FADO E-BULLETIN
May 2024

1. EVENT LE LIEU X CENTRE CLARK PERFORMANCE
   DATE MAY 2, 2024
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE CENTRE CLARK

Le Lieu X Centre CLARK
Performance by Alice de Visscher & Evamaria Schaller

May 2, 2024
7:00pm

Ateliers Belleville
545, rue Legendre O., Montréal

CLARK welcomes artists Alice De Visscher and Evamaria Schaller in collaboration with Le Lieu at Ateliers Belleville. This evening of performance is an ex situ initiative by Le Lieu in connection with the two artists’ ICI = HIER current exhibition in Quebec City.

Alice de Visscher is visual artist based in Brussels (Belgium). She studied drama and practiced visual and experimental theater in Belgium. Her artwork has been mainly focused on performance and video since 2006, but also drawing and installation on and with paper. Her work has been exhibited in several different countries. She teaches performance art in an art school in Brussels. She also trains future teachers at all levels in a teacher training school.

Evamaria Schaller, born in Graz, Austria, is a media artist based in Cologne. She studied Film and Performance at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She received several awards and scholarships and her work is shown internationally. Her artistic practice oscillates between performance and video art, she works site-specifically and questions the representation of women. As a part of the artist duo Jellyspoor and founder-member of PAErsche Aktionslabor Cologne one artistic focus lies on collaboration.

Alice De Visscher and Evamaria Schaller met in 2010. They have been collaborating on duo-performances regularly even since in Germany, Belgium, Ireland and France.

Ateliers Belleville is located a 20-minute walk from Crémazie Metro, but various bus routes can bring you closer. There are stairs at the entrance of the building, but the freight elevator can be used as an entrance for wheelchairs. A person will be on-site to help you. If you have any particular needs, please let us know by emailing info.ateliersbelleville.mtl@gmail.com, and we will do our best to accommodate you.

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2. CALL FOR PROPOSALS OFFTA 2025
   DEADLINE DATE MAY 5, 2024
   LOCATION MONTREAL, CANADA
   SOURCE OFFTA

The OFFTA, an annual artistic event presented on the fringes of the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), allows artists to share performances that shift the perspectives of festivalgoers and explore new artistic practices. The supported projects question, transform, and resist preconceptions. OFFTA provides a platform for emerging artists to unfold their pluralities and contribute to the renewal of established models.

NEW APPROACH
With the aim of providing extended support to artists until their presentation at OFFTA 2025, OFFTA has shifted earlier the dates of its call for projects. The 19th edition of the festival will take place from May 23rd to June 1st 2025.

LA SERRE – arts vivants, the producer of OFFTA, aims to reaffirm its role in supporting emerging practices by offering a set of resources to artists presented at OFFTA, creating more connections between its various programs. The proposed activities will be held in collaboration with the projects supported through the Radial Residencies and YOU ARE HERE programs of LA SERRE. In addition to the projects selected through this call, the OFFTA 2025 will present projects curated in collaboration with LA SERRE and its partners.

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3. EXHIBITION/PERFORMANCE THE MARBLE IN THE BASEMENT BY HAZEL MEYER
   DATE MAY 9, 10 & 12, 2024
   LOCATION RICHMOND, CANADA
   SOURCE HAZEL MEYER

Hazel Meyer
The Marble in the Basement

Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC
Exhibition: April 20–June 30, 2024

What gets stored in a shoebox? Deposited into an archive? Shoved into a corner? Catalogued as important? Fever pitched towards a garbage can? Centered on a pile of marble scraps that possibly once belonged to iconic Canadian artist and experimental filmmaker Joyce Wieland, local artist Hazel Meyer’s The Marble in the Basement untangles issues of power, memory, and inheritance by anthropomorphizing a forgotten object from this influential Canadian artist’s domestic archive.

The Marble in the Basement looks to the legacy of Joyce Wieland to work across questions of inheritance, while asking how a notable and supported figure like Wieland, can nonetheless direct us to lesser-supported histories of art, land, representation, and care.

Hazel Meyer is an artist who works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between sexuality, feminism, and material culture. Her work recovers the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of infrastructure, athletics, and illness.

The Marble in the Basement: Performances by Hazel Meyer
May 9, 10 & 12, 2024
Sliding scale $5–$15 / Registration required

Hazel Meyer and her cast of two other performers and a bug-eyed puppet called Marble act out The Marble in the Basement, a site-specific performance that uses her installation of the same name as a set. The marble found posthumously in Canadian artist Joyce Wieland’s home becomes a point of departure to think about “inheritance, class, queerness…and what you pass on.”

