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FADO E-LIST (October 2003)
INDEX
1. Fado presents Irma Optimist & Pekka Luhta
October 10 -11, 2003 as part of Tranz<--->Tech
2. EVENT: Tranz <---> Tech Toronto International Media Art Biennial (Toronto)
October 9 - 12, 2003; Source: Tranz<--->Tech
3. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Visualeyez" Festival, Latitude 53 (Edmonton)
Deadline: October 15, 2003; Source: fifty3 magazine
4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Buy or sell or buy" Pace Digital Gallery (New Yok)
Deadline October 30, 2003; Source: Jillian Mcdonald
5. NEWS; Polysonneries Festival forced to cancel (France)
Source: Sylvie Ferré
6. EVENT: INFEST: INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RUN CULTURE Conference (Vancouver)
February 25-29, 2004; Source: ARCCO
7. CALL FOR PAPERS: Art, Environment and Environmental Art, CO-GEN: Visual Culture and Nature (Toronto)
Deadline: October 10, 2003; Source: Instant Coffee
8. EVENT: "The Talking Creature " Power Plant (Toronto)
October 8, 2003; Source: Instant Coffee
9. EVENT: "The Healthy Artist" seminars (Toronto)
October 26 & November 23, 2003; Source: Artists' Health Centre Foundation
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1. Fado presents FIVE HOLES: reminiSCENT
Performance mini-festival, September 18 - 21, 2003
IRMA OPTIMIST: Well Done
Friday, October 10, 2003, 10 pm
PEKKA LUHTA: Valid - War - Invalid
Saturday, October 11, 2003, 7 pm
@ Latvian Hall, 491 College St.
Co-sponsored by TRANZ <---> TECH Toronto International Media Art Biennial
Festival Pass $20 / $15 Students; Evening Pass $8
TORONTO, Canada ... Fado is pleased to present the Toronto premiere of new works by two Finnish performance artists, Irma Optimist and Pekka Luhta. Their performances will take place at Latvian Hall on October 10 and 11, 2003 in conjunction with the TRANZ <---> TECH Toronto International Media Art Biennial.
Irma Optimist and Pekka Luhta will present solo performance works that hint at a slightly surrealist sensibility, employing rapid-fire humour and high-impact visual imagery. These two artists use entertainment and surprise as elements to lead the audience into a world of serious thought and theory. For Irma Optimist, female sexuality is the tactic of choice in her performance art works. Using various personas, from sex kitten to the mythical huntress Diana, she seduces, captivates and captures males within her audience in order to explain mathematical formulae. Pekka Luhta's prosthetic limb provides the departure point for setting up complex readings of cultural and social theory.
Irma Optimist has been a performance artist since 1989, producing over 100 works to date throughout Europe and in North America. She was last seen in Toronto in 1996 as part of Fado's RENCONTRE PERFORMANCE. In addition to her performance art career, Optimist works as a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Vaasa.
Pekka Luhta is a performance artist and writer who lives and works in Finland. He has performed throughout Europe and in North America. This is his first visit to Canada. He writes of his work: "I concentrate on living art using my body as the most important instrument. The works tell about the situations in which I manifest my corporal thinking. Photographs, performances, videos, writings, drawings and paintings are the fragments of living experience."
Irma Optimist and Pekka Luhta will also be in Hamilton on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 as part of the Art Gallery of Hamilton's Sevenseason program. For details contact Tor Lukasik-Foss, Outreach Coordinator at (905) 527-6610 ext. 258 or by email at tor@artgalleryofhamilton.com.
This project received support from the FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange.
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2. EVENT: Tranz <---> Tech Toronto International Media Art Biennial (Toronto)
October 9 - 12, 2003; Source: Tranz<--->Tech
@ The Latvian House
491 College St., Toronto
+ other locations
www.tranztech.ca
Tranz<--->Tech: Toronto International Media Art Biennial, the only biennial of its kind in Canada, is a leading-edge and vibrant media art festival that presents the work of over 100 Canadian and international video and media artists during four days of screenings, performances, exhibitions, installations, artist's talks and a symposium. Located at the Latvian House and at over 10 satellite locations throughout the city, the event involves the participation of twenty-one Toronto arts organizations including Fado Performance Inc., Charles Street Video, the Images Festival, the Inside Out Festival, Pleasure Dome, Vtape, and YYZ Artists' Outlet.
Now in its 3rd year and running from October 9 through October 12 the Biennial hosts nine curated programs containing sixty-five video works, five live-event performances, three onsite installations and fifteen offsite exhibitions. The works are from a diverse range of countries including Canada, USA, UK, China, Finland, Japan, Lebanon, Palestine, Poland, Italy, Israel, France, and Germany. Throughout the four days, the Latvian House will be the site of ongoing experiments and experiences in new media including: the student lounge, a soundwalk, sound installations, and a media art symposium.
