FADO E-BULLETIN
October 2024

1. EXHIBITION GOD PLAY: TANYA MARS & ANDREW JAMES PATERSON
   DATE OCTOBER 1–19, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE VTAPE

God Play: Tanya Mars & Andrew James Paterson
October 1–19, 2024

4th floor, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
Tuesday–Friday, 10:00am–5:00pm
Saturdays, 1:00pm–5:00pm (during exhibition)

Curated by Toronto Performance Art Collective (7a*11d)

OPENING RECEPTION
October 4, 2024
5:00pm–7:00pm (artists will be present)

ARTISTS’ TALKS
Tanya Mars in conversation with Shannon Cochrane
October 9, 2024
12:00pm–1:00pm

Andrew James Paterson in conversation with Bridget Moser
October 12, 2024
12:00pm–1:00pm

Vtape and 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival enthusiastically present God Play, an exhibition of this year’s éminences grises, Tanya Mars and Andrew James Paterson. Bringing together video and performance works from 1987 to present, the exhibition embraces the melodramatic mayhem of two artists who have consistently explored tropes of popular culture and the underlying motivations within them.

Tanya Mars is a feminist performance artist who has been actively involved in the Canadian art scene since 1973, doing many different things. Since the ’70s Mars’ work has focused on creating spectacular feminist imagery that places women at the centre of the narrative. Since the mid-’90s her performances have included endurance, durational and site-specific strategies. Her work is political, satirical and humorous. She has worked both independently and collaboratively to create both large-scale as well as intimate performances in Canada and internationally. Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars was published in 2008 by FADO, edited by Paul Couillard. She is the recipient of a 2008 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Recently retired from teaching at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Mars lives off-grid in Nova Scotia.

Andrew James Paterson is an interdisciplinary artist living in Toronto, Ontario. 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. Now a senior artist, Paterson has contributed to artist-run discourse for nearly four decades—serving on the boards of Trinity Square Video, A Space, and YYZ Artists’ Outlet. He has curated media arts and other programs for these organizations, as well as Cinematheque Ontario, Mercer Union, Images Festival, Pleasure Dome, and Available Light in Ottawa. He has edited and co-edited books for YYZ’s publishing program, and contributed to anthologies published by Gallery TPW and to periodicals such as FILE, IMPULSE, FUSE, and Borderlines. His media-arts works have shown locally, nationally, and internationally over three and a half decades. In 2019, Paterson received a Governor General’s Award for his work in Visual and Media Arts.

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2. EVENT BRIAN CONNOLLY AT BOUNCE ARTS FESTIVAL
   DATE OCTOBER 3, 2024
   LOCATION BELFAST, N.IRELAND
   SOURCE BRIAN CONNOLLY

As Bounce Artist in Residence, Brian will take over the Atypical Gallery in September, leading towards his exhibition for the Bounce Arts Festival 2024 at University of Atypical. Visitors to the gallery can expect surreal, satirical, political responses that may leave you amused and full of questions.

As an artist, much of Connolly’s past work has evolved out of a series of dialogues with the specifics of place, location, context, or site. He has created Interventions, Performance Art Works, Install-actions, & Installations, in a wide range of places both locally and Internationally, these include: Churches, Monasteries, Castles, City Streets, Squares or Alleyways, Market Places, Parks, a River Source, Beach, Funeral Parlour, as well as Art Galleries & Museums.

Performance: October 3 at 6:30pm
Exhibition: September 3–October 2, 2024
Artist Talk: October 4 at 2:00pm

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3. EVENT 7A*11D INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PERFORMANCE ART
   DATE OCTOBER 8–13, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE TORONTO PERFORMANCE ART COLLECTIVE

TPAC presents 14th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
October 8–13, 2024

Main venue: 630 Queen Street East
Other venues: 401 Richmond Street West, Hart House

