FADO E-BULLETIN
November 2024

Index

  1. FADO EVENT WALK-AND-TALK (PART 1) WITH MARK SO
    DATE NOVEMBER 1–30, 2024
    LOCATION FADO’S INSTAGRAM
    SOURCE FADO
  2. EVENT FLAM 2024
    DATE OCTOBER 30–NOVEMBER 2, 2024
    LOCATION AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
    SOURCE FLAM
  3. EVENT KEHÄ 2024
    DATE NOVEMBER 1 & 2, 2024
    LOCATION OULU, FINLAND
    SOURCE BÈATRICE DIDIER
  4. PERFORMANCE DEFIBRILLATOR PRESENDS MARTIN O’BRIEN
    DATE NOVEMBER 7, 2024
    LOCATION CHICAGO, USA
    SOURCE JOSEPH RAVENS
  5. PERFORMANCE LE LIEU PRESENTS MARITA BULLMANN
    DATE NOVEMBER 8, 2024
    LOCATION QUÉBEC CITY, CANADA
    SOURCE LE LIEU
  6. EVENT OLDER & RECKLESS 2024
    DATE NOVEMBER 8 & 9, 2024
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE MOONHORSE DANCE THEATRE
  7. BOOK LAUNCH EVENT WETROSPECTIVE BY JESS DOBKIN
    DATE NOVEMBER 9, 2024
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE JESS DOBKIN
  8. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS PERFORMANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL
    DEADLINE DATE NOVEMBER 11, 2024
    LOCATION THE WORLD
    SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
  9. PERFORMANCE THE WESTERN FRONT PRESENTS CHIPO CHIPAZIWA
    DATE NOVEMBER 14–16, 2024
    LOCATION VANCOUVER, CANADA
    SOURCE CHIPO CHIPAZIWA
  10. PERFORMANCE MAI PRESENTS LOUISE LILIEFELDT
    DATE NOVEMBER 28, 2024
    LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
    SOURCE MAI
  11. EMPLOYMENT PERFORMANCE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    DEADLINE DATE JANUARY 13, 2025
    LOCATION CHICAGO, USA
    SOURCE MARK JEFFERY

  1. FADO EVENT WALK-AND-TALK (PART 1) WITH MARK SO
    DATE NOVEMBER 1–30, 2024
    LOCATION FADO’S INSTAGRAM
    SOURCE FADO

FADO’s performance series Walk-And-Talk presents
part of the ramble that remained in the end without by Mark So

part of the ramble that remained in the end without explores the nexus of inner and outer worlds through a dual writing/recording practice: daily list-form notebook writing and a tapeloop of recorded fragments, both accumulated from reading. The reading, writing, and recording aspects of the work are free to diverge and intersect across a kind of roving open privacy, producing a coherent field of potential performance or realization marked by characteristic modularity and switches between discrete modes of action. This work stems from So’s longstanding use of field recordings and performed readings, but with a deeper connection and contiguity with wherever he happens to be working–creating an evolving register not only of recorded and written surfaces, but his movements through a changing field.

This project in the second offering in FADO’s newest on-going series Walk-and-Talk, curated by Francesco Gagliardi and Julian Higuerey Núùez.

PART 1: November 1–30
So takes over FADO’s Instagram with recordings, images, and writing posted by So as he works and walks in the urban and suburban areas of greater Los Angeles.

Part 2: December 7
401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
So’s project culminates in a unique presentation at FADO, featuring a performance of writing and recordings made during walks in Los Angeles and Toronto.

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  1. EVENT FLAM 2024
    DATE OCTOBER 30–NOVEMBER 2, 2024
    LOCATION AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
    SOURCE FLAM

FLAM presents Whispering Skins
October 30–November 2, 2024

Whispering Skins explores themes of neurodiversity, melancholy, transformation, and body rituals, with this autumn edition shaping a unique atmosphere. FLAM creates a transparent space where warm light can still get in inspiring reflection and new ideas while acknowledging today’s complexities. While focusing on invisible diversities and inner experiences, there is also room for more energetic and critical works that engage directly with the audience, sparking dynamic dialogues and interactions.