Tranz<--->Tech opens Thursday, October 9 with four programs, beginning at 6pm with the launch of Blueprint, a publication exploring the future of audiovisual culture, followed at 7pm by The Colin Campbell Sessions - seven commissioned video works inspired by the legendary Canadian video artist. The evening closes with Fear Factory, a program of videos that consider what - from anti-perspirant to SARS, from terrorism to skirt lengths - makes us afraid, and what fear makes of us. Over the course of the following three days the festival presents spotlight artist Laurel Swenson, who hails from Vancouver, in a program of nine short videos that attempt to answer the question: "What is the embodiment of contemporary anxiety?"; performances by Finnish artists Irma Optimist and Pekka Luhta; Towards a New Chinese Technological Era - a program of video art from China with a special focus on the Shanghai art scene; The Olive Project: Two Minutes for Peace and Justice, international video works (a component of which had to feature olives, olive oil, olive trees or olive groves) and a live video conference addressing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and devastated olive crops; the Vtape Emerging Artist Award; and SOUNDplay, electroacoustic and experimental sound performance works by Vivienne Spiteri.
Some of the fifteen exhibitions at participating galleries include: Psychotopes, curated by Markus Muller (curator, Documenta 11) at YYZ Artists' Outlet, (401 Richmond St. W. Suite 140. September 3 - October 18); Flambant Vu, a 3-person exhibition curated by Sylvian Campeau at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Art (401 Richmond St. W. Suite 120 September 12 - October 25); and My Love He's in Taipei, He's Giving Concerts There, a two-part video installation by (Vtape artist-in-residence) Louidgi Beltrame, at Archive (883 Queen St. W., October 8-November 1). A tour of the offsite locations will be taking place at the 401 Richmond St. W. building on Saturday, October 11, starting at 2pm
Commenting on Tranz<--->Tech 2003, Director Dara Gellman says, "The biennial provides a multi-layered environment in which local and international artists, curators, writers and the public can network, view and discuss what's new and important in contemporary video and related art mediums. It's also a unique opportunity for students and youth to participate and engage with media arts through events that target them specifically. With many international guests and packed houses, TRANZ<--->TECH is becoming a mainstay in Toronto and beyond."
Participating organizations: Centre for Aboriginal Media (CAM), Charles Street Video (CSV), Ed Video, Fado Performance Inc., Fame Fame, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Hard Pressed Collective, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Media City, Mercer Union, New Adventures in Sound Art, Ping, Pleasure Dome, terminus 1525, Trinity Square Video (TSV), Vtape, Women's Art Resource Centre (WARC), Year01, YYZ Artist's Outlet.
image credit: Laurel Swenson. Swing. 200. video, from the program Sitting Still: A Body of Anxiety, Technology & Hope. Presented by Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival. Curated by Kathleen Mullen.
For more information:
416.351.1317 or check out <http://www.tranztech.ca>www.tranztech.ca
Location:
All events at Latvian House, 491 College St. unless otherwise noted.
Tickets:
Festival Pass $20 / $15 with student ID
Evening Pass $8 / $6 with student ID
Available at:
Latvian House, from October 9
Program Guides:
Online: <http://www.tranztech.ca>www.tranztech.ca (after September 22)
At: participating organizations locations, and Latvian House, from October 9
TRANZ<--->TECH
Toronto International Media Art Biennial
c/o 401 Richmond St. W. Suite 452
Toronto. Ontario M5V 3A8 Canada
T 416.351.1317
F 416.351.1509
info@tranztech.ca
<http://www.tranztech.ca>www.tranztech.ca
3rd Edition: 9-12 October 2003
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3. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Visualeyez" Festival, Latitude 53 (Edmonton)
Deadline: October 15, 2003; Source: fifty3 magazine
VIsualeyez
20 - 29 May, 2004
How does performance art, as a temporary medium exist beyond the moment?
The curatorial theme will concentrate on the constructs of time. Are our lives controlled by the passing of time? How does time influence how we live our lives and how we navigate the choices in our daily routines? Is it a passive or active influence in our lives? Is the pace of society and industry a factor on how we live our lives? Does technology really free up out time? How do we individually measure time?