ARTISTS
Jess Dobkin/Laurel Green/Joyce LeeAnn Joseph/Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan (Canada/USA)
seth cardinal dodginghorse (Tsuut’ina)
Vanessa Godden (Canada)
Emma-Kate Guimond with Rue Jovanovic (Canada)
Anja Ibsch (Germany)
Jessica Karuhanga (Canada)
Lilith Artist Duo (Sweden)
Tanya Mars (Canada)
Tess Martens (Canada)
Heidi Negtegaal (Canada)
Juma Pariri (Pindorama/Abya Yala)
Andrew James Paterson (Canada)
Tyler J. Sloane (Canada)
Daisuke Takeya (Japan/Canada)

Toronto Performance Art Collective (TPAC) is pleased to announce the 14th edition of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, with events taking place October 8 – 13, 2024 at various venues, including our mainstage space at 630 Queen Street East, the 401 Richmond Street West arts complex, and Hart House. As always, this year’s festival attempts to nurture an appreciation for the breadth, depth and diversity of performance art practices, offering a plurality of voices, a range of approaches, and artists at varying career stages, from emerging talents to senior practitioners. This year we honour two “Éminences Grises”—Tanya Mars and Andrew James Paterson—whose performance-related video work will also be featured in a multi-week exhibition sponsored by Vtape in the Bashir Yerex Presentation Space.

Join us for daytime durational performances, lunchtime artist talks, and evening showcases.

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4. WORKSHOP OUR SPINES: BODY & BOOK WITH MARGARET DRAGU
   DATE OCTOBER 9, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE MOONHORSE DANCE

Our Spines: Body & Book with Margaret Dragu

October 9, 2024
10:00am–1:00pm EST
Citadel + Compagnie, 304 Parliament Street, Toronto

This workshop starts with a 40 min supportTHEsupport movement class (suitable for all levels) employing dance, fitness & therapy techniques from Dragu’s 60 years of teaching. The remainder of the workshop explores body mapping, drawing, tracing; following gestural prompts for markings and writing on paper. Together, we will create and “publish” individual books; and, help each other bind, cut and display an embodied library.

An innovator and pioneer in Canadian art, Margaret Dragu was the recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts in 2012. She works in video, installation, web/analogue publication & performance. Spanning relational, durational, interventionist and community-based practices, Dragu has shown in Canada, USA & Europe. She is a BCRPA Advanced Group Fitness & Yoga Instructor as well as Personal Trainer with 35+ years of experience working with beginners, athletes, dancers & seniors; and, she is a Clinical Exercise & Post-Rehabilitation specialist.

Margaret Dragu celebrates her 53rd year as a working artist. Dragu’s favourite material is still the body. Despite and because of her bionic status as a grateful owner of two hip replacements.

REGISTER TODAY  (limited space available)

5. EVENT CENTRAL PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
   DATE OCTOBER 11 & 25, 2024
   LOCATION NEW YORK CITY, USA
   SOURCE GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE

Grace Exhibition Space presents Central Performance Festival

Featuring 24 performances by artists whose work explores immateriality and the creation of ephemeral experiences from the body, Central, the first Central American and Caribbean performance festival, continuing through November 2024 at Grace Exhibition Space. Exploring themes such as violence, migration, diaspora, the abuse of power, identity and other problems intrinsic to the human being, this festival seeks to build a bridge between the Central American region, some Caribbean islands, and New York City.

Curated by Pancho López

OCTOBER 11
Blanca Van Hoorde (Panamá)
Eduardo Veláquez (República Dominicana)
Pável Aguilar (Honduras)
Paulina Velázquez (Costa Rica)

OCTOBER 25
Alejandro de la Guerra (Nicaragua)
Crack Rodríguez (El Salvador)
Valeria Cobos (Honduras)
Natalia Domínguez (El Salvador)

Next two events coming up in November! Check the website for details.

