FADO E-BULLETIN
March 2025

1. FADO EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES: ON VIEW, CURATED BY JORDAN KING
   DATE CONTINUING THROUGH MARCH 9, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO

FADO Emerging Artists Series 2025
Continuing through March 9, 2025

On View
Curated by Jordan King

ARTISTS
Kendell Yan
Camille Kiku Belair
Brigita Gedgaudas

The new performance works in On View take place in the glassed meeting room accessible from the 4th floor hallway at 401 Richmond Street. Each performance will unfold, change and develop over the course of four hours. Simultaneously, the performance will be streamed to the adjacent Bachir Yerex Presentation Space. The audience has a choice­­—do you view the performance live, or livestreamed? 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 (or obliterate) the impact of the presence of the camera? How might the camera inform considerations for movement, activity, or perhaps lack thereof that you engage in for the performance, while not performing for the camera?

Remaining performances in the series:

Camille Kiku Belair
Artist talk: Friday, February 28 at 5:00pm
Performance: Saturday, March 1 from 1:00–5:00pm

Brigita Gedgaudas
Performance: Saturday, March 8 from 1:00–5:00pm
Artist talk: Sunday, March 9 at 2:00pm

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Camille Kiku Belair (they/them) is a composer, classical guitarist and interdisciplinary artist. They are interested in working with field recordings, creating handmade artist books, and exploring connections between music and art making. A graduate of OCAD University’s Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design MFA program, they previously completed a BMus specializing in composition at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, and studied at California Institute of the Arts in both the Performer-Composer and Experimental Sound Practices MFA programs. Current work involves developing handmade book-objects that function as compositional tools and generating grid-based visual patterns from melodies.

Brigita Gedgaudas is an emerging, interdisciplinary, trans*, and diasporic-Lithuanian artist working in so-called Toronto. Coalescing from a life-long practice of Lithuanian folk dance, a recent involvement in the Punking/Whacking/Waacking community, and training in new media art and vertical dance techniques––Brigita amalgamates these histories into one human shell. Finding home in a glitch’s persistent ability to reconfigure and reframe a person’s approach to digital systems, Brigita extends this into explorations of the queer body in heteronormative reality. Their work is in constant conversation with trans*mutation, translating the body between physical and digital/human and alien through interactive and immersive installations.

ABOUT THE EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES
For the 2025 Emerging Artist Series, ‘emerging’ is discarded as a label that reveals age, time spent or as a qualification of perceived depth of experience. Instead, over the next 4 months from February through May, two curators and three series lab residents develop performance installations, performance events and research projects that bring the notion of ‘emerging’ into relationship with community and forms of practice. FADO’s Emerging Artists Series curators for 2025 are Jordan King and Sholan T. Webber-Heffernan. The Emerging Artists Series Lab residents are Vanessa Godden, James Knott and Christina Trutiak.

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2. EVENT FADO + DANCEMAKERS PRESENTS FUTURE DANCES
   DATE MARCH 12–14 & 15, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO + DANCEMAKERS

TWO chances to experience FUTURE DANCES!!
March 12–14: video installations, 10:00AM–4:00PM, free
March 15: 12:00–5:00PM, see program below

ARTISTS
Freya Björg Olafson
Johnny Forever
Laura Taler
Lee Su-Feh
Margaret Dragu
Nova Bhattacharya
Ravyn Wngz
Ronnie Clarke
Travis Knights

PROGRAM for March 15, 12:00–5:00PM

ALL welcome, lots of snacks, accessible building
ASL Interpretation on request email: info@dancemakers.org
PWYC, RSVP HERE

12:00PM: Doors open
12:30PM: Welcome & reading of work by Laura Taler
1:00PM: Performance by Ravyn Wngz
1:30PM: Performance by Margaret Dragu & friends
On-going until 5:00PM: Freya Björg Olafson, Johnny Forever, Lee Su-Feh, Nova Bhattacharya, Ronnie Clarke, Travis Knights

Dancemakers and FADO Performance Art Centre are teaming up for FUTURE DANCES, a speculative choreography project in which 9 artists have been tasked with creating a dance for 50 years into the future. We want to know, now, what dance might look like in 2074. What will happen to dance, choreography and stops in between over the next two generations. This is a thought experiment and a real exercise that considers what the role, purpose, form and potential of dance (as well as performance, choreography, movement, or adjacent and related forms such as performance art) might be at this critical convergence of the climate crisis, violent international conflicts and political upheaval.

