TouVA Proudly Announces the Launch of the new publication, The 7th Sense!
TouVA est fière d’annoncer le lancement de la publication Le 7e sens !

The 7th Sense: Practicing Dialogues / Practicing Workshops / Practicing the Daily Performative / Practicing Performance Art

Comprised of essays, a glossary, as well as contributions by 30 contemporary performance artists, The 7th Sense surveys the performative in, with and through language. It explores a vocabulary as a process of naming, and of articulating what happens before, during and after a performative action; to express what is experienced by the artist who proposes a work, and by the audience who receives it.

The TouVA collective presents a series of reflections which are to be understood in relationship to their artworks, and to the workshops that Sylvie Tourangeau, Victoria Stanton and Anne Bérubé have both taken or facilitated. Three practitioners’ voices offer multiple perspectives, plural yet singular, to consider the performative as an art, or as a way of life; they delineate a kind of pathway that invites the emergence and recognition of an increased sensibility in this vibrant and fleeting performative: a 7th Sense.

ISBN 978-2-923612-54-6
$40 (special launch price: $30)
360pp
Published by SAGAMIE édition d’art and M:ST

About TouVA
Founded in the spring of 2007, the TouVA Collective (Sylvie Tourangeau, Victoria Stanton and Anne Bérubé) – a group of artist-researchers interested in a profound exploration of “the performative” – has been researching the practice of performance through multiple frameworks and approaches: presenting relational/site-specific performances and dynamic artist talks, along with conducting workshops and offering coaching to artists in a variety of contexts – including international festivals.

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MONTREAL LAUNCH DATES

▷ October 3rd, 2017
Artexte, 2 Sainte Catherine St. E, #301
• 6 – 8pm: Double launch with More Caught in the Act
as part of VIVA! Art action festival
http://vivamontreal.org/2017/projects/#book-launch

▷ December 8th, 2017
Skol, 372 Sainte-Catherine St. West, #314
• 5 – 7pm: Launch, presentation & book signing
• 8 – 11pm: Gala Performance Soirée
http://skol.ca/en/programming/le-7e-sens-publication/

▷ December 10th, 2017
Skol, 372 Sainte-Catherine St. West, #314
• 2 – 4pm: Performative conference
http://skol.ca/en/programming/le-7e-sens-publication/

MORE LAUNCH DATES

▷ Calgary
October 14th, 2017
Untitled Arts Society, 343 – 11th Avenue, SW
• 3 – 5pm: Performance procession with participants of the intensive performance art workshop, Infiltrating and Relational Practice in Public Space II (as part of the City of Calgary’s Public Art 101 Sessions)
• 7 – 9pm: Launch, presentation & book signing (with publisher M:ST)
launch info on Facebook

▷ Sept-Îles
November 10, 2017
Musée régional de la Côte-Nord, 500, boulevard Laure
• 6 – 8pm: Launch, presentation & book signing

▷ Carleton, Gaspé
November 16, 2017
Centre Vaste et Vague 774, boulevard Perron
• 7 – 9pm: Launch, presentation & book signing

SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE $30

Stay tuned for more launch dates announced in Quebec and beyond in 2018
http://touva.net (NEW WEBSITE also being launched on Oct. 3rd!)