1. KinesTHESES Project Background: Introducing the Digital Toolkit Idea

By Paul Couillard KinesTHESES was developed and organized by me (Paul Couillard) under the auspices of the Toronto Performance Art Collective (TPAC) as an “off-year” project.[1] KinesTHESES features 10 artists, who were invited to develop works that would engage an audience of participants and witnesses not simply as eyes and ears but as tactile-kinesthetic creatures: …

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water action

Thursday September 5 1 pm – 4 pmTuesday September 10 11 am – 5 pmdowntown Toronto KinesTHESES artists in residence Robin Poitras and Louise Liliefeldt develop an artistic dialogue while walking the streets of Toronto together, from St Clair Avenue West to Union Station. In lieu of a public artist talk, the two roam Toronto’s …

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Body Atlas

Saturday August 24 2 pmBachir/Yerex Presentation Space @ 401 Commons, 401 Richmond Street West, 4th floor&  live-streamedFREE Join ‘Dr. Margaret’ [Dragu] and ‘Dr. Fiona’ [Griffiths] for a walk and talk and do performative lecture. Medicine meets Pee-wee Herman in this informal investigation of Griffiths’ and Dragu’s medical and artistic practices, explored through the lens of …

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Step 2

A hand holds up an orange ball with the words 'Step 2' printed on it.

Wednesday August 14 noon – 3 pmKensington Market Come find KinesTHESES artists in residence Stephanie Marshall and Sakiko Yamaoka as they engage in a kinesthetic dialogue together. In lieu of an artist talk, the two will communicate with each other and a local public of passersby through a series of spontaneous street actions. Stephanie Marshall …

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Verb Frau TV Season 7 now online

In 2016, we invited Vancouver-based artist Margaret Dragu to create a daily livestream during the 11th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, which resulted in the production of VERB FRAU TV Season 5: 7a*11d. She loved it so much, she decided to return for our 2018 edition to interview a number of our visiting artists …

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Tender considerations

Louise Liliefeldt performing at the Theatre Centre

By Geneviève Wallen • Januray 14 2019. •

As a writer commissioned to report on this year’s 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, this was the first time I had attended the entire festival. My focus as a curator and the circles that I navigate are mainly rooted in the visual arts, and my experience of the works is informed by my education and positionality as a cis straight Black woman, able bodied, Francophone, and a settler on this land. My curatorial practice focuses on the manifestation of healing spaces in the arts, as well as the ways in which art can galvanize communities to co-create pockets of collective care.

RE:FRAMING

Elvira Santamaría performing Salt Cartographies at Sur Gallery

By Francesco Gagliardi Over the last 21 years and 12 festivals, 7a*11d, Toronto’s International Festival of Performance Art, has presented performances in the streets, in galleries and storefronts, in repurposed schools and converted industrial spaces. This year the festival was housed for the first time in a theatre: the handsome new Theatre Centre multifunctional building …

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