Grotesques

© Nao Bustamante, FADO Performance Inc., and Shannon Cochrane. 2008. Photo Credit: Shannon Cochrane.
Performance
February 23, 2008A Space Gallery 110-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto6:30 pm

Grotesques must be thought of as a site of experimentation, where risk is a seductive ally that pries open the aperture for possibility. In this collective exhibition, the grotesque is invoked as a realm of mutative, transitional, and transgressive potentiality. Employing a range of taboo materials, themes, and forms, the artists move beyond the expected, searching for unconventional ways into the audience’s sensorium. Through symbolic inversion, this group of artist-agents emphasize a return of the repressed, amplifying contemporary political issues that exist within our everyday experience.

A Space Main Gallery
February 23 – March 21, 2008
Curated by Lissette Olivares
Co-Presented by A Space Gallery and FADO Performance Art Centre

ARTISTS

Cheto Castellano
Coco Rico
David Khang
Irene Loughlin
Nao Bustamente
Natalie Loveless
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa

PERFORMANCES: Saturday February 23, starting at 6:30 pm

Untitled by David Khang
White Slavery in Toronto by Naufus Ramirez Figueroa
Mythical Grotesques by Irene Loughlin
Pies con Barro and Muddied Feet by Cheto Castellano
Given over to Want by Nao Bustamante


Lissette Olivares is a theorist, critic and curator. As a cultural diplomat she promotes avant-garde practices and the careers of marginal artists; her PhD analyzes cultural resistance during Chile’s dictatorship.


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BOOKS & OTHER EPHEMERA

Performance Yellow

This fragrance opens us to the question, has the show started? It's winter, the theatre is colder than the street and the room is filled with people and all their winter smells: wet faux leather, down, too much shampoo, and beer breath. The atmosphere is a trickster. Am I late, am I early?

Top Notes

yellow mandarin, mimosa

Middle Notes

honey, chamomile, salt

Base Notes

narcissus, guaiac wood, piss, beer