Performances
In addition to presenting performances by a number of international participants at the conference as part of our shift program (all shifts are highlighted in the conference schedule), we look forward to offering PSi 16 participants opportunities to engage with performance works by Canadian artists and/or curated by Toronto art groups. These performances will be produced in partnership with FADO, Toronto’s non-profit artist-run centre for performance art, and Buddies in Bad Times, a venue with a strong history of investment in queer and community-based performance.
Lesbian National Parks & Services Wants You!
When: Wednesday, June 9, 18:00-19:00
Where: Ontario College of Art and Design Auditorium, Room 190
The public will thrill to tales of first-hand lesbian adventures from around the world! The intrepid Rangers have temporarily set aside their fieldwork to present a scintillating slide and video presentation about the LNPS three-pronged approach of research, education, and the importance of swelling the ranks. Do not miss this opportunity to satisfy your curiosity and Ask-A-Ranger! Learn about the ins and outs of the Force! Admire the uniforms! Driven by a deep-seated concern for the lesbian ecosystem, the Lesbian Rangers will open your eyes to lesbian flora and fauna, and recruit, recruit, recruit.
The Lesbian Rangers have conducted tours-of-duty and made educational forays from Halifax to Vancouver, as well as Germany, Australia and the US of A.
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Performance Showcase at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
(tickets are now available for purchase on the PSi 16 online registration system)
PSi 16 brings you two nights of experimental performance by some of Canada’s most exciting artists at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Tickets for these performances are available for purchase through the PSi 16 online registration system until May 31, 2010. Please note that tickets for the Buddies showcase performances are limited and will sell out quickly, so we recommend that you purchase your tickets early! (** Tickets will also be available at the info desk at the conference.)
Thursday, June 10, 2010 Evening, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Tallulah’s Cabaret
A cabaret extravaganza featuring performance pieces by the Sasha Van Bon Bon and Kitty Neptune (of the Scandelles), Ryan G. Hinds, John Greyson, Fluffy Souffle and Fay Slift, Waawaate Fobister, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Jess Dobkin and Lex Vaughn.
Friday, June 11, 2010 Evening, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Tallulah’s Cabaret
A double-bill with two of Toronto’s most celebrated performance artists. The two performances will be followed by The Keith Cole Experience, Buddies’ monthly variety show.
After sixty cosmetic surgeries and procedures to remake her body, Nina Arsenault considers herself a queer artist and a queer art object. Her metamorphosis from an awkward man – who once resembled character actor Crispin Glover (Marty McFly’s dad in Back to the Future) – into a silicone bombshell has been the subject of numerous television programs, radio interviews, and print articles. http://ninaarsenault.com
music by prymtym, dubnotic sound system featuring d’bi.young and prymtym‘she’ is the first play in a new trilogy of biomyth-monodramas by d’bi.young entitled she raw now. a young black womban snew is enchanted with a pop icon. as her enchantment becomes obsession, what’s real is make-believe and lines of fantasy and reality are possibly permanently blurred. www.dbiyoung.net
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The History of Performance Art in 20 Minutes
When: Thursday, June 10, 19:30
Where: Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Avenue
by Guillaume Désanges
(a performance-lecture)
Presented by FADO with Gallery TPW
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Critical Run Toronto – IS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TOO CIVIL?
When: Friday, June 11, 8:30-9:00
Where: Main entrance of OCAD, 100 McCaul St.
Critical Run is a format for criticism – a stimulating, debating, and sweating format. Critical Run is a run where one debates while running. Critical Run is mostly artists and critics, mostly wearing black, running and debating (Critical Run is not just for runners). Critical Run is an embodied metaphor. It’s what we feel we should do in a world at the edge of an abyss but it’s not a run away. Critical Run is a run for solutions.
The theme of the Toronto Critical Run is The Civic and the Civil. When we talk about “civic engagement,” what is implied? Is civic engagement too civil? Doesn’t civic engagement implicitly support the very structures and practices we must interrogate to imagine possible worlds and foster counter-publics? To what extent are the interruptions, disturbances and uncivil behaviors of artists essential to fostering such spaces?
CRITICAL RUN is a debate format by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel (http://www.emergencyrooms.org/criticalrun.html)
CRITICAL RUN TORONTO is initiated by Kate Eichhorn
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FADO Performance Art Centre presents Feast or Famine, a new work by Lori Blondeau
When: Friday, June 11, 16:00-18:00
Where: Butterfield Park (outside under the “tabletop”), OCAD, 100 McCaul Street
Lori Blondeau is a Saskatoon–based performance artist, curator, and director of the innovative aboriginal arts organization, TRIBE. In her work, Blondeau examines the influence of popular media and culture on aboriginal self–identity through the creation of irreverent personas such as COSMOSQUAW and Belle Sauvage.
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The Little Embers, My Life is a Secret
When: June 12th, 20:00
Where: Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, The Studio (Nathan Cohen) Theatre, 165 Front St. E. at Front and Sherbourne
Admission: $15 at the door
My Life is a Secret is an emerging play based on stories in the Little Embers lives. Some of them are stories they’ve heard, some are stories they’ve lived, and others are stories that have been made up about them, like gossip, derogatory or exaggerated narratives. The specifics of the characters and their stories are fictional, but based on the real stories in these youths lives. The play follows five Youth and a Dreaming Spirit, as they explore major challenges in their lives using the wisdom of the 7 Grand-father Teachings. Like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, this play is emerging, the actors are emerging, and the characters are emerging with the help of tradition, story, song, and dance. The show is a collaboration with the De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group. The Little Embers are: Tasunka McDonald; Jessie Farr, Keesha Abotossaway, Stephanie Blaker, Ty Farr, Brandi Farr, James Farr, Myranda Spence, Robert Zydecko Keesickquayash, Winterhawk Nahwegahbow, Sage Nahwegahbow. Directed by Andrea Brassard
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Live Tweeting and Blogging
Angel Viator Smith will be live blogging (via PerformanceStudies.Org) and live tweeting (via http://twitter.com/psdotorg) from PSi 16. All attendees, and especially anyone who cannot make the conference, are invited to follow psdotorg on Twitter (http://twitter.com/psdotorg), visit PerformanceStudies.Org, or subscribe to its RSS feed using your favorite feed reader (simply click the orange square in your address bar). She will set part of her conference schedule based on input received from followers and readers, so don’t wait for the conference to start interacting with her—and with each other! Anyone who is interested can submit blog posts/responses/reviews/etc. of PSi16 events (everything from performances and paper presentations to conversations among colleagues and personal observations). You can do so directly from the website or feel free to email her directly at performancestudies gmail com.