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19/10/2004

7a*11d Festival

Xpace, Toronto

5th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
October 20 - 31, 2004
Festival Headquarters: XPACE, 303 Augusta Ave.

Featuring live performances by: Joanne Bristol (Canada), Tania Bruguera (Cuba/USA), Compagnie PME (Canada), Mideo M. Cruz (Philippines), Erika DeFreitas (Toronto), Alexander Del Re (Chile), Esther Ferrer (Spain/France), Matt Hawthorn (UK), Helinä Hukkataival (Finland), kanarinka (USA), Maria Legault (Toronto), Glenda León (Cuba), Eric Létourneau (Canada), Cheryl l'Hirondelle (Canada), John Marriott (Toronto) Larua Nanni (Toronto), Tamara Paris + Matt Fontaine (USA), Pam Patterson (Toronto), Reverend Billy (USA), Mathew Sawyer (UK), Songs of the New Erotics (Toronto), and Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia/Germany)
and video performances by: i josé benin (Toronto), Desearch and Revelopment (Sweden), Jess Dobkin (Toronto), Lezli Rubin Kunda (Israel), Zarathustras Onkel (Germany), Lisa Patzer (US), Seaberg Acrobatic Poetry (US), Zon Sakai (Japan), Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia/Germany), tomoko takahashi (Japan), Stefanie Trojan (Germany/US), and Lori Weidenhammer & Donna Lewis (Canada)

TORONTO... We're baaaaack. Toronto's only international performance art festival opens on October 20 for 12 jam-packed days of progressive and provocative new performance works, interactive experiences, exhibitions, artist talks, panel discussions, our d2d (direct to documentation) video program, a publication launch and other surprise events. For our fifth full-scale festival -- still grassroots but more ambitious than ever -- we offer up a stellar list of live performances by established and emerging contemporary artists from the UK, Spain, Finland, Indonesia, the Philippines, Chile, Cuba, the USA and across Canada.

Produced by a not-for-profit collective of artists since 1997, 7a*11d's purpose is to offer a professional showcase for performance works that fall outside the traditional boundaries of established genres (theatre, dance, music etc.). We are dedicated to representing a wide range of work, and are committed to presenting both the breadth and depth of performance art as a genre.

Improvisors, peace-makers, trouble-takers, noise-makers, infiltrators, disseminators, cogitators ... and mess-makers ... will all be in evidence at this year's festival, from the thoughtful activism of Cheryl l"Hirondelle, Reverend Billy and Mideo M. Cruz to the wry humour of Joanne Bristol, John Marriott or Esther Ferrer. From the Toronto premiere of the world-touring Compagnie PME's "Unrehearsed Beauty" (directed by Toronto experimental theatre veteran Jacob Wren) to Tamara Paris and Matt Fontaine's durational mediation on "The Art of Sexual Home Improvement", from the intensity of Melati Suryodarmo's EXERGY -- butter dance to the surreal improvisations of Songs of the New Erotics, 7a*11d presents works that suggest the limitless possibilities of performance.

Admission: $3/night
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Wednesday, October 20

Time Zones Reception
Glenda León and Tania Bruguera (Cuba)
and curator Tagny Duff
public reception ( Fado Performance Inc. and OCAD artists' residency)
5pm, Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD)
100 McCaul St. Room 284

Beans, Bananas and Yams
curated by Dave Dyment .
exhibition co-presentation with YYZ Artists' Outlet
7 - 9pm, YYZ Artists' Outlet
401 Richmond St. W. Suite 140

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 1st of 11 instruction works.
7pm, InterAccess Media Arts Centre
401 Richmond St. W. Suite 444

Body as Site/Sight
Pam Patterson (Canada)
performance
8pm, A Space Gallery
401 Richmond St. W. Suite 110

Thursday, October 21

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 2nd of 11 instruction works.
offsite

"THE IMPROVISORS"
No. 16 XPACE
Songs of the New Erotics (Canada)
FinaleÅ 
Laura Nanni (Canada)
Standard III (in the Fado series FIVE HOLES: Listen! )
Eric Létourneau (Canada)
performances
8pm, XPACE

Friday, October 22

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 3rd of 11 instruction works.
offsite

awa ka-amaciwet piwapisko waciya / climbing the iron mountains
Cheryl l'Hirondelle (Canada)
offsite infiltration
call the festival hotline (416) 822-3219 for details

"BUTTER, POWDER & SUGAR"
EXERGY - butter dance
Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia/Germany)
Towards the Pure
Helinä Hukkataival (Finland)
Crumbs
Maria Legault (Canada)
performances
8pm, XPACE

Saturday, October 23

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 4th of 11 instruction works.
offsite

Untitled (Selected Hearing) (in the Fado series FIVE HOLES: Listen! )
Erika DeFreitas (Canada)
one-on-one listening performance -- reservation required
4 - 8:30pm, offsite
email or call (416) 822-3219 for an appointment

The Roll of the Artist
John Marriott (Canada)
offsite performance
call the festival hotline (416) 822-3219 for details

"THE PEACE MAKERS"
Performance Spaces for Domestic Animals
Joanne Bristol (Canada)
Haunt
Matt Hawthorn (UK)
From Otherness
Alexander Del Re (Chile)
performances
8pm, XPACE

