FADO E-BULLETIN
September 2025

1. EVENT NEW PERFORMANCE TURKU BIENNALE
   DATE SPETEMBER 2–7, 2025
   LOCATION TURKU, FINLAND
   SOURCE NPT BIENNALE

The International New Performance Turku Biennale will once again emerge throughout Turku spaces on September 2-7, 2025, with the theme “On the Threshold” (Käännekohta). Organized for the second time, the biennale invites audiences to pause and reflect on the deep change and transitions we are living together – and explore how art opens new perspectives in this uncertain world. The biennale’s diverse program features 25 international and Finnish artists who examine current crises, embodiment, and forms of survival in a world where ecological and societal transitions define a new reality.

The biennale’s program is built around five key thematic areas, each offering different and sometimes unexpected perspectives on the threshold of change, including:
Ecological transition
Social justice and power
Changing identities and corporeality
Technology and speculative futures
Contemporary rituals

ARTISTS
Jelili Atiku (Nigeria) / Jade Blackstock (Great Britain) / Marita Bullmann (Germany) / Sara Cowdell-Murray (New Zealand) / Va-Bene Fiatsi (Ghana) / Dariusz Fodczuk (Poland) / stvn girard (Canada) / Edvinas Grinkevičius (Lithuania) / Marco Fernando Guagnelli Gonzalez (Mexico / United States) / Harold Hejazi (Canada / Finland) / Hanna Ijäs (Finland) / Parsa Kamehkhosh (Iran / Finland) / Leena Kela (Finland) / Jamie Lewis-Hadley (Great Britain) / Anna Maskava (Latvia) / Aapo Nikkanen (Finland / France) / George Rallis (Cyprus / Finland) / Gaetan Rusquet (Belgium) / Miradonna Sirkka (Finland) / Aliisa Talja & Samuli Laine / WAUHAUS (Finland) / Emil Santtu Uuttu (Finland) / Anabela Veloso (Portugal / Denmark) / Sara Wollasch (Czech Republic)

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2. EVENT LIVE ACTION
   DATE SEPTEMBER 5–7, 2025
   LOCATION GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
   SOURCE LIVE ACTION

LIVE ACTION
September 5–7, 2025
Gothenburg, Sweden

ARTISTS
Wathiq Al-Ameri, Iraq/Switzerland
Janusz Bałdyga, Poland
Nezaket Ekici, Turkey/Germany
Snežana Golubović, Serbia/Germany
Stein Henningsen, Norway
Mai Bach-Ngoc Nguyen, Vietnam/Canada
Nigel Rolfe, UK/Ireland
Raeda Saadeh, Palestine
Asanda Chuma Sopotela, South Africa
Joakim Stampe, Sweden
Jian Jun Xi, China/United Kingdom
Rong Xie, China/UK

Live Action celebrates its 20th anniversary under the theme of Freedom—arguably one of the most profound and essential concepts for humanity, alongside survival itself. Freedom is a complex and layered notion, touching nearly every dimension of social life. Yet it remains a word — perhaps the word — that resonates most profoundly across cultures and histories. Freedom and its core significations are key to all people.

This year, in a celebration of our 20th anniversary we reinvent our international commitment, with a new innovative artist centric project called Exchange, realized in its first edition in a partnership with the international performance art festival VIVA ! Art in Action, in Montréal, Canada.

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3. EVENT PERFORMANCE IN DER KLEINEN ORANGERIE
   DATE SEPTEMBER 5–7, 2025
   LOCATION BERLIN, GERMANY
   SOURCE ANNA BERNDTSON

PERFORMANCE IN DER KLEINEN ORANGERIE
Berlin, Germany

Curated by Steffi Weismann and Oliver Möst
Free entry!

