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FADO PRESENTS ISTVAN KANTOR (TORONTO) ISTVAN KANTOR -- "The Addmore Session" March 24, 2001, 10 am - 5 pm Addmore Office Furniture, 82 Spadina Ave. Free "an office furniture hyper-vaudeville & information machinery trans-extravaganza" TORONTO, Canada ... On March 24, FADO will present "The Addmore Session", a new work by internationally acclaimed Toronto artist Istvan Kantor. Presented as part of FADO's PUBLIC SPACES/PRIVATE PLACES series, "The Addmore Session" is the latest installment in The File Cabinet Project, a body of work that Kantor has been developing since 1993. Audience members are invited to meet Kantor in his favorite environment, surrounded by file cabinets in one of Toronto's largest office furniture stores. Kantor and a number of guest performers will demonstrate the links between the office and the concert hall, information technology and sexual symbolism, communication and insanity. The all day program will include furniture-opera, desktop-dancing, cabinet-catwalking, office-crucifixion and more. Kantor explores the file cabinet as a sculptural element in machinery installations, performances and video productions. His interest is more than a physical fascination or aesthetic obsession with monolithic office furniture. In Kantor's hyper-theoretical interpretation, the world wide web is a machinery-monument of information storage furniture interconnected through computers. The gesture of moving cabinet drawers in and out, sliding them back and forth, becomes the engine of information exchange. Istvan Kantor (a.k.a. Monty Cantsin) is active in the fields of robotics, sound, video, performance and new media. His work has been shown at many prestigious international art events, including Documenta '87 and Ars Electronica 2000. He has received the Telefilm Canada Award for Best Canadian Video (1998 Images festival, Toronto), as well as the Transmediale 01 award in Berlin, Germany for his new video Broadcast. Infamous for his "blood-x donations" to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the National Gallery (Ottawa), AGO (Toronto), and the Ludwig Museum (Koln), just to mention a few, Kantor/Cantsin's criminal records are even longer than his list of awards.. The media and critics have described his work as rebellious, anti-authoritarian, and intellectually assaulting, as well as technically innovative and highly experimental. Internationally known as the founder of Neoism, Kantor has lived in Budapest, Paris, Montreal, Portland and New York. He has lived in Toronto since 1991. PUBLIC SPACES/PRIVATE PLACES is a three-year long international performance art series featuring over 25 artists from Canada, the US, Europe and Asia. The series explores the elements that turn neutral 'space' into meaningful 'place' through performances that examine the degrees of intimacy, connection and interaction that mark the dividing line between public and private. The series is particularly focused on performances created for intimate audiences. Some projects feature site-specific or installational environments that invite participants into a sensory or experiential journey. Others are process-oriented, involving public intervention, intimate gestures, or actions that may, by their nature, be nearly invisible. Above all, the series explores the points where identity and geography intersect to generate meaning. Special thanks to Addmore Office Furniture. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold