Performance
2008

About her work Yamaoka says, “I define my art-works as sculptures depicting action and time and relationship between artist and audience, artist and materials, in which I attempt to create an example of the human condition.”

BBB Johannes Deimling uses everyday objects to create a living image reflecting a society full of contradictions, sentimentality, stupidity, creativity and cooperation.

“He decides to carry me out of the room on his back. He does not act to end the situation and lets me embrace him for next four hours. He turns around to face me and hugs me firmly. He uses force to get rid of me.”

Dressed in a Viagra mascot costume, the artist reacts three classic performance works by Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and Istvan Kantor.

“This proximity of my own body is just help me to communicate the powerful flame that I feel when I create. But behind that raw love for art appear a rigorous logical structure who support the piece and let emerge sense.”

êkâya-pâhkaci [ee-guy-uh-puck-a-chee] (don’t freeze up)

Over 15 years since he first performed On the Table in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art, Seiji Shimoda returns to present this seminal work again.

“Ideas and performance images come from everyday life situations, social and cultural atmospheres. In both performance and installation work, the body, alone, is the means of expression.”

The curatorial premise of this project required an emerging and an established performance artist to collaborate jointly, and in turn with participants within the space in which they work/present.

A two-part performance (book-ending the Images Festival) that examines the process of personal discovery through family and ancestry.

This 5-day performance-as-installation combines sound, drawing, action, video and collaborative writing examining the artist’s body, the body with disease and the body without organs. 

From Grotesques’ exhibition statement, curated by Lissette Olivares:

“In this collective exhibition, the grotesque is invoked as a realm of mutative, transitional, and transgressive potentiality.”

Co-Presented by A Space Gallery and FADO Performance Art Centre.