By Michelle Lacombe The Arrival A row of red origami boats float above a long table covered in a bank of salt and more carefully lined up paper boats. The set up is simple, beautiful and calls for activation. However, before we see the artist, a recording of diverse voices repeating the same question fills …
By Michelle Lacombe Les Daré Lo Que Quieren ( I will give them what they want) I will preface this post by clearly stating that I have a really difficult time with what I consider to be artistic displays of destructive and violent masculinity. I don’t care if it’s ironic or poetic. I am not …
By Jessica Karuhanga Avant Niagara Falls We return to our seats to witness Avant Niagara Falls. This enactment is part one of two symbiotic gestures of a vision. The companion performance, Après Niagara Falls, will materialize next week. Waterfalls are a magnificent source of charging energy with constantly looping current. A desk sits in the …
By Jessica Karuhanga #MenstrualAccessory Rose, magenta, coral, gold and yellow. These are the hues you may potentially use to embellish and enjoy the stains left as remains from bodies performing their menstrual cycle. Vanessa Dion Fletcher acts as both an entrepreneur and our motivational speaker. We wait while elevator music plays softly in the background. …
By Jessica Karuhanga Sound performance with newspaper Sound performance with little objects Bartolomé Ferrando tells us he is is going to perform four pieces. He needs our help for the first piece. He hands out tissues to the audience. Whenever he repeats a gesture we blew our noises emphatically into our personal tissues. The audience …
By Paul Couillard Ben Patterson | May 29, 1934 – June 25, 2016 Ben Patterson‘s appearance in the third 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art in 2002 was a momentous occasion, one that prompted the collective to devote an entire evening to highlighting the artist and his work.[1] Patterson, an American living in Germany, was …
By Paul Couillard Aiyyana Maracle | November 25, 1950 — April 24, 2016 Aiyyana Maracle was a fierce soul with a gentle but powerful voice. In “A Journey in Gender,” an article published in torquere,[1] Aiyyana described herself as “a transformed woman who loves women,” her way of steering readers toward a decolonized understanding of …
By Paul Couillard Rachel Rosenthal | November 9, 1926 – May 10, 2015 Going to see Rachel Rosenthal’s Gaia, Mon Amour in Ottawa in 1983 changed my life, prompting me to become both an artist and a vegetarian. Rachel’s activist performance work showed me that art could be used to care both about and for …
By Paul Couillard Frank Green | July 28, 1957 – January 23, 2013 Frank Green—activist, writer, arts critic and performance artist—died in 2013 at the age of 55. Online obituaries pointedly identify the cause of his death as being complications due to AIDS. But how to unpack the paradox behind those words? When Frank Green …
Saturday October 22 12:30 pm
OCAD U 100 McCaul St | Rm 284
Addressing cultural heritage through performance
Annie Onyi CHEUNG
Chun Hua Catherine DONG
moderated by Tanya MARS