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Stefanie Marshall is a Toronto-based artist and educator. Her multidisciplinary practice spans installation, performance, design, public art, textile works, curatorial and community-based projects. She has presented work in galleries, museums, theatres, artist-run centres and non-traditional sites in Canada, United States and the United Kingdom. Her interest in green spaces, textiles, architecture, the history of objects, shifting perspectives, community, collecting, and playing with language inform her art practice.
“A deviser of territories, languages, works, the deject never stops demarcating his universe, whose fluid confines… constantly question his solidity and impel him to start afresh. A tireless builder, the deject is in short a ‘stray.’ He is on a journey during the night, the end of which keeps receding. …And the more he strays, the more he is saved.” Power of Horror by Julia Kristeva
FADO is pleased to present where do I go from here?, a new performance by Stefanie Marshall, as part of the Public Spaces / Private Places series. where do I go from here? undertakes a form of artistic alchemy by bringing ritualized behaviour and obsessive gesture into the public realm.
For several hours on two separate days, Marshall will wheel an old 2-burner stove through the streets of downtown Toronto. Following her instinct, she will navigate the social and physical geography of the heart of the city, stopping frequently to engage more closely with her surroundings. This work is about carving out a public place of permission for the private poetry of the body and the imagination. 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. Those who choose to enter Marshall’s world may find themselves taken deeper into their own senses, where half-forgotten memories can be reawakened.
Marshall writes: “If they had lips, my fingers would be my teeth, masticating, probing holes, moving, wrapping, marking days and cloth, rubbing, sliding, grabbing, squeezing, slapping—manifesting complex thought into repetitive patterns of action. They are my memory… allowing me to survive.”
August 21, 2000 from 2:00pm–5:00pm The artist’s walk begins at the corner of Queen and Yonge streets, ending at Spadina Avenue and College Street.
August 26, 2000 from 12:00pm–3:00pm The artist’s walk begins at the corner of Bloor and Yonge streets, ending in Kensington Market.
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.
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