By Jenn Snider Eduardo Oramas is already seated when we arrive. Settled and straight-backed at his desk, the artist is dressed in a dark suit with a silver-striped red tie, and he gazes at the door through which the large festival crowd comes. On the table, he has some fixings for a bit of a …
By Alison Cooley What does it mean to receive Radio Equals? claude wittmann broadcasts his interpersonal egalitarian experiment (one-on-one interviews recorded inside a small, closet-like room) over the radio and online. As I listen, I am receiving a private conversation, I am being enfolded into a broadcast moment of incredible intimacy. It is rare to …
By Alison Cooley Here’s a quick look at the bingo after our first night. I worry I have made this too easy.
By Alison Cooley Andrée Weschler moves with the confidence and surety of someone enacting a familiar, precise and practiced routine. Opening Garbage bag & love seeds, Weschler strides into the studio with a chair. She wears a light pink nightdress, stockings, and shoes. Carefully removing her footwear with a nonchalance evocative of the commonplace motions …
By Jenn Snider Éminence Grise Clive Robertson works in mysterious ways. Or rather, his works trouble the mysteries of art as apparatus. This may as well mean the same thing. Over more than forty years, his combined impact on Canadian performance, video, conceptual, and community arts, and on the artist-run centre, has been enormous and …
By Alison Cooley The still life has been sitting there all day. Arranged on a table by the studio’s back wall, an array of fruits and vegetables across a fur tablecloth have caught chance glimpses from an audience huddled around a speaker broadcasting claude wittmann’s radio performance. It is the nature of so many bodies …
Unstill Life: Marisa Hoicka and the Edible Uncanny Read More »
By Alison Cooley Alison Cooley The first edition of Performance Art Dailies– a discussion series that takes the form of a talk show– took “Border Crossings” as its theme. As he opened the talk, moderator Francisco-Fernando Granados noted that the purpose of the talks is to non-Toronto-based artists to the Toronto community. Tackling the nature …
Conditional Identities: Border Crossings (Performance Art Daily) Read More »
By Jenn Snider It’s day one, late afternoon at Artscape Youngplace. Gary Varro, we understand, is inside one of the festival performance spaces, and for a little while we linger. We’re waiting for the doors to open. When they do, still we wait. There’s no reason, it’s just that there is no gesture of invitation. …
Materializing swiftly, disintegrating nearly: Entangling insides with out Read More »
By Alison Cooley claude wittmann restarts his computer. I can hear the indentive clicking of a track pad. He finishes a phone call with tech support. “This is the beginning of a project at 7a11d festival, about equality and egalitarian actions. We are on the air, on the internet.” Christian Bujold is conversing with claude …
By Jenn Snider Welcome to the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art Blog! Echoing the introductions by the other half of this year’s blogging-duo, I’m Jenn Snider, an arts worker/artist/student/curator/over-caffeinated researcher based in Toronto, Canada. Alongside the fabulous Alison Cooley, I’ll be reporting, archiving, following, and absorbing all the physical flows and embodied phenomena presented …