A performance series for the start of times.
ARTISTS
Cara Spooner (Toronto)
Claudia Edwards (Toronto)
Jehan Roberson (USA)
Joe Culpepper (USA)
Mani Mazinani (Toronto)
Marcin Kedzior (Toronto)
Mathieu Lacroix (Montréal)
Nadège Grebmeier Forget (Montréal)
Sue Murad (USA)
Vanessa Dion Fletcher (Toronto)
PLUS limited-edition placemats designed by Lisa Kiss, with drawings by Hazel Meyer.
Put together by Shannon Cochrane and Francesco Gagliardi
On the Table Off the Table is a series of commissioned performance works engaging with the table as context, stage, and trope. Aspiring to aesthetic neutrality or demanding attention as a chosen object, the table reappears throughout the history of performance, at times taking center stage, at other times hiding in plain sight.
For this series, artists working at the confluence of performance art and a range of diverse practices—from writing to dance, from sound to magic—will create live work in conversation with performance traditions about, around, and on tables.
FADO Performance Art Centre’s first post(?)-pandemic live series, On the Table Off the Table also intends to provide artists and audiences with an opportunity to re-learn together how to inhabit the space of public presentation, rediscovering the solitary workstation as a place of gathering and play.
DETAILS & INFO
- There will be 1–2 performances each evening.
- Doors will open at listed times. Performances will start 30 minutes later.
- Mask-wearing for audience is mandatory in the performance space. Exemptions respected.
- Performers will not necessarily be masked while performing.
- Accessible washrooms are located on the 4th floor.
- Non-alcoholic drinks will be served, please eat your dinner before arriving.
Free. All welcome. Tell us you will be attending. Register on Eventbrite.
PROGRAM
September 23, 2022 @ 7:00pm: Cara Spooner, Vanessa Dion Fletcher
September 24, 2022 @ 7:00pm: Joe Culpepper & Marcin Kedzior, Claudia Edwards
September 29, 2022 @ 7:00pm: Sue Murad, Mathieu Lacroix
September 30, 2022 @ 7:00pm: Mani Mazinani, Nadège Grebmeier Forget
October 1, 2022 @ 5:00pm: Jehan Roberson
Jehan Roberson’s performance is co-presented by Hemispheric Encounters, a partnership project supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
