Tender considerations

40 minutes of reading
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.

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RE:FRAMING

18 minutes of reading
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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Performance Art Daily October 6, 2018: Thirza Jean Cuthand, Louise Liliefeldt, and Cindy Mochizuki in conversation with Paul Couillard

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Moderator Paul Couillard, Thirza Jean Cuthand, Cindy Mochizuki, and Louise Liliefeldt at the October 6, 2018 Performance Art Daily artist talk

Saturday October 6 NoonThirza Jean CUTHANDLouise LILIEFELDTCindy MOCHIZUKIModerator Paul COUILLARDA lively panel with three remarkable Canadian artists. Performance Art Daily 2018, 7a*11dOctober 6: Thirza Jean Cuthand, Louise Liliefeldt, and Cindy Mochizuki in conversation with Paul CouillardVIDEO: Alan Peng and Jeff Zhao

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Performance Art Daily October 4, 2018: Hank Bull, Reception of Electricity

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Hank Bull presenting his talk "Reception of Electricity" 7a*11d 2018

Thursday October 4 NoonHank BULLReception of ElectricityA chronicle of Hank Bull’s art partnership with Patrick Ready under the banner of HP, setting their exploits in the context of the history of electricity. Performance Art Daily 2018, 7a*11dOctober 4: Hank Bull, Reception of ElectricityVIDEO: Alan Peng and Jeff Zhao

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2018 Publications and Multiples Launch

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TouVA‘s The 7th Sense: Practicing Dialogues / Practicing Workshops / Practicing the Daily Performative / Practicing Performance Art book cover

Thursday October 4, 2018 5 pm – 7 pmThe Theatre Centre An event of the 12th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art Every festival, many of our participating artists arrive with a treasure trove of publications, multiples, and other items that come out of or are produced alongside their performance practice. These could be hot-off-the-press

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Residencies of Resistance; Or, Performatively Flexing for the ’Gram

9 minutes of reading

By Delilah Rosier Ever wake up, stay up, petrified by a good thread? Roll out and lol out to a bend in a trend? In a trance to a dance craze? Stuck in bed on the bad daze? https://www.instagram.com/p/BlRTn5NlP8h/?hl=en&taken-by=twosaskatoontrexs *deletes app* When asked to write about the 7a*md8 On-Line residency series, I thought about my

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In Memoriam: James Luna

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James Luna performing American Indian Study's at Workman Theatre

By Johanna Householder James Luna | February 9, 1950 – March 4, 2018 James Luna had a long and deep connection to Canada and he was a pivotal influence for many indigenous and settler artists, writers, thinkers and curators. His enormous legacy is evident—alive and well today in Toronto. We remember him as the Shameman

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