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Sylvie Cotton
dal 18/2/2003 al 1/3/2003
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Paul Couillard


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Sylvie Cotton



 
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18/2/2003

Sylvie Cotton

Women's Art Resource Gallery - WARC, Toronto

Montreal-based artist Sylvie Cotton will undertake a residency project as part of Fado's ongoing Public Spaces/Private Places series. Promenades is a socio-artistic experiment featuring one-one meetings between the artist and selected participants. Participants will agree to spend between 3 - 8 hours with the artist, either in silence, or looking after the artist while she is temporarily blindfolded.


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PROMENADES
Interactive performance art actions

TORONTO, Canada ... From February 19 - March 1, Montreal-based artist Sylvie Cotton will undertake a residency project as part of Fado's ongoing PUBLIC SPACES/ PRIVATE PLACES series. PROMENADES is a socio-artistic experiment featuring one-one meetings between the artist and selected participants. Participants will agree to spend between 3 - 8 hours with the artist, either in silence, or looking after the artist while she is temporarily blindfolded. A call for participants is included below.

In addition to these intimate performance actions, Sylvie Cotton will join with Vancouver artist Kirsten Forkert for an artist talk on Wednesday, February 26 at the Women's Art Resource Centre. Come learn more about the social, political and philosophical underpinnings of these two artists' gentle, thoughtful and provocative public interventions.

Sylvie Cotton is a French Canadian multidisciplinary artist living and working in Montreal. She has studied literature, arts and museology. Her work, which includes installation/situation and performance, focuses on the relation between social and individual identities, and between public and private spheres. Her projects take place in the street or other public spaces, including galleries and festivals. Sylvie Cotton is also an author of narrative texts and critical articles. She has a column in ESSE Arts + Opinions, a Quebec art magazine.

PUBLIC SPACES/PRIVATE PLACES is a three-year long international performance art series featuring over 25 artists from Canada, the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The series explores the elements that turn neutral 'space' into meaningful 'place' through performances that examine the degrees of intimacy, connection and interaction that mark the dividing line between public and private. The series is particularly focused on performances created for intimate audiences. Some projects feature site-specific or installational environments that invite participants into a sensory or experiential journey. Others are process-oriented, involving public intervention, intimate gestures, or actions that may, by their nature, be nearly invisible. Above all, the series explores the points where identity and geography intersect to generate meaning.

Fado Performance Inc. is pleased to acknowledge the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their support of our ongoing activities.

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: PROMENADES

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE ART ACTION

SYLVIE COTTON, Art Action and Performance Artist, seeks participants to share with her (individually) in a day of either silence or blindness. Apart from maintaining a mutual respect for the moral and physical integrity of the other, each meeting will have only one condition: to be together in silence; or to be responsible for the temporarily blindfolded artist, or vice versa.

Each meeting will be unique. The activities that unfold will be decided in advance or as the day goes on according to an agreement reached by the artist and participant together in a preliminary telephone conversation. The project will be documented by drawings made by the artist after each meeting. An evening bringing together all the participants will take place at the end of the project so that they can exchange their impressions of this socio-artistic experience based on trust, instinct and intuition, a divergence form our normal methods of communication, and also on chance.

Proposed schedule: 3 - 8 consecutive hours per meeting
The project will take place in Toronto February 19 - March 1 as part of Fado's Public Spaces/Private Places series, curated by Paul Couillard.
For information or to register, contact Paul Couillard at (416) 822-3219 or via email.

Image: Sylvie Cotton at Exit 3.3.2001 (Photo: Sami Väätänen)

February 19 - March 1, 2003
PLUS: February 26, 2003, 8 pm
Artist Talk (with Kirsten Forkert)

"Art is the demonstrated wish and will to resolve conflict through action, be it spiritual, religious, political, personal, social or cultural." Alastair MacLennan

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