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4. PERFORMANCE PATE’S SALT CARP BY ANDREW J. PATERSON
   DATE MAY 11, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE THE PLUMB

Andrew James Paterson: Never Enough Night
Exhibition: April 26–May 26, 2024

Pate’s Salt Carp by Andrew James Paterson
Performance: May 11, 4:00pm

the plumb
1655 Dufferin Street (basement), Toronto

Presented by the plumb and curated by Laura Carusi, Anthony Cooper, and Kate Whiteway, Andrew James Paterson: Never Enough Night is the most extensive survey exhibition of the seminal Canadian artist’s work to date. The exhibition will include a wide 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. Never Enough Night includes a wide 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.

PERFORMANCE: Pate’s Salt Carp
Pate is a senior gentleman whose life is suspended between analogue and digital. Pate downloads analogue documents prior to performing a daily memory exercise. After concluding the durational exercise, Pate prepares a special meal. This is a performance concerned with aging, remembering, and house cleaning, as well as with parameters of language and disclosure.

Pate’s Salt Carp is co-presented by FADO Performance Art Centre and 7A*11D.

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 in 2016 by Kunstverein Toronto and Mousse of Milan. His novelette Not Joy Division was published by IMPULSE B in Toronto in 2018. In 2019, Paterson was awarded a Governor General’s Award for his work in Visual and Media Arts.

the plumb is a DIY artist-run project dedicated to offering a surplus of space in a city where space is at a premium—particularly for artists, community organizers, and marginalized groups. We are interested in providing exhibition space to emerging artists, fostering dialogues with established voices, and providing a platform for culturally diverse artists and curators. the plumb is administered by an ad hoc collective of artists, writers, and curators working alongside guest programmers and collaborators. We strive to be responsive, quick-moving, and non-bureaucratic in our operations while maintaining principles of anti-racism, inclusivity, and consensus-based collaboration.

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5. EVENT OFFTA
   DATE MAY 24–JUNE 2, 2024
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE OFFTA

Live Art Festival OFFTA
May 24–June 2, 2024

ARTISTS
Mecdy Mystic Rootz
Chris Dupuis
Camille Huang
Catherine Desjardins-Béland
Gui B.B
Philippe Dépelteau
Malorie Yawenda Picard
Emma-Kate Guimond
Guillaume Saindon
Nubian Néné
Le Théâtre indépendant
Projet Alterdogs
And much more!

Retrace. Appear. Transcend.

On behalf of this ectoplasmic and spectral 18th edition, we are ecstatic to invite you once again on a dive into the intoxicating world of the OFFTA.

Transcending the boundaries of what is tangible, we find ourselves somewhere beyond materiality, straddling territories at the threshold of consciousness. The artists, alchemists of our own preconceptions, reshape what is certain. They deviate from ambiguity, they skip over detours, and they flip imbalances inside out.

As our world is being torn apart by questions of belonging, this edition invites us to reinvest in ideas of possession and lineage–be them material, cultural, sociopolitical, or mystical. Whether by chewing on slugs of identity, immersing ourselves in unsettling waters to reach those who have passed on, or facing chimeras deep in debt: the voices of the artists – both crystal clear and mysterious–call us to their realms.

This edition’s program stems from a curatorial process bringing together the ten hands of Nindy Banks, DADA, arkadi lavoie lachapelle, Baco Lepage-Acosta, Michael Martini, and Claudel Doucet.

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1. EVENT WALKING LOVE BY AK MIMI ALLIN
   DATE APRIL 12, 2024–DECEMBER 26, 2027
   LOCATION NEW MEXICO TO MAINE, USA
   SOURCE AK MIMI ALLIN

WALKING LOVE by AK mimi Allin

Starts: 12 April 2024 (Lordsburg, New Mexico USA)
Closes: 26 December 2027 (Durham, Maine)

WALKING LOVE is an artwork by nomadic poet and performance artist A K Mimi Allin—17,000 miles cross country, in a path that spells l-o-v-e in cursive letters across the USA. The work begins this April in New Mexico and travels north to Montana, then west to Washington, then south to California. The following year, the artist will walk the “O,” then the “V,” finishing in the winter of 2027 in Maine (following the red line on her map). WALKING LOVE is about facing fears and the darker aspects of what it means to be an American. In solidarity with the refugees in Gaza, the artist will undertake segments of this walk with nothing—no money, no pack, no sleeping bag. Consider supporting this work in exchange for a love letter from the path or a silkscreen handkerchief showing the artist’s route. Thank you.

UNRWA is a UN agency that provides medical support, trauma relief & food assistance to Palestinians. To support the refugees in Palestine, please consider donating to the Walking Love Gaza Relief Fund.

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