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FADO E-LIST (July 2006)
INDEX
1. FADO UPDATE
2. FADO EVENT: FIVE HOLES: matters of taste
July 13 - 23, 2006
3. JOB POSTING: Media Programmer, Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton)
Deadline: June 30, 2006; Source: Akimbo
4. CALL FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS: DISONANCIAS 2006 (Spain)
Deadline: July 5, 2006; Source: Leonardo/ISAST Network
5. CALL FOR CURATORIAL PROPOSALS (VIDEO): Vtape
Deadline: July 9, 2006; Source:Vtape
6. CONFERENCE: Dramaturgy
Dates:July 12 - 13, 2006; Source: Theatre Centre
7. WORKSHOP: "The Movingbody "
Dates: July 10, 17 & 22, 2006; Source: Danièle Massie
8. RESIDENCY: The Banff Centre (Banff)
Deadline: July 15, 2006; Source:Akimbo
9. RESIDENCY: ComPeung. Village of Creativity Chiang Mai (Thailand)
Deadline: July 31, 2006; Source: :IAPAO
10. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS "MERCURY THEATRE IV: TERMINAL FRONTIER" (Vancouver)
Deadline: August 4, 2006; Source: Instant Coffee
11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (VIDEO); "Third International Festival of Performance for Video" (Mexico)
Deadline: August 10, 2006; Source: Miguel Angulo
12. RESIDENCY: PACT Zollverein (Germany)
Deadline: August 21, 2006; Source: On The Move
13. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Grant Program (USA)
Deadline: September 1, 2006; Source: artservis
14. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (PUBLICATION): "Blackness/ Diaspora" Performance Research (UK)
Deadline: September 15, 2006; Source: Franklin Furnace
15. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Total Recall" (Hungary)
Deadline: September 26, 2006 Source: Artpool
16. CONFERENCE: The Power of Place" Performance Creation Canada (Whitehorse)
Dates: September 29 - October 1, 2006; Source: PCC
17. RESIDENCY: CODA Rhodes College (USA)
Deadline: October 1, 2006; Source: Kim Simon
18. RESIDENCY: The Banff Centre (Banff)
Deadline: December 1, 2006; Source: Akimbo
19. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: "Were Not Gonna Take It"
Deadline: not given; Source: Instant Coffee
20. NEWS: Rae Davis, Pioneering Canadian Performance Artist Dies
Source: Various
21. NEWS: SOCKET, new arts radio show premieres
Source: CBC
22. EXHIBITION: "traversing tableaux" Modern Fuel (Kingston)
Date: continues to July 15; Source:Modern Fuel
23. EVENT: "Public Run with The Movement Movement "
Date: June 25, 2006; Source:Jessica Rose
24. EVENT: "The Box "
Date: June 28, 2006; Source: Box Salon
25. EVENT: Sound Symposium XIII (St. John's)
Date: July 7 - 15, 2006; Source: Sound Symposium
26. EVENT: "wade"
Date: July 7 - 9, 2006; Source: Sandra Rechico
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1. FADO UPDATE
Summer is upon us here in Toronto, and we bring you the July edition of the Fado newsletter a bit early, as our offices will be closed from now until July 6.
Paul Couillard, Fado's Performance Art Curator (and only staff member) will be on tour with Fado Board member Ed Johnson, presenting three new Duorama performances in Geneva at the Points d'impact festival presented by Piano Nobile from June 29 - July 1 (http://www.pianonobile.ch), and one in Berlin as a special presentation of Stammtisch at Sophiensaele on July 3 (http://liveartwork.com/stammtisch/?page_id=11). This will mark a new chapter in their ongoing Duorama collaboration, as they begin with the hundredth performance in the series!
Later in July, Fado will be back in full swing with the final installment in our longest running series, FIVE HOLES. Place your taste buds on high alert for matters of taste, a series of 4 experiential performances designed for audience member's mouths.
We would also like to call your attention to several new critical essays that have been added to the Fado webstie recently. Irene Loughlin considers Naufus Ramirez Figueroa's The Sun Is Crooked in the Sky; My Father Is Thrown over My Shoulders (http://www.performanceart.ca/idea/figueroa/essay.html); Allyson Mitchell considers Cindy Baker's Fashion Plate (http://www.performanceart.ca/idea/baker/essay.html), and Paul Couillard considers Mimi Nakajima's Wind doesn't blow branches (http://www.performanceart.ca/intl/japan/nakajima/essay.html). Three great articles to add to your summer reading list!
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2. FADO EVENT: FIVE HOLES: matters of taste
July 13 - 23, 2006
FIVE HOLES: matters of taste
Curated by Paul Couillard
July 13 - 20, 2006
Co-sponsored by the Ontario College of Art & Design and offthemapgallery
FIVE HOLES foregrounds our bodies by examining aspects of the five basic human senses. The presence of bodies – the performer's body and the audience members' bodies – is an essential element of performance. We 'perform' when we bring our bodies into relationships with an audience in time and space. FIVE HOLES is an ongoing series (since 1995) that considers some of the ways in which sight, touch, smell, hearing and now, taste, allow us to perceive.
Taste is perhaps the most 'personal' of all the senses. It is both primal – providing the impulses that drive consumption – and individualized: one person's desire is another's poison. While the word 'taste' is often associated with the concept of aesthetic discernment, matters of taste places its emphasis on a specific, visceral definition of taste: the perception of flavour and texture that takes place inside our mouths. This series explores the implications of a sense that operates through the placement of foreign material inside one's body. matters of taste is not concerned with the familiar social terrain of banquets and dinner parties so much as the links between physical sensation, unconscious/conscious drives, and our mouths as a point of contact with the external world. How does one orchestrate a performance for another's mouth? What are the dynamics that seduce, persuade or convince others to put things in their mouths? What are we or aren't we willing to put in our mouths? What intentions are bound up in the impulse to stimulate one's taste buds? What does our sense of taste reveal about our internal desires and external projections?
Thursday July 13, 5 – 8 pm
Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar
Jess Dobkin
The Ontario College of Art & Design Professional Gallery
100 McCaul Street, Main Entrance, Second Floor
At the Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar, audiences are invited to sample pasteurized human breast milk, donated by lactating new mothers. Participants will be guided through the tastings and given information about the donors’ milk attributes, to enhance the appreciation of each specimen’s unique flavor. The performance takes the primal bodily function of breastfeeding, which has been socially regulated as a private and concealed act, and brings it to a public environment. Female and male participants are welcome to discuss the issues honestly, with a sense of play and without judgment. For safety, all donors will be screened, and breast milk will be pasteurized and then culture tested before sampling.
Jess Dobkin’s performances, artist’s talks and workshops are presented at museums, galleries, theatres, universities and community centers throughout North America. She creates innovative live and video solo performances, as well as multiple artist productions.
Her creative endeavors have received wide support and recognition, including repeated funding from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art and the Astraea Foundation, and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. Her work has toured North America, and has been presented at renowned avant-garde venues in New York, including P.S.122, The Kitchen, LaMama, Dixon Place, Judson Memorial Church, and the WOW Cafe. In Toronto, her work has been presented at the Rhubarb! Festival, SPIN Gallery, the Inside/Out Festival, the Hysteria Festival, and other venues. She lives in Toronto.
Thursday, July 13, 8 pm
Artist Talk
Jess Dobkin & Gyrl Grip
The Ontario College of Art & Design Professional Gallery
100 McCaul Street, Main Entrance, Second Floor
Saturday, July 15, 8 pm
Kobe
Gyrl Grip (Lisa Newman & Llewyn Máire)
offthemapgallery
712 Lansdowne Ave (the back building)
Kobe beef are the Cadillacs of the cow world. They are raised in beautiful green open pastures, are fed beer to whet their appetites and are massaged with sake to keep their muscles marbleized and their skin soft. This performance considers the preparation of Kobe beef, as well as the fetishization of decadence through consumption. Assisted by her "handlers" and Gyrl Grip collaborator Llewyn Màire, Lisa Newman will have her body "prepared" in the manner of expensive meat. This performance is not so much pro-vegetarian as it is an exploration of decadence, food, and sacrifice.
