2002 Fado Performance Inc.’s Public Spaces/Private Places

iwan Wijono performing Body for Rent / Body for Auction at Art System and surrounding areas (Chinatown, Kensington Market)

Fado’s Public Spaces/Private Places is a three-year long international series exploring the elements that turn neutral ‘space’ into meaningful ‘place’ through performances that examine the degrees of intimacy, connection and interaction that mark the dividing line between public and private. The series explores the points where identity and geography intersect to generate meaning. A program …

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2001 ReciproCity/RéciproCité Toronto Round table discussion part 1

Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen Street WestSunday, November 04, 2001, 1 pm Artists will talk about their individual works as well as the process involved in making them, and consider questions of regional differences, the challenges of producing site-specific work, and the recent explosion of performance art activity across the country.

2001 ReciproCity/RéciproCité Toronto Round table discussion part 2

Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen Street WestSunday, November 04, 2001, 1 pm Artists will talk about their individual works as well as the process involved in making them, and consider questions of regional differences, the challenges of producing site-specific work, and the recent explosion of performance art activity across the country.

2000 Master Class 5

Jessica Lertvilai mirroring Clive Robertson, Master Class 5 at Latvian Hall

Master Class 5 features five performance artists participating in a unique form of collaboration. Master Class 5 will investigate the role of audience/participants in the live medium of performance/action, the performance cliche, and the living visual picture. Each artist is asked to choose and describe five objects/tools or concrete/tactile elements that are essential to the …

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2000 StrangeWays — Currents of The Fantastic in Contemporary Performance

Susanna Åkerlund of SU-EN Butoh Company (with music by SIX HEADS) performing Headless at Art System

StrangeWays is a project of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation and forms part of our ongoing research into the surreal, absurd, fantastic, and similar currents of contemporary art and culture. This live event will present the work of four contemporary performance artists, two from Canada and two from Europe, whose work demonstrates a fundamental …

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2000 Prognosis: James LUNA

James Luna performing American Indian Study's at Workman Theatre

Prognosis directs focus toward work that deals with contemporary social, political and ethical issues with a view to the future. We are particularly interested in exploring notions of the “cultural hybrid.” Living and working in a culturally rich community, we are aware of the challenging and sometimes loaded dialogue in art and criticism on issues …

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2000 Flicker, Skip, Moan …

Lisa Deanne Smith performing Sweet at Art System

Light, movement and sound are the focus of this series of installation-based performance works, with an emphasis on how these elements can be used in counterpoint or overlap to push the limits of their expressiveness outside traditional theatrical conventions. A program of the the 3rd 7a*11d International Festival of Performance ArtCurated by Churla BURLA and …

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