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s” (mutant chainsaws with motorcycle wheels) and the evidence of their resultant activities. This site-specific installation, and Dobler’s continued incorporation of motorbikes (symbols of freedom and rebellion) in his work, represent an ongoing investigation into the limits of freedom within the bounds of civil society. Opening reception is June 6th, please join the artist for a toast to reckless abandon.
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day 4 - ARAI SHIN-ICHI [tokyo, Japan] www.araiart.jp/0804273e.html "Viva! Globalization For TANAKA Mitsu" Friday, May 8 8:00 pm Free / By Donation  | |||
Petit Retrospective of ARAI Shin-ichi Works from 1999-2009 The fourth of 5 nights of performances by Mr. Shin-ichi Viva! Globalization For TANAKA Mitsu Epilogue for the first edition of "For women of life - an outrageous women-lib theory" (April 1972) by Tanaka Mitsu First, I’ll tell you that authorities are stepping up their harassment day by day. Things seem the same with everything dubbed a movement. We are still wondering what a movement means and engaging in the lib that the society sees as a movement. Even this humble effort is already disturbing enough for the authorities, it seems. As she entered our collective, a member of our group lent the apartment she had lived by then. Then we found the authorities had listed the new lender, whom we had barely met once, as a member of our group , added with an allegation that she had stolen a rifle from a house and given it to extremists. Newspapers finely faked a story that our group had risen to armed fights. Funny enough, it was when we were struggling for our unfamiliar new job as bar hostesses. We are simply stunned by the slyness of the authorities. Now, I am being tailed by a plain-clothes on a daily basis. A cop is shameless enough to visit my parents every day to intimidate them saying that their daughter is a ranking member of her feminist group. We just laugh at this old-fashioned mentality to use the word a ranking member. If I am a ranking member, you may be the gang leader. We joke and yet shiver with the sharpened claws of the authorities. It is the authorities that crave for armed fights more than anybody else. Which fool on earth runs for armed campaigns when they are trying to illegalize everything dubbed a movement? It would be a blind suicide to rise to armed fights, at least on the vague terrain of the new left. As a bitch who has lived wagging her tail, I will refuse to die worthlessly like an underdog. Nor will l choose to live like one. Women are always "realists." We'll do legal activities as the keystone. This is the very conclusion we reached after shamelessly drifting between the right and left, to the puzzling of the general public. We cannot take off elegantly as a lib group which tries to pick up everything dumped by all these called movements, including housewives leagues and new-left actions. The authorities are trying to make the lib an exceptional vessel and cut it off from "ordinary women." But they miss one critical point that even their wives are women who cannot flee the fact that lib has taken place. We are not libs. Lib simply inhabits in the very difficulty women face in their lives. For every life of women to become lib. That is the sole condition for this world to become a truly humanitarian one. Now, a new image of woman is being created by career-ambitious women and some celebrity unwed mothers. This image, of economically and sexually independent woman, is a new makeup of postwar women, who were billed as becoming as strong as synthetic stockings. This means in turn, that less successful and imperfect women are left behind the makeup, grumbling only small weeds grow in the shadow. They try to fill up their frustration of not living their own lives by contributing more to order of the establishment. In this world where productivity comes first, those made to believe to be worthless, are sinners for their very existence. Seeking acquittal, they sacrifice themselves to the superficial ideal of society. So we see women who find their role in serving tea, saying they are happy if their tiny job makes everyone happy. Beyond this mentality are the specters of the militarist wives and mothers of yasukuni shrine honoring war-dead. Liberalization of women means liberalization of the mentality that honors sacrificial deaths. To this end our lib as a movement aims at economic and sexual independence for imperfect ordinary women, linking a woman with women. And so we say no to giving up men and kids for the sake of the cause of our movement. Instead of looking up to single special figure, women now need to stand shoulder to shoulder. I will dedicate this book first to my mother with a lot of thoughts I cannot turn to words. And then to the ex members of our collective and my lib friends who cared for my health and gave me their hands while I was writing this book. | |||
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18 new 24/7 Galleries www.PhantomGalleriesLA.com 3 nights of Art openings Thursday - Saturday, February 5, 6, 7 2009 PDF Map of Locations available soon. Artists Lita Albuquerque, Stephanie Allespach, Naomi Buckley, Krista Chael, Cloud Eye Control, Ben Dean, Fallen Fruit, Anne Hars, Micol Hebron, Parichard Holm & Ryan Zufryden, Daniel Marlos, Miwa Matreyek, Molly Millar, Tricia Lawless Murray, Anna Oxygen, Nora Jean Petersen, Nancy Popp, Semiconductor, Elizabeth Tremante, STATION, Joe Davidson, Christiana, Neil A France, Grace Oh, Diane Silver, Mariah Anne Johnson, Tim Nolan, Rebecca Neiderlander, Julia Latane, Carrie Ungerman, Chris Johnson, Todd Brainard, FLOOD: Kamran Assadi, Frauke von der Horst, Shea M Gauer, Scott A Peterson, Shelley RuggThorp and Marco Schindelmann, Daniel Lehrer-Graiwer and Travis Frankel, Dennis Ekstrom, Jimi Gleason, James Hayward, Andy Moses, John Scane and Roger Weik. Michael A Rosenfeld. Thursday Night Openings February 5, 2008 "Super Elastic" Curated by Tim Nolan Julia Latane, Rebecca Neiderlander, Tim Nolan, Carrie Ungerman Phantom Galleries, L.A. presents its inaugural exhibit at the Pacifica Building in Long Beach, curated by artist Timothy Nolan. In response to the first appearance of the TED Conference in Long Beach this February, Super Elastic brings together large works from four Los Angeles-based artists whose work addresses our expanding visual landscape, propelled by advances in science and technology. From the subatomic to the super galactic, imagery coming from electron microscopes and the Hubble telescope is now an integral part of the culture. Quantum mechanics, relativity, the Big Bang, chaos theory, multi-dimensional math, etc., have all irrevocably shifted the consciousness of our society, even if many have little or no knowledge on the subjects. Scientists and mathematicians are busily trying to solve the puzzles of the universe, and these four artists exploit these puzzles for all they're worth. Julia Latane's Blue Superstrings, inspired by the mind boggling concepts of string theory, springs from the wall and undulates to and fro. Rebecca Niederlander's mobiles are clearly of the natural world, but their spindly rotating flourishes could go micro or macro, referring to plant structures or meteor showers. Likewise, in wall drawings made with Mylar tape, Carrie Ungerman builds tension that evokes mighty asteroids colliding, or the tenderness of cell division. Nolan's repeated triangle floor work plays with the geometry of crystal formations while conjuring a fourth dimension with its double-mirrored surfaces. Although each artist is very literate in the history of pattern-based abstraction, conceptually and aesthetically, they are inspired by and draw liberally from an infinite pool of scientific inquiry. Timothy Nolan and Rebecca Niederlander Courtesy of Carl Berg Gallery. Dates: January 28 - March 10, 2009 Location: Phantom Galleries LA on the Promenade 170 North Promenade, Long Beach, 90802 Artist Contact: http://www.julialatane.com/ http://www.carrieungerman.com/carrie_ungerman/home.html http://timothynolan.com http://www.becster.org/ Partners "The Long Beach Redevelopment Agency is proud to partner with Phantom Galleries LA, not only to revive empty storefronts along our major corridors, but also to showcase the arts and build a sense of community and culture in our Downtown," said Craig Beck, Executive Director of the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency. LongBeachRDA.org Thank you to Hillcrest Development Partners, Pacifica HOA, Wokcano Restaurants, Charles Dunn Company. Other Locations TBA Friday Night Openings February 6, 2008 The Pike at Rainbow Harbor Emergence Enchanted Long Beach 2009 http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/3/1/30/f_emergenceenm_1b3c991.jpg Curated by Stephanie Allespach and Krista Chael Catalogue available, essay by M.A. Greenstein Artists Lita Albuquerque, Stephanie Allespach, Naomi Buckley, Krista Chael, Cloud Eye Control, Ben Dean, Fallen Fruit, Anne Hars, Micol Hebron, Parichard Holm & Ryan Zufryden, Daniel Marlos, Miwa Matreyek, Molly Millar, Tricia Lawless Murray, Anna Oxygen, Nora Jean Petersen, Nancy Popp, Semiconductor, Elizabeth Tremante Dates Emergence Enchanted takes place February 1 - February 28, 2009 Coinciding with the TED Conference. Opening reception February 6th, 6pm-10pm Performances by Cloud Eye Control, Anna Oxygen & Miwa Matreyek, 8:30pm-10pm cloudeyecontrol.com/index.htm"> Gallery hours coincide with the TED Conference Feb. 3rd-5th 10am-8pm, 6th 10am-10pm, 7th-8th 10am-8pm Pedestrian viewing 24/7, Private viewing by appointment Pedestrian Viewing 24/7, Galleries open by appointment. Locations: Phantom Galleries LA Long Beach at the Pike at Rainbow Harbor 45 Aquarium Way, 24 Aquarium Way, Anne Hars at 150 Bay Street, Long Beach 90802 thepikeatlongbeach.com/parkingmap/index.php .htm"> Emergence Enchanted is an international art show exhibiting an assortment of artists who engage the curiosities of science, and dialogue with its worlds in unique ways. Inspired by the first appearance of the TED Conference in Long Beach, CA, this February, the exhibition recognizes the bridge between art and science and this rare opportunity for inspiring dialogue. Work by 20 cutting edge artists of established and emerging stars, will be contained within the spaces of The Pike. This exhibition combines a selection of artworks including paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs and video, as well as an exciting program of special performances. The arts explore the liminal spaces that science is still unable to quantify, the various subjective explorations of human experience. Through unraveling and indexing of subjective inquiries in a shared reality, artists can inform scientific investigation with their most powerful tool: imagination. Intuitively, many artists look to science as a way of informing their practices. They revel in its mysteries, explanations and abstract theories. This sort of cross-pollination can bear curious fruit and the function of this exhibition is to examine a range of artists working in this way. Emergence Enchanted offers up more then the sum of its parts. It will be a vital source for art, science and technology lovers, allowing them to discover new developments in contemporary art Media Contact: Stephanie Allespach allespach@earthlink.net Partners "The Long Beach Redevelopment Agency is proud to partner with Phantom Galleries LA, not only to revive empty storefronts along our major corridors, but also to showcase the arts and build a sense of community and culture in our Downtown," said Craig Beck, Executive Director of the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency. www.LongBeachRDA.org Special thank you To the Pike at Rainbow Harbor and The Downtown Long Beach Associates Bluetooth's CastleCurated by FLOOD E-MAIL: kassadi_99@yahoo.com The Long Beach artist group, FLOOD, will present Bluetooth's Castle, a "punceptual" art installation in which fixed meanings are decentered and an artistic conceit is developed as a result of wordplay (in this case "Blue Beard's Castle " and "bluetooth"). In response to the upcoming TED Conference, FLOOD explores, through images and voices, curiosity, that emotion which motivates us towards wonder, inspiration and imagination and is at the root of scientific discovery, technological breakthrough and artistic creativity. While curiosity's most powerful catalyst is mystery, its most positive and celebrated outcome is innovation. Juxtaposing fairytale, opera and science, Bluetooth's Castle, through video images, presents to visitors a mystery while bluetooth technology offers, through sound mirages, revelations both enlightening and mystifying. WHAT: A "punceptual" art installation. WHERE: Phantom Galleries LA Long Beach at The Pike at Rainbow Harbor 21 Aquarium Way , Long Beach 90802 WHEN: February 3 - 8, 2009 ADMISSION: Free About FLOOD The artist group, FLOOD has been working on installation projects for the last six years. FLOOD is interested in testing the limits of artistic expression through collaboration and experimentation within a variety of artistic genres. Current members of FLOOD are Kamran Assadi, Frauke von der Horst, Shea M Gauer, Scott A Peterson, Shelley RuggThorp and Marco Schindelmann The opera Bluebeard's Castle by Bela Bartok serves, in part, as an inspiration for this installation. Partners "The Long Beach Redevelopment Agency is proud to partner with Phantom Galleries LA, not only to revive empty storefronts along our major corridors, but also to showcase the arts and build a sense of community and culture in our Downtown," said Craig Beck, Executive Director of the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency. LongBeachRDA.org Thank you to The Downtown Long Beach Associates for making this exhibit possible. downtownlongbeach.org/index.htm"> Special Thank you To the Pike at Rainbow Harbor The Surface of SpaceCurated by Michael Rosenfeld Dates: January 28th - February 2009 Coinciding with the TED Conference. Opening reception February 6th, 6pm-10pm Pedestrian Viewing 24/7, Galleries open by appointment. Gallery hours will be posted. Liza@PhantomGalleriesLA.com Location: Phantom Galleries LA Long Beach at the Pike at Rainbow Harbor 81 S. Pine Ave, Long Beach 90802 What happens when painting attempts to do without the use of form? A better question might be, what happens when form is painting's goal? When form is the goal, paint serves to represent something else: an object, a view, a figure, a face. Considered this way, figurative painting is actually an abstraction of something "real." That frees Abstract painting to become the true realism, since Abstract painting is about the paint, and how paint never stops being paint. But what if a painting could convey space without sacrificing paint always being paint? This would be painting with primary attention given to the paint as its own entity, yet still conveying spatial elements of form. The artists in this exhibition ask us to deal with their works on multiple levels. Their paint draws us in, while simultaneously the surfaces and forms come forward, thus using surface as a representation of space. The significance is immense. Illusionary space was the goal of all painters from the Renaissance up to Picasso, who redefined that goal with the dislocations of Cubism. Clement Greenberg's writing emphasized the philosophical underpinnings of Abstraction - of making art that is about the purity of material and process - so that a painting could become both subject and object. In the hands of the California fetish-finish artists of the 60's and 70's, this "objectiveness" resulted in surfaces refined to mimic the finish of a car in the Southern California car culture. All of these historical elements blend with new ideas in the work of the abstract painters in this exhibition, who bring space back into the dialogue while using the surface as the abstracted object --thus bridging the gap between abstraction and realism in a way that continues the ongoing discourse of illusionary space. Participating artists Dennis Ekstrom, Jimi Gleason, James Hayward, Andy Moses, John Scane and Roger Weik Andy Moses and Jimi Gleason courtesy of Samuel Freeman Gallery. A version of this exhibit was originally hosted at Pharmaka in Downtown Los Angeles info@pharmaka-art.org |www.pharmaka-art.org/index.htm"> Partners"The Long Beach Redevelopment Agency is proud to partner with Phantom Galleries LA, not only to revive empty storefronts along our major corridors, but also to showcase the arts and build a sense of community and culture in our Downtown," said Craig Beck, Executive Director of the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency. www.LongBeachRDA.org Special Thank you To the Pike at Rainbow Harbor. VIEWPOINT an installation by: Travis Frankel and Daniel Lehrer-Graiwer Viewpoint is a site-specific architectural/video installation eleven feet high, eighteen feet wide and twenty feet deep that gives a free dose of sun, sea and sky to mall-goers. Located at the Phantom Galleries LA Long Beach at the Pike at Rainbow Harbor, the work was created using wall panels from a currently vacant retail space elsewhere in the Pike. The panels, which once hung clothes, have been reconfigured and reimagined as a deep space framing the sunset over Long Beach harbor. Converging in single-point perspective and lifted into a steep incline, the groove-cut panels create ever-reducing concentric frames, exaggerating the perceived depth. The video, playing on loop, was taken of the port from a point on axis with the current installation site. Artist Contact: tfrankel@gmail.com Location: 150 Bay St Long Beach, 90802 About the Artists: Daniel Lehrer-Graiwer was born in Los Angeles. After graduating from Columbia University, and living in New York, he packed his bags and set off to work for Ducati Motorcycles in Bologna, Italy. An artist and writer, he currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Travis Frankel was born and raised in upstate New York, Frankel graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in architecture. A designer, carpenter and artist, Frankel currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Past Phantom Gallery ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgla/2050496105/in/photostream/) Saturday openings Pine Ave and 3rd Street Christiana "Four Chambers" Curated by Christine Faraci A graduate of the Fine Arts Department of California State University Long Beach, Christiana returns to present Four Chambers. Referring to the four chambers of the heart, this event showcases four collections illustrating the evolution of Christiana's work over time and across mediums. La Femme: This collection celebrates the female as the iconic figure of strength, nurture and beauty in community, friendship, and family. Abstraction: In these paintings the human figure is inferred. The series is a study of color, texture and design. The Embrace: In this expression of romantic love the forms depict affection, desire, and sensuality. Love Letters: A tribute to Valentine's Day this collection of miniatures was created specifically for this show and includes sketches, paintings and ceramics. About Christiana Press Release Dates: February 7- March 15, 2009 Artist Reception: February 7, 2009 6-10pm Saturdays and by appointment or just stop by the gallery will be open regularly. Artist Contact: Christine Faraci 310-490-6650 christine@faraciart.com www.Farachiart.comwww.Farachiart.com/index.htm"> In honor of Black History Month, Phantom Galleries LA Long Beach is proud to present: Question Bridge: Black Males A Work-in-Progress Video Project by Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas Long Beach 2009 Curated by Tricia Avant Opening reception February 7th, 6pm-10pm, Pedestrian Viewing 24/7 during the month of February 2009. Location: 350 E. 3rd Street, Long Beach, CA 90802 "There is something called "black" in America and there is something called "white" in America, and I know them when I see them, but I will forever be unable to explain the meaning of them, because they are not real even though they have a very real place in my daily way of seeing, a fundamental relationship to my ever-evolving understanding of history, and a critical place in my relationship to humanity." -Carl Hancock Rux in Everything but the Burden At a time when black male identity has become a dominant theme in American socio/political culture, Question Bridge: Black Males brings a new perspective to this issue. Many black males who live their lives in working-class inner-city neighborhoods have very different views of the world, and themselves, than do blacks who spend all of their professional and social lives in white-dominated parts of our culture. This distinction complicates attempts to simplify what we generally consider to be obvious definitions of what it means to be "black" in America. The ascendency of Barack Obama to the Presidency is only the most striking example of this fact. Structured as an experiment, Question Bridge: Black Males uses the deceptively simple act of asking a question as the channel for expression and insight across significant human divisions. The participants were invited to video record a sincere question of other black men from whom they felt distinctly different. In turn they agreed to answer a question on video asked of them. Often these men didn't know each other and most were in different cities. The idea is that if you feel safe enough to ask a deeply held question, you are saying in effect "This is something I do not know about you, please help me understand." If the question is meaningful you are much more likely to listen respectfully to a sincere attempt to answer. Having recently completed the first phase of this project Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas traveled to Birmingham Alabama, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and New York and filmed over 60 black men ranging from judges to ex-cons, athletes to engineers, well-known actors to factory workers, Reverends to teens, and even recently arrived Africans to 9th generation citizens. This brought the full spectrum of what it means to be "black" and "male" to the forefront. In this context "Blackness" ceases to be a simple, monochromatic concept. What is it that so radically divides black men of different cultural frameworks? African-American men must find ways to address these questions with their own voices. Question Bridge: Black Males is a form that allows vital answers to be heard in new ways. Chris Johnson Neil A France "The City Series" Artist contact: neilafrance.com Curated by: Liza Simone Location: 122 E 3rd St. Long Beach, 90802 Neil A France is a Professional Photographer, a resident of Long Beach and currently teaches photography at Long Beach City College. Diane Nebolon Silver Curated by Katalyst Foundation for the Arts Dates tba Artist contact kffta.org Martha Perez Mitchell Martha@kffta.org Founder/ Director Main Office & "The Childrens Gallery". 