The Gyrl Grip is driven by the desire to reveal, and de-veil challenging issues that exist within postmodern life and society. Their goal is not to provide answers, but to expose the difficult questions hidden behind cultural taboos and media spectacle, and to provide a forum for dialogue (internal and external) through the performative act. The core members of the grip are co-founders of the Portland, Oregon based 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts, Lisa Newman and Llewyn Máire (with their associated Avatars).
Since forming in 1998, the Gyrl Grip has manifested over 25 public showings. Notable performances include: the Proud to Put Out text-based performance series hosted in Portland by 2 Gyrlz, participation in the 2002 Black Sun Festival in Washington State, Full Nelson 5 in Los Angels (2003), FluXconcert PDX (2003), and street performances throughout the Pacific Northwest. “Boot Camp”, which explores violence against transpeople through live action and media, was presented in Helsinki and Turku, Finland in 2004 as part of Studio Là-Bas' Space Contentions festival, as well as in Victoria, B.C. "Segue" was performed at Lewis & Clark College's annual Gender Symposium in March of 2006.
Tuesday, July 18, 7:30 pm
Artist Talk
Tejpal S. Ajji & Irene Loughlin
The Ontario College of Art & Design Professional Gallery
100 McCaul Street, Main Entrance, Second Floor
Thursday, July 20, 6 - 9 pm
Liquid Skyline
Irene Loughlin (with the assistance of sound artist Guillermo Galindo, fashion designer Jan Oosterhuis & social acupuncturist Darren O'Donnell)
The Ontario College of Art & Design Professional Gallery
100 McCaul Street, Main Entrance, Second Floor
What do aliens eat, and will they eat me?
Irene Loughlin remembers Toronto from her days as an OCAD student in the late 1980s, a period of pacifying and distressing self-absorption characterized by both viscerally heightened sensory experiences and a profound sense of disassociation. Taking inspiration from the film Liquid Sky (circa 1983) – which Loughlin reads as a historical document evoking landscapes of self-constructed loft dwelling, hand-made and vintage clothing, gender dysphoric and feminist monologues, 1980s performance art and early video and sound technology – Liquid Skyline offers a superficial solution to the pressures of contemporary urban existence. In the film, Margaret begs the flying saucer that has landed on her rooftop to take her away. She has witnessed alien consumption of persons engaged in sex or injecting heroin, and hopes to be similarly consumed. In the performance environment, we may hope to be likewise transported by the orgasmic sensory delight of vapoury cocktails, flavoured lip glosses, brightly coloured Jell-O substances, powdered Splenda, Cheese Whiz, and other synthetic materials. Seemingly beyond hope and caught in the loop of the consumption/destruction cycle of late capitalism, we might momentarily engage in a kind of synthetic, sensory forgetting that dispels our problems – an indulgence prompted by the sensory aspect of taste.
Irene Loughlin is a performance artist who also works in the areas of installation and video. She has studied at the Ontario College of Art and Simon Fraser University, and has attended the NSCAD studio program in Tribeca, New York. She has presented her work in various national and international contexts including the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo and the Klaus Steinmetz Gallery (San Jose, Costa Rica), The Western Front, Grunt Gallery, Xeno Gallery, Gallery Gachet, and The Society for Disability Art and Culture (Vancouver), Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax) and Projet/Projo - Studio 303 (Montreal).
Loughlin has produced several works for the Vancouver Performance Art Biennial including "NADIA" (2005). She has been a member of the desmedia collective over the past four years, a group of artists that facilitates peer learning workshops in video and editing skills for residents of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Irene Loughlin was recently awarded the Lynch Staunton Award for mid-career work in the interdisciplinary category.
Sunday, July 23, 6 - 9 pm
The Oral Projects
Tejpal S. Ajji
Regent Park
(call the Fado hotline for details: 416-822-3219)
For this project, apartment building models made from mouth freshening strips will be placed in the mouths of willing Regent Park residents. The models melt as demolition crews raze local apartment complexes.
Tejpal S. Ajji's practice investigates social welfare programmes, particularly the government housing apartments in which he currently resides. State run programmes that define and maintain groups in society are of interest, as Ajji sees their influence exerted ‘invisibly’. How his family’s rent is determined illustrates this invisibility. As his mother’s income increases, her rent increases in proportion. There is a constant plateau that asserts the welfare state through stagnated economic development. The relationship between private housing developments and gentrification projects next to government housing properties are studied for the possible tensions between residents and developers.
Malton, the suburban Ontario town where Ajji resides, has a high immigrant population of South Asian and West Indian descent. Government processes of immigrant normalization and the assimilation of Canadian social codes are used as models to study behaviour, adaptation and disruption. Toronto’s international airport is located in Malton. The global flow of illness as Toronto witnesses with the SARS outbreak and the current Bird Flu scare is a recent area of investigation into ‘invisible structures’.
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3. JOB POSTING: Media Programmer, Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton)
Deadline: June 30, 2006; Source: Akimbo
The Art Gallery of Hamilton, one of Canada's most dynamic cultural institutions, is looking for a Media Programmer.
Reporting to the VP and COO/Senior Curator, this position is responsible for the production and presentation of public concerts, films, and performing arts for the Gallery's film and performance programmes. Previous experience working with contemporary film, video and new media is required.
Working closely with Gallery staff, volunteers, suppliers and Gallery patrons, the Media Programmer is involved in all aspects of bringing film, music, theatrical, literary and live performance events to the AGH, including budgeting, contact with performers, agents and distributors, event set-up and teardown, Member-based and external promotion, event sponsor and funding agency relations, and ticket sales.
The ideal candidate has a solid understanding of the entertainment industry, is community driven, able to mesh contemporary programming with a populist approach; has event experience; extensive knowledge of films and music; budgeting and revenue forecasting experience; excellent oral and written communications skills; grant application experience; superior computer literacy and up-to-date knowledge of audio-visual and electronic equipment. A university degree is an asset.
Kindly apply in writing before June 30th to
Margaret Hayes
Director, Finance and Administration
Art Gallery of Hamilton
123 King Street West
Hamilton, ON L8P 4S8
Fax: 905 577 6940
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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4. CALL FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS: DISONANCIAS 2006 (Spain)
Deadline: July 5, 2006; Source: Leonardo/ISAST Network
DISONANCIAS 2006 (Art and Innovation)
Call for Artists to realize joint research projects in Research labs and R&D units
This is a call for artists to collaborate on joint research projects with Research Labs and R&D units in Spain (Basque Country)
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: JULY 5.
Download the application: www.disonancias.com
Promoter: Grupo Xabide. For more information:info@disonancias.com
DISONANCIAS (Art and innovation) is the second round of this art and industry collaboration project located in the Basque Country, Spain. The project seeks to promote the diversification in relation to the process of innovation inside research labs and R & D units here, based on the potentials of experience and exchange generated by the relationship with artists.
Ten artists will be chosen to collaborate with research teams in companies and labs, in order to encourage "deviations and dissonances" from the regular logical thought and action processes, in the hope of leading to a news definition of prototypes for different products or different approaches toward production.
Artists are asked to research concepts, to think up new products or to reinvent formats (according to companies and labs interests) in DAISALUX, EITB, EL CORREO, EUVE Technology Centre, FORMICA, GAIKER Technology Centre, GRUPO ALFA LAN, KAIKU, LEIA Technology Centre y VICOMTech Technology Centre.
The deadline for applications is 5 July 2006. We encourage artists to apply who normally work on collective and relational projects and/or on projects related to science and technology. There are no limits regarding age, nationality or place of residence in order to take part in the project.
The Jury consists of Roger Malina, astrophysicist at the Laboratory of Spatial Astronomy of the CNRS at Marseille (France), and executive editor of Leonardo publications on Arts and Sciences, Jill Scott, Director of "The Artistsinlabs" project and professor and vice director of Z-node PHD Program in Art and Science at the Institute of Cultural Studies in Art, Media and design at the Academy of Art and Design in Zurich (Switzerland) and Santi Eraso, Director of Arteleku (Public Art Centre) in Donostia - San Sebastian (Spain).
The 10 artists (or group of artists) selected will receive a fee of 5.000 euros each, and a minimum of 1.300 euros for travel, food and accommodation. In addition, each artist is entitled to a maximum of 5.000 euros (depending on the project) for expenses driving from the development of the research. The collaborations last 6 months each, alternating virtual and presential relations according to the project's needs.
