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MONOMYTHS Stage 12: Mistress of Two Worlds

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MONOMYTHS Stage 11: Refusal of the Return

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MONOMYTHS Stage 3: Meeting of the Mentor

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MONOMYTHS Stage 4: Crossing The Threshold

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MONOMYTHS Stage 6: Tests, Allies, Enemies

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MONOMYTHS Stage 2: Refusal of the Call

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Good Bodies with Cindy Baker

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Lost in Trans- by Dickie Beau

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x for staying here with us now by Sherri Hay

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What Tammy Needs To Know about Getting Old And Having Sex by Lois Weaver

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GOOD BUY! by Tanya Mars

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Ghost Days by Terrance Houle with Simla Civelek

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Legs, Too

Offered as an antidote to Toronto’s annual all-night “art thing” Nuit Blanche, LEGS, TOO is an all-day performance art relay. The form of the event is dictated by a chosen duration (in this case 8-hours), which is then divided equally by the number of performance artists from the local community who invited to participate.

We asked a staggering 116 artists to participate, and 53 decided to join in. For this second iteration of LEGS, TOO, audience will witness a continuous performance work made up of 53 eight-minute performances over the course of 8 hours.

Participating artists are suggested by other participating artists, snowballing a self-organizing event that is disinterested in traditional curation. Founded on a belief in community trust, performative dialogue and artistic self-determinancy, the resulting collective event lets participating artists be responsible not only for the continuous stream of idea- and image-making, but also for the realization of event itself. There is no staff, no coordinator, no stage manager, only artists working together. LEGS has legs. LEGS is a manifestation of the social and performing body through the collective network and expanded community.

The first iteration of LEGS was presented in our sister performance art network in Montréal on February 7, 2015, at Le Cercle Carré. The score and format of the event was initially imagined by an informal collective of artists (including Christian Bujold, Michelle Lacombe, Marie-Claude Gendron, Nadège Grebmeier Forget, Katherine-Josée Gervais and Jean-Philippe Luckurst-Cartier) and was created with the intention of activating and making-visible the often fragmented local performance art community.

(The score) LEGS,

is made by local artists (local/provincial) participating on a voluntary basis.
is not crafted by a singular artistic direction or selection method, and refuses all curating models (there is a lead organizer who acquires a space and starts the chain of invitations – this is the only entity-driven action).
is intergenerational, and the invitation is extended to performance artists at all stages of their careers. It does not however pretend or attempt to be an exhaustive representation of a community.
is a minimum of 7 hours and a maximum of 9 hours long; the durational for each work is decided by dividing the total chosen time with the number of participating artists in order to realize a continuous performance relay without pause. The order of the performances is arbitrary.
is not performed for the sake of the camera, but is photo documented and live streamed, if possible. Images will be collected by the transmitter, made available to participating artists, and published on a collective LEGS website, where the multiplying manifestations can co-exist.
is characterized by the fact that each participating artist is autonomous; there is no technical or material support. Artists are responsible for their own set up and clean up (which is part of their allotted time). No performance will be stopped but artists will begin at their scheduled time.
is not financed by any public program or entity and doesn’t generate monetary profit for the organizers or the participants.
asks, if desired, for a donation from attending audience who are free to come and go as they please; the collected donations compensate venue rental or documentation, if necessary, and the remainder is spent on refreshments for all.
can only be transmitted to/in another community by an individual (or a small group) who has participated in the directly previous edition, and the physical participation of these transmitters in the next event is preferred.
is shared through this score and set of principals across the performance art network
LEGS in Toronto is initiated by FADO Performance Art Centre. The custodians of this iteration are Shannon Cochrane and Adriana Disman. There will be two LEGS transmitters from the authoring collective/performers from the first iteration present in Toronto.

Audience is invited to come and go throughout the day. If you cannot make it, consider tuning in to the LIVE STREAM. Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ob2ZZYpUQ

ARTISTS (in order of appearance)
Nadège Grebneier Foget (transmitter from Montréal), Katherine-Josée Gervais (transmitter from Montréal), Tiffany Schofield, Adam Filek, Ed Johnson, Shaista Latif, Kate Barry, Emma-Kate Guimond, Katie Kehoe, Holly Timpener, Yan St Onge, Ellen Furey, Johannes Zits, Jonathan Simpson, Fiona Griffiths, lo bil, Anna Sarchami, Adam Herst, Lauren Scott, Eroca Nicols, Andrew James Paterson, Coman Poon, Alisha Mascarenhas, Brianna MacLellan, Alan Peng, Maggie Flynn, Dorothea Rust, Paul Couillard, Clayton Lee, Moynan King, Bojana Videkanic, Carrie Perreault, Johanna Householder, Christopher Willes, claude wittmann, Juliana Pivato, Liz Khan, Simon Rabyniuk, Robert Luzar, Marcin Kedzior, Golboo Amani, Liz Peterson, Aliya Pabani, Chad Dembski, Berenicci Hershorn, Teena Lange, Francesco Gagliardi, Zeesy Powers, Jessica Cimó, Alex Beriault, Rosa Mesa, Raki Malhotra, Tanya Mars, Adriana Disman, Shannon Cochrane

For an archive of the collected events in the LEGS series including the original event in Montréal, and subsequent events in Toronto and Zurich, visit the LEGS website.

