FADO E-BULLETIN
May 2023

Index

  1. FADO PRESENTS A SCORE OF SCORES (PERFORMANCE SERIES)
    DATE MAY 12–20, 2023
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE FADO
  2. FADO PRESENTS A SCORE OF SCORES: CONVERSATION (SCORE)
    DATE MAY 28, 2023
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE FADO
  3. EVENT GRACE SPACE PRESENTS SPRING SERIES: PART 4
    DATE MAY 5, 2023
    LOCATION NEW YORK CITY, USA
    SOURCE GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE
  4. EVENT ACTIVATING FLUXUS: IN AND OUT OF THE ARCHIVE
    DATE MAY 5, 2023
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE JOHANNA HOUSEHOLDER
  5. EVENT OUT OF SITE CHICAGO ARTIST FOCUS
    DATE MAY 6, 20 & 27 2023
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE CARRON LITTLE
  6. EVENT REVOLVE PERFORMANCE ART DAYS
    DATE MAY 12 & 13, 2023
    LOCATION UPPSALA, SWEDEN
    SOURCE UPPSALA ART MUSEUM
  7. EVENT PERFORMANCE CONSERVATION: ARTISTS SPEAK
    DATE MAY 16, 2023
    LOCATION BERN, SWITZERLAND & ONLINE
    SOURCE JOHANNA HOUSEHOLDER
  8. EVENT VIRTUAL ENCOUNTERS: PARALLEL 03 BY ENDLINGS
    DATE MAY 18, 2023 (ONLINE EVENT) & THROUGH MAY
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE LONDON ONTARIO MEDIA ARTS ASSOCIATION
  9. EVENT OFFTA LIVE ARTS FESTIVAL
    DATE MAY 26–JUNE 4, 2023
    LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
    SOURCE OFFTA
  10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS VOL. 29, NO. 2: ON SOCIAL IMAGINARIES
    DEADLINE DATE JUNE 12, 2023
    LOCATION THE WORLD
    SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

  1. FADO PRESENTS A SCORE OF SCORES (PERFORMANCE SERIES)
    DATE MAY 12–20, 2023
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE FADO

FADO Performance Art Centre presents
A Score of Scores

10 artists. 10 score writers.
A score is an old term for ‘twenty’ of something.
A Score of Scores performance series.

ARTISTS / SCORE WRITERS
Abedar Kamgari / Naseh Kamgari
Holly Timpener / Enok Ripley
James Knott / Francisco-Fernando Granados
Keith Cole / David Roche
Laura Paolini / Tomasz Szrama
Mikiki / Jan Peacock
Paul Couillard / Elvira Santamaria-Torres
Rita Camacho Lomeli / Alejandro Tamayo
SA Smythe / Autumn Knight
Tanya Mars / Myriam Laplante

Put together by Shannon Cochrane and Francesco Gagliardi

FADO’s spring performance art series invites 10 artists to perform the interpretation of a performance score, written for them by an artist of their own choosing. Artists from across a spectrum of practices grounded in live performance (including cabaret, music, experimental composition, intermedia, video and more) interpret a score designed for them by an array of Canadian and international artists. The duos have chosen to strategize their collaboration in myriad ways—from conspiring together to revealing the final score only moments before the live presentation.

Emerging in the early 1960s in the context of the FLUXUS movement and in conversation with the expanded compositional practices of John Cage and LaMonte Young, “event scores” relied on elements of collaboration, improvisation, and chance to challenge traditional understandings of originality and artistic creation. Often very short, event scores typically consisted of lists of prompts and instructions ranging from the mundane to the elusively abstract and were circulated among fellow artists with an open invitation to interpret and perform them however they wanted.

The spirit of A Score of Scores is an experimental back-to-basics platform for artists to create new small-scale work in a spirit of experimentation, collaboration, and agility.

All performances take place at The Commons @ 401
401 Richmond Street West, 4th floor
7:00pm

May 12: Performances by James Knott, Tanya Mars
May 13: Performances by Keith Cole, Laura Paolini
May 18: Performances by Paul Couillard, Holly Timpener
May 19: Performances by Mikiki, SA Smythe
May 20: Performances by Rita Camacho Lomeli, Abedar Kamgari

DETAILS & INFO

  • 2 performances each evening. Free. All welcome.
  • Doors open at 7:00pm. Performances will start 15 minutes later (more or less).
  • Mask-wearing is encouraged in the performance space. Exemptions and personal choices respected.
  • Building is accessible: ramps at entrances, elevator and accessible/all-gender washrooms.
  • Non-alcoholic drinks will be served. Maybe snacks. Please eat your dinner before arriving.