Full information on the companies and research centers participating and the rules for participation are available at www.disonancias.com.
Promoter: XABIDE Group (www.grupoxabide.es). Main sponsor: SPRI / Basque Government. Associated bodies: Alava Development Agency / Bai Bizkaia Innovation Agency / Regional Government of Gipuzkoa (Department for Innovation and Knowledge Society).
Collaborators: Arteleku / Spanish Ministry for Culture. Disonancias y a Divergentes project.
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5. CALL FOR CURATORIAL PROPOSALS (VIDEO): Vtape
Deadline: July 9, 2006; Source:Vtape
This year, The Curatorial Incubator, v.4 - That 80s Show will focus on video produced from 1980-1989. AND priority will be given to prospective curators born in 1980 and after.
It was the days of Madonna, video games, The Breakfast Club, and the decade when the Cruise Missile came to Canada. Video art entered into the brave new world of high-tech editing and full colour production values. Artists were busy appropriating images from television and films, talking back to the media and squaring off with identities. It was a turbulent and exciting decade. Now it's time for the young to evaluate their elders. We challenge young curators and artist/curators to find the gems buried here at Vtape.
There are 1,680 tapes in the Vtape distribution collection produced between 1980 and 1989….curators start your engines please.
Following a series of curatorial workshops presented by professional Canadian media art curators, participants will select 2 works produced between 1980 and 1989 These curated exhibitions will be featured programmes in the Vtape Video Salon, January-March 2007. A fully illustrated publication featuring essays by all participants will accompany these exhibitions.
Research phase (mid-July-September 2006) includes:
- 3 workshops conducted by established curators and arts professionals specializing in media arts, and
- free access to the vast research facilities on site at Vtape, with over 3500 tapes by 800+ artists and over 2000 articles on video art.
Presentation phase (January-March 2007) includes:
- an exhibition of each of the 4 curated programmes, and
- a fully illustrated catalogue of all the programmes with curatorial essays.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY JULY 9, 2006, 4:00PM
Proposals must include:
- an up-to-date c.v.;
- a statement of intention (1 page in total) that outlines your interest in video art and why you want to be part of The Curatorial Incubator, v.4 - That 80s Show;
- examples of critical writing your have done (published or non-published)
- examples of any curatorial or organizational work you have done
OTHER REQUIRED INFORMATION TO ACCOMPANY PROPOSALS
- indicate your availability for workshops July 28-29 and/or August 12-13, 2006)
- NOTE: If you are from outside of Toronto, please indicate how you would cover the costs of your travel to the workshops (to be held over 1 weekend) and research at Vtape (minimum 1 week).
Send applications to:
Lisa Steele, Creative Director, Vtape
401 Richmond St. West, #452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
lisas@vtape.org
www.vtape.org
No phone inquiries please.
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6. CONFERENCE: Dramaturgy
Dates:July 12 - 13, 2006; Source: Theatre Centre
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) in association with the Theatre Centre, presents the ninth annual Mini-Conference on
DRAMATURGY July 12 and 13, 2006 ... Toronto
Bringing together playwrights and dramaturgs with other members of the Canadian theatre community, this conference features two full days devoted to the art of dramaturgy.
Conference Speakers include: (subject to change)
- Rosa Laborde discusses her Tarragon hit Léo, about three Chilean youths in the midst of a revolution
- Trey Anthony on the international success of her play Da Kink in My Hair
- Sarah Stanley describes the creation process for her new work, Press
- Alisa Palmer on her role as assistant director for Lord of the Rings
- Nina Lee Aquino talks about her work as artistic director of fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company
- Linda Griffiths outlines her extraordinary improvisational writing process
Location: Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West, Toronto; enter off Dovercourt Road, just south of Queen Street W.)
Admission is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP. To reserve a seat or for further information, please contact: bquirt@interlog.com. Conference hours each day are 10am-5pm. The confirmed schedule of speakers will be emailed to attendees in late June.
NOTE: If you book a space for the conference, but are unable to attend, please let us know so that we can offer the space to others. Thank you.
LMDA: http://www.lmda.org Theatre Centre: http://www.theatrecentre.org
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7. WORKSHOP: "The Movingbody "
Dates: July 10, 17 & 22, 2006; Source: Danièle Massie
The Movingbody : Self-Discovery Through Movement and Body Processes
This gestalt series will give you an opportunity to gain more awareness of how you carry your beliefs in your body and how these beliefs interfere with your expression in the moment. Enjoy greater freedom and spontaneity by following the flow of your experience as it unfolds, by being present and awake in each moment. Explore how movement mirrors emotion and language. No previous experience is necessary. Begin from where you are....
Some of the themes addressed will include
- the essence of mundane, unintentional and incongruent movement as the source of your creativity
- the impulse behind movement as a way to a deeper understanding of body symptoms
- felt body experience as a door to more authentic contact with yourself and others
Two Monday Evenings: July 10 and 17, 2006
Time: 7 pm to 10 pm
One Saturday: July 22, 2006
Time: 9:30 am to 5 pm
Fee: $155
Location: The Gestalt Institute of Toronto is located on the Carlton streetcar line, four blocks east of the Yonge Street subway. There is plenty of street parking if you are travelling by car.
For registration call the Gestalt Institute at 416.964.9464.
The Instructors
Danièle Massie’s motivation to overcome a physical challenge has led her to practices in which she could allow her body to reveal and express its wisdom in movement–to return to her body as a source of inexhaustible nourishment and knowledge, and thus become her most reliable teacher. Her study of perception in dance performance for dancers and non-dancers, along with her interest in everyday movement as dance has informed her work as choreographer and performer. Danièle is a post-graduate at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto, and brings a movement focus to her private practice as well as her work with student actors.
As an athlete, Jack Panster used to train his body to reach peak performance. His background as a Gestalt therapist, leader, and educator, as well as his keen interest in non-Western philosophies have led Jack to adopt an alternative, body-centered attitude in his life in which he moves and is also ‘moved’ by his body. He now believes that even body symptoms and movement difficulties can be relevant when followed with awareness and wonder. Jack uses this process-oriented approach in his private practice and in his work with university students.
About Gestalt Therapy
In its purest application, Gestalt therapy addresses only what is happening in the moment. It is a present-centered and experiential approach to personal change. Through living in the present we are able to take responsibility for our responses and actions. To be fully present in the here and now offers us more excitement, energy, and courage to live life directly.
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8. RESIDENCY: The Banff Centre (Banff)
Deadline: July 15, 2006; Source:Akimbo
International Co-production Lab: Almost Perfect
Program Dates: November 5 - December 2, 2006
Application Deadline: July 15, 2006
Tuition: $1,850
Peer Advisors: Chantal Dumas (CND), Paula Levine (CND/US), Julian Priest (DK, UK)
Almost Perfect is a rapid prototyping lab that explores the creation of pervasive mobile media in the Banff region. With the dedicated support of peer advisors, technicians, and production facilities, participants can develop basic to advanced level prototypes in the areas of locative media, telematics, audio art, and responsive environments. This residency will also explore the political and social economic contexts of locative media.
Almost Perfect is a joint venture between BNMI and HP Bristol. Prototype development will be realized through the use of GPS enabled HP iPAQs and software developed by HP Research Labs Bristol.
BNMI's Co-production program is devoted to the production and presentation of the work of new media practitioners. The connections between art, technology, media, and cultures are continuously explored, by bringing together interdisciplinary participants in intensive co-production media lab residencies. The residencies support individuals and teams in the creation of new works, knowledge, and technology. The program is international in scope, accepting applications on a tri-annual basis. BNMI is committed to equal opportunity and access to all programs for artists of diverse cultural and regional communities. Applications are peer adjudicated.
For more information and to apply visit: <http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/coproduction>www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/coproduction
Banff New Media Institute
Email: <mailto:bnmi_info@banffcentre.ca>bnmi_info@banffcentre.ca
<http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi>www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi
The Banff Centre
Box 1020, Station 40
Banff, Alberta T1L 1H5
Canada
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9. RESIDENCY: ComPeung. Village of Creativity Chiang Mai (Thailand)
Deadline: July 31, 2006; Source: :IAPAO
Artist in Residence Program 2006
Venue: ComPeung, Doi Saket, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
When: 31 August 2006 ? 30 September 2006
Submission deadline: 31 July 2006.