201 S Santa Fe Ave # 207 Los Angeles, CA 90012 1-213-604-3634 Location 346 E 3rd St Long Beach, CA 90802 Mariah Anne Johnson "The Fruited Plain" "O' beautiful, for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!" --Katherine Lee Bates, "America the Beautiful" During this time of historic change in our nation, I am filled with hope for my future as an artist and a citizen. I was inspired by my hope to create this artwork, The Fruited Plain. Our country is a place of abundance; we are blessed with fertile soil, fertile hearts, and fertile minds. I believe that in the coming days and years we will be inspired to work together to harvest this bounty for the benefit of us all. My work with sheets grew out of my thinking about my mother's efforts at maintaining aesthetic order in her home-even if the rest of the house is a wreck, she wants her linen closet to be beautiful when she opens the door. Similarly, I construct formal arrangements from bed linens, particularly sheets and pillowcases. I fold and pile these sheets on simple shelves or chairs, as well as on and around the significant or quirky architectural features of an exhibition space. I think of these folding and stacking activities as akin to creating paintings with brush and canvas. The interactions among color combinations, printed patterns, and folding systems become visually engrossing and reference abstract or minimalist paintings. However, because I am using these non-traditional materials that are so intimately connected with human bodies, the works are also infused with the memories and habits of their previous owners. But since these previous owners are strangers, there is no great-aunt or grandmother to tell me the story associated with the object. These histories are lost, so the sheets become material for pieced together, re-imagined histories, including the narrative of my own processes of folding, stacking, and layering. Whether piled in the awkward corners of a room or layered on a shelf, the sheets are reminders of a variety of human activities: sleeping, dreaming, housekeeping, lovemaking, birthing, dying, etc. They offer us a glimpse into the linen closets of other people and other times and remind us of our own experiences in the comforting confines of bed. Dates Januray 10 - February 2009 Curated by Liza Simone Artist Contact mariahjohnson.com Location 340 E 3rd St Long Beach, CA 90802 Todd Brainard Todd Brainard's new paintings offer a refined and sharpened take on a topic which becomes more pertinent every day: the intersection of natural and built environments. Using imagery derived from the Southern California landscape, Brainard operates as a privileged and influential observer, offering an individualistic look at semi-open spaces and the constructs of man that alter them. And though the look is decidedly SoCal, these types of scenes are common enough nearly anywhere. Humans plan and build. Nature quietly accommodates. But if the subjects of these paintings seem ordinary, the handling is not. In his multifaceted approach, Brainard revels in colliding seemingly disparate conventions of art practice. Photography and realism are asked to hold hands with irrational color and dashes of painterly reduction. Documentation is forced to compromise with the limits and preferences of memory. Traditional conventions of landscape painting shack up with the 21st Century. The confluence of all these seemingly dissonant elements should be chaotic, but Brainard's work offers a strange sort of pictorial serenity not normally associated with oil derricks or an acrid green sky. In scenes rather more remembered than as if actually viewed, the paintings remind us of our queer ability to ignore, acquiesce to, be stimulated by, or even find beauty in situations so clearly lacking a cogent master plan. What, then, to make of this apparent contradiction? Perhaps it's only natural. Dates: December 20 thru January 2009 Artist Reception: Curated by Liza Simone Artist contact toddbrainard.com Location 344 E 3rd St Long Beach, CA 90802 STATION Kaleidoscopic Kaleidoscopic is an installation combining seemingly disparate media. Walls are covered with hand-made wallpapers as well as discrete art objects (paintings and drawings). A mural covers the rear wall, camouflaging the architectural features. All of the elements draw heavily from patterns. The motifs range from optical designs reminiscent of psychedelia to simple checkerboard grids, ubiquitous in everyday existence. These patterns, often layered one atop the other, unify the installation with each element melting into the next. While themes of interest include reproduction, decoration, and authorship, Kaleidoscopic is, above all, about perception and the act of looking. Utilizing optical patterns, intense colors, and a "more is more" philosophy, the installation transforms the gallery space into an environment that inundates the viewer with phenomenological imagery, perhaps to the point of disorientation. Ideally, the effect is one that compels the eye as much as it overwhelms it. Along with this abundance of visual information comes a heightened awareness of one's own perception and the environment around them. STATION is an art collective based in Los Angeles, California. Dates Januray 10 - February 2009 Reception: January 24 , 2009 6-9 pm Artist Contact Station@yahoo.com www.myspace.com/stationla Location 340 E 3rd St Long Beach, CA 9080 Edgar Varela Fine Arts is currently curating 390 3rd Street More info TBA. EdgarVarelaFineArts.com Downtown LA Kim Abeles curated by Edgar Varela Fine Arts in Downtown LA for the February Art Walk Katalyst curating PE Lofts. Tim Nolan at the Title Guarantee Building Extended. Several spaces are still TBA but will be ready for the opening night. ---- SOLOEXHIBITION 1+1=3 lokasi: Katalis Art Forum (gedung ex-patung, komplek Jogja National Museum) durasi: 31 Januari - 4 Februari 2009 Pembukaan 31 Januari 2009, 19.30 WIB partisipan: Asia Andrzejka Amorin, Anditapurna, Arieza Tri Purnawinasih, Arista Nurlinawati, Budi Asih, Dwi Kartika Rahayu, Fanti Sulistianingsih, Ferial Afiff, Fithrie Shakira Sanz, Hikmah Setia, Mikro Baselgia, Nissak Latifah, Renie 'emonk' Agustine, Pitra Ayu, Puji Rahayu, Ria Riftanti, Rina Kusumastuti dan Suciati Amanah. ____________________________________________________________________________ SOLOEXHIBITION 1+1=3 Pameran yang dinamakan 'soloexhibition' ini tidak memiliki pengertian seperti umumnya yakni pameran tunggal, tetapi pengertiannya adalah kolaborasi sejumlah perupa yang menjadi satu kesatuan; ketunggalan. Asia Andrzejka Amorin dan Mikro Baselgia asal Swiss, menginisiasi pameran ini bersama enam belas seniman perempuan Jogjakarta. Seniman-seniman yang diajak haruslah perempuan, karena baik Andrzejka dan Mikro merasa bahwa sebagian besar pameran-pameran yang mereka datangi dipenuhi oleh kaum laki-laki. Hingga munculah pertanyaan, dimanakah para seniman perempuan berada? Pertanyaan ini akhirnya dijawab dengan mengajak para seniman perempuan untuk berkolaborasi, menyajikan karya bersama. Melalui Nissak Latifah dan Dwi Kartika Rahayu didapatlah enam belas seniman perempuan lainnya, yakni: Anditapurna, Arieza Tri Purnawinasih, Arista Nurlinawati, Budi Asih, Fanti Sulistianingsih, Ferial Afiff, Fithrie Shakira Sanz, Hikmah Setia, Renie 'emonk' Agustine, Pitra Ayu, Puji Rahayu, Ria Riftanti, Rina Kusumastuti dan Suciati Amanah. Mereka kemudian dinamakan Schöb; yang berarti indah, bagus dan cantik. Eksekusi karya tidak dibatasi konteks tertentu, bebas untuk menampilkan karya dalam bentuk apapun, serta tema apapun. Prosesnya dengan beberapa pertemuan, masing-masing saling berbagi mengenai karya yang akan mereka tampilkan. Hasilnya, karya lukis, drawing, instalasi, objek, video dan performans tersaji dengan selera yang tidak biasa, alias 1+1=3. Kemudian, setelah melihat beberapa bentuk ruang, maka terpilihlah gedung ex-patung komplek Jogja National Museum, dimana kini berada dibawah naungan Katalis Art Forum. Bagaimanakah hasilnya? Silahkan menikmati karya-karya mereka pada tanggal 31 Januari – 4 Februari 2009! ---- Info from Japan: Seiji Shimoda presents; Performance Art Today, NIPAF Today vol.6Jan. 21 (Wed) 22 (Thu) at 7pm- 9:30pmKid Ailack Art Hall (2-43-11, Matsubara, Stagaya-ku, Tokyo. Keio Line, Inokashira Line MEIDAI-MAE stn. 1min. 03-3322-5564)Video Showing (50 min) + Live Performance Art (80 min)Jan. 21 (Wed) Osamu Kuroda, Koji Oike, Midori Kadokura, Izumi Kubota, Kana Fukushima, Gunshi Umemura, James JackJan. 22 (Thu) Seiji Shimoda, Shohei Nomoto, Izumi Sekiya, Seiko Kitayama, Yuki Sano, Lucie MercadalMore info: 090-1652-9127NIPAF 09 Pre-Event in Kohnosu Jan. 30 (Fri) CLEA Kohnosu PM7-9NIPAF 09 Pre-Event in Yokohama Jan 31(Sat) ZAIM PM7-9-----[The 16th Nippon International Performance Art Festival ; NIPAF'09, Tokyo-Yokohama-Kohnosu-Nagano]Feb. 23(Mon), 24(Tue), 25(Wed): Tokyo, Takadanobaba, PROTO THEATER, 03-3368-0490Feb. 27(Fri), 28(Sat), Mar. 1(Sun): Kanagawa, Yokohama, ZAIM 2F hall, 045-222-7030Mar. 3(Tue), 4(Wed), 5(Thu): Saitama, Kohnosu, CLEA Kohnosu S-Hall, 048-540-0540Mar. 6(Fri), 7(Sat), 8(Sun) noon: Nagano Spring Seminar, Iizuna hights, Kashiyo SansoMar. 8(Sun), 9(Mon): Nagano, Gondo, NEON HALL, O26-237-2719*Door open 6:30 PM, Start 7:00 PM [Feb. 28(Sat). Mar. 1(Sun) Door Open 4:30 PM, Start 5:00 PM] More Info; Call 090-1652-9127, E-mail:nipaf@avis.ne.jp[Relative event] ------- Info from FADO: FADO at the Needle Exchange Cabaret (Toronto) FREE TICKETSDate: Tuesday January 20, 8PMFADO is offering 10 free tickets to see the new 2boys.tv (Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard) production entitled Zona Pellucida on Tuesday January 20, 8PM (no late comers). Then stay for the Needle Exchange Cabaret, curated and hosted by Mavor Moore Award nominee Keith Cole. Performances from Tanya Mars, Gale Allen and Shannon Cochrane.To obtain a free ticket, email to http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=info@performanceart.ca before Monday January 19.For more information on Zona Pellucida and the Needle Exchange, see below (#4)++++FADO sponsors Takahiko Iimura performance at the 8fest (Toronto)Date: January 31, 4PMSponsored by FADO Performance Art Centre Artist Talk + White Calligraphy performance by Takahiko IimuraSaturday January 31, 4PMTrash Palace89-B Niagara Street, Torontoinfo: http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=the8fest@gmail.comTakahiko Iimura has been a pioneer artist of Japanese experimental film and video, working in film since 1960 and with video since 1970. He has been a link between the North American and Japanese experimental media communities for over forty years, spending time and making work in both New York and Tokyo.Iimura will discuss his use of small-gauge film and his body of work as a whole after performing White Calligraphy. This piece reworks a film initially made in 1967 by writing/scratching the characters of the "Kojiki", the oldest story in Japan, directly onto 16mm black leader (now reduced to Super 8). The language flows by at one character per frame. Iimura handholds the Super 8 projector, varying the the speed and angle at will. The result anthro¬pomorphizes the iconographic characters of the story, animating language into a visual dance. White Calligraphy Takahiko Iimura live Super 8 performance Tokyo 1967/2009 ++++FADO Performance Art Centre presents: The 3nd Annual Valentine-Oh-Grams!!Date: February 13-14, 2009Location: available in Toronto onlySome lovers give chocolates and some splurge on roses. This Valentine's Day give the gift that will charm your sweetie for the entire year – performance art!Say “I love you" with a FADO Performance Valentine-Oh-Gram! Choose from one of our 2009 collection of sweet and unique live performance-oh-grams created and performed by local performance art luminaries. Descriptions of your 2009 Valentine-Oh-Gram choices at www.performanceart.caDon’t let your sweetie be left out in the cold! Order your Valentine-Oh-Gram from Fado Performance today!Each and every live performance Valentine-Oh-Gram comes with an appearance by the Giant Heart Mascot and the option to include a personalized message. Or be anonymous! All of our Valentine-Oh-Grams are kid friendly, family friendly and friend friendly and are delivered right to your front door, office or place of leisure by our team of professional performance artists Prices: Various from $60-$125Here’s how it works:Call or email us and we will work with you to choose the perfect Valentine-Oh-Gram. All we need to start the process is the name, location (Toronto, GTA only) and preferred time to find the recipient of the Oh-Gram from 8am-6pm on February 13 and between 10-8pm on February 14. Times are flexible and we will do our best to suit your needs. Payment is due (cash, cheque) before February 13, 2009.To order or for more information: (E) http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=fadohearts@gmail.com (T) 416-822-3219 http://www.performanceart.ca/ ++++Zona Pellucida by 2boys.tvDates: January 9-24, 2009; Source: Buddies in Bad TimesBuddies in Bad Times Theatre presentsZONA PELLUCIDA & THE NEEDLE EXCHANGEAn evening in two partsJanuary 9-24, 2009ZONA PELLUCIDA8PM, THE CHAMBERCreated by 2boys.tv Stephen Lawson and Aaron PollardZona Pellucida is the delightfully demented brainchild of Montreal's 2boys.tv, who wowed audiences of Arthouse Cabaret with their outrageous drag and video performances. Zona combines the disparate elements of Vincenzo Bellini, Tennessee Williams, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and a wild take on blue screen puppet theatre to create a show that incorporates their unique blend of music hall, high drag and stunning video design.THE NEEDLE EXCHANGE9PM, THE CABARETCurated and hosted by Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee Keith ColeDifferent line-up every nightThe Needle Exchange is a controversial social policy, based on the philosophy of harm reduction but it is also a 30 minute variety show curated and hosted by Dora Award nominee Keith Cole, whose practice is based on the ancient philosophy of the flamboyant and irreverent. The Needle Exchange features a teasingly healthy dose of music, comedy, magic, politics, art and titillating pointed conversation. The Needle Exchange is where Speed rules and Time is the ultimate enemy. Keith Cole is back with something new and different every single night featuring a line up of stellar Canadian glitterati presented in a sterile, clinical & clean environment for your comfort, but you will be allowed to misbehave (because we know you want to). The Needle Exchange, the start of something new for 2009!Buddies in Bad Times Theatre12 Alexander Street, Toronto, Canadawww.artsexy.caBOX OFFICE 416-975-8555 ++++Articule presents Mothering by Moynan KingDates: January 13-16, 2009; Source: ArticuleA four day pyjama party with board games, ovaltine and bed time stories.Mothering is a live art experience developed with support from Studio 303. This is also an evocative visual art installation/interactive performance where the audience engages fully with the work and becomes a part of the installation itself. This work examines the performative nature of human relationships and the power of play within relational performance. Complete with costumes, lines and gestures, it mimics a familiar 'and familial' setting while reinventing an established "normal" relationship, exploring and confounding the line between audience and performer. Mothering makes the audience, and thereby the community in which it is presented, significant in the process and within the art itself. It asks the audience to go on a trip with Moynan King, to tell the story with her, to be completely present in the creation and consumption of art.Moynan King is a Toronto based performer, director, writer and curator. Moynan's interactive performance installations include The Beauty Salon, Walk In Clinic (created in collaboration with pop art duo Trixie & Beever,), and The Invitation, and The Unsuspecting Audience (collaborations with visual artist, Sherri Hay). Moynan's new performance installation, Mothering, is the focus of a residency at Studio 303. Moynan's solo and collaborative stage performances have been shown across Canada and the US. She is an accomplished theatre director and the author of several plays. Also an actor, Moynan has over fifty professional film, theatre and TV credits. Moynan is the director of Hysteria: A Festival of Women was director and co-director of the Rhubarb!Festival of New Plays for a total of 7 years. She is currently Associate Artist at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto.articule 262, Fairmount ouestMontréal (Québec) H2V 2G3T: 514-842-9686 http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=info@articule.org http://www.articule.org/Heures d'ouverture: mer - ven 12h -18h, sam/dim 12h -17hOpening hours: wed - fri 12 - 6 pm, sat/sun 12 - 5 pm ++++The Third Space presents Sandra JohnstonDate: January 14-February 6, 2009; Source: Sandra JohnstonSandra JohnstonBreathing BackwardsPrivate ViewTuesday 13th January 6-8pmthe third space 14.01.09-06.02.09the third space is pleased to present an exhibition of new drawings by Sandra Johnston. These drawings are created in a variety of different ways: beginning with road drawings made directly while walking through a familiar landscape, notational and rapid, they interlock the momentum of walking with the attempt to pin down what is observed and then obscured from moment to moment. Another series of drawings were developed at Multyfarnham Monastry during a short residency in the summer of 2008. At the centre of the Monastery building, lies an enclosed garden. Johnston used this contemplative space as a source of visual stimulus which was merged with experiments in breathing and meditation.Referring to the title of the show Johnston explains “Breathing Backwards comes from a sense of introversion which frequently invades me as I draw, when I experience evocative memories brought back sharply into the present. Breathing is a mechanism of measurement and control that I use in all aspects of my performance and drawing work, these drawings are a document of self learning, self will perhaps. Measuring out inhalation and exhalation, sometimes becomes so intense it feels suffocating”For information, contact:www.thethirdspacegallery.com The Third Spacesuite 11&12, scottish mutual building16 donegall square south, belfast bt1 5jaGallery Opening Hours: Monday-Friday 11am-5pm, Closed 1pm-2pm, Saturday by Appointment ++++Live Performance and Conference (and other events) Date: January 22-25, 2009; Source: Performancelogiare.act.feminism – performance art of the 60's and 70's todayDecember 13, 2008 through February 8, 2009Exhibition and Video Archive (including Performance Saga Interview 01–08)January 22-25, 2009Live-Performances and ConferenceIncluding among others a performance by Andrea Saemann, a Performance Saga live-interview with Sanja Ivekovic, and Chris Regn talking about performance, archive and copyright.Venue: Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 BerlinFor further information and detailed program, please visit: http://www.adk.de/reactfeminism/Performance Saga Festival-LausanneFebruary 12-14, 2009Curated by Katrin Grögel and Andrea Saemann, Basel in collaboration with Arsenic Lausanne/Sandrine Kuster; Open Dialogues/Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois ClaphamPerformances by Katia Bassanini (CH/US), Stuart Brisley (UK), Tania Bruguera (CU/US), Robin Deacon (UK), Esther Ferrer (FR), Anna Geering & Jo Dunkel (CH), Monika Günther & Ruedi Schill (CH), MIRZLEKID (CH), Simone Rüssli (CH/ES), Andrea Saemann (CH)Venue and tickets:Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique contemporainRue de Genève 57, Lausannehttp://www.theatre-arsenic.ch/site_arsenic/fiches/fiches08_09/performance.htmPerformance SagaAndrea Saemann and Katrin Grögelwww.performancesaga.chmailto:Grögelwww.performancesaga.chcontact@performancesaga.ch ++++Dare-Dare Off-Biennial ProjectDate: Deadline January 30, 2009; Source: dare-dareCall for projects for the DARE-DARE Off-Biennial ProjectSubmission deadline: January 30, 2009Off-Biennial date: May 22-31, 2009To compliment the upcoming Montreal Biennial with its theme of “Open Source” DARE-DARE has chosen to organize the Off-Biennial Project event. This event will celebrate diverse artistic practices in non-traditional venues through a series of small projects installed or performed throughout a ten-day program.The mandate of DARE-DARE, Dis/location, a project of urban articulation, is to promote artistic interventions within the urban environment. In July 2008, DARE-DARE launched the third Dis/location site by moving its administrative office into two mobile trailers within Cabot Square (corner Atwater and Ste-Catherine Streets). This busy public park is located in the west-end of downtown Montreal. (For more details on the park the environs and the center check out the DARE-DARE website at www.dare-dare.orgOff-Biennial Project is looking for projects that integrate the surroundings of the Cabot Square, which include non-traditional venues in the neighbouring locations of the Montreal Children's Hospital, AMC Forum, Alexis Nihon Plaza, Atwater Library, Evangel Pentecostal Church, the Inuit Center, YMCA, Dawson College, Westmount Square and/or the DARE-DARE Documentation Centre. The park is also utilized by diverse populations including staff and visitors to the above venues along with the local homeless population that claims the park as their own. These locations, organizations and people could be considered as themes or suggested points of departure for your project. Projects should be simplified, spontaneous, small: thoughts and ides with an eye to public and commercial spaces and a hunger for locations with potential yet to be tasted. These interests will translate into proposals of all kinds including, but not limited to and even combinations of, relative, time based, public interventions, interactive workshops, performance, manœuvre, web, video, installation, sound, photography, painting, sculpture, poetry, text-based, music, etc. The projects may be of specific or of variable duration or be repeated throughout the program (ten minutes or ten days). Note the program committee will make every effort to liaison with specific venue locations to realize your project.Your proposal should include the following:-a brief statement describing your project intention (max 250 words)-CV-documentation of your work:-maximum 10 numbered images (max 5 Mg)-audio/video (VHS/DVD, NTSC, ou Quicktime) (max 5 min.) -descriptive list of imagesPlease address your proposal to "Off-Biennial project" and, if desired, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for the return of your documentation (DARE-DARE does not keep unclaimed dossiers). The center does not accept submissions by email. The center pays CARFAC rates. MandateDARE-DARE Centre de diffusion d'art multidisciplinaire de Montréal offers flexibility and openness and is devoted to research, experimentation, risk and critical inquiry. The artist-run centre supports emerging practices and demonstrates a sustained interest in exploring diversity in modes and contexts of presentation.DARE-DAREOff-Biennial ProjectCentre de diffusion d'art multidisciplinaire de MontréalCasier postal 20 Succursale HMontreal, QC, H3G 2K5t: +1.514.878.1088http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=art@dare-dare.orgwww.dare-dare.org ++++Second International Festival on Performance ArtDate: Deadline February 5, 2009; Source: OPA 0.2OPA 0.2 International Festival on Performance ArtMay 15-30, 2009 (Athens, Greece)OPEN CALL for live performances and papersRE-THINK/RE-USE/RE-MAKE: Proposals and Propositions on Performance ArtABOUT:OPA 0.2 is a fifteen-day festival featuring an intense program of live performances, films, screenings, lectures, talks and open discussions.RE-THINK/ RE-USE/RE-MAKE invites artists to submit proposals for performances based upon pre-existing art works or performances. These can be re-enactments, recreations, comments or even projects inspired/influenced by work made by others.Key site of investigation in this year's festival is the critical approach developed by the French curator and art critique Nicolas Bourriaud in his book 'Post-production'. 