Friday, September 5, 2025
6:00pm: Aurélie Pertusot
7:00pm: Lorena Izquierdo + Mario Montoya
8:00pm: Alexey Kokhanov

Saturday, September 6, 2025
5:00pm: Daniela Fromberg + Stefan Roigk + Peter Strickmann
6:00pm: plan b (Sophia New & Daniel Belasco Rogers)
7:00pm: Anna Berndtson
8:00pm: Suet Wa Tan

Sunday, September 7, 2025
5:00pm: Mariana Carvalho
6:00pm: Anja Ibsch
7:00pm: Twins Corporated
8:00pm: Yuko Kaseki

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4. CALL FOR PROPOSALS FLOW • EMBODY IN SITE 2026
   DEADLINE DATES SEPTEMBER 5–OCTOBER 5, 2025
   LOCATION CHICAGO, USA
   SOURCE CARRON LITTLE

Flow • embody in site 2026
organized by the Out of Site Chicago (OoS) artist collective

Open Call for Proposals: September 5, 2025 – October 5, 2025

Flow • embody in site was launched in 2021 to create a space where the global community of public performance art practitioners could gather, create public performance art that could be shared with the global online community. The artist collective organized three consecutive years from 2021–2023 and then we focused on inviting new members to join the artist collective and most recently had a residency in Italy to devise new projects and programming for 2026. As a global community of practitioners, we organize workshops led by life-long practitioners artists including Marilyn Arsem, Paul Couillard, Martine Viale, Frans van Lent, Odun Orimolade, and Dimple B Shah. Beyond these specialized online workshops, we host an open call for artists worldwide to present their work, emphasizing public performance art and live art practices.

This is an invitation to submit a proposal to share public performance art or socially engaged practices by October 5, 2025 to participate in Flow • embody in site 2026 which takes place from April 27 – May 3, 2026. We invite people to submit proposals for performance lectures and artist presentations. Online submission portal opens on September 5, 2026.

Submission Guidelines
To submit a proposal please email outofsitechicago@gmail.com with “Flow 2026”  in the subject line and include the following in one pdf:

• 2 images with photo credits;
• Link to an online portfolio/website/blog;
• 300-500 word bio;
• 500-word abstract describing your research, practice and one paragraph painting a picture of how you would like to present in this online context;
• Resume of your performance art practice.

Out of Site Chicago (OoS) has been creating unexpected encounters in public spaces since 2011. OoS has developed a methodology of working in urban spaces that supports socially relevant concerns and diverse representations of cutting-edge artistic practice. In 2020, Out of Site pivoted to working as an international artist collective of women, non-binary, and trans artists. We supported our community of artists through the pandemic creating live stream performance of experimental practice. Collectively we produced the international Flow symposium and festival called Flow • embody in site and an Artist Focus series where artists who have an public performance art practice can be in reflective conversation with artists in our community.

We’ve partnered with numerous organizations over the last thirteen years. In 2022, we received the Artist Run Award from Hyde Park Art Center and received support from Experimental Sound Studio, WORM, Chicago Park District, LePARC Research Center at Concordia University and Ohio University School of Art and Design, Princes Bernhard Culture Fund and the Mondrian Foundation in the Netherlands for Intercity, a ground breaking innovative project that shared public performance experiences simultaneously in two cities; Chicago & Rotterdam.

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5. PERFORMANCE BLACK MARKET INTERNATIONAL 40th ANNIVERSARY
   DATE SEPTEMBER 6, 2025
   LOCATION KASSEL, GERMANY
   SOURCE ASABANK

Kasseler Museumsnacht: Black Market International
September 6, 2025
Kassel, Germany

PARTICIPATING BMI ARTISTS
Julie Andrée T. (CAN)
Jürgen Fritz (D)
Sandra Johnston (GB)
Myriam Laplante (CAN/IT)
Ryszard Ługowski (PL)
Alastair MacLennan (GB)
Boris Nieslony (D)
Zygmunt Piotrowski (PL)
Tomáš Ruller (CZE)
Elvira Santamaria Torres (MEX)
Jacques Van Poppel (NL)
Roi Vaara (FIN)

Performance art played a central role during documenta 8 in 1987. Among the participants was the performance collective Black Market International (BMI), founded in 1985. For this year’s Museum Night, Black Market International – now a globally active artists’ association – returns to Kassel and celebrates its 40th anniversary at a location that has had a decisive influence on the group’s development.

