FADO Performance Art Centre presents International Visiting Artists Series: Tel Aviv Residency

FADO Performance Art Centre presents
International Visiting Artists Series: Tel Aviv Residency

BETI
New performances from Yaron David, Karin Mendelovici and Meir Tati

Friday March 27, 2009
The Theatre Centre
1087 Queen Street West, Toronto
8pm, $5

FADO is pleased to present BETI - new performance work from Tel Aviv, Israel.
FADO asked Yaron David to curate two other artists from Tel Aviv, and working together as a trio, to create a new performance in/for Toronto, using an invented collaborative working model. After a short residency in Toronto, the final work will be the culmination of a continuous improvised performance and working process that began for these three artists over a month ago. Since the start of their adventure together they met some people (one of them was Beti) and worked in various spaces. Combining video (documentation of the process starting in Tel Aviv and edited at the last moments in Toronto) and live actions, the work of these three artists speaks to the loss of, search for, and the production of meaning in a fragile and chaotic reality - the collaborative research of confusion.

About the Artists
Yaron David (b. 1970, Israel) works in video and performance art. He is also a curator and is active in the performance art scene in Tel Aviv, working with and organizing events with PAP (Performance Art Platform) including a monthly performance event (2004-2007), as well as the ZAZ International Performance Art Festival (2007, 2008). He is a writer and freelance editor, working with museums and cultural institutions. David's work has been presented at international festivals in Israel, Croatia, UK, Finland, Istanbul, Poland, France, and at the National Review of Live Art in Scotland, among other events and exhibitions. This will be David's first appearance in North America.

Karin Mendelovici (b. 1975) is based in Tel Aviv. She works in photography, video and performance. Her performance work has been primarily presented in Tel Aviv, especially in cooperation with PAP (Performance Art Platform). This will be Mendelovici's first appearance in North America.

Meir Tati (b. 1973, Israel) works in video and performance. Recent exhibitions have included the Moscow Biannual for Young Art (2008), and presentations at EPAF (Warsaw), ZAZ Festival (Tel Aviv) and other exhibitions and performances in Italy, Germany, Istanbul and Denmark. This will be Tati's first appearance in North America.

Upcoming at FADO
Not Waterproof
Julie Andrée T.

Monday April 27, 2009
The Theatre Centre
1087 Queen Street West, Toronto
8pm, $10

Lighting design by Jean Jauvin. Sound design by Laurent Maslé.

In Julie Andrée T's work, there is an unsettling blend of performance/installation and theatre. Her iconoclastic work is a hybrid of these two approaches in which dialogue, action and image are gradually distilled into poetry. Disconcerting, moving and unclassifiable, the artist deploys an astounding transformation of the body through a metamorphosis of the stage landscape. In Not Waterproof, the artist's body is subjected to a series of ordeals, is pulverized and dirtied, becoming a dreamscape. In exposing her vulnerability, she quietly conveys the impermanent and ephemeral nature of our lives.

Julie Andrée T.'s (Quebec) installations and performance works have been shown in Canada, U.S.A, South America, Asia and Europe. She was part of PME (experimental theater company directed by Jacob Wren) for many years and has collaborated with choreographers Benoit Lachambre, Xavier Le Roy, Dominique Porte, Martin Bélanger and the filmmaker Dominic Gagnon. Since 2003 she has been part of the performance group Black Market International. She worked with the collective PONI from Brussels as co-artistic-director in 2007. Julie Andrée T. is currently guest artist Faculty at the School of museum of Fine Arts in Boston (USA) where she is teaching performance art.

About FADO
Founded in 1993, FADO Performance Art Centre 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 would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council for their on-going support of our endeavors.

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