the 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival, both based in Toronto.
Deirdre Logue's film and videos address how it is that women organize their images and identities for mass consumption, and how this reflects or distracts from our knowledge of the individual. She is interested in both queer and feminist theory, early video and performance art, psychoanalysis and psychosomatic illness. Deirdre was the Executive Director of the Images Festival of Independent Film and Video from 1995-1999, the Executive Director at the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre from 2001-2006, and is currently the Development Director at Vtape in Toronto.
John Paul Ricco is a queer theorist, curator, and sometimes performance artist. Author of The Logic of the Lure (2002), his work is dedicated to thinking the ethics, politics and aesthetics of social-sexual space. He is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, Media Theory and Criticism at the University of Toronto, and curator of "Queer Here, Queer Now," a three-part exhibition of contemporary queer video, opening in January 2008 at V-Tape, Toronto.
Jason St-Laurent is an artist and curator based in Toronto and currently working as Director of Programming for Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival. He has curated more than 50 projects in Canada, Finland, Estonia, South Africa and Mexico.
About A Potential Toronto A Potential Toronto is an event series and exhibition spotlighting alternative economies, minor spaces, and organizing strategies. It is a preliminary step in a longer-term counter-cartography project which would render currents of radical energy visible, audible, and tactile.
About Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry TSCI designs education events inquiring into the new enclosures: enclosures on time, space, creativity, thought, ecology, love... We seek to understand how these enclosures work. But combating against cynicism, we also inquire into creative pathways within, against, and beyond the enclosures: pathways of thinking, collaboration, organization, experimentation...
3. EVENT: Claudia Bernal Performance (Montreal, PQ) Date: November 10, 2007; Source: Claudia Bernal
(In French only)
ChèrEs amiEs et collègues,
J’ai le plaisir de vous inviter à la 2ème performance présentée dans le cadre de l’exposition 'Faits du même sang', qui aura lieu ce samedi, 10 novembre 2007, à 19h, chez DIAGONALE au 5455 avenue de Gaspé, espace 203, Montréal.
'Faits du même sang' est une installation-vidéo-performance issue d’une réflexion sur ce qui est considéré comme un drame collectif en Colombie mais aussi dans bien des régions du monde: le déplacement forcé de populations entières à cause de la violence et du conflit armé, et dont les femmes sont sans contredit les principales victimes.
Pour l’occasion, je serai accompagnée des artistes Emmanuelle Calvé et Zazalie Z.
Emmanuelle Calvé est chorégraphe et danseuse graduée de l’Université Concordia (2003). Elle nous transporte par sa voix, son mouvement enraciné et sa force de vie vers des univers et des histoires d’une fraîcheur et transparence qui célèbrent la vie et l’union entre tous les êtres vivants. Emmanuelle danse pour le regroupement Subamingo au studio 303 ainsi qu’au Festival Vue sur la Relève (2005). Emmanuelle produit en collaboration avec Anna Smutny et Emily Gualtiery le spectacle C’est maintenant que ça se passe où elle présente sa toute dernière création Ayah au studio 303 (2007). Sa dernière création Lampe intérieure a été présenté à Tangente en septembre 2007.
Zazalie Z. participe sportivement à la vie culturelle depuis 15 ans. Elle explore l’art vocal, joue sur les cordes de l’expérimental, s’amuse avec les sons et les mots, et présente sa poésie sonore au Festival international de la Littérature à Montréal rediffusé sur la chaîne culturelle de Radio-Canada (Décrocheurs d’étoiles), à la SAT pour l’événement AfricAmerica-Vues d’Afrique à Montréal, au Festival international Crane (France) puis au Mi Bar (Barcelone-Espagne). Zazalie trafique également l’image, la photographie, le son et la poésie puis transpose son travail dans un monde virtuel « Projet femmes écrivaines-Fictions interactives» présenté lors des soirées Htmlles au Studio XX.
