Toronto Performance Art Collective is pleased to announce its support for a special performance featuring Toronto artist Andrew James Paterson on Saturday, May 11, 2024. Pate’s Salt Carp is co-presented by Toronto Performance Art Collective (7a*11d) and FADO Performance Art Centre as part of the plumb‘s retrospective exhibition Andrew James Paterson: Never Enough Night, running April 26 – May 26, 2024.

Pate is a senior gentleman whose life is suspended between analogue and digital. Pate downloads analogue documents prior to performing a daily memory exercise. After concluding the durational exercise, Pate prepares a special meal. This is a performance concerned with aging, remembering, and house cleaning, as well as with parameters of language and disclosure.

Presented by the plumb and curated by Laura Carusi, Anthony Cooper, and Kate Whiteway, Andrew James Paterson: Never Enough Night is the most extensive survey exhibition of the seminal Canadian artist’s work to date. The exhibition will include a wide selection of Paterson’s video work spanning from the early 1980s through to the present, as well as poetry, painting, music, archival material, a live performance series, and an original catalogue. Never Enough Night includes a wide selection of Paterson’s video work spanning from the early 1980s through to the present, as well as poetry, painting, music, archival material, a live performance series, and an original catalogue.