fado performance

TallBlondLadies Potential Fertility Rite

Today at 11:45am

Monday, October 26, 2009
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM

FADO Performance Art Centre presents
TallBlondLadies
Potential Fertility Rite

Monday October 26, 2009
5PM - 10PM
FREE

Hosted by YYZ Artists Outlet
140-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto

Two nearly identical tall blonde women, wearing white folklore blouses, grey leather short and white moon boots strapped into traditional wooden snowshoes manipulate large red exercise balls, enacting a traditional invocation rite by utilizing non-traditional gesture, action and costume. In this 5-hour performance movement, TallBlondLadies repeat a ritualized synchronized dance using modern day props, in time to the sound of snowshoes. Established in 2003, TallBlondLadies is a collaborative performance project between Anna Berndtson (Sweden) and Irina Runge (Germany).

"TBL inverts female stereotypes through the composition of absurd and unexpected performative gestures, often incorporating a range of accoutrement from high-end fashion to sports gear. Their works present diametrically opposed concepts; beauty and grace are juxtaposed and diminished through brute action and athleticism, tacitly disrupting and challenging gender-based categorizations." Artists Space, New York, 2007

FADO is pleased to present TallBlondLadies in association with Hysteria Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. For more information about Hysteria Festival, go to: www.artsexy.ca

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Established in 2003, TallBlondLadies is a collaborative performance project between Anna Berndtson (Sweden) and Irina Runge (Germany).

"TBL inverts female stereotypes through the composition of absurd and unexpected performative gestures, often incorporating a range of accoutrement from high-end fashion to sports gear. Their works present diametrically opposed concepts; beauty and grace are juxtaposed and diminished through brute action and athleticism, tacitly disrupting and challenging gender-based categorizations.� Artists Space, New York, 2007

About FADO
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Inc. (Performance Art Centre) is a not-for-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO exists to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art. Currently, we are the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. We present the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and new perspectives. Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their on-going support of our endeavors.

For more information about the artists and FADO
www.performanceart.ca

XSPACE: call for submission

To Whom it May Concern:

XPACE Cultural Centre and the Images Festival are co-presenting a new media student group exhibition for the upcoming Images Festival (April 1 – 10, 2009) and we are seeking proposals from local undergraduate new media students.

Now in its second year, this collaboration is hoping to expand on the success of last years Inner and Outer Spaces. This energetic exhibition featured work from students at York University, the Ontario College of Art and Design, and the University of Toronto.

XPACE and Images are seeking challenging and refreshing new media installations. Our goal is to combine work from OCAD, the U of T campuses, Ryerson and York for an exciting counterpart to the annual S is for Student screening, one of the Images Festival favourites. This is an excellent opportunity for students to exhibit their work at a supportive, professional space with internationally renowned festival exposure.

On behalf of XPACE, I would be delighted to answer any questions about this project and encourage you to contact me. Please feel free to forward this call for proposals to interested parties – attached is the application form. All proposals must be received by November 13^th, 2009; note that only hardcopy proposals will be considered. Class talks regarding this project and about XPACE Cultural Centre can also be arranged.

Thank you and warmest regards,
Matthew Williamson
Programmer
XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington Ave.
xpace.info

short film screening

Interested in watching some short amateur student films? What about
free food to compliment your eyes? And maybe a little bit of alcohol
as well?

Then come out to the Hart House Film Board: Student Film Screening on
Wednesday, Nov. 11th at 7pm.

We will be showcasing various short films from your very own amateur
filmmakers at UofT as part of the Hart House Film Board.

If you would like to submit a short film for the screening send an email to
Sve Pavic @ svebor.pavic@utoronto.ca. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 6th.

Hope to see all you cinephiles there and in the meantime enjoy the
posters created by Kate McEdwards!

**THE HUB = the Hart House main desk!!!
*** Deadline for submissions has been changed to Nov. 2nd!
***** And as you see the location has changed from the music room to
the East Common Room :)

call for submissions

Call for Submissions - Is Your Love Supernatural?

Do you have an erotic palette for a ghostly encounter?

Dance with the spirits of another world; paint the pain and climax of the unknown on your canvas.

Is your love supernatural?

Be a part of the Gallery 1313’s First Ever Fundraiser, in partnership with IN MY BED Magazine’s seventh issue in exploration of Sex and the Paranormal/Supernatural.

Gallery 1313 and IN MY BED Magazine invite writers and performance artists to submit poems, short prose, and performance art proposals to be a part of our sexy and supernatural evening. Your submission should not exceed 15 minutes for spoken word or performance art. All work should be focused on the theme of sex and the paranormal or supernatural.

Be part of the Live Issue performance of the Magazine.

“Is Your Love Supernatural?” will take place on Friday, November 13, 2009 in the evening at Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen Street West.

The deadline for submissions extended to Wednesday, October 21, 2009.

Please email your digital submissions to mybed@inmybedmagazine.com or drop a CD of your proposed work off at Gallery 1313 attention: Is Your Love Supernatural?

