Off-The-Radar: 31 Funded Projects and Essays
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Guelph Jazz Festival
Guelph, ON
www.guelphjazzfestival.com
Grant Amount: $3,000
Date of Event: September 5, 2003
Project Description:
Educational forum on music and human rights and how sound-art can purposefully challenge embodied systems of cultural production.
Language: English
Essay:
A Choreography of Instants: A Response to Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky's Keynote Address at the 2003 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium - by Jesse Stewart
Galerie F.M.R
Montréal, QC
Grant Amount: $2 500
Date of Event: September 19, 2003
Project Description:
Round table on the role of the arts in the revitalization of the community of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal.
Language: French
Essay:
L’Urbaine urbanité II, by Guy Sioui Durand
Moving Pictures
Toronto, ON
http://www.movingpicturesfestival.com
Grant Amount: $4,000
Date of Event: October 26, 2003
Project Description:
Facilitated discussion on and discourse around hybrid creations involving performance, media arts and new technologies.
Language: English
Essay:
DanceFilm: A Question of Hybridity – by Amy Bowring
Le Théâtre Parminou
Victoriaville, QC
www.parminou.com
Grant Amount: $5,000
Date of Event: November 1, 2003
Project Description:
International meeting of professionals from the theatre sector and the social sector to discuss street theatre and its potential
Language: French
Essay:
The Rencontres Internationales de Théâtre d’Intervention (R.I.T.I.) Symposium [the international symposium on street theatre]
Western Front Society
Vancouver, BC
www.front.bc.ca
Grant Amount: $4,500
Date of Event: January 9, 2004
Project Description:
Round table discussion exploring the figure of the D.J. and its relationship to issues in performance, critical theory and contemporary art.
Language: English
Essay:
Remix and Feedback: A Round table Discussion on January 9, 2004 - by Adrienne Lai
Bubonic Tourist Performance Creation Society
Calgary, AB
www.members.shaw.ca/bubonictourist/test/mb2003/index.html
Grant Amount: $1,500
Date of Event: January 13, 2004
Project Description:
Performance and panel discussion to analyze and exchange perspectives on the current practice and significance of live performance and interdisciplinary art.
Language: English
Essay:
Tearing Up The Road to Hell - The Intentional Fallacy and Grand Stand: Live performance in Interdisciplinary Art, January 2004 - by Jaime Frederick
Collective Gutsink
St. John's, NL
www.gutsink.nf.ca
Grant Amount: $3,500
Date of Event: January 14-17, 2004
Project Description:
A professional development workshop for writers with Philip Szporer as Facilitator.
Language: English
Essay:
Watching and Writing with a Critical Eye - Critical Writing and the Arts: A Public Round table Discussion, January 14, 2004 & Professional Development Workshop for Writers, January 17, 2004 - by Lisa Moore
A Space Gallery
Toronto, ON
www.aspacegallery.org
Grant Amount: $4,850
Date of Event: January 20, 2004
Project description:
Daylong conversation/symposium that examines intercultural art and community informed art practices through the lens of creolization.
Language: English
Essay:
Chewing on the Mix: Creolization, Power And Art, January 2004 - by Honor Ford-Smith
Common Weal Community Arts Inc.
Regina, SK
www.commonweal-arts.com
Grant Amount: $4,000
Date of Event: February - June, 2004
Project Description:
Critical dialogue with 4 artists on Urban Art/ Graffitti Art.
Language: English
Essay:
Hip Hop: Successes and Struggles in Saskatchewan - By Oin Nicholson
Modern Fuel Artist-Run-Centre
Kingston, ON
www.kingston.org/kaai
Grant Amount: $3,000
Date of Event: February 14, 2004
Project Description:
A community-based, performance art project that re-proposes the notion of Valentine's Day exchanges through door-to-door encounters.