'Since the early nineties, an even increasing number of artworks have been created on the basis of preexisting works; more and more artists interpret,reproduce, re-exhibit, or use works made by others or available cultural products. The material they manipulate is no longer primary. It is no longer a matter of elaborating a form on the basis of a raw material but working with objects that are already in circulation on the cultural market, which is to say, objects already informed by other objects. Notions of originality and even of creation are slowly blurred in this new cultural landscape'. (Bourriaud, 2005:7).CALL FOR PERFORMANCES:Artists are invited to create a performance based upon pre-existing art works or performances.In order to participate in OPA 0.2 Performance Festival, you have to submit an application containing the following:1. Short description (no longer than 700 words) of the proposed performance, including the duration of the performance, materials, equipment and space required for the project.2. Short CV and contact details.3. Video material with the documentation of previous performances4. Photographs documenting previous performances are welcomed.Selected performances will be incorporated in the Festival's Live Performances.Selected video submissions will be screened during the Festival.Artists invited to the Festival will have their expenses partially covered.Proposals should be submitted via email http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=opa@bios.grOr via post to: BIOS, 84 Piraeus Str, Athens 104 35, GreeceCALL FOR PAPERS:For the 2009 Festival, Bios invites researchers, scholars and artists to submit short papers around the topic of RE-THINK/RE-USE/RE-MAKE.Applicants should submit:1. An abstract of approximately 300 words including title.2. A short CV including contact informationSubmissions should be in Microsoft Word and should be submitted via e-mail to http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=opa@bios.grSelected papers will be included in this year's publication.Closing date for submissions: February 5, 2009 ++++Anti Contemporary Art FestivalDate: Deadline February 6, 2009; Source: Anti FestivalANTI Festival announces the call out!For the 2009 edition of ANTI, artists are invited to submit proposals for projects that use walking as a central activity or theme.The closing date for proposals is February 6th 2009.All proposals must be sent using the electronic form located on the festival’s web site.ANTI - Contemporary Art FestivalKoljonniemenkatu 2, 2.krs70100 Kuopio, Finlandgsm +358 50 3052005http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=info@antifestival.comwww.antifestival.com ++++WORKSHOP: Performance Factory with Anita PontonDates: February 16-27, 2009; Source: Studio 303Performance FactoryAnita Ponton (UK)February 16 -27 (2 weeks)Mon-Fri, 9:30am to 12:30pm$150 (Emploi-Québec)Taking Warhol's Factory as inspiration, this workshop offers participants the opportunity to experiment with free form approaches to recorded and live performance, both collaboratively and individually. Using video, projection and physical interaction we will explore the nature of self-performance and investigate the processes and environment of performance. Performance experience is not necessary but a thirst for experimentation and a willingness to collaborate will be useful. We will film the entire workshop, presenting the results as part of the Nuit Blanche on February 28th. www.anitaponton.comStudio 303, danse et arts indisciplinés372 Ste-Catherine OuestMontréal Qc H3B 1A2Tél. 514.393.3771www.studio303.ca ++++Performance Mix Festival (New York)Date: February 24-March 7, 2009; Source: Karen BernardPerformance Mix Festival, February 24-March 7New Dance Alliance announces the 23rd annual Performance Mix Festival presenting over 35 experimental dance, music, video and interdisciplinary artists from New York City, across the United States, Canada and abroad. Up and coming artists including Emily Wexler and Aya Ogawa will be paired with veteran artists Yvonne Meier, and Barbara Mahler making a return visit to Performance Mix. International companies include Sigrid Keunen from Belgium and Bernardo Coloma from Germany. We welcome back Quebec company Deborah Dunn Trial & Eros from Montreal known for its sophisticated visuals, social commentary, historical inquiry and humor. Events include: Main Stage at Joyce SoHo, Breakfast Mix, Mobile Clubbing and Tedi Tafel' Life World at Nili Lotan Design Studio. For more information on the festival go to http://www.newdancealliance.org/ ++++Performing Arts Training TodayDate: April 21-24, 2009; Source: Paul CouillardAt the moment the Conference is accepting presentation proposals for 2009International Conference"Performing Arts Training Today"April 21-24, 2009Bovec, SloveniaThe conference is open to performers from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts education and training. This is a wonderful opportunity for performers, performing arts educators and teachers to demonstrate their methods and techniques.PRESENTATION FORMATS:workshop/master classwork in progressperformance fragment (not requiring special technical conditions)reading/lectureany other way of demonstration to the presenter's discretionACCOMODATION & VENUE (Bovec mountain resort):Nearest airports: Ljubljana (Slovenia), Trieste (Italy) or Klagenfurt (Austria).http://www.iugte.com/projects/Bovec.venue.phpSUBMISSION GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION:http://www.iugte.com/projects/conf.reg.phpCONFERENCE INFO: http://www.iugte.com/projects/PerformingArts.phpYou are also welcome to take part in the Conference as a Participant!++++16th Congress of Performance ArtDate: May 28-30, 2009; Source: Gallery SoToDoGallery SoToDo invites participation in the 16th Congress of Performance Art28 - 30. May 2009Davis, California Gallery SoToDo together with Horse Cow Gallery, SMAC, California Stage, John Natsoulis Gallery in Davis/Sacramento are planning a three day international congress for Performance Art in Sacramento between Thursday the 28th and Saturday the 30th of May 2009.Theme: talk to meArrival Point on 27. May 2008, WednesdayHorse Cow Gallery 111 North Harbor Blvd.,West Sacramento, CA. 95691Datesarrival: Wednesday May 27, 2009departure: Sunday May 31, 2009Times of Congress from 28 to 30 of May 2009 (three days)10.00h - 12:00: Breakfast for the artistsThe afternoon is free to prepare for your performance or to do a outside performance in the city of Sacramento or Davis16:30h - 18:00: Salon Café and Panel Discussion18:00h - 19:00: Dinner for the artists19:00h - 24:00: Exhibition of Performance ArtParticipantsThis invitation goes out all the artists who have participated in a Gallery SoToDo event over the past twenty years. A new participant to the congress is possible only through a recommendation from an artist who have already participated in a SoToDo congress.What we offerWe would like to emphasis that the congress is a meeting place and a forum for exchange in the true sense of the word. Our main goal is to create a space where artists and public can come together and exchange ideas and network in a non-commercial environment.Artist participates will receive:-Artists traveling to Sacramento are guaranteed lodging for four nights (May 27-30)-Breakfast and a warm meal for the three days of the congress-A printed catalogue and / or CD-ROM.Apropos money: Because of our limited budget, we are not in the position to cover the cost of travel or pay an honorary fee to the artists. However, it will be our responsibility to make your stay in Sacramento as comfortable as possible. Your lodging, breakfast and a warm meal, plus a printed catalogue and / or a CD-ROM are our traditional ways of saying thank you.What must be done: The applicationIf you would like to participate, please make your wish known. There is no form to fill out. Those who respond first will be the first served. Only 18 Performance Artists (performance art groups) will be able to participate. Please write me to confirm your participation or also if you wish to recommend an artist. Please include the following information for the catalogue, (jpg.format) and send it to http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=homosunshine@gmx.de- A personal photo- A short resume and/or statement about your work related to the theme: Talk to me.-A layout of one side of a 8.5 x 11(american) or A4 (european) piece of paper that will look good reproduced in black and white. This layout can take any form (text, art work, photos) and will be used without alteration so long as long as it meets the size requirements.Panel DiscussionsThe afternoon is set aside for informal discussions moderated by the participating artists about performance art. It is your responsibility to participate and choose the topics or issues you would like to discuss. Art ShopWe have included an Art shop within the congress to give participating artists the opportunity to sell multiples, their catalogs, CD or DVD, works on paper or other artifacts for under 100 dollars. Docu-Kino You will be able to show documentation of your work or of others at a small cinema at the congress. Please bring your videos in DVD or VHS format. A space will be set aside to present your work.Info DeskAn Info-Desk is where you can display documentation in the form of catalogs, text or photos about yourself to the public.For more information, see the website: www.sotodo.orgSee you in Sacramento in May 2009Herzliche GrussTheodor di RiccoGallery SoToDoSanderstr. 14 homosunshine@gmx.dewww.sotodo.org ++++Artist-in-Residence Program 2009Date: unspecified; Source: ComPeungArtist-in-Residence Program 2009 at ComPeung Village of CreativityChiang Mai, ThailandComPeung is the first independent artist-in-residence program in Thailand. Founded in 2005 by art professionals who strongly believe places that defy the mainstream art's obsession with commerce rather than content are needed. Alternative places that experiment with and questioning the role of art, artists' positions, and the interdependence of art and society. ComPeung aspires to be one of these places, open to all who share the seriousness and the compassion for creativity.ComPeung, a nonprofit organization, invites interested artists and content providers to submit their proposals for a residency at ComPeung. We also welcome collaborative ideas, suggestions and proposals for future collaborations as well as constructive feedback and comments. To keep in touch of what is happening at ComPeung, please check out our regularly updated website.More information, please visit www.compeung.orgWe are looking forward to sharing creative world with you!Your ComPeung team ++++nikamon ohci askiy by Cheryl L’HirondelleSource: Cheryl L’HirondelleCheryl L'Hirondelle's newest interdisciplinary project (performance, music, net.art) entitled nikamon ohci askiy (songs because of the land) is now online:http://www.vancouversonglines.ca/Commissioned and curated by Glenn Alteen at Grunt Gallery, this web part of the project is a generative interactive net.art site and a conceptual audio map documenting my performative activities around Vancouver that began in late November and goes until the end of December 2008.(hint: after choosing 3 values, they should turn into tipi poles, which fall to the earth and need to be erected. Once up, the notches in the tipi poles are lyrical melodies and the embers from the firewood the user can put into the fire are ambient sounds from the city). Users can also sign up and contribute ambient city sounds. Please see the 'about' page for other sites associated with the project for video, photos, urls and other related text. ++++ Info from FADO: ++++ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Inter-auto-prese-turbance-docu-formativity Date: unspecified; Source: Leena Kela Call for papers, presentations and performances relating to Inter-auto-prese-turbance-docu- formativity MA-projects in Live Art, performance art and performance studies. Festival and Symposium: Arranged by the MA degree programme in Performance Art and Theory at the Marko Alastalo, Touko Heikkinen, Kristina Junttila, Leena Kela, Karolina Kucia, and Johanna MacDonald are MA-students in performance art and theory (performance studies and Live Art) approaching the end of their two year studies. They will present their MA-project (in various stages of completion) and challenge you to share your own artistic practice and/or academic papers with them. We have been exploring and questioning issues of performance art, performativity, corporeality, and events, and would like to invite you to share your ideas and contributions with us on those or related themes. We are also interested in forming professional networks and discussing possibilities of sustaining a Live Art practice in the globalised world today. We invite a) proposals for performances for the festival b) proposals for papers or presentations for the symposium (an abstract of max 300 words) c) expressions of interest to participate in laboratory workshops related to: -interactivity, autonomy, and automatism; -presence and disturbance; -documentation and performativity All proposals should include a short description of your (previous or forthcoming) MA-project, your university or institution, your contact details as well as technical requirements for your performance. Spaces available include three black box studios, an auditorium and two seminar rooms, as well as public spaces in the city. We can provide basic accommodation and lunch in the student cafeteria. The travel costs you have to take care of yourself. Proposals should be sent no later than 1.2.2009 to Annette Arlander (http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=annette.arlander@teak.fi) and Anna Nybondas (http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=anna.nybondas@teak.fi) NB: please send to both addresses. For more information and inquiries, contact Johanna MacDonald (http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=johanna.macdonald@teak.fi) or Karolina Kucia (http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=karolina.kucia@teak.fi) Come and experience ++++ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Edgy Women ( Date: Deadline Studio 303 is seeking short works for the 2009 edition of EDGY WOMEN. Although this is an open call, we are specifically interested in the following themes/categories: 1) Accordion - work featuring the accordion as an instrument, a prop, etc. Storytellers, burlesquers, filmmakers as well as musicians are invited to submit works for a shared programme (far from a straight-up concert). 2) Radical Circus - content-driven work by circus artists or inspired by circus conventions, which can be presented with little tech support. 3) The Edgy Challenge - 8 artists are given a prop, a sound effect, a theme, and will be challenged to create a 5-minute piece in 3 weeks for a public performance March 15th at the Sala Rossa. Participatory projects, films, installation or relational work are also of interest. Deadline: Format: 1 page max, by email only: http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=edgy@studio303.ca Please tell us who you are and help us visualize the project(s) you are proposing. You are welcome to include website and video links. You will be contacted by January 15, if your submission is retained. About Edgy: Edgy Women explores the complexity of contemporary feminism, through fun, experimental, and community-building artistic events. The 2009 edition of will involve live performances, workshops and a career day. Festival dates: March 15th at Sala Rossa (Edgy Challenge) March 19-22, 2009 at Tangente (mixed programmes) http://www.edgywomen.ca/ Studio 303 Danse et arts indisciplinés (Dance & Related Arts) 372 Ste-Catherine Ouest Montréal Qc H3B 1A2 Tel: (514) 393-3771 http://www.studio303.ca/ ++++ CALL FOR PAPERS: Performance Research DATE: January 9, 2009; Source: CPR Performance Research Volume 14, No. 3 (September 2009) On Dramaturgy Issue Editors: Karoline Gritzner, Patrick Primavesi and Heike Roms CALL FOR PAPERS Within a rapidly changing landscape of contemporary theatre and performance, the roles, functions and working conditions for dramaturgs are being redefined. The institutions of opera, dance and theatre keep certain cultural traditions alive by offering a platform for new interpretations. Yet the audiences are changing, in particular their knowledge of such traditions and their habits of perception. In established as well as in experimental theatre, dramaturgy needs to develop strategies to implement aesthetically and culturally ambitious projects despite difficult conditions of production and reception. What are dramaturgs doing within an environment that is no longer bound exclusively to a dramatic text and its author; within a working situation that becomes more and more collective; and within a creative process that may include performance, dance, and media art as well as a critical reflection on the politics of space and representation? What institutional pressures and pedagogical expectations are involved in the theory and practice of dramaturgy today? Following the international conference "European Dramaturgy in the 21st Century", held in Frankfurt/Main in September 2007, this issue of Performance Research interrogates contemporary dramaturgy as an expanding field of practices and skills, problems and strategies. It seeks to explore the pedagogical and institutional aspects of European dramaturgy and asks how and where the changes in dramaturgical practice actually take place. The Issue Editors invite contributions that address any or all of the following areas: -current developments and changes in European theatre and its consequences for dramaturgical work -practices of dramaturgy in fine arts, film, music, dance, performance and media art, and interventionist work of all kinds -dramaturgical work as a collective practice -approaches to teaching dramaturgy in academic institutions and art schools -national and international networks for dramaturgs -dramaturgy responding to and challenging the needs of established institutions -the practice of dramaturgy in relation to a politics of representation -the relationship between dramaturgical practice and the audience: dramaturgies of/for the spectator 'On Dramaturgy’ invites artists, practitioners and theorists to submit critical articles, documents, or artist's pages that reflect on the challenges that contemporary forms of theatre and performance impose on dramaturgical practice. Deadlines for the issue 14:3 are as follows: Proposals: Draft manuscripts: Finalized material: Publication Date: September 2009 Please note that the transfer of the Administration of the Journal from Dartington to Aberystwyth is effective from July 2007. Hence, ALL proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct to: Sandra Laureri Administrative Assistant - Performance Research Centre for Performance Research (CPR) Aberystwyth, Wales, UK SY23 3AJ Tel: +44 (0)1970 628716 Fax: +44 (0)1970 622132 http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=performance-research@aber.ac.uk www.performance-research.net Editorial enquires should be directed to: Karoline Gritzner (http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kgg@aber.ac.uk), Patrick Primavesi (http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=primavesi@tfm.uni-frankfurt.de), or Heike Roms (http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hhp@aber.ac.uk). General Guidelines for Submissions http://www.performance-research.net/pages/guidelines.html Performance Research is MAC based. Proposals will be accepted in hard copy, on CD or by e-mail (MS- Word or RTF). Please DO NOT send images electronically without prior agreement. Please note that submission of a proposal will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) agree that the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to Performance Research. ++++ CALL FOR PAPERS: Performance Research (December 2009) DATE: CALL FOR PAPERS Performance Research Volume 14, No. 4 (December 2009) Transplantations Issue Editors: Ric Allsopp & Phillip Warnell "In body, one hears at the same time border and order: the order of a real, physical exteriority, only equalled by material impenetrability. A body is penetrable only from the perspective of one kind of reasoning, either that of assimilation or its opposite, destruction." Jean-Luc Nancy Notions and practices that correlate with ideas on the transplanted form encompass a range of perceptions, activities and interventions traversing the formation of bodies, their somatic dimensions and constitution. They conceive of the body as a corporeal, spatial, cultural and social being, along with thoughts on bodies as being space producers, sphere inhabitants or bio-technological interfaces. Using the term 'transplantation' itself, along with other trans related points of departure and modes of exploration-transposition, translation - this issue of Performance Research invites contributions that highlight connections and insights into the guises and zones of transplantation, providing links and ideas on the stretching, rendering and formation of the decentred, displaced, denatured or amalgamated body: whether partial, singular or plural in form. The issue Editors are seeking contributions that are situated within the thematics of each or all of three interrelated areas: Guest/host relationships; The possessed body-disguise and ventriloquism in performance; Intimate distances or the distance of intimacy; Implanted objects and technologically augmented functionality; Ingestion and extraordinary forms of eating; Psychic and physical fragmentation-the séance as a place of travel and channel: of departure, arrival, spectacle, transmission and reception between beings and worlds; Archival extraction and mobilization (including re-enactments); The psychology of phantom and detached limb behaviour (beheadedness?); The aesthetics (and representation) of embodiment and its affects [...] Historical, medical, symbolic and ritual use, storage and preservation of organic material and its associated material culture (Canopic jars, organ transporters); The symbolism and sacred role of body part removal: such as castration, removal of the tongue and eye; The camera as an external organ; Visible supplements-the consideration of auras, halos, charisma etc; Immaterial agencies and modes of contamination-radioactivity or viral forms [...] Spatial organisation and disputed territories (transplantation and bodily construction in horticulture and its forms, allotments, hybridisation); displacement and the ethics of place; Aloneness and placelessness; The in-between, lacunae and production of space; Post-colonial approaches to ideas and histories of plantation and the transplantation of cultures and peoples; Remote presence and shared forms of perception; Conceptual and geographic displacements of art works and institutions [...] 