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The FADO website, created by the unique minds at I Know You Know, is guided by colour and scent.

Each of the categories on this website’s navigation menu—all the ways FADO presents our work—is colour-coded and contains a description of a unique fragrance, a kind of conceptual scent. Each scent illuminates the qualities of the various ways FADO works. You can read the description of the categories/colours/scents in the footer of each web page. The notes of each scent (top, middle, and base) conjure the elements, memories, and characteristics of our performances, artists, engagements, writing, e-bulletin, and the archive. 

The FADO fragrances are conceptual and actual. Some remain on the website as a description, in the form of a digital scratch n’ sniff that you imagine for yourself. Some have been formulated and are for experiencing via small editions of scented postcards mailed directly to your door (with the occasional collectible object).

We are excited to announce the third scent in the series—the most important one of all—is now available. ARTIST ORANGE is composed entirely of elements from the orange tree. The scent is the artist and the art. ARTIST ORANGE performs itself.

How does it do that, you might ask? By being worn by artists—by you! ARTIST ORANGE was formulated as a wearable scent. Sign up to receive a sample of ARTIST ORANGE in the mail today!

If you have already received the other scents on special limited edition postcards in the mail, then there is no need to do anything. ARTIST ORANGE will be coming to your mailbox this month. If you have yet to receive any of FADO’s signature scents, sign up to our mailing list with your address (or update your current profile) and start getting scented mail right away. DO THAT HERE.

Join writer and artist Cason Sharpe for four public ribbon-cutting ceremonies to commemorate the partial unveiling of Alexandra Park, a neighbourhood that’s been under re-construction for the past decade. Each ceremony will occur live in four different locations around Alexandra Park, bordered by Dundas Street West, Augusta Avenue, Queen Street West, and Cameron Street in Toronto. Combining the civic rituals of the walking tour and the ribbon-cutting ceremony, this series of performances turns a neighbourhood stroll into a travelling circus, a spectacle through which we may catch a glimpse of an ever-changing city. 

Four ceremonies. Four opportunities to witness. See you at the circus.

The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony: A Travelling Circus is part of FADO’s newest on-going series, Walk-and-Talk, put together by Francesco Gagliardi and Julian Higuerey Núñez.

CEREMONY 1: Saturday, September 21 at 3:00pm
Meet at the foot of Kensington Avenue (one block west of Spadina Avenue), by the construction hoarding on the south side of Dundas Street West.

CEREMONY 2: Saturday, September 21 at 7:00pm
Meet outside the basketball courts on the corner of Cameron Street and Paul Ln Gardens.

CEREMONY 3: Sunday, September 22 at 3:00pm
Meet outside 75 Augusta Square, in front of the rose bushes across the street from Randy Padmore Park.

CEREMONY 4: Sunday, September 22 at 7:00pm
Meet on the corner of Augusta Avenue and Grange Avenue (one block south of Dundas Street West), by the construction debris next to the dumpsters.

part of the ramble that remained in the end without explores the nexus of inner and outer worlds through a dual writing/recording practice: daily list-form notebook writing and a tapeloop of recorded fragments, both accumulated from reading. The reading, writing, and recording aspects of the work are free to diverge and intersect across a kind of roving open privacy, producing a coherent field of potential performance or realization marked by characteristic modularity and switches between discrete modes of action. This work stems from So’s longstanding use of field recordings and performed readings, but with a deeper connection and contiguity with wherever he happens to be working–creating an evolving register not only of recorded and written surfaces, but his movements through a changing field.

part of the ramble that remained in the end without manifests in two parts. The first part takes place on-line throughout the month of November. The second part, an in-person live presentation in Toronto, will take place on December 7.

PART 1: November 2024 (on-line)
Throughout the month of November, So will post to FADO’s Instagram page with a selection of recordings, images, and writing as he goes about his work along walks in urban and suburban areas of greater Los Angeles.