Sunday, October 24

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 5th of 11 instruction works.
offsite

Untitled (Selected Hearing) (in the Fado series FIVE HOLES: Listen! )
Erika DeFreitas (Canada)
one-on-one listening performance -- reservation required
10am - 2pm, offsite
email or call (416) 822-3219 for an appointment

"THE TROUBLE TAKERS"
The Art of Sexual Home Improvement
Tamara Paris + Matt Fontaine (USA )
performance
2 - 7pm, XPACE

Monday, October 25

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 6th of 11 instruction works.
offsite

awa ka-amaciwet piwapisko waciya / climbing the iron mountains
Cheryl l'Hirondelle (Canada)
offsite infiltration
call the festival hotline (416) 822-3219 for details

Tuesday, October 26

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 7th of 11 instruction works.
offsite

"THE MOTIVATOR"
Reverend Billy (USA )
performance
8pm, XPACE

Wednesday, October 27

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 8th of 11 instruction works.
offsite

awa ka-amaciwet piwapisko waciya / climbing the iron mountains
Cheryl l'Hirondelle (Canada)
offsite infiltration
call the festival hotline (416) 822-3219 for details

Thursday, October 28

"THE NOISE MAKERS"
Mathew Sawyer (UK)
performance
8pm, XPACE
Unrehearsed Beauty / Le génie des autres
PME (Canada)
performance
9pm, XPACE

Friday, October 29

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 9th of 11 instruction works.
offsite

awa ka-amaciwet piwapisko waciya / climbing the iron mountains
Cheryl l'Hirondelle (Canada)
offsite infiltration
call the festival hotline (416) 822-3219 for details

Every Step is a Shape of Time
Glenda León (Cuba)
performance installation as part of a the Time Zones artists' residency
7pm, OCAD
100 McCaul St.

"THE DISSEMINATORS"
Esther Ferrer (Spain/France)
performance
8pm, XPACE
d2d.2 = Direct to Documentation II: Program One
video screening
9pm, XPACE
Unrehearsed Beauty / Le génie des autres
PME (Canada)
performance
9:30pm, XPACE

Saturday, October 30

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 10th of 11 instruction works.
offsite

"THE ACTIVATORS"
Lucrative Thirst
Mideo M. Cruz (Philippines)
performance
8pm, XPACE
d2d.2 = Direct to Documentation II: Program Two
video screening
9pm, XPACE
Unrehearsed Beauty / Le génie des autres
PME (Canada)
performance
9:30pm, XPACE

Sunday, October 31

kanarinka and ikatun (USA)
kanarinka and ikatun perform the 11th of 11 instruction works.
offsite
Take-Out / Prêt-À-Emporter : Performance Recipes for Public Space / Recettes de performance pour l'espace public
La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse publication launch
2pm, XPACE

"THE COGITATORS"
Infiltration
Mideo M. Cruz (Philippines), Esther Ferrer (Spain/France),
Glenda León (Cuba), Cheryl l'Hirondelle (Canada)
panel discussion
3pm, XPACE

d2d.2 = Direct to Documentation II
Sometimes we love the video document of a performance work, even though we can't bring the artist - so we created this program of video documentation. Some of these documents record fragments of longer pieces, some are works for the performer and camera alone, and this year two artists made work specifically for d2d. Assembled for 7a*11d by Rochelle Holt and Johanna Householder.

Works in each program selected from:
Face - i josé benin (Toronto)
Power to the Pilgrims - Desearch and Revelopment (Sweden)
Composite Body - Jess Dobkin (Toronto)
Walk to the Sea - Lezli Rubin Kunda (Israel)
Gerustbrauficken - Zarathustras Onkel (Germany)
The Lemonade Lady - Lisa Patzer (US)
Life is a Joke - Seaberg Acrobatic Poetry (US)
Heavy Duty - Zon Sakai (Japan)
Promise - Melati Suryodarmo (Germany/Indonesia)
untitled (ladder piece) - tomoko takahashi (Japan)
Die Tasche / The Bag - Stefanie Trojan (Germany/US)
Con Stars - Lori Weidenhammer & Donna Lewis (Vancouver)
Community Co-Presentations

OCAD and Fado Performance Inc. co-host an artist residency featuring Tania Bruguera and Glenda León (Cuba)
InterAccess Media Arts Centre co-sponsors an 11-day performance and web project by Kanarinka + ikatun (USA)
A Space presents a performance by Pam Patterson (Toronto)
Fado Performance Inc. presents performance maneuvers by Erika DeFreitas (Toronto), Eric Létourneau (Canada) and Jed Speare (USA)
University of Guelph and OCAD Stduent Union co-present Reverend Billy (USA)
Compagnie PME presents Unrehearsed Beauty (Canada)
Vtape co-sponsors d2d.2 = Direct to Documentation II
YYZ Artists' Outlet co-presents an exhibition of performance ephemera Relics: Beans, Bananas and Yams
La Centrale launches performance recipe publication Take Out/Prêt-À-Emporter

Visit our website - http://www.7a-11d.ca

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

Image: Joanne Bristol, The Peace Makers, Performance Spaces for Domestic Animals

All events at XPACE, 303 Augusta Avenue (Toronto)
unless otherwise noted
Festival hotline 416-822-3219 updated daily

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