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FADO Performance Art Centre presents The Gift by Lee Hassall
March 14-16, 2012
Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West
March 14: performance installation in progress 6-8PM (FREE)
March 15: gallery open at 7PM / performance at 8PM ($10 / PWYC)
March 16: Artist talk, 1-3PM (FREE)
Is art torn between the commodity and the gift, the supermarket and the church?
Lee Hassall will use Toronto Free Gallery as a repository and home base from which to engage with the surrounding neighbourhood on a daily basis, gathering impressions via exchanges with objects, paraphernalia and people, culminating in a final performance action. On March 14th and 15th, audience is invited to the gallery from 6-8PM to donate a gift for the artist, and to witness the growing installation. Donated items or materials may be altered, deconstructed, disappeared or hybridized. All gifts will be considered and engaged with, and will become a part of the final public performance on March 16th.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lee Hassall (UK) considers himself a sculptor who makes performances. He is interested in manual labour, parody, self-satire and questioning notions of the sanctified space. Hassall is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester and is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Aberystwyth. His installation, film and performance work has been showing nationally and internationally.
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.
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Contact: Shannon Cochrane, Director
2012-02-29
Toronto: FADO Performance Arts Centre presents “The Gift” by Lee Hassall March 16