Je tiens à remercier particulièrement :
Le Conseil des Arts du Canada, La Couverture magique Productions, le CINEP (Bogotá), Diagonale, le Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Développement et Paix, et InterPares
Au plaisir de vous rencontrer très bientôt,
Claudia Bernal Entrée Libre
ARRIVEZ TÔT ! Les portes ouvrent à 18h40 et le spectacle débute à 19h00. Pour plus d’informations sur le calendrier des activités à venir, consultez : http://www.claudiabernal.com/memesang http://www.artdiagonale.org sous
4. EVENT: David Khang Performance (New York) Dates: November 10, 2007; Source: David Khang/Franklin Furnace
David Khang at NYU’s Happenings Lounge, November 10, 4 pm 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
David Khang "M. Butterfly (After Shigeko Kubota)" A Performance Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 4:00pm Happenings Lounge: 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU Co-sponsored by Performance Studies International #13
David Khang plays with language and its performativity. In recent works that incorporate animals – a beef tongue, live butterflies, and a horse – Khang embodies a language that investigates constructions of race, gender and sexuality. Importantly, M. Butterfly (After Shigeko Kubota) is a citational work:
In 1960, LaMonte Young moved to NYC, and wrote Composition 1960 #5, which instructed the performer to "Turn a butterfly (or any number of butterflies) loose in the performance area."
In 1965, as part of the Perpetual Fluxus Festival, Shigeko Kubota performed her Vaginal Painting at the Cinemateque, NYC.
In 1988, David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly was produced on Broadway, NYC.
In 2007, these historically significant pieces – all performed in NYC - become departure points that converge onto one re-imagined and re-mixed performance with divergent and hyperbolic readings that have contemporary social/political/racial/sexual implications. Reinterpreting performative works from the past, then, becomes a means to re-imagine new poetic and political strategies for the present.
Khang's art practice is informed by previous education in the fields of psychology, theology, and dentistry, which continues to inform his ongoing concerns and works-in-progress. After attending Cooper Union (NYC) and Hong-Ik University (Seoul), Khang completed his BFA from Emily Carr Institute, and MFA with Emphasis in Critical Theory, from University of California, Irvine. Khang currently resides and works in Vancouver, where is an Adjunct Faculty at the Emily Carr Institute.
This work was made possible, in part, by Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and Jerome Foundation.
5. CALL FOR ENTRIES/PARTICIPATION: Tremor Live Arts presents Tremor _4 Dates: November 8-11, 2007; Source: Vassya Vassileva
tremor_4 <Live.Doc> - November 8-11, 2007
Tremor Live Arts presents Tremor_4, a festival of performance art that will occur in the artist’s present location. This year’s version of the annual Tremor Live Arts Event, <Live.Doc>, will happen on the internet in the form of a gallery, online portal, program and archive. Tremor_4 will be a freestyle and open-source festival that depends on the cooperation of the participating artists to succeed. We invite your collaboration in the production of this shared event! The festival is divided into four arenas of activity; street art, art space, transmission and electronic arts, and missing link.
Tremor Live Arts presents Tremor_4 <Live.Doc>, a mulit-locational performedia festival that will occur in the artist’s present location. This year's Tremor is happening Nov. 8-11, 2007. However, we cannot say where it is, only when. Like a homemade antenna, we design a call for entries where Tremor turns into another medium and form of experimentation. We turn to the participants as collaborators to create the event. We see that whatever happens during this time will bring diverse outbursts, activations, and presences around cities, MUDS, café internets, streets with diverse audiences and with different senses of connectivity. We are not proposing to abandon the model of a festival that is around space, in fact we will make tremor again in Colombia and other locations, but what we are doing is following the strategies and possibilities that the works of many Tremor artists have taught us.
For participating artists: http://tremor4.templeofmessages.com/html/participants.html
6. EVENT: Artists Space and Performa07 co-present Eva and Franco Mattes Date: November 13, 2007; Source: Artists Space
EVA AND FRANCO MATTES aka 0100101110101101.ORG Synthetic Performances 6:30-8pm (performance begins promptly at 7pm)
Those unable to attend the live performance at Artists Space are invited to participate virtually by logging on to Second Life at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/35/41/24/?title=Odyssey Please note: The location is Odyssey at 4pm Second Life time.
7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: M4 Tachometer (Berlin) DATES: unspecified; Source: BBB Johannes Deimling
M4 – Tachometer Is the yardstick measuring the current state of Art Performance
Place: Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord, Turmstraße 75, 10551 Berlin | Germany Datum: 15./16. February 2008
For two days, gallery Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten will be showing a cross-section of the current Art Performance-Scene. On the first day, screenings and projections of performances will be giving a perspective of up-to-date productions. In the evening there will be a discussion about this subject. On the second day various performers will be showing their works.
Traditionally, performers tended to encapsulate themselves in stone, be buried in the ground, cut limbs, transplant ears on arms or put horns on their foreheads. The body was the performars primary tool – as it still is today. Oscillating between vanishing points in cyberspace and emerging definitions of social structures, the understanding of performance and body is changing. Current performances examine a certain renaissance of sexual patterns, formarly perceived as faded, as well as today’s interrelated work- and social space.