Proposals should include:
a detailed project description of the work to be presented
an artistic statement and relevance to the curatorial theme
curriculum vitae and biography
documentation of previous or current work (slides, mini-dv, vhs, dvd)
complete technical and/or staff requirements
return postage
Send proposals to:
Todd Janes, Curator
Visualeyez 2004
Latittude 53
10248 106 Street
Edmonton, AB
Canada T5J 1H5
(note: for Paul Couillard's description of the most recent Visualeyez Festival, visit http://www.latitude53.org/main/main.html
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4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Buy or sell or buy" Pace Digital Gallery (New Yok)
Deadline October 30, 2003; Source: Jillian Mcdonald
Do you have something to sell?
Pace Digital Gallery in New York City is curating an online exhibition of work that uses E-Bay (www.ebay.com), the online auction house, as a conceptual vehicle. We are not interested in artists selling their artwork or their belongings online, but rather in artists who are investigating notions of consumer culture, the market, ephemerality, exchange, intangibility, and things that cannot be for sale. We are interested in work that will be contemporary with the January exhibition but also in archived projects. We will hold an opening and print a brochure or small catalogue.
Deadline for submissions - October 30th, 2003. Send proposal or documentation, documentation of previous work (URL, DVD, miniDV, digital images), bio, CV, and statement to the attention of:
Prof. Jillian Mcdonald
Fine Arts, Pace University
12th Floor, 41 Park Row
NY, NY 10038
digitalgallery@pace.edu
http://www.pace.edu/digitalgallery
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5. NEWS; Polysonneries Festival forced to cancel (France)
Source: Sylvie Ferré
NO to Performance Art
Polysonneries, an internationally recognised festival of living art supported by the European Commission will not take place (has to be cancelled).
The Lyon local authority and the DRAC don’t want it !
The Lyon based “Festival Polysonneries” obtained a grant from the European Commission for 2003 of 59,176 euros. Alas, despite this success, the local finance (a condition for the payment of the European grant) necessary for the production is still missing. The thousand and one reminders addressed to the local contacts have achieved nothing.
The town of Lyon, which up to now has been the principal partner of the Polysonneries refuses to support the 2003 edition. Worse still, the cultural adjoint, M. Beghain has refused the “Convention AFAA/Ville de Lyon” which the Festival benefited from in 2001, considering that the cultural year of China in France : an “event” which the Polysonneries has not wait to include Chinese artists in their program.
The DRAC following the opinion of only one of its artistic advisors, Alain Reyrat (although Benoit Guillemont and Odile Nublat were in favour of the event), still maintains the same sanction as in 2001 and for the 2nd time its ex-directeur M. Bengio has refused categorically its support.
>From the Rhone-Alpes regional administration, we have received the same sum as the previous event, that’s to say 3050 euros, 20 times less than the European grant.
The “Centre National du Livre” in Paris continues to support the “Sound Poetry” part of the Festival with 6000euros.
As for Guy Walter whom we met during the spring to request access to the Villa Gillet for the Sound Poetry section, armed with an agreement in principal, his response will never reach us
The Polysonneries is a proven event which is unique in France and enjoys, among critics, an undeniable reputation on an international scale.
It is with a certain bitterness that the Festival, considering the state of the financial commitments of its various partners, is obliged by regulation to return the European grant. This despite the fact that the total sum gathered (119,288 euros including grants and own resources) represents half the budget requested. It is worth while to underline that the local support is obligatory for a European grant, which itself represents 25% of the total Festival budget. And that the amount for the organisation abroad by the finish and belgium partners are included in this previous budget.
What an incredible waste, without even taking into account the work already done, to prepare the 2003 edition, at a pure loss ! Which, among other things, foresaw close collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, in Finland, in conjunction with FRAME (Finish Fund for Art Exchange) and with the Echevinat of Ixelles in Brusssels. The Festival should also have taken place in these 2 countries.
The result is evident !
How does one resolve without bitterness the loss of one of the rare places of discovery and confrontation dedicated to Performance and the authentic creativity it engenders ? How does one envisage the activity of the organisers of such events linked to similar domains if they can, from one year to another, be completely questioned, which bars any long term strategy and forbids any risk taking necessary in such cases for research and audacity?
Is it necessary to remember that in 1979 the Symposium of Performance Art formed the basis for the current Polysonneries.
Why, here in Lyon, is there no wish to support independent structures, who work in the multidisciplinary sector to which official speeches today pay continual lip service. Why, with each change of local government, is the future of such manifestations questioned ? Are we eternally condemned to precarity, subject to the tantrums or the incomprehension of one or other official or politician?
More generally : should we resign ourselves to the fact that the end of the Polysonneries signifies regression and at the same time, an acceleration of the process that brings us closer to the unsharing reign of commercial and spectacular culture : intellectual tradition, institution and show business apparently welded together and reacting in unison to liquidate liberal space essential to life.