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  1. FADO PRESENTS A SCORE OF SCORES: CONVERSATION SCORE
    DATE MAY 28, 2023
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE FADO

A Score of Scores: Conversation Score
May 28 @ 2:00pm ET
ZOOM

Please REGISTER HERE to get the Zoom link emailed to you before the event.

Join Francesco Gagliardi, Shannon Cochrane and the artists and score-writing duos from A Score of Scores performance series as we gather post-event to reflect on collaboration, performance writing, authorship, and scores and their interpretation.

Many of the performer and score-writing duos have been working together across vast geographical divides and will not have experienced the live work created from the scores in-person. If you do not live in Toronto and/or are not able to see the performances before this artist talk, not to worry. You will be in good company.

Artists from Toronto, Ottawa, Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Finland, Iran, Italy, N.Ireland and USA gather around the digital long table to tell stories, fill in all the details and construct a conversation score of all the scores together.

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  1. EVENT GRACE SPACE PRESENTS SPRING SERIES: PART 4
    DATE MAY 5, 2023
    LOCATION NEW YORK CITY, USA
    SOURCE GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE

Grace Exhibition Space presents: Spring Series
RAIN, CLOUDS, UNICORNS, AND RAINBOWS

“My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity. And that that solidarity might incite further joy. Which might incite further solidarity. And on and on…It’s why I think of joy, which gets us to love, as being a practice of survival.” (Inciting Joy by Ross Gay)

Particles of water or ice are suspended in the air, become submerged into one another until they are too big to float, and fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, hail drizzle, cats and dogs, and liquid sunshine until all of life depends on the resulting fresh water. Rain is changing too and, like clouds, is in abundance or scarce.

Then there is a rainbow! Sometimes even two! Suddenly there is magic in the air as the full spectrum of light shines back down on us. Rainbows seem invisible, like to magic of unicorns, until we find them, and when we see them, they see us.

Spring 2023 at Grace Exhibition Space: We are expressing the multitude of rain and clouds and unicorns and rainbows that allow us to find the resulting joy.

Spring Series: Part 4
May 5, 2023
Doors @ 8:00pm / Performances @ 9:00pm
Grace Exhibition Space, 182 Avenue C, New York

ARTISTS
Miao Jiaxin
J Alex Ray
Sylvain Souklaye
Monstera Deliciosa

ABOUT GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE
Opened in 2006, Grace Exhibition Space is devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists whether emerging, mid-career or established. Our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced and our mission is the glorification of performance art. Grace Exhibition Space presents over 30 curated live performance art exhibitions each year, showcasing new work by more than 400 performance artists from across the United States and the world since 2006.

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  1. EVENT ACTIVATING FLUXUS: IN AND OUT OF THE ARCHIVE
    DATE MAY 5, 2023
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE JOHANNA HOUSEHOLDER

Activating Fluxus: In and Out of the Archive
Friday, May 5, 2023
10:00–18:30 CEST
On-line / Free

Register HERE in order to attend. Zoom link will be sent to registrants a day before the event.

Fondazione Bonotto in collaboration with the research project Activating Fluxus are pleased to announce the public online event “Activating Fluxus: In and Out of the Archive.” This event brings together eminent speakers to engage with the notion of the archive and consider the archival space as a potential site for activating works created since the 1960s with a particular focus on Fluxus.

Speakers include:
Elke Allgaier, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Archiv Sohm
Lionel Bovier, MAMCO and Ecart Archives, GenÚve
Elke Gruhn, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
Hanna B. Hölling, Aga Wielocha, Josephine Ellis, SNSF Activating Fluxus, Bern
Laura Montanari and Alessandro Gazzotti, Pari&Dispari Archivio, Reggio Emilia
Patrizio Peterlini, Fondazione Bonotto, Colceresa
Hubertus von Amelunxen, Archivio Conz, Berlin

The activities of Fluxus (from the Latin word meaning ‘flow’) fluctuated across a dense international network of artists in the 1960s-70s. Indicating a state of mind rather than an art movement, Fluxus is inherently difficult to define – in this vein, the creative outputs of Fluxus reject any stable, material form. As something transitory, ephemeral or imagined, at times based on foodstuffs, organic debris, actions or three-dimensional notation, Fluxus artworks continue to complicate the concept of a timeless art that is supposedly created to last forever. The identities of Fluxus artworks thus cannot be attributed to any one physical manifestation but materialise processually through an open totality of indeterminate forms and relations.

