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Wednesday, October 27, 2010—Union Station 9 am - 5 pmwhen in the great hall turn west and look up at the arched window between the interior and exterior panes of glass. you may see a ...

By Natalie Loveless It is three thousand seven hundred and twenty-three minutes into karen spencer’s sittin’ performance at Union Station. It is cold, and I am not the only one here. I recognize a festival-goer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Saturday, October 23, 2010—Union Station 9 am - 5 pm union station was part of the great nation building unity project, i.e. capitalism. now the station is part of the transportation system, this never-ending movement ...