August 18, 2005
FIVE HOLES:
A Matter of Taste
FIVE HOLES--curated by Paul Couillard--is an ongoing series examining the significance of the body and the senses. Fado invites artists to submit proposals for a matter of taste, the final installment in the FIVE HOLES series. We seek performance art works, including conceptual, site-responsive and installation-based performances, that deal with the sense of taste. Approximately seven proposals will be chosen to create a simultaneous ensemble of events to be held in the summer of 2006 in Toronto. The focus will be on Canadian artists (i.e. at least four of the projects will feature Canadian artists).
Taste is perhaps the most 'personal' of all the senses. It is both primal -- providing the impulses that drive consumption -- and individualized: one person's desire is another's poison. While the word 'taste' is often associated with the concept of aesthetic discernment, a matter of taste places its emphasis on a specific, visceral definition of taste: the perception of flavour (and perhaps texture) that takes place inside our mouths. This series will focus on projects that explore the implications of a sense that operates through the placement of foreign material inside one's body.
A matter of taste is not concerned with the familiar social terrain of banquets and dinner parties so much as the links between physical sensation, unconscious/conscious drives, and our mouths as a point of contact with the external world. How does one orchestrate a performance for another's mouth? What are the dynamics that seduce, persuade or convince others to put things in their mouths? What intentions are bound up in the impulse to stimulate one's taste buds? What does our sense of taste reveal about our internal desires and external projections?
TORONTO.... Fado Performance Inc. announces two calls for proposals for performance art projects.Fado is a non-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. Fado present an ongoing international programme of conceptual and site-specific performance art, and pays professional fees to the artists it presents.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline for submissions: August 26, 2005
Please include:
*1-page proposal
*c.v.
*documentation of previous work
[NTSC video in VHS, mini-DV or DVD format; Mac-readable CDs; URLs; and/or slides]
*e-mail submissions will not be accepted except with prior approval (no large digital files!)
*press material optional
*only submissions with self-addressed stamped envelope or funds to cover shipping and packaging costs will be returned
Send proposals to:
Fado
"FIVE HOLES proposal"
273B Carlton St.
Toronto, ON
Canada M5A 2L4
info: http://www.performanceart.ca or email info@performanceart.ca
Posted by jo at August 18, 2005 05:54 PM