Contact (Thai/English):
Ong: compeung@yahoo.com
Som: gobsom@yahoo.com (auch Deusche Sprache)
Jay: jaywow@yahoo.com
www.geocities.com/compeung/
Located in Chiang Mai province, Doi Saket is a peaceful little town, 20km north-east of Chiang Mai city. Unlike other nearby towns, it seems to have escaped the traps of tourism; therefore, many examples of traditional northern cultural life can still be found there. Doi Saket also acts as the gateway town to Chiang Rai which is the most northern province of Thailand.
With a total area of 6.4 sq. km, the residency site is surrounded by hills, forests and natural lakes with diverse local and ethnic communities close by in Doi Saket. Founded in October 2005, ComPeung provides a chance for visiting and local artists to exchange and share experiences through the process of creating artworks/projects and participating in workshops/activities. By respectably working and living together in basic living conditions we hope this will encourage visiting residents and locals to understand the variety of life and their positions in contemporary culture. In addition, ComPeung opens up opportunities for artists to work in a natural environment with the possibility of creating art with unique local resources, and inspired by local culture.
Artist in Residence Program
Designed as a program for local and international artist(s) to live and work together with our team and other artists-in-residence. Candidates will be encouraged to apply by providing the program with a preliminary proposal of his/her art work/project with an understanding that the project will evolve in its application in the future.
Facilities
No fancy cocktail bars, king-sized beds or cable TV here! We provide the basic necessities of living in a rural, tropical area such as mosquito nets, running water, electricity and fresh produce from the local market. By providing meals, accommodation and studio spaces, our team will maintain a level of comfort and renowned Thai hospitality. As we are a modest self-sustainable non-profit organization, residents will be asked to participate in the maintenance of the site (such as cooking and cleaning) with our team. Such a practice also propagates our idea of finding inspiration in daily, lived experience.
Discipline(s) and media (non-exhaustive list): Visual Arts, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Performance Arts, Literature, Music
Duration of residency: 1 month minimum. Longer residencies to be negotiated depending on the nature of the project.
Expenses paid by artists: Airfare, transportation, health insurance, residency fee, living expenses or any other expenses to create artwork(s) and/or project(s).
Grants: We can help the candidate research and apply for grants in order to cover the above expenses.
Allowance granted to artists: There is no other financial support available.
Conditions of the space
- Approximate area of 6.4 sq. km. near natural fishing lakes, forest and mountains.
- 3 Small mud houses with a basic bedroom and an attached studio and a bathroom.*
- 1 Shared kitchen.
- 1 Shared open-air bathroom
- 1 Shared toilet
- Running water
- 220 volt electricity
- Basic tools/equipment for painting and wood sculpting
- Mobile phone is available.
Note: *under construction
Applications: who/how
All participants play an important role here as we have to help one other maintain the space. However, ComPeung is a space for people who have serious visions and questions about the creative process. If you are simply looking for a short holiday, this is not the place for you. As a small organization with limited facilities, we cannot be responsible for more than 3 artists at once. However, we hope to provide more space and opportunities for artists in the near future. All applicants should submit all required documents (see below).
Deadline: 31 July 2006
Required Documents:
1. Application (download from our website)
2. 1 passport photo
3. Curriculum Vitae (2 pages)
4. Artist Statement. (max. 250 words)
5. A letter explaining why you want to participate in our residency program. (max. 250 words)
6. CD-Rom of 10 ? 20 images (300 dpi), sound, video/animation files and/or PowerPoint file edited up to 20 min. max. in PAL format. All files must be saved in PC compatible formats.
7. Other possible attached materials: VSH video tape (PAL), printed pictures, catalogues, press clippings, books.
*Note: Applying online is NOT acceptable.
Please send your materials to:
P.O. Box 27 Doi Saket Post Office,
Chiang Mai, Thailand 50202
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10. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS "MERCURY THEATRE IV: TERMINAL FRONTIER" (Vancouver)
Deadline: August 4, 2006; Source: Instant Coffee
Intermission Artists Society invites you to participate in creating a live cinematic experience for the 4th annual presentation of Mercury Theatre – TERMINAL FRONTIER
Terminal City— end of the line—running into the Pacific Ocean when approached from the east, and abutting the vast wilderness stretching to the great north when approached from the south. Vancouver is simultaneously the last frontier, a place beckoning the masses as the last emerald paradise to be conquered, as well as being the termination point of the Canadian National Railroad. A gathering ground for outlaws and exiles, the west is still wild. From anarchist communes to messianic zealots to extreme sportsmen, the outer rim is a breeding ground for a culture of uninhibited extremism.
On a dark September night, Mercury Theatre shall return to our downtown outdoor theatre: Cathedral Park. There, through live-mixed video projections, performances and an improvised live sound score, we will re-imagine and retrofit our wild west inter-zone.
For the 4th annual Mercury Theatre we invite video, sound & performance artists to explore the end of the beginning--to define the dark inter-terrain of this precept between the beginning and ending; the deep, underground currents that define our cultural moment in history, not always seen, but always felt as an undercurrent to the daily activities in the turmoil of a new millennium.
Please join us in dramatically rendering the epiphany of Mercury Theatre and to celebrate SWARM: festival of artist run culture.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY 4TH AUGUST 2006
Submission Categories
Video submission:
All selected video works will be mixed live during the event. Only the video element of selected works will be shown in the production, no sync sound will be included in the sound mix. Please limit your submissions to works between 1-10 minutes.
Please send your works either on Data CD/DVD (preferably-- avi or quick time (mpegA, 720x480 recommended format) or Video Tape (miniDV/VHS) to the
intermission artists society at the address below. Questions to m@inter-mission.org
Performance submission:
Live performances will be captured and mixed into the video projections during the event. We will consider short staged performances that enhance the visual elements of the event, or public performances which emphasize the relationship between the audience, theme and space. Please submit a brief written proposal outlining the performance and the set-up required.Performance materials and costs are the responsibility of the performers.
Proposals or Questions to m@inter-mission.org
Please include your full name, telephone #, mailing and email address in your submission.
Also include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you would like your submission returned.
Successful submissions will be notified by email, and credited on the night of the event.
Modest artists fees will be paid!
SWARM 2006 / The Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres www.paarc.ca
intermission artist society 1009 e.cordova st. vancouver bc v6a 1m8
www.inter-mission.org
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11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (VIDEO); "Third International Festival of Performance for Video" (Mexico)
Deadline: August 10, 2006; Source: Miguel Angulo
(Spanish follows)
The Autonomic University of México City, and on its behalf the coordination for Cultural promotion and University extension at CASA TALAVERA presents
Third International Festival of Performance for Video
Rules:
- This festival is addressed to artists working individually or as a team.
- It is also addressed to Mexican or foreign artists working with videoperformances
- Only videos in the following formats will be accepted: VHS, VCD or DVD.
- Videoperformances should not be longer than 20 minutes.
- Foreign videos, whose language is not Spanish, should have subtitles in Spanish.
The festival will be held from September the 5th to the 7th, 2006.
The videoperformances should be sent in a closed envelope and addressed as it follows:
Festival Internacional de Video performance. Centro Cultural Casa Talavera. Calle Talavera #20 esq. República del Salvador , Col. Merced-Centro C.P. 06060, México D.F. Mexico.
Along with the videos, please send the following information:
Name of the artist or group
Title of the video.
Description of the video performance (maximum two sheets, in 12 point Arial)
Length of the video performance and date of creation.
Resumed Cv of the artist or group.
Contact address (mail and email)
Authorization of the artist or group, allowing for the video to be used for the electronic catalogue.
The envelopes should be marked as follows: NO COMMERCIAL VALUE. FOR CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY.
Deadline is August the 10th 2006. Those envelopes showing a delivery date previous to this day will be accepted.
The jury members will select the videoperformances according to their quality and originality. The names of the judges will be made public on the festival opening day.
