Conditional Identities: Border Crossings (Performance Art Daily)
By Alison Cooley Alison Cooley Moderator Francisco-Fernando Granados, Roberto de la Torre, Ali AL-FATLAWI & Wathiq AL-AMERI Serena Lee, Performance Art Daily - Border Crossings October 29 2014 VIDEO STILL The first edition of Performance ...
Materializing swiftly, disintegrating nearly: Entangling insides with out
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 ...
Dispatch I from Radio Equals
By Alison Cooley claude wittmann's Radio Equals 7a*11d 2014 PHOTO Henry Chan claude wittmann restarts his computer. I can hear the indentive clicking of a track pad. He finishes a phone call with tech support ...
A welcoming moment and a brief missive
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 ...
Introductions and a Game
By Alison Cooley Welcome to the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art Blog. I'm Alison Cooley, a Toronto-based writer, curator and educator, and over the course of the next five days, I (along with Jenn ...
Eyes and Ears for 2014
We are pleased to present our "Eyes and Ears" for 2014. For the most comprehensive gesture-by-gesture commentary on the 10th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, you can rely on these amazing talents. Henry CHAN has ...
7a*11d “acts out” in KAPSULA
The latest issue of the online magazine KAPSULA features a special section marking the tenth 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. A photo essay of documentation by Henry Chan is coupled with a series of ...
In Memoriam: Frank Moore
Frank Moore | June 25, 1946 – October 14, 2013 I […] encourage artists who have not been so blessed with bodies that mark them as misfits to aspire to be misfits anyway, to do ...
The Unbearable Weight of Memory
By Christine Korte The festival has come and gone. It's hard to believe that its been over a week since our collective descent upon Toronto's West end galleries and streets wrapped up. Each day, memories ...
