par Sylvie Ferre C’est un début prometteur pour le Festival 7A*11D, puisque , dans la même journée, il présente deux artistes considérés comme ses “éminences grises”. L’une d’elle, la fameuse Margaret Dragu, danseuse de formation et performeure bien connue des milieux artistiques, entame les festivités avec un cours de yoga. Une heure durant, nous pourrons …
Performance Art Daily 2012: Theatricality, 7a*11d
October 25: Carl BOUCHARD, Martin DUFRASNE, Camille TURNER, and moderator Jessica WYMAN
By Randy Gledhill The room is pitch black. There are so many people clambering for a little vacant wall space, or floor space, it becomes a bit of a group grope. People outside crane for a glimpse of what is happening in the over-sold space. Fog rolls in. The room is sweet with theatrical smoke. …
By Randy Gledhill There is a big white box. Inside is a man. An elegant man. I know this because his tuxedo clad arm and leg extend outside the box through the wall. The hand is manicured, the leg draped in a crisply pressed trouser and ending in a foot clad in a perfect patent …
By Randy Gledhill Nobuo Kubota has accomplished an oeuvre of experimental avant-garde exploration spanning over 50 years. That is older than some of this packed audience’s parents. Nobuo has educated, mentored and inspired three generations of students and artists, including myself, 40 years ago. He was my favorite teacher simply because, rather than tell me …
By Randy Gledhill It is the morning after the nite before. Day 1 is fin complet. The messes have been contained (actually, strangely, there were none, except a bit of left-over smoke – a first for a performance festival opening nite of this stature). Everyone, I assume, is well slept, has finished their morning yoga …
By Christine Korte It’s early evening on day one. The morning began with a balanced triad of body, action and networks – each addressed in different ways at the Toronto Free Gallery on Bloor St. West. First things first: the body. For those of us already beginning day one of the festival tired, jet-lagged, overwrought …
Performance Art Daily 2012: The international network, 7a*11d
October 24: Miriam GINESTIER, Randy GLEDHILL, Jonas STAMPE, and moderator Paul COUILLARD
By Randy Gledhill It is the night before the big shows begin and anticipation is building . The performance artists are now assembled. They have been fed with home cooked foodie delights at Tanya’s pre-festival soiree and pampered in their luxury digs, the Alphaville Inn. The presence of the great Norbert Klassen, to whom the …
Welcome to our festival blog for 2012. Updated daily, the blog contains critical writing and reflections on the 9th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art by our commissioned writers, Sylvie FERRÉ, Randy GLEDHILL and Christine KORTE, and photographs of each days events from our faithful photographer, Henry CHAN. In addition, 7a*11d collective member Annie Onyi …