Detail of En Masse’s installation at Sheroes: Virtual Season.

Live in Toronto? En Masse’s amazing black and white mural for Sheroes: Virtual Season still stands. Just head over to the backlot of El Gordo Fine Foods to see.

(For more amazing documentation of En Masse’s Virtual Season work, click here.)

15.08.2012 | 4 notes | tags:

I like the relationship to fandom that you talk about, but I think one thing that is pretty interesting about Sheroes is that often you have artists with very little relationship with a celebrity’s image or work contributing. It’s sort of posing as the actions of fans, but really it’s something else, or maybe it’s positioned as fandom.

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Next part of a series of posts focusing on the Sheroes event series is up on Triangulation Blog!

Click for “an email dialogue between (founder) Rea McNamara, (curator and participating artist) Lorna Mills and (participating artist) Andrew Benson.”

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28.07.2012 | 4 notes | tags:

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tonyhalmos:

July 29 at 2:00pm until July 30 at 1:00am
Let’s do this herstory right.

DAY / 2-9PM / 214 Augusta (backlot of El Gordo Foods)
NIGHT / 9PM-1AM / 58 Cecil Street (Cecil Street Community Center)

Co-presented by Sheroes (http://fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com/) and Whippersnapper Gallery (http://www.whippersnapper.ca/)

▬ THE BILL ▬

DAY | All Ages | FREE

»» PERFORMANCES ««
[#MúsicaGlamurosaDramática] LIDO PIMIENTA
[#DubPoetry] LILLIAN ALLEN
[#GypsyPunk] LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA
[#Folk] THE WEATHER STATION
[#LadyKillerOutkasts] BIZZARH
[#SoulFolk] ADA DAHLI
[#PerformanceArt] BASIL ALZERI
[#SoundPoetry] ZOË ALEXIS-ABRAMS
[#PositiveVibrations] DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE

»» SOUNDS ««
[#Chunes] DJ NOLOVES
[#Chunes] DJ EL MACHETERO

»» INSTALLATIONS ««
[#SheroesRings] BARBIE’S BASEMENT JEWELLERY
[#VirtualSeasonMas] BRIANNA MCCARTHY
[#NailArtBar] SMACK OF THE HAND
[#LeagueOfLegendaryLadiesEffigies] KIRSTEN MCCREA

»» VISUALS ««
[#LivePainting] EN MASSE

NIGHT | 19+ | $8 (http://www.ticketpicket.com/virtualseason) / $10 (IRL)

»» PERFORMANCES ««
[#EternalHopeInTheFaceOfEverydayDespair] MARKER STARLING (the artist formerly known as MANTLER)
[#ApocalypticallyGay] KIDS ON TV
[#MusicMakingMagicalMushroom] LAL
[#Vogue] HOUSE OF MONROE

»» SOUNDS ««
[#Chunes] DJ COZMIC CAT

»» INSTALLATIONS ««
[#OutdoorShrine] ULYSSES CASTELLANOS
[#IndoorShrine] RUSIKO
[#SheroesRings] BARBIE’S BASEMENT JEWELLERY
[#NailArtBar] SMACK OF THE HAND
[#LeagueOfLegendaryLadiesEffigies] KIRSTEN MCCREA

»» VISUALS ««
[#GIFs] ADAM HARMS / BLINKING GIRLS (EMILIE GERVAIS & SARAH WEIS) / GABY CEPEDA / ROLLIN LEONARD
[#ReunionTour] LORNA MILLS curates the greatest hits from Sheroes’ past group GIF shows
[#VJ] INFINITY DOSE

Virtual Season is an all-day & night art and music festival in the vein of the Ancient Greek theatre festivals or the Latin American Saint Days. Featuring a stellar line-up of local bands and international artists, a frenetic assemblage of performance art, music, GIF and GIF-based video art, DIY projects and various activities will reinterpret and remix the mythic woman-power that pervades digital and actual cultures.

Virtual Season is the gala closing event of Sheroes’ 2011/2012 programming series, which brings together on and offline works that playfully and performatively explore the iconography and fan culture surrounding the “League of Legendary Ladies”. The Toronto event will be co-presented with Artist-Run Centre Whippersnapper, which supports the work of new generation Canadian visual, new media and performance artists.

▬ TL;DR? ▬

»» DO EXPECT ««
#HelpfulHenryTheHousewifesDelight #DoYouFeelForMeTheWayIFeelForYou? #NamMyohoRengeKyo #PillowFace #ImaginePeace #Baduizm #CigaretteBurnTattoos #BrokenEnglish #Dollywood #QueenNanny #PandaEyes #Genius

»» DON’T EXPECT ««
#Woodstock #MaryJ #Ike #SeanPenn #14YearOldBeatleFans #GroupThink #BeysusChrist #MickJagger #Wrinkles #Shade #WhiteSoul #Labels

RSVP!