Caring for the legacy of Fluxus, therefore, not only requires accepting change as integral to the ongoing life of Fluxus artworks but also as a positive value: an invitation to creatively engage with the porosity of a given work’s boundaries. Thus, while historical iterations of Fluxus works from the 60s-70s can be safeguarded as important documents of the recent past, our project aims to explore different modalities for engaging with the Fluxus spirit, beyond questions of physical preservation and towards the more imaginative horizon of activation.

Activation, loosely conceived, suggests creative engagement with Fluxus works using methods such as reconstruction, adaptation and artistic reinterpretation of Fluxus forms. Through this proposition to activate—not just preserve—Fluxus, the notion of the archive sheds its traditional function as a historical repository that contextualizes works of art. Instead, the archive is foregrounded as integral to the present construction of Fluxus works, comprising and comprised of artistic materials that can transform what the meaning of work is and might potentially be.

This panel brings together eminent figures in the fields of archiving and collecting Fluxus materials to critically discuss activation as a mode of continuing and caring for the Fluxus legacy. Dick Higgins’ Intermedia Chart (1995) will be the starting point for our discussion.

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  1. EVENT OUT OF SITE CHICAGO ARTIST FOCUS
    DATE MAY 6, 20 & 27 2023
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE CARRON LITTLE

Out of Site Chicago presents Artist Focus, a series of online artist talks with artists who have outdoor public performance art practices.

Saturday, May 6
11:15 AM CT / 18:15 ECT

Julie Vulcan (outskirts of Sydney, Australia), facilitated by ieke Trinks

Julie Vulcan is an Australian artist, researcher and writer working across performance, installation, and digital media forms. She is mainly known for her durational performances engaging a choreography of repetition. Her works have been presented internationally with I Stand In: A Ritual for the Forgotten, Misplaced, Unrecovered and Removed being one of her most traveled performances (presented at Spill Festival, UK 2013; Performatorium, Canada 2014; 2nd Venice Performance Art Week: Ritual Body-Political Body, Italy 2014; Deathfest, Australia 2016; Taking Place, Canada 2017). A recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Cultural Leadership grant in 2012 she undertook research trips in 2013 and 2014 to visit performance artists and events in UK, Cambodia, Italy, Germany, Sweden and the US. On return she founded and helped facilitate the performance art practice and research platform base-metal. Underlying many of her performance works is an interest in the veracity of mediated memory and the influences and/or motivations behind how we remember, record and re-write our actions, bodies and traces. In 2020 after a bushfire swept through her home-place, followed swiftly by the pandemic, Julie considered more deeply the performance of her body being performed by her surroundings rather than for an audience. In 2021, a year after the Black Summer fires, Julie temporarily transported ash from her home to perform Rescript, a four hour ritual in honour of the loss of non-human lives and new beginnings.

UPCOMING in the SERIES

Saturday, May 20
Keike Twisselmann (Berlin, Germany), facilitated by Carron Little

Saturday, May 27
James King (Derry, Londonderry, N.Ireland), facilitated by Carron Little

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  1. EVENT REVOLVE PERFORMANCE ART DAYS
    DATE MAY 12 & 13, 2023
    LOCATION UPPSALA, SWEDEN
    SOURCE UPPSALA ART MUSEUM

ARTISTS
Eglė Budvytytė (NL/LT)
Jafar The Superstar (SE)
Gustaf Broms (SE)
Kristin Nango (NO)
My Lindh (SE)
Norberto Llopis Segarra (ES)
Paz Rojo (ES)
Sepideh Khodarahmi (SE)
Cecilia Germain (SE)

Revolve Performance Art Days is an annual performance art festival. Since its start in 2016, the festival has moved between different locations in Uppsala and the surrounding area. This year’s festival—REVOLVE ELSEWHERES—wants to highlight the ability of performance art to create alternative places in relation to time, space and the prevailing order of power.

Which rooms create the artistic process and where is it located in relation to our common place? As spectators, we are involved with personal experiences and memories. One universe meets another and the artist is the alchemist who conjures up a new ‘here and now’ through the existing. How can we approach this alternative location? How do we visit these worlds from our own world, and what is the place where it happens?