Selected artists will be informed via email. Once the festival is over, they will be forwarded the festival catalogue in a CD, containing all the selected videos as well as a recording of the performances exhibited at the festival. They will be forwarded, as well, a diploma showing their participation in the festival.
Sent materials will not be returned. These videos will become part of the video creation archive of the Centro Cultural Casa Talavera, with no profit purposes.
The University will not take in its behalf any expenses regarding to editing the videos, delivery charges and any other expense related to participation of the artists in the festival.
Sending the videos involves accepting these rules.
For further information, please contact Nadia García organizer of the Performance Festival and Miguel Angulo, curator of the Third Performance Festival at Casa Talavera on the Email: videotalavera@yahoo.com.mx
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Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, por medio de la coordinación de Difusión Cultural y Extensión Universitaria en CASA TALAVERA convoca
Tercer Festival de Performance para la muestra internacional de vídeo
Bases
- Podrán participar artistas de manera individual o en grupo.
- Podrán participar artistas nacionales o extranjeros que hayan realizado videoperformance
- Se aceptarán obras presentadas en formato VHS, VCD o DVD.
- Los vídeos deberán tener una duración no mayor de 20 minutos.
- Para los videos extranjeros cuyo idioma no sea el castellano, deberán tener subtítulos en castellano.
El festival se celebrará del 5 al 7 de Septiembre del 2006.
Los videoperformences deberán enviarse en un sobre cerrado y rotulado de la siguiente manera:
Festival Internacional de Videoperformance. Centro Cultural Casa Talavera. Calle Talavera #20 esq. República del Salvador , Col. Merced-Centro C.P. 06060, México D.F.. Directamente al área de difusión cultural.
Junto a los videos se deberá anexar la siguiente información:
Nombre del Artista o grupo
Título de la obra.
Descripción del videoperformance (máximo dos cuartillas, en arial a 12 puntos)
Duración del videoperformance y fecha de creación.
Síntesis Curricular del artista o del grupo artístico
Dirección de contacto ( postal y email)
Autorización del artista o grupo para que se use su vídeo para la creación del catálogo electrónico
Los envíos deberán rotularse con la leyenda: SIN VALOR COMERCIAL PARA FINES CULTURALES ÚNICAMENTE.
La fecha límite de recepción será el 10 de agosto del 2006. Se aceptarán aquellos envíos cuya fecha del matasellos sea anterior a este día, aunque hayan llegado con posterioridad a esta fecha.
Los miembros del jurado, seleccionarán los videos según el criterio de calidad y originalidad de los videoperformances. Se hará público el nombre de los jurados el día de la inauguración del festival.
Se informará a los seleccionados por correo electrónico y una vez acabado el festival se les entregará o enviará el catálogo electrónico que contendrá los trabajos seleccionados y una muestra de las performances del festival. Asimismo se les entregará su constancia de participación.
No se devolverán los materiales enviados. Estos vídeos pasarán a formar parte del archivo videográfico del Centro Cultural Casa Talavera, sin fines de lucro.
La Universidad no se hará cargo de gastos de pago de edición, pago de envío y de ningún gasto que pudiera generarse por la participación de los artistas en el festival.
El envío de los vídeos supone la aceptación de estas bases.
Para más información dirigirse a Nadia García organizadora del Festival de Performance y Miguel Angulo, curador del Tercer Festival de Performance de Casa Talavera al Correo-e VideoTalavera@yahoo.com.mx
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12. RESIDENCY: PACT Zollverein (Germany)
Deadline: August 21, 2006; Source: On The Move
From January to June 2007 PACT Zollverein is offering residencies open to professional choreographers, theatre and performance makers from both Germany and abroad. Residencies provide rehearsal space, accommodation and administrative and technical support for artists wanting to research, develop or realise a project or production. Different models of support are available and can be shaped to suit individual needs.
The maximum length of a residency is 2 months.
A residency can incorporate the following:
- Studio space (from 63 to 173 sqm)
- Technical equipment (by arrangement and subject to availability)
- Stage rehearsals with professional technical supervision and support (by arrangement and subject to availability)
- Daily professional open class
- Local accommodation (maximum 6 people)
- Professional advice in: Project funding, project management, press and public relations
A residency does not incorporate:
- travel expenses
- per diems
- financial support
- a public performance
Your applications should include:
- the completed application form (to be found at: www.pact-zollverein.de)
- a short letter of motivation
- a project description
- a curriculum vitae for everyone involved in the project
- illustrative material (photographs, brochures, publications, etc.)
- press reviews
- 1 Video (PAL), DVD or CD-ROM of your own work
Closing date for applications: 21st of August 2006 (post-marked)
Please do not send the material by registered post or by email!
All complete applications received by this date will be considered and replied to in writing. Residents are selected by a panel. Successful candidates may be asked to attend a preparatory talk in Essen.
Please note that we can unfortunately not return your application material to you.
Please send the application to us by mail:
PACT Zollverein
Residency 1/2007
Katharina Charpey
Bullmannaue 20
D-45327 Essen
For further information contact: katharina.charpey@pact-zollverein.de
Tel.: 0049-0201-2894712
Fax: 0049-0201-2894701
www.pact-zollverein.de
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13. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Grant Program (USA)
Deadline: September 1, 2006; Source: artservis
For curatorial programs at museums, artists' organizations and other cultural institutions
http://www.warholfoundation.org/guidelns.htm
Grants are made on a project basis to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts.
The Foundation's grant program is primarily focused on supporting institutions within the United States. However, in rare cases, we will make grants outside the United States. For this reason, we accept letters of inquiry from arts institutions abroad. Please include a brief description of the organization and of the project for which you are seeking funding. In limited cases, the foundation will then request a full proposal.
Projects may include exhibitions, catalogues and other organizational activities directly related to these areas. The program also supports the creation of new work through regranting initiatives and artist-in-residence programs. The work of choreographers and performing artists occasionally is funded when the visual arts are an inherent element of a production. The Foundation also supports efforts to strengthen areas that directly affect the context in which artists work -- such as freedom of artistic expression and equitable access to resources.
Grant requests are reviewed twice a year, in the spring and fall. The postmark deadlines for proposals are March 1 with notification on July 1, and September 1 with notification on January 1. Organizations that have previously received support from the foundation must wait at least two years before reapplying. (Organizations that receive two-year grants must wait at least three years before reapplying.)
For museum applicants requesting exhibition support, it is advisable to submit proposals for exhibitions that are scheduled to commence at least six months after the grant notification date.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Pamela Clapp, Program Director
10012
NY 65 Bleecker Street, 7th Floor
New York
info@warholfoundation.org
http://www.warholfoundation.org/
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14. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (PUBLICATION): "Blackness/ Diaspora" Performance Research (UK)
Deadline: September 15, 2006; Source: Franklin Furnace
Performance Research
Vol. 12 No. 3 (September 2007)
'Blackness/ Diaspora'
Issue Editor: Myron Beasley, Chicago, IL USA,
This issue of performance research aims to commence a dialogue on the performance of Blackness/ Diaspora. We will contemplate, what does it mean to 'perform' blackness? How might performance be the link (conceptually, theoretically, and even perhaps literally) in the African Diaspora? Though broadly construed, this issue will represent a pastiche of what or how we conceive Blackness/ Diaspora.
Situating the concept of Diaspora as it pertains to the grammar of lineage, fragmented histories, ontological movement, dispersion of bodies, and cultural/ geo-politics --this issue will highlight the vastness of blackness. Locating the African Diaspora as the site of discourse, we explore race through modalities of performance. Appreciating the transnational and the deterritorializing nature of the African Diaspora, we will critically engage in the multiplicity of thought, the fluidity of identity, language, representation, space, and gender, as derived in narrative, memory, popular culture and intellectual histories.
The Editor invites academics and practitioners from a variety of fields to propose conventional academic papers, as well as interviews, documents, performative writings, performance ethnographies, critical reviews of performances, and collaborations between artists and academics. Performance Research welcomes visual work that makes use of the resources of the page.
Contributors may consider the following themes and critical commentary by which to engage or respond (but not exclusively):
One concept of Diaspora has to do with scattering and dispersions. This issue will consider the return of bodies to localities, cityscapes and homelands to ponder performances of memory, trauma, and desire - revisiting hauntologies of colonialism, post-colonialism, and even modernity. This issue will also consider the hemispheric modalities of blackness, in addition to the transatlantic flow of bodies of thought and performances.
