Fado Performance presents: The 2nd Annual Valentine-Oh-Grams!!
February 14, 2008

To order:
416-822-3219
fadohearts@gmail.com
www.performanceart.ca

Some lovers give chocolates and some splurge on roses. This Valentine’s Day give the gift that will charm your sweetie for the entire year – performance art!
Say “I love you” with a Fado Performance Valentine-Oh-Gram!
Choose one of these sweet and unique live performance-oh-grams created and performed by local performance art luminaries:

Careless Whisper: A Singing Vagina Valentine-oh-Gram
Serenade your sweetie with George Michael’s classic ballad as sung by performer Lisa Anne Ross wearing a giant vagina costume (yes, you read it right). George Michael’s words delivered with James Brown’s dramatic flair. Comes with a tiny bottle of champagne, which is sort of phallic looking (but ridiculously small next to the giant vagina). For those with a good sense of humour or a healthy dose of hubris.

The Say Anything Valentine-oh-Gram
It’s 1989 and a trench coat wearing John Cusack is standing outside your bedroom window in the rain holding a boombox over his head playing “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel. Swoon. Now picture this: It’s February 14, 2008, and you’ve just bought the Say Anything Valentine-Oh-Gram for your sweetie. A group of performance artists wearing trench coats holding boomboxes over their heads playing that Peter Gabriel song (or another song, your choice) arrive at your sweetie’s home (or office or yoga class etc.) and melt his/her heart with this romantic cinema image. Need we say anything more?

The Spelling Bee Valentine-Oh-Gram
C-R-E-A-T-E (space) A (space) S-P-E-C-I-A-L (space) M-E-S-S-A-G-E for your loved one and our team of performance artists will deliver it to your darling spelling bee style using megaphones and flash cards. Can’t think of something to say that says it all? Let our team of performance artists spell out your love for you. Suitable for loved ones of all kinds – lovers, friends, or go educational and purchase this Valentine-oh-Gram for the kids.

The Display of Affection Valentine-Oh-Gram
For the lover who doesn’t mind a little PDA in the form of a group hug/multiple kisses delivered by total strangers (“Don’t worry honey, it doesn’t mean anything, they’re just performance artists”). The Display of Affection Valentine-Oh-Gram is a collapsible travelling kissing/hugging booth that sets ups instantly at your Valentine’s location and comes complete with a line-up of loving performance artists ready and willing to offer all the PDA’s you’re too shy to display. Modest and slightly less modest versions available.

NEW this year!
The Valentine-Oh-Phone
Give us the name and phone number of your “special someone” and on Valentine’s Day we will call them for you and engage them in a warm and fuzzy conversation about how much they are loved (using information you have provided us, of course). Local, Canadian or US calls only. Valentine-Oh-Phones are suitable for long distance lovers, parents, best friends, or secret admirers. Discretion assured!

Order your Valentine-Oh-Gram from Fado Performance today!
Each and every live performance Valentine-Oh-Gram comes with an appearance by the Giant Heart Mascot and the option to include a personalized message. Or be anonymous! All of our Valentine-Oh-Grams are kid friendly, family friendly and friend friendly and are delivered right to your front door, office or place of leisure by our team of professional performance artists including Gale Allen, Paul Couillard, Shannon Cochrane, Cathy Gordon, Erika Hennebury, Berenicci Hershorn, Ed Johnson, Louise Liliefeldt, Tanya Mars, Laura Nanni, Laura Paolini, Don Simmons, Lisa Deanne Smith and many others, and introducing this year, the Singing Vag – Lisa Anne Ross.

Prices
The Careless Whisper Singing Vagina Valentine-oh-Gram: Order before February 7 and pay $100. Order after February 7 and pay $110.
All other live performance Valentine-Oh-Grams: Order before February 7 and pay $50. Order after February 7 and pay $60.
The Valentine-Oh-Phone: Order anytime before February 13, 2008 and pay $25 per call or get 3 calls for $50!

Here’s how it works:
Call or email us and we will work with you to choose the perfect Valentine-Oh-Gram. All we need to start the process is the name, location and preferred time to find the recipient of the Oh-Gram between 8am and 10pm on February 14, 2008. Times are flexible and we will do our best to suit your needs. Oh-Grams are available on February 14, 2008 only. Payment is due (cash, cheque) before February 13, 2008.