28.07.2012 | 8 notes | tags:

OMFG I Want To Go To Virtual Season But Where Do I Buy My Tix?!?

sheroesvirtualseason:

Sheroic friendz, we’re here to help.

Tickets for our amazing night programming — MANTLER! LAL! KIDS ON TV! HOUSE OF MONROE! COZMIC CAT! — are now available at Rotate This (801 Queen St W.) and Soundscapes (572 College St.). Damage? $10.

But if the IRL is too much, you can purchase $8 tickets ONLINE.

25.07.2012 | 3 notes | tags:

Sheroes’ pre-internet-isms go further. McNamara calls herself Sheroes’ “salonnière,” bringing to mind modernist figures like Gertrude Stein and Natalie Barney and the avant-garde movements they helped propagate. Sheroes’ latest project, Virtual Season , takes the concept full circle. An all-day, all-night outdoor and indoor extravaganza, co-presented by Whippersnapper Gallery, Virtual Season marks the end of Sheroes’ first run. Here, all of the Sheroes—Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, Madonna, Yoko Ono, Erykah Badu, Etta James, Marianne Faithfull, Dolly Parton, Grace Jones, Dusty Springfield and Nina Simone—converge. The women are conjured by McNamara and various performers in a kind of séance of the dead and absent, recalling pagan and Christian festivals from Ancient Egypt and Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. The worship is charged and cultish: snobbish, one might say. But it is also radically interpretive and fan-positive. Sheroes wants to liberate, and represents the liberation of, those who really get it.

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Toronto writer/critic David Balzer essay “Is She a Snob?” has been posted for online publication w/the renowned Triangulation Blog.

It will be part of a series of posts focusing on the Sheroes event series, which will include “an email dialogue between (founder) Rea McNamara, (curator and participating artist) Lorna Mills and (participating artist) Andrew Benson. Also we will have several individually interviews from different participating artists involved in SHEROES!!”

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FUCK YEAH

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24.07.2012 | 2 notes | tags:

The League of Legendary Ladies unites for their so-called first reunion tour, “Virtual Season”

sheroesvirtualseason:

THE ACCLAIMED AND MUCH-LOVED MONTHLY PARTY SHEROES BECOMES ALL-DAY, ALL-NIGHT IDOLATROUS FESTIVAL WITH VIRTUAL SEASON

Herstory finally done right.

Sunday, July 29, 2012, 2PM-1AM in Toronto’s Kensington Market during P.S. Kensington

Co-presented by
SHERO ES + Whippersnapper

RSVP TO THE FB EVENT / TIX FOR OUR NIGHT PROGRAMME ARE NOW AVAIL TO BUY ONLINE

SHEROES DAY
2-9 PM / 214 Augusta (backlot of El Gordo Foods) / All Ages / Free

[#MúsicaGlamurosaDramática] LIDO PIMIENTA

[#DubPoetry] LILLIAN ALLEN

[#GypsyPunk] THE LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA

SHEROES NIGHT
9PM-1AM / 58 Cecil Street (Cecil Street Community Centre) / 19+ / $8 (ONLINE) / $10 (IRL at Rotate This & Soundscapes starting Wednesday, July 18)

[#EternalHopeInTheFaceOfEverydayDespair] MARKER STARLING (the artist formerly known as MANTLER)

[#ApocalypticallyGay] KIDS ON TV

[#MusicMakingMagicalMushroom] LAL

AND MORE! Click here for our full day & night music & performance lineup.

Virtual Season is an all-day & night art and music festival in the vein of the Ancient Greek theatre festivals or the Latin American Saint Days. Featuring a stellar line-up of local bands and international artists, a frenetic assemblage of performance art, music, GIF and GIF-based video art, DIY projects and various activities will reinterpret and remix the mythic celebrity worship that pervades digital and actual cultures.

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OH HAI THURRR SHEROES: VIRTUAL SEASON TUMBLR!!!!11

If you’re keen to keep up with the end of Sheroes, you’ll be excited know that this month will not only culminate with our closing event, Sheroes #12: Nina Simone (Thursday, July 26), but also our massive gala closing all-day and night art & music festival that we’re co-presenting with local Artist-Run Centre Whippersnapper (Sunday, July 29).

We’ll be regularly updating the site, spotlighting musical acts, performers, artists & even delving into the mythic woman power chorus herstory of the League of Legendary Ladies.

17.07.2012 | 8 notes | tags:

∞ Sheroes: Virtual Season: 5 Oh So Necessary Virtual Season Updates

OMFG I Want To Go To Virtual Season But Where Do I Buy My Tix?!?

The League of Legendary Ladies unites for their so-called first reunion tour, “Virtual Season”