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3. WORKSHOP ON PRACTICE WITH MARILYN ARSEM
   DEADLINE TO REGISTER MARCH 3, 2025
   LOCATION LONDON, UK
   SOURCE MOBIUS INC.

‘On Practice’ with Marilyn Arsem
Dates: April 20–25, 2025
Registration Deadline: March 3, 2025

The ‘On Practice’ workshop is an intensive workshop taught by Marilyn Arsem and produced by Future Ritual. It is designed as an in-depth examination of participants’ performance practices. We will consider what drives us to make the work that we make, how we approach developing it, and what methods we use for evaluating the success of the work. The workshop includes discussion as well as performance exercises. A significant component of the workshop will be private reflection and writing in response to a series of questions.

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4. EVENT GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE 2025 SPRING SEASON
   DATE MARCH 6, 2025
   LOCATION NEW YORK CITY, USA
   SOURCE GRACE SPACE

Announcing our 2025 Spring Season!
Spring Season dates include: March 21, April 4, April 18, May 2

PRE-OPENING: March 6, 2025
“The Sirens are Calling – Project 2025”
Commencing at 7:00pm: 25-hour durational community action

OPENING NIGHT: March 7, 2025
Culminating community performances, starting at 8:00pm, inspired by “The Sirens are Calling – Project 2025”

Grace Exhibition Space welcomes a new spring season in this time of rapid change and accelerated bewilderment, empowering the immediacy of Now. Laughter and rage felt together will not abandon our utopian visions, but become our catalyst through the chaos to reach a better end. Presented on the floor, eliminating the separation of artist over viewer, we will together be pulled into the ideas being presented in an egalitarian, nonhierarchical way. GES proudly welcomes the 18th spring season Laughter-Rage in Action with diverse, equitable, inclusive and multi-generational works by Bri Frei, Meadow Le’elle, Erica Enriquez, Lele Daiand many more returning surprise guests.

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5. EXHIBITION BUCKO ART MACHINE
   DATE OPENING MARCH 7, 2025
   LOCATION OTTAWA, CANADA
   SOURCE SAW GALLERY

A first survey of the boundary pushing Ottawa artist Bucko
Bucko Art Machine

March 7–May 10, 2025
SAW, 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa

Opening reception: Friday, March 7, 2025, 7:00PM–midnight (FREE)

Chris Binkowski, widely known as Bucko, is a celebrated artist, writer, composer, performer and activist who defies convention and constantly reshapes the artistic landscape in Ottawa and beyond. This immersive exhibition highlights his multifaceted career, showcasing acrylic and digital paintings, video art, soundscapes, music and costumes, alongside his collaborative works.

Performing under the moniker Bucko Art Machine, he has made his mark as a songwriter and musician and has collaborated with many influential artists over the years, including Marisa Gallemit, Shania Leblanc, VJ Cinetik, Eliza Niemi and Nick Schofield, with public performances at venues and events such as Tangled Art + Disability, the Art Gallery of Guelph, Pique, SAW and the Digital Arts Resource Centre. With an insatiable drive for innovation, Bucko continually discovers new ways to engage with audiences, sharing his creative vision across a wide range of media. Bucko’s multidisciplinary works communicate profound emotions, personal narratives and universal themes of resilience, struggle and joy. Through his practice, Bucko bridges the gap between disability and boundless artistic expression, offering viewers a transformative and deeply moving experience. While he may not identify as a poet, titles of works such as every day i spin around the joys and get squeezed like toothpaste by all the troubles and shocks that come by between or the thrill and glamour all stopped with the beat disappearing stand out as poignant and beautifully crafted elegies in their own right.

