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11/7/2003

Pas de Traduction

FADO, Toronto

Toronto, Canada ... Fado is pleased to present PAS DE TRADUCTION, a series of street actions featuring Montreal- and Quebec-based performance artists. Curated by Eric Letourneau for Fado Performance Inc., the performances will take place in the Queen Street West and Alexandra Park area on Saturday, July 12 between noon and 5 pm. A program detailing the exact locations and nature of the performances will be available on the day of the event from weewerk Gallery, 620A Queen St. W. (within walking distance of all of the activities). On Sunday, July 13, the artists will present a round table discussion of the project at Metro Hall (meeting room 308), moderated by writers Sonia Pelletier and Johanna Householder.

PAS DE TRADUCTION is the first in a new series of events by Fado that examines the work of various Canadian performance art communities, defined culturally, regionally, ethnically, or aesthetically. This inaugural series focuses on Montreal. PAS DE TRADUCTION focuses on the ways interaction between performer and public can take place in site-specific contexts. The title ("no translation") refers light-heartedly to the traditional tensions between English and French Canada. More importantly, however, the title reflects how the practice of performance privileges direct action and shared presence as a way of expressing ideas and moments that are ephemeral and essentially untranslatable. PAS DE TRADUCTION dances among the ambiguities of what needs no translation, what cannot be translated, and what we refuse to translate, focusing on the interpretation process between artist, audience and location.

About the artists

Sylvette Babin
Originally from the Gaspé area of Quebec, Sylvette Babin lives and works in Montreal. Over the past decade, she has developed an interdisciplinary art practice in performance, installation and video. Her work has been presented in Quebec and several European countries. She is also a writer and has contributed to numerous publications, most notably ESSE arts + opinions, where she has worked as the Coordinator since 2000.

Constanza Camelo
Originally from Columbia, Constanza Camelo has lived and worked in Quebec City and Montreal since 1994. Her early performances examined the hybrid cultural identity of her native culture. More recently, she has turned her attention to notions of private and public space through street actions that inscribe a temporary, utopian territory over the existing landscape.

Sylvie Cotton
Sylvie Cotton is a 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.

Robert Jocelyn
Robert Jocelyn lives in Quebec City, where his solo and collaborative (with Diane Landry and Bruit TTV) art practice includes audio, installation, interactive machination, performance, typographical diversion, computer-aided epistles, and urban maneuvers. He is preoccupied with the notion of imprecision as quality, fascinated by blurry pianos, hollow nerves, packaged gods, and the ambiguity between work and context, music and noise, object and site.

Armand Vaillancourt
Armand Vaillancourt is best known as one of the towering figures in modern sculpture in Canada. He has created some 3,000 small-scale and monumental sculptures, including the famous fountain sculpture in Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco. In 1993, he received the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas. In addition to his sculptural projects, Vaillancourt is a Canadian pioneer in the field of art actions and performance maneuvers, creating various happenings in urban and rural environments since 1953.

Eric Letourneau
André-Eric Létourneau is an intermedia artist whose practice includes performance art, live electronic music and performative projects for radio and mass media. From 1999 to 2001 he worked for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), producing concerts, recordings and radio programs about new music, sound poetry, audio art and radio art. Eric Létourneau is a frequent contributor to publications and catalogues about performance art, and has written for Inter, Parallelogramme and ESSE. He currently teaches art history at Collège André-Grasset and works as an independent curator.

Queen St. W. & Alexandra Park: pick up map and program the day of the event from weewerk Gallery, 620A Queen St. W.
Round Table Discussion: July 13, 2003, 11 am - 2 pm
Meeting Room 308, Metro Hall, 55 John St.
All events Free

Fado Performance Inc
275B Carlton Street
Toronto
Tel. (416) 822-3219

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