Contemporary performance reduces actions by means of new media, such as documentary practices in film, and thus connecting to Arte Povera and other minimalist traditions. Art performance, therefore, remains decidedly outside current forms of art-market strategies, but is rather functioning as sozio-critical event. Occasionally roles are even traded between audience and performers. Actors and consumers exchange positions. Furthermore, political implications are placing current performances firmly in society itself, without assuming pedagogical means.
M4 is looking for Video-work dealing with new tendencies in Art Performance. Please send them to:
Richard Rabensaat, Osloer Str. 114, 13359 Berlin, Germany T 049 (0) 30 493 65 75 mailto:Richard.rabensaat@web.de http://www.kunstverein-tiergarten.de/
8. EVENT: Next Performances by BBB Johannes Deimling Dates: November, 2007; Source: BBB Johannes Deimling
November 8, 2007 Performance: Words don't come easy Operation Koresh, art event, curated by Vered Hadad-Livni, Jerusalem
November 9-10, 2007 Performance and Workshop: Dictionary Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv http://www.miklat209.org.il/site/index.asp?depart_id=41561&lat=en
November 10, 2007, 21:00 Performance: Words don't come easy Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv http://www.miklat209.org.il/site/index.asp?depart_id=41561&lat=en
November 12, 2007 Notes on Performance Art, lecture & workshop Bezalel school of the arts, Jerusalem
November 19 - December 7, 2007 Lectureship F+F, school for art and mediadesign, Zurich, Switzerland http://www.ffzh.ch/home/dossier_dozentinnen_show.asp?person_id=35&layout
9. EVENT: Next Stammtisch - Second Coming Date: November 12, 2007; Source: Dominik Walther
November 12th at Electronic Church - Greifswalder Str. 223, 8pm (door opens at 7.30pm) Program for 12th of November:
Christopher Hewitt presents the latest issue of the liveartwork DVD (information: www.liveartwork.com)
Sian Robinson Davies: Performance (information: www.sianrobinsondavies.com)
Berlin n@work presents documentation and catalogue of two years work with the @work network (2006-2007), buries the Berlin n@work and presents Emanuelle (information: www.atworknetwork.org)
10. RESIDENCY: Istanbul and Turkey (Finnish artists) Dates: November 14, 207, Source: Frame
A FRAME residency for Finnish artists in Istanbul, Turkey September-November 2008
The residency is offered by FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center to provide an opportunity for a Finnish artist to spend three months developing new work in the city of Istanbul. The residency period is from 1st of September to 31st of November 2008.
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center Istanbul Residency Program (IRP) Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center is located in the district of Beyo lu, the most vibrant part of the city of Istanbul. Established in September 2001, Platform functions as a public contemporary art gallery, archive and research center for artists, researchers, curators and students. During the renovation and expansion, between October 2007 and March 2009, Platform Garanti has relocated to temporary offices in another building on the same street. The temporary building houses the library, the archive and the residency studios. The general residency program is open to contemporary visual artists, critics and curators of contemporary art. There are four studios available for artists as well as two additional rooms for writers. Platform is non-government funded institution supported by Garanti Bank and a number of international funding bodies.
The residency incorporates: -A studio space in Istanbul city centre for 3 months (September - November 2008) at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center -24 hour access, computers and free internet access, heating, a communal kitchen, a common space for reading and some basic items of furniture -Accommodation near the art center -Artist’s fee of 2.250 € (750 € /month)
How to apply: Application and supporting material In addition to an informal application, including a project description, candidates should submit a Curriculum Vitae, artist’s statement and any material relevant to the concept of the project; such as initial ideas, body of work or series of concerns raising from their current art practice and suitable for development during the residency. Artists applying to the residency should also demonstrate how they will benefit from this residency. All documents should be written in English. In order to apply for this opportunity the candidate must be a Finnish citizen or an artist based in Finland.
Deadline for completed applications is on Wednesday the 14th of November 2007. The applications should be addressed to FRAME, Merimiehenkatu 36 D 527, 00150 Helsinki, Finland.
Additional information: Henna Harri henna.harri@frame-fund.fi tel. +358-40-519 1906. http://www.frame-fund.fi/
11. EVENT: Gala Fundraiser for Critical Art Ensemble Founder Steven Kurtz (Toronto) Date: November 22, 2007; Source: Lina Rodriguez
TORONTO'S GALA FUNDRAISER for CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE Founder STEVEN KURTZ November 22 & 23, 2007
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS
Professor Steven Kurtz, founding member of the internationally acclaimed Critical Art Ensemble and his frequent collaborator geneticist Dr. Robert Ferrell were accused in 2004 by the US government of "bioterrorism" and are now facing trumped-up charges of "mail fraud" and "wire fraud," punishable, thanks to the USA PATRIOT Act, by up to 20 years in prison. We are joining artists and scientists worldwide who have responded to this outrageous, politically-motivated case, to raise urgently needed money for their legal defense.
