FADO E-BULLETIN
March 2023

1. WORKSHOP LA POCHA NOSTRA IN IRELAND
   DEADLINE DATE MARCH 3, 2023
   LOCATION TIPPERARY, IRELAND
   SOURCE LA POCHA NOSTRA

La Pocha Nostra Workshop hosted by Live Art Ireland
With LPN Artistic Directors Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Balitrónica
April 7–10, 2023

The Pocha Workshop is internationally recognized as an amazing and rigorous artistic and anthropological experiment in which carefully selected artists from several countries and every imaginable artistic, ethnic, multicultural, and gender persuasion begin to negotiate common ground. Performance becomes the connective tissue and lingua franca for our temporary community of rebel artists.

In this 4-day intensive, participants will be immersed in LPN’s performance art techniques and exercises with a focus on the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism. This cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary and cross-generational laboratory will include up to 16 international artists. We consider our performance workshop intensives to be our most important pedagogical endeavours of the year.

What will be taught?
The 5-hour per-day workshop will offer two parallel processes: Participants are exposed to La Pocha Nostra’s most recent performance methodologies, an eclectic combination of exercises borrowed from multiple traditions including performance art, experimental theater and dance, the Suzuki method, ritual shamanism, performance games and live jam sessions. Parallel to this hands-on process, the group will analyze the creative process, the issues addressed by the work, its aesthetic currency, cultural impact and political pertinence.

Who should attend?
Performance artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, activists and students interested in the topics addressed by La Pocha Nostra. Ages can range from 18 to 80 years old. Applicants must have some performance experience and must be familiar with La Pocha Nostra’s work. The workshop is extremely fun but both physically and intellectually rigorous.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña (Mexico/US) Artistic Director, Madrina of all things Pochx & Border Bruja is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and artistic director of performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates on cultural, generational, and gender diversity, border culture and North-South relations. His art work has been presented at over one thousand venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. Gómez-Peña is currently a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency, and a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.

Balitrónica (US/Mexico) Artistic Co-Director, Priestess & Psychomagic Occultist is a cyborg-feminist poet, performance artist, radical pedagogue, ritualist, hereditary witch, and 2nd Degree Cabot Priestess. Since joining La Pocha Nostra, she has made a full-time performance practice that explores the ideas of ritual psychomagic acts, occult methods of transcendence, and the human body as conduit.

MORE INFORMATION about the application process, guidelines, and cost options.

2. SERIES VIRTUAL ENCOUNTERS WITH KITE & DAVID YU
   DATE MARCH 5 (SERIES THROUGH JUNE)
   LOCATION ONLINE
   SOURCE LONDON ONTARIO MEDIA ARTS ASSOCIATION

London Ontario Media Arts Association Launches (LOMAA) is excited to premiere Virtual Encounters: New Entanglements in Performance and Media in Spring 2023. This series features new or reimagined projects by practitioners working at the nexus of performance and media art.

Virtual Encounters: New Entanglements in Performance and Media
Curated by Christine Negus

Presented online and across various platforms through LOMAA from March through June 2023.

FIRST TO PREMIERE | Kite & David Yu
Artists in conversation: March 5 @ 3pm EST

APRIL | Anyse Ducharme & Jacob Wren
Live performance / Artists in conversation: April 2 @ 3pm EST

MAY | Raven Chacon & John Dieterich with Ellen Moffat
Live performance / Artists in conversation: May (date TBA)

JUNE | Jerron Herman & Autumn Knight
Artists in conversation: June 4 @ 3pm EST

With an extensive history rooted in a dialogue on “live”-ness and the ephemeral, performance art has weathered a major shift over the past few years. Though the COVID-19 global pandemic has undoubtedly impacted all arts-related programming, live and time-based practices in particular have been forced to renegotiate presentation modes and adapt to a more virtual, screen-based life. Performance art’s merge with the digital realm, with its seemingly opposite characteristics based in permanence and the archival, has raised challenges for both areas of work. Through this convergence, performance artists have been asked to reconsider these aforementioned essential disciplinary attributes in relation to their practice—both in presentation and developing new projects. These uncharted possibilities associated with the virtual have produced exciting outcomes, which continue to redefine and reimagine praxis, and the fields of both performance and media art, in novel ways.

Over spring 2023 LOMAA is pleased to facilitate Virtual Encounters: New Entanglements in Performance and Media, which investigates performance art’s newly defined relationship with media. The organization has invited seven artists and one artist duo to present new mediated performances that unsettle their previous modes of creation and address the challenges faced in digital translation. The invited artists span the gamut of performance practices and represent various modalities across the discipline—expanding from, and blurring lines between, embodied movement, sonic interactivity, and intermediality. Virtual Encounters aims to be generative and open possibilities for artists to re-envision their work and to investigate new archival processes, novel (virtual) space, and a wholly different relationship with audiences.