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Performing the Critique with Dino Dinco

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Inconsolable Solvency with Bethany Ides

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The Long Table hosted by Lois Weaver

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Weather to Store by Kristina Guison

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International Visiting Artists: Marita Bullmann, Liina Kuittinen, Ignacio Perez Perez

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Christian Messier

Canada

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4U by Angelika Fojtuch

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single use salmon plogging by Ayumi Goto

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Vivência Poética | curated by Erika DeFreitas

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Artist Talks with Marita Bullmann & Ignacio Perez Perez

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Ruth Belinga, Michel Bitimbhe, John Court, Serge Olivier Fokoua

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Performance by Christian Messier

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Intimate Karaoke, Live at Uterine Concert Hall by Dayna McLeod

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Kitchen Dutch by Louise Liliefeldt

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Toronto Tableable by Artur Tajber

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How to explain performance art to my teenage daughter by Rachel Echenberg

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Cock & Bull by Nic Green

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Daydream in Toronto & Tube by Nezaket Ekici

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DOCUMENTS by Autumn Knight

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Phalogocentrix by David Khang

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ndn wars are alive, and…well? by Aiyyana Maracle

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In Search of Friedrich Nichtmargen by Vassya Vassileva

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Everyday life words in progress by Elvira Santamaria

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On the Table by Seiji Shimoda

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Every Rose Has a Thorn by BBB Johannes Deimling

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Visa Trauma (IV) by Gusztav Uto

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Walking Woman by Margaret Dragu

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Four Nature Studies by Boris Neislony

Working in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Toronto, FADO is pleased to present an artist talk and new performance work featuring Boris Nieslony, one of Germany’s foremost performance artists.

Boris Nieslony creates unpredictable and unrepeatable improvisational performance works that manifest “an encounter and its effects.” Responding to local circumstances, Nieslony develops images attuned to the moment, rigorously searching for the truth of self-recognition at the intersection of history and live presence. His impressive performance style stems from the motto “life is art enough.”

The decision on how a performance will transpire is mostly made when the artist is already on stage. Nieslony describes his process: “One small bag filled with helpful objects and photos will accompany me and I will attend them. Even people and certain materials from a given environment can appeal to me as support for my ideas.”

Boris Nieslony’s Canadian tour is a joint project of FADO (Toronto), grunt Gallery (Vancouver), and Open Space (Victoria).

Four Nature Studies by Boris Neislony
November 18, 2004 @ 8:00pm
Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Avenue, Toronto

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Wind From Sky & Best Place to Sleep by Sakiko Yamaoka

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Eyeblink: Fires with Myung-Sun Kim & Julieta Maria

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Open Surgery by Oreet Ashery & Svar Simpson

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Big Yawn by Yoshimichi Takei

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Pleasure Addicts by Brenda Goldstein

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Not Waterproof by Julie Andrée T

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Somewhere Between Wakefield and Wichita by Glyn Davies-Marshall

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International Visiting Artists: Carlos Pina & Maria Cosmes

Duty of Memory – Anamnesis by Carlos Pina

When We Were Weaving by Maria Cosmes

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Nonsense Group Photo of 111 Toronto Citizens by Yoshinori Niwa

A one-day performance workshop + performance experience

Nonsense Group Photo of 111 Toronto Citizens is a playful project in which the artist will gather 111 Torontonians for the sole purpose of taking a group photograph with a large format camera at a selected Toronto landmark or tourist location. Reminiscent of summer travels with family, this project is both a guerrilla intervention challenging the norms of “acceptable” behaviour on a public street corner and a hilarious group performance, documented in real time, elaborated by size and scale.

We need exactly 111 participants for this unique performative social experience. Bring your friends and families, everyone is welcome. Meet in the lobby of the 401 Richmond Street West building where we will organize ourselves, hear instructions from the artist, and venture out as a group to our photo location.

Nonsense Group Photo of 111 Toronto Citizens by Yoshinori Niwa
A one-day performance workshop + performance experience
July 17, 2009 @ 1:00pm–4:00pm
401 Richmond Street West, Toronto

This workshop is presented in conjunction with the The Arts of Togetherness exhibition
Gendai Gallery at the Japanese Cultural Centre
July 11–August 23, 2008
With artists Sandee Moore and Yoshinori Niwa
Guest curated by Milena Placentile

Thanks to community and presentation partners including the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Manitoba Arts Council, Tani Miki and The Japan-Canada Fund.

Engagement Pink

How artists speak about themselves publicly lives somewhere between fantasy, biography, and history. This fragrance is showy yet vulnerable; a new light illuminates the artist and their work. You get to decide what is fantasy, biography, or history.

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Middle Notes

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