By Natalie Loveless Seven white pillows lie in a semi-circle, and a knife on each one. On the floor in the middle of the semi-circle, filled with black ink, is an aquarium. A red glove floats on top. Another aquarium is suspended from the ceiling upside-down, a little off center. Walking in a circle around …
Helge Meyer: Pneumatic Vision: Cut, Mercer Union, Thursday, October 21, 2010 (NL) Read More »
By Natalie Loveless I enter the back room at Mercer Union, and in the dim light see Norway’s Stein Henningsen lying on the floor, weighted down by a four-hundred-pound block of ice. It is strapped to his back. He lies forehead to ground and hands tucked in underneath, presumably to help support his shoulders and …
Stein Henningsen: Untitled, Mercer Union, Thursday, October 21, 2010 (NL) Read More »
By Natalie Loveless Prelude: Identical twins enter from opposite sides of the space, meet in the middle with a ritualistic gesture, and begin the performance. Moving to separate video cameras that offer a live feed against the back wall, they each kneel and place a single hand before the camera. With the detailed view of …
By Natalie Loveless It is 2pm and I am wandering through Union Station to find karen elaine spencer, who is performing a durational piece called sittin’. Over the course of the festival she will sit from nine to five each day in the same spot at Toronto’s Union Station. I wonder about the choice to …
karen elaine spencer: Thursday, October 21, 2010 / Day One (NL) Read More »
Throughout the festival, check the 7a*11d website for updates. Today’s news releases include new info regarding the collaborative performances by Sylive Tourangeau and the offsite location for Karen Elaine Spencer. Sylvie Tourangeau In response to her proposal to collaborate with local artists as her residency project for this year’s 7a*11d festival, Éminence grise Sylvie Tourangeau …
This year’s blog will feature texts by two writers—Natalie Loveless and Daniel Baird—as well as images by our festival photographer, Henry Chan. Natalie Loveless is an artist, teacher and writer. She recently completed a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, on transdiciplinarity and its implications for new models of pedagogy and socially engaged …
7a*11d International Festival of Performance ArtThursday, October 21 – Sunday, October 31, 2010 7a*11d is pleased to announce the 8th biennial International Festival of Performance Art to Toronto audiences from October 21 to 31, 2010. Presented in association with our festival and gallery partners, daily and evening performance art events take place at Mercer Union, …
Announcing our 8th International Festival: 7a*11d 2010!! Read More »
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Wednesday October 27 7 pm
The Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen St W
Workshop: Performance As Encounter with Agnes Nedregard
Saturday October 16 to Wednesday October 20 10 am – 6 pm
Toronto Free Gallery | 1277 Bloor St W
Cost: $250 (does not include food, materials or accommodation)
La Nostalgia Remix
Guillermo Gómez-Peña & James Luna
Saturday October 23 8 pm
Tranzac Club | 292 Brunswick Ave
$12 (Advance tickets 416-913-0461)