Toni Morrison reveals her use of the term 'Africanism' as 'the denotative and connotative blackness that African peoples have come to signify . . .' Placing blackness as a trope, and even more specifically '… as a shadowless participation in the dominant cultural body'. How might we consider and extend Morrison's thoughts diasporically, consider contemporary ascriptions of the black body, and engage in a dialogue of aesthetics and representations of blackness. One might include philosophical treatise between artistic movements such as Negritude to 'Afro-Futurism', 'Post-Black' and 'Post-Soul' as it relates to theatres of politics and globalism.
Consider Ngu¯gi¯ wa Thiong'o 'Enactments of Power', which he cites as the 'struggle between the artist and the state for the control of the performance space within and outside the national borders', articulate current and historical performance spaces, and reveal the complex political tensions between the artist and the state, the ruler, the church, and the people. Consider also contemporary artists and performance artists as cultural workers and respond to how they and their work function as ruptures in the discourse, and as a catalyst for social interrogation.
Deadlines are as follows:
Proposals: 15th September 2006
Finalized material: 15th February 2007
Publication Date: September 2007
ALL proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct to:
Linden Elmhirst - Administrative Assistant
Performance Research
Dartington College of Arts, Totnes,
Devon TQ9 6EJ UK
tel. 0044 1803 861683
fax. 0044 1803 861685
email: performance-research@dartington.ac.uk
web: http://www.performance-research.net
Content specific enquires should be directed to Myron Beasley at:
performbrazil@rcn.com
For complete Guidelines for Submissions please see:
http://www.performance-research.net/pages/guidelines.html
Performance Research is MAC based. Proposals will be accepted in hard copy, on CD or by e-mail (Apple Works, MS-Word or RTF). Please DO NOT send images without prior agreement. Please DO NOT embed images in MS-Word. Send as separate files.
Please note that submission of a proposal will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) agree that the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to Performance Research
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15. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Total Recall" (Hungary)
Deadline: September 26, 2006 Source: Artpool
NETWORK HISTORY RECOLLECTION FROM 1986 TO 2006
In recognition of world wide networker congresses exhibition at Artpool P60 in November 2006 TOTAL RECALL, please send suggestions & proposals
Your idea about network / histories / strategies / organising of meetings / documentations / publications / and so on ...
Deadline of submission: September 26, 2006
http://www.artpool.hu/Network/invitation.html
http://www.artpool.hu/Network/links.html
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16. CONFERENCE: The Power of Place" Performance Creation Canada (Whitehorse)
Dates: September 29 - October 1, 2006; Source: PCC
September 29 - October 1, 2006
Performance Creation Canada Conference
Explore themes around the The Power of Place.
Then explore the power of our place.
The Yukon has the highest ratio of artists and art lovers per capita in Canada. Now is the perfect opportunity to experience this first-hand. 3 days of stage performances, dance, music, inside 10 days of even more...
Socialize in Whitehorse's art friendly eateries, cafes and clubs. On October 2, take a 2-day tour to the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture in Dawson City and get a glimpse of Yukon glory in the town where ghosts and arts are thriving.
For more information and registration info, visit:
<http://yukonartscentre.org/pcc>http://yukonartscentre.org/pcc
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17. RESIDENCY: CODA Rhodes College (USA)
Deadline: October 1, 2006; Source: Kim Simon
CODA Performance Artist-in-Residence
The CODA Performance Artist-in-Residence program provides Rhodes College students with opportunities to interact with nationally and internationally recognized artists incorporating performance in their practice through lectures, exhibitions, performances, and workshops. By providing students with opportunities for direct involvement with artists engaged in all media, the CODA Artist-in-Residence program encourages creative thinking and personal expression, and promotes cultural vitality through the visual arts. Programs of this sort enrich curricular innovation and promote interdepartmental collaboration. Designed to complement courses and foster cross-disciplinary thought, these residencies offer insights into the working practices of artists in an academic setting for a period of one academic semester. Faculty and staff are encouraged to plan programs in concert with the presence of each P-AIR.
CODA is committed to connecting undergraduate students to the arts at Rhodes College, the Memphis region and beyond. This program functions as a tool to facilitate an active arts network for students upon first arrival to Rhodes, and further cultivate a community conversant with the arts throughout their college career. Structured around bi-weekly dinners and local excursions, each CODA Artist-in-Residence will interact with students in a variety of social scenarios, participate in student-led group projects and signature events, and present the results of their time at Rhodes as an exhibition, performance, or lecture format. Artists should expect to spend the majority of their time in Memphis when the college is in session.
Resident artists will be provided a studio, living space, access to office equipment, one roundtrip airfare to and from Memphis, and a monthly per diem of $2000, from which artists must cover the costs of personal meals off-campus, inter-city and regional transportation, and all miscellaneous personal expenses.
Each artist’s project will be documented as a publication or recording, the character of which will be determined in consultation with CODA staff and Rhodes faculty. This document will be preserved in the CODA archive, as well as the Rhodes library. This publication will be distributed as a limited edition catalog or other media appropriate to the work on a case by case basis.
In addition to attending visiting artists’ lectures and special sessions, CODA students will engage visiting artists in the capacity of introducing them to the Rhodes and Memphis community, assist in artist’s projects, conduct interviews, and assist in the production of the published creative documentation.
Each artist interested in the program should provide a current biography, curriculum vitae, digital images of their work on CD-R or DVD, and a typed proposal of no more than 1000 words describing a project of work they intend to initiate or continue the pursuit of, while an active CODA Performance Artist-in-Residence on Rhodes campus.
Applications for the residency beginning January 2008 should be submitted no later than 01 October 2006 to:
John Weeden
Assistant Director
Center for Outreach in the Development of the Arts (CODA)
Rhodes College
2000 North Parkway
Memphis, TN 38112 USA
1.901.843.3448
weedenj@rhodes.edu
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18. RESIDENCY: The Banff Centre (Banff)
Deadline: December 1, 2006; Source: Akimbo
Co-production Lab: Reference Check
Program Dates: June 24 - July 21, 2007
Application Deadline: December 1, 2006
Tuition: $1,850
Peer Advisors: Andreas Broeckmann (De), Anne Galloway (CND), Sarat Maharaj (Sa/UK)
Reference Check invites post-graduate students and researchers whose work connects to new media, to come to Banff to develop concepts, create prototypes, have group discussions and realize projects. Reference Check welcomes applications for both theoretical and applied research at all stages.
BNMI's Co-production program is devoted to the production and presentation of the work of new media practitioners. The connections between art, technology, media, and cultures are continuously explored, by bringing together interdisciplinary participants in intensive co-production media lab residencies. The residencies support individuals and teams in the creation of new works, knowledge, and technology. The program is international in scope, accepting applications on a tri-annual basis. BNMI is committed to equal opportunity and access to all programs for artists of diverse cultural and regional communities. Applications are peer adjudicated.
For more information and to apply visit: <http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/coproduction>www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/coproduction
Banff New Media Institute
Email: <mailto:bnmi_info@banffcentre.ca>bnmi_info@banffcentre.ca
<http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi>www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi
The Banff Centre
Box 1020, Station 40
Banff, Alberta T1L 1H5
Canada
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19. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: "Were Not Gonna Take It"
Deadline: not given; Source: Instant Coffee
Were Not Gonna Take It
Protest karaoke-style
We're Not Gonna Take It is an interactive public art project that allows you to record your own protest songs using the telephone.
http://werenotgonnatakeit.org/
You can create a song about issues you wish to protest (such as corporate globalism, your landlord's poor repair record, or bad produce at the supermarket). You record your song by using the telephone like a karaoke machine, singing along with the light metal classic "We're Not Gonna Take It", by Twisted Sister. Your personal protest song will then be delivered to the politicians of your choosing.
How To Participate
1. Call 647-724-8685 (a local call from Toronto.)
2. You'll be asked to record your name and a song dedication.
3. Record your protest song. It will be sung to the tune of Twisted Sister's
"We're Not Gonna Take It". You should sing along with the choruses and make up your own verses. (Lyrics are available on the website.)
