Jenny Keith | May 13, 1969 – March 10, 2023 Jenny Keith, one of the co-founders of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, died earlier this year at her home in Picton, Ontario. Jenny was a key fixture of Toronto’s art community in the 1990s, a passionate and enthusiastic contributor to the city’s lively …
After our 2022 7a*11d festival, the Toronto Performance Art Collective bid farewell to two of our longest standing members: co-founder Shannon Cochrane and Tanya Mars, who joined the collective in 1998. Both are legends in the Canadian performance art world and we love them for it. We offer our heartfelt thanks for their years of …
We are pleased to announce that a new version of Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan’s review of the 2022 7a*11d festival has been published online in the University of Alberta’s Imaginations journal’s “Elicitations” section. The text is a reworking of the article Shalon produced for the festival website, focusing specifically on the works by Alain-Martin Richard, Archer …
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![Alain-Martin Richard performs Animal bicéphale [Two-headed animal] at the 7a*11d festival.](https://7a-11d.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/amr_stwh_hc-1024x684.jpg)
In the wake of a more than two-year lapse in live performance events in Toronto (and everywhere), the 2022 iteration of the Toronto Performance Art Collective’s 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art felt particularly infused with a sense of intimacy and softness. Being together in space feels almost new again, vulnerable—like a relationship you took for …
As noted in the previous post, the KinesTHESES project included a series of negotiated interactions that paired local and non-local artists. Distinct from the artists’ individual projects, these events were an opportunity for the invited artists to contextualize—on their own terms and in dialogue with each other rather than with me as the curator—their artistic …
Yahndawa’ portages entre Wendake et QuébecFriday September 9 5 p mOnline with live screening at the Theatre Centre(Free) Join us for a live virtual tour of the Yahndawa’ exhibition reception at Meduse in Québec, hosted by this year’s 7a*11d éminence grise, Alain-Martin Richard. He will provide a bilingual tour of the show, providing background on the …
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w.o.r.k.s.c.o.r.e.p.o.r.t. Digital ReissueSaturday September 10 11 amOnline Artexte and Toronto Performance Art Collective are pleased to invite you to the virtual launch of the digital reissue of w.o.r.k.s.c.o.r.e.p.o.r.t. on Zoom. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the W.O.R.K.S collective, composed of artists Clive Robertson and Paul Woodrow, we propose a rediscovery of w.o.r.k.s.c.o.r.e.p.o.r.t. …
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Facilitated by Rah Eleh and hosted by FADO Performance Art Centre Saturday September 10 – Sunday September 11, 2022,11 am – 4 pmThe Commons @ 401, 401 Richmond Street West, TorontoNOTE: This workshop is now FULLY BOOKED and is no longer taking new participants. Performance on Camera investigates the intersections between performance art and the …
Artist-led embodied research projectFacilitated by lo bil and hosted by FADO Performance Art Centre Part 1: Tuesday September 6 – Friday September 9, 2022, 11:30 am – 2:30 pmPart 2: Monday September 12 – Friday September 16, 2022Public showing: Saturday September 17, 2022Bachir/Yerex Presentation SpaceThe Commons @ 401 (4th floor)401 Richmond Street West, Toronto COMPASS …
COMPASS: to re-orient our practice of being together (WORKSHOP) Read More »
It is common for art exhibitions to include animating events such as artist talks, where audiences can discover more about the artist and their working methods, the thinking and doing behind the project, the various challenges and discoveries involved in developing the work, and so forth. Often these artist talks take the form of a …