omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est by Simla Civelek

Inspired by her own works presented previously at FADO, in this new video, Simla Civelek reflects on the fragmented performance body.

Performance Home: from Toronto to Turkey by Simla Civelek

What would be like to go back and record a walk-through of this space, like an audience-less performance, like a home movie of a ghost of a home? The camera as all-seeing eye, from my apartment in Toronto to our apartment in Istanbul, through a distance of 8,196.58 kms?

Pi*llOry Part 3 and Part 4

Pi*llOry’s performers are liberating queer bodies as a primary agency that can harness the transformative power of presence, space, politics, shame and (dis)/ability while refracting their infinite incarnations.

Ghost Days by Terrance Houle with Simla Civelek

Evoking our colonial and non-colonial histories that exist in the light of night as in the darkness of the day, this performance awakens a collaboration with artists, audience, and spirit.

Performances by Alice De Visscher and Simla Civelek

This event invites a local artist and an international artist to present new solo performance works created for the same space.

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 Home

FADO’s at-home residency series, launched in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic.

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).