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Call For Volunteers for a Performance Project by Victoria Stanton Presented At OAGThree Performance Opportunities: 1) The performance, "Welcome," dispatches a minimum of four people in everyday dress to stand on the sidewalk or in a parking lot, holding welcome mats for one hour. 2) "Drug" displays a minimum of six couples-–preferably of varying sexual orientations and ages-–standing in a busy commercial location kissing for one hour. 3) "Essen" invites at least six pairs of participants to sit across from each other at a table and share a meal at a restaurant. This performance insists that one is not permitted to feed oneself but instead must be fed by one's dining partner (drinking independently is permitted). Contact Véronique Couillard at (613) 233-8699 x 228 or public@ottawaartgallery.ca to find out how to participate or to find out more about Victoria's intentions. Participants will not be asked to do anything humiliating. The performance will respect the limits of each individual. Initiated in Montreal in August 2003, (Being) One Thing at a Time is an ongoing series of public live-art actions that aim to address prevailing attitudes toward our bodies, sexuality, intimacy, social behaviour, and personal empowerment. With an interest in disrupting quotidian expectations and blurring the ever-porous boundaries between art and life, these time-based group performances intend to be active reflections on human dynamics and individual agency within the realm of public space. They function as meditations on presence, place and interaction with each other, passers-by (our "accidental" audience), "nature" (particularly in an urban setting), architecture and duration. They are optimistic gestures toward potential transformation, an antidote, as it were, to a collective sense of an increasingly disempowered, alienated and addiction-driven society. The Ottawa Art Gallery would like to thank Shanghai Restaurant and Trudel Hardware for their generous support. |
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