The festival presents artists and artistry that in various ways move beyond the dominant narrative and bring in the more-than-human, through processes that negotiate and dissolve ideas of center and periphery, where what often falls outside our attention forms the center of the event. For two days, the audience is invited to take part in an intensive program in two places—Uppsala Art Museum and the surroundings around Wik’s castle, a cultural landscape with rich biological diversity. REVOLVE ELSEWHERES presents several site-specific works and some of them are also connected to the exhibition A posthumous journey into the future at the art museum.‹Here, the sensual and imaginary world is explored along with questions about the depletion of the earth’s resources and loss of biological diversity. The imaginary also offers healing processes—a re-enchantment of the world, where the link to an archaic past can be felt.

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  1. EVENT PERFORMANCE CONSERVATION: ARTISTS SPEAK
    DATE MAY 16, 2023
    LOCATION BERN, SWITZERLAND & ONLINE
    SOURCE JOHANNA HOUSEHOLDER

Our third annual colloquium, Performance Conservation: Artists Speak, will feature presentations by an array of international artists who approach performance and its conservation from different perspectives. The colloquium will be held both live at the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB) and online.

SPEAKERS
Christian Falsnaes
Ido Feder
Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė
Pascale Grau
Rosanna Raymond
Davide-Christelle Sanve

Can performance art be conserved—and if so, how? At this colloquium, Performance Conservation: Artists Speak, artists engaged with performance will discuss the afterlives and legacies of their work, even considering performance’s potential to serve as a form of conservation itself.

Once considered incompatible with mainstream institutions, live performance is no longer on the fringes of the art world. Today, it is presented, commissioned, and even collected by major museums around the world. But what does it mean to commit to maintaining a work of performance into the future – or reanimating one long buried in the past? The modern discipline of conservation has grown more sophisticated in recent decades, but it still struggles to approach artworks that transcend objecthood, frequently reducing them to documentation or mere relics.

Featuring presentations by a variety of performance artists, this colloquium seeks to investigate how they approach the longevity and afterlives of their own work as well as the ways in which performance itself serves to conserve, revisit, and reinterpret the past. Some artists see any kind of conservation as antithetical to their conception of the live, whereas others embrace reenactment, reperformance, or documentary mediums such as video, photography, or oral history. Meanwhile, modern conservation practice involves both science and artistry, precision as well as interpretation. If conservators may sometimes behave like artists, it follows that artists might sometimes perform the work of conservators – either in transforming their own work or bringing events and artworks of the past into the present through artistic research and creative reinterpretation. Despite a great variety of approaches, each of the artists presenting will be invited and challenged to discuss their own relationship to conservation.

This is the third annual colloquium organized by the members of Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge (Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, and Emilie Magnin), a research project sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation and located at Bern Academy of the Arts.

The event is free, but you must register to attend. For those attending online, a zoom link will be sent prior to the start of the event. REGISTER HERE.

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  1. EVENT VIRTUAL ENCOUNTERS: PARALLEL 03 BY ENDLINGS
    DATE MAY 18, 2023 (ONLINE EVENT) & THROUGH MAY
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE LONDON ONTARIO MEDIA ARTS ASSOCIATION

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

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.

PROJECTS for MAY

Parallel 03 by Endlings (Raven Chacon & John Dieterich)

The web instrument, Parallel 03, designed by Endlings (John Dieterich & Raven Chacon) and six Vancouver musicians and sound artists utilizes a variety of cross-platform and anonymous methods for composition and improvisation. Composed, recorded, and arranged over four months of isolation in 2020, the eight collaborators became generators, translators, mistranslators and filters for inputted contributions in an incalculable feedback loop of expansive processes. The instrument is designed to receive new content from other contributors, allowing for a constant stream of unique, ephemeral music.

Available for on-demand online interaction starting May 1

Link on http://lomaa.ca
Accessibility: Please contact cnegus@lomaa.ca for access possibilities
Presented in partnership with send + receive: A Festival of Sound

Endlings (Raven Chacon & John Dieterich), Parallel 03
Virtual Performance in collaboration with artists and musicians from London & Winnipeg
May 18, 2023 at 7:30pm EDT

Followed by Raven Chacon, John Dieterich, and Ellen Moffat In Conversation
May 18, 2023 at 8:00pm EDT
Accessibility: Talk presented with live ASL and Zoom closed captioning

Sign-up for BOTH events via Zoom

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.

