FADO E-BULLETIN
July 2024

1. FADO ARTIST ORANGE THE SCENT
   DATE AVAILABLE NOW
   LOCATION SNAIL MAIL
   SOURCE FADO + I KNOW YOU KNOW

ARTIST ORANGE IS HERE!

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!

HOW TO GET ARTIST ORANGE

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.

x, fado

2. PUBLICATION ANDREW JAMES PATERSON: NEVER ENOUGH NIGHT
   DATE AVAILABLE NOW
   LOCATION THE WORLD
   SOURCE ART METROPOLE

Opened in April at the plumb in Toronto, Andrew James Paterson: Never Enough Night, was the most extensive survey exhibition of the seminal Canadian artist’s work to date. The exhibition included a vast selection of Paterson’s video work spanning from the early 1980s through to the present, as well as poetry, painting, music, archival material, a live performance series, and an original catalogue which is available now.

Co-published by the plumb and Art Metropole, this catalogue includes essays by Vera Frenkel and Parker Kay, as well as an interview with Andrew James Paterson and John Greyson.

Exhibition curated by Laura Carusi, Anthony Cooper, Kate Whiteway
Catalogue designed by Rowan Lynch
Printed by Swimmers Group, Toronto
Sponsored by Partners in Art

Andrew James Paterson is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His work engages in a playful questioning of language, philosophy, ‘community and capitalism’ in a wide range of disciplines, including video, performance, writing, film, and music. He has exhibited nationally and internationally for over four decades. Paterson’s artist’s book Collection Correction was published by Kunstverein Toronto and Mousse of Milan in 2016. His novelette Not Joy Division was published by IMPULSE B in Toronto in 2018. Paterson was awarded a Governor General’s Award for his work in Visual and Media Arts in 2019.

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3. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SKOL & VIVA! MICROWORKSHOPS
   DEADLINE DATE JULY 5, 2024
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE VIVA! ART ACTION

In partnership with Skol’s performance committee, VIVA! Art Action invites Montreal * artists with an action art practice to submit a proposal for a micro-workshop. Selected activities will be part of an artistic and pedagogical programme that will temporarily occupy Skol’s gallery in August 2024.

* Unfortunately, VIVA! cannot commit to reimbursing travel and accommodation costs for artists living outside Montreal. The call is therefore aimed primarily (but not exclusively) at Montreal-based artists.

At the intersection of skill-sharing and professional development, this project will consist of a cohort of artists who will take turns leading and participating in a series of peer-based training activities. Selected artists will offer a short workshop consisting of theoretical and/or practical exercises related to their performance practice. Lasting 3 to 4 hours each, these activities are aimed at engaging other members of the cohort but may also be opened to the general public. This initiative aims to nurture the development of the personal practice of the participating artists and, more largely, the discipline of performance art by offering a multifaceted learning experience that targets the group formed, but is also accessible to the wider action art community.

During the month of August, selected artists will also be able to use the gallery as a residency space in which to discuss their practices and methodologies. Participating artists could, for example, develop new actions and shared resources such as a bibliography or a repertoire of exercises.

No professional experience in giving workshops is required. VIVA! encourages artists to submit proposals of all kinds:
Practical exercises, individual or group;
Sharing theoretical content, discussion or reflection activities;
Group reading or viewing of media;
Shortened version of a pre-existing workshop;
Any other form of sharing that you feel is relevant!

Deadline: Friday, July 5, 2024. Applicants will receive a reply in mid-July.
Applications and any questions relating to the call should be sent to: info@vivamontreal.org

For complete submission information, timelines, conditions & MORE INFORMATION

4. SCREENING 100 WAYS TO CROSS THE BORDER AT LADA
   DATE JULY 9, 2024
   LOCATION LONDON, ENGLAND
   SOURCE LA POCHA NOSTRA

We are delighted to present Amber Bemak’s 100 Ways to Cross the Border (2022), a self-reflexive performative documentary on Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s extraordinary 40-year career of radical artistic practice alongside his international performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra.

At a time when the mainstream US and international media are filled with demonising stories about the US–Mexico border, 100 Ways to Cross the Border presents the philosophical frameworks of Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s sustained dedication to highly impactful and innovative artistic interventions on that border, reclaiming and ‘queering’ it as a laboratory for utopian ideas and artistic experimentation. Featuring exclusive footage from the post Mexican/Chicanx performance artist’s personal archive, the film also constitutes a unique portrait of being on the road for three years with his beloved troupe.

July 9, 2024
7:00pm
Queen Mary University of London

Guillermo Gomez-Peña and Balitronica Gomez, Artistic Co-director of La Pocha Nostra, will join us for the screening and deliver a performative introduction.

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5. PERFORMANCE LEGS LEZARTS
   DATE JULY 13, 2024
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE HUGO NADEAU

LEGS LEZARTS
La Chaufferie, 2220 Rue Parthenais, Montreal
Start time: 12:00pm noon

In the tradition of the on-going, international performance art events known as LEGS, we would like to invite multidisciplinary artists interested in performance to participate (or just come and experience) the LEGS LEZARTS event!

The event takes place on at La Chaufferie, the LEZARTS cooperative’s center for dissemination and experimentation. Hosted by LEZARTS.

