2010

Francis O’Shaughnessy & Sara Létourneau, I have nothing to say about my day, XPACE, Friday, October 29, 2010 (NL)

Francis O’SHaughnessy & Sara Létourneau performing ‘I have nothing to say about my day’ at XPACE.

By Natalie Loveless We are arranged in the space. Francis O’Shaughnessy tells us where we can sit—there, no further, that is good—and pauses. Sara Létourneau enters with two china teacups, complete with saucers. O’Shaughnessy takes a pair of scissors and cuts a slit in his shirt. Something is bundled under the fabric, at the bicep. …

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Wednesday, October 27 (d2d), Thursday, October 28 (evening), and Friday, October 29 (day) 2010 (DB)

Maurice Blok performing ‘untitled’ at XPACE.

By Daniel Baird In the early 1980s, Tehching Hsieh conducted his legendary one-year performances, in which he performed a specific symbolic action, or fulfilled a stricture, for the duration of one year. In one, for instance, he punched a time clock every hour on the hour for a year, carefully documenting the instances in which …

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sittin’—Day 7

Thursday, October 28, 2010—Union Station 9 am – 5 pm the impulse is to share, but i withhold. certain things can be destroyed through their transmission, so today i withhold from sharing and fold into that place of protection my already articulated and re-membered recollection. -karen elaine spncer

sittin’—Day 6

Wednesday, October 27, 2010—Union Station 9 am – 5 pm when in the great hall turn west and look up at the arched window between the interior and exterior panes of glass. you may see a ghost-like silhouette of a person walking from one side to the other. -karen elaine spncer

October 28, 2010: Performance Art Daily

Moderator Andrew James Paterson, Agnes Nedregard, Teresa Dillon, Irma Optimist speak during Performance Art Daily, October 28, 2010 at Toronto Free Gallery

Performance Art DailyToronto Free Gallery | 1277 Bloor St WArtist Talks: October 28Teresa DILLON, Agnes NEDREGARD, and Irma OPTIMIST, moderated by Andrew James PATERSONPresented by Toronto Free Gallery in collaboration with 7a*11d Performance Art Daily is a noon-hour artist talk show series featuring many of the festival’s visiting artists in conversation with local artists. The …

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karen elaine spencer: sittin’, Union Station, Thursday, October 28, 2010 (NL)

karen elaine spencer performing ‘sittin’ at Union Station.

By Natalie Loveless It is three thousand seven hundred and twenty-three minutes into karen spencer’s sittin’ performance at Union Station. It is cold, and I am not the only one here. I recognize a festival-goer sitting with her. Together they gaze gently into the distance, in roughly the same direction, as if waiting for something …

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