The situation is grave, we must react !
Sylvie Ferré, director
POLYSONNERIES
Festival International d’Art Vivant
34 Quai Saint-Antoine - BP 2081- F-69226 Lyon cedex 02.
Tel. 33(0)4 78 92 98 05 - Fax 33(0)4 72 40 95 94 - Mobile 33(0)6 09 49 64 37
E-mail : Sylvie.FERRE@adeli.biz - Website : www.polysonneries.org
Note: If you wish to register your support for the festival, you can write to the City of Lyon, DRAC, and the French Ministry of Culture expressing your disappointment with their decision. Addresses follow:
Patrice Beghain
Adjoint à la culture
Hotel de Ville,
BP 1065
69205 Lyon cedex 01
France
Richard Lagrange
DRAC
Grenier d'Abondance
6 Quai Saint Vincent
69283 Lyon cedex 01
France
and of course Ministery of Culture:
Mr Aillagon
Ministère de la Culture
3 rue de Valois
75042 Paris cedex 01
France
and send a copy for information to :
AFAA
Olivier Poivre d'Arvor
1 bis avenue de Villars
75327 Paris cedex 07
France
and
Didier Dastarac
Région Rhône-Alpes
78 route de paris
BP 19
69751 Charbonnieres les Bains cedex
France
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6. EVENT: INFEST: INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RUN CULTURE Conference (Vancouver)
February 25-29, 2004; Source: ARCCO
INFEST Overview
InFest builds upon two other international events for Artist Run Centres,
FESARS in Stockholm in 1999 and Space Traffic in Hong Kong in 2001. While
FESARS focused primarily on European Artist Run Centres, and Space Traffic
on Asian Artist Run Centres, InFest will truly embrace the globe, and will
be the largest gathering in North America of representatives from
international Artist Run Centres. This five day event includes a variety of
components; among them discussion forums, Artist Run Centre presentations, a
networking event, exhibitions, public education programs, and social events.
The focus is on exchanging ideas and strategies to advance artist run
culture, generating a sense of community that transcends national borders,
and encouraging international collaborations. The goal of InFest is to
strengthen the presence of Artist Run Centres within the cultural ecology
and public imagination. The benefits of InFest will not only affect
international networks but also individual communities.
Canada has a 30 year history of Artist Run Centres, but in the past 5 years
there has been a boom internationally. I currently have a list of more than
150 Artist Run Centres outside of Canada. With growing communication systems
making international exchange more accessible, InFest marks a timely stage
for evaluation of artist run culture and, for the first time, will provide
the opportunity for individuals from Artist Run Centres representing a broad
diversity of nations to meet, to share ideas and concerns, and to
strategically position themselves within the international arena. The
outcome will have a lasting impact on their future achievements, and bring a
sense of confidence and stability to those working in this thriving cultural
field.
INFEST: INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RUN CULTURE PROGRAM
DISCUSSION FORUMS
InFest will feature five thematic discussion forums with 15 speakers from
around the world. The topics will represent issues that are of primary
concern to Artist Run Centres and that have implications for their future
progress and prosperity. ARCs with different mandates, histories and ages
will be represented to provide a broad overview of the issues, and even some
conflicting perspectives that will add to the discussion.
Each discussion forum will be led by a moderator who will keep discussion on
topic and on time. They will be followed by smaller informal group
discussions to further develop the ideas presented by the speakers and to
encourage participation by those less forthcoming in larger groups. A
respondent will summarize the issues at the end of each day.
Mutations: What are Artist Run Centres?
Artist Run Centres are emerging at a rapid pace and in all corners of the
globe. It is a phenomenon with shared goals that exists within a variety of
structures and mandates. This forum will explore the shifting definitions of
what may constitute an Artist Run Centre, the purpose they serve, their
contributions to culture, and where the work of Artist Run Centres is
positioned within the larger art system
Moderator - Lorna Brown, Artspeak, Vancouver
Speakers - Bastien Gilbert, Regroupment des Centres d'Artistes Autogérés du
Québec, Montréal
Hee-chae Moon, Alternative Art Space Loop, Seoul
Sofie Sweger, United-Net Works, Stockholm
Survival of the Fittest: Funding and Artist Run Centres
Funding is a primary concern for the stability of Artist Run Centres, and
this forum will bring together speakers from three centres that take
distinctly different approaches to achieving their financial needs. What are
some successful models? What are the differences between funding from
private and public sources, and what is the impact on programs? How can
funding be stabilized, and how does one adjust to shifts in funding sources?
