By Natalie Loveless I’m meeting Michael Fernandes at noon at the Toronto Free Gallery. Today is the first of four days that Fernandes will be performing, from noon to 5 pm, locations TBA. As I walk along Bloor, I see him seated on a chain across the entrance to a car dealership. He stares into …
Performance Art Daily: The Performative?Toronto Free Gallery | 1277 Bloor St WArtist Talks: October 27TouVA Collective (Anne BÉRUBÉ, Victoria STANTON, Sylvie TOURANGEAU), hosted by Paul COUILLARD Presented by Toronto Free Gallery in collaboration with 7a*11d The TouVA Collective discusses their research into “the performative.” They are currently co-authoring a book project that seeks to reexamine …
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By Daniel Baird Most performance artists insist that what they do is distinct from what is disparagingly termed “mere spectacle.” I take this to mean something like this: performance is not reducible to the images it might result in, which can be remarkably beautiful or grotesque, but rather consists in the ineluctable series of acts …
By Daniel Baird Performance art, as it is currently understood, owes a great deal to the spectacle of ritual, which might be roughly defined as a set of disciplined, symbolic acts that activate meaning within, and to some extent define, a sacred space. One thinks of the role of the Catholic mass in performances from …
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010—Union Station 9 am – 5 pm this morning one of the ‘red caps’ walked over to where i was sitting, stuck out his hand, and said, “hi, i’m dan.” i took his hand, smiled, and said, “hi, i’m karen.” – karen elaine spncer
By Natalie Loveless The space has chairs on two walls. In the center lies a bolt of red and yellow mottled cloth, three bottles of juice-like liquid (yellow, orange and red), three wine glasses, an orange, apple and banana stacked on three sheets of tissue paper (again, red, orange and yellow), and a long spiral …
Performance Art DailyToronto Free Gallery | 1277 Bloor St WArtist Talks: October 26Chuyia CHIA, Stein HENNINGSEN, and Carlos MONROY, moderated by Jess DOBKINPresented 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 shows …
Sunday, October 24, 2010—Union Station 10 am – 5 pm every morning i take myself to a place of transit. here i sit, mostly; but i also stand up, walk around, go to the washroom, eat and drink. i do not read or write, text or call, photograph or videotape. nor do i capture sound. …
By Natalie Loveless We are less than halfway through karen elaine spencer’s ten-day performance action: sitting for eight hours a day on a set of benches near the Front street entrance of Toronto’s Union Station. I approach the performance site half expecting not to see her. Expecting that at this point she might foil expectations, …
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Performance Art DailyToronto Free Gallery | 1277 Bloor St WArtist Talks: Sunday October 24 Maurice BLOK, Robin BRASS, and Brian CONNOLLY, moderated by Paul COUILLARDPresented 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. …