M:ST 6 Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
October 15 - 27, 2012
Multiple contributors

Part of

Performative art is a fluid term, describing practices that originate from a visual or media arts background and involve the live presence of the artist. For the sixth iteration of the M:ST Festival, we have developed a varied and critically engaged programme. The invited local, national and international performative artists take the definition of performative art in wildly different directions. Reaffirming our commitment to the Southern Alberta Region, the festival will take place in Calgary and Lethbridge, and points in between. We also will celebrate the currents of practice that inform this continually evolving art form by presenting the works of emerging artists who participated in our interim-year workshop series, Making Way.

M:ST exists at the confluence of several communities, inter-geographically and inter-­disciplinary. The festival is the result of a collaborative programming endeavor by many· organizations and individuals throughout Southern Alberta, to whom we are profoundly grateful. M:ST is part of a broader network of performance presenting organizations and communities in Canada, as well as internationally. This spirit of generosity and exchange is integral to our identity, and of the international community of performative art practitioners.The intent of this festival is to strengthen the network connections and collaborative opportunities in support of performative art practices and showcase Southern Alberta as a significant site of performative art practice. 

Written by Tomas Jonsson

M:ST 6 Performative Art Biennial

Programs

The Shoe Collection of Hortense Muriel Walker and The Other

Exhibition

Friday, October 12, 2012 - Saturday, November 10, 2012

The New Gallery

Between One and Another

Exhibition

Monday, October 15, 2012 - Monday, November 5, 2012

Wunder Gallery

Burden

Performance

Monday, October 15, 2012 — 12:00pm - 4:00pm

Arts Commons

Assisted Installations

Performance

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - Saturday, October 20, 2012

The Garden

Performance

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - Saturday, October 20, 2012 — 12:00pm - 4:00pm

Untitled Arts Society

Hourglass

Performance

Tuesday, October 16 - 20, 2012 — 12:00pm - 4:00pm

Untitled Arts Society

W.O.R.K.S Among the Easels

Performance

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 — 7:00pm

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 1

Performing Cultural Transformation

Event

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 — 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Alberta University of the Arts

My Moral Compass (Nîso)

Performance

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 — 7:00pm

CommunityWise Resource Centre

My Calgary

Performance

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 — 7:30pm

CommunityWise Resource Centre

Silent-Salt

Performance

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 — 8:00pm

CommunityWise Resource Centre

A Levitation for Calgary & Circles of Confusion

Performance

Thursday, October 18, 2012 — 7:00pm

TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary

Autoselections

Performance

Friday, October 19, 2012 — 12:00pm

University of Calgary

The SEERious Sideshow

Performance

Friday, October 19, 2012 — 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Springboard ContainR

Witness

Performance

Friday, October 19, 2012 — 6:00pm - 12:00am

Springboard ContainR

Vile Fights

Performance

Friday, October 19, 2012 — 9:00pm

Springboard ContainR

Duplex

Performance

Friday, October 19, 2012 — 9:00pm

Springboard ContainR

Performance Master Class Workshop

Workshop

Saturday, October 20, 2012 — 10:00am - 5:00pm

CommunityWise Resource Centre

The Archivist’s Visit

Performance

Saturday, October 20, 2012 | Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The New Gallery

90 kmh Economy Drive

Performance

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Hwy-2

Performance Cabaret

Performance

Sunday, October 21, 2012 — 7:00pm

Southern Alberta Art Gallery

Notes on Camping

Performance

Monday, October 22, 2012 — 12:00pm - 6:00pm

University of Lethbridge

FELICITACIONES

Performance

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 — 7:00pm

TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary

TouVA Offspring

Performance

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 — 9:00pm

TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary

SUMMIT

Performance

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - Saturday, October, 27, 2012

Into the Vaults

Performance

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 — 7:00pm

John Snow House

Moustache: Performing Masculinity

Event

Thursday, October 25, 2012 — 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Nickle Galleries

Where Where There There

Exhibition

Friday, October 26, 2012 - Friday, November 23, 2012

Stride Gallery

WORK FROM NOWHERE WORK FOR NO ONE

Exhibition

Friday, October 26, 2012 - Friday, November 23, 2012

Pith Gallery & Studios

Documentation