Living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Bucko explores inventive ways to create art and music despite limited mobility, utilizing digital technologies and adaptive instruments to bring his vibrant ideas to life. One of the main challenges of living with a disability is facing exclusion and isolation. Bucko’s art practice has always been motivated by the need to communicate on a personal level and to access community.

Onsite accessibility support will be offered by Whimble and will be available upon request. We kindly ask that you wear a mask at the opening reception. Masks will be provided free of charge.

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6. WORKSHOP & OPEN STUDIO WITH JULIE LASSONDE
   DATE MARCH 13 & 22, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE LE LABO

Toronto-based Julie Lassonde’s work explores different approaches and themes in performance art, focusing on cooperation. Le Labo and Julie invite you to two events, at Le Labo in the context of Cercle.

Workshop on Cooperation
Thursday March 13, from 6:30-8 :30PM (doors open at 6:00PM)
Le Labo, 227–402 Richmond St. W., Toronto
FREE, limited space, registration required

Join Julie to try collective performative actions and brainstorm about the theme of cooperation. This workshop is not a training session, but rather an opportunity to reflect on cooperation through concrete action. Participants will be able to reflect on this experience at the end of the workshop.

This workshop does not require performance experience. Please wear comfortable clothes, bring a water bottle, and leave your boots outside the studio space. Plan be there before the workshop starts, and to stay for its entire duration. Please note that the doors of the 401 Richmond building close at 7:00PM. To register, please write to julie.lassonde@gmail.com and indicate how many spots you would like to reserve.

Open Studio
Saturday March 22, between 1:00–4:00PM
Le Labo, 227–402 Richmond St. W., Toronto
FREE, no registration

Drop by at the studio, to interact with Julie and witness their performance work. This open studio session is not an official presentation. It is an opportunity for the public to have access to the process of their work in the studio.

ABOUT LE LABO
Le Labo, a center for francophone media arts in Toronto, supports and disseminates the work of artists in Toronto. Recognized for its strong community, Le Labo is a dynamic organization, catalyst for the practice of media arts in Toronto. As a member of the artistic community and the French-speaking community, the objectives of Le Labo are to support incubation, innovation, creation and production in the media arts, as well as to promote collaboration and dissemination.

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7. BOOK LAUNCH & CELEBRATION JESS DOBKIN’S WETROSPECTIVE
   DATE MARCH 17, 2025
   LOCATION LONDON, UK
   SOURCE LADA

Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Book Launch & Celebration
Monday 17 March, 7:00–9:00PM
PWYC

Please join us for the UK launch of Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating performance archives, published in 2024 by Intellect and Art Gallery of York University.

The event will feature performance art icon Jess Dobkin and editor Laura Levin, with toasts and performances by Wetrospective collaborators, co-conspirators and queer luminaries. DJhaveakiki will provide beats for the mix and mingle. A donations bar and artist-made merchandise will be available throughout the evening. You can purchase Wetrospective at the launch or order it online from LADA’s shop Unbound.

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8. OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ‘ON AUDACITY’
   DEADLINE DATE MARCH 17, 2025
   LOCATION THE WORLD
   SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Volume 31, Issue 1: On Audacity
Deadline: 17 March 2025
Issue Editors: Jenny Lawson, Adele Mason-Bertrand and Jacki Willson

”Audacity is used by both those swimming with and those swimming against the tide of norms … [A]udacity is a public challenge to conventions characterised by boldness and a disregard for decorum, protocol, or moral restraints. As such, it is not necessarily understood negatively. Instead, audacity can be orientated towards the future by enacting a step away from the line and the mass of others. To be audacious is to declare that one is striking out with daring, in a different direction.” (Cooke 2020: 1–2)

