SPANE: Threshold

Date: October 1, 2014
Time: 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Place: CommunityWise Resource Centre, Suite 101-223 12 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta
Curated by Tomas Jonsson
Special thanks to Ève De Garie-Lamanque and Johannes Zits
Image still from Private Perimeter, Rebecca Belmore

Now approaching it’s fourth iteration, the Screening of Performance Art in the Natural Environment (SPANE) features a diverse mix of performance-based videos in which artists interact with uncultivated or rural surroundings.

This years theme, ‘Threshold’, draws reference to Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “overwhelming elementary force” of nature and the desire/need of man to estrange himself from such a power. The works in this screening present performative acts that push and destabilize the borders of this estrangement.

SPANE 2014:
Stefan St. Laurent Please Feed the Animals, 2012 (Ottawa)
Jake Klein-WallerFloat, 2014 (Calgary)
Rebecca Belmore Private Perimeter, 2013 (Winnipeg)
John Grzinich Mutopia 7: Coal Mound, 2012 (Mooste)
Didier Morelli Gravitational Pull of My Head, 2013 (Vancouver)
D’arcy Wilson Tuck, 2012 (Halifax)
Jaan Toomik Dancing with Dad, 2003 (Tallinn)

Date: August 3rd, 2013
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Place: Artscape Gibraltar Point, 443 Lakeshore Avenue, Toronto Island, Toronto
Curated by Lindsey Allgood
Presented by Johanes Zits and Pleasure Dome

Working, performing and being in nature is inspiring. It can spark the imagination and create the potential for an action. Capturing ephemeral moments through performance opens the opportunity for its poignancy to be revisited and shared. Curator Lindsey Allgood (USA) and co-presenter Johannes Zits (Canada) present a diverse mix of works where the performers are interacting with uncultivated or rural surroundings.

Program:

Miguel Angel Melgares
“Portrait of a wet country III”, 3:15 min., 2010
Brian Zegeer “A Poetics of Ditch-Digging”, 5 min., 2010
Ellen Mueller “Manifest Destiny I”, 3:15 min., 2012
Rachelle Beaudoin “Natural Woman”, 2:14 min, 2012
Darryl Lauster “Backstory”, 7:08 min., 2011-2013
Daniel Coburn “Communion’, 4 min, 2011
Kyle Thompson “Group Theory/ We’re Having Much More Fun”, 19:14 min., 201244 mn.44

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Malena Bergmann “Fleeting”, 10 min., 2008-2009
Verena Steneke and Andrea Pagnes “sin∞fin – Performances at the Core of the Looking Glass”,10 min., 2012
Carrie Dashow “The Great Convergence”, 3:16 min., 2010
Julie Wills “Marie Antionette in America: Portrait”, 3 min., 2011
Michael Stecky “To All Compass Points in Direction”, 2 min., 2013

Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Place: Artscape Gibraltar Point, 443 Lakeshore Avenue, Toronto Island, Toronto

Curated by Johannes Zits
Presented by Tree Museum and Pleasure Dome

Working, performing and being in nature is inspiring. It can spark the imagination and create the potential for an action. Capturing ephemeral moments through performance opens the opportunity for its poignancy to be revisited and shared.
Pulled from an overwhelming response to our request for works of performance for the camera, Zits has pulled together a program of 10 intriguing, provocative video works. Artist and curator Johannes Zits will present a divers mix of works where the performers are interacting with uncultivated or rural surroundings.

Program

Denise Kenny "Chainsaw Ballet", 5:38 min, 2011
Agnes Nedregard
"Forest Contact", 3:20 min, 2005
Jol Thomson
"The Future Primitive", 6:36 min, 2009
Zohar Melinek "Jerusalem Stone, 9:27 min, 2011

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Luis Jacob "A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice", 7:00 min, 2007
Mario Cote and Francoise Sullivan "An Excerpt from Les Saisons Sullivan", 15:20 min, 2007
Lindsey Allgood "Please", 7:57 min, 2011
Anna Sarchami
"Endless Touch", 8:00 min, 2012
Michael Cros "Demarches Paralleles", 4:30 min, 2011
Cherie Sampson "River of Spirit of Life (Ice Piece) I", 5:23 min, 2004

Date: August 28, 2011
Time: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Place: Artscape Gibraltar Point, 443 Lakeshore Avenue, Toronto Island, Toronto

From an overwhelming response to a request for works of performance for the camera, curator Johannes Zits has pulled together a program of 15 intriguing, provocative video works. As the title suggests, the works feature live-art or performance art where the performer(s) is engaged in or working with an uncultivated, rustic, rural or undomesticated surrounding. SPANE is presented to coincide with the final day of an Intensive Performance Art Workshop conducted at Gibraltar Point by senior Québec artist Sylvie Tourangeau. Before the screening, we invite you to join us at Gibraltar Point to watch performances created by Tourangeau’s workshop participants.

Program:

Ho Tam “Pocahontas” 4:20 minutes, 1999
Aimee Dawn Robinson “Humber River Dance: In Two Parts: Healing Power III” 3 minutes, 2011
Geoffrey Pugen “Zenith” Shorter version 6:31 minutes
Michelle Browne “Pregnant With Infinite” 4 minutes, 2010
Rachel Echenberg “BLANKET (TIDES)” 6:25 minutes, 2004
Mollie McKinley “Existential Marina” 5 minutes, 2011

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Alien Moon Partnership “It's About the Night” 6 minutes, 2011
Linda Duvall “The Tubleweed series” 2 minutes, 2008
Lezli Rubin-Kunda “Marking Stones” 7:20 minutes, 2008
Matthew Lovett “Team Sports at The Nihilists, SugarLoaf Mountain” 14 minutes, 2011

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Istvan Kantor “King of Disaster” 7:47 minutes, 2011
Mark Prier “Survival Walk” 5 minutes, 2008
Rachelle Beaudoin “Forcing it/Feeling Guilty” 5 minutes, 2008
Anya Liftig “Pond/EAT” 6:14 minutes, 2010
Leah Dexter “Imprint” 6:49 minutes, 2008

ARTSCAPE
Artscape is a not-for-profit organization that makes space for creativity and transforms communities. For more information about Artscape Gibraltar Point, contact Manager Lisa Cristinzo; lisa@torontoartscsape.on.ca or check www.torontoartscape.on.ca

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