FADO E-BULLETIN
December 2021

1. OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS DARE-DARE CLASSE NEIGE
   DEADLINE DATE DECEMBER 6, 2021
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE DARE-DARE

For the winter of 2022, Espace Critique Committee (Critical Space Committee) is offering an edition of Fabuler L’École under the “classe neige” formula. Anchored in a non-urban context, it aims to extract ourselves from our domestic and everyday spaces in order to fully engage in the collective experience in nature, to experiment with other forms of public space and to question the influence of context on exchange and transmission.

Fabuler L’École is a pedagogical and artistic adventure that began as part of the Espace Critique Committee (Critical Space Committee) of the artist-run center DARE-DARE in 2019.

Since then, it has been creating a collective learning space in the form of a transdisciplinary experimental school. Fabuler L’École is a laboratory with plural rhythms and co-existing temporalities, based on the desire to reflect together on engagement through art in public space, on the processual dimension of practices, on the potential of sharing and on ways of occupying space from a decolonial perspective.

Fabuler L’École is aimed at artists, thinkers and undisciplined practitioners who wish to engage in the invention of new forms and pursue a quest for (de)formation. The project proposes the exchange and sharing of practices, gestures, perceptions and experiences in order to create collective intelligence and heterogeneous knowledge.

Examples of what could be shared/experienced/engaged through co-presence:
—Reading circles, group reading
—Movement/meditation/wandering workshops
—Sharing knowledge and know-how
—Observation walks
—Outdoor activities (snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, sliding, playing in the snow)
—Writing exercises
—Free time
—Livelihood activities (with grocery assistance)
—Fabulations

For more information and to APPLY.

2. EVENT -AND- (12-HOUR ON-LINE EVENT / FADO PRESENTS HOUR 1)
   DATE DECEMBER 12, 2021
   LOCATION ONLINE
   SOURCE CHRISTOF MIGONE

-AND-
Organized by Christof Migone
12 hours on December 12, 2021

The second in a series of twelve annual events taking place on December 12 from 12 noon to midnight (EST). Each year the event will move through each word of the 12-word phrase ‘you and I are water earth fire air of life and death’ and activate the word of the year in myriad ways. This year the word is ‘and’, consequently the focus is on repetitions, conjunctions, and duos. Last year it started with ‘you’, this year we connect you to anything and everything that you are together-with. Or, we get stuck in the very act that ‘and’ opens up, into the enormity that the so-what-next that ‘and’ implies. ‘And’ is all possibilities in a nutshell.

Presented in partnership with: Alt Space Loop (Seoul), Arraymusic (Toronto), Avatar (Québec), CRiSAP (London UK), Errant Bodies Press (Berlin), FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto), Radius (Chicago), Resonance Extra (London UK), squint _ _ _ _ _ _ press (Québec/Toronto), Wave Farm (Acra NY), Western University (London, ON), Zone Sound Creative (Taipei).

WATCH on YouTube Live

-AND- HOUR 1 (beginning at 12h EST)
FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto) PRESENTS Erika DeFreitas (Toronto) and Adrian Piper (Berlin)
Seriation #2: Now (1968) & Seriation #2a: _and (with thoughts of Adrian Piper) (2021)

In #2, DeFreitas performs Piper’s audio work Seriation #2: Now with visuals created by DeFreitas to question our presence in the ‘now’. In #2a, DeFreitas creates a score based on Piper’s essay “Passing for White, Passing for Black” by isolating the word ‘and’ on the pages it appears.

For full programme information: https://youandiarewaterearthfireairoflifeanddeath.com/

3. EVENT FRAGMENT: VIDEO PERFORMANCE EXHIBITION BY REBECCA BELMORE
   DATE CONTINUING TO DECEMBER 12, 2021
   LOCATION QUÉBEC CITY, CANADA
   SOURCE LE LIEU

4. EVENT FRAGMENT: LIVE ART IRELAND PRESENTS VIRTUALLY ALIVE & STEAMING
DATE DECEMBER 14, 2021
LOCATION IN-PERSON & ONLINE
SOURCE KATE BARRY

5. EVENT M. GROS [MR. BIG] BY GENEVIÈVE & MATTHIEU
DATE CONTINUING TO DECEMBER 18, 2021
LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
SOURCE G&M