FADO E-BULLETIN
June 2024

1. FADO INTERVIEW PULSE & MOVING BODIES WITH MC COBLE
   DATE NOW
   LOCATION ONLINE
   SOURCE CLAUDIA EDWARDS

FADO’s own Claudia Edwards interviews MC Coble about the dialogue between two of their works, PULSE (2016) and Moving Bodies (2024). PULSE was commissioned and presented by FADO for the 2016/2017 performance series, MONOMYTHS. In Moving Bodies, commissioned by FADO in the context of the REAL REEL series (2024), MC Coble revisits the documentation and material of PULSE to create a new video work looking back at the archive while reflecting in present time.

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MC Coble (they/them) seeks to make visible the hidden/ignored histories and contemporary urgencies of marginalized communities, informed in part, by their own experiences as a non-binary trans* artist, activist and educator. Photography, performance art, video and recently drawing form a material foundation for their critical and intersectional approach to thinking along with queer & trans* feminist politics, investigating the power of play and the potential of failure as methods. Coble has recently published the book Things Change Anyway (in collaboration with their partner, art historian Louise Wolthers), which won the Swedish Photobook Prize 2024. Through photos, drawing and text, it imagines metamorphosis such as non-binary gender affirmations, menopause and aging as well has non-human connectivity and queer kinship.

2. PERFORMANCE RESPAWN BY MILES GREENBURG
   DATE JUNE 5, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE LUMINATO

Art Gallery of Ontario and Luminato Festival Toronto presents
RESPAWN by Miles Greenberg

Wednesday, June 5
12:00–9:00pm
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West

Co-commissioned and co-presented by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Luminato Festival Toronto, RESPAWN is a day-long performance, inspired by first-person fighting video games. Set in Walker Court, Greenberg wields a weapon. On a mirrored stage littered with the silicone replicas of the artist himself, he will fight to exhaustion. The piece includes text by Canadian writer Jordan Tannahill.

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Miles Greenberg (b. 1997 in Montreal, Canada) is a New York-based performance artist and sculptor. His work consists of large-scale, sensorially immersive and site-specific environments revolving around the physical body in space. These installations are activated with often extreme durational performances that invoke the body as sculptural material. He has exhibited and performed internationally at museums and galleries, including The Louvre (Paris), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), The New Museum (New York), Arsenal Contemporary (Toronto), Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (New York), Galleria Continua (Les Moulins) and more. Greenberg’s work has also been included in numerous international art surveys, including the Athens Biennial, BoCA Lisbon, and the Bangkok Art Biennale.

LUMINATO FESTIVAL, June 5–16
Luminato Festival Toronto is a convenor and catalyst for big, bold contemporary works of art. Each June, Luminato kicks off the summer with a festival to welcome the world to Toronto, commissioning, producing, and presenting exceptional Canadian and international artists. Throughout the year, Luminato works with artists from the diverse cultures and communities of the city’s region, supporting creative development, and bringing their art to the world stage. We connect local voices with global conversations and ground our work in equity, inclusion, accessibility, and sustainability. Most importantly, we believe in the power of art to start conversations and inspire audiences.

3. PERFORMANCE I AM FROM REYKJAVIK BY SONIA HUGHES
   DATE JUNE 7, 8, 11 & 12, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE LUMINATO

Luminato Festival Toronto presents
I Am from Reykjavik by Sonia Hughes

I Am from Reykjavik by Sonia Hughes is more than a performance—it’s an invitation to introspection. It challenges us to examine our relationships with space and time, to reconsider the boundaries between self and other, and to embrace the possibility of forging meaningful connections in unexpected places. Join Sonia Hughes on this transformative journey, where every structure built and dismantled is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit to build your sense of home anywhere and in anyone you can.