Typical of their working method, the performance is created live, unplanned, and spontaneously – without a script, score, or prior arrangements. In keeping with the spirit of intercultural exchange and the guiding principle of an “open system of encounter” (Boris Nieslony), the participating actors develop a site-specific action: in dialogue with the architecture, the atmosphere of the space, and in direct resonance with the audience, which is actively involved in the event. Selected materials from the Black Kit performance archive (Schwarze Lade) and other props are activated in the process and serve as catalysts for joint action in the moment.

For four decades, Black Market International has seen itself as a flexible network of artists from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines – from visual arts to theater and dance to music. The group’s artistic practice is reflected in the Black Kit performance archive, which found its new home in the documenta archive in 2024. Founded in 1981 in the context of the action art scene around Boris Nieslony, it initially served as a collectively used working tool and has since developed into one of the most important archives for happenings, action art, and performance art.

The full-length performance will be accompanied by a film program and a documentary presentation of material on the history of the collective in the documenta Halle.

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6. EVENT PERFORMATORIUM FESTIVAL OF QUEER PERFORMANCE
   DATE SEPTEMBER 10–13, 2025
   LOCATION SASKATOON, CANADA
   SOURCE QUEER CITY CINEMA

Performatorium Festival of Queer Performance 12 / Queer City Cinema Film Festival 21
September 10–13, 2025

VENUES
Dunlop Art Gallery / Regina Public Library Film Theatre / University of Regina / Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre / New Dance Horizons

PERFORMANCES
Marcus Merasty [Regina]
Elian Mikkola [Montreal]
Lichen Bouboushian [Texas]

3 film screenings + 2 workshops + 2 artists presentations + perforum panel discussion + special film screening
admission is by donation at the door
wheelchair accessible facilities where available
all gender washrooms where and when available
captioned film programming for deaf and hard of hearing audiences when available

The theme of this year’s festival comes from thoughts around ‘identity’ and how we humans ‘identify’ through nationalism/citizenship, indigeneity, ethnicity, religion/belief systems, culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. and the positive and negative complexities of asserting and claiming space for individual and collective identities.

For this year’s theme, FIRE is meant to conceptually suggest both a destructive and constructive force—how identity can create disruption, conflict and violence and that perhaps metaphorically destroying it all—‘burning it ALL down’—is a necessary step to bring about freedom, resolution, safety and peace…an imaginary, fantastical way to move forward with a new utopian landscape—not unlike the ‘phoenix from the flames’ mythology.

In the context of a Queer event like QCC/Performatorium, IdentiFIRE might also suggest how 2SLGBTQIA+ artists, more than ever, are the sparks that are needed to grow the fires to counter and battle the flames that are increasingly directed towards us—fighting fire with fire—flame throwers against injustice, racism, transphobia, xenophobia, and hate.

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7. PERFORMANCE SIX TURNTABLES BY CHRISTOPHER WILLES
   DATE SEPTEMBER 14, 2025
   LOCATION GUELPH, CANADA
   SOURCE CHRISTOPHER WILLES

Six Turntables with Christopher Willes and Akash Bansal
September 14 @ 12:00pm
Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute

Part of the Guelph Jazz Festival

Six Turntables is a project that invites groups of young people to listen to and remix local archives of experimental music. Co-facilitated by Christopher Willes and Akash Bansal, each version of Six Turntables works with a different collection of sound recordings connected to the place in which it’s presented, and unfolds through a series of workshops, culminating in a performance.

For this iteration, twelve students from Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute will take part in a four-day intensive workshop, diving into the festival’s archives of solo improvisational concerts (dating back to 1998!). The concluding performance will take place in the school auditorium. As part of it, we’ll be sharing a special publication—and intentionally a loose collection of printed materials that document the process, including ephemera from past workshops, participants’ contributions, scores, and more.

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8. WORKSHOP FROM IDEA TO EXECUTION WITH MARTA JOVANOVIĆ
   DEADLINE TO APPLY OCTOBER 1, 2025
   LOCATION ONLINE
   SOURCE ECC – PERFORMANCE ART

The ECC – Performance Art presents WORKSHOP
Performance Art: From Idea to Execution with Marta Jovanović

The main objective of this course is to prepare the participants to develop an idea into a live performance art piece. In the process, participants practice how to think critically about performance art and find their unique way of expression. In order to gain historical and disciplinary perspective, participants learn about precedents such as Futurism and DADA, the development of the scene in various parts of the world, leading artists such as Yoko Ono, Marina Abramovic, or Vito Acconci, as well as crucial festivals and exhibitions. In addition, the course analyzes performance art in relationship to other performative disciplines like theatre, dance, or video art and addresses key forms such as body art and performative political works.