Moderator - Glenn Alteen, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
Speakers - Barbara Hunt - Artists Space, New York
Deirdre Kelly - Cubitt, London
Gonzalo Lebrija - Oficina para Proyectos de Arte, Guadalajara
Breeding Ground: Writing and Criticism in Artist Run Culture
Writing and criticism generates discourse and keeps the artistic community
vital and dynamic. This forum will probe into how artist run culture is
sustained through writing and criticism, how it can establish a place for
Artist Run Centres in history, some of the models available to achieve it,
and whether a distinct form of criticism is emerging in artist run culture.
Moderator - Ashok Mathur, Artist/Writer, Vancouver
Speakers - Kerri Embrey - YYZ Books, Toronto
Brett Jones - West Space, Melbourne
Tsang Tak-Ping - Para/Site, Hong Kong
Migratory Patterns: Internationalism and International Exchange
The impact of globalization is troublesome territory when it comes to
culture. What is the relationship of international exchange to
globalization, and what are the hazards and benefits that accompany the
export of national identities? What is the impact of international
residencies on artists and the cultural life of cities? Do Artist Run
Centres advance an approach to internationalism that is different from large
scale Biennales?
Moderator - Hank Bull, Centre A, Vancouver
Speakers - Fiona Boundy - Gasworks, London
Claudia Fontes - Trama, Buenos Aires
Jean Mailloux - La Chambre Blanche, Québéc City
Metamorphosis: The Artist as Curator
Increasingly, exhibitions and even programs in Artist Run Centres are
curated by artists. This forum will examine whether the artist as curator is
a new model that has an impact on curatorial practices, whether the
artist/curator model differs in terms of serving the artist, how the process
might be a departure from that of larger institutions, and how the artist as
curator is entering the larger art system.
Moderator - Laiwan, Artist, Vancouver
Speakers - Matthew Higgs - CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco
Stephen Hobbs - The Trinity Session, Johannesburg
Jonathan Middleton - Western Front, Vancouver,
ARTIST RUN CENTRE PRESENTATIONS
An afternoon will be devoted to presentations by a selection of innovative,
relatively young, Artist Run Centres from around the world. Highlighting
their programs and activities, these Centres will represent the extensive
variety of structures and mandates that illustrate the breadth of Artist Run
activity. These presentations will serve to expand the idea of what Artist
Run Centres can be.
NETWORKING SESSION
Organizations will have the opportunity to set up displays with information
on their organization, mandate, programs and publications. It is a rare
occasion to become acquainted with a vast selection of Artist Run Centres
and the people who make them happen. They will have the opportunity to
explore potential collaborations and exchanges in a friendly, informal
environment.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
It is important that InFest is presented as an event that is accessible to
the public as well as the art community. Public progams will be offered with
tours of ARCs which will include a discussion about the history of artist
run centres, their purpose, and their role within the larger art system, as
well as insight into each exhibition that is visited. An education
coordinator will be contracted to plan the content of the tours and to train
tour guides. A brochure describing Artist Run Centre history and the current
exhibitions will be published for the occasion and will be available at all
pubic and private Vancouver galleries.
The discussion forums, gallery openings, Artist Run Centre presentations,
gallery tours, and dance party will be open to the participation of the
public.
VENUES
The discussion forums and networking session will be held at Simon Fraser
University Downtown which has the required facilities of a theatre with
appropriate technical equipment and a room with large windows to accommodate
the smaller discussion sessions as well as the networking session. ARC
presentations will take place in the theatre at Emily Carr Institute of Art
& Design. Closing party will take place in the atrium of the Vancouver
Public Library.
PUBLICITY
InFest coordinators are publicizing this locally and abroad. Not only is it
being distributed through the internet to more than 250 organizations, but
publicity in the form of advertisements or new items will be sent out to
major art magazines. We are speaking with Canadian Art, Canada's most widely
distributed national art magazine, about a feature article on Artist Run
Centres that will coincide with InFest . National and local television,
radio and print media will be personally contacted to cover the event.
EXHIBITIONS
InFest will include the participation of Vancouver's Artist Run Centres who
will contribute special exhibitions and/or video programs. The Artist Run
Centres participating in InFest are Access, Alternator, Artspeak, Gallery
Gachet, Grunt Gallery, Or Gallery, Helen Pitt Gallery, Video In Studios,
Open Space, and Western Front.
Other public galleries in Vancouver such as Centre A, Contemporary Art
Gallery and the Belkin Satellite will be producing adjunct exhibitions to
complement Artist Run Culture. Centre A is doing a project with Para/Site
Artist Run Centre in Hong Kong; Contemporary Art Gallery is featuring two
Canadian artists who have emerged from the Artist Run Centre system; and the
Belkin will present a project by a student from the University of British
Columbia's Curatorial Studies program that will examine the history of
Artist Run Centres.
