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FADO is a Toronto-based mobile artist-run centre singularly dedicated to the presentation of national and international performance artists. Join us on September 8th to experience new solo performance art works and an artist talk from two of Switzerland's most respected contemporary female performance artists.
FADO Performance Art Centre presents:
Claudia Bucher
Andrea Saemann
Performances:
Saturday September 8 // 8pm (PWYC)
WARC Gallery
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 122, Toronto
Artist talk:
Sunday September 9 // 2pm (FREE)
VMAC Gallery
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 445, Toronto
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Claudia Bucher (born 1971, lives in Lucerne) studied sculpture at the London Art School and Fine Arts at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. She works in various mediums including performance art, installation, drawing and printmaking. Claudia’s process is focused on site specificity, using the performance space to situate her body in space as sculpture, and an experiment in how an action changes the relationship between the body and the surrounding environment. What results is a portrait of moments of transition and transformation – when beauty becomes ugliness, clean becomes dirty, and gentleness turns into aggression.
Andrea Saemann (born 1962, lives in Basel) is an artist and curator whose work has included the realization of various artist initiatives and performance art platforms taking shape around Switzerland since 1997, including “Performance Saga” which aims to update the history of Performance Art and promote a dialogue between generations. As a project, “Performance Saga” includes performance pieces, events and the publication of video interviews by a roster of some of performance art’s most important female historical figures. In order to personally experience performance art history, Andrea’s work utilizes the “performance copy” – repeating aspects or entire performance works by other artists, constricting the artist’s field of action, and allowing for intense focus on even the smallest gesture.
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.
Photo: Claudia Bucher. ©2011 Rob Nienburg.
2012-08-29
Toronto: FADO Performance Art Centre presents Claudia Bucher and Andrea Saemann September 8