REGISTRATION
Please confirm your participation by completing THIS FORM before July 5. Any individual or collective will be accepted, with or without invitation.

LOCATION
Performances may be presented indoors in La Chaufferie or outdoors in the co-op parking lot. Photos will be provided on request.

CONDITIONS
The event is community-based and self-managed, so no fees are paid. Each participant must be responsible for their performance and organize their own travel. Participants are encouraged to get in touch to carpool and/or discuss a transition between their performances, if desired.

ABOUT LEGS
LEGS is a series of relay performance events initiated in Montreal in 2015, characterized by a questioning of institutional curatorial and financial models. LEGS exists to allow greater freedom of action and deployment. Its initiators wanted to set up a horizontal, independent and flexible event open to all, regardless of experience or artistic approach. In the first Legs event in 2015, over 50 participants took turns for 9 consecutive hours of performances lasting around 10 minutes without interruption. The event was a resounding success. Following its founding principles, a “LEGS score” was produced so that anyone who had already participated could initiate their own LEGS. To date, LEGS events have taken place in: Montreal, Toronto, Zurich, Olten, Giswil, Basel, Saguenay, Girona, Chicoutimi, Athens and Rimouski.

We look forward to seeing you at this performance event!

Your dedicated volunteers,
Danny Gaudreault, Hugo Nadeau, Katherine-Josée Gervais

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6. EVENT MOVEMENTS FOR MOVEMENTS
   DATE JULY 16 & 23, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE LO BIL

Movements for Movements
Performance and Poetry group

Dates: July 16 & 23 (drop-in for one session only is welcome)
Time: 6:00–9:00pm
Location: The Commons, 401 Richmond Street West, 4th floor

Facilitated by Fan Wu and lo bil
Hosted by FADO Performance Art Centre

Our theme for these sessions is RESISTANCE AND RELATIONALITY. What are we moving with? We read things about “movement” in all its meanings. We read things that move us, or that move us to move. We ask ourselves, how does the language take shape and flow through us, and in turn inspire physical or conceptual movement? How does language inform our physicality within political movements, especially in a landscape of wide-ranging public protest pitted against state power? How do we work with the tensions that circuit between individual and group dynamics? We look at scores and concoct a few of our own.

• Group physical attunement practice
• Performing poetry including works by Lepecki, Hay, Notley, Creeley, Dao, Moten, Scalapino, and writing form the group
• Write from out of performance and perform from out of writing
• Devise mini-improvisatory actions
• Movement with physical contact is encouraged; refusals also always welcomed.

MORE INFORMATION email lobil@ocadu.ca

7. EVENT SUMMER LOVE-IN 2024
   DATE JULY 29–AUGUST 9, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE LOVE-IN

Toronto Dance Community Summer Love-In 2024
July 29–August 9, 2024

ARTISTS
Aisha Sasha John
Anya Saugstad
Darryl Tracy
Leelee Oluwatoyosi Eko Davis
Louumms
jaamil olawale kosoko
Robert Kingsbury
Tanya Marqaurdt

We are elated to bring the talents and genius of an incredible group of artists for your summer dancing pleasure at the Summer Love-In 2024. Toronto Dance Community Love-In’s annual festival takes place virtually and in person at The Railpath Arts Centre, and Pia Bouman Theatre.

PLUS save the date and get your tickets now for the annual live dance show!!
PS: we are all here

Date: August 3, 2024
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Collective Space, 221 Sterling Road, Toronto

TICKETS on sale NOW!

The Toronto Dance Community Love-In’s annual Summer Love-In (SLI) is a two-week festival that includes physical training, somatic practice, creative methods and choreographic composition with local, national and international artists. SLI includes our annual live dance show, PS: we are all here! All to nourish your beautiful creative self.

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8. EVENT SUMMERWORKS
   DATE AUGUST 1–11, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE SUMMERWORKS

Welcome to the 34th SummerWorks Performance Festival!

In response to the current zeitgeist, the 2024 SummerWorks Performance Festival presents 11 days of bold creative expressions from a diversity of perspectives and lived experiences, that engage with the idea of survival, in both subtle and blunt ways, with nuanced complexity.

With over 40+ events and activities, all curated and designed around the idea of gathering together, this year’s Festival offers you a moment to pause and reflect, to dive into the energy and chaos, and to witness dynamic live performances by independent artists from across Canada, and around the world.

SummerWorks Performance Festival offers four distinct streams of programming:

SummerWorks Presentations: Fully-developed new works and touring productions, offering a snapshot of the future of contemporary performance.

SummerWorks Lab: A place for exploration, experimentation, and process, with diverse performance works shared at crucial stages of creative development, forging connections between artists and audiences.

SummerWorks Public Works: Free performances and artworks that aim to bring artists and audiences together to experience public space in new ways.

SummerWorks Exchange: A dynamic space for emergent creative thinking to come into focus and conversation, gathering artists and audiences together with intention around relevant and urgent creative proposals and artistic practices.

We invite you to join us this summer, for an inspiring, thought-provoking, and magical SummerWorks experience.

FOR FULL PROGRAM DETAILS & MORE INFORMATION