There will be three evenings of opening receptions hosted by these
galleries.
Access 206 Carrall Street, Vancouver - A group exhibition of local emerging
artists who have connections to other parts of the world either through
international correspondence or cultural cross-over.
Alternator Gallery 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna - Cindy Baker (Saskatoon)
examines societal standards, particularly as they relate to language and
dissemination of information. She is interested in things that are awkward,
out of place and pathetic and has a strong performance and conceptual base
to her work. Whether creating toys that are liars or walking through the
communityin a Plexiglas box, she takes the insignificant and magnifies it,
pointing out the absurdities that exist around us. March 5 - April 10, 2004
Artspeak 233 Carral Street, Vancouver - Klaus Scherübel (Vienna) Untitled
(The Artist at Work) Scherübel's work draws on a history of production -
self-portraiture, documentary photography and film - that mythifies the
special subjectivity of the artist and the reified space of the studio.
Untitled (The Artist at Work) is a series of photographs picturing the
artist in public spaces such as libraries, cinemas and furniture stores. His
conceptual interventions, using various means and strategies always redefine
the status of the artwork and the artist in relation to the framing
practices of visual and written language. January 31 - March 6, 2004
Gallery Gachet 88 East Cordova Street, Vancouver - in Sanity is a
collaborative exhibition between Gallery Gachet, Vancouver/ Being Scene
Gallery, Toronto/Living Museum, Queens, which explores the relationship
between art and the human condition.
Grunt 350 East 2nd Ave., Vancouver - Futuristic Regalia, Peter Morin and
Sonny Assu. Both artists are from traditional Aboriginal lands located in
British Columbia and will be creating button blankets to suits which are
based on traditional Native regalia. Mixing influences from both their First
Nation's backgrounds and from popular culture, these culturally designed
clothes are speaking from political and social views about industry, how it
affects the Native experience and their vision of the future. February 12 -
28, 2004
Helen Pitt Gallery 882 Homer Street, Vancouver - Production, Consumption &
Function: Exploring Alternative Economies (Vancouver) questions the
necessity of participating in the "totality of advanced capitalism" by
imagining/enacting alternative economies, conflating notions of
collectivity, individuality, production and reception. January 15 - February
29, 2004
Open Space 510 Fort Street, Victoria - Personal Fabrication (Canada)
utilizes an exploratory research sensibility (ie. a laboratory), encouraging
dialogue and discussions. Individual events, spontaneity, and artistic-risk
taking from a "fabricated" point-of-view. Artistic (aesthetic, formal and
technical concerns), theoretical, social and local issues will be the
discussion, and production points from a "personal" viewpoint in an attempt
to broaden the dialogue around "New artistic Practices" and challenge the
tenets of traditional art forms. Speakers: Diana Burgoyne (Vancouver);
Ctheory: Arthur Kroker (Victoria); Russell Smith (Toronto): David Rokeby
(Montreal), Marina Roy (Vancouver). Projects Roving Projects allow for the
introduction of the artist's work and ideas in progress. It is an attempt to
extend further the notion of exploration, processes, references and ideas
that involve the artists in the creation of art. In these presentations, the
various stages of artistic production become an integral part of the work.
Projects such as site-related works, performances, readings, workshops,
small installations, lectures and meetings that expand the concepts and
notions of art in today's world are encouraged and selected. Artists:
Michael Fernandez (Halifax), Kelly Mark (Toronto), Collette Urban (Toronto),
Rhodri Davies & Jeff Allport (Seattle/Victoria) Web Based Projects were
created in an effort to promote a dialogue about the interactive nature of
presenting art on the web, exploring the relationship between the virtual
and the real, as well as extending the boundaries of the gallery space.
Artists: Mary Flannagan (USA), Robert Normandeau (Montreal). February 1 -
March 6, 2004
Or 480 Smithe Street, Vancouver - Natasha McHardy and Marina Roy (Vancouver)
embark on a do it yourself adventure as they take us through a step by step
gastronomic experience in their kitchen, and a life affirming journey
through the mundane trials and tribulations of better living. February 7 -
March 6 2004
Video In 1965 Main Street, Vancouver - Screenings and events dedicated to
activist video and audio works from regional, national and international
artists.