You can find IN MY BED Magazine at http://www.inmybedmagazine.com

Gallery 1313 is an artist run centre and registered charity located at 1313 Queen Street West, Toronto (Between Dufferin and Lansdowne streets) and is open Wednesday to Sunday 1-6 pm.

exhibition: vtape

ALI KAZIMI
JOHN GREYSON
RICHARD FUNG

"REX vs SINGH"
(2009, 30:00)

October 10 - November 14, 2009
Opening Saturday, October 10, 11am - 1pm
* NOTE EARLY START*

Video Vox: a conversation with the artists, Ali Kazimi, John Greyson and Richard Fung
Saturday, October 10, 2009, 11:30
* a light lunch will be served*

video still, Rex vs. Singh, 2009

Vtape is honoured to present this highly innovative docu-witness project to the audiences of Toronto. Rex vs. Singh is the work of three of Toronto's - and Canada's - finest film and videomakers. It is Rashomon-esque in its structure (but funnier and more serious all at once). Each of the three artists uses his own visual vocabulary to open out this (relatively) small but (deeply) revealing record of Canadian intolerance, allowing it to bleed through the veneer of history as it has sedimented into the Canadian canon of self-definition.

The story: In 1915, two Sikh mill workers, Dalip Singh and Naina Singh, were entrapped by undercover police in Vancouver and accused of sodomy. Their trial occurs one year after the infamous Komagata Maru ship, carrying immigrant passengers from British India, was stranded at the Vancouver harbour.

Kazimi, Greyson and Fung each approach the story from a unique perspective: one employs the language of straight-forward documentary, another evokes the court transcripts themselves and (inevitably) Greyson conjures "the musical" opportunity - all in the service of this here-to-fore hidden corner of Canadian history. Rex vs. Singh is a marvel of story-telling, allowing the viewer to continually weigh and evaluate - and then re-evaluate - the information provided by the artists. Delicious in its execution, the legalese becomes the vehicle and then becomes the roadblock through which we must pick our way, seekers of the truth - or at least a version of it.

Rex vs. Singh is presented by Vtape with the participation of the Reel Asian Film Festival. It will also be playing in Reel Asian’s Canadian shorts presentation Sense of Wonder on Friday, November 13, 6:15 pm at Innis Town Hall.

Ali Kazimi is one Canada’s leading documentary filmmakers. winner of the Donald Brittain Award/ the Gemini Award for Best Social/Political documentary for Runaway Grooms ('05). His films have received two Genie Award nominations Narmada; A Valley Rises ( '94), Shooting Indians ('97) and a Gemini nomination for Some Kind of Arrangement ('97). Kazimi's films have received over thirty national and international honours and awards, been screened in dozens of festivals and broadcast on many networks including the CBC, TVOntario, PBS (US) and Channel 4 (UK). His work has been honoured with four retrospectives - Images Festival, ('98), Pacific Film Archives/Berkeley Art Museum ('06), Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary & Short Films ('09) and the VIBGYOR International Film Festival, Kerala, India. Born and raised in India, Kazimi graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University with a B.Sc. in 1982. He graduated in film production from York University, in 1988. He has guest-lectured nationally and internationally; taught at OCAD and joined the full-time faculty at York University in 2006.

John Greyson is a Toronto film/video artist whose shorts, features and installations include: Fig Trees (2003, Oakville Art Galleries); Proteus (Best Actor, Sithenghi 2003); The Law of Enclosures (2000, Best Actor Genie); Lilies (1996 - Best Film Genie, Best Film at festivals in Montreal, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, San Francisco); Un©ut (1997, Honourable Mention, Berlin Film Festival); Zero Patience (1993 - Best Canadian Film, Sudbury Film Festival); The Making of Monsters (1991 - Best Canadian Short, Toronto Film Festival, Best Short Film Teddy - Berlin Film Festival); and Urinal (1988 - Best Feature Teddy, Berlin Film Festival). He co-edited Queer Looks, a critical anthology on gay/lesbian film & video (Routledge, 1993), is the author of Urinal and Other Stories (Power Plant/Art Metropole, 1993), and has published essays and artists pieces in Alphabet City, Public, FUSE, and twelve critical anthologies. An assistant professor in film production at York University, he was awarded the Toronto Arts Award for Film/Video, 2000, and the Bell Canada Video Art Award in 2007. Greyson currently teaches at York University.

Richard Fung is a Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist and cultural critic. His single-channel tapes and installations, which include My Mother’s Place (1990), Sea in the Blood (2000) and Uncomfortable: The Art of Christopher Cozier (2005), have been widely screened and collected internationally, and have been broadcast in Canada and the United States. He is the co-author with Monika Kin Gagnon of 13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics (Montreal: Artexte, 2002), and his essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Fung was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University and has received the Bell Canada Award for Video Art and the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art among other honours. He is an associate professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. In 2009 he was visiting professor at the James Beveridge Media Resource Centre, Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi.