This summary of audacity by Jennifer Cooke in her investigation of the ‘new audacity’ in contemporary feminist life-writing captures the ambivalence and complexity of the term. In theatrical contexts we understand performances labelled as audacious to be ground-breaking, important works that seek to push the boundaries of form, unsettle the status quo and provoke new thought and ideas. Theatrical manifestations of audacity have roots in political theatre, guerrilla theatre, performance art, comedy, drag, burlesque, trans, non-binary and gender-queer performance. This issue of Performance Research seeks to further understand and to expand the potential of audacity as a mode of transgression in and as performance. Focusing on the body; behaviour; feminist politics; and theatricality, we ask: how does audacity manifest in theatre and performance, and to what end? What does it mean to live audaciously? How can audacious modes of being and performing assist with the pursuit of the non-normative and help dismantle structures of power? And what kind of work enables these theatrical techniques and interventions? Is it a global phenomenon or is it limited to English-speaking/global minority theatrical cultures and production?

READ the full CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TEXT on the Performance Research website.

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9. EVENT LE TAS INVISIBLE
   DATE MARCH 18, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE ANONYMOUS

Le Tas Invisible
Furtive and improvised group performances in public space

Toronto Intersections Edition
Starting at the intersection of Brunswick and Ulster Streets
Friday, March 18, 6:00pm

We begin there. There will be a map to various locations where the cars always turn right and there is a performance space in the middle. Artists, anonymous. For more information write to: letasinvisibletoronto@gmail.com

We, “need no formal invitation to perform and manifest ourselves through action, those who act are indeed Le Tas.”

Characteristics of the Invisibles:
• Anonymity of the Invisibles;
• Inclusivity of members on a voluntary basis (monthly or punctual);
• Collective and collaborative performances of an open session format in the public space (art based on its community);
• Aesthetic research and mandate for invisibility;
• Infiltration of public space into a collective gathering;
• Multi-site performances (groups in splinter groups are synchronized although geographically dispersed).

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10. EVENT EPICENTER REVOLUTIONS | PERFORMANCE AS DURATION
    DATE MARCH 27, 2025
    LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
    SOURCE HOLLY TIMPENER

Epicenter Revolutions: Documenting the Sensorial Past
A Performance AS Duration Event by

Mycelium
Enok Ripley
Eish Van Wieren
Holly Timpener

Thursday, March 27
3:00–8:00PM
Espace Transmission, 5435 Av. des Érables, Montréal
FREE

Performance art is often described as ephemeral, and visual documentation frequently serves as evidence that the performance took place. Visual documentation also functions as a means of affirming the performance. In this project, Mycelium, Enok Ripley, Eish Van Wieren, and Holly Timpener collaborate to create a durational Performance AS Documentation event. We explore questions such as: What means or modes of documentation are effective for performance art? How and when can we document performances? Do witnesses alter or influence the nature of documentation? How does documentation create opportunities to reflect on, reconsider, or extend the performance? We will tackle these questions by developing individual performances that document our previous works from an event in 2023.

This event is co-presented by VIVA! Art Action. Please come anytime during the event and stay for as long as you like.

11. EVENT SCRAPE ON RICE
    DATE MARCH 30, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE LO BIL

Scrape on Rice (with waffles, optional)
FOOD performance. Nomadic event #6.

March 30, 2025
6:00PM
Starving Artist, 833 Runnymede Road, Toronto

WITH
Mariana Medellin
Colin Cudmore
niki Kostikian-Djibelian
lsaak Fong
Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh
Shima Raeesi
Nyda Kwasowsky
Ky
Dee Dee
Chantal Hassard
lo bil
…and A Handful of Maybes

Relay. Free event. No one gets paid.
Spontaneous actions welcome.

More information: scrapeperformance@gmail.com

12. WORKSHOP CONSTELLATIONS OF CRITICAL BODIES
    DEADLINE TO APPLY MARCH 30, 2025
    LOCATION VENICE, ITALY
    SOURCE VESTANDPAGE

An opportunity to immerse yourself in performance art and collaboration to implement your performance practice for ten days under the guidance of five artists of the Anam Cara Collective.

