1997 Festival

1997 Sediment

Participants in sur, blue, round at Sediment | Trinity Bellwoods Park

Toronto is located on the shores of Lake Ontario, inhabiting landscape that was once lake, marshlands and swamp. The southern downtown, built on landfill, exists where once were wetlands, an aquatic filter for the watershed. We have filled and covered and erased the paths of water as it runs from the highlands to the lowlands, …

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1997 Prognosis

Songs of the New Erotics performing The Anti-Child of Recordist Performance and a Lighted Cavern at Symptom Hall

Prognosis uses Symptom Hall’s upstairs and downstairs main spaces as flexible, changeable environments to accommodate a wide variety of work. A total of nine pieces will presented over a three-day period, using video, film, live sound, movement-based work, food and more in conjunction with performance elements. Six of these works will be presented as part …

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1997 :JAWA:bot:Machines That Perform

Mechanical, robotic, electronic sculpture/installation/performance organized by members of the JAWA Collective, including artists solicited through an open call for submissions. * JAWA is the name of several cities in Asia.* JAWA is a Finnish motorcycle company renowned and infamous for producing obnoxious, loud, gas-guzzling motorcycles that are virtually indestructible.* The cute and dangerous creatures of …

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1997 .in/attendant.

Peter Conlin & Kirsten Forkert perform Spill at .in/attendant.

For .in/attendant., curated and coordinated by Shannon Cochrane, a total of five artists are being chosen to present time based or duration performance works designed for a store front window. Emphasis is placed on these works utilizing not only the window stage, but conceptually and physically addressing and activating the spaces which surround it: the …

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1997 FIVE HOLES: Touched

Frank Green performing Anonymous Test Site at Symptom Hall

FIVE HOLES: Touched is the second in a series of performances dealing with the five senses. The first part (FIVE HOLES: I’ll Be Seeing You, A Space, 1995) used the device of a peep show to explore the sense of sight and the process of seeing. For Touched, artists are using the nooks and crannies …

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