Featuring cross-disciplinary works—from conceptual to theatrical and movement to voice—FLAM offers an immersive experience where audiences share space with performers, encouraging active engagement.

Instead of focusing solely on outcomes, FLAM emphasizes experimentation and artistic research, presenting live performances, video installations, and interactive workshops. This edition also features a discussion with the Kunstenbond on the future of the arts under the newly installed Dutch right-wing government.

ARTISTS
Aaron Ratajczyk
Aion Arribas & Antje Nestel
Avantika Tibrewal
Clara Saito
Diane MahĂ­n
Dora Longo Bahia
Elisa Zuppini
Ewa Dziarnowska
Fernando Belfiore
FlĂĄvia Pinheiro
Isadora Tomasi
Maciej Sado
Marina Orlova
masharu
Nica Roses
Paula Montecinos
Peter Baren
Ropes Aligned & Isabel Cordeiro
Rosa Doornenbal
students of ECD program of the Academy of Theatre and Dance
Thais di Marco and Tom Oliver Jacobson

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  1. EVENT KEHÄ 2024
    DATE NOVEMBER 1 & 2, 2024
    LOCATION OULU, FINLAND
    SOURCE BÈATRICE DIDIER

Kehä 2024 One-to-One Art Festival
Cultural Centre Valve, Hallituskatu 7, Oulu

Kehä is an annual festival organized in Oulu, where all works are performed for one experiencer at a time. The works welcome people both in nursing homes and at an open event in Kulttuuritalo Valvee. The mutual sharing of experiences between artists is an essential part of the festival. We invite artists from different parts of Finland who work from the starting point of individuality, social and health workers who believe in the possibilities of art, and everyone interested in a common circle. Cultural cooperative ILME has been organizing Kehä since 2015. In most years, the Kehä festival has had a theme that challenges you to explore individuality from a certain angle. The 2024 Kehä festival is the ninth in a row.

ARTISTS
Bèatrice Didier (BE)
Carla Gomes (PT)
Dmytro Grynov (UA/DE)
Eva Holts (UA)
Keumbyul Lim and Tevya Bombieri-Morales (DE)
Maima Tani (FI)
Mammu Rauhala (FI)
Olive Bieringa (NO)
Roosa Halme (FI)
Satu Hakamäki (FI)
Susi Nousianinen (FI)
Lean Giuliano (BR)

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  1. PERFORMANCE DEFIBRILLATOR PRESENDS MARTIN O’BRIEN
    DATE NOVEMBER 7, 2024
    LOCATION CHICAGO, USA
    SOURCE JOSEPH RAVENS

Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery proudly presents
Fading Out of Dead Air by Martin O’Brien

November 7, 6:00–9:00pm
International Museum of Surgical Science

Fading Out of Dead Air explores mortality through ideas of immortality. The durational performance by UK-based artist Martin O’Brien will happen in a historic mansion and take the form of a strange séance of actions. Viewers are invited to experience the performance as they move through the space freely, encountering fragmented voices, distorted sounds, and haunting imagery. It will last three hours or until the dead make contact, whichever comes first. Inspired by hospital radio and pop culture references to ghosts being heard only through analogue technologies, this work explores the human desire to communicate and record. In a strange and eerie landscape, O’Brien shuffles around, recording and playing half heard voices and unholy sounds.

O’Brien has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life-shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. Originally from Burnley, Lancashire, O’Brien has shown work throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Canada, and is well known for his solo performances and collaborations with the legendary LA artist and dominatrix Sheree Rose. His most recent works were at Tate Britain in 2020, and the ICA London in 2021.

ARTIST TALK with Martin O’Brien
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
November 11, 6:00–7:30pm

This project is made possible with support from the Wellness Center and the Visiting Artists Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as the International Museum of Surgical Science.

