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SUMMARY:Live Performance: Adee Roberson and Rashid Zakat
DESCRIPTION:Live Performance\nAdee Roberson and Rashid Zakat \nFriday\, October 13th\, 2023\n6:00 pm\n401 Richmond\, Critical Distance\, Suite 122 \nAs part of the opening reception of this bridge between starshine and clay\,  artist Adee Roberson will present an activation and performance in the gallery at 6:00 pm\, where she will be channeling oceanic and cosmic sounds through synthesizer\, percussion and voice. \nAt 6:30 pm\, artist Rashid Zakat will perform in the Urbanspace Gallery just around the corner from the gallery. Using two turntables and a mixer\, Zakat live-edits an archive of personal and public films\, found footage and animation to produce a spontaneous and thoughtful audio-visual narrative. Part dance party\, part live video art performance\, Revival! is a celebration of the visual and sonic frequencies that are contained within and spill out of Black ecstatic experiences. These images and sounds marry and multiply to tell textured stories of African cultural retention\, the relationship between survival and faith\, and the collective creative strategies of adaptation\, joy\, and mutual aid embedded in Black life and history in the Americas. \nASL interpretation and a Deaf performance will feature alongside the Revival! performance from artist Rashid Zakat. \nThis is a free\, public event: everyone is invited. \n  \n\nPhoto: Rashid Zakat performing Revival! at Critical Distance. Photo: Ashman Deshmukh. \n 
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/live-performance-adee-roberson-and-rashid-zakat/
LOCATION:401 Richmond\, 401 Richmond St. West\, Toronto\, ON\, M5V3A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Adrià Julià: The Penitential Tyrant: Dolores Is Pain
DESCRIPTION:ADRIÀ JULIÀ\nThe Penitential Tyrant: Dolores Is Pain\nConceived by Adrià Julià\nWritten by Débora Antscherl and Adrià Julià\nPerformed by Stephen Park \nDate: September 16\, 7pm\nLocation: Art Gallery of Ontario – Jackman Hall\nFree Admission – Register here \nOffering a meditation on the history of production\, consumption and expansion of popcorn in modern colonial history\, The Penitential Tyrant: Dolores Is Pain reflects on the historical and socioeconomic intricacies of the global corn industry and its relationship to Mexican culture and the popularization of popcorn in the United States after the Great Depression\, especially in regards to popcorn’s connection to cinema. \nAdrià Julià’s film-performance The Penitential Tyrant: Dolores Is Pain is presented in conjunction with the AGO’s exhibition Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire. \nThis event will have live visual description available. You will require your own smartphone and headphones to access the description. Please email Emily Cook\, Education + Accessibility Programs Director\, at emily[at]criticaldistance.ca for more information and we will update this event page as more details become available. \nFor more information about visual description also known as Audio Description\, please visit this link. \nAlso on view on the Billboard at 180 Shaw Street throughout the month of September: A Very White Flower\, 2022 by Adrià Julià. \n\nThe Penitential Tyrant: Dolores Is Pain is presented as part of Place Settings\, a large-scale\, durational project that considers how food functions to connect and disrupt. Focusing specifically on the intersections of food\, public space\, and architecture\, Place Settings points to formal and informal structures that offer forms of nourishment\, be they physical\, emotional\, social\, or political. \nCurated by Noa Bronstein\, Place Settings I started in June – August 2021. Place Settings II continues this summer with performative projects staged throughout the city of Toronto. Each project engages in a discursive gesture that considers new possibilities at the intersections of food practices and public space\, revealing the shareable and relational qualities of both.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/adria-julia-the-penitential-tyrant-dolores-is-pain/
LOCATION:Jackman Hall\, Art Gallery of Ontario\, 317 Dundas St W\, Toronto\, ON\, M5T 1G4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Reza Nik: sofreh for two
