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FADO Performance Art Centre is pleased to present an evening of new solo performance works from Alice De Visscher (Belgium) and Simlâ Civelek (Turkey/Toronto).
This event invites a local artist and an international artist to present new solo performance works created for the same space on the same evening. The artists and the audience come together to experience side by side the work of peers from different parts of the world. Each artist will present two short works in alternating sequence.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Alice De Visscher (b. 1979) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She has been working exclusively in performance since 2006 and has presented her work in Belgium, Germany, Austria, Singapore, Thailand, and Canada. De Visscher is interested in the image of her body, the structure of a space, and the properties of certain materials. In her work she is looking for unusual, quite minimal actions, which stimulate the interpretations made by the audience. She uses her body, objects and space intuitively to create images that challenge expectations, and open new meanings.
Simlâ Civelek (b. 1974) is a Toronto based performance artist. She creates performances that explore alienation, indulgence, memory, and examine time’s relativity to emotions. Using the pretext of theatricality, she aims to create a disguise in which representation and reality are juxtaposed and played off each other. Her work has been presented at the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C., and OPEN Performance Art Festival in Beijing, China among other venues.
ABOUT FADO
Established in 1993, FADO 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.
FADO Performance Art Centre presents
Simlâ Civelek (Turkey/Toronto)
Alice De Visscher (Belgium)
Wednesday March 6, 2013
The Theatre Centre Pop-Up
1095 Queen Street West, Toronto
8PM / $10 (suggested)
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Photo: Alice De Visscher. ©2013 Luis Alvarez.
2013-02-26
Toronto: FADO Performance Art Centre presents Simlâ Civelek and Alice De Visscher March 6