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By Natalie Loveless As I head down the stairs to XPACE’s basement area, XBASE, I hear a faint digital soundtrack that manages to entice me and make me uneasy all at once. It is high ...

By Natalie Loveless My day starts, again, by going to the Toronto Free Gallery at noon to meet with Michael Fernandes and witness his ongoing Doing Things With Strangers. For four days of the festival, ...

Friday, October 29, 2010—Union Station 9 am - 5 pm if you come to see me but cannot find me, does this mean you missed my performance? this is not my question. if you come ...

By Natalie Loveless Some music plays, a lovely smooth Latin something. There is a pedestal with a fishbowl on it and a small table with what looks like 24 bottles of champagne. Pancho López is ...

By Natalie Loveless Michael Fernandes sits quietly in the space. An amplifier buzzing and a microphone in front of him. He pauses, a book in his hands, and looks at us. Putting on his glasses ...

By Natalie Loveless A woman enters the space. Sombre, dressed in black. Holds a ball of red ribbon between her cupped hands and bows her head. A moment of solemnity. She then ties a clothesline ...

By Natalie Loveless In the center of the gallery is a podium lit by a single spotlight. To the left is an open guitar case, guitar inside. Henry Adam Svec comes in and stands behind ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thursday, October 28, 2010—Union Station 9 am - 5 pmthe 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 ...