'Transplantations' invites artists, practitioners and theorists to submit proposals for critical articles (between 2,000 - 6,000 words), documents, interviews, artist's pages or other forms of contribution which position transplantation in relation to the contexts and discourses of contemporary culture, and to expanded and open concepts of performance, performance-making and artwork. Deadlines for the issue are as follows: Proposals: 26 January 2009 Draft manuscripts: 24 April 2009 Finalised material:22 June 2009 Publication Date: December 2009 ALL proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct to: Sandra Laureri Administrator - Performance Research Centre for Performance Research (CPR) The Foundry Aberystwyth, Wales, UK SY23 3AJ Tel: +44 (0)1970 628716 Fax: +44 (0)1970 622132 Email: http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=performance-research@aber.ac.uk Web: www.performance-research.net Editorial enquires should be directed to Ric Allsopp http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ricallsopp@mac.com Phillip Warnell http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@phillipwarnell.com General Guidelines for Submissions http://www.performance-research.net/pages/guidelines.html Performance Research is MAC based. Proposals will be accepted in hard copy, on CD or by e-mail (MS- Word or RTF). Please DO NOT send images electronically without prior agreement. Please note that submission of a proposal will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) agree that the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to Performance Research. ++++ OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Zero Desibel (Helsinki) DATE: February 5, 2009; Source: Sini Haapalinna -ZERO DESIBEL- SONIC AND LIVE ART EVENT IS ANNOUNCING AN OPEN CALL FOR SHORT VIDEO AND AUDIO WORKS WE ARE LOOKING FOR WORKS THAT RECONSTRUCT, COMMENT OR ARE A PASTICHE ON MINIMALISTIC CLASSICS. (the terms minimalistic & classics are open to interpretation) 0dB Sonic and Live Art Event for Silent Sound and Movement takes place on the 21st and 22nd of February 2009 in (Tutkivan teatterityön keskus ) Center for Theatre Research. The focus of the event is on minimalistic art works versus improvisation as a performance. The event encourages and focuses on exploring ideas and generating discussion aroud the theme. Submit your pastiche, comment, reconstruction, free flowing idea by February 5, 2009 to: 0 dB c/o Haapalinna Relanderinaukio 4 d 42, 00570 Helsinki, FINLAND Guidelines for entries: Maximum duration of the submitted work is 3 minutes Accepted formats are Minidv, Minidisc, CD and DVD THE WORKS ARE DISPLAYED IN MONITORS WITH HEADPHONES DURING THE EVENT! Please attach to the submission Your contact information Short (5 to 10 lines) information about you The name of your piece and a short description of the work Name of the artist and the title of the work you are referring to (and possible internet link if there is one) Programming by Sini Haapalinna and Outi Yli-Viikari FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT US AT: http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=nolladB@gmail.com http://.t7.uta.fi/ ++++ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: UNI_Q -Live Media Installation DATE: unspecified; Source: Sini Haapalinna Open Call for participation and realization of a Project of Social Choreography and Dreaming: UNI_Q - Live Media Installation This is a uni_q opportunity of being and making a difference in the world by sharing your dreamed realities. We are looking for dreams (in text and audio formats) for a performative multimedia installation, which will be shown January 30-February 8, 2009 at Zodiak, Center for new dance, Helsinki / SideStep Festival/ Project of Social Choreography, "U. N. I. (You and I)". You can contribute your dream as a text / recorded audio file, or we can make an appointment for recording in a studio or "on the field" (in sonic form either in the studio or as live speech as part of the displaying of the installation. One may participate as an anonymous contirubutor or with your "signature", but as the dreams are mixed in the real time with other dreams and sounds, they will flow in and out of each, layering with other kinds of soundsscapes, all together creating a dreamsonic realtime radio play. One may also share one´s dream in a live situation during the festival by using the DreamsOpenAir -microphone or leave dreams in a DreamsInBox for someone else to give voice to them. Send your dreams, questions, ideas and get connected: http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sini.haapalinna@gmail.com p. +358 - 400 - 785 031 The founder of the method called Social Dreaming, Gordon Lawrence, will be visiting the festival and will give workshops in Social Dreaming, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dreaming and about the whole festival: www.sidestep.fi www.zscore.fi Project of Social Choreography and Dreaming: UNI_Q -Live Media Installation is a hybrid process which understands art as an event, experience and site of sharing and connecting. It explores and plays with the in-betweens of different art forms, social realities and potentials and invites different kinds of communities and individuals into active participation, sharing and performing ones dreams and connecting with others´. UNI_Q is a constellation of senses, perceptions, experiences and imagination which invites people for recognizing new pathways, sharing worlds in and around us and generating ethics of inter-being. The goal is to open up for embracing atmosphere of a collective happening: experimental space for dynamical continuums, movement, meeting and connectedness in and between bodies, consciouness, meaning and potential. The starting points for the concept of the project: *Social Choroegraphy (Michael Klien & Steve Valk) *Social Dreaming (Gordon Lawrence ) *Relational Aesthetics (Nicolas Bourriaud) Working team of the UNI_Q Live Media Installation: Dreams and Voices & Dreams OpenAir -Public Microphone: uni_q -network (=all participants, YOU!) Concept, leading, production, sound design & dj: Sini Haapalinna Media design & programming: Markku Nousiainen Live overhead projections: Ulla-Maija Alanen Sound design, scapes, music & dj: Samuli Kytö Multimedia Installation Setup: -Interactive multilayered (real time with near real time) video projection (laptop, Isadora software, projector, video camera, infrared lights, etc) -Waterbed (fluid and body-temperatured projection surface, interface and emmersive environment for listening of the sonic play - sonic play outputs: wireless headphones & genelecs & live streaming for internet) -Dream Jockeys (DJs) mixing a real time sonic play (audio materials: public open call for dreams in text and audio formats mixed together with other sonic materials, example, ive wind harps, simple electronic devices, instruments, and real time speaks) - Dream Vision Jockey (VJ), live overhead projections, projected to the ceiling above / space around the waterbed (materials: liquids, colored plastics, colors, drawings, writings, etc). ++++ EVENT: Lilith Performance Studio present Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kazmierczak ( DATE: On December 6, Lilith Performance Studio presented a new performance work by Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kazmierczak. Please visit our website to see documentation, films, artist interviews and more: http://www.lilithperformancestudio.com/ Lilith Performance Studio is the first combined production studio and arena for performance in Since the start in January 2007 we have presented more than 30 artists from Fi! nland, The Netherlands, one festival. ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Ewa Rybska and Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, from artists in the world. They have since the seventies produced performance and made hundreds of pieces all over the world. For artists Eva Rybska and Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, performance is "an attitude towards the world and oneself, not towards art". They look upon performance as a struggle to express momentous and significant ideas, and in their work they do not avoid or hesitate being political. Their performances enlighten and irritate questions surrounding ideologies from Stalinism (To be or not to be a Cosmopolitan) to techno music (Ecstasy). The performance presentation is explosive, with a childlike curiosity and humour in direction of a personal definition of freedom. Wladyslaw Kazmierczak (b.1951) Lives in dept. 1971-1976). He started with performance art in 1974 became as a pioneer performer in Kazmierczak has made over 200 performances all over the world. He was also the Director of the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk/Poland (1991-2006). He has curated and organized the International Performance Art Festival ( 1993-2006. Ewa Rybska (born in 1958) Lives in 1993-2005. Rybska worked as curator at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk / 1989-2006. Rybska has made over 130 performances all over the world. ++++ gender/Troubling Date: November 25-30, 2008; Source: Pam Pattersongender/TROUBLINGCurated by Pam Patterson with Serena LeeDates: November 25-30, 2008Reception and screening: Sat November 29, 7-10PMPerformance and artists in conversation: Sunday November 30, 2PMCo-sponsored by Women in Action (CWSE/OISE/UT), XPACE Cultural Centre, and the AGO Youth Council (presenting ShiftChange) with Toronto video, film, and new media artists Loree Erickson, Spy Dénommé-Welch, Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Alexandra Hazisavvas and fibre artist, Frances Mahon, with a performance by Claudia Wittmann.Gender bend, gender blend-Oh! Have we got trouble! The fun, sexxy, hot, meets "voguing". What a "drag"! Get rid of those binaries! Engage with life-sized on the wall grls/gys and video & film by native-tranny-poly-queer-gimp-homo-gender-b(l)enders. Perform (or critique) a new persona at the gallery site, see a performance and a portable gender-abled potty, and workshop, in conversation, with the artists on site. Play with where you stand (or pass?)...anything is dizzyingly possible.XPACE Cultural Centre58 Ossington Ave, TorontoT.416.849.2864 Open Tuesday to Saturday 12-6 pmhttp://www.xpace.info++++ International Performance Art Festival (Bangkok, Thailand) Dates: October 31-November 30, 2008; Source: PERFORMANCELOGÍAIn 1998, when Asiatopia performance Art Festival started in a very small Wang Saranrom Palace Park, opposite Wat Poh, no one has ever thought of the festival will grow and run strong until today-a 10 year old international art festival in Thailand.This year, November 2008, the newly open Bangkok Art and Culture Center and the Concrete House are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival, with a month long marathon performances of over 100 world famous artists from around the globe. This grand event is also to celebrate the opening of the first contemporary art museum of Bangkok.1.Live Performances will take place every Friday evening to Sunday evening of all 5 weekends of November. There will be more than 100 artists from 31 countries take turn each weekend at the Bangkok art center. 2.Performance Exhibition; books, images, DVD shows and projection, about festivals around the world. Artists Materials used since 10 years ago at the collection of Asiatopia, texts, photos documents. 3.Symposium and lectures; One of Asiatopia's main aims is to create and foster artist linkages and cooperation in the region. SE Asia Performance Art Symposium is being held first time in 2005, focuses on events and movements in the region. This year the discussion out for 4 week-ends, to hear organizers of event held in this region or about the situation in their countries. Two artists lectures, Helge Meyer will discuss his thesis on Pain in performance, and Kosit Juntaratip will address his thesis on body as media. Also Rolf Hinterecker brings along his collection from Performance Conference held in Bangkok 1998.4.Community interaction; (Only open for 10-15 participants) A Bru people Community on Maekong river c in the northeastern region (7 hrs away from Bangkok to Laos border), and Bo Nok Village in Prachuap Kirikhan (300 km) in the south of Bangkok, are frontline fighters for their ecological rights over the land, water, air and all system in and around their area. The artists will spend time learning about the community and it's struggle, as well as perform in the villages. 5.Mini Asiatopia Chiangmai; on the week end of 14-16 November, Asiatopia in cooperation with Chinagmai University Art Center organize a 4 days exchange event between local artists and international artists, including workshops, lectures and live performances. Artists & Speakers ListAustralia:1. Juliet Lea2. Tony SchwensenAustria:3. Gertrude Moser-Wagner4. Sabine MarteCanada:5. Jolanta Lapiak6. Sylvie Cotton7. Randy Gledhill8. Berenicci Hershorn9. Richard Martel10. Eric Letourneau11. Myriam Laplante / ItalyChina:12. Zhou Bin13. Yingmei Duan14. Cai Qing15. Chen Jin16. Shu YangFinland:17. Roi VaaraFrance:18. Charles Dreyfuss19. Julien Blaine20. Fabien MontmartinGermany:21. Heike Gaessler22. Jurgen Fritz23. Rolf Hinterecker / Austria24. Boris Nieslony25. Helge Meyer26. Matthias JackishGreece:27. Demosthenes AgraiotisHong Kong:28. Koh Siu Lan29. Yuenjie MaruIndonesia:30. Yoyoyogasmana31. Melati Suryodarmo32. Arahmaiani33. Heru Hikayat34. Rachel SaraswatiIreland:35. Amanda CooganJapan:36. Hiromi Shirai37. Kaori Haba38. Teruyuki Tanaka39. Arai Shin-Ichi40. Fumiko Takahashi41. TAGAMI Machiko42. Sakiko Yamaoka43. Lushan Liu / China44. Tokio Maruyama45. Yoshiko Maruyama46. Makino AsamiMexico:47. Elvira Santamaria TorrensMalaysia:48. Ray Langenbach / USAMyanmar:49. Chaw Ei Thein50. Moe Satt & Sharon Chin51. Phyu Mon52. Mrat L.Htwann53. Aung KoNetherland:54. Jacques Van Poppel55. Peter BarenPhilippines:56. Mideo Cruz57. Raquel De Loyola58. Ronaldo Ruiz59. Danny Sillada60. Yuan Mor'O OcampoPoland:61. Waldemar Tatarczuk62. Bartek Lukasiewicz63. Artur Tajber64. Arti Grabowski65. Jan Swidzinski66. Dariusz FodczukSingapore:67. Juliana Yasin68. Angie Seah69. Kai Lam70. Agnes Yit71. Lee Wen72. Noor Effendy Ibrahim73. Zai Kunning74. Andree Weschler75. Jeremy HiahSpain:76. Esther Ferrer77. Malu Boix78. Bartolome Ferrando79. Valentin TorrensSwitzerland:80. Norbert Klassen81. Klara Schilinger82. Valerian Maly83. Barbara Sturm84. Liliane Zumkemi85. Lena Eriksson & Samuel HerzogTaiwan:86. Yeh Tsu-Chi87. Ahlien ZhThailand:88. Vichukorn Tangpaiboon89. Mongkol Plienbangchang90. Paisan Plienbangchang91. Padungsak Kotchasumrong92. Nopawan Sirivejkul93. Kosit Juntaratip94. Len Jittima95. Chakkrit Chimnok96. Chumpon Apisuk97. Vasan Sitthiket98. ML. Saksin Kasemsan99. Dr. Apinan PoshyanandaTurkey:100. Nezaket EkiciUnited Kingdom:101. Andre Stiit / Wales102. Helmut Lemke / Germany103. Alastair McLennan / S. IrelandUSA:104. Jamie McMurry105. Mari Novotny-Jones106. Milan Kohout / Czech107. Marilyn Arsem108. Lewis Gesner109. Dan MckereghanVietnam:110. Tran Luong111. Bui Cong Khanh112. Rich Streitmatter-TranASIATOPIA Organizing Committee Chumpon Apisuk (Director)Nopawan Sirivejkul (Manager)Padungsak Kotchasumrong (Activities Coordinator)Sutthirat Suppaparinya (Media and Documentation)Mongkol Plienbangchang (Technical Coordinator)Chantawipa Apisuk (Administration)Liz Cameron (Committee)Virginia Henderson (Committee)For more information write to info@asiatopia.org or visit www.asiatopia.org and http://asiatopia.blogspot.com++++ PME-ART presents: Hospitality 3: Individualism was a Mistake Dates: November 19-22, 2008; Source: Sylvie LachanceWith Caroline Dubois, Claudia Fancello and Jacob WrenHospitality 3: Individualism was a Mistake Bringing together the talents of three ingenious artists (Caroline Dubois, Claudia Fancello and Jacob Wren), Hospitality 3: Individualism Was a Mistake focuses on society's difficulty in working together. Collaborating within an indie rock spirit, the artists work towards a genuine sense of connection with the audience, all the while asking if this engagement could make a real difference in our lives and in the world around us.Jacob Wren and PME-ART are leaders of an exciting underground movement in performance theatre and have amassed a huge following in Europe. This World Premiere in their native land presents a rare opportunity to see this new production before the rest of the globe.Sound: Radwan MoumnehLighting: Philippe DupeyrouxCreated in co-production with Usine C (Montreal) and with the collaboration of Harbourfront Centre's World Stage (Toronto) November 19-22, 8pmHarbourfront Centre's World StageWorld Premiere, Part of the Quebec Now! Series235 Queen Quay West, TorontoBox Office: 416-973-4000http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstagehttp://www.pme-art.ca++++ Excursions: Performance Festival (Limerick, Ireland) Dates: January 22-January 24, 2009; Source: Kenny McBrideCall for SubmissionsExcursions is an interdisciplinary performance festival that will take place in Limerick City from Thursday 22nd to Saturday 24th January 2009. The festival acts as a platform for contemporary performance artists and will include Irish artists performances alongside international invited artists. This year the festival would like to invite artists to submit proposals for realization as part of the festival. Applications should includea. cvb. Outline budgetc. Short outline of the proposed performance (max 350 words) and specifications requiredd. Images of previous worke. Applicants may send DVDs or CDs of previous work, please clearly mark duration of DVD or CD.Closing date for receipt of applications is November 21, 2008.Send applications to:The Arts OfficeLimerick City CouncilCity Hall, Merchant's Quay, LimerickIrelandhttp://www.limerickcity.ieemail: artsoffice@limerickcity.ie++++ hum presents Sound and Movement Improvisation (Toronto) Date: November 22, 2008; Source: Erika HenneburySound and Movement ImprovisationOne-Day workshop taught by Susanna Hood and Nilan PereraSaturday November 22, 10am-5pmThe Citadel, 304 Parliament St South of DundasCost $40Essentially passing on elements of the process they have been cultivating for working together since 1998, Susanna Hood and Nilan Perera offer a one-day crash-course workshop exploring improvisation in dance and music and tools for facilitating the meeting of these two art forms.We invite participants from both movement and music background to participate in the workshop, but the work can be catered to performers and non-performers of all backgrounds. The workshop prepares the body to be an instrument for sound and to explore the integration of voice and movement along with exercises and games in rhythm and sound improvisation. Subsequently, participants engage in a broad exploration of the meeting of music and improvisation, where the two forms inform, rather than accompany each other.When and Where: Sat, Nov 22, 10am-5pmThe Citadel, 304 Parliament St South of Dundas (Toronto)Cost $40 ($20 deposit on registration)For more information and to register:admin@humansoundart.caor call 416-360-6665www.humansoundart.ca++++ Art Happens 8 (Kingston, Ontario) Date: November 26, 2008; Source: Clive RobertsonWednesday November 26, 7:30pmArt Happens 8Annual Performance Art EventMemoryworks by:Emily CohnGenna KuschVanessa NollerMary MacdonaldPatricia MaderJennifer ProvostMin ShinTim SimpsonKeith SkeltonPaisley SmithJulia StephensMorgan WedderspoonUnion Gallery, Stauffer LibraryQueen's University (Kingston, Ontario)Co-sponsored by Department of ArtCurated by Clive Robertson++++ Performance Saga Festival-BONE 11 Dates: December 3–6, 2008: Source: Andrea SaemannCurated by Katrin Grögel and Andrea Saemann, BaselOrganized in collaboration with Norbert Klassen, Peter Zumstein and Schlachthaus Theater BernVenue and tickets:Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Rathausgasse 20/22, 3011 Bern, +41 31 312 96 47,http://www.schlachthaus.ch/sp/index.php ProgramWednesday, Dec. 37 pm, DVD-Launch, Performance Saga Interviews 06-08: Joan Jonas, Martha Rosler, Alison Knowles8 pm, Performances: Alison Knowles (US) & Die Maulwerker (DE)Thursday, Dec. 48 pm, Performances: Gaspard Buma (CH), Irene Loughlin (CA) & Jorge Manuel de Leon (GT), Carolee Schneemann (US)Friday, Dec. 58 pm, Performances: Martha Rosler (US), Peter Vittali (CH), Wagner-Feigl-Forschung (AT/DE)Saturday, Dec. 68 pm, Performances: Muda Mathis (CH), Sands Murray-Wassink & Robin Wassink-Murray (NL), Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens/directed by Patty Gallagher (US)Viewing of the Performance Saga Interviews 01-08, daily from 7pm and after the performances.Open DialoguesOpen Dialogues is a joint project initiated by Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham (London). Its purpose is to create opportunities for the writing of critical texts about contemporary art that is understandable to a general public. In connection with the festival, texts will be elaborated under the direction of Paterson to record and communicate impressions of the festival. The texts will be translated daily into German and English and made accessible on the Internet andas flyers.Writers: Mary Paterson (UK), Chris Regn (DE/CH), Dagmar Reichert (CH), Theron