Please contact Erik Martinson at Vtape to book class visits to view any Vtape Video Gallery program as well as other titles in the Vtape holdings and to have an orientation to Vtape and all the extensive research facilities available to students, curators, writers and the general public.

Vtape
401 Richmond St., #452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
416 351-1317
Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 12-4pm
For more information, contact info@vtape.org
www.vtape.org

call for submissions: video

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Video Art call for submissions
Gallery Lambton Video Art Screening Series, Sarnia, ON

Call for submissions to TWO specialized screenings.

“The Medium is the Message”
Screening Date - December 4th 2009
Trinity Lounge, Sarnia Ontario

If you are a video or film artist who's exploration of the medium is the main component, content, and context in your work… submit your video by November 13th, 2009, in DVD format, along with a curriculum vitae, an artist bio, a brief synopsis of the work and contact information to:

Video Art
Cameron Starr, Curatorial Assistant
Gallery Lambton
150 N. Christina Street, Sarnia, Ontario, N7T 7W5

All submissions will be considered. Submitted DVD's will not be returned. Do not send originals. Selected work will be screened at the First Friday after hours event held at the Trinity Lounge in Sarnia Ontario. (Note that the format of our screening does not suit work longer than 15 min)

For more information contact
Cameron Starr
cameron.starr@county-lambton.on.ca
519-336-8127


“A New Breed”
November 6th, 2009

Submissions of video work by Young Emerging Canadian Artists, who are currently enrolled in 3rd year studies or later, or have completed post secondary school with in the last 3 years.

Submit your video ASAP in DVD format, along with a curriculum vitae, an artist bio, a brief synopsis of the work and contact information to:

* due to time restraints feel free to contact us about alternate methods of submission.

Video Art
Cameron Starr, Curatorial Assistant
Gallery Lambton
150 N. Christina Street, Sarnia, Ontario, N7T 7W5

All submissions will be considered. Submitted DVD's will not be returned. Do not send originals. Selected work will be screened at the First Friday after hours event held at the Trinity Lounge in Sarnia Ontario. (Note that the format of our screening does not suit work longer than 15 min)

For more information contact
Cameron Starr
cameron.starr@county-lambton.on.ca

win stuff

Win Stuff from

HYSTERIA

North America’s largest multi-disciplinary festival of work by women

at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto

Festival Director Moynan King

October 22-31

ONE GRAND PRIZE

A pair of tickets to see Shawna Dempsey and TBL [TallBlondeLadies] on October 24

TWO RUNNERS-UP PRIZES

Single tickets to see Shawna Dempsey and TBL [TallBlondeLadies] on October 24

Enter below – contest closes October 16, 2009 at 11:59:59pm

Now in its fifth incarnation, HYSTERIA has become one of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s most eagerly anticipated events. Over a ten-day period Buddies plays host to rapid-fire succession of events ranging from a visual art display and performance installations to eclectic lineups featuring dance, film, music, spoken word and theatre performances. This year’s line-up includes performances by TBL [Tall BlondeLadies] from Sweden and Germany, Canadian performance art and video icon, Shawna Dempsey from Winnipeg, American spoken word superstar Staceyann Chin and Drag legend milDRED just to name a few. Local legends share the stage with artists from across the continent as we offer up two riotous cabaret evenings Mass Hysteria and The Invert Parade. A limited number of festival passes are available for only $50. Call the box office or visit us online for details

PRIZE INFORMATION:
HYSTERIA FESTIVAL - SATURDAY OCTOBER 24
featuring Shawna Dempsey (Winnipeg) and Tall Blonde Ladies (Sweden & Germany)
Evening Pass $15

Shawna Dempsey (Winnipeg)
8pm, The Cabaret
Shawna Dempsey discusses lezzie, feminist performance and video art, drawing upon examples from her 20-year collaboration with Lorri Millan. This Winnipeg-based duo has created uppity artworks such as "We're Talking Vulva", "A Day in The Life of A Bull-Dyke", "Lesbian National Parks and Services" and "Consideration Liberation Army". Shawna will be interspersing her talk and screening with live performance, reflecting Dempsey and Millan's own particular flavour of queer fun and funny Canadiana.

TBL [TallBlondeLadies] (Sweden & Germany)
9pm, The Chamber
Presented in association with FADO Performance Art Centre
A collaborative performance project between Anna Berndtson and Irina Runge. TBL inverts female stereotypes through the composition of absurd and unexpected performative gestures, incorporating a range of accoutrement from high-end fashion to sports gear. Their works present diametrically opposed concepts; beauty and grace are juxtaposed and diminished through brute action and athleticism, tacitly disrupting and challenging gender-based categorizations.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre | 12 Alexander Street, Toronto
Box Office 416-975-8555 | artsexy.ca | follow us: yyzbuddies.blogspot.com

CONTEST PRESENTERS: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Akimbo
Contest runs: from October 6 - 16, 2009
Contest Prizes: One Grand Prize and Two Runners-up Prizes
Contest Close Date: October 16, 2009 at 11:59:59 pm
Contest Draw Date: October 17

Will be Contacted: within two business days of draw date

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