FADO E-BULLETIN
January 2025

1. FADO EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES IS BACK!
   DATE FEBRUARY THROUGH MAY 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO

After a 10-year hiatus, FADO’s emerging Artists Series is back in 2025!

A much-loved staple of FADO’s programming year from 2003 to 2014, FADO’s emerging Artists series was created to provide a platform for younger artists to develop and present a performance piece in a professional context, often for the first time. As the series developed, the opportunity it provided extended to nurturing new performance curators. Each new project in the series has interpreted in its own particular way the central term of its mandate reformulating who/what should be considered ‘emerging’ in the context of performance art practice as presented through the FADO frame.

For the 2025 Emerging Artist Series, ‘emerging’ is discarded as a label that reveals age, defines time spent or as a qualification of perceived depth of experience. Instead, from February through May two curators and three series researcher residents develop performance installations, performance events and research projects that bring the notion of ‘emerging’ into relationship with community and forms of practice.

Emerging Artists Series curators:
Jordan King
Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan.

Emerging Artists Series research residents:
Vanessa Godden
James Knott
Christina Trutiak

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2. FADO EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES #1: ON VIEW CURATED BY JORDAN KING
   DATE FEBRUARY 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO

Throughout 2020, performance for online audiences (via livestream, Zoom, and other social media channels) became increasingly common. Unseen viewers tuned in on laptops and smartphones, from anywhere in the world. The presence of a camera—for artists and audiences alike—dictated the frame.

The prompt to invited artists in this first project in FADO’s Emerging Artists Series for 2025 was minimal: “You are on view.” Performances will take place in the glass cube meeting room located at The Commons @ 401 which is visible from the corridor. Simultaneously, the performance will be streamed in the adjacent screening room. Audiences are free to take up whichever view suits them.

For the artists, the camera takes up a position in the performance space, but this is not a performance for the camera. Is it possible to be oblivious to (or to obliterate) the presence of the camera? How might the camera inform considerations for movement or activity (or perhaps lack thereof) that you engage in for the performance, while not performing for this all-seeing eye, the camera?

An additional intention for the curator was to develop new collaborative relationships and dialogues with artists working in performance through this project. Toronto is generally seen as an inhospitable metropolis, and as housing costs as well as operational costs rise, challenges for artists committed to creating performance also increase. The Emerging Artists Series is the perfect platform for a small number of artists who do not have lengthy histories of performing in Toronto to create a new small-scale work.

Artist details and specific event dates announced in early February.

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3. PERFORMANCE EVENT SCRAPE NOMADIC COLLECTIVE
   DATE JANUARY 5, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE LO BIL

SCRAPE. nomadic collective.

January 5, 2025
12:00pm–2:00pm

Tranzac, Southern Cross Room
292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto

Join us for quick actions, collective gestures and experimental performance art proposals.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
niki Kostikian-Djibelian
Shima Raeesi
lo bil
Marilyn Yogarajah
Colin Cudmore
Mariana Medellin
Simla Civelek
Chantal Hassard
Francesco Gagliardi
Katie Kehoe

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4. EVENT DANCEWORKS & CDC PRESENT NICKESHIA GARRICK
   DATE JANUARY 9, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE CATHERINE ROMANO

DanceWorks presents

the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us
By Nickeshia Garrick

January 9, 2025
12:00–1:00pm

Presented as part of the Canadian Opera Company’s Free Concert Series

This performance will focus on the physicality and energy surrounding Black socio-political movements and their impact on Black performance art from the 1960s to now. This work will embody specific gestures and expressions from these historical moments through the lens of Garrick’s blackness, queerness and ancestral blood memory. A movement activity and Q&A will follow.MORE INFORMATION

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5. EVENT DANCEWORKS & NIA CENTRE PRESENTS NICKESHIA GARRICK
   DATE JANUARY 11, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE CATHERINE ROMANO

Nickeshia Garrick: In Dialogue – where artists meet audiences
January 11, 2025
1:00–3:00PM

DanceWorks and Nia Centre for the Arts are pleased to present Nickeshia Garrick: In Dialogue – where artists meet audiences.

Audiences will experience a first look at multidisciplinary performance artist Nickeshia Garrick’s, the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us, a new work that is informed by the physicality and energy surrounding Black socio-political movements and their impact on Black performance art from the 1960s to now, across Turtle Island. This work will embody specific gestures and expressions from these historical moments through the lens of Garrick’s blackness, queerness and ancestral blood memory.

the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us emerges as a virtuosic movement story that will connect the audience to her lived experiences through song, dance and spoken word. After the performance, the audience will be invited to engage in vibrant dialogue with Nickeshia Garrick about her evolving performance and research practice. Join us and witness her detail the explorations and discoveries that occurred during her 6-month Fellowship with DanceWorks and her plans for her ever-expanding performance practice.

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6. CALL FOR PROPOSALS PERFORMANCE RESEARCH ‘ON SCORES’
   DEADLINE DATE JANUARY 13, 2025
   LOCATION THE WORLD
   SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Call for Proposals: Vol. 30, No. 6: On Scores
Deadline: January 13, 2025

The concept of the score has become a key principle in the work of many performance makers. The term can, and has been, interpreted in a multitude of different ways across the spectrum of arts and performance disciplines as it provides an often radical means of subverting and challenging the eurocentric dependence on a logocentric means of fixing and legitimating particular creative practices. It could be argued that traditional conceptions of ‘score’ serve as a mechanism for documenting, inducing and reproducing live performative phenomena that exist outside of mainstream practices.

