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FADO E-LIST (September 2004)
INDEX
1. Fado presents FIVE HOLES: LIsten!
September 15 - October 24, 2004
2. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: "THE YEAR OF THE FOUR" Artpool (Hungary)
Deadline: September 24, 2004; Source: Artpool
3. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: "Neoist Dept Fest 2004" (Germany)
Deadlines: September 27, 2004; Source: Anna Balint
4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIOINS: "TRAFIC" Inter/nationale d'art actuel d'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
(Rouyn-Noranda)
Deadline: October 15, 2004; Source: l’Écart
5. EVENT: "In/and out of position" public forum
September 17 - 19, 2004; Source: Visible art activity
6. EVENT: "Beans, Bananas, and Yams: Performance Art Relics, Residue, and Ephemera" YYZ
September 8 - October 23, 2004; Source: YYZ
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1. Fado presents FIVE HOLES: LIsten!
September 15 - October 24, 2004
FIVE HOLES: Listen!
September 15 - October 24, 2004
Curated by Paul Couillard
Featuring Erika DeFreitas, Linda Rae Dornan, Eric Létourneau, So-Yeon Park, and Jed Speare
All events Free
five performance projects dealing with the sense of hearing
PROJECT SCHEDULE:
Linda Rae Dornan - OPEN
Sept 15, 2004, 8 am - noon: Queen's Park, west side near Hoskin Ave.
Sept 16, 2004, 8 am - noon: University Ave. traffic island, south of Gerrard St.
Sept 16, 2004, 8 pm: artist talk at WARC, 401 Richmond St. W., Suite 122
Erika DeFreitas - UNTITLED (SELECTED HEARING)
Saturday Sept 25 - Sunday October 24, 2004
30-minute to one-hour weekend appointments at various locations; call (416) 822-3219 or email hearing@performanceart.ca for your appointment
presented in conjunction with the 7a*11d Int'l Festival of Performance Art
Jed Speare - A QUIET ZONE II
October 7, 2004: Ward's Island, exact time and location TBA
So-Yeon Park - INTER-FAITH CHANTING
October 15, 2004, 5 - 8 pm: Dovercourt House Ballroom, 805 Dovercourt Rd., 2nd Floor
October 16, 2004: artist talk, exact time and location TBA
Eric Létourneau - STANDARD III
October 21, 2004, 9 pm: XPACE, 303 Augusta
presented in conjunction with the 7a*11d Int'l Festival of Performance Art
Fado is pleased to present FIVE HOLES: Listen!, a series of five performance "maneuvers" dealing with the sense of hearing. FIVE HOLES is an ongoing Fado series that examines the nature and importance of bodies (performer and audience) in performance art by focusing on individual senses. Featured artists in this 'hearing' component, the fourth in the series, include Erika DeFreitas (Toronto), Linda Rae Dornan (New Brunswick), Eric Létourneau (Quebec), So-Yeon Park (USA), and Jed Speare (USA).
This series considers acts of "listening" as they are carried out by and impact upon physical, social, political and spiritual bodies. Linda Rae Dornan presents herself as a solitary figure, sitting quietly in the city, listening -- encouraging us to also stop for a moment to hear what we normally ignore. Erika DeFreitas offers her presence for a one-on-one exercise of listening as a way of locating the self. Jed Speare lobbies the city for a quiet zone that would serve as an area of sound awareness. So-Yeon Park assembles chanters from various cultures to direct their voices toward individual participants' wishes as a way of channeling transformative energy. Eric Létourneau evokes silence as a way of marking and remembering all of the world's victims of political persecution in a multi-layered project that interrogates the role of the State and of mass media in silencing "silence" itself.
About the projects
UNTITLED (SELECTED HEARING) explores the sense of hearing and more specifically the act of listening as an intimate act of inclusion, trust, and the location and dislocation of self amidst a variety of public venues in Toronto. Artist Erika DeFreitas will be offering her shared presence to those who are interested in taking the time to sit and listen to their surroundings. Participants sign up for a particular place and time to join the artist in a conscious act of listening to the surrounding space.
DeFreitas notes about this piece: "Our society depends heavily on conscious auditory perception as being selective, and this perception has created a culture of selective hearing. Our ability to ‘block’ things out allows us to choose when we want to listen, what we listen to, and what we hear. Various components of our surrounding environment have perpetuated this practice of filtering sound and have dictated what is allowed to take root and what must be discarded. Such forms of selective hearing and escapism can alter our environment in a surreal way. In his writing about conceptual art, I believe that an awareness of the ways that a sense of space or environment can be established through sound, as well as an understanding of how we might unconsciously use sound to essentially make an environment transferable, can develop through a process of active listening."