Through a series of practical exercises and assignments, as well as feedback and discussion rounds, participants are guided through a specific creative process which is about defining and narrowing down individual relevant topics and performative approaches that lead to a well-defined and sustained practice.

AVAILABILITY: Places still available
DURATION: October 6–27, 2025
DATES: Mondays from 6:00–8:00pm CET
LOCATION: Online course
LANGUAGE: English
TUITION FEE: 175 € (no equipment required)

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9. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NIYAMA SAUCHA PROJECT
   DATE ONGOING
   LOCATION ONLINE
   SOURCE ISABEL LEÓN

You are invited to take part in the Everyday Anthology, an archive that is part of Spanish artist Isabel León‘s project NIYAMA SAUCHA.

This project explores the human condition through a deep respect for yoga, while also incorporating an ironic and absurd perspective. It combines yoga practice with everyday household tasks, presenting actions like cleaning as a shared human experience—something that connects and equalizes us all. If you practice yoga regularly, you are invited to participate by submitting a photograph of yourself performing a yoga asana while using a cleaning or household item. Feel free to share this invitation with anyone you know who practices yoga!

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10. PERFORMANCE THE INSTITUTION (REVISITED) BY ANDRÉ STITT
    DATE OCTOBER 4, 2025
    LOCATION CARDIFF, WALES
    SOURCE SINEAD O’DONNELL

The Institution (Revisited) by André Stitt
With Sinéad O’Donnell (Ireland), Jamie McMurry (USA), Charlie Lockwood (Wales)

Performance: October 4 @ 2:00pm (5-hour duration)
Installation on view: October 5 from 12:00pm
Panel discussion: October 5 @ 4:00–5:00pm

Marking the twentieth anniversary of The Institution at Chapter in 2005, Andre Stitt presents The Institution (Revisited) – a new installation and durational performance featuring an ensemble of Welsh and international artists _ investigating memory and its failure and the afterlives of trauma.

The Institution (2005) was an installation and site of ‘akshun’ that investigated space as a vehicle for tracing the repression and recovery of memory, commissioned by Chapter in 2005 as part of Stitt’s solo exhibition, Reclamation. Returning to performance after a twelve-year hiatus, the artist will stage a five-hour re-imagining of the original with guest artists Sinéad O’Donnell (Ireland), Jamie McMurry (USA), and Charlie Lockwood (Wales).

The remnants of the performance will be open to the public on October from 12:00pm, followed by a panel discussion at 4:00pm with Heike Roms, author of What’s Welsh for Performance (2008), and Professor in Theatre and Performance at Exeter University.

ABOUT ANDRÉ STITT
André Stitt was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1958. He studied at Ulster Polytechnic and Belfast College of Art & Design, Ulster University 1976-1980. From 1976-2013 he worked almost exclusively as a performance and interdisciplinary artist Stitt and gained an international reputation for cutting edge, provocative and politically challenging work. A predominate theme in his artistic output is that of communities and their dissolution often relating to trauma, conflict and art as a redemptive proposition. His ‘live’ performance and installation works have been presented at major museums, galleries and sites specific throughout the world. Since 2013 he has focused his practice on painting as an expanded proposition. He was Professor of Performance & Interdisciplinary Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University and programme leader of the MFA. From 1999–2024 and is currently Professor Emeritus at Cardiff Met. Stitt was director of trace: Installaction Artspace in Cardiff from 2000–2010 initiating a robust programme of international installation and performance work.

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11. EVENT VIVA! ART ACTION
    DATE OCTOBER 7–11, 2025
    LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
    SOURCE VIVA!

SAVE THE DATE!

From the 7th to the 11th of October 2025, VIVA! will once again take residence at L’Union Française to present the biennale VIVA! Art Action. Free and open to everyone, the ninth edition’s programming will begin with a public discussion, followed by four days of dazzling, direct, and memorable actions by local and international artists. Details will be shared by mid-September!

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