To order or for more information:
(E) fadohearts@gmail.com
(T) 416-822-3219
www.performanceart.ca

About Fado Founded in 1993 and incorporated in 2001, Fado was established to provide a stable, knowledgeable and supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art works created by Canadian and international performance artists. Fado is the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. Fado’s activities include presenting performances, artist talks and symposia, festivals, residencies, exchanges and workshops, as well as publishing in a variety of formats, including video and for the web.

Fado is pleased to acknowledge the ongoing support of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Taken from Fado e-list

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Aspect submissions for Volume 12 – Vital
Date: Deadline April 28, 2008; Source: Julia Handschuh

OPEN CALL—VOLUME 12: VITAL
ASPECT SEEKS NEW MEDIA ART SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 12: VITAL

Due by March 26, 2008—ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual dvd publication, is currently accepting submissions of work best documented in a time-based format for Volume 12: Vital.
This issue will explore that which is essential, grave, indispensable, and/or critical to existence.

The staff of ASPECT is asking curators, art critics, and members of the contemporary art community to help assemble and comment on works for the next issue by submitting a work of art on which they wish to provide audio commentary. Due to the format of the publication, the criteria for selection will include both the qualifications of the commentator and the quality of the work submitted. Audio recordings of the commentary will be assembled after the submissions have been selected.

Submissions should include:
- Video documentation of a work or small group of works by a single artist (no more than 15 minutes
in length)
- A brief (100 word) statement regarding the submitted work
- Resume of the artist
- Contact information for the commentator and artist
- Resume of the commentator
- Brief notes outlining the contents of the proposed commentary
- If you would like us to return your materials, please include a SASE. Otherwise, we will keep your work
on file for further consideration.

Submissions must be received by March 26, 2008 and sent to:
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art
46 Waltham Street, suite 103
Boston, MA 02118
617.695.0500

All artists will be contacted via email regarding their submission no later than April 28, 2008

For more information see our FAQ: www.aspectmag.com/contact/faq.cfm

Company Information —The mission of ASPECT is to foster a deeper and more intimate understanding of contemporary new media art by expanding access, education, and distribution of the genre. ASPECT pioneered DVD distribution of artworks and continues to set the standard for new media art publishing and distribution. ASPECT Magazine is a biannual DVD magazine of new media art. Each issue highlights 5-10 artists working in new media whose works are best documented in video or sound, including in-depth information on the artists and commentary by distinguished curators and critics. Individual issues and subscriptions are available directly from the ASPECT web site.

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Taken from FADO e-list
Genetic sample photos can be your friend…

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival
Date: Deadline February 18, 2008; Source: Anti-Festival

ANTI Festival September 25th – 28th 2008, Kuopio, Finland

ANTI is an international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space. Over the past six years ANTI has presented live, sonic, visual and text-based art from today’s most exciting and innovative artists. A truly international festival and Finland’s foremost presenter of Live Art, ANTI is a meeting place for artists and audiences fascinated by how art shapes and responds to the places and spaces of everyday life.

Artists and students from all disciplines are encouraged to submit proposals to this year’s festival.

The proposal process
ANTI Festival pre-selects a number of sites/contexts/environments that we ask artists to respond to by
proposal. Details of the 2008 sites can be found on the festival website: www.antifestival.com

The closing date for proposals is February 18th 2008.

Sites in 2008 include a bridge, a sports stadium, a public stage and three private homes. For the additional children’s programme artists can propose a site suitable for their project.

As the works take place in public space it is essential the proposals consider a site’s pre-existing ‘audience’; be they passers-by, customers or residents. Alongside those who purposely visit the festival, a substantial part of ANTI’s audience are members of the public who come across the works by chance.

ANTI’s emphasis is on site-specificity. The festival understands this term in an expanded sense; proposals may suggest works that deal with a site geographically, culturally or by association i.e. themes and activities that the site suggests but may not be physically present in the site itself. Proposals may also combine or link a number of sites.

Proposal form www.antifestival.com

All proposals must be sent using the electronic form on the festival website, the form is sent directly to the festival through the website. The form allows a link to be made to any online documentation artist’s may have of previous work and for artists to attach their CV and on image of their work. In addition ONE piece of supporting material (i.e. VHS, DVD, CD-ROM) can be submitted as hardcopy.
The proposal deadline is February 18th 2008. Please send your supporting material, clearly marked
with your name and project title, to: ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival, Koljonniemenkatu 2, 2nd Floor,
70100 Kuopio, Finland. All materials must reach the above address by February 18th 2008.