A companion publication will be produced in conjunction with the series, featuring critical and creative contributions from Golboo Amani, Shannon Cochrane, C.W. Crawford, Che Gossett, and Sandra Ruiz.

London Ontario Media Arts Association (LOMAA) is a regional, non-profit, artist-run organization focused on the exhibition of media art and experimental time-based work. With an emphasis on progressive contemporary Canadian practices, LOMAA supports the presentation of local, national, and international artists in the areas of moving images, performance, new media, and sound art while facilitating the creation of new work through workshops, commissioning, and partnership. The organization is committed to supporting dialogue about media art today through inclusive and intersectional public events and community engagement. Our dynamic programming seeks to involve audiences from London and the surrounding region, introducing them to innovative artists while encouraging new modes of creation from local makers.

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3. EVENT EPICENTER REVOLUTIONS
   DATE MARCH 5, 2023
   LOCATION MONTREAL, CANADA
   SOURCE HOLLY TIMPENER

Epicenter Revolutions
A Non-Binary Durational Performance Investigation into Internal Transformations and Identity

March 5, 2023
1:00pm–6:00pm
MainLine Theatre, 3997 St. Laurent Blvd
FREE

ARTISTS
Enok Ripley
Eish Van Wieren
Mycelium
Holly Timpener

Epicenter Revolutions is a performance event that investigates internal transformations within performance art. All artists in this project are transgender and/or non-binary. In their works, the artists examine how internal transformations felt within durational action(s) support transgender and non-binary identity and act as a form of political resistance. Transgender and non-binary bodies simply occupying space is an act of resistance towards heteronormative ideals in which everyday, lived experiences guide the construction of identity and community in public and counterpublic spaces. This event illuminates how transgender and non-binary bodies engage in durational performative action to listen, activate, and understand the personal and political affects of their lived experience. The artists insist that the acknowledgment and engagement of micro-changes felt by transgender and non-binary people creates resistance to oppression, heteronormativity, and gender binaries, ultimately creating systematic change, social justice, and united spaces where non-normative identities can flourish.

The presented works are durational and so there is no need to attend for the entire six hours.  To witness, please come any time between 1 and 6 pm.

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4. OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS ECHO AT GLASSHOUSE IN NEW PALTZ
   DEADLINE DATE MARCH 5, 2023
   LOCATION NEW YORK, USA
   SOURCE GLASSHOUSE

Open Call at Glasshouse 2023
Echo: Sonic Performances
Proposals due by March 5, 2023

On April 15, Glasshouse in New Paltz hosts Echo, an evening dedicated to sonic performances immersed in the domestic-scapes of our premises. This event is part of a sonic performance series Glasshouse organizes annually which examines the domestic surrounding influence on audio-centric performance experiences. This durational performance evening will be opening our 16th season, titled: Present Continuous.

We seek performance proposals from local performance artists, musicians and vocalists, to perform in this highly experimental context. Each performance will be durational, ongoing for two hours, repeated within this time-frame as needed; pauses are considered part of the performance. Please check website for application guidelines.

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5. CALL FOR RESIDENCY PROPOSALS SOIL AT LIVE ART IRELAND
   DEADLINE DATE MARCH 9, 2023
   LOCATION TIPPERARY, IRELAND
   SOURCE LIVE ART IRELAND

Let’s get muddy!

Artist Proposals are being accepted on the theme of soil. Science, geology environment as a material—clay for just a start. Getting down and dirty, embracing your inner worm, making compost, growing stuff and revelling in odour. What is happening to the stuff beneath our feet, why is it happening and what do we do about it? We are particularly interested in artists who engage with possibilities (or impossibilities) of emancipatory, relational, and reparative art processes.

This is a three to six week artists’ residency in Milford House that can be conducted with a view to produce a performance/video artwork and/or for the purpose of research with no precondition for completion or performance.

Residencies will take place from the April 15 to May 31, 2023. A curatorial jury will meet to discuss the proposals to select artists. There are two small bursaries available for this residency of 300 Euro (funded by our membership scheme). This residency is part funded by a workspace grant from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Deadline for Applications: March 9, 2023

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6. WORKSHOP LA POCHA NOSTRA SUMMER SCHOOL IN MEXICO
   DEADLINE DATE MARCH 15, 2023
   LOCATION YUCATAN, MEXICO
   SOURCE LA POCHA NOSTRA

International Call for Artists to participate in a 7-day La Pocha Nostra Performance Workshop
June 12–18, 2023

La Pocha Nostra will host a 7-day intensive workshop in the gorgeous city of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. This exclusive workshop will include a selection of 12 International artists; 6 Mexican national artists; and 10 artists local to Merida, interested in exploring the intersections of identity and how to transform your artistic and personal practice psychomagically. La Pocha Nostra wants to reactivate performance artists and communities to experiment with our pedagogy exploring the possibilities of creative adaptability. We also aim to share our personal performance strategies and techniques for outlasting these times.

Locos y locas del Arte Vivo, let’s reunite and cross borders together!

This school consists of 7 full days where participants will be immersed in our performance art techniques and exercises with a focus on the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism. We will place particular emphasis on the relationship between the human body, Mexican mysticism, psychomagic & the politics of identity. This amazing cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary and cross-generational laboratory will host a both local and international artists. We consider our performance workshop intensives to be our most important pedagogical endeavor of the year.

What will be taught?
The exciting 6 hour per-day workshop will offer two parallel processes: Participants are exposed to La Pocha Nostra’s most recent performance methodologies, an eclectic combination of exercises borrowed from multiple traditions including performance art, experimental theater and dance, the Suzuki method, ritual shamanism, performance games and live jam sessions. Parallel to this hands-on process, the group will analyze the creative process, the issues addressed by the work, its aesthetic currency, cultural impact and political pertinence.

Who should attend?
Performance artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, activists and students interested in the topics addressed by La Pocha Nostra. Ages can range from 18 to 80 years old. Applicants must have some performance experience and must be familiar with La Pocha Nostra’s work. The workshop is extremely fun but both physically and intellectually rigorous.

What is the application process?
International participants will be carefully chosen by a selection committee composed of Pocha Nostra Core members. Please fill the application form online and answer the corresponding questions. Responding to the economical challenges of our times, notifications of acceptance will be given within one week of having submitted your application giving you time to plan accordingly.

TUITION
International artists: $1,000 USD
The tuition for the 7-day workshop includes access to all sessions. To secure your place, a non-refundable deposit of $450 USD towards the full tuition fee of $1000 USD is required to confirm your place in the workshop by April 1, 2023. The balance of $550 is due by June 1, 2023.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 15, 2023
Please note that we will be accepting participants on a rolling basis and strongly encourage submitting your application in advance of the deadline to assure a place. Space is limited and expected to fill quickly.

Past workshop participants: Participants from prior LPN workshops all you need to do is fill in the form and indicate where you met LPN.

Please note that La Pocha Nostra is not offering full or partial scholarships. If you plan on applying for outside funding, please answer the corresponding questions in the application form and we will help you with letters of support if helpful.

Fill out the application online HERE (English / Spanish).

For further information please contact all three core organizers:
Saul Garcia Lopez (Pocha Scholar, Manager of Pedagogy): saulgarcialopez@gmail.com
Federico Tello (Manager of Mexican Programs & Operations): fede29r@gmail.com
Balitrónica (LPN Artistic Co-Director): ballitron@gmail.com

7. WORKSHOP ECC PRESENTS INHABITING TIME WITH MARILYN ARSEM
   DEADLINE DATE MARCH 23, 2023
   LOCATION ONLINE
   SOURCE EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE (ECC)

Presented by the European Cultural Centre (ECC)
Performance Workshop: Inhabiting Time with Marilyn Arsem
March 28–April 25, 2023

At the heart of this course is the question of how to continue making live art in a world that is more often pre-recorded, edited and virtual. As participants focus on the element of time in their performance actions, we will consider questions such as ” What remains essential? What do we relinquish? What transforms?”

The pandemic has redefined our sense of time, as we have spent more time both in isolation and on the internet, juggling competing demands in our immediate households as well as ones in the virtual realm from other locations and time zones. The simultaneity of different realities, real and virtual, result in collisions when we encounter other people, creatures, and materials whose sense of time does not conform to our own. Rather than resisting those differences, how can we learn to move in concert with them?

Working with everyday materials and actions, participants will engage in a series of exercises to examine their experience and understanding of time. While these exercises were designed for artists creating durational performances, the insights gained in understanding how time operates in one’s life can be effectively applied to other practices. 
The course includes online group sessions, performance actions and writings outside of the online sessions as well as a final multi-day project.

