Public Spaces / Private Places

2000 – 2003

Public Spaces / Private Places was a 3-year long international performance art series featuring 22 projects, created by 26 artists, from Canada, the US, Europe and Asia. The series explored the elements that turn neutral ‘space’ into meaningful ‘place’ through performances that examined the degrees of intimacy, connection and interaction that mark the dividing line between public and private. The series was particularly focused on performances created for intimate audiences. Some projects featured site-specific or installational environments that invited participants into a sensory or experiential journey. Others were process-oriented, involving public intervention, intimate gestures, or actions that were, by their nature, nearly invisible. Above all, the series explored the points where identity and geography intersect to generate meaning.

2002–2003
Walking and Getting Rid of Something by Kirsten Forkert
Promenades by Sylvie Cotton
The Rootless Man by Iwan Wijono
Disposition by Adina Bar-On

2001–2002
Talking to my Horse by Archer Pechawis
A Gathering for Her by Reona Brass
Mettachine (Sequence 1) by Louise McKissick
Feu de Joie by Randy & Berenicci
Open Surgery by Oreet Ashery & Svar Simpson
Remembrance Day by Johanna Householder
Disclosure by Undo
Meridian by Marilyn Arsem
One Stitch in Time by Devora Newmark

2000–2001
The Addmore Session by Istvan Kantor
spoken house by Otiose
Public Web by Tagny Duff
Numb/Hum: A Subterranean Metropolitan Opera by Christine Carson
Between Us by Jerzy Onuch
Ethel: Bloodline by Louise Liliefeldt
where do I go from here? by Stefanie Marshall
Urban Disco Trailer by Jinhan Ko
Evanescent Rumour by Tony Romano

The Public Spaces / Private Places series presented 22 performance projects between 2000–2003, and was curated by Paul Couillard.

Artists

Documentation

Performance

Performance
Walking and Getting Rid of Something by Kirsten Forkert

This performance considers the problems of living in a consumer culture, juxtaposing two situational questions: what to do with unwanted material goods; and how to work through a collaborative or community decision-making process.

Performance
Promenades by Sylvie Cotton

Promenades is a socio-artistic experiment featuring one-one meetings between the artist and selected participants.

Performance
The Rootless Man by Iwan Wojono

In The Rootless Man, the artist considers the commodification of culture and the destruction of nature, using a remote-controlled toy dump truck filled with earth.

Performance
Disposition by Adina Bar-On

This ambulatory performance work speaks to the concept of viewpoint, using local geography, history and culture to influence the shape of the artist’s shared journey with the audience.

Performance
Talking to my Horse by Archer Pechawis

Talking to my Horse is a meditation on two images: a wire service photo of American soldiers on horseback in Afghanistan, and a scene from Thomas Berger’s book, Little Big Man.
Performance
A Gathering for Her by Reona Brass

In A Gathering for Her, Brass makes preparations to be bound into a reconstructed ‘cradleboard’, a rite of passage denied her by a broken history.

Performance
Mettachine (Sequence 1) by Louise McKissick

McKissick creates a provocative performance situation by marrying clinical and relaxation biofeedback techniques – including hypnosis – with brainwave interface technology from IBVA Technologies Inc.
Performance
Feu de Joie by Randy & Berenicci

Disaster and delight intermingle as the artists frame themselves as miniatures on a puppet stage, endlessly struggling to arrive – or is it to escape?
Performance
Open Surgery by Oreet Ashery & Svar Simpson

Open Surgery is interested to act-out a common obsession to know-and-better-oneself, especially in relation to our bodies, our differences, and our sense of identitiy/ies.
Performance
Remembrance Day by Johanna Householder

Describing Remembrance Day as a counter-monument, Householder uses war movies as source material to pose questions about the transferal of cultural values, information and attitudes from generation to generation.
Performance
Disclosure by UNDO

UNDO uses minimal electronics to perform intimate sensual live soundscapes. For Disclosure, the performers accent the intimacy of the enclosures of a living space.
Performance
Meridian by Marilyn Arsem

In May 2001, I celebrated my 50th birthday, and if I live to be 100, it could be considered my meridian year.
Performance
One Stitch at a Time by Devora Neumark

This performance honours intimate spaces as a means of community engagement. It is an invitation to share and explore daily life and issues of the heart through personal storytelling and stitching.

Performance
The Addmore Session by Istvan Kantor

Join Istvan Kantor and guest performers as they demonstrate the links between the office and the concert hall, information technology and sexual symbolism, communication and insanity.

Performance
Spoken House by Otiose

The Southfork ranch from Dallas.
Seinfeld’s apartment. The family residence of the Brady Bunch. The living room of All In The Family. The home of the Simpsons. The shared apartment in Friends. The house occupied by Norman Bates in Psycho. A shared bedroom in New York. …
Performance
<< Public Web >> by Tagny Duff

In << Public Web >> participants are given the opportunity to navigate through the city landscape while co-authoring a performance experience, questioning both the limitations and possibilities of “interactive” navigation in the physical realm.

Performance
Numb/Hum: A Subterranean Metropolitan Opera by Christine Carson

Toronto subway commuters, used to the familiar sounds of moving crowds, screeching wheels and electronic warning signals, may find themselves encountering something unexpected.
Performance
Between Us by Jerzy Onuch

Between Us addresses the discomforts associated with intimacy, examining the double-edged sword of awkwardness, which can encourage solidarity and bonding or lead to alienation and isolation.

Performance
Ethel: Bloodline by Louise Liliefeldt

As you approach, you hear a piano playing, and you notice that the surface of the cross is covered in photographs. This is a language, a series of keys to a personal history, but how do you interpret them, and what do they tell you of the figure who clings to the cross?
Performance
where do I go from here? by Stefanie Marshall

In taking everyday objects and private actions into the street, Marshall holds a mirror up to the privacy of our emotions and inspires a different conscious awareness.

Performance
Urban Disco Trailer by Jinhan Ko

The transformed Urban Disco Trailer has been retrofitted with not-so-modern technology approximating a discotheque. Follow this impromptu, intimate discotheque-for-the-21st-century as it circulates the city.
Performance
Evanescent Rumour by Tony Romano

In the end, only one image will remain. What will we glean from these images, and how will the making of them alter the artist’s own understanding of the event they attempt to portray?

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