DATES/TIMES/LOCATIONS
Performance in public space / FREE

Friday, June 7
11am–6pm @ R.V. Burgess Park

Saturday, June 8
11am–6pm @ Withrow Park

Tuesday, June 11
11am–6pm @ Sugar Beach

Wednesday, June 12
11am–6pm @ Yonge and Dundas Square

Currently associate artist to Festspillene i Nord-Norge de Harstad in Norway, Sonia Hughes has developed an artistic practice that is intentionally unspectacular for over 20 years, using everyday, mundane, volatile things as her material. On the margins of literature, social events, and visual art, Hughes takes the time to candidly investigate ideas of humanity, entitlement and community. Based in Marsden (Yorkshire, U.K.), she has collaborated for many years with the artist collective Quarantine as a writer, performer, and co-creator, notably including long-running works such as Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring (2014) and Wallflower (2015). Profoundly curious about human relationships in all their diversity, in 2001 she published a book based on her family story entitled Weeding Cane, and in 2021 she was invited to write a text about Skin Hunger, a performance by the company Dante or Die that addresses the power of touch in societies sterilized by digital technology. Whether it takes place before or during the performance, interaction—or co-creation—with audience members in their role as citizens or simply as neighbours is the basis of her artistic practice. She collaborated as a writer for the performance What Is the City but the People? (2017) by Jeremy Deller, which showcased the diversity of big cities’ populations.

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4. FADO ARTIST TALK WITH SONIA HUGHES
   DATE JUNE 9, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE LUMINATO FESTIVAL

FADO Performance Art Centre and Luminato Festival Toronto present
In conversation with Shannon Cochrane & Sonia Hughes

Sunday, June 9
6:30–7:30pm

The Commons, 401 Richmond Street West, 4th floor
FREE / Captions will be available / Accessible building & washrooms

As a part of Luminato Festival Toronto’s Conversation Series, FADO Performance Art Centre Artistic Director Shannon Cochrane engage in conversation with Sonia Hughes about her practice and her performance, I Am from Reykjavik, presented in public space during the 2024 Luminato Festival.

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5. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS PERFORMANCE RESEARCH ‘ON COALITIONS’
   DEADLINE DATE JUNE 10, 2024
   LOCATION THE WORLD
   SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Performance Research Volume 30, Issue 2 – ‘On Coalitions’
Deadline: 10 June 2024

How do we account for difference in collaborative pursuits? How do we discuss collective experience without deploying the totalizing ‘we’? What are the appropriate leadership models for an effective achievement of pluralist and intersectional agendas, based on equality, diversity and inclusion?

This issue of Performance Research considers coalitions—artistic, political, institutional or otherwise—and the performances that make them possible and that they, in turn, generate. We, the two editors of this issue, coming together from different parts of the world, invite you to revisit coalition as a term, so to review its geneaologies and manifestations in various facets of dance, theatre and performance. We see the need for this discussion as relevant to the current geopolitical moment and its probable coalitional histories, as well as in light of the recent articulations of global majority as an epistemological category in our field. […]

We aim to provoke a recalibration of the coalitions we engage in: how we think and make relations in and through performance and the institutions enabling performance-making and its study. How might contemporary dance, theatre and music performance practices enact coalitional politics? What might the histories and geneaologies of these political solidarities be? How might artistic and research coalitions relate to the political spectrum established by European modernity (left<>right)? What methodologies, problems, policies and educational paradigms arise from coalitional politics, such as the ones enacted by categories like ‘global majority’? How are dance, theatre and performance related to large-scale supra-governmental bodies such as ones mentioned above? We invite articles, manifestos, position papers, interviews and artist pages that think through the idea and practice of coalitional politics.

Visit the Performance Research website for the FULL call for submissions text.