What is happening where? November 22, 2007 Reception at A Space Gallery and Screening of Strange Culture (a documentary directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson, detialing Kurtz's ordeal and the charges against him) PLUS a Q&A with Steven Kurtz (Venue TBC).
November 23, 2007 Gala Fundraiser Auction with keynote speech by Naomi Klein (Venue TBC) Some of the Canadian artists who have donated works for this gala event are: Ed Burtynsky, John Greyson, Micah Lexier, Ken Lum, Kent Monkman and Jin-Me Yoon. Our goal is to match the New York City fundraiser for the CAE Defense Fund. Artists included: Acconci Studio, Dennis Adams, Carl Andre,Nayland Blake, Mel Bochner, Cecily Brown, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, Kiki Smith and many more.
How can YOU help? This two-day fundraiser event is an A Space Gallery Board of Directors initiative and we need YOUR help to make it happen. We are looking for volunteers in the following areas: -Artists/funders/guests of honour assistance: get water, answer questions, provide maps, directions, recommendations to restaurants, etc. -Auction volunteers: to take bids from bidders who call in their bids -Wait staff to help us serve the food during the auction -Set up & take down of both November 22 and November 23 events
Why should you care? As Canadians, we are not above governmental involvement in the arts…remember Maher Arar? Security certificates? Secret court trials?
PROTECT CREATIVE FREEDOM SHOW YOUR SUPPORT MAKE NEW CONTACTS VOLUNTEER
For further information on how, when & where to volunteer, contact: Lina Rodriguez at caevolunteers@gmail.com
Get more info about the Critical Art Ensemble Defense fund visiting www.Caedefensefund.org
12. CALL FOR PAPES: Performance Research Dates: November 22, 2007; Source: Performance Research
Volume 13, No. 3 (September 2008) Congregation Issue Editor: Claire MacDonald
CALL FOR PAPERS
Performance Research is seeking contributions to Congregation – an issue looking at religious and spiritual practice and performance.
The project of Congregation is to seek to make meaningful connections between the sociality and spirituality of religious practice, and the field of performance as art and scholarship. Religion is almost always discussed in terms of belief, but as former nun and historian of religion Karen Armstrong has pointed out, belief is a late comer to the religious scene, for most people most of the time throughout history, religion has more to do with practice.
The intention of Congregation is to address spiritual and religious practice as social phenomena through the lens of performance, and at the same time to explore the ways in which spiritual and religious practices have generated, informed and underpinned the practice of contemporary art and artists.
The issue might include looking at productive tensions in the interaction between art, religion and politics. It might look at earlier periods of artistic and religious activism, around, for instance, liberation theology in the 1960s. It might look at what artist Eleanor Heartney calls ‘the Catholic Imagination’ in her postmodern heretics series, citing Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe amongst her examples. It may look at the intersections between the sacred and the profane in the work of performance artists, and it may consider the generative interactions between practice and form, art and belief in the African American church and in the work of African American artists.
Critic Bonnie Marranca has suggested that religious practice and the spiritual sensibility fuelled avant-garde form, and this is particularly so in the relationship of Jewish thought and practice, in which the visual word, dialogic questioning and mysticism have informed avant-garde practice from Dada to postmodernism. Both Judaism and Islam have explored the performed, visualized, material word. We hope that this issue will include artists from Islamic, especially Persian and Arabic, traditions now working in multidisciplinary art contexts as well as with textual performance.
We are looking for a mix of contributions that suggest ways in which considering the encounter between the sacred and the secular through looking at the forms of performance, practice and event, might provide what Alan Read called, in an earlier call for papers for On Civility, an ‘unlikely circuit breaker,’ allowing the juxtaposition of varied and multiple voices to create a dynamic exchange. In a real sense the ambition of this issue is to foster a congregational space – a gathering space for possibly dissonant voices and approaches expressed visually and through interviews and documents as well as textual essays. Proposals are welcomed from scholars and artists and also from theologians and practitioners with and within faith backgrounds.
Please feel free to contact and discuss ideas with me, Claire MacDonald, the issue editor, in advance of submitting a proposal.