CONSTELLATIONS OF CRITICAL BODIES
10-day Intensive Joint Summer Class on the Practice of Performance Art
With VestAndPage, Andrigo & Aliprandi and Sara Simeoni

June 17–27, 2025
C32 performing art work space, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy
With a final public presentation on Thursday, June 26, 2025

For this workshop, we seek up to 16 international performance artists, radical actors, movers, sound artists, and poets interested in performance practices centred on the body. This includes individuals of all experience levels and abilities who wish to challenge their performance practices further and collaborate with other international artists. You will work under the co-mentorship of experienced facilitators, employing comprehensive methodologies. We aim to give you the time, space, and tools to refine your practice, draw inspiration from collaborations, and forge new connections.

Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until March 30, 2025, through the written form or as a video. With your application, you provide extensive information about your artistic background and current urgency and show a solid commitment to the immersive, collaborative 10-day artistic process. The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. The workshop venue is only partially accessible. Don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions about accommodating your needs: info@mariannaandrigo.it, verena@vest-and-page.de

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13. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART
    DEADLINE DATE APRIL 1, 2025
    LOCATION NEW YORK, USA
    SOURCE FRANKLIN FURNACE

The Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art, initiated in 1855, is supported by Jerome Foundation, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and biennially by the SHS Foundation in honor of Ruth Hardinger.

FUND grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, artists selected by the panel are expected to present their work in New York City. Full-time students are ineligible.

Franklin Furnace has no curator; each year a new panel of artists reviews all proposals. We believe 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, as do the definitions of “early career artist” and “performance art.” So, if at first you don’t succeed, please try again.

Since 1985, the FUND has helped launch the careers of Jo Andres, Tanya Barfield, Jibz Cameron aka Dynasty Handbag, Lenora Champagne, Patty Chang, Papo Colo, Brody Condon, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, Ayana Evans, Karen Finley, John Fleck, Coco Fusco, Kate Gilmore, Pablo Helguera, Donna Henes, Murray Hill, Holly Hughes, Liz Magic Laser, Shaun Leonardo, Taylor Mac, Robbie McCauley, Jennifer Miller, Naeem Mohaiemen, Rashaad Newsome, Clifford Owens, Pope.L, Dread Scott, Pamela Sneed, Fiona Templeton and Diane Torr, among other Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art recipients.

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14. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS THE QUEER AND TRANS RESEARCH LAB
    DEADLINE DATE APRIL 14, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE INSTANT COFFEE

The Queer and Trans Research Lab Artist-in-Residence 2025–2026
University of Toronto

The Queer and Trans Research Lab (QTRL) at the University of Toronto invites all qualified applicants to apply be our artist-in-residence for the 2025-26 school year. The QTRL residency will provide financial and other material support for artists working in any medium (photography, sculpture, visual art, media arts, theatre, poetry, playwriting, fiction, etc.), whose work centres on LGBTQ2S+ lives, communities, histories, and cultures. The residency will culminate in a funded exhibition, reading, screening, or performance of the residents work-in- progress. The successful applicant is expected to be in residence in the Greater Toronto Area during the period of their award and will join the faculty and students who make up our intellectual community and participate in activities at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. These may include guest lectures, a public artist talk, office hours with our students, and a general presence at the Centre.

They will be given office space and access to the vast faculty resources, manuscript archives, and library collections available at the University of Toronto and the Bonham Centre. In addition to financial support for a final artist showcase the successful candidate will receive a stipend of $20,000. To get a sense of the wide disciplinary range and diversity of the Bonham Centres community and academic offerings visit our website.

To apply, please submit a short 1-page cover letter and curriculum vitae to qtrl.sds@utoronto.ca. The letter should discuss your work in general and the project you plan to undertake while in residence. Please also include an example of your work in the form of an on-line link, PDF, jpeg. or other format.

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