DATES: March 28–April 25, 2023
TIMES: Tuesdays 6:00pm–8:00pm CET
FEE: EUR 175
ENROLMENT DEADLINE: March 23, 2023

MORE INFORMATION & ENROL HERE

8. WORKSHOP & EVENT BBEYOND AT IMAGINE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS & POLITICS
   DATE MARCH 24 & 25, 2023
   LOCATION BELFAST N. IRELAND
   SOURCE BBEYOND

Bbeyond at Imagine Festival of Ideas and Politics
Transference
March 24 & 25, 2023

Bbeyond are delighted to be taking part in this year’s Imagine Festival of Ideas and Politics. Bbeyond’s Tranference will begin with a workshop looking at the transference of energy within group performance and how compassionate sensitivity towards each other through performance actions can have a positive effect and lead to greater empathy and deeper connections, and also have the capacity to extend beyond the realm of performance having a positive impact on society as a whole, promoting good relations within all sections of the community. This workshop will be led by Alastair MacLennan, Bbeyond Member Trustee and Performance Art practitioner of international acclaim. The workshop will be a wonderful opportunity for both members of the public to participate in as well as practicing artists and will culminate in an open live group performance art piece in Writer’s Square, thereby creating a performance with not only a direct public audience but also with the possibility of public interaction and engagement.

WORKSHOP: ARTCETERA with Alastair MacLennan
March 24, 2023
11:00am–4:00pm
Free / Booking required HERE

Bbeyond GROUP PERFORMANCE
Writer’s Square, Belfast
March 25, 2023
1:00pm–2:00pm
All welcome / No booking required for group performance

MORE INFORMATION

9. CALL FOR PROPOSAL PSI RESEARCH WORKING GROUP
   DEADLINE DATE MARCH 30, 2023
   LOCATION ON-LINE & JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
   SOURCE JOHANNA HOUSEHOLDER

Artistic Research Working Group of Performance Studies international (PSi)
Online Exchange: 30 June / 30 July / 30 August 2023

PSi 28: Uhambo Luyazilawula (Embodied Wandering Practices)
In-Person: August 2–5, 2023

The Artistic Research Working Group (ARWG) of Performance Studies international (PSi) invites proposals to its 2023 gatherings. Following the ARWG’s established PERFORM/RESPOND/EXTEND framework, three interconnected online gatherings will be held, one month apart, between 30 June and 30 August, 2023. The ARWG in-person gathering will be held onsite in conjunction with PSi 28 in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 2–5, 2023.

The PSi 28 theme, Uhambo Luyazilawula (Embodied Wandering Practices), is particularly well-suited to the ARWG’s preoccupations. The conference Call for Proposals explicitly emphasizes “performative ‘wanderings’: creative journeys and intersections between past, present, and future, digital and in-person” and “alternative epistemologies: explorations of undiscovered performances, pedagogies and practices.” In this, it clearly shares the ARWG’s priorities of “mobility, wandering, and fluidity” in terms of subject matter and process design.

Online Gatherings:
March 30 | deadline for proposals
April 30 | acceptances announced and ‘perform/respond/extend’ partnerships established
June 30 | Gathering #1: participants make initial presentations/performances
July 30 | Gathering #2: participants offer a performative response to designated presentations/performances
August 30 | Gathering #3: participants offer a performative ‘extension’ of designated presentations & responses

Onsite Gathering:
The ARWG in-person gathering will emphasize artistic research exchange with South African artists and artist-researchers new to the ARWG. It will be held onsite in conjunction with PSi 28 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

MORE INFORMATION, APPLICATION GUIDELINES, DATES

Annette Arlander / Bruce Barton / Johanna Householder
Convenors, Artistic Research Working Group

10. EVENT BUZZCUT FESTIVAL
    DATE MARCH 30–APRIL 1, 2023
    LOCATION GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
    SOURCE BUZZCUT

//BUZZCUT FESTIVAL 2023//
March 30–April 1, 2023
CCA Glasgow & Tramway

BUZZCUT Festival returns to Glasgow for their first in-person festival in 6 years!

The festival makes a home for experimental and radical performance and Live Art from across the UK, Europe and North America. With a line-up of 28 artists and collectives showcasing performance experiments that cross the spectrum of dance, sculpture, ritual, cabaret, durational performance and sound, BUZZCUT Festival is a living space. A place for risk, for new aesthetics and practices, for collaboration and coalescence, for success and failure, for sharing and inspiring. It’s a burst of creative energy you’re invited to immerse yourself in.

This year’s programme was selected with guest curators FK Alexander and SERAFINE1369.
The festival is pay-what-you-can, with events held across Tramway and the CCA.

