Denis Romanovski lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He works in performance art, experimental forms of digital media, and artistic research. His work has been presented in international festivals and exhibitions in Belarus, Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Thailand, UK, and the USA. He is also an active performance art organizer, including international performance art festivals: Navinki 1991-2008 (Belarus), Navinki-Weld 2008 (Sweden), No-budget Performance: a Stockholm Odysssey 2010-2011 (Sweden), PALS – Performance Art Links 2012 (Sweden). Since 2010, he has been teaching performance art at Kungl.Konsthögskolan in Stockholm.
Curated and presented by FADO Performance Art Centre at the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art.
FADO continues with the ongoing International Visiting Artists series with new performance works from MagnĂŒs Logi Kristinsson (born in Iceland, living in Finland) and Denis Romanovski (born in Belarus, living in Sweden). In addition, Denis Romanovski will also be presenting a guerrilla performance in the form of a tour of the Toronto subway system on October 26, 2014.
Stories in a Box by MagnĂșs Logi Kristinsson The artist is inside a large wooden box, and he is telling a story. A story about himself from his times in Iceland. He only shows one foot and one hand to the audience and with that hand, he give extra details to the story.
To mean nothingâthat’s OK. To have money and to be hungryâthat’s OK. To do nothing under surveillanceâthat’s OK. To wait for better times and to be still aliveâthat’s OK. To hate museums and rebellionsâthat’s OK. To sing for old people and to dance with strangersâthat’s OK. ETC.
âThat’s OK Manifesto (fragment); written in collaboration with KKH students
The Toronto Performance Art Collective (TPAC) is a not-for-profit, artist-driven collective that curates and produces the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance ArtâEnglish Canadaâs oldest ongoing biennial of performance art. 7a*11d was established in 1997 by a group of performance artists, collectives, and organizers, eager to develop a forum for performance art in Toronto. The first 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art took place in August 1997 and presented the work of sixty local, national and international artists. The 9th edition of the festival takes place from October 24â28, 2012.
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?
