The Fado Tables 2022

Response to three rooms in the FADO Performance Art Centre.

Part I Conference Room, Quiet conflicts
Part II Common Room, Inside Picnic
Part III Archives, Save the Clouds

On the Table Off the Table is a series of commissioned performance works engaging with the table as context, stage, and trope. Aspiring to aesthetic neutrality or demanding attention as a chosen object, the table reappears throughout the history of performance, at times taking center stage, at other times hiding in plain sight.

For this series, artists working at the confluence of performance art and a range of diverse practices— from writing to dance, from sound to magic—will create live work in conversation with performance traditions about, around, and on tables.

FADO Performance Art Centre’s first post -pandemic live series, On the Table Off the Table also intends to provide artists and audiences with an opportunity to re-learn together how to inhabit the space of public presentation, rediscovering the solitary workstation as a place of gathering and play.

Put together by Shannon Cochrane and Francesco Gagliardi

Photo credit: Henry Chan

Part I Conference Room, Quiet conflicts