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6. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SCREEN:MOVES 2025
   DEADLINE DATE OCTOBER 14, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE CHRIS DUPUIS

Call for Submissions: Screen:Moves 2025
Dance Film and Video Screening Series

Presented as part of the Rhubarb Festival 2025
At Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

Deadline: October 14, 2024
Honorarium: $500

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7. EVENT FIERCE FESTIVAL
   DATE OCTOBER 15–20, 2024
   LOCATION BIRMINGHAM, UK
   SOURCE CLAYTON LEE

ARTISTS
Alina Arshi
Harald Beharie
Karen Christopher
Steven Cohen
Edward George
Sheila Ghelani + Sue Palmer
James Goodwin
J Neve Harrington
Jassem Hindi
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Adam Kinner + Christopher Willes
Dana Michel
Ramona Nagabczyńska
Jeremy Nedd
Martin O’Brien
Alessandro Schiattarella
Joshua Serafin
SERAFINE1369
Keioui Keijaun Thomas
Selina Thompson
melisandre Varin
Tiran Willemse

Fierce Festival will be back with a bang with a six day programme of daring international contemporary live art and performance—the first curated by our new Director (Artistic), Clayton Lee.

We’re bringing over 15 productions from 9 countries to Birmingham for a week of unforgettable performances—happening over 6 days across the city centre, including 9 UK premieres and 1 world premiere! It’s going to be bold, challenging, moving and joyous bab!

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8. EVENT ÉCART | 11th BIENNALE D’ART PERFORMATIF
   DATE OCTOBER 16–19, 2024
   LOCATION ROUYN-NORANDA, CANADA
   SOURCE ÉCART

ARTISTS
Aisha Sasha John and Devon Snell
Ellen Fury
Eve Stainton
Jessie Ray Short
Kigos
Lieven Meyer
Mai Bach-Ngoc Nguyen
Marc-Olivier Hamelin
Nate Yaffe
Samir Laghouati-Rashwan and Trésor Gennai
Seth Cardinal Dodginghorse
Shannon Cochrane

Voices are raised, loud and striking. This biennial assembles and unites around resurgence, like groundwater that comes to the surface as a life-giving source from which to drink, despite the dark paths, present and past, of colonialism. The guardian sirens of the rivers spit out our murky waters with oxygen. We are summoned to multiple voices. Some that shake us, others that rally us in mythical basements, with a historical look at the very concept of community. Still others cross us from different worlds, memories and knowledge, like those of spirits and the dead.
~Audrée Juteau, Artistic director

PROGRAMME
Wednesday–Saturday, 7:00pm
Admission: $15 per evening / $45 all four evenings

Venues
ÉCART, 167 Murdoch
Musée d’art de Rouyn-Noranda, 221 avenue du Musée

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9. PUBLICATION NOTES FROM ISOLATION BY ANDREA PAGNES
   DATE NOW
   LOCATION THE WORLD
   SOURCE VESTANDPAGE

Notes from Isolation: A Logbook of Thoughts and ‘momentum’ Conversations in Times of Plagues
By Andrea Pagnes

Now available through Live Art Development Agency / Unbound

Performance-making is a mode of enquiring about culture and a strategy to respond to societal emergencies. Collective acts of thought and expression are an existential urgency as they broaden our understanding of who we are. As the world grappled with lockdowns, fear has permeated our very beings. Notes from Isolation embodies an investigative journey wherein Andrea Pagnes—who, with Verena Stenke, forms the artist duo VestAndPage—explores the essence of existence during the COVID-19 pandemic. He then shares his notes in distant encounters with artists, poets and philosophers friends who navigate the non-linear realms: Marilyn Arsem, Lois Keidan, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Franko B, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Stelarc, Timothy Morton, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, and eventually Ron Atheyrevisiting a conversation they had a while ago. At last, performance matters: politics and science to dissect, recurring patterns of suffering and pain to surpass, religion, colonialism, and gender fluidity found a voice within the societal crises that COVID-19 accentuated. Multiple remote visions and divergent creative thinking are pooled to inspect reality while caring for humanity, as to perhaps find a way out.

“Andrea’s thought chronicles and dialogues with friends delve into the intricacies and diverse experiences of displacement, cultural questioning, and tradition. They wave from presence to absence, ponder what it means to be alive, move fluidly between performance and introspection, and populate the metaphysical space this book represents, crafting a love letter to those who dwell between corporeal and spiritual conditions.” ~Chinasa Vivian Ezugha

A project by VestAndPage press
Published by the Live Art Development Agency (LADA), 2024
Paperback, 175 x 215 mm, 451 pages. ISBN: 978-1-8380229-7-6

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