4. Select one or more politicians to receive your protest song.
How to Listen to Songs
Listen the songs in MP3 format (also available as a podcast) at: http://werenotgonnatakeit.org/
You can also listen to songs on the telephone by calling 647-724-8685.
Let's rock Toronto!
-Amos Latteier
http://latteier.com/
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20. NEWS: Rae Davis, Pioneering Canadian Performance Artist Dies
Source: Various
Acclaimed Canadian performance and installation artist Rae Davis ... died Saturday [June 10, 2006] at age 78 following a four-year battle with breast cancer.
After moving here from the United States, Davis lived and worked in London [Ontario] from 1957 to 1987, then moved to Toronto.
Davis's career began in the late 1950s and included a pioneering production of Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words I in 1959. She was recognized widely for anticipating many later artistic developments, including performance art and installation art, with her pieces in London during the early 1960s. Other works showed her early interest in computers in art. She also created more than 25 performance works.
"Rae was an extraordinary person -- a student of English and American literature and a great reader (and sometime writer) of contemporary poetry, a lover of painting, architecture and gardens, and a pioneering artist in Canada in several domains, ranging from experimental theatre and dance to performance art to film and video to digital media," her family said....
Her 1986 performance work, Vanishing Acts, was a major commissioned piece at Museum London. Davis described Vanishing Acts as "an analog of reality in which the spectator participates actively as the creator of what is observed . . . there are as many reconstructions of the performance as there are spectators."...
A major archive of material relating to her work was accepted by Library and Archives Canada, the national archive, in May 2006.
From The London Free Press , "Rae Davis anticipated art's many later developments" The London Free Press staff, Tue, June 13, 2006
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/Entertainment/2006/06/13/1628952-sun.html
In an article about Rae Davis' work, Barbara Sternberg wrote:
Davis' approach to artmaking is conceptual and literary.... While other performance artists were pulling objects from their vaginas or dealing with body and image in other ways, Davis' works were theatrical but not theatre per se; they were more like works by Robert Wilson and the Judson Dance Theatre. Davis found what was happening backstage, in the wings and in rehearsals — the possibilities, the chance, the messiness, the inclusivity — more interesting than what was on stage. And so, breaking out of the play, Davis constructed performances that came to be called "performance art."
From Barbara Sternberg, "Rae Davis: Four Decades of Invention" in Caught in the Act ed. Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder (Toronto: YYZ Books) 2004, p. 183.
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21. NEWS: SOCKET, new arts radio show
Source: CBC
There's a sassy new CBC Radio One show hosted by Angela Antle in St. John's. SOCKET plugs you into young Canadian artists. Twice a week this summer, starting Wednesday June 28th at 11:30 a.m./noon in Nfld. Saturdays right after the 4 p.m. news/4:30 Nfld. <http://www.cbc.ca/socket>http://www.cbc.ca/socket
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22. EXHIBITION: "traversing tableaux" Modern Fuel (Kingston)
Date: continues to July 15, 2006; Source:Modern Fuel
Modern Fuel Members' Gallery, The State of Flux
traversing tableaux
darryl bank, benjamin bellas, ken buera, zoran dragelj, ayaz kamani, bitsy knox, hélè ne lefebre, patricia reed, sarah e.k. smith, neill alistar stewart, nick tobler
curated by emilie allen
7 June - 15 July 2006
Materialist film experiments, raw video footage, performance-based interpretation, and virtual digitized simulations: traversing tableaux is an exhibition of transitory moments, a fleeting, schizophrenic passage into the eclecticism of time. Viewers will find a common conceptual thread runs through the schizophrenic trajectory of this exhibition: it is the ephemeral act of being, from a removed, hallucinatory state, to the crude, sensuous nature of consciousness. Featuring the work of eleven emerging artists, traversing tableaux waxes hypnotic, an explosion of thirty second to three minute shorts.
Darryl Bank recently graduated from the Queen's University (Kingston) Bachelor of Fine Arts program. He has been finished for a few weeks, and at this point, Darryl sees broadly theorizing what he "does" as a pretty absurd proposition. Bank: "I try to be honest, and I try to communicate something interesting, and that's about all I can say right now."
Nick Tobier describes his work as situational. He is keen on real or imagined scenarios playing out in everyday places, and hope that his actions as an artist provoke the possibility that everyday places can be rather extra ordinary. Prior to staging public spectacles, Tobier offered small street side services--a bridge to assist crossing puddles, a woven and upholstered mobile tent that dispensed hot chocolate, and a tricycle driven chandelier that illuminated dark streets.
Hélène Lefebvre 's work questions identity: collective and individual, humanitarian and social. She expresses her ideas mainly through painting, printmaking, textile sculpture and installation, as well as photography and performance. Born in Beauport, Quebec in 1946. Has lived and worked in Ottawa since 1971. A graduate of Laval University and the University of Ottawa in Philosophy, Arts, Linguistics and Law, she received her artistic training primarily at the Ottawa School of Art.
Patricia Reed was born in 1977, in Ottawa. She received her BFA in Studio arts at Concordia University, Montreal in 1999. Since then her activities include participating in several international research and residency programmes, and the 2001 commencement of her ongoing Plurinaming/Polyphony project. Currently she is working on a diverse body of work under the umbrella title of Estranged Proximities, including photo, video, text and performance works, which examine the choreography of the quotidian in structures of co-habitation. She lives and works in Berlin [ <http://www.aestheticmanagement.com/> www.aestheticmanagement.com].
Benjamin Bellas utilises the mediums of performance, video and sculpture to create provocative relationships that explore issues of balance, of the power dynamics that exist between people, the struggles of growth, and the simply absurd workings of the human psyche through work that is both highly personal and weirdly socially relevant. Chicago based, Bellas takes things that have their own existence and changes them only slightly, adding to or altering them for his own purposes. Bellas has been quoted in this regard as having said "Everything I've ever thought about myself has already been said by someone else — about themselves."
Ayaz Kamani will continue to study in the Fine Art program of Queen's University (Kingston). The next move is currently unknown.
Bitsy Knox has just received her Bachelor of Fine Art History from Queen's University (Kingston), and currently lives in Vancouver where she continues her artistic practice in New Media.
Ken Buera is a Calgary based emerging artist and recent graduate of The Alberta College of Art & Design. His audio, video and collaborative works have been shown in Calgary, Open Call at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, Signal+Noise in Vancouver, D&Mac226;ouest en Est at AxeNeo7 in Gatineau, Video as Urban Condition Austrian Cultural Centre in London, and Rencontres Internationales in Paris. He is active in the local Artist-Run centre community as a volunteer and a Board Member of TRUCK Gallery, and has participated in the Sound & Vision Thematic Residency at the Banff Centre.
Neill Alistar Stewart has spent a lifetime observing the urban wild and connecting with spaces used by different species. Inspired by animals that animate the urban landscape Stewart hopes that we can learn to play and communicate as squirrels do and welcome hawks and other common space visitors into our lives.
Sarah E.K. Smith is a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) program at Queen's University. She is currently creating work
that explores her relationship to communication and sound.
Gjennifer Snider
Program Director
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
21A Queen Street
Kingston, ON K7K 1A1
MAIN (613) 548-4883
NMW (613) 548-0696
admin@modernfuel.org
www.modernfuel.org
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23. EVENT: "Public Run with The Movement Movement "
Date: June 25, 2006; Source:Jessica Rose
Public Run with The Movement Movement
Sunday June 25 2006 at 11AM
The Movement Movement is a movement about movement.
The Movement Movement is an art movement.
The Movement Movement runs with art by running your city’s art institutions.
The Movement Movement is Jenn Goodwin, Jessica Rose and You.
Get in the Movement: Join The Movement Movement’s Public Run (approx. 5K) the last Sunday of every month in Toronto, Canada!
The Movement Movement’s participatory course connects through social movement the art institutions in a neighbourhood (and everything in between).
This month’s course: Queen Street West
Meeting Place: Corner of Queen West and Abell Street (across from the Drake Hotel).
Schedule: Meet at 10:30am. Run at 11:00am.
Register now: themovementmovement@sympatico.ca.
Course Info: www.themovementmovement.ca
Please note: Registration begins 14 days in advance and closes 2 days prior to the run.