Western Front 303 East 8th Ave, Vancouver Organization for Cultural Exchange
and Disagreement. As the latest permutation of Westspace's (Melbourne)
Organization collaborative projects, Organization for Cultural Exchange and
Disagreement (OCED) will feature work by local and international artists
looking at the current state of the Institutional Critique,
institutionalized dissent, and utopic disarray. Exhibition curators Brett
Jones and Jonathan Middleton will use this exhibition to ask questions about
the bureaucratic/administrative overlay on the development of creative ideas
and their modes of formation common among artist co-operatives, artist run
centres, and corporate or institutional identities used by artists. These
questions will be framed through the 'Disagreement' as a device intended to
implicate all of those involved. February 28 - April 3, 2004
Public Galleries: Belkin Satellite, Centre A and Contemporary Art Gallery.
Belkin Satellite 555 Hamilton Street, Vancouver - A curatorial project by
Jessie Caryl that looks at the work of a number of artists engaged with
diverse feminisms in Vancouver during the 1980s and 1990s. February 27 -
March 21, 2004
Centre A 849 Homer Street, Vancouver - A collaborative multi-media and web
based project with Hong Kong based artist collective/Artist Run Centre
Para/Site.
Contemporary Art Gallery 555 Nelson Street, Vancouver - Contemporary Art
Gallery 555 Nelson Street, Vancouver - Luanne Martineau (Victoria) uses turn
of the century comic books, and their racist depictions of a North American
immigrant polyglot ,as sources for elaborate drawings. In her exhibition at
the Contemporary Art Gallery, Martineau plans a suite of drawings
accompanied by a large sculptural installation. Nestor Kruger's (Toronto)
meticulously rendered monochromatic wall paintings have, over the past three
years, explored the nature of optics and the specifics of place. Kruger is
interested in overlapping architectural contexts, and his work at the
Contemporary Art Gallery will continue in this vein to elaborate the
gallery's architectural surround as a template for an ambitious series of
paintings. Both artists had their early exhibitions in Artist Run Centres.
January 16 - February 29, 2004
INFEST: INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RUN CULTURE
FEBRUARY 25 - 29, 2004
VANCOUVER, CANADA
EVENT SCHEDULE (PROPOSED)
Wednesday, February 25
10:00 am - 11:00 am Media Event
11:00 am - 1:00 pm Registration/Reception
lunch
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm ARC Network Session
6:00 pm - Openings (Or, Pitt, CAG, Centre A)
Thursday, February 26
9:30 am - 10:00 am Opening remarks
10:00 am - 11:30 am Discussion Forum I - Mutations: What are ARCs?
11:30 am - 12:30 pm Small group discussions
lunch
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Discussion Forum II - Survival of the Fittest: Funding
Models
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Respondent Summary
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Small group discussions
8:00 pm - Openings (Artspeak, Access, Gachet)
Friday, February 27
9:30 am - 11:00 am Discussion Forum III - Breeding Ground: Writing &
Criticism in Artist Run Culture
11:00 am - 12:00 am Small group discussions
lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Discussion Forum IV - Migratory Patterns:
Internationalism & International Exchange
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Respondent Summary
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Small group discussions
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception event ( Western Front)
8:00 pm - Openings (Grunt, Western Front, Video In)
Saturday, February 28
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Discussion Forum V - Metamorphosis: The Artist as
Curator
12:30 am - 1:00 pm Respondent Summary
lunch
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm ARC Presentations (12 - 15 centres)
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Dinner
9:00 pm - Dance Party at Vancouver Public Library
11:00 am , 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm Gallery tours
Sunday, February 29
11:00 am - 1:00 pm Dim Sum Brunch
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Closing Discussions/Closing Reception
Flights home
11:00 am , 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm Gallery tours
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For more information contact: Keith Wallace, Program Director
<Kwallace@paarc.ca>
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7. CALL FOR PAPERS: Art, Environment and Environmental Art, CO-GEN: Visual Culture and Nature (Toronto)
Deadline: October 10, 2003; Source: Instant Coffee
CO-GEN: Visual Culture and Nature, an interdisciplinary electronic journal
dedicated to the study of art and the environment, is seeking papers dealing
with various aspects of the intersection between visual culture and issues
of sustainability. CO-GEN will be available free online.
Possible topics include:
-contemporary artists who deal with environmental themes in their work
(profile, exhibition review)
-sustainability issues in related fields such as design, architecture, city
planning, theatre and fashion
-discussions surrounding the history, theory and politics of incorporating
issues of environmental sustainability into the realm of visual culture
Papers can be submitted from September 15, 2003. Each paper submitted must
include at least 2 images. The second issue will be posted in
October/November 2003. Please submit papers via email to:
<mailto:submissions@publicnature.com>submissions@publicnature.com. For submission guidelines see
<http://www.publicnature.com/co-gen>www.publicnature.com/co-gen <<http://www.publicnature.com/co-gen>http://www.publicnature.com/co-gen> . The
deadline is October 10th 2003.