Language: English
Essay:
I Am Because We Are… and in order to - by Devora Neumark
Note: brief extract of longer text. To view the full version, please visit the Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre website www.modernfuel.org
The I.E. Artspeak Gallery Society
Vancouver, BC
www.artspeak.ca/mandate.html
Grant Amount: $2, 000
Date of Event: February 23, 2003
Project Description:
Mallarmé, the Book serves as a starting point for an exploration, in a seminar context, of the shared concerns within the visual art and writing community
Language: English
Essay:
The Impossible Book - by Jeff Derksen
Blank Slate
Toronto, ON
www.performanceart.ca/emerging/night/life.html
Grant Amount: $4,000
Date of Event: February 27-29, 2004
Project Description:
Weekend long event with discussions about the current developments of performance art in relationship to its historical stages and to other creative forms, installation, new media, robotics, etc.
Language: English
Essay:
Life=Art=Life - by Daniel Baird
Helen Pitt Gallery
Vancouver, BC
www.eciad.bc.ca/pittg
Grant Amount: $2,800
Date of Event: February 28, 2004
Project Description:
Public round table discussion exploring the necessity of participating in the "totality of advanced capitalism" by imagining/enacting alternative economies.
Language: English
Essay:
A Measure of Happiness - a round table discussion about alternative economies and possible models for enacting them - by Elizabeth Zvonar
Engrenage noir
Montréal, QC
www.engrenagenoir.ca
Grant Amount: $4,800
Date of Event: March 6, 2004
Project Description:
Conference assembling art historians, sociologists, artists, community organizers and administrators to discuss the various ways that ethics and esthetics are connected.
Language: French
Essay:
Community Art or Finding the Way Home? – by Louise Lachapelle
Full Circle: First Nations Performance
Vancouver, BC
www.banffcentre.ca/Aboriginal_Arts/villages/WV1998/
abmmwksp/fullcircle
Grant Amount: $4,000
Date of Event: March 6, 2004
Project Description:
Public forum to engage the public with aboriginal artists in a dialogue about the interdisciplinarity of their work. Specifically how their work deals with questions of traditions and the relationship of these traditions to contemporary performance.
Language: English
Essay:
Public Forum Summary: Renewal and Transformation – by Michelle La Flamme
The Theatre Centre
Toronto, ON
www.theatrecentre.org
Grant Amount: $5,000
Date of Event: April 4, 2004
Project Description:
A public round table discussion on the impact of new performance ideas on the viewer and society as a whole.
Language: English
Essay:
Critical Response to the Round table Discussion at the 2004 Free Fall Festival - by Sam Stedman
Esse, Arts et opinions
Montréal, QC
www.esse.ca
Grant Amount: $4,500
Date of Event: April, 23, 2004
Project Description:
Seminar looking at the various venues for the production and presentation of art today and their impact on our perception of art, the conditions we receive it under, the status of the artist and the role of the spectator.
Language: French
Essay:
Places and Non-Places of Contemporary Art or the Principle of Communicating Vessels - by Nathalie de Blois
Northern Visions Independent Film and Video
Toronto, ON
www.imagesfestival.com/2004/schedule_23.asp
Grant Amount: $4,000
Date of Event: April 23, 2004
Project Description:
Panel discussion on contemporary performance art practices involving emerging technologies.
Language: English
Essay: Eight Meditations on Liveness Inspired by a Word Which I Can’t Pronounce - by Johanna Householder
Judith Marcuse Projects
Vancouver, BC
www.earthproject.ca/symposium/symposium.htm
Grant Amount: $4,000
Date of Event: April 27 - May 1, 2004
Project description:
300 youth and adults from around the world participate in 5 days of dialogue and art workshops as part of The Earth Project.
Language: English
Essay:
Meanings, Methods and Messages: Global Connections and Personal Perspectives, May 2004, Toronto – by Douglas D. Durand
Jumblies Theatre
Toronto, ON
www.jumbliestheatre.org
Grant Amount: $4,500
Date of Event: May 9, 2004
Project Description:
A Symposium to bring together key producers of "community plays" in specific traditions for the purpose of critical interchange.
Language: English
Essay:
Easy to Say: Reflections on the roles of art and the artist in Canadian adaptations of the Colway Community Play form - by Ruth Howard and Rachael Van Fossen
Creative Alternative
Montréal, QC
www.creative-alternatives.ca
Grant Amount: $5,000
Date of Event: May 21-26, 2004
Project Description:
3 days of intensive training in the applied use of theatre to foster literate, passionate and critical analysis.