OPEN features Linda Rae Dornan in a durational tableau performance of listening, only listening, in an open space surrounded by non-functioning audio speakers. It is about slowing down, actually hearing the world breathe around oneself, and being part of that breath. Time slows down, and one is absorbed into the soundscape, into hearing oneself and the world.
Eric Létourneau's "manoeuvre" STANDARD III began as a two-hour uninterrupted nationwide radio broadcast on Radio-Canada on April 11, 2004 (Easter). The program featured 198 30-second periods of radio silence punctuated by an alphabetical listing of every country in the world. The same phrase introduced each silence: "Thirty seconds of silence for domestic and foreign political victims..." This broadcast was recorded live off the airwaves and remixed for publication on two CDs along with a text that considers the effects of administrative regulation and State control on mass media.
Beginning in October 2004, copies of the publication will be sent through diplomatic channels to each country of the world. On the occasion of each country's national celebration, its head of state will be contacted to verify the receipt and subsequent response to the CD. This process and the reactions it generates will be recorded on the websites of Fado Performance Inc. (http://www.performanceart.ca) and Systeme Minuit (http://www.systememinuit.com). The documentation collected, including all diplomatic correspondence, will eventually be published in book form.
In A QUIET ZONE II, Jed Speare seeks to establish a zone of quiet through municipal channels in a neighborhood of Toronto -- not for the purpose of restricting noise, but for promoting sound awareness and contemplation. Under city by-laws, Quiet Zones regulating noise activity can be established around hospitals and retirement homes. Speare's proposal seeks to overturn and expand the notion of the Quiet Zone philosophically and idealistically, creating an occasion and site for an aesthetic experience, listening to a particular urban environment. For the past several months, Speare has been seeking the appropriate agency to initiate a formal process to create a zone in the inner harbour of Ward's Island. From late September, Speare will be working in Toronto to meet with community members and officials and continue this process, culminating in an event on October 7 that will present his progress to-date, at a site and time to be determined. A QUIET ZONE II is supported in part by a residency at Do While Studio in Boston and a grant from the Nicholson Foundation.
In INTER-FAITH CHANTING, So-Yeon Park proposes to orchestrate live chanting sounds from a variety of religious traditions to create intensive moments of mental and spiritual concentration. Assembling local volunteer chanters from a variety of traditions, Park will create an event in which participants can place their bodies at the centre of a cascading sound focused on their individual wishes. Audiences may sit on the periphery, listening to the ongoing series of chants followed by silence, or they may choose to bring their own wishes to the centre the circle.
About the artists
Erika DeFreitas is an emerging conceptual performance and installation artist who has been actively producing and exhibiting artwork over the past two years. Her artwork has been exhibited in local galleries including the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Implant, Ne Plus Ultra, Art System and sisboombah as well as The Third Floor in Brooklyn, but the most common space to find her work is in Toronto's streets and alleyways. De Freitas' artwork, which generally includes the audience as active and at times unknowing participants, provides a forum for the public to reflect on the factors that contribute to the construction of personal and public identities.
Linda Rae Dornan was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and raised in Montréal, Québec. She moved to Sackville, New Brunswick in 1989. Language, materiality and ephemerality are the threads woven within her work. Her visual explorations using language have become increasingly non-narrative, evoking interior space, memory and loss. Her performances incorporate words and silence in a durational format.
Eric Létourneau has been active since the 1980s as an intermedia artist and a sono-temporal architect. He pursues an artistic practice based on the creation of situations within the social fabric. He has produced roughly 50 contextual works and has presented his work in more than 10 countries. He is particularly interested in the instrumentalization of collective memory by institutions.
So-Yeon Park was born in Pusan and raised in Seoul, Korea. She holds an M.F.A. in art from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and is currently an Associate Professor in Expanded Media in the Department of Art at the University of Kansas, Park has exhibited and performed in solo and group shows in Columbus, Ohio, at Marin Headlands, Golden Gate National Park, California, and in Seoul, Korea. She uses her native Korean cultural traditions to create metaphoric, cathartic structures, and uses performance movement to convey emotions.
Jed Speare is an artist from Boston working in variety of media. Initially trained in music composition, he has created works in time-based media such as video, sound, and performance art, and conceptual and community-based works for over twenty-five years. His work has been presented in festivals and exhibitions in such places as San Francisco, New York, Boston and the New England region, and abroad in Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Taiwan. He is a member of the Mobius Artists Group of Mobius, Boston's artist-run organization for experimental work in all media, and served as its Director from 1996 to 2004. A QUIET ZONE II is a part of body of work by Speare that deals with the sound environment. Other works in this vein include CABLE CAR SOUNDSCAPES, an album on Smithsonian Folkways Records; AUDIOGRAMS, a text and image work which explores his experience as an industrial hearing conservationist and the effects of hearing loss; A QUIET ZONE, a photographic, text and multimedia work about a neighborhood in Fitchburg, Massachusetts by that designation; and the artists books Crushed Buckets and I Call You.
