Archive for the ‘Performance Art’ Category
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Fuck Irony
Text, collage, photography, and collaboration celebrating mimesis over a period of thirty days in 2011. Works include poetry, visual art, and documentation of public performance/ happenings in Vancouver by multidisciplinary artist Karen Correia Da Silva. Fuck Irony ISBN: 978-0-9867777-7-6 Release Date: December 2011 SB Publications 30 copies
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Scream / Photos from the Mobile Street Mic
The last Scream in High Park is tonight, so make sure to head out! Here are a few few photos from SB’s Scream Literary Festival Mobile Street Mic, Variations on a Scream:
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ETM Symposium & Exhibition
This upcoming Monday, March 28th, I will be presenting my paper, “Telepresence, Phenomenology, and Performance: Paul Sermon’s Telematic Dreaming“ on the Modernity and Technology Panel at the Experience the Modern Symposium & Exhibition. Joining me on this panel will be Dr Robert Hemmings, Assistant Professor in Culture and the Arts and English Studies at Nipissing University; Patrick Nickleson, a Masters student in Musicology at ...
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Manifesto for Neo-Harmonic Performance
Nine months ago, I published a brief introduction to this work in Steel Bananas. This is the final manifesto, albeit part of a larger work. Manifesto for Neo-Harmonic Performance Part One of the Manifesto on Post-Millennium Humanism ISBN: 978-0-9867777-4-5 Release date: July/August 2011
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Modern Ruin
Winter again. Lamenting the mounds of halite seeping into the lake, negatively affecting ecosystems, pollution on top of pollution. The storm sewers feed directly into the lake. Toronto’s children will age beside a quickly congealing puddle of toxic sludge. Politicians build mock-lakes in their continuing attempts to rob nature of its dignity. Vive le progrès! The ducks are being replaced with ...
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Change Toronto: Two New Performances
Started earlier this year with the Police State performance art piece at Dundas Square – in response to what they witnessed during their participation in the G20 protests and rallies – the Change Toronto Performance Series by Starla Bontecou and The Gentleman presents two new happenings. M O D E R N R U I N December 13th at Toronto’s ...
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Stay quiet while I party
“POLICE STATE” Dundas Square | Monday June 28th, 2010 30 police officers attended this performance, searched our bags, and warned us about “anarchists” while telling us that they’d have to arrest us if we began to chant.
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Seepferdchen und Flugfische
I will be reading/performing sound poetry at the Thursday Night Rent Party this Thursday, June 24th at the Cameron House. Don’t miss out on a performance of Hugo Ball’s Seepferdchen und Flugfische, and a few other auditory curiosities. Also reading with me will be the incomparable N. Alexander Armstrong, along with comedy by Sunnie D’Souza and music by Hopeful Monster, ...
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Neo-Harmonics
Neo-Harmonics: Notes on the Body in Post-Millennium Performance Art A Manifesto by Starla Bontecou | Originally published in Steel Bananas 19 “The self-image of Modernity that is rooted in bodily experience cannot wholly be grasped in this current preoccupation with the emblematic character of the body as a kind of social advertisement. In fact, the quality of embodiment is almost ...
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What is post-millennium humanism?
“Our point of departure is, indeed, the subjectivity of the individual, and that for strictly philosophic reasons. It is not because we are bourgeois, but because we seek to base our teaching upon the truth, and not upon a collection of fine theories, full of hope but lacking real foundations. And at the point of departure there cannot be any ...
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Explorations of UBU
SPAY 101 // EXPLORATIONS OF UBU // Applied ‘Pataphysics: A Workshop in Anti-Structural Logic and the Proliferation of Hybrid-Imaginary Solutions I recently lectured at the University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC) on Applied ‘Pataphysics, applying post-structuralist theory to ‘pataphysical problem solving. The lecture was part of the Rochdale Exhibit, which was curated by Sunny Kerr in order to engage with ...
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APPLIED ‘PATAPHYSICS: ANTI-STRUCTURAL LOGIC AND THE PROLIFERATION OF HYBRID-IMAGINARY SOLUTIONS
I’ll be lecturing and leading an interactive workshop with SPAY on ‘Pataphysics this Tuesday at UTAC. Come out and participate in the madness! FART FOR ART’S ACHE!
