Since 2000, FADO has been celebrating Canada’s senior performance artists with this multi-faceted series. Featured artists are asked to create […]
Series
Canadian Performance Art Legends
Series
Performance Club
As a proposition for a performance or the framework for an actual book club, FADO’s Performance Club series redefines the historical and contemporary performance art canon, one book club, and one book, article, essay, anthology at a time.
Series
IDea
The concept of identity has been at the forefront of art discourse since the 1980s. Performance artists have been particularly concerned with how our various identities are constructed, how they mark us and how they influence self-understanding.
E-Bulletin
December 2021
E-Bulletin
November 2021
Tari Ito
1951–September 22, 2021
Series
Performance Resolution(s)
Performance Resolution(s) invited artists to propose performance-based research projects that engaged with the theme of ‘resolution.’ Our inspirations for Performance Resolution(s) are the hope for a better 2021 for all, and a profound performance exercise designed by Marilyn Arsem that we think about from time to time.
Performance
OPEN FIRE | FEU OUVERT by Marie-Claude Grendon
Well, our age is one of those fires whose unbearable burning will undoubtedly reduce many works to ashes! But for […]
Writing
La Dragu: The Living Art of Margaret Dragu
Published in 2002, this monograph includes articles by Glenn Alteen, Paul Couillard, Andy Fabo, Debbie
O’Rourke and Sarah Sheard; chronology by Brice Canyon; PLUS story & collages by Margaret Dragu.
Performance
Performance Home: An Archive by Louise Liliefeldt
Performing for the archive; the archive is a performance. For Louise Liliefeldt’s Performance Home project, over the course of fall/winter […]
Performance Yellow
This fragrance opens us to the question, has the show started? Its winter, the theatre is colder than the street and the room is filled with people and all their winter smells: wet faux leather, down, too much shampoo, and beer breath. The atmosphere is a trickster. Am I late, am I early?
Top Notes
yellow mandarin, mimosa
Middle Notes
honey, chamomile, salt
Base Notes
narcissus, guaiac wood, piss, beer