Schedule:
Proposals: Outcomes June 2024
First drafts: September 2024
Final drafts: January 2025
Publication: March 2025

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6. EVENT SILT: FRESHWATER
   DATE JUNE 15, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, ONTARIO
   SOURCE CHRISTOPHER PETERSON

An evening of performance
Silt: Freshwater Edition

Saturday, June 15
7:00pm
Gerrard Art Space, 1475 Gerrard Street East

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Heather Rule
[ field ]
Isaak Fong
lo bil
James Knott

Silt is an evening of performance. Through a public open call, five artists are each provided with 15 minutes to present an action, event, or performance. Silt was originally started for movement artists and performance artists; however, it is open to everyone regardless of artistic or personal identifications. The aim of Silt is to provide participants with an accessible low stakes stage for experimentation and expression. Performers are currently selected by members of the Tuya Vale Artist Collective with the aim to encourage multiplicity and contrast. We do our best to provide opportunities to everyone who expresses interest.

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7. RESIDENCY LUMINOUS BODIES
   DEADLINE DATE JUNE 15, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE TERESA ASCENCAO

LUMINOUS BODIES art residency
Gibraltar Point Art Centre, Toronto Island

Facilitator: Teresa Ascencao
Dates: September 16–30, 2024
Deadline: June 15, 2024

Luminous Bodies is a two-week residency to create artworks that shed new light on the human body. Its objective is to challenge “normativity” and Otherness. Its goal is to reinvent and re-present the body in most inclusive and diverse ways. Resident artist talks, gallery tours, visual and textual references, guest artist talks, and regular critiques (individual with Facilitator and group critiques) help uncover how our bodies are culturally and aesthetically constructed, displayed and controlled. Residents work individually or collaboratively to create artworks that reinvent the body through media of their choice, such as photography, video, installation, drawing, painting, performance, installation, sound art, movement art, media art, etc. There will be a closing exhibition of artworks created during the residency (if preferred, artists may show in open studio fashion). The essence of Luminous Bodies is about bringing to light heterogeneous bodies. It welcomes people in all walks of life into a creative journey of critical innovation and self-discovery. People with disabilities, BIPOC, and people of diverse genders and ages are encouraged to apply.

Gibraltar Point Art Centre is an artist retreat centre nestled against the magnificent natural backdrop of Toronto Island. It offers a distraction-free environment to focus on art creation, and a rich potential for the creation of corporeal artworks amongst its blue-flag beaches (one of them being clothing optional) and natural surroundings of Lake Ontario, forests and gardens filled with flowers, fruit and vegetables. On the island, there are tiny quaint homes, a historic lighthouse, a hobby farm and antique carnival grounds. Cozy up in a furnished studio and bedroom, and enjoy amenities such as a fully equipped common kitchen, shared bathrooms, laundry facilities and wireless Internet. The art centre aims to have as minimal barriers as possible and promotes an inclusive environment. The Toronto city core is just a 15-minute ferry ride away.

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8. **ASL INTERPRETED**
   EVENT SHORT&SWEET TORONTO EDITION
   DATE JUNE 21, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE LOVE-IN

TDT presents Short&Sweet

Friday, June 21
8:30pm

Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue
Admission: $15, $20, $25

ARTISTS
Mafa Stoma
Candace Kumar
Bryce Taylor
Harikishan Nair
Erin Poole
Philip Nozuka
Alicia Grant
Cori Giannotta
Patrick Salvani
Mars Alexander
Claudia Edwards
Miss Coco Murray
Brigita Gedgaudas
Abel Hagos
Nikola Steer
Dainty Smith
Aisha Sasha John
Kari Pederson
And more to be announced!

Presented with ASL Interpretation by Phoenix The Fire

Back by popular demand, the iconic live performance party returns to Toronto on June 21, 2024! Short&Sweet features a large roster of artists from an eclectic range of styles and aesthetics who have the freedom to create whatever they want. But there’s a catch: each artist will only have three minutes on stage. If they go over the allotted time, a timekeeper will cut them off immediately! Originally created in Montreal by Andrew Tay and Sasha Kleinplatz, Short&Sweet is a fun way to see artists try something new, take risks, and challenge what can be accomplished in 3 minutes. Following the performances, the night will wrap up with everyone on the dance floor!

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