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  1. PERFORMANCE LE LIEU PRESENTS MARITA BULLMANN
    DATE NOVEMBER 8, 2024
    LOCATION QUÉBEC CITY, CANADA
    SOURCE LE LIEU

tip-toe.too slow – a light unfold by Marita Bullmann
Le Lieu, 345 Du Pont, Quebec City

Performance: November 8, 7:00pm
Installation on view: November 8–December 1

The installation tip-toe.too slow – a light unfold is a performative installation that will feature a combination of everyday objects, photography, texts, and performance, all carefully chosen to alternate between possible forms of real and artificial, literal and symbolic, original and imitation. At the opening of the exhibition, Marita will showcase a performance that will be an extension and finalization of the installation, highlighting the dialogue she has created between the various elements. This performance will provide a new dimension to the exhibition, allowing viewers to experience her artistic approach in a more immersive way.

Marita Bullmann lives and works as an artist in Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown throughout Europe, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, North and South America and Asia. Since 2013 she has been the organizer and curator of the performance art platform Interval. In 2022, she founded the network platform zeit.raum.ruhr for art spaces and initiatives in the Ruhr region. In 2023, she was awarded the Allbau Culture Prize of the City of Essen. Since 2023, she organizes Laundry Clash, a performance and free music format in laundromats.

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  1. EVENT OLDER & RECKLESS 2024
    DATE NOVEMBER 8 & 9, 2024
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE MOONHORSE DANCE THEATRE

Older & Reckless is back and bolder than ever!

FEATURING
Lina Cruz
Olga Barrios
Jose Angel Carret with Johanna Bergfelt
Nicola Pantin
Alex Bulmer with renowned interpreter Danielle Baskerville

Older & Reckless, Moonhorse Dance Theatre’s acclaimed series, returns to the Harbourfront Centre stage this fall, featuring five dance works curated by Artistic Director Allison Cummings, workshops and more. Moonhorse Dance Theatre actively redefines destructive assumptions about age and dance ability, celebrating artists over 45 who continuously take risks, ask pertinent questions and dig deep into nuance.

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  1. BOOK LAUNCH EVENT WETROSPECTIVE BY JESS DOBKIN
    DATE NOVEMBER 9, 2024
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE JESS DOBKIN

Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating performance archives
BOOK LAUNCH!

Saturday November 9, 2024
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 19 Alexander Street, Toronto

Doors @ 7:00pm / RSVP required
FREE / wheelchair accessible / ASL interpreted

A performance party celebrating the launch of Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating performance archives (2024, Intellect Books and AGYU) Edited by Laura Levin, designed by Lisa Kiss Design. Hosted by Elvira Kurt with a dazzling lineup of collaborators, conspirators, queer luminaries, and DJ Cozmic Cat.

Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating performance archives reflects on the internationally acclaimed artist’s playful and provocative practice as a performer, curator, and community activist. With contributions from renowned performance scholars, archivists, and creative collaborators, and a riot of full-colour photographs of artistic process and production spanning the last thirty years.

Purchase your book at a ONE-TIME LAUNCH DISCOUNT price! Guarantee your book by pre-ordering (only available for pick-up at the November 9 launch). Books will also be available to purchase in-person at the event (cash or e-transfer only) while supplies last.

Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective (2024) Edited by Laura Levin. Published by Intellect Books and AGYU. Designed by Lisa Kiss Design. With support from Hemispheric Encounters, FADO Performance Art Centre, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council.

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  1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS PERFORMANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL
    DEADLINE DATE NOVEMBER 11, 2024
    LOCATION THE WORLD
    SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Performance Research Journal
Volume 30, Issue 5 – On Decolonization
Deadline: November 11, 2024

Issue Editors: Rashna Darius Nicholson & Lisa Skwirblies

In recent times, the popular connotation of the word ‘decolonization’ has slipped – from a term denoting radical socio-political movements against diverse forms of systemic oppression to a buzzword for the development and marketization of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in institutions that have historically appropriated and undermined the concept’s radical revolutionary potential. In recent months, the concept has been interpreted in vastly diverse ways by different factions across the political spectrum for different ends: far-right ethnonationalist Hindu scholars and anti-LGBTQ African governments using the concept ‘decolonization’ to promote their authoritarian ideas (Mehta 2023; Paulsen 2023); right-wing diatribes rejecting the term as part of a war against ‘wokeism’ and cancel culture (Montefiore 2023); and activists critiquing the empty use of decolonization as a theoretical framework, especially in the face of the catastrophic outcomes of the genocide in Gaza. Actors in both top-down mass media as well as bottom-up social media have begun to express the feeling that the term ‘decolonization’ has reached a socio-political impasse, been heavily co-opted or misused, and, as a consequence, rendered meaningles […]

