Pousse-Café. Translating literally from the French, you get ‘push-coffee’ — after dinner, post dessert, beyond the beyond. The term refers to a combination of liqueurs of different specific gravities, layered in a glass to produce a rainbow effect. Amazing to look at, but the real trip is drinking it… This heady folie hints at what …
(in which both colours will be present) The venue Performances for an Orange and Violet Room (in which both colours will be present) came about in part because of my interest in how colour affects people within their environment both physically and spiritually. The choice of the colours was made in terms of their contradictory …
Two Evenings of International Performance Video Art (3 programs) Presented by Pleasure Domein conjunction with the 2nd 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art Performance to Camera: Recent British Video, Part IIThursday November 5 8 pmCineCycle, 129 Spadina AveCurated by Catherine ELWES The direct address to the viewer and the intimate space of the video image …
The main intent here is to create an audience participatory event, where the viewer is involved in the work and the space so much so that they are no loner passive but become active participants in the event. To expand the scope of what is thought of as ‘performance art’ by exposing it to, and …
This program focuses on content-driven work that deals with contemporary social, political and ethical issues. We are well aware of the challenging and often loaded dialogue in art and criticism on issues such as neocolonialism, cultural appropriation, equality of representation, and unstable, pluralistic notions of identity. This is a confusing, dangerous terrain that has revealed …
Field Trips offers works that poetically slip themselves into the cityscape to blur the conventional distinction between beholder and beheld, creator and created. The clever beauty of these works is their ability to blend into the eye and mind of a public audience without forcing the viewers into the role of unwilling participants or antagonists …
Consuming is an integral part of sustaining life. What and how we eat reflects who we are. The body is an engine that is fueled by nutrients, the essential sustenance of the living organism. It is a primary need but it has come to represent much more than preservation. Eating intersects with religious beliefs, cultural …
Interventionism examines the ways in which performance has entered uninvited the realms of politics and the social. The panel brings together a number of artists who have produced work which has commandeered public space and discourse to a variety of ends. @ A Space Gallery, 401 Richmond St W Sunday August 23 2 pm A …
By Paul Couillard 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art August 7 – 11, 1997 In 1997, after the first 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, I wrote an article for FUSE magazine about the the festival. Part of it was published as a general report on the festival itself with statistical information about the various …
Toronto is located on the shores of Lake Ontario, inhabiting landscape that was once lake, marshlands and swamp. The southern downtown, built on landfill, exists where once were wetlands, an aquatic filter for the watershed. We have filled and covered and erased the paths of water as it runs from the highlands to the lowlands, …