ARTISTS
Tom Cassani
James Jordan Johnson
Suzi Cunningham
Sasha Ballon
InXestuous Sisters
Tim Martin Jones
Zinzi Buchanan
Robyn’s Rocket
Lulu Obermayer
Rosie Priest
HUSS
Tink Flaherty
April Lin
Claudia Edward
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chizu nnamdi
Moa Johansson & An*dre Neely
CLAY AD
Clare Simpson
Lou Robbin
N.I.PS (NUNS IN PARADISE)
Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Ballitronica Gómez
Mavi Veloso
Sweætshops®
Nikhita Devi 
Shawn Nayar
Chardonnay Emerald
And more…

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11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS THE FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND
    DEADLINE DATE APRIL 1, 2023
    LOCATION THE WORLD (& NYC, USA)
    SOURCE FRANKLIN FURNACE

The Franklin Furnace Fund awards grants annually to early career artists of all backgrounds to assist the production of new major performance art works. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply and selected artists must present their work in New York City. Artists may apply once per year as an individual, and once per year as part of a collaboration.

Franklin Furnace has no curator; each year a new panel of artists reviews all proposals. This peer panel system allows all kinds of artists from all over the world an equal shot at presenting their work. Every year the panel changes, and brings new perspectives of “early career artist” and “performance art.” So, if at first you don’t succeed, please try again.

Deadline to apply: April 1, 2023 | 11:59pm ET

CLICK HERE to access Application Guidelines

12. TO WATCH MOMENTUM VI WITH TIMOTHY MORTON
    DATE NOW
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE VESTANDPAGE

Momentum Series by VestAndPage
momentum VI: How to Unmesh the Garden of Eden with Timothy Morton

The much-awaited sixth momentum episode sees Andrea Pagnes with thinker-writer Timothy Morton. This encounter is spiked with bittersweet thought stirrings that unfold chromatically, like a flower opening: an adaptive AI, or art that creates the future. Flâneurs of our time, their minds wander through a field of strange plants: the monstrous faces of contemporaneity such as the surge of neofascism and the anthropocentric, capitalism-caused climate emergency. As they navigate through thinking that challenges binary dichotomies, they recover the value of the meaningless and nonsense. Examining facets of human nature, they touch on culture and religion, violence and resistance, love and depression, and Timothy’s core concepts: Deep Time as a hyperobject, strange strangers, the interconnectedness of the mesh, and how that all relates to hell.

WATCH HERE

13. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FLOW • EMBODY IN SITE 2023
    DEADLINE DATE APRIL 14, 2023
    LOCATION ON-LINE, CHICAGO, ROTTERDAM
    SOURCE CARRON LITTLE

Out of Site Chicago
Dedicated to working in public space since 2011

Flow • embody in site 2023 organized by Out of Site

Announcing Open Call for Flow • embody in site, 2023
Outdoor Performance Art Symposium in September 2023

Out of Site invites proposals from local, national, and international performance artists to present outdoor performance art work or socially engaged projects at Flow • embody in site, 2023. We invite you to submit concepts for performative lectures and/or artist presentations sharing your work with an international community of practitioners. Priority will be given to artists who have an outdoor performance art practice.

We will select between eight and eleven artist/artist collaborator presentations. Each session will last 90 minutes and each presenter will be allocated a facilitator that will support a dialogue with symposium participants post-presentation. The presentation will be online while the practice-based workshops will happen in person in four different cities this year. This will culminate in outdoor performance art festivals over two weeks in addition to a curated program of Artist Collaborations between Chicago and Rotterdam.

Please fill out THIS SUBMISSION FORM.

Please submit in the google form linked above the following materials or alternatively you can email us in one pdf all the info listed below to outofsitechicago@gmail.com with the subject line “Flow2023.”

Submission Requirements:
A short bio, (300 words)
A 500-word abstract describing the concept of the performance lecture/artist presentation (This will be printed on the website and in a post-symposium catalog)
Three high res images of relevant work with photo credits
Artist website address
CV or Resume

Jury Panel: Carron Little, Martine Viale, ieke Trinks

Deadline for Submissions: Sunday April 14, 2023 at midnight CST.
NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Out of Site Chicago (OoS) has been curating unexpected encounters in outdoor public places since 2011. OoS has developed a methodology of working in urban space that supports diverse ideas and representations of artistic work. We have a trained steward team that supports the artist’s work and facilitates public engagement with the performance. In 2020 Out of Site pivoted into an international network and platform and we engage in bi-weekly meetings to decide on our programming. We’ve partnered with numerous organizations over the last twelve years and currently work with Experimental Sound Studio, WORM, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. In 2021 OoS organized Flow • embody in site, an online public performance symposium to foster international conversations about public performance practices we currently planning for our third annual symposium.