Surprise performance

12/01/2022

https://www.artforum.com/print/202210/the-year-in-performance-89650

I love a good year end list

CAN AN ARTIST HIT THE JUGULAR while they’re reaching for the wallet at the same time? Only if the wallet and the jugular are the same thing. In the cultural devolution of “audience” to “eyeballs,” perhaps no genre has so loudly insisted on its robust resistance to power as comedy—and per...

08/25/2022

The Stage Manager can take of the plants
new collaboration creation
first test version(s) - Fall 2022

01/13/2022

https://soundcloud.com/chad-dembski/wants-song

song written Videofag way back in 2015 (or so).

from TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT, WHAT YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT November 2015 Videofag residency series Toronto, Ontario, Canada Written and performed by Chad Dembski produced by Videofag and surprise perfor

01/12/2022

https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/theater-festivals-are-mostly-offbut-heres-what-you-can-see.html

Some productions are streaming, others are open-air, and a couple are hoping to get onstage later in the month.

05/07/2021

https://www.performa-arts.org/

PERFORMA is offering fantastic video of their 2019 festival on rotation on their site. I especially adore AS DEEP AS I COULD REMEMBER, AS FAR AS I COULD SEE by Tarik Kiswanson (1am, 1pm EST daily).

“It’s a risk, an experiment. What I love about Performa is that RoseLee is really asking artists to open their minds.”

04/17/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1-DgU5kipA

The wonderful folks at XOSECRET and Rich Aucoin

Album Link: https://orcd.co/unitedstatesVideo Credits:CREATED by Dustin HarveyANIMATIONS by Aiden SearlePERFORMED by Stephanie Yee, James MacLean, Luke Mohan...

02/04/2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/theater/video-screens-technology.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage

interesting read featuring GOB SQUAD The Wooster Group Big Art Group Manual Cinema

Is theater even theater when you watch it on your laptop? Ask the artists who’ve blurred the boundaries between live and filmed performance for years.

11/19/2020

https://chaddembski.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/how-to-continue/

I haven’t created a new show on my own since 2015. I have worked on other creations both in Toronto and Montréal but not my own creation per se. I did a workshop at Studio 303 with Jaamil Ola…

11/12/2020

Reminded by Lo Bil about this post from over 7 years ago. The idea still intrigues me and not sure why I dumped it so quick.

LOOKING FOR COLLABORATORS I am creating a new experimental multi-disciplinary piece about the best live experience memory you can remember. It could be a wedding, a concert, your 16th birthday, a …