Schmidt (UK), Jana Ulmann (CH); translations: Almut Rembges (CH); assisted by the graphic designer Nicole Boillat/edit (CH).http://www.opendialogues.comhttp://www.performancesaga.blogspot.comPerformance SagaAndrea Saemann und Katrin Grögelhttp://www.performancesaga.chcontact@performancesaga.ch++++ VIVA! Art Action 2nd Edition Dates: Deadline is December 5, 2008; Source: Popstart (www.popstart.ca)VIVA! Art action-2nd editionSeptember 17-26, 2009 in Montreal, PQDEADLINE: December 5, 2008VIVA! Art action is a shared initiative between the artist-run centers articule, Clark, DARE-DARE, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Praxis art actuel and Skol, which gave rise to the first international live art event in Montreal in the fall of 2006. VIVA! Art action proposes a vibrant environment that favors emerging, ephemeral, unpredictable and constantly shifting art practices. The first edition was characterized by a unique convivial atmosphere and provided a space for exchange and spontaneity thanks to the collective activation of a central location. Inspired by the success of the first edition, the six artist-run centers have set up a second VIVA! Art action event, wishing to renew their commitment to art that manifests itself in the «here and now»!VIVA! invites local, national and international artists, collectives, curators and theorists to submit proposals for performances, happenings, actions, infiltrations, public and participative interventions, workshops and debates. Residencies or durational works whose timelines (up to 4 weeks) overlap with the festival will also be considered. We encourage projects that address the issues and specificity of various contexts, inscribing themselves in storefront and gallery spaces, community centers, concert venues, public space, the private sphere or in non-site...VIVA! respects the artist fee rates established by RAAV/CARFAC 2008.Your submission must include:A Curriculum VitaeAn artist statement and a project description specifying spatial and technical needs (max. 2 pages)A maximum of 20 digital images on a CD and/or a maximum of 1 DVDA descriptive list of the visual material (title, date, duration etc.)Please send your submission to:VIVA! Art Action Project submission5713, rue Jeanne Mance Montreal (QC) H2V 4K7 CanadaPlease note that proposals submitted by email will not be accepted.http://www.vivamontreal.org++++ Grace Exhibition Space Dates: undefined: Source: Jill McDermidGrace Exhibition Space: a Gallery for Performance Art in Brooklyn, NYC is looking for submissions for March-November, 2009 Please send submissions to: gracexhibitionspace@yahoo.comWe are looking for Performance Artists with at least 5 years experience in exhibiting Performance Art. We have a stipend for travel & materials, and can easily offer the accommodation of a guest room in my apartment, for up to one week.http://www.gracespace.multiply.comThank you,Jill McDermidDirector, Grace exhibition SpaceBrooklyn, NY++++ stromereien Performance Festival Date: Deadline December 19, 2008; Source: Bettina HolzhausenPerformance Projects Wanted for stromereien Performance FestivalZürich Summer 09stromereien Performance Festival Zurich takes place every two years in and around the Tanzhaus Zürich (centre for contemporary dance). Possible performance sites are located in the Tanzhaus Zürich itself or its surrounding environment along the River Limmat. The festival presents exclusively site specific performances. For stromereien 09 from 30th July to 7th August we are looking for performance projects that are created for or adapted to locations in or around the Tanzhaus Zürich. The stromereien-jury will select original professional work which can be realised within the limited financial and technical framework of the festival. Both new as well as adapted performance projects are welcome. As several performances will be presented in one evening the duration of one work should not exceed 30 minutes, with the exception of durational performances. A group of experts in performance and visual arts will review and select the received projects.Application:Project description (1-2 pages) CVs of participating artists Documentation of previous work (video or DVD if available) Submission deadline: 19th December 2008Notification of all applicants by the end of January 2009Download application announcement (PDF) Address:stromereienc/o Tanzhaus ZürichWasserwerkstrasse 1298037 Zürich / SwitzerlandInformation & questions: info@stromereien.chBettina Holzhausen / Meret Schlegel http://www.stromereien.ch++++ Beyond Pressure International Performance Art Festival (Yangon, Myanmar)Dates: December 3-7, 2008: Source: Beyond PressureParticipating ArtistsAhramaiani Rahmayani (Indonesia)Angie Seah (Singapore)Aung Ko (Myanmar)Aung Pyr Sone (Myanmar)Hong-O-Bong (Korea)Kai Lam (Singapore)Moe Satt (Myanmar)Mrat Lunn Htwann (Myanmar)M.S.O (Myanmar)Nyein Way (Myanmar)Nyo Win Maung (Myanmar)Nopawan Sirivejkul (Thailand)Phyu Mon (Myanmar)Po Po (Myanmar)Randy Gledhill (Canada)Ronaldo Ruiz (Phillippines)Raquel De Loyola (Phillippines)Sharon Chin (Malaysia)Shu Yang (China)Teruyuki Tanaka (Japan)Valentin Torrens (Spain)Jacques Van Poppel (The Netherlands)About Beyond PressureBeyond Pressure is an independent art organization created to contribute towards the expanding of Myanmar art boundaries. It is initiated and run by local artists who work in their communities to create projects that open up spaces, however small, for self-expression and discourse. As an organization, it operates fluidly, utilizing and forming networks according to necessity. It is therefore an organization close to the ground, highly adaptable, connected and efficient in the restrictive social context of Myanmar. Our foremost aim is to develop the Myanmar performance art scene by creating a festival where foreign and local artists can exchange ideas through workshops, symposia and performances. There is an emerging performance art scene in Myanmar, which remains relatively unknown since there are few chances for Myanmar artists and artists from other countries to meet. Therefore Beyond Pressure offers an important opportunity for artists to network. Another aim is to expand Myanmar art boundaries by showing that performance art offers new possibilities and strategies to grapple with ideas that confront and engage with current political, economical and social issues. We host the festival in relatively public locations to reach out to a broad audience. In a restrictive artistic and political climate, where many artists and organizers work in private settings in order to dare to express themselves freely, we want to show in practice that it is possible in contemporary Myanmar to do outstanding and daring performance art in more public spaces. To imagine life beyond pressure. Beyond Pressure member are Moe Satt (Artistic Director/ Visual & Performance Artist), Mg Day (Coordinator/ Poet, Writer & Translator), Mrat Lunn Htwann (Manager/ Performance Artist), Phyu Mon (Poet- Visual & Performance Artist), Aung Ko (Multi-disciplinary artist), Aung Pyi Sone (Poet & Performance Artist)http://www.beyondpressure.org++++ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| CALL FOR ENTRIES: UNTIL THE 25th OF AUGUST, 2008 RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA www.art-action.org The 'Rencontres Internationales' will take place at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations in Paris in November 2008. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2009 and in Berlin in June 2009. Those three events will propose an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers acknowledged on the international scene along with young artists and filmmakers.
• FILM AND VIDEO - any film and video format * Video / Experimental video * Fiction - short, medium and feature length * Documentary, experimental documentary * Experimental Film * Animation • MULTIMEDIA * Video installation, multimedia installation * Net art * Multimedia performance, multimedia concert
PLEASE FORWARD this piece of information to creative organizations, art networks, production organizations, artists and filmmakers you are in contact with. The 'Rencontres Internationales' offers more than a simple presentation of the works. They introduce an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify of their reflections and of their experiences, but also of artistic and cultural contexts that are often experiencing deep changes. The 'Rencontres Internationales' reflects specificities and convergences of art practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical purposes, and work out this necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged. The event aims at presenting those works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals. It wishes to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a demanding program opened to everyone. | ||||||||
| PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID In 2007, the 'Rencontres Internationales', which initially took place in Paris and Berlin, opened up to a third city: Madrid. This event now constitutes a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe for artists, professional networks and different audiences. The venues in the three cities are in particular the Centre Pompidou and the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Reina Sofia national museum and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid. Les lieux de présentation dans les trois villes sont notamment le Centre Pompidou et le Jeu de Paume à Paris, la Haus der Kulturen der Welt à Berlin, le Musée national Reina Sofia et la Filmoteca Española à Madrid. The 'Rencontres Internationales' is a non commercial event without competition, supported by French, German, Spanish and international institutions www.art-action.org/en_soutien.htm
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Jatiwangi Art Festival 2008
Jatiwangi, 2nd-10th August 2008
5 Villages [Jatiwangi-Jatisura-Surawangi-Sutawangi-Loji]
Majalengka-Cirebon
INDONESIA
Organized by Jatiwangi art Factory [JaF]
[jatiwangiartsfestival2008.blogspot.com] *
FADO Performance Art Centre E-Bulletin
August 2008
FADO Performance Art Centre NEWS
1. NEW critical writing on FADO website: John Oughton and Leena Raudvee on Pam Patterson
2. FADO publications now available on amazon.com and from the RCAAQ Bookstore
3. FADO presents What Is Important? Performance Art Workshop during 7a*11 Festival
INDEX
4. EVENT: 7a*11d Festival Lip Sync Smack Down Fundraiser
Date: August 21, 2008; Source: 7a*11d
5. EVENT: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
Dates: October 22-November 2, 2008: Source: 7a*11d
6. EVENT: 5x4
Date: August 8, 2008; Source: Cara Spooner
7. EVENT: Time2 - 2nd Annual G-101 Summer Art Fest
Date: August 9, 2008; Source: Gallery 101
8. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Rhubarb Festival
Date: Deadline August 15, 2008; Source: Erika Hennebury
9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: International Videoperformance Festival of Mexico City
Date: September 25-26, 2008; Source: Pancho Lopez
10. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 1st International Intensive Workshop in Performance
Dates: August 18-September 26, 2008; Source: Se Rok Park
11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: stromereien Performance Festival 09 (Zürich)
Date: Deadline December 18, 2008; Source: stromereien
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FADO Performance Art Centre NEWS
1. FADO is pleased to offer NEW critical writing on FADO website
John Oughton and Leena Raudvee on Pam Patterson's performance Cellu(h)er Resistance: The Body
with/out Organs? presented by FADO in the IDea Series in March 2008. Follow the links and take in the
following:
Essay by John Oughton entitled A Journey Through/Around Pam Patterson's Cellu(h)er Resistance: The
Body with/out Organs? can be found here:
http://www.performanceart.ca/idea/pam%20patterson/John%20Oughtonessay.html
Leena Raudvee's response to Pam Patterson's Cell(u)her Resistance: The Body with/out Organs? can be
found here:
http://www.performanceart.ca/idea/pam%20patterson/Leena%20Raudvee%20response.html
2. FADO publications now available all over the world!
Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars (edited by Paul Couillard) and other FADO titles
are now available in real-time and virtually from the following fine establishments:
http://www.artmetropole.org/ (in Toronto and on-line)
http://www.amazon.com/
http://www.rcaaq.org/ (in Montreal and on-line)
Thanks to our friends at Art Metropole and Librairie d'art Actuel for championing FADO's latest
publication in the Canadian Performance Art Legends Series here at home and everywhere, virtually.
More about this and other FADO publications can be found here:
http://www.performanceart.ca/legends/home.html
3. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: What is Important? Performance Art Workshop
Dates: Friday October 17-Tuesday October 21, 2008
WHAT IS IMPORTANT?
Performance Art Workshop with BBB Johannes Deimling
Presented in cooperation with FADO Performance Art Centre and in conjunction with the 7a*11d
International Festival
Friday October 17-Tuesday October 21, 2008
Final performances take place on October 23/24
Deadline for applications: October 1, 2008
Toronto, Canada....In cooperation with FADO Performance Art Centre, internationally recognized
performance artist and educator BBB Johannes Deimling will be offering an Intensive Performance Art
Workshop in Toronto from October 17-21, 2008. Entitled What is Important? this intensive workshop
rounds up after 5-days with public performances presented during the start of the 7th biannual 7a*11d
International Festival of Performance Art. Workshop participants will have the unique opportunity to
experience the local, Canadian and International performance art scene as it converges on Toronto for
the 7th International 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art.
The aim of this 5-day intensive workshop is to develop an Art-Performance. Workshop participants will
present these new works during a public presentation at the festival.
Workshop Objectives and Strategies
With the guidance and direction of the workshop facilitators, participants will use a variety of
techniques and exercises to focus perception of one's own personality, develop skills to communicate
with the body, and transform ideas into a performative work. Personal perception and experience
colour and characterize how we communicate and deal with the body in time and space during
performance. The main objective of the workshop is to understand the body as a tool and to use this
tool to communicate effectively in performance.
Over the course of the workshop, participants will:
+ investigate and work with a variety of performative exercises in various conditions, in- and outdoor
which focus on: body, time, space, concentration, endurance (both in groups and individually);
+ develop performance ability and vocabulary with technical, pedagogical and artistic guidance from
the workshop facilitators, as well as working collaboratively with the other workshop participants;
+ perform in a final public presentation during the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
(the public presentation of workshop participants will be included in the festival program, publicity and
documentation);
+ information about participating artists, workshop and final performances will be posted on Fado's
website;
+ contact with artist-run centres, performance art presenters and other art institutions in Toronto;
workshop participation also provides a rare and unique networking opportunity during the 7a*11d
festival with visiting artists, curators and performance organizers from across Canada and around the
world;
+ context of the city of Toronto, history and culture.
PLEASE NOTE
+ The workshop is taught in English.
+ The workshop is open to all people, both emerging and established performance artists, as well as
students (minimum age 18 years).
+ The workshop will take place with a minimum of 8 participants.
+ WORKSHOP FEE: $200
+ Workshop is available to performance/art students at a deduced fee (limited spots available, please
contact http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@performanceart.ca for details)
Participants are responsible for paying for travel, accommodation and personal expenses. It is our goal
to offer this workshop at a reasonable fee and to facilitate finding the best possible options for travel
and accommodation. Please contact FADO Performance Art Centre for all general inquiries.
Application forms can be obtained by contacting
http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bbb@bbbjohannesdeimling.de
http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@performanceart.ca
Deadline for applications: October 1, 2008
http://www.bbbjohannesdeimling.de/
http://www.performanceart.ca/
4. EVENT: 7a*11d Festival Lip Sync Smack Down Fundraiser
Date: August 21, 2008; Source: 7a*11d
The 7a*11d Collective presents:
Finally the Name Pays Off
Lip Sync Smack Down
A lipsync smack down and show-off cabaret in support of 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art.
Air guitar, air drums and air piano...each classic in their own right. But there will always be the grand
daddy of them all: the lip sync. Long before the first air guitar, there was the fist microphone.
Thursday August 21, 2008
The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
9pm door, show at 10pm
$11 admission - tickets available at the door
http://www.7a-11d.ca/
7a*11d is a Toronto based, artist-run organization dedicated to the praise and presentation of the
world's best contemporary performance artists. From October 22-November 2, we are proud to present
our 7th full-scale festival in our 11th year together as an artist collective, brightest the best of the
global performance art community to our doorstep in Toronto. Not small feat for a group of
performance artists, and finally the name pays off. But, in order to really pull off this anniversary
festival year, first we have to raise some scratch.
Keith Cole hosts the 7a*11d Lipsync Smack Down!
Performances by:
Chandra Bulucon
Keith Cole
Paul Couillard
Fat Femme Mafia
Ed Johnson
Andrew Harwood
Johanna Householder
Ina unt Ina
Kirsten Johnson
Moynan King
Louise Liliefeldt
Shane MacKinnon
Allyson Mitchell
Roy Mitchell
Adam Paolozza
Andy Paterson
Fay Slift
RM Vaughan
Lindy Zucker
And others!! Plus one really unbelievable door prize you so want.
Contact:
Shannon Cochrane
http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@performanceart.ca
416-822-3219
5. EVENT: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
Dates: October 22-November 2, 2008: Source: 7a*11d
7a*11 International Festival of Performance Art
October 22-November 2, 2008
Toronto...7a*11d is pleased to announce the 7th biannual International Festival of Performance Art to
Toronto audiences from October 22 to November 2. Presented in association with our festival and
gallery partners, daily and evening performance art events take place at Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
Free Gallery, The Theatre Centre and various outdoor public sites around the city.
7a*11d is proud to announce our forthcoming 7th full-scale festival, a culmination of 11 years working
together as an artist-run collective. In order to celebrate this accomplishment, the 2008 7a*11d festival
promises a unique and wide-ranging mix of progressive and provocative new performance works by
over 30 of the global performance art community's most exciting and innovative contemporary
performance artists.
Established in 1997, 7a*11d is Toronto's only international festival of performance art. For the 2008
festival, we have assembled a roster of emerging and established artists from Burma, Japan, Singapore,
Serbia, Poland, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Mexico and the US, plus Toronto artists and national
icons from across Canada. The festival hosts residencies, performance art events, panel discussions,
artists talks, video/performance screenings and workshops in 11 jam-packed days.
Festival Highlights include:
The Residents:
In honour of our anniversary year, we have invited 7 artists of exceptional merit to come to Toronto for
an 11-day performance super residency; taking over store fronts, studios, galleries and the street to
create large scale durational actions and new performance works. The 2008 festival Residents are
Canadians Robin Poitras, Glenn Lewis, Warren Arcand, and Sylvette Babin, and international artists Chaw
Ei Thein (Burma), Gustavo Alvarez (Mexico) and Norbert Klassen (Switzerland).
Four Finnish Feminists Fridays:
Friday nights during the festival, 7a*11d festival offers a special program featuring the work of
Finland’s most innovative female performance artists, women who mix high tech with the highly
physical: Annette Arlander, Pia Lindy, Sini Haapalinna and Essi Kausalainen.
d2d = direct to documentation:
Screenings of video/performance for the camera from around the world.
FADO Performance Art Centre presents Will Kwan (Toronto), Sakiko Yamaoka (Japan), Angelika Fojtuch
(Poland) and BBB Johannes Deimling (Poland/Germany), PLUS offers a special 5-day intensive
performance art workshop with BBB Johannes Deimling.
PLUS OVER 20 more national and international artists including:
Local performance talent is represented with new works by: Ulyssess Castellanos, Risa Kusumoto,
Stacey Sproule/Randy Gagne, Tonik Wojtyra, Don Simmons and others.
Full schedule available on-line in early September
Festival catalogue available in late September
http://www.7a-11d.ca/
Get on the mailing list by emailing http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@performanceart.ca
Presented in association with our 2008 partners: Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto Free Gallery, The
Theatre Centre, Fado Performance Art Centre, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Festival, Vtape, and Pleasure
Dome.
7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art is pleased to acknowledge the Canada Council for the
Arts Inter-arts and Visual Arts Programs, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the
Toronto Arts Council and the Swiss government funding agency, Pro-Helvetia.
6. EVENT: 5x4
Date: August 8, 2008; Source: Cara Spooner
5 x 4: a performance installation with 20 performers and 20 household objects
August 8, 2008
Doors at 8:30pm
Cinecycle (129 Spadina Avenue, Toronto)
$5-10 Sliding scale
For reservations/guest list email http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fivebyfour@gmail.com
Through repetition and serendipitous synchronicity, the performance investigates the role of an
individual within a system. The audience will be free to browse through the grid created by the
performers (and their objects) and can decide whom to watch, in what order and for what length.