Travel support for this series comes from the New Brunswick Arts Board and the University of Kansas.
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2. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: "THE YEAR OF THE FOUR" Artpool (Hungary)
Deadline: September 24, 2004; Source: Artpool
A call to participate in the Autumn research project at Artpool
<http://www.artpool.hu/2004/oszi/invitation.html>http://www.artpool.hu/2004/oszi/invitation.html
The Telematic Society: art in the ‘fourth dimension‘
As usual in Artpool’s practice, the participants of the project are not constrained in terms of genre, medium or otherwise; submitted materials, after having been displayed at the exhibition/event in Artpool P60 and on the website will be stored in the Artpool Archives.
Deadline of submission: September 24, 2004
Artpool Art Research Center
H -1277 Budapest 23, Pf.52 • <mailto:project@artpool.hu>project@artpool.hu
2003 was THE YEAR OF THE THREE IN ARTPOOL
internet catalog of the project
PERSONALITIES, ART, AND WORLD OF THE THIRD KIND
7 - 21. November 2003. - exhibition at the Artpool P60 – Budapest
<http://www.artpool.hu/harmas/oszi>http://www.artpool.hu/harmas/oszi
thank you for your participation
György Galántai
Artpool would be thankful for any information (catalog, video/DVD, CD) documenting your or your institution's activity and make it available for researchers of its public archives.
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Artpool Art Research Center
<http://www.artpool.hu>http://www.artpool.hu
Budapest VI., Liszt Ferenc ter 10.
tel.: +36-1-2680114, fax: +36-1-3210833
Postal address: 1277 Budapest 23, Pf. 52
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3. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: "Neoist Dept Fest 2004" (Germany)
Deadlines: September 27, 2004; Source: Anna Balint
Neoism Politburo/Berlin
calls for (non-) (anti-)participation:
The Neoist Dept Fest 2004 will take place in
Berlin sept 27 - oct 3 at a number of outdoor
and indoor locations mostly in the Mitte and
Prenzlauer Berg areas.
The event is open to anyone who
wants to struggle through the one week long
subvertainment activity including discussions,
interventions, screenings, robotarian demonstrations,
seizure courses, etc, representing all departments of Neoism.
NDF 2004 is a new departure towards Akademgorod!
NDF 2004 puts the Apt Fest concept back into revolution!
Apparently there are more important things
in life than Neoism?!
Berlin Politburo Staff Department
Forward or Die!
http://www.neoism.net/
http://www.neoism.net/wiki.cgi?Dept_Fest_2004
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4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIOINS: "TRAFIC" Inter/nationale d'art actuel d'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
(Rouyn-Noranda)
Deadline: October 15, 2004; Source: l’Écart
(français suivant)
Open to all disciplines, the event TRAFIC, to be held in June of 2005, investigates that which circulates and the diverse routes of circulation taken – which all of us have a hand in producing – in this world, characterized by the disappearance of distance, the obsessive concern with productivity, and increased surveillance. Initiated by l’Écart… an artist-run center located in Rouyn-Noranda , the event will develop along three principal axes, aiming to deepen thought on spaces of circulation, on bargaining and on power, as visited by contemporary art in an echo of the sophistication of technologies and communication networks in contemporary society.
Circulation/Bargaining/Power and the Law
CIRCULATION The concept of traffic suggests, first and foremost, the idea of great affluence. It refers to mobility, to flux, to overflow and encumbrance (of humans, merchandise or ideas) on a territory via different networks of transport or telecommunications. BARGAINING The notion of traffic reflects, secondly, on economic and social domains; on questions of connections, exchanges, negotiation, barter and distribution. POWER AND THE LAW The third axis of the event touches on questions of power and legality. This facet turns its attention to artistic practices dealing, either in the real or in the imaginary, with games of influence, clandestine operations or parallel networks.
The city of Rouyn-Noranda, which will host a programme of both intra- and extra-mural activities, will be the heart of the event. Exhibition centers in the cities of LaSarre, Val d’or, Ville-Marie and Amos will host exhibitions in their spaces.
Curators: Nathalie de Blois + Mathieu Beauséjour
VIDEO PROGRAMME
Artists are also invited to present a tape for TRAFIC’s video programme, which will tour in the region.
