Virtual Launch – Digital Reissue of w.o.r.k.s.c.o.r.e.p.o.r.t.

Image of W.O.R.K.S.C.O.R.E.P.O.R.T. (1975) publication with blue and white cover sitting on its side

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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Performance on Camera (WORKSHOP)

Superimposed images of Rah Eleh performing for the camera

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 …

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COMPASS: to re-orient our practice of being together (WORKSHOP)

collage of images of artists at work

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 …

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12. A negotiated interaction: Step 2 by Stephanie Marshall and Sakiko Yamaoka (Description, digital photos and video recordings)

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 …

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11. Interview with Sakiko Yamaoka: An ambulatory, gestural conversation, or, “I know her, but I don’t know her.”

One of my favourite ways to talk with someone is while walking together. The shared forward momentum almost automatically generates an intimate connection between the walkers, attuning their moving bodies in a rhythm of complicity. That same momentum can also propel the conversation, contributing a sense of flow. Walking together is often an important part …

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9. Body Maintenance within KinesTHESES

As the KinesTHESES curator, I am interested in the tactile-kinesthetic propositions Body Maintenance offers for an audience of thinking bodies, and how these propositions activate and influence participants’ self-conception. This entry of the Toolkit offers some background information on why I invited Sakiko to be a part of KinesTHESES, and how, having experienced Body Maintenance, …

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8. Sakiko Yamaoka’s Body Maintenance : Description, digital photos and video recordings

Sakiko Yamaoka prefaced her KinesTHESES project, Body Maintenance, with these words: “I, personally, don’t like to do or watch any sports, but we can use the tools of sport for other intentions. For example, art performances.” Consequently, her project for KinesTHESES took place at a downtown Toronto basketball gymnasium on a sunny summer Sunday afternoon. …

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7. On conserving performance art: A response to “Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care — # 1. Mapping the Field” (May 29 – 30, 2021 online colloquium)

I recently attended a free conference (hosted on Zoom and livestreamed on YouTube) examining the conservation of performance works. “Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care — # 1. Mapping the Field” was addressed primarily toward the art conservation community, and expressly aimed at locating the discourse of conservation within a broader field of the …

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6. KinesTHESES: About the Title

The name of this curatorial project is a play on the term “kinestheses,” which comes from the phenomenologist philosopher Edmund Husserl. Husserl was deeply attuned to the close connection between life and movement. He described living beings first and foremost as animate organisms, and accorded a foundational importance for human consciousness in what he called …

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