Deadlines for issue 13:3 are as follows: Proposals: November 22nd 2007 Draft manuscripts: February 28th 2008 Finalised material: April 28th 2008 Publication Date: September 2008
All proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct to:
Sandra Laureri Administrative Assistant - Performance Research Centre for Performance Research (CPR) Aberystwyth SY23 3AJ Wales, UK Tel: +44 (0)1970 628716 Fax: +44 (0)1970 622132
Email: performance-research@aber.ac.uk Web: http://www.performance-research.net Editorial enquires should be directed to Claire MacDonald: clairemacdonald1@mac.com
General Guidelines for Submissions http://www.performance-research.net/pages/guidelines.html
13. EVENT: Caroline Dubois and Julie Favreau (Montreal, PQ) Dates: November 9, 16 and 24; Source: Dare-Dare
DARE-DARE Centre de diffusion d'art multidisciplinaire de Montréal C.P. 130 Succ. R Montréal QC H2S 3K6 t: 514 878-1088 art@dare-dare.org http://www.dare-dare.org
(French to follow)
Caroline Dubois et Julie Favreau Plan d'aménagement (performance and construction) November 5 to 26, 2007 at 280, rue Beaubien est, Montréal
Performances: Cycle "comfort" - Friday November 9 at 9PM Cycle "risk" - Friday November 16 at midnight Cycle "filth" - Saturday November 24 at 3PM
with the participation of: Belinda Campbell, Hannah Derozio, Jody Hegel, Mathieu Lacroix, Christian Leblanc, Mathieu Lefèvre, Laël Stellick
The full schedule can be downloaded from: http://www.dare-dare.org
Plan d'aménagement takes an interest in the ambiguity and curiosity passers-by experience when they come upon a space under construction or development - a space in the making. In response to this ambiguity, Caroline Dubois and Julie Favreau will assemble various settings and situations of "soon-to-open" businesses or film stage. Plan d'aménagement takes place in a vacant commercial premise on Beaubien Street.
Investigations and performances carried out in this space during an entire month will fall into three thematic categories: "comfort", "risk" and "filth". These themes will guide construction and actions that will unravel there. The artists will continuously redesign and transform the commercial premise. The construction/destruction activities within this setting will become the building blocks of choreographies for three different performances. From the sidewalk, passers-by will witness the daily activities as well ass all phases of the project: construction, research and performance. They will be invited to come inside or to view from the shop window. Both the process and the performances will be accessible to them.
Caroline Dubois is a visual artist and choreographer. Julie Favreau is a visual artist. Through their joint practice, the boundaries between art forms are blurred, mixing visual arts, performance, living portraits, dance and theatre. In Dubois and Favreau's scenography, the body is completely dependent of the object.
Caroline Dubois et Julie Favreau Plan d'aménagement (performances et constructions)
du 5 au 26 novembre au 280, rue Beaubien est, Montréal
Performances: Cycle confort - vendredi 9 novembre à 21h; Cycle risque - vendredi 16 novembre à minuit; Cycle saleté - samedi 24 novembre à 15h
Avec la participation de: Belinda Campbell, Hannah Derozio, Jody Hegel, Mathieu Lacroix, Christian Leblanc, Mathieu Lefèvre, Laël Stellick.
Le calendrier de l'occupation quotidienne du lieu se trouve sur le site Web du centre : http://www.dare-dare.org
Plan d'aménagement s'intéresse à l'ambiguïté et à la curiosité ressenties par les passants devant un espace en construction et en réaménagement, un lieu en devenir. Pour répondre à cette ambiguïté, Caroline Dubois et Julie Favreau construiront divers décors et situations suggérant l'ouverture prochaine d'un commerce ou d'un plateau de tournage. Plan d'aménagement prend place dans un espace commercial vacant de la rue Beaubien, dans la Petite-Patrie.
Les investigations et représentations réalisées dans cet espace sur une période d'un mois seront partagées en trois thématiques, soit «confort», «risque» et «saleté». Les thématiques détermineront les pistes qu'emprunteront les constructions et les actions dans le lieu. Elles permettront de faire de ce local un lieu en perpétuelle redéfinition: chaque thème exploré entraînera une reconfiguration. Les artistes vont constamment réaménager et transformer cet espace commercial.
À partir de ces thématiques, Dubois et Favreau construiront trois décors différents et procéderont à l'invention d'univers distincts à partir des mêmes moyens: le même local, les mêmes interprètes et les mêmes matériaux. Le travail et les gestes de construction et de destruction de ces univers deviendront la matière de l'écriture chorégraphique menant à tr |