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8. EVENT: "The Talking Creature " Power Plant (Toronto)
October 8, 2003; Source: Instant Coffee
The Power Plant presents...
"To Let": Open Forums in Communes, Bars and Greenrooms
British artist Liam Gillick creates temporary spaces designed for
speculation, negotiation and shifting modes of social interaction. The Power
Plant has invited three Toronto-based groups to hold their public gatherings
in his installation. These forums are free to the public.
The Talking Creature is a participatory event examining the art of
conversing with strangers in public. The Talking Creature examines this
anxious dynamic in an ordered but random fashion, with the conviction that
unfettered and fearless conversation between strangers is fundamental to
freedom. The Talking Creature is a performance of possibilities, a glimpse
at how a more generous public sphere might look.
The idea is simple: At 7:00 PM on Wednesday, October 8 participants first
gather at The Power Plant. We then disperse and spend a half an hour
recruiting strangers to join us back at the gallery for an unstructured,
unagendaed conversation about whatever.
To get involved or for more information please contact Darren O'Donnell at
darren@mammalian.ca or just show up.
The Talking Creature is presented by socialcapital, an ongoing project of
mammalian diving reflex. www.mammalian.ca
"To Let" continues through October.
Liam Gillick: Communes, Bars and Greenrooms closes November 16.
The Power Plant is located at 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2G8
To arrive by TTC, take the 509 (Exhibition/Union Station) or 510
(Spadina/Union Station) streetcar to Harbourfront Centre.
www.thepowerplant.org
(416) 973-4949
Note: A previous installment of The Talking Creature was presented in collaboration with Fado's Pas de Traudction series earlier this summer.
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9. EVENT: "The Healthy Artist" seminars (Toronto)
October 26 & November 23, 2003; Source: Artists' Health Centre Foundation
On November 6th, 2002, the Al and Malka Green Artists' Health Centre (AHC) opened its doors within the Healthy Connections Program at the Toronto Western Hospital. The vision of the AHC is to have a positive impact on the health and well being of professional artists.
As part of our mission to support the AHC through education and outreach, the Artists' Health Centre Foundation (AHCF) is presenting two seminars entitled The Healthy Artist. These seminars will focus on creating healthy lifestyles for artists within our community by helping them deal with both acute and chronic health issues which impact on their ability to work in their field. We are thrilled to have such a dynamic and respected field of speakers from different sectors of the arts and modalities of health practices. Each seminar session will consist of an opening and closing plenary session, along with breakout sessions enabling participants to spend focused time on the area in which they are most interested. A special price of $40.00 for both seminars is being offered to participants who pre-register. The fee for a single seminar is $25 ($30 at the door). Special rates are available for students/seniors on request.
Both seminars will take place from 1:00pm to 5:00 pm at the Artists’ Health Centre, located in the Toronto Western Hospital (399 Bathurst Street). Please contact the Foundation office for specific details regarding registration and location.
Sunday October 26th, 2003
Emergency Strategies will focus on strategies for dealing with the physical and psychological aspects of emergency and acute situations with speakers, Phil Ellison, M.D., Physician-in-Chief, Family and Community Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital; David Hope, Executive Director, Actor's Fund of Canada; and Darryl Tracy, BScPT, physiotherapist, dancer, teacher and choreographer. Clive Chamberlain, M.D. F.R.C.P. (C); Associate Professor, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Toronto; Staff Psychiatrist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, will be our Facilitator, and will also be a speaker.
Sunday November 23rd, 2003
Chronic Stress and Injury will focus on treatment options and strategies that will enable artists to produce their best work in spite of ongoing physical or psychological/emotional stress. Speakers: Gabriella Herr, BScN, PHCNP, RN (EC), Nurse practitioner, Al & Malka Green Artists Health Centre; Penny Fleming, BSc,BHSc(PT), MCPA; Consultant physiotherapist, National Ballet of Canada and National Ballet School; Head, Owner, Oakville Centre for Sport and Dance Medicine; Paula Ravitz, M.D., Head, Interpersonal Psychotherapy Clinic; Staff, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Mt. Sinai Hospital, former dancer; and Ted Rickard, B.A., M.L.S., MEd., CRSP; Manager of Health & Safety, Ontario College of Art & Design; Editor, Education Safety Association of Ontario. Michael Du Maresq, Choreographer/Dancer/Filmmaker, will be the Facilitator.
For more information please phone the
Artists’ Health Centre Foundation office at
416.351.0239
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Fado is pleased to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their sponsorship of our ongoing activities.
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