Repetition and correspondence between performers will amplify what occurs in everyday life -
coincidences, shared space and the relationship of personal histories. Ritualistic repetition, seemingly
banal gestures and minimal unison movement will depict how inner rhythms connect with the rhythms
of other people.
Conception and direction by: Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner
Music by: Nick Storring
Performances by:
Alicia Grant
Alicia Winn
Anni Spadafora
Cara Spooner
Chelsea Omel
Chris Wiseman
D Alex Meeks
Devon Hyland
Erin Cowan
Jared Raab
Jasmyn Burke
Jenn Sciarrino
Laura Mendes
Natalie Boustead
Rebecca Pletsch
Rebecca Simonetti
Robert Kingsbury
Sarah Fregeau
Shelly Hering
Shirin Yousefi
7. EVENT: Time2 - 2nd Annual G-101 Summer Art Fest
Date: August 9, 2008; Source: Gallery 101
Time2 - 2nd Annual G-101 Summer Art Fest
90 Wellington Street, Ottawa (across from the Peace Tower)
August 9th 2008 (rain or shine)
12 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Free
Wrap-up Party: 8:30 p.m. to finish
Gallery 101-301 ½ Bank Street- 2nd Floor
Time2 will expose you to an array of outstanding time-based works that includes performance, video
and musical acts hosted at a unique off-site venue. Time2 presents diverse video works from Available
Light and fascinating performance work from Fait Maison/Homemade. Musical acts will add the final
touch to a day aimed at celebrating regional contemporary artists and Gallery 101's special place within
the National Capital's artistic community. Come and celebrate contemporary art with G-101! The day
will end with an after-party at G-101 (301 1/2 Bank Street), with music, refreshments and the
exhibition Vertically (Enriched Bread Artists).
A detailed schedule will be announced in the coming weeks and will be available on the G-101 website
at gallery101.org and our Facebook group.
For information or to set up an interview, please contact:
Gallery 101 at http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@gallery101.org or 613.230.2799
This event is generously funding by the Community Foundation of Ottawa and supported by the
National Capital Commission. Gallery 101 gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Ottawa,
the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, our patrons, members and volunteers.
8. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Rhubarb Festival
Date: Deadline August 15, 2008; Source: Erika Hennebury
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre announces
The 30th Rhubarb Festival: FREE TRADE
February 4-22, 2009
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR 2009
DEADLINE: 5PM, Friday August 15, 2008
For almost 30 years The Rhubarb Festival has offered Toronto artists a critic-free environment to
experiment with new theatrical explorations. Rhubarb encourages established artists to take new risks
and emerging artists to explore the medium of performance creation in a safe, encouraging space.
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is currently seeking submissions for our 30th Rhubarb Festival: Free
Trade.
First produced in 1979, The Rhubarb Festival has acted as a seeding ground for exciting new work from
a host of groundbreaking Canadian artists, including Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Daniel Brooks,
Guillermo Verdecchia, Don McKellar, Diane Flacks, Gavin Crawford, Sonja Mills, Darren O'Donnell,
Damien Atkins, Atom Egoyan, Jacob Wren, Ann-Marie MacDonald (and many more). The Toronto Star
has called it an "annual tonic of fresh and exciting theatre that invigorates Toronto".
Rhubarb is a partially curated, but primarily submission-driven new works festival. Submissions are
reviewed by a selection committee composed of Erika Hennebury, Festival Director along with Buddies’
Artistic Director David Oiye and Associate Artists Ed Roy and Moynan King. Rhubarb seeks submissions
of new, original, Canadian theatre with a running time of 25 minutes in length.
NEW THIS YEAR!
For the first time in its 30 year history, the Rhubarb Festival will welcome international shows;
innovative international artists will work alongside ground-breaking Canadian talent. THE RHUBARB
FESTIVAL: FREE TRADE will run for three weeks February 4-22, 2009. Acclaimed Producer Sherrie
Johnson joins Festival Director Erika Hennebury as Rhubarb returns to a jam-packed three-week
format. The entire facility is wide open for more than two dozen contemporary theatrical explorations.
This year The Rhubarb Festival: Free Trade will feature a myriad of brand spanking new Canadian
explorations alongside feature Canadian and International presentations.
The Rhubarb Festival: Free Trade
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
DEADLINE: 5PM, Friday August 15, 2008
Late submissions may not be considered
Submissions post-marked up to Aug 15 will be accepted
DETAILS:
Proposed performances may be no longer than 25 minutes in length.
Works submitted in a format longer than 25 minutes may not be considered.
Works submitted must be new, never previously produced and original.
Submissions should be as detailed as possible.
Submissions must submitted in hard copy only and must be accompanied by and 2009 Rhubarb
Festival Application Form (available online at http://www.artsexy.ca/).
Fax or email submissions will not be accepted.
Please mail or drop off submissions to:
Erika Hennebury, Rhubarb Festival Director
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexander Street, Toronto ON M4Y 1B4
For further information please contact
Erika Hennebury, 416-975-9130 x40
http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=erika@artsexy.ca
http://www.artsexy.ca/
Rhubarb Festival Director Erika Hennebury
Free Trade Artistic Producer Sherrie Johnson
9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: International Videoperformance Festival of Mexico City
Date: September 25-26, 2008; Source: Pancho Lopez
In order to encourage the use of video as a support to create performance’s pieces, the National
Institute of Fine Arts through Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla and
P3RFORM4NC3 call to artists and groups dedicated to performance and others disciplines to participate
in:
EJECT: Second International Videoperformance Festival Of Mexico City
1. All artists of any discipline will be able to participate with ONE piece of video-performance whose
duration be not longer than 7 minutes. It won´t be accepted documentation of performances.
2. The works should be delivered in an envelope closed and lettered as follows: EJECT FIRST
INTERNATIONAL VIDEOPERFORMANCE FESTIVAL OF MEXICO CITY. POBOX: Apartado Postal 40-060,
Condesa, 06141, México D.F. The projects sending by express post-delivery should be lettered with
the legend: WITHOUT COMMERCIAL VALUE-FOR CULTURAL END ONLY
3. Only pieces presented in DVD format will be accepted (NTSC or multiregion).
4. An envelope with the following printed information should be enclosed: title, name of the artist or
group, telephone, e-mail and post address, brief resume of the artist or group and brief video
description.
5. The reception deadline will be September 2nd, 2008. The works sent by mail or express delivery only
will be accepted according of postmark date.
6. The members of the jury, conformed by 3 Well-known Mexican artists, will select 25 videos having
image quality and proposal originality as criteria. Their failure will be unappealable.
7. Videos selected will integrate EJECT, Second International Videoperformance Festival of Mexico City
which will be celebrated the 25th and 26th of September at ExTeresa Arte Actual and will be exhibited
at Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla.
8. All those whose pieces would had been selected will be inform by email and after the festival a
videobrouchure would be delivered that will include all selected pieces and a participation diploma too.
Also, selected pieces will be exhibited in http://www.p3rform4nc3.com/eject.html and diverse
electronic media.
9. The selected pieces will not be returned. For protection, remainder works will be destroyed for which
is recommended to register author's rights in all cases.
10. This festival is done without profit interests for which the organizers will not take charge of
expenses that could be generated for artists and groups participation (transportation, lodging,
honoraries neither postage and delivery expenses).
11. Any case not established in this document, most be presented to the jury in order to get a
resolution.
For more information please contact Pancho Lopez, EJECT organizer
Email: http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=p3rform4nc3@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.p3rform4nc3.com/eject.html
10. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 1st International Intensive Workshop in Performance
Dates: August 18-September 26, 2008; Source: Se Rok Park
I am co- conducting and co- producing our 1st International Intensive Summer Workshop in
Performance which is part of a series of KiM (Kosmos in Movement). Taking place in the Bolivian Yungas
and on an island on Titicaca Lake from 18 August-26 September 2008, the workshop will cover basic
body work, experimental dance, improvisation and composition and voice work. It is open to
performing artists, directors, movers and people who are interested in exploring physical and vocal
languages in a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary approach of creation in two very remote and inspiring
places of Bolivia.
The teaching staff will include Elías Cohen (artistic director of KiM, director and lecturer in physical
theatre, dancer, Chile), Kitt Johnson (dancer, Denmark), Manu Chalissery (practitioner in Indian
Kalaripayattu and Indian Singing, India), Se-Rok Park (vocalist and perfomer, Germany/ Korea).
For more information:
http://www.physicaltheater.net/
11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: stromereien Performance Festival 09 (Zürich)
Date: Deadline December 18, 2008; Source: stromereien
Performance Projects wanted for stromereien Performance Festival Zürich Summer 09
stromereien Performance Festival Zurich takes place every two years in and around the Tanzhaus
Zürich (centre for contemporary dance). Possible performance sites are located in the Tanzhaus Zürich
itself or its surrounding environment along the River Limmat. The festival presents exclusively site
specific performances.
For stromereien 09 from 30th July to 7th August we are looking for performance projects that are
created for or adapted to locations in or around the Tanzhaus Zürich. The stromereien-jury will select
original professional work that can be realized within the limited financial and technical framework of
the festival. Both new as well as adapted performance projects are welcome.
As several performances will be presented in one evening the duration of one work should not exceed
30 minutes, with the exception of durational performances.
A group of experts in performance and visual arts will review and select the received projects.
Application:
Project description (1-2 pages)
CVs of participating artists
Documentation of previous work (video or DVD if available)
Submission deadline: 19th December 2008
Notification of all applicants by the end of January 2009
Download application announcement (PDF)
Address:
stromereien
c/o Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 129
8037 Zürich / Switzerland
Information & questions: http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@stromereien.ch
Bettina Holzhausen / Meret Schlegel
http://www.stromereien.ch/
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Fado is pleased to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of
Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their
sponsorship of our ongoing activities.
August 2008
FADO Performance Art Centre NEWS
1. NEW critical writing on FADO website: John Oughton and Leena Raudvee on Pam Patterson
2. FADO publications now available on amazon.com and from the RCAAQ Bookstore
3. FADO presents What Is Important? Performance Art Workshop during 7a*11 Festival
INDEX
4. EVENT: 7a*11d Festival Lip Sync Smack Down Fundraiser
Date: August 21, 2008; Source: 7a*11d
5. EVENT: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
Dates: October 22-November 2, 2008: Source: 7a*11d
6. EVENT: 5x4
Date: August 8, 2008; Source: Cara Spooner
7. EVENT: Time2 - 2nd Annual G-101 Summer Art Fest
Date: August 9, 2008; Source: Gallery 101
8. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Rhubarb Festival
Date: Deadline August 15, 2008; Source: Erika Hennebury
9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: International Videoperformance Festival of Mexico City
Date: September 25-26, 2008; Source: Pancho Lopez
10. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 1st International Intensive Workshop in Performance
Dates: August 18-September 26, 2008; Source: Se Rok Park
11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: stromereien Performance Festival 09 (Zürich)
Date: Deadline December 18, 2008; Source: stromereien
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FADO Performance Art Centre NEWS
1. FADO is pleased to offer NEW critical writing on FADO website
John Oughton and Leena Raudvee on Pam Patterson's performance Cellu(h)er Resistance: The Body
with/out Organs? presented by FADO in the IDea Series in March 2008. Follow the links and take in the
following:
Essay by John Oughton entitled A Journey Through/Around Pam Patterson's Cellu(h)er Resistance: The
Body with/out Organs? can be found here:
http://www.performanceart.ca/idea/pam%20patterson/John%20Oughtonessay.html
Leena Raudvee's response to Pam Patterson's Cell(u)her Resistance: The Body with/out Organs? can be
found here:
http://www.performanceart.ca/idea/pam%20patterson/Leena%20Raudvee%20response.html
2. FADO publications now available all over the world!
Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars (edited by Paul Couillard) and other FADO titles
are now available in real-time and virtually from the following fine establishments:
http://www.artmetropole.org/ (in Toronto and on-line)
http://www.amazon.com/
http://www.rcaaq.org/ (in Montreal and on-line)
Thanks to our friends at Art Metropole and Librairie d'art Actuel for championing FADO's latest
publication in the Canadian Performance Art Legends Series here at home and everywhere, virtually.
More about this and other FADO publications can be found here:
http://www.performanceart.ca/legends/home.html
3. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: What is Important? Performance Art Workshop
Dates: Friday October 17-Tuesday October 21, 2008
WHAT IS IMPORTANT?
Performance Art Workshop with BBB Johannes Deimling
Presented in cooperation with FADO Performance Art Centre and in conjunction with the 7a*11d
International Festival
Friday October 17-Tuesday October 21, 2008
Final performances take place on October 23/24
Deadline for applications: October 1, 2008
Toronto, Canada....In cooperation with FADO Performance Art Centre, internationally recognized
performance artist and educator BBB Johannes Deimling will be offering an Intensive Performance Art
Workshop in Toronto from October 17-21, 2008. Entitled What is Important? this intensive workshop
rounds up after 5-days with public performances presented during the start of the 7th biannual 7a*11d
International Festival of Performance Art. Workshop participants will have the unique opportunity to
experience the local, Canadian and International performance art scene as it converges on Toronto for
the 7th International 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art.
The aim of this 5-day intensive workshop is to develop an Art-Performance. Workshop participants will
present these new works during a public presentation at the festival.
Workshop Objectives and Strategies
With the guidance and direction of the workshop facilitators, participants will use a variety of
techniques and exercises to focus perception of one's own personality, develop skills to communicate
with the body, and transform ideas into a performative work. Personal perception and experience
colour and characterize how we communicate and deal with the body in time and space during
performance. The main objective of the workshop is to understand the body as a tool and to use this
tool to communicate effectively in performance.
Over the course of the workshop, participants will:
+ investigate and work with a variety of performative exercises in various conditions, in- and outdoor
which focus on: body, time, space, concentration, endurance (both in groups and individually);
+ develop performance ability and vocabulary with technical, pedagogical and artistic guidance from
the workshop facilitators, as well as working collaboratively with the other workshop participants;
+ perform in a final public presentation during the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
(the public presentation of workshop participants will be included in the festival program, publicity and
documentation);
+ information about participating artists, workshop and final performances will be posted on Fado's
website;
+ contact with artist-run centres, performance art presenters and other art institutions in Toronto;
workshop participation also provides a rare and unique networking opportunity during the 7a*11d
festival with visiting artists, curators and performance organizers from across Canada and around the
world;
+ context of the city of Toronto, history and culture.
PLEASE NOTE
+ The workshop is taught in English.
+ The workshop is open to all people, both emerging and established performance artists, as well as
students (minimum age 18 years).
+ The workshop will take place with a minimum of 8 participants.
+ WORKSHOP FEE: $200
+ Workshop is available to performance/art students at a deduced fee (limited spots available, please
contact http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@performanceart.ca for details)
Participants are responsible for paying for travel, accommodation and personal expenses. It is our goal
to offer this workshop at a reasonable fee and to facilitate finding the best possible options for travel
and accommodation. Please contact FADO Performance Art Centre for all general inquiries.
Application forms can be obtained by contacting
http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bbb@bbbjohannesdeimling.de
http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@performanceart.ca
Deadline for applications: October 1, 2008
http://www.bbbjohannesdeimling.de/
http://www.performanceart.ca/
4. EVENT: 7a*11d Festival Lip Sync Smack Down Fundraiser
Date: August 21, 2008; Source: 7a*11d
The 7a*11d Collective presents:
Finally the Name Pays Off
Lip Sync Smack Down
A lipsync smack down and show-off cabaret in support of 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art.
Air guitar, air drums and air piano...each classic in their own right. But there will always be the grand
daddy of them all: the lip sync. Long before the first air guitar, there was the fist microphone.
Thursday August 21, 2008
The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
9pm door, show at 10pm
$11 admission - tickets available at the door
http://www.7a-11d.ca/
7a*11d is a Toronto based, artist-run organization dedicated to the praise and presentation of the
world's best contemporary performance artists. From October 22-November 2, we are proud to present
our 7th full-scale festival in our 11th year together as an artist collective, brightest the best of the
global performance art community to our doorstep in Toronto. Not small feat for a group of
performance artists, and finally the name pays off. But, in order to really pull off this anniversary
festival year, first we have to raise some scratch.
Keith Cole hosts the 7a*11d Lipsync Smack Down!
Performances by:
Chandra Bulucon
Keith Cole
Paul Couillard
Fat Femme Mafia
Ed Johnson
Andrew Harwood
Johanna Householder
Ina unt Ina
Kirsten Johnson
Moynan King
Louise Liliefeldt
Shane MacKinnon
Allyson Mitchell
Roy Mitchell
Adam Paolozza
Andy Paterson
Fay Slift
RM Vaughan
Lindy Zucker
And others!! Plus one really unbelievable door prize you so want.
Contact:
Shannon Cochrane
http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@performanceart.ca
416-822-3219
5. EVENT: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
Dates: October 22-November 2, 2008: Source: 7a*11d
7a*11 International Festival of Performance Art
October 22-November 2, 2008
Toronto...7a*11d is pleased to announce the 7th biannual International Festival of Performance Art to
Toronto audiences from October 22 to November 2. Presented in association with our festival and
gallery partners, daily and evening performance art events take place at Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
Free Gallery, The Theatre Centre and various outdoor public sites around the city.
7a*11d is proud to announce our forthcoming 7th full-scale festival, a culmination of 11 years working
together as an artist-run collective. In order to celebrate this accomplishment, the 2008 7a*11d festival
promises a unique and wide-ranging mix of progressive and provocative new performance works by
over 30 of the global performance art community's most exciting and innovative contemporary
performance artists.
Established in 1997, 7a*11d is Toronto's only international festival of performance art. For the 2008
festival, we have assembled a roster of emerging and established artists from Burma, Japan, Singapore,
Serbia, Poland, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Mexico and the US, plus Toronto artists and national
icons from across Canada. The festival hosts residencies, performance art events, panel discussions,
artists talks, video/performance screenings and workshops in 11 jam-packed days.
Festival Highlights include:
The Residents:
In honour of our anniversary year, we have invited 7 artists of exceptional merit to come to Toronto for
an 11-day performance super residency; taking over store fronts, studios, galleries and the street to
create large scale durational actions and new performance works. The 2008 festival Residents are
Canadians Robin Poitras, Glenn Lewis, Warren Arcand, and Sylvette Babin, and international artists Chaw
Ei Thein (Burma), Gustavo Alvarez (Mexico) and Norbert Klassen (Switzerland).
Four Finnish Feminists Fridays:
Friday nights during the festival, 7a*11d festival offers a special program featuring the work of
Finland’s most innovative female performance artists, women who mix high tech with the highly
physical: Annette Arlander, Pia Lindy, Sini Haapalinna and Essi Kausalainen.
d2d = direct to documentation:
Screenings of video/performance for the camera from around the world.
FADO Performance Art Centre presents Will Kwan (Toronto), Sakiko Yamaoka (Japan), Angelika Fojtuch
(Poland) and BBB Johannes Deimling (Poland/Germany), PLUS offers a special 5-day intensive
performance art workshop with BBB Johannes Deimling.
PLUS OVER 20 more national and international artists including:
Local performance talent is represented with new works by: Ulyssess Castellanos, Risa Kusumoto,
Stacey Sproule/Randy Gagne, Tonik Wojtyra, Don Simmons and others.
Full schedule available on-line in early September
Festival catalogue available in late September
http://www.7a-11d.ca/
Get on the mailing list by emailing http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@performanceart.ca
Presented in association with our 2008 partners: Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto Free Gallery, The
Theatre Centre, Fado Performance Art Centre, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Festival, Vtape, and Pleasure
Dome.
7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art is pleased to acknowledge the Canada Council for the
Arts Inter-arts and Visual Arts Programs, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the
Toronto Arts Council and the Swiss government funding agency, Pro-Helvetia.