For more information consult the website: <http://www.cablevision.qc.ca/ecart>www.cablevision.qc.ca/ecart
Submissions must include:
- A statement of intention
- A curriculum vitae
- 10 clearly labeled slides and/or a video document, DVD, CD-ROM, soundtrack on CD or any other documentation or internet link that might help in considering the submission
- A descriptive list of the visual documents and annexes
- Only submissions accompanied by a SASE will be returned
Mail to:
TRAFIC Inter/nationale d’art actuel d’Abitibi-Témiscamingue
167, ave Murdoch
C.P. 2273
Rouyn-Noranda (Québec) J9X 5A9
Appel de dossiers
Ouvert à toutes disciplines _ Date limite : 15 octobre 2004
Ouvert à toutes les disciplines, l’événement TRAFIC, qui se tiendra en juin 2005, s'intéresse à ce qui circule et aux diverses voies de circulation empruntées dans ce monde - que nous contribuons tous à construire - caractérisé par la disparition de la distance, le souci obsessionnel de la production et l'augmentation de la surveillance. Initié par L'Écart... un centre d'artiste autogéré situé à Rouyn-Noranda, l'événement se développe suivant trois axes visant à approfondir la réflexion sur les lieux de circulation, de tractation et de pouvoir visités par l'art actuel, en écho à la sophistication des technologies et des réseaux de communication des sociétés contemporaines.
CIRCULATION / TRACTATION / LE POUVOIR ET LA LOI
CIRCULATION Le concept de trafic implique, dans un premier temps, l'idée de grande affluence. Il réfère à la mobilité, au flux, à la surcharge et à l'encombrement (d'humains, de marchandises ou d'idées) sur un territoire par différents réseaux, qu'il s'agisse des réseaux de transport ou de télécommunication. TRACTACTION La notion de trafic renvoie dans un deuxième temps aux domaines de l'économique et du social : aux questions de liaisons, d'échange, de négoce, de troc et de distribution. LE POUVOIR ET LA LOI Le troisième axe de l'événement porte sur des questions de pouvoir et de légalité. Ce volet se penche sur les démarches artistiques traitant, par la voie du réel ou de l'imaginaire, de jeux d'influence, d'opérations clandestines ou de réseaux parallèles.
La ville de Rouyn-Noranda, qui accueillera une programmation intra et extra-muros, sera le cœur de l’événement. Les centres de diffusion des villes de La Sarre, Val d'or, Ville-Marie et Amos accueilleront également des expositions en leurs murs.
Commissaires : Nathalie de Blois + Mathieu Beauséjour
PROGRAMME VIDÉO
Les artistes sont également invités à présenter des monobandes pour le programme vidéo de TRAFIC qui circulera à travers la région.
Pour plus d’information, consultez le site : <http://www.cablevision.qc.ca/ecart>www.cablevision.qc.ca/ecart
Les propositions de projets doivent comprendre :
- un texte d'intention ;
- un curriculum vitæ ;
- 10 diapositives clairement identifiées et/ou document vidéographique, DVD, CD-ROM, bande sonore sur CD ou tout autre document ou lien Internet utile à l'analyse du dossier ;
- une liste descriptive des documents visuels et d'accompagnement ;
- seuls les dossiers comprenant une enveloppe pré-affranchie seront retournés.
Adresser votre dossier à :
TRAFIC Inter/nationale d'art actuel d'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
167, ave Murdoch
C.P. 2273
Rouyn-Noranda (Québec) J9X 5A9
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5. EVENT: "In/and out of position" public forum
September 17 - 19, 2004; Source: Visible art activity
Friday Sept. 17, 7-9pm Education Theatre, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. West., Toronto
Saturday, Sept 18, 2-4pm, Metro Square, Wellington/John St., Toronto
Sunday, Sept. 19,2-4pm, Mercer Union, 37 Lisgar St., Toronto
Organizations: Fuse Magazine, Art Gallery of Ontario Education Department, Mercer Union
Speakers: Paul Couillard, Christine Shaw, Marcus Miller
Rapporteur: Jessica Wyman
Facilitators: 'visible art activity' (John Dummett and Kirsten Forkert)
for more information on the symposium and visible art activity check these websites:
www.inandoutofposition.com
www.visibleartactivity.com
'In/and out of position' will question the problematics and limitations of using the languages of opposition and of the avant-garde, to develop a critical discourse around performative and site-specific works. Performance and temporary or process based work in public places has tended to historically define/locate itself as an outside or alternative to the autonomous art object and the hermetic space of the gallery, and by extension, mainstream art practice. The reasons for this are complex and not always coherent, but it can be argued that they share an emphasis on the immediate moment, the privileging of the physical/sensory experience over the rational or intellectual and the temporary occupation of spaces with the subsequent unpredictability of incidental audiences. Together, these points mark out a body of practices that foreground notions of ephemerality, brevity and contingency. Although a few artists have been `canonized' and occupy the gallery via documentation, performative and site-specific works for the most part maintain a marginal role, especially in terms of critical discourse. Because of this marginal role in relation to the gallery space and the art object, these practices tend to be `seen' within and contextualised by, the historical ideas of what the avant-garde is or more accurately was, with its consequent position of apparent opposition and innovation.