DESCRIPTION:REZA NIK\nsofreh for two\, 2022 \nLocation: Iranian Plaza (6075 Yonge St\, North York)\nDate: August 21\, 12pm – 2pm\nOutdoors\, free to the public\n*The Iranian Plaza is accessible by TTC using the 97\, 61 or 53 bus routes which are all wheelchair accessible routes. The plaza is a strip mall with parking including accessible parking in the front. \nReza Nik’s sofreh for two references both Iranian food and drink carts and ‘Sofreh’\, a loose term translated to a textile on which food is served but that often functions as a shorthand for various preparations\, practices\, ceremonies and rituals. This improvisational performance is mediated through a roving structure that considers the spatial facets of food and feasting as narrated through diasporic and intergenerational experiences and memories. \n\nsofreh for two is presented as part of Place Settings\, a large-scale\, durational project that considers how food functions to connect and disrupt. Focusing specifically on the intersections of food\, public space\, and architecture\, Place Settings points to formal and informal structures that offer forms of nourishment\, be they physical\, emotional\, social\, or political. \nCurated by Noa Bronstein\, Place Settings I started in June – August 2021. Place Settings II continues this summer with performative projects staged throughout the city of Toronto. Each project engages in a discursive gesture that considers new possibilities at the intersections of food practices and public space\, revealing the shareable and relational qualities of both. \nPlace Settings II launches August 21\, 2022 with Reza Nik’s “sofreh for two”. Click here for more details about the program.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/reza-nik-sofreh-for-two/
LOCATION:Iranian Plaza\, 6075 Yonge St\, North York\, ON\, M2M 3W7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Life Cycles: Live Performance by Whyishnave Suthagar
DESCRIPTION:Life Cycles\nLive Performance by Whyishnave Suthagar \n401 Richmond Courtyard\n(or in CDCC Gallery – 401 Richmond Building\, Suite 122 – in case of rain)\nMay 28\, 2022\n1:30 PM EST \nClick here to access the Zoom link for the live streaming of this event. \n  \nLife Cycles is a live performance that will depict a mother and daughter engaging in the passed tradition of kolam making. A kolam is an ancient form of drawing in the Hindu religion created using rice\, sand\, flour – something ephemeral – as these drawings are to be washed away after the occasion that they were created for has ended. Kolams often reference mandala imagery; which are spiritual symbols in Hinduism representing the expanding universe. Life Cycles is an interactive performance\, where viewers will be able to collaborate with the artists as they engage in the ritual of kolam making. An artist talk will follow the performance. \nThis performance is presented in part of our current exhibition OF THE SACRED\, curated by Noor Alé and Claudia Mattos (AXIS Curatorial). \nOF THE SACRED testifies to the survival of personal beliefs\, spiritual traditions\, and religious practices in the face of colonialism and migrations. In their practices\, artists Farah Al Qasimi\, Kaya Joan\, Bea Parsons\, Yelaine Rodriguez\, and Whyishnave Suthagar trace cultural inheritances of faith\, lineages of intergenerational knowledge\, and the syncretism of beliefs that emerge in times of turbulent change and upheaval. Visit this link for more details about the exhibition. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nWhyishnave Suthagar is a Tamil-Canadian artist whose meditative installations use black light and light-reactive threads to outline imagery drawn from ancient mythologies\, dreams\, and memories. As an homage to her dual cultural identity\, mandalas often feature in her work—a practice passed down matrilineally across generations\, which she learned from her mother while growing up in Canada. \nACCESSIBILITY\nThis event will have live open audio description by Rebecca Singh (Superior Audio Description Services) which will be audible to all participants in both the zoom event and in person. ASL interpretation and live transcription will be available in the zoom and live stream but will not be available in person. For any questions regarding this or any other access needs that we can help you with please email emily[at]criticaldistance.ca.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/life-cycles-live-performance-by-whyishnave-suthagar/
LOCATION:401 Richmond\, 401 Richmond St. West\, Toronto\, ON\, M5V3A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Performance: A landscape’s spine