6. EVENT: 5x4
Date: August 8, 2008; Source: Cara Spooner
5 x 4: a performance installation with 20 performers and 20 household objects
August 8, 2008
Doors at 8:30pm
Cinecycle (129 Spadina Avenue, Toronto)
$5-10 Sliding scale
For reservations/guest list email http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fivebyfour@gmail.com
Through repetition and serendipitous synchronicity, the performance investigates the role of an
individual within a system. The audience will be free to browse through the grid created by the
performers (and their objects) and can decide whom to watch, in what order and for what length.
Repetition and correspondence between performers will amplify what occurs in everyday life -
coincidences, shared space and the relationship of personal histories. Ritualistic repetition, seemingly
banal gestures and minimal unison movement will depict how inner rhythms connect with the rhythms
of other people.
Conception and direction by: Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner
Music by: Nick Storring
Performances by:
Alicia Grant
Alicia Winn
Anni Spadafora
Cara Spooner
Chelsea Omel
Chris Wiseman
D Alex Meeks
Devon Hyland
Erin Cowan
Jared Raab
Jasmyn Burke
Jenn Sciarrino
Laura Mendes
Natalie Boustead
Rebecca Pletsch
Rebecca Simonetti
Robert Kingsbury
Sarah Fregeau
Shelly Hering
Shirin Yousefi
7. EVENT: Time2 - 2nd Annual G-101 Summer Art Fest
Date: August 9, 2008; Source: Gallery 101
Time2 - 2nd Annual G-101 Summer Art Fest
90 Wellington Street, Ottawa (across from the Peace Tower)
August 9th 2008 (rain or shine)
12 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Free
Wrap-up Party: 8:30 p.m. to finish
Gallery 101-301 ½ Bank Street- 2nd Floor
Time2 will expose you to an array of outstanding time-based works that includes performance, video
and musical acts hosted at a unique off-site venue. Time2 presents diverse video works from Available
Light and fascinating performance work from Fait Maison/Homemade. Musical acts will add the final
touch to a day aimed at celebrating regional contemporary artists and Gallery 101's special place within
the National Capital's artistic community. Come and celebrate contemporary art with G-101! The day
will end with an after-party at G-101 (301 1/2 Bank Street), with music, refreshments and the
exhibition Vertically (Enriched Bread Artists).
A detailed schedule will be announced in the coming weeks and will be available on the G-101 website
at gallery101.org and our Facebook group.
For information or to set up an interview, please contact:
Gallery 101 at http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@gallery101.org or 613.230.2799
This event is generously funding by the Community Foundation of Ottawa and supported by the
National Capital Commission. Gallery 101 gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Ottawa,
the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, our patrons, members and volunteers.
8. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Rhubarb Festival
Date: Deadline August 15, 2008; Source: Erika Hennebury
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre announces
The 30th Rhubarb Festival: FREE TRADE
February 4-22, 2009
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR 2009
DEADLINE: 5PM, Friday August 15, 2008
For almost 30 years The Rhubarb Festival has offered Toronto artists a critic-free environment to
experiment with new theatrical explorations. Rhubarb encourages established artists to take new risks
and emerging artists to explore the medium of performance creation in a safe, encouraging space.
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is currently seeking submissions for our 30th Rhubarb Festival: Free
Trade.
First produced in 1979, The Rhubarb Festival has acted as a seeding ground for exciting new work from
a host of groundbreaking Canadian artists, including Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Daniel Brooks,
Guillermo Verdecchia, Don McKellar, Diane Flacks, Gavin Crawford, Sonja Mills, Darren O'Donnell,
Damien Atkins, Atom Egoyan, Jacob Wren, Ann-Marie MacDonald (and many more). The Toronto Star
has called it an "annual tonic of fresh and exciting theatre that invigorates Toronto".
Rhubarb is a partially curated, but primarily submission-driven new works festival. Submissions are
reviewed by a selection committee composed of Erika Hennebury, Festival Director along with Buddies’
Artistic Director David Oiye and Associate Artists Ed Roy and Moynan King. Rhubarb seeks submissions
of new, original, Canadian theatre with a running time of 25 minutes in length.
NEW THIS YEAR!
For the first time in its 30 year history, the Rhubarb Festival will welcome international shows;
innovative international artists will work alongside ground-breaking Canadian talent. THE RHUBARB
FESTIVAL: FREE TRADE will run for three weeks February 4-22, 2009. Acclaimed Producer Sherrie
Johnson joins Festival Director Erika Hennebury as Rhubarb returns to a jam-packed three-week
format. The entire facility is wide open for more than two dozen contemporary theatrical explorations.
This year The Rhubarb Festival: Free Trade will feature a myriad of brand spanking new Canadian
explorations alongside feature Canadian and International presentations.
The Rhubarb Festival: Free Trade
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
DEADLINE: 5PM, Friday August 15, 2008
Late submissions may not be considered
Submissions post-marked up to Aug 15 will be accepted
DETAILS:
Proposed performances may be no longer than 25 minutes in length.
Works submitted in a format longer than 25 minutes may not be considered.
Works submitted must be new, never previously produced and original.
Submissions should be as detailed as possible.
Submissions must submitted in hard copy only and must be accompanied by and 2009 Rhubarb
Festival Application Form (available online at http://www.artsexy.ca/).
Fax or email submissions will not be accepted.
Please mail or drop off submissions to:
Erika Hennebury, Rhubarb Festival Director
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexander Street, Toronto ON M4Y 1B4
For further information please contact
Erika Hennebury, 416-975-9130 x40
http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=erika@artsexy.ca
http://www.artsexy.ca/
Rhubarb Festival Director Erika Hennebury
Free Trade Artistic Producer Sherrie Johnson
9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: International Videoperformance Festival of Mexico City
Date: September 25-26, 2008; Source: Pancho Lopez
In order to encourage the use of video as a support to create performance’s pieces, the National
Institute of Fine Arts through Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla and
P3RFORM4NC3 call to artists and groups dedicated to performance and others disciplines to participate
in:
EJECT: Second International Videoperformance Festival Of Mexico City
1. All artists of any discipline will be able to participate with ONE piece of video-performance whose
duration be not longer than 7 minutes. It won´t be accepted documentation of performances.
2. The works should be delivered in an envelope closed and lettered as follows: EJECT FIRST
INTERNATIONAL VIDEOPERFORMANCE FESTIVAL OF MEXICO CITY. POBOX: Apartado Postal 40-060,
Condesa, 06141, México D.F. The projects sending by express post-delivery should be lettered with
the legend: WITHOUT COMMERCIAL VALUE-FOR CULTURAL END ONLY
3. Only pieces presented in DVD format will be accepted (NTSC or multiregion).
4. An envelope with the following printed information should be enclosed: title, name of the artist or
group, telephone, e-mail and post address, brief resume of the artist or group and brief video
description.
5. The reception deadline will be September 2nd, 2008. The works sent by mail or express delivery only
will be accepted according of postmark date.
6. The members of the jury, conformed by 3 Well-known Mexican artists, will select 25 videos having
image quality and proposal originality as criteria. Their failure will be unappealable.
7. Videos selected will integrate EJECT, Second International Videoperformance Festival of Mexico City
which will be celebrated the 25th and 26th of September at ExTeresa Arte Actual and will be exhibited
at Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla.
8. All those whose pieces would had been selected will be inform by email and after the festival a
videobrouchure would be delivered that will include all selected pieces and a participation diploma too.
Also, selected pieces will be exhibited in http://www.p3rform4nc3.com/eject.html and diverse
electronic media.
9. The selected pieces will not be returned. For protection, remainder works will be destroyed for which
is recommended to register author's rights in all cases.
10. This festival is done without profit interests for which the organizers will not take charge of
expenses that could be generated for artists and groups participation (transportation, lodging,
honoraries neither postage and delivery expenses).
11. Any case not established in this document, most be presented to the jury in order to get a
resolution.
For more information please contact Pancho Lopez, EJECT organizer
Email: http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=p3rform4nc3@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.p3rform4nc3.com/eject.html
10. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 1st International Intensive Workshop in Performance
Dates: August 18-September 26, 2008; Source: Se Rok Park
I am co- conducting and co- producing our 1st International Intensive Summer Workshop in
Performance which is part of a series of KiM (Kosmos in Movement). Taking place in the Bolivian Yungas
and on an island on Titicaca Lake from 18 August-26 September 2008, the workshop will cover basic
body work, experimental dance, improvisation and composition and voice work. It is open to
performing artists, directors, movers and people who are interested in exploring physical and vocal
languages in a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary approach of creation in two very remote and inspiring
places of Bolivia.
The teaching staff will include Elías Cohen (artistic director of KiM, director and lecturer in physical
theatre, dancer, Chile), Kitt Johnson (dancer, Denmark), Manu Chalissery (practitioner in Indian
Kalaripayattu and Indian Singing, India), Se-Rok Park (vocalist and perfomer, Germany/ Korea).
For more information:
http://www.physicaltheater.net/
11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: stromereien Performance Festival 09 (Zürich)
Date: Deadline December 18, 2008; Source: stromereien
Performance Projects wanted for stromereien Performance Festival Zürich Summer 09
stromereien Performance Festival Zurich takes place every two years in and around the Tanzhaus
Zürich (centre for contemporary dance). Possible performance sites are located in the Tanzhaus Zürich
itself or its surrounding environment along the River Limmat. The festival presents exclusively site
specific performances.
For stromereien 09 from 30th July to 7th August we are looking for performance projects that are
created for or adapted to locations in or around the Tanzhaus Zürich. The stromereien-jury will select
original professional work that can be realized within the limited financial and technical framework of
the festival. Both new as well as adapted performance projects are welcome.
As several performances will be presented in one evening the duration of one work should not exceed
30 minutes, with the exception of durational performances.
A group of experts in performance and visual arts will review and select the received projects.
Application:
Project description (1-2 pages)
CVs of participating artists
Documentation of previous work (video or DVD if available)
Submission deadline: 19th December 2008
Notification of all applicants by the end of January 2009
Download application announcement (PDF)
Address:
stromereien
c/o Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 129
8037 Zürich / Switzerland
Information & questions: http://us.mc521.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@stromereien.ch
Bettina Holzhausen / Meret Schlegel
http://www.stromereien.ch/
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Fado is pleased to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of
Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their
sponsorship of our ongoing activities.
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The 13th NIPAF Asian Performance Art Series '08:
Oh Asia! What is this? Is this god's anger? Or examination for human?
July 18(Fri), 19(Sat), 20(Sun) Tokyo, TakadanoBaba, PROTO Theater, 03-3368-0490
July 21(Mon,Hol), 22(Tue), 23(Wed) Saitama, Gyoda, Shinobu motor
ex-exhibit place, 090-7814-9615
July 25(Fri), 26(Sat), 27(Sun) Kanagawa, Yokohama, ZAIM room 401, 045-222-7030
July 28(Mon) 5pm - 31(Thu) noon NIPAF Sinsyu (Nagano) Summer Seminar,
Iizuna Hights, 026-239-2956
July 31(Thu), Aug. 1(Fri) Nagano, Nagano Gondo, NEON HALL, 026-237-2719
*Door open 6:30 PM, Start 7:00 PM (Sat, Sun, Hol. Start 5:00 PM)
Related event:
[Tokyo] July 17(Thu) PM6-9, Shinjuku MY SPACE, NIPAF
Asia Performance Art Tokyo Meeting Vol.5 [Yokohama] July 24(Thu)
PM6-9, ZAIM Room 401
[Nagano] July 30(Wed) 1PM Iizuna Heights, Daiza
Hoshi Ike lakeside
More Info; Call 090-1652-9127 E-mail: nipaf@avis.ne.jp
Asian Artists; 1, Liu Chengying (China, Cheng Du, male) 2, The Maw
Naing (Myanmar, Yangon, male) 3, Kyu Kyu (Myanmar, Yangon, female) 4,
I Gede Made Surya Darma (Indonesia, Bali, male) 5, Thom Daquioag
(Philippines, Manila, male) 6, Oh Young Jeong (Korea, Gwang Ju,
female) 7, Vu Hong Ninh (Viet Nam, Hanoi, male) 8, Chua Chin Chin
(Singapore, female)
Guest Artists: 9, John Giorno (USA, New York, male) 10, Nenad
Bogdanovic (Serbia, Odzaci, male) 11, Marlene Renaud-B (Canada,
Quebec, female) 12, Stephane de Medeiros (France, Paris-Tokyo, male)
only Tokyo 13, Anne-James Chaton (France, Besanson-Kyoto, male) only
Tokyo
Japanese Artists; 1 Seiji Shimoda, 2 Osamu Kuroda, 3 Shohei Nomoto, 4
Kana Fukushima, 5 Harumi Terao, 6 Koji Oike, 7 Midori Kadokura, 8
Kazunori Kitazawa, 9 Chisato Tomokiyo, 10 Gen Murai, 11 Izumi Sekiya,
12 Tomoki Kimpara, 13 Miyaki Inukai, 14 Yoshio Shirakawa, 15 Jun
Igarashi, 16 bug-depayse, 17 Toshiko Watanabe
[NIPAF Performance Art Shinsyu (Nagano) Summer Seminar 2008]
July 28(Mon) 17:00 pm ~ 31 (Fri) 12:00 noon 3 nights 4 days
Nagano, Iizuna Heights Kashiyo Iizuna Sanso and NIPAF HOUSE. Artist
talk & Free outdoor Performance. More Info, call 090-1652-9127
nipaf@avis.ne.jp
Organizer; Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF)
Executive Committee (Director: Seiji Shimoda)
Co-organizer; Tokyo NIPAF, Saitama NIPAF(Shohei Nomoto), Yokohama
NIPAF(Masato Hatsuki), Nagano NIPAF
Cooperate; PROTO Theater, "ZAIM"creation quarters, ZAIM CAFE,
Platform Asian Performance Art (PAPA) Japan Committee
Strength：art corrective”CHIMERA"contemporaly art Lab.
Support; Japan Arts Fund
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July 18(Fri), 19(Sat), 20(Sun) Tokyo, TakadanoBaba, PROTO Theater, 03-3368-0490
July 21(Mon,Hol), 22(Tue), 23(Wed) Saitama, Gyoda, Shinobu motor
ex-exhibit place, 090-7814-9615
July 25(Fri), 26(Sat), 27(Sun) Kanagawa, Yokohama, ZAIM room 401, 045-222-7030
July 28(Mon) 5pm - 31(Thu) noon NIPAF Sinsyu (Nagano) Summer Seminar,
Iizuna Hights, 026-239-2956
July 31(Thu), Aug. 1(Fri) Nagano, Nagano Gondo, NEON HALL, 026-237-2719
*Door open 6:30 PM, Start 7:00 PM (Sat, Sun, Hol. Start 5:00 PM)
Related event:
Asia Performance Art Tokyo Meeting Vol.5 [Yokohama] July 24(Thu)
PM6-9, ZAIM Room 401
Hoshi Ike lakeside
More Info; Call 090-1652-9127 E-mail:
Asian Artists; 1, Liu Chengying (China, Cheng Du, male) 2, The Maw
Naing (Myanmar, Yangon, male) 3, Kyu Kyu (Myanmar, Yangon, female) 4,
I Gede Made Surya Darma (Indonesia, Bali, male) 5, Thom Daquioag
(Philippines, Manila, male) 6, Oh Young Jeong (Korea, Gwang Ju,
female) 7, Vu Hong Ninh (Viet Nam, Hanoi, male) 8, Chua Chin Chin
(Singapore, female)
Guest Artists: 9, John Giorno (USA, New York, male) 10, Nenad
Bogdanovic (Serbia, Odzaci, male) 11, Marlene Renaud-B (Canada,
Quebec, female) 12, Stephane de Medeiros (France, Paris-Tokyo, male)
only Tokyo 13, Anne-James Chaton (France, Besanson-Kyoto, male) only
Tokyo
Japanese Artists; 1 Seiji Shimoda, 2 Osamu Kuroda, 3 Shohei Nomoto, 4
Kana Fukushima, 5 Harumi Terao, 6 Koji Oike, 7 Midori Kadokura, 8
Kazunori Kitazawa, 9 Chisato Tomokiyo, 10 Gen Murai, 11 Izumi Sekiya,
12 Tomoki Kimpara, 13 Miyaki Inukai, 14 Yoshio Shirakawa, 15 Jun
Igarashi, 16 bug-depayse, 17 Toshiko Watanabe
[NIPAF Performance Art Shinsyu (Nagano) Summer Seminar 2008]
July 28(Mon) 17:00 pm ~ 31 (Fri) 12:00 noon 3 nights 4 days
Nagano, Iizuna Heights Kashiyo Iizuna Sanso and NIPAF HOUSE. Artist
talk & Free outdoor Performance. More Info, call 090-1652-9127
nipaf@avis.ne.jp
Organizer; Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF)
Executive Committee (Director: Seiji Shimoda)
Co-organizer; Tokyo NIPAF, Saitama NIPAF(Shohei Nomoto), Yokohama
NIPAF(Masato Hatsuki), Nagano NIPAF
Cooperate; PROTO Theater, "ZAIM"creation quarters, ZAIM CAFE,
Platform Asian Performance Art (PAPA) Japan Committee
Strength：art corrective”CHIMERA"contemporaly art Lab.
Support; Japan Arts Fund
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Seiji Shimoda/Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF),
Platform of Asian Performance Art (PAPA); 2-8-15, Nakagosyo, Nagano,
Nagano, 380-0935, JAPAN Tel & Fax +81-26-224-0748
Platform of Asian Performance Art (PAPA); 2-8-15, Nakagosyo, Nagano,
Nagano, 380-0935, JAPAN Tel & Fax +81-26-224-0748
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Fado E-News:
EVENT: Amorph!08 Festival of Performance Art
Dates: May 26-June 8 and August 18-31, 2008; Source: Juha Valkeapää
Amorph!08
Festival d'art Performance
Festival for Performative Arts
Esitystaiteen Festivaali
The 9th international festival for performative arts Amorph!08 is organized in Paris and Helsinki in
May-August, 2008. The organizer is Artists' Association Muu, and artistic curator vocal and
performance artist Juha Valkeapää. Amorph!08 has two phases. The first phase takes place on May 26 -
June 8, 2008, in Paris, where it belongs to Printemps (Im)médiat!, Institut Finlandais coordinated part of
100% Finlande - en France - printemps 2008. The second phase is organized on August 18-31, 2008,
in Helsinki.
Amorph!08 is a meeting point. Participating artists represent the wide field of experimental
performative arts: performance art, dance, sound & music, video & web art. The theme is public spaces
of Paris and Helsinki. The curator has chosen four Finnish and four French artists, and made four pairs
of artists. They are Charlie Jeffery-Jouni Partanen, Carole Douillard-Essi Kausalainen, Viviana Moin-
Mimosa Pale, Christophe Bruno-Pessi Parviainen. Each pair will get a public place - flea market, park,
river or sea side - to work on. The Parisian places are located near to Mains d'Œuvres, Khiasma and La
Générale des Sevres; in Helsinki the central place is Hietalahti. The results of the couples' work -
performance, installation, presentation, lecture - are shown during the festival weekend.
The works by the artist couples make the core of the Amorph!08 festival weekends both in Paris (7-8
June) and in Helsinki (30-31 August). Except them, the festival presents videotheques with
performative video works and performance documents and seminar. In Paris the videotheque will
consist of Finnish works, in Helsinki the works are French. Furthermore, in Helsinki, there will be
festival club, exhibition, seminar and workshop. The theme of the workshop is art in public spaces and
it is aimed for artists and art students as well.
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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: M:ST Festival
Date: Unspecified; Source: M:ST
M:ST 4 Festival Call for Volunteers
The Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society is recruiting volunteers to sit on our
organizing committees for the M:ST 4 Festival, October 10 - 24, 2008.
