Updates

After a performance-, talk-, and event-filled five days, the packed schedule of performance-art-activity has come to a close.

We want to thank all of our International, Canadian, and local artists for an amazing week of performances and dialogue. Thanks as well as for the presence and contributions from this year’s visiting curators and writers!

Thank you to our volunteers who dedicated themselves to help make the festival happen, as well as our incredible audience who came out in record numbers to see the action each morning, afternoon and night.

We know (first hand) how hard it is to end the experience so abruptly, so get yourself a hot mug of tea, coffee, or hot chocolate and decompress with some of the critical writing and nightly reviews of the festival’s performances from our blog writers, Sylvie Ferré, Randy Gledhill, and Christine Korte. Henry Chan (our official festival photographer) has been with you in the audience, busily documenting the festival performances, which are updated to the blog section alongside the texts. The blog texts and photos are a beautiful way to revisit the artists and their performances if you’re starting to experience withdrawal already (or it can be a way for you to catch a peak of what you missed if you weren’t able to make it to the festival).

Toronto will wait another two years until the next 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art.

Until then, xo!, and we’ll keep you posted right here on this website!

Please take some time to check out the Festival Blog. New writings are being posted daily, and get a glimpse of the festival events and performances through the lens of our festival photographer, Henry Chan!

Saturday, October 27:
(4:00 pm) Denis Romanovski starts at Mercer Union
(6:00 pm) Christof Migone at OCADU, 100 McCaul St. / In the OCADU lobby.

Sunday, October 28:
(2:30 pm) Camille Turner : meet at Toronto Free Gallery

Remember to check out our Festival Blog to see critical writing and a peak at the day’s performances from this year’s team of blog writers and photos by Henry Chan. New entries by Christine Korte and Randy Gledhill are now up!

Sylvie Cotton is looking for 15-25 people who are willing to participate in her group performance, Interdependance, which will be presented as part of the 2012 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. Interdependance an experiment of mixing, trusting, abandonment and sociability based on the exchange of objects. You must be available to commit to the performance for about 3 hours (it is not possible to quit in the middle). It would be nice if you could stay after the performance is over so that we can share our experiences of the performance. Participants can be any age, any profession – artists or non-artists, all are welcome! The performance will take place from 4-7pm on Friday October 26. If you are interested in participating contact Tanya Mars at: performance@7a-11d.ca

Pick them up at Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West), Toronto Free Gallery (1277 Bloor Street West), and FADO Performance Art Centre (401 Richmond Street West).

7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
October 24- 28, 2012

Toronto’s own 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival is back with the 9th edition, showcasing the best of performance and action artists from around the world, jam-packed into 5 days. As always, invited artists hail from a wide range of generations, geographies, and artistic points of view. Canadian and international artists electrify Mercer Union each night with provocative live performance, action art, sound and media. Join us also for daytime public interventions around the city. To add to the experience, every afternoon 7a*11d presents Performance Art Daily at Toronto Free Gallery, a talk-show inspired program of artist talks served up with free lunch!