FADO, imagineNATIVE, Reel Asian, SAVAC, and Vtape, collectively known as The Commons @ 401, are pleased to present the film curation to be SERIOUS BIZ for this year’s city-wide Doors Open event.
ARTISTS
Alice Sheppard & Danielle Peers
Dayna McLeod
Evelyn Pakinewatik
Hannah Hull & Tara Hakim
Noor Gatih
Inspired by the Buddhist koan, “not knowing is the most intimate,” the series embraces the uncertainty of our contemporary emotional landscapes, inviting both artists and audiences to move into the discomfort of uncharted waters.
Amy Hull
Claudia Edwards
Joyce LeeAnn
Sasha Singer-Wilson
Trish Lanns
We Could Break Performance is a podcast hosted by artists Vanessa Godden and James Knott investigating the question: “How do we evaluate the substance of tropes enacted in performance art?”
Epi 1: F-F Granados
EpI 2: Archer Pechawis
Epi 3: Erika DeFreitas
Epi 4: Mikiki
Epi 5: Kiera Boult
In FADO’s newest series, we highlight and investigate two foundational gestures of the performance art vocabulary—walking, talking—through performances and discursive interventions that explore their intrinsic mutual imbrication.
Walk with us.
An ode to FADO's history, Series Purple is composed of a collection of purple fragrance materials dating back to the Roman Empire. Dense, intense, and meandering, this fragrance tells us non-linear stories.
huckleberry, violet
cassis, lilac, heliotrope
orris root, purple sage, labdanum
