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 …
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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 …
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 Snider) will be covering, cataloguing and processing the festival events. What stands to remain here once we are done is …
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 been documenting performance art in Toronto since 2006. He has photographed five of the ten 7a*11d festivals, the activities of …
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 short performance art “manifestos” by several members of the Toronto Performance Art Collective. Check out “A Manifesto for Performance” at …