DESCRIPTION:Live Performance\nA landscape’s spine by Florencia Sosa Rey and Eve Tagny \nSaturday\, November 20th\, 2021\n1 – 1:30 PM (Duration of performance: approx. 30 minutes)\nArtscape Youngplace\, 180 Shaw St. \nFollowing her practice’s ongoing investigations into gardens as sites of grief and renewal\, Eve Tagny along with collaborator Florencia Sosa Rey has choreographed a performance as a closing gesture for the exhibition You sit in a garden (curated by Chris Andrews). \nTracing parallels between a plant’s roots and our body’s spines\, the performers explore the entanglements of leisure\, respite\, care as well as privilege\, exclusion and labor that play out in our gardens and landscapes. \n“If we go “to” nature\, we are in fact going into ourselves.” \nThis is a free\, public event hosted outdoors at the performance pad in front of Artscape Youngplace\, on 180 Shaw Street. Everyone is invited. Dress warmly\, and we encourage attendees to bring a blanket. Warm cider will be served. Open. \nThe performance is taking place live/on-site and it will also be livestreamed on Zoom\, including live\, improvised open Audio Description (for both in-person and online) by Jennifer Brethour and Kat Germain. Captioning\, ASL interpretation and Deaf interpretation with Ayoka Junaid and Tamyka Bullen will be included on Zoom. Please contact emily[at]criticaldistance.ca with any access concerns. You can also visit this link for detailed and expanded information on Audio Description\, compiled by Kat Germain.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/a-landscapes-spine/
LOCATION:Artscape Youngplace\, 180 Shaw St\, Toronto\, M6J 2W5
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SUMMARY:Performance: CORPS ROCA presents L’ESPÈCE MOLLE
DESCRIPTION:FREE Event – Click HERE to Register. \n***This event will take place on Zoom in English with ASL translation. Related texts are available in Spanish\, French and English. The performance will also include a Live Audio Description and Captioning. Please contact emily@criticaldistance.ca with any access concerns.*** \nAs part of the group exhibition Groundwork\, Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal-based artist Ileana Hernandez Camacho will debut a new dimension of her CORPS ROCA project in a live performance on June 22\, 2021.\n\n\nCORPS ROCA is an evolving and ongoing work\, initiated by the artist in 2018 as part of a residency at Verticale\, centre d’artistes in Laval. The work centres Hernandez Camacho’s performances where she embodies and gives voice to a rock. Using humour to critically question humanity’s relationship with the environment\, the rock re-narrates the evolution of the planet\, citing itself—rather than humans—as the most evolved species on Earth. Hernandez Camacho’s act of camouflage as a rock seeks to incite a change in perspective in viewing the non-human as inanimate and unimportant. Rather\, in embodying the rock as a walking and talking being\, she questions dominant ways of thinking about the non-human as lifeless matter only existing as a backdrop for humanity\, and imagines what would shift if humans treated the non-human as its equal. \nHernandez Camacho builds CORPS ROCA through interactive performances in public space. In the written story of the work\, there are two main characters so far: the rock and l’espèce molle (meaning “the soft species\,” also known as the human species). \nIn this live performance which will be screened via Zoom\, Hernandez Camacho will explore and show us characteristics of the soft species\, from the perspective of the rock. The actions\, sounds and images of this presentation are based on her own investigations from past performances\, and the observations and responses that she has experienced when interpreting the rock. \nThe event will take place on l’Île Notre-Dame at 6PM and will be followed by a Q&A with the artist over Zoom\, moderated by the curator of Groundwork\, Valérie Frappier. \n  \nIntroduction to the CORPS ROCA story: \n“Our population was corrupted by a civilization whose principles and values were based in plastic dreams and metal structures. We were crushed\, made to be decorations\, divisions\, tools… some\, prisoners. We weren’t part of the same society. We are waiting for their era’s end so we can create our world. We are not in a hurry\, we will never be.” \n\nPhoto Credit: Michael Jachner
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SUMMARY:Live Performance: System of a Gesture by Camille Rojas
DESCRIPTION:Live Performance\nSystem of a Gesture by Camille Rojas\nSaturday\, May 11th\, 1–3pm\nFree public premiere of System of a Gesture\, choreographed by Camille Rojas\, as part of the group exhibition An Archive\, But Not An Atlas. Performance will take place outside Artscape Youngplace; in case of rain\, an alternate location will be announced closer to the date.
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