To read the full Call for Proposals description, please visit the Performance Research website.

Schedule:
Proposals: January 2025
First drafts: May 2025
Final drafts: September 2025
Publication: January 2026

All proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct to the PR office: info@performance-research.org

Issue-related enquiries should be directed to the issue editors via: Michael Pinchbeck M.Pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk

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7. EMPLOYMENT PERFORMANCE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
   DEADLINE DATE JANUARY 13, 2025
   LOCATION CHICAGO, USA
   SOURCE MARK JEFFERY

Performance School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Full Time Tenure Track Hire
Fall 2025

The Department of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position to begin August of 2025. Salary is competitive with peer institutions and commensurate with quality of practice, scholarship and current academic research, extent of teaching experience, and current professional standing.

The Department of Performance at SAIC is unique in the United States, bringing a performance and performance studies curriculum to both undergraduate and graduate students in an interdisciplinary art school setting. Building on a foundation of experimentation, the Department of Performance evolves in relation to new developments inside and outside the field of performance, and aims to be responsive to new ways of seeing and understanding the world in the 21st century.

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8. EVENT PUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
   DATE JANUARY 23–FEBRUARY 9, 2025
   LOCATION VANCOUVER, CANADA
   SOURCE PUSH

This year we are celebrating 20 years of PuSh. 20 years of embracing the strange and experimental. 20 years of defying borders to create intercultural connectivity. 20 years of radically reframing our cultural landscape. 20 years of sheer audacity. Looking back at the history of PuSh, the Festival has had a remarkable impact on our city, driven by the many staff, artists, donors, partners, audiences and volunteers who’ve been dedicated to PuSh over two decades. Looking toward the future, we dream of a PuSh that is essential, electric and responsive to a changing world. This is a year of change, of intermediacy. We are embarking on a leadership transition, and with that change comes both the grief of goodbyes and the excitement of new horizons. At the same time, we celebrate new faces and the growth of the PuSh community. Caught in the liminal space between dreams of a past echoed in newsprint and a future we envision but can’t see, PuSh 20 is an opportunity to sit together in the tenuous joy of unknowing.

ARTISTS
Ray Young (UK)
Jaha Koo/Campo (South Korea/Belgium)
Mirko Guido (Denmark/Italy)
Collectif D’Art/Stuidos Kabako (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Tim Etchells/Bert & Nasi (UK/France)
Châu Kim-Sanh/Midland (Canada
Gabriel Dharmoo (Canada)
Clayton Lee (Canada/UK)
Theatre Conspiracy/Pandemic Theatre (Canada)
Rice & Beans Theatre (Canada)
Andrea Peña & Artists (Canada
L’eau du Bain (Canada
A Wake of Vultures (Canada)
Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Canada)
Lizzie Borden (USA)

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9. OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION P.O. BOX 391106 BY JIMENA BERMAJO
   DEADLINE DATE JANUARY 25, 2025
   LOCATION THE WORLD
   SOURCE MOBIUS ARTISTS GROUP

Open Call for Participation in Collaborative Performance Art Project
P.O. Box 391106
by Jimena Bermajo

Submission Deadline: January 25th, 2025

I invite individuals from all walks of life to participate in a collaborative performance art piece.
Drawing from my experiences as both an educator and a perpetual student, this project seeks to capture the excitement and discovery inherent in creative assignments. It’s also an homage to the playful, interactive tradition of mail art. Participants are invited to submit instructions for performance actions via snail mail. This project not only opens the door for a variety of ideas to emerge from unexpected sources but also underscores the value of community in the creative process. By reaching out to any and all collaborators in this egalitarian fashion, it provides a platform for voices that might otherwise go unheard, fostering a collective artistic journey that transcends individual boundaries.

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10. EVENT LILITH PRESENTS IWILLMEDIEVALFUTUREYOU2
    DATE FEBRUARY 13–MARCH 16, 2025
    LOCATION MALMÖ, SWEDEN
    SOURCE LILITH

A major international, interdisciplinary exhibition-performance—Over 20 unique evenings from February 13 to March 16—iwillmedievalfutureyou2 will feature more than 30 artists from 14 different countries at Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö.

iwillmedievalfutureyou2 is a form that aims to merge into a constantly changing whole. None of the 20 evenings will be like the other; works will be exchanged, added, and built upon throughout the period. Each evening will feature 4-6 performances, some simultaneous, others recurring in intervals, alongside sculptures, installations, films, and paintings.

ARTISTS
Kristoffer Akselbo
Pranay Dutta
Li Yin-Fan
Jules Fischer
Ida Marie Hede
Leif Holmstrand
Kim Heecheon
Keunmin Lee
Mire Lee
Laura Lima
Molly Lowe
Éva Mag
Dafna Maimon
Hyeji Nam
Tontey Natasha
Rolf Nowotny
Aniara Omann
Agnieszka Polska
Anna-Karin Rasmusson
Riar Rizaldi
Elias Rønnenfeldt
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir
Magnus Wallin
Peter Wächtler
Chuah Chong Yan
He Zike

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