PENTAGRAM – revisit by Gustaf Broms

To sit here in Sweden on a cold quiet winter night, hearing the street sounds, of Toronto 2013, echo amongst the trees, something uncanny, something exciting. The past, always a contrast?

In this new video work, Broms returns to his 2013 performance entitled Pentagram, performed on the streets of Toronto 10 years ago.

Pentagram by Gustaf Broms

Broms continues to work with a series of movements that look at concepts of inner/outer and movement /stillness, working with his own body as the tool for examining these processes.

Artist Talks with Gustaf Broms, Macarena Perich Rosas & Tomasz Szrama

REAL TO REEL

As an immaterial practice, performance art’s relationship to archive has always been a fraught one. Using their own/other documentation from the FADO archive, these five artists activate and challenge the linear narrative of the archive by creating new video works inspired by (or even using) their own documentation material.

Videos by Gustaf Broms (Sweden), Heather Rule (Canada), Margaret Dragu (Canada), MC Coble (USA/Sweden), Simla Civelek (Canada).

Performance Club

As a proposition for a performance or the framework for an actual book club, FADO’s Performance Club series redefines the historical and contemporary performance art canon, one book club, and one book, article, essay, anthology at a time.

9Questions, an artist project by Gustaf Broms

For Broms, these nine are the essential questions. The responses collected are as diverse and wide-ranging as the artists and their own approaches, from the practical, to the abstract to the simply far-flung, in addition to some reassuring and surprising overlapping ideas and connections.