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ALL-DAY PERFORMANCE ART RELAY

Saturday December 16 at OCAD Great Hall in Toronto. 1pm - 9pm (or later if there are last minute additions) Audience and performers are invited to come and go throughout the day.

LEGS is a series of relay performance events initiated by the performance art community in Montréal (more info below) and is characterized by a questioning of curatorial and institutional financial models to allow for greater freedom of action and deployment. It is a durational, independent and flexible performance event open to everyone, regardless of level of experience and artistic approach.

Participating artists are suggested by other participating artists, snowballing a self-organizing event that is disinterested in traditional curation. It is a minimum of 7 hours and a maximum of 9 hours long; the durational for each work is decided by dividing the total chosen time with the number of participating artists in order to realize a continuous performance relay without pause.

The order of the performances is arbitrary. Founded on a belief in community trust, performative dialogue and artistic self determinacy, the resulting collective event lets participating artists be responsible not only for the continuous stream of idea-and image-making, but also for the realization of event itself. There is no staff, no coordinator, no stage manager, only artists working together.

LEGS has legs. LEGS is a manifestation of the social and performing body through the collective network and expanded community.

The first iteration of LEGS was presented in Montréal on February 7, 2015, at Le Cercle Carré. The score and format of the event was initially imagined by an informal collective of artists (including Christian Bujold, Michelle Lacombe, Marie-Claude Gendron, Nadège Grebmeier Forget, Katherine-Josée Gervais and Jean-Philippe Luckurst-Cartier) and was created with the intention of activating and making-visible the often fragmented local performance art community.

(The score) LEGS,

1) is made by local artists (local/provincial) participating on a voluntary basis.

2) is not crafted by a singular artistic direction or selection method, and refuses all curating models (there is a lead organizer who acquires a space and starts the chain of invitations–this is the only entity-driven action).

3) is intergenerational, and the invitation is extended to performance artists at all stages of their careers. It does not however pretend or attempt to be an exhaustive representation of a community.

4) is a minimum of 7 hours and a maximum of 9 hours long; the durational for each work is decided by dividing the total chosen time with the number of participating artists in order to realize a continuous performance relay without pause. The order of the performances is arbitrary.

5) is not performed for the sake of the camera, but is photo documented and live streamed, if possible. Images will be collected by the transmitter, made available to participating artists, and published on a collective LEGS website, where the multiplying manifestations can co-exist.

6) is characterized by the fact that each participating artist is autonomous; there is no technical or material support. Artists are responsible for their own set up and clean up (which is part of their allotted time). No performance will be stopped but artists will begin at their scheduled time.

7) is not financed by any public program or entity and doesn't generate monetary profit for the organizers or the participants. asks, if desired, for a donation from attending audience who are free to come and go as they please; the collected donations compensate venue rental or documentation, if necessary, and the remainder is spent on refreshments for all.

8) can only be transmitted to/in another community by an individual (or a small group) who has participated in the directly previous edition, and the physical participation of these transmitters in the next event is preferred.

9) is shared through this score and set of principals across the performance art network. The custodians of this second Toronto iteration are lo bil and Simla Civelek. We hope that there will be a few LEGS transmitters from the authoring collective/performers to join us for this event.

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ARTISTS (in performing order with times)

Pam Patterson - 1:00 pm

claude wittmann - 1:07

Holly Timpener (ONLINE) - 1:14

Sadie Berlin - 1:21

Leena Raudvee - 1:28

Claudia Edwards- 1:35

Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas - 1:42

lwrds duniam - 1:49

Clayton Lee - 1:56

Paul Couillard- 2:03

Brandy Leary - 2:10

Jos Tremblay - 2:17

Katie Kehoe - 2:24

Lisa Smolkin - 2:31

Johannes Zits - 2:38

Julie Lassonde - 2:45

Shelby Wright - 2:52

Fan Wu - 2:59

James Knott - 3:06

Benjamin de Boer - 3:13

Tina Fushell - 3:20

Jill Connell - 3:27

Irene Loughlin - 3:34

Evan Webber - 3:41

Shannon Cochrane - 3:48

Francesco Gagliardi - 3:55

Tristan Castro- 4:02

Tess Martens - 4:09

Ami Xherro - 4:16

Nicholas Hauck - 4:23

Andrea Spaziani - 4:30

Tatiana Koroleva - 4:37

Sara Seif - 4:44

Hima Batavia - 4:51

Raquel Mendes - 4:58

Niloofar Sanandajizadeh - 5:05

Grey Muldoon - 5:12

Leila Clemente (Gajusingh) - 5:19

Ed Johnson - 5:26

Sara Porter - 5:33

Christopher Petersen - 5:40

Isaak Fong - 5:47

Emilia White - 5:54

Esther Splett - 6:01

Julie-Isabelle Laurin - 6:08

Jake Santos - 6:15

Jacqueline Van de Geer (ONLINE: Montreal) -6:22

Lizzsea Ship - 6:29

Shima Raeesi - 6:36

Sara Sattari - 6:43

Justin Cabrillos - (ONLINE: New York) - 6:50

Caelum Aheam (ONLINE: Brooklyn, NYC) - 6:57

Drinkmilk (Gracie Elbel and Luc Cimino) - 7:04

Coman Poon (ONLINE: Georgetown, Malaysia) - 7:11

Peter Morin (ONLINE: Smithers BC) - 7:18

Rita Camacho Lomeli - 7:25

Marty Smith and Zack Fish - 7:32

Adriana Disman - 7:39

lo bil - 7:46

Simla Civelek - 7:53

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