Marcus Miller
Based in Montreal, he works as an artist, writer, curator and teacher. A graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, he has studied architecture, 3-D computer modeling, and holds an MA in the Social History of Art from Leeds University, U.K. Miller is the Montreal Correspondent for Contemporary Magazine (London) and has written for various journals and newspapers including Parachute, Prefix, Fuse, On Site, the Montreal HOUR and the Globe and Mail. Miller recently taught an undergraduate class on art and the everyday.
Paul Couillard
Paul Couillard has been working as an artist, curator, and organizer since 1985, focusing on performance art with forays into theatre, writing, holography, installation, film and video. He has been the Performance Art Curator for Fado since its inception in 1993, and is a founding co-curator of the 7a*11d International Performance Art. He is also the editor of Canadian Performance Art Legends, a series of text and DVD publications featuring the work of senior Canadian performance artists. As an artist, he has created over 100 solo and collaborative performance works, often working with his partner Ed Johnson.
Christine Shaw
Christine Shaw is an artist, curator and PhD candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University. She has presented her work in galleries, publications and conferences across Canada and is co-editor of the forthcoming issue of Public: Localities.
Jessica Wyman
Jessica Wyman is a curator and art writer, and PhD candidate in art history at Queen's University. She has published in art journals internationally, and recently curated the exhibition " Genesis" by Eduardo Kac, at YYZ Artist's Outlet in Toronto.
Visible art activity is the name given to the collaborative work of John Dummett and Kirsten Forkert. Their collaborative practice seeks to question and reconsider the cultural and economic conditions which we inhabit as artists and anonymous individuals. This negotiation is given form through contemporary art, dialogue and symposiums.
This project is financially supported through the Off the Radar program.
Contact info: Kirsten Forkert
kforkert@telus.net
905-844-4402 ext.37
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6. EVENT: "Beans, Bananas, and Yams: Performance Art Relics, Residue, and Ephemera" YYZ
September 8 - October 23, 2004; Source: YYZ
Beans, Bananas, and Yams: Performance Art Relics, Residue, and Ephemera
Featuring works by:
Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Laurie Anderson, George Brecht, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Paul Couillard, Fluxus, Simone Forti, Vera Frenkel, Ken Friedman, GAAG, General Idea, Rodney Graham, Al Hansen, Ed Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Alison Knowles, Alvin Lucier, Christian Marclay, Kelly Mark, Meredith Monk, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Sandy Plotnikoff, Mathew Sawyer, Carolee Schneemann, Mike Smith, Michael Snow, Annie Sprinkle, Jeff Wall and many others.
Curated by Dave Dyment for 7a*11d
Le Déclin Bleu
Diane Landry
YYZ Window:
wish you were here3
Laurel Woodcock
Beans, Bananas, and Yams: Performance Art Relics, Residue, and Ephemera is an exhibition of international Performance Art material that includes works spanning more than forty years. The posters, programmes, scores, announcement cards, props, and other relics illustrate the genre's ephemeral and transitory nature and forms an alternative history and narrative of the movement. The exhibition will also include performative works whose primary means of dissemination was the documentation itself.
In Le Déclin Bleu a seduction of slow movements is performed by otherwise ordinary materials. With the strategic harnessing of light and stealthy kinetics, arrangements of plastic bottles project ornate silhouettes. Our perception of these objects is altered by the tandem challenge of re-contextualization and animation. Landry describes the mouvelle, a paradigm for the existence of the work, as "a continually renewed flow of time – a space-time continuum imposed by the work's very nature."
In wish you were here 3, Woodcock adopts the phrase common to vacation postcards, while re-animating colloquialism in 3 versions of one event. Look in the sky on the way to the opening between 7:00 and 8:00 PM. (Weather permitting.)
YYZ Artists' Outlet
401 Richmond St. W. Suite 140
t/416.598.4546
f/416.598.2282
yyz@yyzartistsoutlet.org
www.yyzartistsoutlet.org
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 – 5 PM
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