Limited space reserved for Run Day Entry at 10:30am day of the run.
Run starts and ends at Meeting Place.
The Movement Movement runs with art through museums, galleries and art communities. As a series of site-specific runs or performances, each course
is a part of the Movement Movement’s ‘Run with Art’ project. Our aim is to connect through our movement the art institutions and communities of the world by running them, one course at a time. -MM
jessica rose
artist / designer / curator
http://www.brokenartfactory.ca
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24. EVENT: "The Box "
Date: June 28, 2006; Source: Box Salon
The Box invites you to an evening of readings, performance, tableau, film and music by: Brian Fawcett, Heather Frise, Amy Lam and Zeesy Powers, Maria Legault with Greg Walloch, Permafrown, Metanet Software, Ken Sparling and Scott Treleaven. We hope to see you there.
Wednesday, June 28, 8 pm
Rivoli, 332 Queen W. (Back Room)
pwyc, $5 suggested donation
Host: Louise Bak
boxsalon@hotmail.com
416-351-0416 (tel)
The Box is a quarterly salon night of readings, performances, screenings, interventions and networking that aims to bring diverse communities and audiences into an environment of artistic and social intermingling.
Brian Fawcett was born in Prince George, B.C., Canada in 1944. He worked as a community organizer and urban planner in Greater Vancouver until 1985, and then taught in maximum security federal prisons for six years. He also had a short career as a professional hockey player, but now writes full time. He is a past editor of Books in Canada, a former columnist for the Globe & Mail, past chair of the Writers Union of Canada's Free Trade and Charter 94 Committees and has written articles and reviews for most of Canada's major newspapers and magazines. He is a founding editor of the internationally-followed Internet news service, www.dooneyscafe.com, and has lived in Toronto since 1991. His most recent books are Virtual Clearcut: Or, The Way Things Are In My Home Town, and Local Matters: A Defense of Dooney's Café and Other Non-globalized Places, People and Ideas, both published in 2003. Virtual Clearcut won the 2004 Pearson Prize for non-fiction and was called "one of the best non-fiction books to ever come out of this country." By Toronto's Now Magazine. He hasn't published poetry since 1983.
Heather Frise is primarily a documentary film and video maker. She also works as a teacher, editor and occasionally as a DOP. She recently moved from Vancouver to Toronto.. She has made several video documentaries, including Military Girls, Elegant Touch, My Mother's Father and The Road Stops Here: The Walbran Valley ( first prize winner at the 11th Environmental Film Festival of Szbajac, Hungary). Most recently she has worked as a video instructor at the Gulf Islands Film and Television School, on Galiano Island, Canada.
Amy Lam is proprietor/owner/founder of the Up and Down All Year Long Subscription Service, a monthly mailing of ephemera and other tiny objects to select paying patrons in the year of 2006. She will also do stand-up comedy in extreme conditions, if asked. She lives in Toronto.
Zeesy Powers is an interdisciplinary artist living in Toronto, Canada. Primarily a visual artist, she has trained in dance, theatre and music from an early age. She has performed for middle schools, comedy clubs, concerts, galleries, theatre and performance art festivals and science lectures. Her videos have been screened in several Canadian cities, and she has exhibited her holographic work at the Ontario Science Centre. In the spring of 2006 she will be performing in Austria and the Czech Republic for the 7th annual Anymous Art Festival. Zeesy maintains a web site at http://zeesy.wearepeopletoo.org.
Maria Legault is an inter-disciplinary artist that has coated her face in bubble gum, been hidden in clouds of blue cotton candy and stuffed crevices with pink icing. She holds a BFA from Concordia University and a MFA from the University of Guelph. Her work has been exhibited internationally in such venues as Mercer Union, Inter-Access, Forest City Gallery, YYZ, Toronto Free Gallery, 7a*11d Performance Festival, Toronto Alternative Art Fair International and The Drake Hotel in Canada as well as the Galapagos Art Space in New York and the Castle of the Imagination performance festival in Poland. She is a member of Articipation, an art collective that promotes whimsical urban intervention. Maria was given the "Best Emerging Artist Award" at the Untitled Art Awards in Toronto, 2005. She currently resides in Toronto where she eats too much sugar and makes art sometimes.
Permafrown began as a two piece in 2003. Robin Fry ( keyboard, guitar and vocals) and Amy Bowles (keyboards, guitar, recorder and vocals) were freaking out finding whimsical adventures echoing in every turned snail shell. Stories were put to music and performed to a few people in rooms around Toronto.
In 2004 Mike Leblanc (drums) joined. Permafrown is a terrifying and hypnotic psychedelic adventure. The songs exist in a dimension concocted of lonely kings, enamel trumpets, and desert hermits watching their toenails grow.
Metanet Software is comprised of 2 individuals: Raigan Burns and Mare Sheppard. They met in 1998 and discovered that when they combine their efforts, they are able to transform into a rather large robot made up of small mechanical cats. Raigan Burns n (1889): a set that is closed under two commutative binary operations and that can be described by any of various systems of postulates all of which can be deduced from the postulates that an identity element exists for each operation, that each operation is distributive over the other, and that for every element in the set there is another element which when combined with the first under one of the operations yields the identity element of the other operation. Mare Sheppard is a game developer and digital artist from Toronto with a penchant for things Japanese. She's got literally a ton of interests, which have too much mass to list.
Ken Sparling's most recent book, For Those Whom God Has Blessed With Fingers, was published by Pedlar Press in 2005. His other books are Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall (Knopf, 1996), an untitled novel (Pedlar, 2003) and a hand-made book, available by special order, called Hush Up and Listen
Stinky Poo Butt.
Scott Treleaven is a Toronto-born artist, filmmaker and writer, best known for his cult film THE SALiVATION ARMY, which the Village Voice called one of the most notable underground films of 2002. His art practice is represented by galleries in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, and incorporates collage, film, installation and photography. 2006 will see the release of The Salivation Army Black Book (Printed Matter Inc., NY), a compilation of Treleaven&Mac226;s writings, zines, and collages over the past 10 years.
There will be door treats provided by:
Aporia Records Inc, Broken Pencil, Cinemascope, Coach House Books, Come As You Are, ideas, Brian Fawcett, Infiltration, Amy Lam, Mercer Union, New Harbinger Publications, Pedlar Press, Zeesy Powers, Random House, Severance Package Productions, Sheeba Music, Smut Magazine, Fiona Smyth, Snob Shop, Tasman Richardson, Take One and more.
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25. EVENT: Sound Symposium XIII (St. John's)
Date: July 7 - 15, 2006; Source: Sound Symposium
The schedule of events for the 2006 Sound Symposium is now available! You can find out where and when to catch all the local, national, and international artists performing at this years' festival at http://www.soundsymposium.com/2006/schedule.htm
Tickets for Sound Symposium concerts will be available at the door, or in advance (beginning July 5) from the LSPU Hall Box Office, 3 Victoria Street, 753-4531.
For More Information, contact :
Sound Symposium
P.O. Box 23232
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B 4J9
e-mail: <mailto:soundart@nfld.com>soundart@nfld.com
Phone & Fax: (709) 753-4630
<http://www.soundsymposium.com>www.soundsymposium.com
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26. EVENT: wade
Date: July 7 - 9, 2006; Source: Sandra Rechico
July 7, 8 + 9, 2006
wade
A weekend of performances and installations in Toronto's wading pools
opening
Friday July 7 at 8:00pm
Bellevue Square Park
closing night party
Sunday, July 9 at 9:00 pm
Vermont Park
curated by
Christie Pearson + Sandra Rechico
with YYZ Artists' Outlet
performances and installations by
Atanas Bozdarov + Tomasz Smereka, Michael Caines + Leah Decter, Peter Chin, Sandra Gregson, John Greyson + Margaret Moores, Marcia Huyer, Yam Lau, Shannon McMullen + Fabian Winkler, Hazel Meyer, Theodor Pelmus, Eugenio Salas + Michele Stanley, Tony Stallard, Chrysanne Stathacos, S.u.r.g.e. (Ingrid Bachmann, Lorraine Oades, Ana Rewakowicz), Nick Tobier
for details and schedules visit www.wadetoronto.com
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