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  1. EVENT OFFTA LIVE ARTS FESTIVAL
    DATE MAY 26–JUNE 4, 2023
    LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
    SOURCE OFFTA

OFFTA
Live Arts Festival, 17th edition
May 26–June 4, 2023

ARTISTS
FRGMNT
Jimmy Gonzalez
Michael Martini
Mara Dupas
Thea Patterson, Rachel Harris and Elinor Fueter
Louise Michel Jackson
VĂątchik Danse
BORBORO
Anaskan Collectif DĂźmes
Joliz Dela Peña
Clayton Lee
Hanna Sybille MĂŒller and Erin Robinsong
PAX
Jontae McCrory and Brian Mendez
UnSpun Theatre

The OFFTA festival takes you on a quest for artistic exhilaration, an essential celebration that calls for enchantment. With propositions where whimsicality becomes restorative, the artists of this edition seek to chip at reality and reimagine it. Join the festival’s artists and partners to kick off the 17th OFFTA! It’s time to celebrate the magical projects of this edition, and above all, to highlight the artists who are part of it.

Check the website for all the performances, parties, engagements, meetings and talks that the festival has to offer.

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  1. CALL FOR PROPOSALS VOL. 29, NO. 2: ON SOCIAL IMAGINARIES
    DEADLINE DATE JUNE 12, 2023
    LOCATION THE WORLD
    SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Call for Proposals: Vol. 29, No. 2: ‘On Social Imaginaries’ (March 2024)
Proposal Deadline: 12 June 2023

Edited by Danae Theodoridou with Falk HĂŒbner (Fontys University of Applied Sciences)

This issue on Social Imaginaries focuses on the complex relationship between performance, social imagination and community building, investigating some of the ways in which the performing arts contribute to the reactivation of public space and public time by constructing alternative—to capitalism—social imaginaries.

In 2007, Fredric Jameson argued that it seems easier for us to imagine the end of Earth being hit by a comet than imagining an alternative to capitalism. More recently, performance scholars Bojana Cvejić and Ana Vujanović (2016) have written that the least discussed crisis today, after the more ‘popular’ ones (financial or environmental crisis, etc.), is probably the crisis of social imagination. Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (2013) have posited that since the 1970s a series of key changes in the world (such as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the triumph of market-led capitalism and the individualization of society) have made imaginative, social and political speculation more difficult and less likely. Following the broader frustration that accompanied the decay of the great dreams of the twentieth century, we now seem unable to imagine and produce visions for our present and future – to create new dreams for the twenty-first century.

The performing arts could be considered as a strong context for (re)imagining the social, given their public character and the fact that their working material is primarily imagination. However, as Bojana Kunst (2012) or Cvejić and Vujanović (2016) have argued, artistic production seems to suffer from a similar limitation of social imagination, partaking in the capitalist machinery of an art market organized mainly on the basis of financial ‘value’ – offering at best cynical criticism, but not new imaginaries.

[
] Please visit the Performance Research website to read the full text.

We welcome submissions in the form of essays, manifestos and artists’ pages, by artists, other art workers and scholars, but also scholars from sociology, philosophy, political and law sciences, and other disciplines interested in the relation of arts to social imagination and connectivity. Contributions can relate—without being limited—to topics and/or questions such as:

  • potential and limitations of performance as a tool for engaging with, or overcoming the current crisis of social imagination
  • ‘public_ing’ and its potential as a term and practice: artistically driven processes of constructing public space and time
  • ‘artistic connectivity’ as a term and practice: its difference from previously used terms (such as ‘interactivity’ or ‘participation’), its social and artistic potential
  • the role and function of artistic connectivity in post-pandemic times of social isolation
  • dramaturgical and/or working principles, artistic tools involved in artworks that manage to construct new social imaginaries
  • artistic and/or curatorial case studies of artistic connectivity and/or acts of public_ing from across the globe
  • the return to the body and its materiality, the role of senses and affect for the reactivation of social imagination and community building
  • performative social imaginaries in physical and/or digital public sphere

All proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct to Performance Research at: info@performance-research.org

Issue-related enquiries should be directed to the issue editors via:
d.theodoridou@fontys.nl and f.hubner@fontys.nl

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E-Bulletin Green

This scent is an homage to the future; for things to come. Cut grass, string bean, coriander, and ivy diffuse a smell of ever-green, or the eternal return, however you decide.

Top Notes

cut grass, lovage, coriander

Middle Notes

string bean, fennel

Base Notes

ivy leaves, moss