Language: English
Essay:
Fostering Democracy Through Theatre, May 2004, Montreal – by Nisha Sajnani
Galerie 101 Gallery
Ottawa, ON
www.gallery101.org
Grant Amount: $4,500
Date of Event: June 26, 2004
Project Description:
Panel presentation by 4 Aboriginal artists working in interdisciplinary practices. The panel explores aboriginal urban experiences.
Language: English
Essay:
Process: A Gathering, Saturday June 26, 2004 - by Catherine Mattes
Fado Performance Inc.
Toronto, ON
www.performanceart.ca
Grant Amount: $3,500
Date of event: July - December 2004
Project Description:
Online critical discussion about performance art in Canada. Participants will be asked to produce critical reviews of local performance art events and engage in an online dialogue about Canadian performance art activity.
Language: English
Essay:
Documenting Fluid Memes: Slippery Translucence and Visceral Reflection in Performance Art
Festival de théâtre de rue de Shawinigan
Shawinigan, QC
www.theatrederue.com/
Grant Amount: $4,000
Date of event: July 31 - August 1, 2004
Project description:
A day of professional meetings and exchanges dealing with the various artistic points of view generating the definition of the generic term « street theatre ».
Language: French
Essay:
The City as Material and Occasion: A Reflection on Street Theatre
Subtle Technologies
Toronto, ON
www.physics.utoronto.ca/smorris/art_patterns_weekend/art
_and_patterns.html
Grant Amount: $4,500
Date of Event: September, 2004
Project Description:
A workshop that brings together an interdisciplinary group of 8 artists and a scientist to discuss how patterns and pattern formation relates to their work.
Language: English
Essay:
Patterns - by Jim Ruxton
Mountain Standard Time
Calgary, AB
www.mstfestival.org
Grant Amount: $4,000
Date of Event: September 7, 2004
Project Description:
Facilitated discussion surrounding performative practice, including codes of behavior and the construction of various performative identities within civic space.
Language: English
Essay:
Grand Action, by Donna Wawzonek
Fuse Magazine
Toronto, ON
www.fusemagazine.org
Grant Amount: $4,500
Date of Event: September 17-19, 2004
Project Description:
3 day public discussion around performance, and temporary/process based work in public places.
Language: English
Essay:
Negotiating Positionality: The Insides, Outsides and In-Betweens , by Jessica Wyman
Centre d'artistes Vaste et Vague
Carleton, QC
www.rcaaq.org/vaste_et_vagues
Grant Amount: $4,000
Date of Event: October, 2004
Project Description:
Pierre Bertrand, speaker, philosopher, writer presents ‘Why do we create'?
Language: French
Essay:
Why Create? By Céline Boucher
Crossing Communities Art Project Inc.
Winnipeg, MB
Grant Amount: $5,000
Date of Event: October 2, 2004
Project Description:
Public forum and workshop to create dialogue through the visual arts with and about women and girls marginalized by justice issues.
Language: English
Essay:
Provisional Routes - Cultural Navigations Through Sites of Criminalization, by Edith Regier
Powell Street Festival Society
Vancouver, BC
www.shinnova.com/powellstfestival
Grant Amount: $4,000
Date of Event: October 16, 2004
Project Description:
Panel discussion concerned with the point at which identity politics and its embedded struggle for new modes of expression intersects with the emergence of interdisciplinary practice as a legitimate approach to art-making.
Language: English
Essay:
Leaving it be: what we talk about when we talk about political shifts - by Ashok Mathur
Small Wooden Shoe
Halifax, NS
www.smallwoodenshoe.org/PublicSite/fragile_positions.html
Grant Amount: $3,000
Date of Event: October 25, 2004
Project Description:
Public discussion about performance and the body's relation to technology.
Language: English
Essay:
Fragile Positions: Five Words on Four Slips of Paper About a conversation about performance, by Robert Plowman