Threshold is a research project that invites three emerging local artists to make an outdoor performance on a public staircase in Toronto.
25 March 25
We Could Break Performance with Vanessa Godden and James Knott
We Could Break Performance is a podcast hosted by artists Vanessa Godden and James Knott investigating the question: “How do we evaluate the substance of tropes enacted in performance art?”
Episode 1: LAUNCHES MARCH 21
Emerging Artists Series LAB
Questions are asked, methods chosen, and outcomes are not guaranteed. Results vary—from podcasts to public performance experiments, and everything in between.
The 2025 Emerging Artists Series LABists are: Christina Anna Trutriak, James Knott and Vanessa Godden.
not knowing is the most intimate | curated by Shalon Webber-Heffernan
Inspired by the Buddhist koan, “not knowing is the most intimate,” the series embraces the uncertainty of our contemporary emotional landscapes, inviting both artists and audiences to move into the discomfort of uncharted waters.
Walk-and-Talk
In FADO’s newest series, we highlight and investigate two foundational gestures of the performance art vocabulary—walking, talking—through performances and discursive interventions that explore their intrinsic mutual imbrication.
Walk with us.