By Randy Gledhill It is the morning after the nite before. Day 1 is fin complet. The messes have been contained (actually, strangely, there were none, except a bit of left-over smoke – a first for a performance festival opening nite of this stature). Everyone, I assume, is well slept, has finished their morning yoga …
By Christine Korte It’s early evening on day one. The morning began with a balanced triad of body, action and networks – each addressed in different ways at the Toronto Free Gallery on Bloor St. West. First things first: the body. For those of us already beginning day one of the festival tired, jet-lagged, overwrought …
Performance Art Daily 2012: The international network, 7a*11d
October 24: Miriam GINESTIER, Randy GLEDHILL, Jonas STAMPE, and moderator Paul COUILLARD
By Randy Gledhill It is the night before the big shows begin and anticipation is building . The performance artists are now assembled. They have been fed with home cooked foodie delights at Tanya’s pre-festival soiree and pampered in their luxury digs, the Alphaville Inn. The presence of the great Norbert Klassen, to whom the …
Welcome to our festival blog for 2012. Updated daily, the blog contains critical writing and reflections on the 9th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art by our commissioned writers, Sylvie FERRÉ, Randy GLEDHILL and Christine KORTE, and photographs of each days events from our faithful photographer, Henry CHAN. In addition, 7a*11d collective member Annie Onyi …
By Paul Couillard Norbert Klassen | May 30 1941 – December 1 2011 Born May 30, 1941 in Duisburg, Germany. Died December 1, 2011 in Bern, Switzerland. Two sets of facts, two pseudo-sentences: delineated by periods but sharing a single implied subject. And between them, a little gap. No more than the standard space between …
SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine.
Oct 23 & 24
FOOD=NEED is a week of performances, workshops and discussion forums around food and its use. Facilitated by WIA projects, DPNC, Arts4All and 7a*11d. Food is a basic human need.
October 30 – November 1
These copy-edited versions of our first festival blogs (from 2008 and 2010) were originally published on blogspot. The original, “legacy” versions can be found at http://7a11d.blogspot.ca/.
By Daniel Baird In his incomparable Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga argued, at length and with vast erudition, that the idea of play is at the origins of our idea of thinking. What he meant by “thinking” was not a purely private, introspective process, something done by solitary individuals in their studies or monk’s cells, but …