Committees include:
- Hospitality
- Publications and Festival Guide
- Volunteer/Membership
- Promotions
- Fundraising/Sponsorship
For more information contact Nicole Burisch, Festival Director, at director(at)mstfestival.org or Kari
McQueen at president(at)mstfestival.org.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Hamilton Artists Inc.
Date: July 31, 2008; Source: Irene Loughlin
Hamilton Artists Inc. (HAI) Call for Proposals
Proposal Deadline: July 31, 2008
2010-2011 Exhibition Schedule
Hamilton Artists Inc. (HAI) is seeking: a wide range of multi-disciplinary proposals from artists as well
as curatorial proposals for solo and group exhibitions in our Main Space community-based proposals
for limited programming in the community gallery area intermedia works, sculpture/installation,
performance art, video projection, sound art, site-responsive and relational works and other
imaginative proposals for our courtyard space and the glass corridor that links the two buildings.
Writing samples/proposals for essay and catalogue production
The new home of HAI opening in November 2008, features:
Two gallery spaces - A 1200 sq. ft Main Space, and a 600 sq ft Members Space/ Community Gallery; a
2500 square ft. multi-purpose outdoor courtyard; a programmable glass corridor linking the two
galleries; and a two-floor artist-in- residence space with a studio, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.
Hamilton Artists Inc. pays CARFAC artist fees for Main Space exhibitions and related exhibition costs,
and assists with shipping. For proposal guidelines please visit: wwwhamiltonartistsinc.on.ca, enter the
site, and click on submissions policy. Please refer to the mandate and history sections of our website
for further information.
Hamilton Artists Inc. architectural drawing – for floor plan refer to www.hamiltonartistsinc.on.ca -
under submissions policy.
Established in 1975, HAI is one of the founding galleries of the artist-run centre system in Canada.
The organization is entering an exciting development stage as it approaches the opening of a newly
purchased, multi-presentation complex in November of 2008. The new home of HAI is located with in
the James St. North Arts District in Hamilton’s downtown core, located in the centre of a hub of cultural
activity, including a monthly Art Crawl that attracts over five hundred visitors.
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EVENT: The Box Salon (Toronto)
Date: july 9, 2008; Source: Louise Back
The Box invites you to an evening of word, film, action and music by:
Stephanie Comilang
Kristyn Dunnion
Stacey May Fowles
Chris MacLean
John Martz
Mindbender
Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra
Jaclyn Quar and Mallory Diaczun
Door treats aglow from Blocks Recording Club, Coach House Books, Descant, DC Books, eat your
friends, Greg Walloch, ideas, Lyndsey Cope, Kristyn Dunnion, Pedlar Press, Matrix Magazine, Mercury
Press, Mercer Union, Public, Shameless Magazine, This Magazine, Tightrope Books and others.
The Box is a quarterly salon night of readings, performances, screenings, interventions and networking
that aims to bring diverse communities and audiences into an environment of artistic and social
intermingling.
Wednesday July 9, 8pm
Rivoli, 332 Queen St W. (Back Room)
pwyc, $5 suggested donation
Host: Louise Bak
boxsalon@hotmail.com
416-929-1906
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Date: july 9, 2008; Source: Louise Back
The Box invites you to an evening of word, film, action and music by:
Stephanie Comilang
Kristyn Dunnion
Stacey May Fowles
Chris MacLean
John Martz
Mindbender
Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra
Jaclyn Quar and Mallory Diaczun
Door treats aglow from Blocks Recording Club, Coach House Books, Descant, DC Books, eat your
friends, Greg Walloch, ideas, Lyndsey Cope, Kristyn Dunnion, Pedlar Press, Matrix Magazine, Mercury
Press, Mercer Union, Public, Shameless Magazine, This Magazine, Tightrope Books and others.
The Box is a quarterly salon night of readings, performances, screenings, interventions and networking
that aims to bring diverse communities and audiences into an environment of artistic and social
intermingling.
Wednesday July 9, 8pm
Rivoli, 332 Queen St W. (Back Room)
pwyc, $5 suggested donation
Host: Louise Bak
boxsalon@hotmail.com
416-929-1906
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EVENT: Progr Performance Plattform
Date: July 6, 2008; Source: asabank
Norbert Klassen presents: Progr Performance Plattform
Performances from:
Eva Maria Berger
Markus Brinkmann
Stefanie Grubenmann
Peter Jecklin
Annina Krieger
Laura Laeser
Dominik Lipp
Veit Merkle
Sarina Scheidegger
Barbara Sturm
Manuela Trapp
Kendra Walsh
Im Progr
Speichergasse 4
3011 Bern
http://www.progrperformanceplattform.com
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CALL FOR WALKING: Kinga Araya
Dates: Deadline July 14, 2008; Source: Kinga Araya
I would like to invite anyone interested to walking with me, physically or virtually, from July 15th until
about the first days of August, 2008 along the former Berlin Wall.
If you cannot be physically in Berlin, I am open to receive electronic messages, phone calls or mail with
texts, objects, photos, stories and instructions how to use them during my walk. I intend to include all
the featured people and their stories in the future publication.
More details about the walk:
To mark the twenty-year anniversary of defecting Poland in Florence, Italy (1988), and the Fall of the
Berlin Wall, I will make a special walking performance artwork "Performing Exile" and I invite
everybody to join me. Most walks would take place during the day, however, I would like to perform a
few night walks as well. We could walk with our eyes closed, backwards, crawling, walking very slowly,
standing still, walking with special objects, artworks etc.
Project Description
Starting on July 15, 2008, I will walk the entire length of the former Berlin Wall (160 km) with one or
more people. I will walk every day for about 3 weeks and you are welcome to join me for a short or
longer walk. I am looking for diverse forms of interactions with you: artistic, linguistic, philosophical,
and political. Every day would be planned so you would know where to meet me. I would like to record
the walks to include the video, photo and audio material in the future publication.
The possible topics that I would like to explore with you could be:
Diverse aspects of social, cultural, and political tensions (i.e. exile and citizenship); Any personal
experiences or stories about exile, immigration and displacement, the Berlin Wall, and other walls
Dichotomy of walking and standing still (impossibility of walking); The poetics and politics of
performance art (any subject, it could be based on your art practice).
Besides Polish, I speak English, Italian, and French (currently learning German), so I would be interested
in conversing with you in those languages.
Please contact me at ka@kingaaraya.com to sign up for a walk or to receive further information.
Deadline is July 14, 2008
For more details about my work please visit: http://www.kingaaraya.com
Looking forward to walking with you!
Kinga Araya
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Dates: Deadline July 14, 2008; Source: Kinga Araya
I would like to invite anyone interested to walking with me, physically or virtually, from July 15th until
about the first days of August, 2008 along the former Berlin Wall.
If you cannot be physically in Berlin, I am open to receive electronic messages, phone calls or mail with
texts, objects, photos, stories and instructions how to use them during my walk. I intend to include all
the featured people and their stories in the future publication.
More details about the walk:
To mark the twenty-year anniversary of defecting Poland in Florence, Italy (1988), and the Fall of the
Berlin Wall, I will make a special walking performance artwork "Performing Exile" and I invite
everybody to join me. Most walks would take place during the day, however, I would like to perform a
few night walks as well. We could walk with our eyes closed, backwards, crawling, walking very slowly,
standing still, walking with special objects, artworks etc.
Project Description
Starting on July 15, 2008, I will walk the entire length of the former Berlin Wall (160 km) with one or
more people. I will walk every day for about 3 weeks and you are welcome to join me for a short or
longer walk. I am looking for diverse forms of interactions with you: artistic, linguistic, philosophical,
and political. Every day would be planned so you would know where to meet me. I would like to record
the walks to include the video, photo and audio material in the future publication.
The possible topics that I would like to explore with you could be:
Diverse aspects of social, cultural, and political tensions (i.e. exile and citizenship); Any personal
experiences or stories about exile, immigration and displacement, the Berlin Wall, and other walls
Dichotomy of walking and standing still (impossibility of walking); The poetics and politics of
performance art (any subject, it could be based on your art practice).
Besides Polish, I speak English, Italian, and French (currently learning German), so I would be interested
in conversing with you in those languages.
Please contact me at ka@kingaaraya.com to sign up for a walk or to receive further information.
Deadline is July 14, 2008
For more details about my work please visit: http://www.kingaaraya.com
Looking forward to walking with you!
Kinga Araya
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CALL FOR APPLICANTS: Urban Disorder Workshop/BBB Johannes Deimling
Dates: Deadline September 3, 2008; Source: Johannes Deimling
A workshop by BBB Johannes Deimling
From 17th ˆ 27th of September 2008 the Performance Art Workshop with BBB Johannes Deimling takes
place in Marseille under the topic URBAN DISORDER.
The Workshop is part of the Performance Art Festival "Préavis de désordre urbain" curated by Ornicart,
an organization led by Christine Bouvier (http://lieu-ressource.over-blog.com). Marseille, the
birthplace of Antonin Artaud, a junction between Europe and Africa, a multi-cultural life we will
research under the viewpoint of the possibilities to integrate performance art into the public. We will
meet with the artists invited to this festival, will see their performances and take part on the activities
around the festival in the Southern French port.
The workshop will be given by the international performance artist and teacher BBB Johannes Deimling
(http://www.bbbjohannesdeimling.de). The aim of the workshop is to work out an Art-Performance and
its final public presentation. We will realize specifical excercises that will help to transform own ideas
into a performative work. The center of the workshop focuses the perception of the own personality
and the communication with the body. Own perception and self experiences characterize the feeling in
dealing with body, time and space in performance art as well as in ordinary communication. To
understand his body as a tool and to use this tool in his own communications is the main value of this
workshop. Besides this artistical offer the workshop provides some cultural specials.
OFFER:
- develop an Art Performance with technical, pedagogical and artistical guidance
- performative excercises in various conditions, in- and outdoor (focus on: body, time, space,
concentration, endurance - in groups and individual)
- final public presentation of the performance (media promotion and invitation card) and finishing
celebration
- video- and photo/documentation of the workshop (DVD)
- contacts to artists, curators and art institutions in Marseille
- meeting and cooperate with other like-minded people from other countries
- context of the place, french history and culture
- free accommodation in Marseille (10 days)
- help in booking the travel (searching for cheap flights)
The workshop will take place at least with 8 participants. Workshop is taught in English.
Price: (without travel and victuals) 400 euros (660CHF, 1350 PLN, 6260 EEK, 620 USD, 315£)
Confirmed registrations before the 15th of August 2008, the workshop will cost: 350 euros (570CHF,
1185 PLN, 5480 EEK, 545 USD, 276£)
The workshop will be advertised in various european countries and is open for all young peoples and
young performers and art students (minimum age 18 years).
Application forms can be ordered by email: bbb@bbbjohannesdeimling.de or by telephone 0049
(0)174 1434361
Deadline for applications 3rd of September 2008
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Volume 13: Public
Date: Deadline August 25, 2008; Source: Julia Handschuh
ASPECT SEEKS MEDIA ART SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 13: PUBLIC
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual dvd publication, is currently seeking time-based
documentation of artwork in common space for Volume 13: Public. Expanding the notion of public art,
this issue will focus on artists' interventions within civic space, ephemeral or monumental.
The staff of ASPECT is asking curators, art critics, and members of the contemporary art community to
help assemble and comment on works for the next issue by submitting a work of art on which they wish
to provide audio commentary. Due to the format of the publication, the criteria for selection will
include both the qualifications of the commentator and the quality of the work submitted. Audio
recordings of the commentary will be assembled after the submissions have been selected.
Submissions should include:
-Video documentation of a work or small group of works by a single artist (no more than 15
minutes in length)
-A brief (100 word) statement regarding the submitted work
-Resume of the artist
-Contact information for the commentator and artist
-Resume of the commentator
-Brief notes outlining the contents of the proposed commentary
Submissions must be received by August 25th, 2008 and sent to:
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art
46 Waltham Street, suite 103
Boston, MA 02118
617.695.0500
All artists will be contacted via email regarding their submission no later than October 1st, 2008
For more information see our FAQ:
http://www.aspectmag.com/contact/faq.cfm
Company Information: The mission of ASPECT is to foster a deeper and more intimate understanding
of contemporary new media art by expanding access, education, and distribution of the genre. ASPECT
pioneered DVD distribution of artworks and continues to set the standard for new media art publishing
and distribution. ASPECT Magazine is a biannual DVD magazine of new media art. Each issue
highlights 5-10 artists working in new media whose works are best documented in video or sound,
including in-depth information on the artists and commentary by distinguished curators and critics.
Individual issues and subscriptions are available directly from the ASPECT web site.
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ANNOUNCING: Boris Nieslony to curate IPAH Festival 2009
Date: July 16, 2008; Source: Jürgen Fritz
Dear Friends,
we are happy to announce, that Boris Nieslony agreed to be the curator of the IPAH Festival 2009
ZOOM! West Europe. "Born in 1945, Boris Nieslony has worked intensively as a performance artist,
curator, archivist and independent scholar, staging various installations, interventions and artist
projects since the 1970s. He is the founder of Black Market International, a performance group that
meets regularly in various configurations to realize group performance projects, and ASA, a foundation
for a self-organizing rhizomatic network of performance artists and theorists. Today, Boris Nieslony is
recognized as one of the most prolific and significant contributors to performance art, presenting his
work around the world."
This evening he will introduce the concept and the artists of the IPAH 2009 Festival.
The event will take place in the City Kirche St. Jakobi Hildesheim (near the Market Place of Hildesheim),
Wednesday, July 16th at 6:30 pm.
We are looking forward to welcome you!
In behalf of IPAH e.V.
Jürgen Fritz
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EVENT: Blow!5 (July)
Dates: July 10-13, 2008; Source: Helge Meyer
Blow!4- Actual positions in Performance Art with Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill (Switzerland)
For the 4th time our group Ideenstiftungsverein e.V. will have guests in the old steel factory area of
Groß Ilsede (near Hanover in Germany). The Performance Art Duo Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill
from Switzerland works together since 1995 and performed intensively over Asia, Europe and Canada.
Both also teach Performance Art in different institutions. We would be happy if some of you were
around to look.
More information: http://www.ideenstiftung.org
Schedule JUNE:
25. Juni, 19 Uhr, Raum J 307, Hauptgebäude Universität Hildesheim, Vortrag: Performance Art und
Kindheit
26.Juni, ab 9.45Uhr, Aula des Gymnasiums Groß Ilsede, Groß Ilsede, Vortrag: Performance Art und
Kindheit
28.Juni, 20 Uhr, Umformerstation, Gelände der Ilseder Hütte, Groß Ilsede, Performance
JULY 10-13
Blow!5- Performance Art Exchange between Singapore and Germany
Guests: Angie Seah, Herma Auguste Wittstock, Patrycja German, Lee Wen, Jason Lim, Kai Lam
We are happy to present the work of six outstanding performers from different cultural backgrounds in
one festival. The artists do have the chance to interact with the space of the old industrial building and
also exchange different styles and different experiences in their work.
If you are around, please come!
Schedule:
10.Juli, 18.30 Uhr, J 307, Hauptgebäude Universität Hildesheim, Vortrag: Angie Seah, Jason Lim, Kai
Lam, Lee Wen
12. Juli, 17 Uhr, Umformerstation, Gelände der Ilseder Hütte, Groß Ilsede (Blow!5- Performance Art
Begegnung zwischen Singapur und Deutschland ) mit Angie Seah, Jason Lim, Kai Lam, Lee Wen, Herma
Wittstock, Patrycja German
13. Juli , 16 Uhr, Historischer Marktplatz Rinteln (Gruppenperformance: Angie Seah, Jason Lim, Kai Lam,
Lee Wen, Helge Meyer)
Thank you
Helge Meyer
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WORKSHOP: La Pocha Nostra's International Performance Intensive Summer 2008
Dates: August 1-12, 2008; Source: Natalie Loveless
CONVOCATORIA: LA POCHA NOSTRA'S INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE INTENSIVE WORKSHOP SUMMER
2008
La Pocha Nostra's International Performance Intensive Summer Workshop relocates to Évora, Portugal in
the summer of 2008 and returns to Tucson, Arizona in early 2009. If due to time or geographical
restrictions you cannot make it to our 12-day intensive performance workshop in Portugal (August 1-
12, 2008) you can apply for our winter school to take place in Tucson, Arizona (January 5th-17th,
2009).
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes and other members of the legendary Pocha Nostra
performance troupe will conduct their annual 12-day intensive summer workshop on performance art
with a focus on the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism. This cross-
cultural, cross-disciplinary and cross-generational workshop will host 15 performance artists and
students from around the world as well as 10 Portuguese artists. It is La Pocha's most important
pedagogic endeavor of the year.
The prestigious Pocha workshop is an amazing artistic and anthropological experiment in which artists
from several countries and every imaginable artistic, ethnic and sub-cultural background begin to
negotiate common ground. Performance becomes the connective tissue and lingua franca for our
temporary community of rebel artists.
Where will it take place?
La Pocha Nostra International Workshop continues on its nomadic journey around the world (Wales,
Oaxaca, Tucson, etc) nurturing multi-national communities artists that ignore the existence of borders.
This year's summer workshop will take place in the historic Convento do Carmo, in Évora, Portugal, as
part of Escrita na Paisagem ˆ Performance and Land Arts Festival (5th edition) with the support of the
University of Évora
http://www.escritanapaisagem.net
With over 2000 years of history and a variety of cultural and architectural influences, Évora is "a
Portuguese national treasure" and has been awarded status as a UNESCO world heritage site. This
gorgeous "museum-city," whose roots go back to Roman times, reached its golden age in the 15th
century, when it became the residence of the Portuguese kings. Part of the town is enclosed by ancient
walls and has been preserved in its original state. Even from a distance, the majestic beauty of Évora is
apparent: its cathedral dominating the view of the famous "white and yellow city" as it stands atop a hill
surrounded by the vast expanses of the Alentejo plain in southeast Portugal.
The final performance will take place at a castle located 30 minutes from Évora.
What will be taught?
The exciting 8-hour a day workshop will offer two parallel processes: Participants are exposed to La
Pocha Nostra's most recent performance methodologies, an eclectic combination of exercises borrowed
from multiple traditions including experimental theater and dance, the Suzuki method, ritual
performance, shamanism, performance games and live jam sessions. Parallel to this hands-on process,
the group will analyze the creative process, the issues addressed by the work, its aesthetic currency,
cultural impact and political pertinence. The workshop will culminate with a full performance open to
the public.
Who should attend?
Performance artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, and students interested in the topics
addressed by La Pocha Nostra. Applicants must have some performance experience, and must be
familiar with La Pocha Nostra's work. The workshop is fun but rigorous.
Application process:
International participants will be chosen by a Pocha selection committee and Portuguese participants
will be chosen by our host Jose Alberto Ferreira.
Applicants must submit: (a) A half-page statement (in English, Spanish, Italian, French or Portuguese)
stating why they are interested in taking the workshop; (b) A one page resume; and (c-optional) A letter
of recommendation from a curator, director, producer or senior artist familiar with your work.
Those living outside of Portugal, please submit your application directly to La Pocha Nostra: c/o Emma
Tramposch, Special Projects Coordinator: pocha@pochanostra.com
Those living in Portugal, please submit your application directly to Escrita na Paisagem c/o Rita Valente,
Assistant Producer: rvalente@escritanapaisagem.net
Please write "La Pocha Nostra International Workshop" in subject line.
Cost:
For international artists, the cost of the workshop is 650 US dollars. For Portuguese artists, the cost is
400 Euros and the organization is willing to accept a in reduction fee in exchange for voluntary work, to
be agreed between participants and the Festival. The fees do not include room or board. After the
selection process has been completed, La Pocha / the Festival will provide a list of low cost
accommodations and contact information, so that participants can arrange to share rooms in order to
defray costs.
For more information on La Pocha Nostra please visit
http://www.pochanostra.com
Partners for the La Pocha Nostra International workshop include University of Évora and Casa da
América-Latina.
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Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their
sponsorship of our ongoing activities.
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