By Christine Korte The festival has come and gone. It’s hard to believe that its been over a week since our collective descent upon Toronto’s West end galleries and streets wrapped up. Each day, memories of the performances continue to be triggered, exploded and turned into personal meditations (at least in my, admittedly invested, case). …
par Sylvie Ferre Procédons d’abord à un retour en arrière sur les quelques projets non évoqués précédemment. Samedi après –midi, l’amplification du son des micros tapés au sol par les assistants de Christof Migone redonnera vie au hall de l’Université de l’OCAD. Plus tard, dans la soirée, la performance du Birman, Nyan Lin Htet, sera …
By Christine Korte Portuguese/German artist Márcio Carvalho’s performance on Sunday afternoon, Now – an impossible presence, was an intricate navigation through time, memory, presence, and the impossibility of the now. The artist facilitated this navigation vis-à-vis a highly considered and layered engagement with the object world. Carvalho highlighted the shifting nature of the materials he used – material that disintegrates (a pear), material …
By Randy Gledhill We’ll meet again Don’t know where, don’t know when But I know we’ll meet some sunny day Keep smiling through Just like you always do Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away Vera Lynn Well, the mess has been cleaned up. The gallery walls retouched. The rented and borrowed …
By Randy Gledhill Another recently embraced performative strategy is the relational group participation formula. This usually occurs from a pre-determined meeting point at a certain time. Once the contributing audience has gathered the ‘artist’ describes the ‘instructional’ conceit and proceeds to lead the band of people on some kind of journey or adventure. 7A*11D presented …
By Christine Korte Jeff Huckleberry’s performance on Saturday night, Attempt at not being a walking fucking joke, was a meditation on the performance artist as a fragile or failing tour de force. Not only because Huckleberry was uncomfortably vulnerable and self-reflexive, but also because the relationship between his massive body, his even bigger wooden planks, …
par Sylvie Ferre Ce qui ne veut pas dire que les autres performances étaient dénuées d’intérêt, mais celle de l’Américain Jeff Huckleberry a concentré tout ce que nous sommes avides de trouver dans une action. Il a réuni avec brio tous les éléments qui donnent sens à un acte original, intelligent, limpide, en construisant une …
Performance Art Daily 2012: Reflections on praxis, 7a*11d
October 28: Rachel ECHENBERG, Patrycja GERMAN, Jeff HUCKLEBERRY, Agnes YIT, and moderator Johanna HOUSEHOLDER
By Randy Gledhill Simply dressed in black, seated on a step-stool cloaked in white. A large hind quarter of raw meat on his lap. Perhaps the haunch of a pig, or a person. Burmese artist Nyan Lin Htet, with needle and thread, diligently sews the dead flesh. He does so with a meticulous devotion. Sewing …
By Randy Gledhill There are several common trends and threads being employed by many artists in the current ‘performance festival’ format and genre. Surprisingly artists, offered free reign to present themselves in any way they wish, usually choose a formal gallery setting and time slot of about 30 minutes to parade their dog-and-pony show to …