Part 2: December 7 | 7:30pm start time, The Commons @ 401
Mark So’s part of the ramble that remained in the end without culminates in a unique presentation at FADO, featuring a performance of writing and recordings made along walks in Toronto as well as around Los Angeles during the month of November.

part of the ramble that remained in the end without is part of FADO’s newest on-going series, Walk-and-Talk, put together by Francesco Gagliardi and Julian Higuerey Núñez.

Click here to register on Eventbrite!
FREE, all welcome

Please join us as we kick-off DanceWorks’ 2024–2025 Season with an Artist Talk featuring our inaugural Emerging to Mid-Career Fellow, Nickeshia Garrick.

The artist will be in discussion with Co-Executive Artistic Producer and Fellowship Facilitator, Dedra McDermott, to talk about the initial months of the Emerging to Mid-Career Fellowship, her archival research interest and recent discoveries supporting her developing research and choreographic project, the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us.

Nickeshia is currently exploring the socio-political, cultural and artistic influences on Black Performance Art from the 1960s to now across Turtle Island. the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us (working title), aims to excavate the context of the aforementioned influences and the role they potentially play(ed) in shaping Black performance art movements. Through this inquiry, Nickeshia is interested in locating any sites of disruption or a critical challenge of the traditional theatre milieux in Canada beginning in 1960.

With thanks to our partner Centre for The Study of Black Canadian Diaspora. This artist talk is presented with support from FADO Performance Art, Vtape, and ArQuives.

Curated by Francesco Gagliardi and Julian Higuerey Nunez

There’s a storytelling technique, originated in procedural TV and later adopted by narrative films and videogames, in which two or more characters have an important conversation while walking between places. The technique is generally used as a way of conveying large volumes of information in a dynamic way, while introducing the audience to the relative placement of various locations and communicating a sense of urgency. As a narrative device, it effectively functions as a way of combining two distinct vectors of a narrative (the visual and the aural) into a more compact and efficient whole. 

This technique is referred to as Walk-and-Talk. 

While there isn’t anything analogous in the realm of performance art, walking (to and from the site of a performance; as a component of the performance itself; as a stage of the creative process) and talking (as part of the performance or around it, like in the “artist talk”) are, for artists and audiences alike, such commonplace components of the experience of making and watching performances, that they tend to be taken for granted and disappear from view.

In this new, ongoing series, FADO highlights and investigates these foundational gestures of the performance art vocabulary—walking, talking—through performances and discursive interventions that explore their intrinsic mutual imbrication. After all, isn’t the stroll of the flâneur always also the articulation of an argument? Aren’t the verbal excesses of every character in a classic novel who pines for an unattainable elsewhere just another way of getting there?

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Walk-and-Talk Programming for Autumn 2024

September 21 & 22: The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony: A Travelling Circus by Cason Sharpe

November: part of the ramble that remained in the end without by Mark So (Instagram)

December 7: part of the ramble that remained in the end without by Mark So (in-person performance)

USA
http://mark-so.com/

Mark So works at the cusp of experimental music and poetics. His work has been presented around the world in formal and informal contexts, with recent performances, installations, listening rooms, and streetwork in L.A., Portland, Marfa, and Mexico City, including ongoing collaborations with composer Manfred Werder and others. His work has recently appeared in print in Walking from Scores (edited by Elena Biserna), Peripheries Journal No. 5, The Open Space, and with poet Tim Johnson, Pathetic Literature (edited by Eileen Myles). Marfa Book Co. published A Box of Wind, collecting nearly 300 scores from his Ashbery series. Recordings have been released on caduc, editions wandelweiser, winds measure, The Open Space, and his own death-spiral. He lives in and out of Los Angeles.

© Cason Sharpe, 2024. Photo Luke Albert.

Canada
https://read.cv/casonsharpe

Cason Sharpe is a writer and artist based in Toronto. He has presented work in collaboration with various friends and institutions across the country, and his fiction and criticism have appeared in various places in print and online.