Further information:
mailto: info@antifestival.com
+358 50 3052 485

Johanna Tuukkanen
Artistic director
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival
Koljonniemenkatu 2, 2.krs
70100 Kuopio, Finland
gsm +358 50 3052 485
johanna@antifestival.com
www.antifestival.com

Also Taken from Akimbo…

Starting in September 2008,
Department of Art
University of Toronto
Is offering a new program of study at the graduate level

THE MVS: CURATORIAL STUDIES

The Masters of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto (MVS) is unique in Canada. An elite two-year professional program, the MVS offers two fields of study: studio art practice (4-5 students admitted per year) and now curatorial studies (admitting 3-4 students per year). The MVS offers a small group of students programs of interdisciplinary Studio Practice or Curatorial Studies in combination with other knowledge-based activities such as research, critical writing and professional practice within contemporary visual art. The internship placement provides a link between the student and the culturally diverse city of Toronto, with its many private and public galleries, artist-run centres, museums, arts publications and studios.

DEADLINE FOR MVS: CURATORIAL STUDIES APPLICATIONS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2008.

FOR APPLICATION INFORMATION, PLEASE CONSULT THE WEBSITE:
http://www.art.utoronto.ca/graduates/vis/index_html

Direct all inquiries to:
graduate.visualstudies@utoronto.ca

Students enrolled in the MVS: Curatorial Studies will develop skills in curatorial practice, art criticism, and exhibition practice in the field of contemporary art within an interdisciplinary environment appropriate to a University setting. Led by internationally respected curator Barbara Fischer (Director/Curator, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto), this 2-year program will also provide students with opportunities to work with the directors and curators of the Blackwood Gallery (UTMississauga), Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTScarborough),the University of Toronto Art Centre; as well as U of T professors Mark Cheetham (Contemporary), Elizabeth Harney (Contemporary African), Louis Kaplan (Photography), Elizabeth Legge (Contemporary), An Te Liu (Architecture and Art), John Ricco (Performance and Video Art); artists/curators Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak (Media and Video Art), and numerous adjunct faculty, including Deepali Dewan (Curator, South Asian Arts and Culture, ROM).

MVS: Curatorial Studies students will enjoy access to the wide range of on-campus professional galleries at the U of T including the Blackwood Gallery and the Video Wall (both on UTMississauga campus), the Doris MacCarthy Gallery (UTScarborough campus),and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, the Eric Arthur Gallery, and the University of Toronto Art Centre (all on St. George campus). Professionally operated, some of these galleries hold important historical and contemporary collections and all present a broad scope of exhibitions in the areas of Canadian and international art and/or architecture. The galleries and their curatorial staff support the curriculum of the MVS through direct roles on advisory panels, critique, internship and summer positions, financial and spatial resources, as well as international reputation and prestige.

Finally, MVS: Curatorial Studies students will enjoy a wide range of local, national and international speakers as well as individual critique sessions with visitors. Over the past 4 years, here are some examples of MVS visitors:

LARA BOUBNOVA, independent curator
AA BRONSON, artist, curator and 2007-8 Artist-In-Residence, University of Toronto, Visual Studies program
RHONDA CORVESE, independent curator
YILMAZ DZIEVIOR, Director, Kunstverein Hamburg
MARNIE FLEMING, Curator, The Oakville Galleries
VERA FRENKEL, artist
GILLES FOREST, Director/Curator Centre d’art contemporaine, Basse-Normandie, France
PEGGY GALE, independent curator
NICKY S. LEE, artist
NINA MÖNTMAN, independent curator
PHILIP MONK, Director/Curator, Art Gallery of York University
HELENA RECKITT, Curator of Programs, The Power Plant
Contemporary Art
SUSANNE TITZ, Director, Städtisches Museum, Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2008-9 MVS: Curatorial Studies visitors (preliminary list)
NANCY CAMPBELL, independent curator, Toronto
GERALD McMASTER, Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario
PHILIP MONK, Director/Curator, Art Gallery of York University
DIANA NEMIROFF, Director, Carleton University Art Gallery

Taken from Akimbo…..

DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF ART

With a growing, nationwide reputation for excellence and innovation, the University of Manitoba is seeking a new Director to lead its talented and respected School of Art. The School of Art boasts a dynamic group of faculty devoted to the positive development of Canada’s future visual artists, art administrators and educators.

The new Director will provide creative, intelligent and visionary leadership, encourage high-calibre programs of national reputation, promote excellence in teaching and awareness of contemporary practices and technologies, and encourage opportunities for interdisciplinary study. The Director will continue to raise the profile of the School both within the University and externally.

Reporting to the Vice-President (Academic) and Provost, and a member of the Deans’ and Directors’ Council of the University, the Director will be a person of vision, a contemporary thinker, a teacher and scholar in a fine arts field. S/he will bring a proven track record in higher education leadership and administration, and be able to communicate, see connections, reach out and establish good relationships with partners at all levels. Candidates will have an advanced degree in the field or an equivalent combination of education and experience commensurate with the role.

The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified women and men, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply, however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the “Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act” (Manitoba).

To learn more about this exciting leadership opportunity, call Maxine Adam or Maureen Geldart at (604) 926-0005 or forward your application package (current CV, letter of application and reference list) in confidence to The Geldart Group. email: info@thegeldartgroup.com

Taken from Rhizome Digest, if you’re feeling Deja-vu….

ArtCast: Open Call for Podcastable Art

folly, a leading digital arts organisation working in Cumbria, Lancashire and online, is looking for video and audio work for ArtCast, folly’s ongoing series of podcasting programmes.

Through ArtCast folly explores the possibilities of the podcasting medium and provides a platform for public access to new and innovative art.

ArtCast launched in October 2007 alongside folly’s VELOCITY festival of digital culture, with a series of audio podcasts selected from an international open call. This series is available to download from www.folly.co.uk/artcast and has been described as “outstanding” and “unique” by those who have experienced it. Since folly first started publishing podcastable content, nearly 15000 people have experienced art in this format via www.folly.co.uk

In April 2008 folly will release the second ArtCast series, in collaboration with the moves08 festival – www.movementonscreen.org.uk

Building on moves07’s success in positioning itself as a key platform for the industry and audiences interested in screen-based work exploring ‘choreographed movement’, moves returns for the fourth year in Manchester, Lancaster, Chester and Liverpool.

Taking place 22-26 April 2008, moves08 will showcase a three-day conference focusing on the interaction of choreographed movement and sound in screen-based work, seven international screenings including a North West showcase, a five-day filmmaking lab throughout the North West, a masterclass, live events and installations in Manchester, Lancaster, and Liverpool. A programme of work curated for the BBC Big Screens will also be showing throughout the UK. Through its Discovery strand, moves08 will give a special place to students and emerging artists.

For April’s ArtCast series, folly is calling for submissions of existing moving image and audio work, from the broad spectrum of contemporary arts practice. Submissions should address themes and subjects broadly relating to the theme of moves08: the interaction of choreographed movement and sound.

Submissions are welcome from all artists working with film, video, moving image or sound, dancers and choreographers, experimental musicians and composers, writers and performance artists etc, basically anyone who has created work which they consider to be suitable for a video or audio podcast.

folly welcomes submissions from international artists

The deadline for submissions is 29th February 2008

moves08 Festival Director, Pascale Moyse, and Award-winning filmmaker and moves’ board member, Rachel Davies, will join folly in the selection of works in early March 2008.

Successful submissions will be published as podcasts from 3rd April 2008

Please note that there is no fee available for selected works.

For more information contact Jennifer Stoddart, folly Programme Coordinator on jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk or +44 (0)1524 388550

How to submit:

Submissions should be accompanied by a submission form and equal opportunities monitoring form, available to download online at www.folly.co.uk/artcastcall

File Format: OGG
Video Codec: theora, 320 x 240, 480kbps
Audio Codec: vorbis, Stereo, 128 kbps, 44100KHz
Maximum file size 30MB (For video this means a maximum duration of approximately 5 min 30 sec)
Questions about these file requirements can be directed to jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk

Please send your submissions by email to jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk
Or on disc by post to Jennifer Stoddart, Programme Coordinator
folly, 6.4.4 Alston House
White Cross
Lancaster UK
LA1 4XQ

folly is committed to Equal Opportunities in our employment, programme and services