7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art 2024

Presented by Toronto Performance Art Collective (TPAC)

Tess Martens performing in Legs Toronto, 2023. Photo: Henry Chan

14th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art

October 8 – 13, 2024
Mainstage: 630 Queen Street East, Toronto
Additional Venues: 401 Richmond Street West & Hart House, Toronto
All events free or PWYC
Visit the 7a*11d website for full schedule details

Toronto Performance Art Collective (TPAC) is pleased to announce the 14th edition of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. As always, this year’s festival attempts to nurture an appreciation for the breadth, depth and diversity of performance art practices, offering a plurality of voices, a range of approaches, and artists at varying career stages, from emerging talents to senior practitioners. Join us for daytime durational performances, lunchtime artist talks, and evening showcases.

Also, this year we honour our two “Éminences Grises”—Tanya Mars and Andrew James Paterson—with a feature exhibition of performance-related video works God Play, sponsored by Vtape, runs at the Bashir/Yerex Presentation Space until October 19, 401 Richmond Street West, #440.

This year’s panoply of performances and art actions is both engaged and engaging. These are works that offer audiences possibilities for hope, joy, humour, and a renewed sense of meaningfulness. They do this by tackling big issues at an intimate scale that privileges the personal and the intimate. They offer opportunities to celebrate human bodies in their myriad glorious potentials. They seek a sense of connection where individuals can feel seen, and differences can be acknowledged and respected. They craft experiences that can surprise and perhaps delight our senses even as they challenge our intellects and our established worldviews. They offer us ways to see our immediate surroundings anew.

Featured Artists

• Jess Dobkin | Laurel Green | Joyce LeeAnn Joseph | Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan (Canada and USA)
• seth cardinal dodginghorse (Tsuut’ina)
• Vanessa Godden (Canada)
• Emma-Kate Guimond with Rue Jovanovic (Canada)
• Anja Ibsch (Germany)
• Jessica Karuhanga (Canada)
• Lilith Artist Duo (Sweden)
• Tanya Mars (Canada)
• Tess Martens (Canada)
• Heidi Nagtegaal (Canada)
• Juma Pariri (Pindorama/Abya Yala)
• Andrew James Paterson (Canada)
• Tyler J. Sloane (Canada)
• Daisuke Takeya (Japan/Canada)

Artist Talks and Panels

• Tanya Mars in conversation with Shannon Cochrane
• seth cardinal dodginghorse
• Juma Pariri, Theo Jean Cuthand and Archer Pechawis
• Andrew James Paterson in conversation with Bridget Moser

About TPAC

Toronto Performance Art Collective is a not-for-profit, artist-driven collective that curates and produces the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, English Canada’s oldest ongoing biennial of performance art. In non-festival years collective members engage in a variety of other performance-based projects.

Accessibility

630 Queen Street is a split-level venue with accessible level street entrances for both sides; both entrances are located on the North side of Queen Street East. Moving between the two levels accessibly requires traversing via the exterior sidewalk.

401 Richmond Street West is an accessible venue with level entrance at the East end of the building on Richmond St. West.

Although Hart House has accessible entrances to its main floor from Tower Road and Hart House Circle, the rooms being used by the festival are on the second floor and can only be reached via interior stairwells. They are not currently wheelchair accessible.

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This project made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts. We are also thank our venues, co-presenters, and additional funders: Vtape, Hart House at the University of Toronto, Hemispheric Encounters, Tangled Art + Disability, and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.