DUFF, Tagny

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Wednesday October 31 6:33 am (sunrise) – 10:30 pm
Elle Corazon | 176, rue Bernard Ouest, Montréal

ReciproCity/ RéciproCité Montréal round table discussion
Thursday November 1 12 pm – 5 pm
L’ancien Copie-Art | 813, rue Ontario

Organized by Josée Tremblay as part of ReciproCity/RéciproCité Montréal
Sponsored by Studio 303

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Saturday November 3 12 pm – 12 am
Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen Street West

ReciproCity/RéciproCité Toronto round table discussion
Sunday November 4 1 pm

Organized by Paul Couillard as part of ReciproCity/RéciproCité Toronto

Tagny Duff is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary media artist and producer working in performance, video, audio and text. She has created numerous site-specific performance works and video works since receiving a Fine Arts Degree from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (1997). Performance works from The Elephantiasis Ears Series, Audio Tour Performances, Latent Spaces and Scene and Unseen have taken place in various public spaces with the support of artist-run centres and festivals across Canada.

<<Public Web>>
Wednesday November 1 to Friday November 3
tours at 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm and 5 pm (approx. 35 minutes each)
beginning at Art System, 327 Spadina Ave, 2nd floor

Presented by Fado Performance Inc. as part of Public Spaces/Private Places

<<Public Web>> is a performance provocation and interactive audio tour that places the audience in the role of performer and explorer. Wearing portable headphones and guided by the transmitted voice of the artist, participants toured various destinations in the downtown core. As the tour progressed, Duff observed the participants surreptitiously, periodically providing a hypertext-style list of options that required group decisions in order to determine the destination of the tour and the actions to be undertaken by participants. A sculptural apparatus of straps physically connected the groups of up to ten participants s they explored various physical and virtual entry points into the space between the public and private.

Tagny Duff is a Vancouver-based artist. Her performances, video and audio work have been presented by venues across Canada such as The Western Front, Gallery 101, Centre for Art Tapes and recently, YYZ Artist’s Outlet. Duff has received widespread attention for her site-specific interventions undertaken as part of the Elephantiasis Ears Series in public spaces such as the shopping mall, city hall and the street.

Fado project page for <<Public Web>>
Fado image gallery for <<Public Web>>

Experience as Spectacle as
Sunday November 5 3 pm
YYZ Artists’ Outlet, 401 Richmond St W

With panelists Tagny DUFF (Vancouver BC) with John DUMMET (UK), Kym PRUESSE (Toronto), and Clive ROBERTSON (Kingston ON); moderated by Johanna HOUSEHOLDER.

It may be understood that spectacle itself is a charged word, and probably connects too directly to Debord alone, so if you want to nominate another term, please do. For our purposes spectacle is the visual and visceral apprehension of the performance event by audience. How much it implies passivity is an open question and in performance art (as in Debord), the term audience itself is somewhat fluid.

There are a  number of works in the festival and in the performance catalogue generally which employ the audience as participants or agents in the realization of the work…. As well there is the notion of Experience as Spectacle raised by the description of =Videodrome=. This could describe the experience of the “audience/participants” (Valie Export’s term) in the high pitched environment of performance;  or it could refer to the experience of the artist.

Here a discussion of ‘ordeal’ performances; or the gradual unfolding of improvisatory performances — as well as the open ended processes of audience interaction — could ensue.