30 July 2000 12am - 12am
Sunday July 30, 2000
3 – 7 pm
Admission free
Mercer Union is pleased to present a Platform event: The Lonely Lisgar Street Performance Festival: an outdoor, afternoon performance happening. Fifteen performance artists or groups will participate in an outdoor festival that will use the surrounding environment and Lisgar Street at our new location. The Festival will explore themes of urban living, architecture, decay, alienation, play, diversity, and location. This event will be in part a celebration of the galleryÍs first year on Lisgar Street.
Performances;
Louise Bak
Chinese Mystery Performance: Repetitive gesture and motion performance/dance
with: Juston Cheng, Susan Oh
Shannon Cochrane (Shannon 2000)
Spread the Wealth: Sponsored by the Canada Council – Will dole out a $200 cash prize at the end of the Festival for the fastest watermelon ball eater who participates in her performance. Cochrane (2000) will work with a professional chef, a clown and an actress.
with: Rob Power, Jen Rashleigh, Teril Calder
Keith Cole
Hate Crimes: The hands-down favourite of the Cheap Queers comedy nights at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Cole will have the audiences’ collective sides splitting with his dance interpretation of “Criminal Mind” by Gowan – not to be missed
(4 minutes repeated several times throughout afternoon) solo
Dominadella
She puts her words to music of the planet – intense and spontaneous, she experiments with different musical genres such as reggae, ska, dub, house, drum and bass, breakbeats blues, etc. Give her a beat and she’ll ride it. Diversity unsurpassed – her lyrics are pure consciousness. Always expect the unexpected as you journey through the unexplored. Imagine Bjork meeting Eartha + Nicolette @ Grace Jones! What’s that sound? Dominadella
with: Coman Poon
Fastwurms
Famous for their tailgate parties – expect to join in on their most recent incarnation – incantation? – where the Wurms will be leg shaving and fortune telling in the back of their pick-up truck.
with: Jill Henderson or Marina Palosa
Jinhan Ko
Karoke Therapy: Ko invites the public to sing cheese and other sentimental and other freaked-out faves!
with: Jennifer Paperrero
Channing Hansen
Human Symphony: No skin flutes here! – Come see how artist Hansen interprets this theme!
with: Lisa Mark, Jane and Care
Robert Lee
Performs the ultimate identity quest and asks fellow performance artist Jinhan Ko to imitate Lee – talk about “Trading Places”!
Louise Lilifeldt
Anyone who has seen Louise Lilifeldt perform her tableau style performance before, knows the awesome power of her motionless and low motion scenarios – Lilifeldt will appear roof-top at Mercer – First time spectators will not forget this piece, longtime fans will rejoice!
Duncan MacDonald
Wrestling For Artists: Will playfully look at the intersections of big time wrestling and art – art – wrestling-wrestling – art -art – wrestling?!?!?!?!?!? * Lots of swaety artist action!
with: Chris Cummings, Jaxon McDade, SiSi Penaloza, Powell, Louis Jacob, Daniel Borins, Sam Allison, Greg Hefford, Adam Goudriau
SMBSL (aka Sally MacKay and Ben Smith Lea)
Both artists will act as talk show hosts without the chair throwing or the boobs – expect friendly confrontation about your past!, juicy tell-alls by the artists! and possibly a lot of swearing! Audience participation and advice welcome.
Mister Entertainment
The Last Pirouette, 1,2,3: Mr. Entertainment will engage in a drama packed challenge as he wrestles a metal folding chair which could be interpreted as a metaphor for most artists contemplating their careers. The artist will be introduced by an actress or model whose name has not been released at the time of this blurb ??? or xxx
Amanda Ramos
Runway: Installation of a specially constructed runway looking at fashion technology, specatorship and
with: Mark Sprot, John Mistriotis, Jason MacIsaac
Susan MacKay
Sweep With Me: The artist will lay on a bed in the “painterly odalisque style”.
with: Nicholas Pye
Lisa Deanne Smith
Will phone in from New Brunswick every ten minutes to schedule simple performances with the public who will receive a free t-shirt for doing their duty.
with: Jessica Wyman and Jennifer Paperreo
Will Munro
Of the fabulous Vaseline nights at the El Mocombo and wicked underwear art will perform Nurse: the artist will bandage willing members of the public especially young handsome men!!
* Rumour has it, that Friends of the Festival, local art critc R.M. Vaughn and fab filmster Roy Mitchell (the bad boys responsible for the curation and inception of Art Fag 2000) will be doing incredibly loving interventions close to the Festival site!!! XXX ie: lonliness interventions.
