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FADO Performance Art Centre is pleased to present New Maternalisms, curated by Natalie Loveless. Join us for a weekend long event with live performance, durational performance installation, performance made for video installations, artist and community talks, and the premiere appearance of The Milk Truck in Toronto! Visit The Milk Truck outside the gallery all weekend to find out more about how the public treats mealtime for our smallest citizens.
ARTISTS
Alejandra Herrera Silva (Chile/USA)
Alice De Visscher (Belgium)
Dillon Paul and Lindsey Wolkowicz (USA)
Gina Miller (Vancouver)
Hélène Matte (Montréal)
Jill Miller (USA)
Lenka Clayton (UK/USA)
Lovisa Johansson (Sweden)
Mark Cooley and Beth Hall (USA)
Masha Godovannaya (Russia/UK)
Marlène Renaud-B (Montréal)
Victoria Singh (New Zealand)
Forty years after feminist art first intervened in the sexual division of labour, what is the experience of the daughters of the 70s who are now mothers? How is this experience expressed in their artwork? And what is the relation between this artwork and the work done in the 70s? Curator Natalie Loveless invited a group of artist-mothers to produce a performance or video piece speaking to their experience as mother-artists today. These artists use performance to bring attention to the embodied, biological, and material enmeshment of early maternity. Grounded in a “return to the body,” they demonstrate a commitment to non-determinist modes of signification and analysis, opening up the affective, enmeshed, experiential flows of maternal experience in ways that invite us to ask questions about maternal invisibilities and the power and challenge of the maternal to the professional body of the artist.
FADO Performance Art Centre presents
NEW MATERNALISMS
Curated by Natalie Loveless
DATE: March 23-25, 2012 (various events throughout the weekend, see schedule)
LOCATION: 1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto (Mercer Union Gallery)
ADMISSION: $12 event pass (some events FREE)
SCHEDULE
Mama-writer-in-residence, Toronto’s own Christine Pountney will be live blogging in real time throughout the event at newmaternalisms.wordpress.com
Friday March 23, 7-10pm
Durational performances by Lenka Clayton, Jill Miller, Alejandra Herrera Silva, and Lovisa Johansson; and performance-based videos installed throughout the gallery.
Saturday March 24, 1-4pm (FREE):
Round-Table Discussion with Artists
Saturday March 24, 7-10pm
Durational performance by Lenka Clayton and Jill Miller, and live performances by Lovisa Johansson, Hélène Matte, Marlène Renaud-B; and performance-based videos installed throughout the gallery.
Sunday March 25, 1-4pm (FREE):
Mamactivism Talk: Join Jill Miller for a performative talk and collective performance action. Learn about the history of The Milk Truck and its relationship to contemporary and historical feminist art practice. For the Milk Truck’s Toronto debut, artist Jill Miller solicited stories from mothers who have nursed their children in public – the heartwarming experiences and the tales better left untold. Visit The Milk Truck outside the gallery all weekend to find out more about how the public treats mealtime for our smallest citizens.
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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 endeavours.
2012-03-14
Toronto: FADO Performance Art Centre presents “New Maternalisms” March 23-25