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  1. PERFORMANCE THE WESTERN FRONT PRESENTS CHIPO CHIPAZIWA
    DATE NOVEMBER 14–16, 2024
    LOCATION VANCOUVER, CANADA
    SOURCE CHIPO CHIPAZIWA

Slipping Into Slipping Away by Chipo Chipaziwa
November 14–16, 2024

Western Front is pleased to present a new performance by artist-in-residence Chipo Chipaziwa that marks the launch of her artist book My Mother My Home.

In My Mother My Home, Chipaziwa remediates her past performances by proposing alternative methodologies of archiving performance art without any photographic depictions of the body. While in residence, Chipaziwa furthered this line of inquiry by examining the representation of Black performance artists in Western Front’s archive.

Slipping Into Slipping Away explores these intersections in Chipaziwa’s research—remixing content from the publication with reflections on memory, legibility, archives, liminal encounters, psychoanalysis, and the work of Adrian Piper.

Taking place on the ground floor of Western Front, Chipaziwa’s performance will play with the power dynamic between the art worker and the visiting public, the archivist and the archived, as a vehicle to trouble traditional audience-performer relations.

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  1. PERFORMANCE MAI PRESENTS LOUISE LILIEFELDT
    DATE NOVEMBER 28, 2024
    LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
    SOURCE MAI

Seen and Heard by Louise Liliefeldt
November 28, 7:30pm

MAI | MontrĂŠal, arts interculturels
3680, rue Jeanne-Mance, MontrĂŠal

Louise Liliefeldt‘s solo performance Seen and Heard is a raw and immersive exploration of struggle. Taking inspiration from the pain and strength inherent in the human condition, Liliefeldt’s work delves into the complexities of race, labour, and migration. Using repetition and rhythm, Liliefeldt creates tension and a sense of urgency. Through full-body movement, and at times vocal sounds, Liliefeldt draws with different parts of her being. She paints the walls with the rhythmic pulse of a heartbeat, inviting the audience to experience the emotional and psychological states she embodies. Her work is often dark in nature but she always attempts to create a positive and powerful outcome.

Louise Liliefeldt is a Toronto/Tkaronto-based performance artist born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work is predominately concerned with the politics of identity as it intersects with gender, race and class. She examines the cultural conventions of spectatorship and the links between emotional/psychological states and physical experience. The methodology of her performance art practice is shaped by the notion of always taking into consideration the significance of changes in circumstance and physical space. She has presented her work across Canada, in the U.S., The Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and Wales.

ABOUT MAI
Advocating for, and in support of the development, creation, presentation and promotion of intercultural arts (hybrids created through a blending of forms, genres, styles, disciplines and languages) for diversified audiences; offering programs that catalyze conversations about intercultural, intergenerational, interdisciplinary arts, and accompanying themes; promoting community and intercultural exchange along lines of gender, race, class, ability, sexual orientation, religion, age, language or other such sectarian axes of identity, marked and unmarked. The ultimate goal is that MAI’s programming and public development/community exchange activities champion inclusiveness, offering a differing version of what ‘us’ looks like; of being home to artists for whom showing their culture while in conversation with another’s is an imperative.

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  1. EMPLOYMENT PERFORMANCE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    DEADLINE DATE JANUARY 13, 2025
    LOCATION CHICAGO, USA
    SOURCE MARK JEFFERY

Performance School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Full Time Tenure Track Hire
Fall 2025

The Department of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position to begin August of 2025. Salary is competitive with peer institutions and commensurate with quality of practice, scholarship and current academic research, extent of teaching experience, and current professional standing.

The Department of Performance at SAIC is unique in the United States, bringing a performance and performance studies curriculum to both undergraduate and graduate students in an interdisciplinary art school setting. Building on a foundation of experimentation, the Department of Performance evolves in relation to new developments inside and outside the field of performance, and aims to be responsive to new ways of seeing and understanding the world in the 21st century.

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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