Mercer Union is pleased to present a Platform event: The Lonely Lisgar Street Performance Festival: an outdoor, afternoon performance happening. Fifteen performance artists or groups will participate in an outdoor festival that will use the surrounding environment and Lisgar Street at our new location. The Festival will explore themes of urban living, architecture, decay, alienation, play, diversity, and location. This event will be in part a celebration of the galleryÍs first year on Lisgar Street.
Performances
Louise Bak
Chinese Mystery Performance: Repetitive gesture and motion performance/dance
with: Juston Cheng, Susan Oh Shannon Cochrane (Shannon 2000)
Spread the Wealth: Sponsored by the Canada Council – Will dole out a $200 cash prize at the end of the Festival for the fastest watermelon ball eater who participates in her performance. Cochrane (2000) will work with a professional chef, a clown and an actress.
with: Rob Power, Jen Rashleigh, Teril Calder
Keith Cole
Hate Crimes: The hands-down favourite of the Cheap Queers comedy nights at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Cole will have the audiences’ collective sides splitting with his dance interpretation of “Criminal Mind” by Gowan – not to be missed
(4 minutes repeated several times throughout afternoon) solo Dominadella
She puts her words to music of the planet – intense and spontaneous, she experiments with different musical genres such as reggae, ska, dub, house, drum and bass, breakbeats blues, etc. Give her a beat and she’ll ride it. Diversity unsurpassed – her lyrics are pure consciousness. Always expect the unexpected as you journey through the unexplored. Imagine Bjork meeting Eartha + Nicolette @ Grace Jones! What’s that sound? Dominadella
with: Coman Poon
Fastwurms
Famous for their tailgate parties – expect to join in on their most recent incarnation – incantation? – where the Wurms will be leg shaving and fortune telling in the back of their pick-up truck.
with: Jill Henderson or Marina Palosa Jinhan Ko
Karoke Therapy: Ko invites the public to sing cheese and other sentimental and other freaked-out faves!
with: Jennifer Paperrero
Channing Hansen
Human Symphony: No skin flutes here! – Come see how artist Hansen interprets this theme!
with: Lisa Mark, Jane and Care Robert Lee
Performs the ultimate identity quest and asks fellow performance artist Jinhan Ko to imitate Lee – talk about “Trading Places”!
Louise Lilifeldt
Anyone who has seen Louise Lilifeldt perform her tableau style performance before, knows the awesome power of her motionless and low motion scenarios – Lilifeldt will appear roof-top at Mercer – First time spectators will not forget this piece, longtime fans will rejoice! Duncan MacDonald
Wrestling For Artists: Will playfully look at the intersections of big time wrestling and art – art – wrestling-wrestling – art -art – wrestling?!?!?!?!?!? * Lots of swaety artist action!
with: Chris Cummings, Jaxon McDade, SiSi Penaloza, Powell, Louis Jacob, Daniel Borins, Sam Allison, Greg Hefford, Adam Goudriau
SMBSL (aka Sally MacKay and Ben Smith Lea)
Both artists will act as talk show hosts without the chair throwing or the boobs – expect friendly confrontation about your past!, juicy tell-alls by the artists! and possibly a lot of swearing! Audience participation and advice welcome. Mister Entertainment
The Last Pirouette, 1,2,3: Mr. Entertainment will engage in a drama packed challenge as he wrestles a metal folding chair which could be interpreted as a metaphor for most artists contemplating their careers. The artist will be introduced by an actress or model whose name has not been released at the time of this blurb ??? or xxx
Amanda Ramos
Runway: Installation of a specially constructed runway looking at fashion technology, specatorship and
with: Mark Sprot, John Mistriotis, Jason MacIsaac Susan MacKay
Sweep With Me: The artist will lay on a bed in the “painterly odalisque style”.
with: Nicholas Pye
Lisa Deanne Smith
Will phone in from New Brunswick every ten minutes to schedule simple performances with the public who will receive a free t-shirt for doing their duty.
with: Jessica Wyman and Jennifer Paperreo Will Munro
Of the fabulous Vaseline nights at the El Mocombo and wicked underwear art will perform Nurse: the artist will bandage willing members of the public especially young handsome men!!
* Rumour has it, that Friends of the Festival, local art critc R.M. Vaughn and fab filmster Roy Mitchell (the bad boys responsible for the curation and inception of Art Fag 2000) will be doing incredibly loving interventions close to the Festival site!!! XXX ie: lonliness interventions.
Mercer Union acknowledeges the generous support of its Membership, The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, The City of Toronto though the Toronto Arts Council and The New Ontario Trillium Foundation. Mercer Union would like to express special acknowledgement to the Canada Council for the Arts for significant funding for this project.