TAKE OUT / PRÊT À EMPORTER
Performance Recipes for Public Space / Recettes de performance pour l'espace public

Grab a copy of TAKE OUT: Performance Recipes for Public Space and cook up your own street flavours. La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse in Montreal continues its practice of getting art outside of the white cube and into the public sphere with its latest publication delicacy. Waiting to be performed in public outdoor spaces everywhere are twelve hot step-by-step performance recipes by local, national and international artists. TAKE OUT is about sharing, transmitting and experiencing contemporary performance art with dishes designed to satisfy both individuals and groups. Whether artist or non-artist, young or old, male or female, creative sustenance is guaranteed to all who partake.Dig in and enjoy:

Vida Simon's Public Yawning
Essi Kausalainen's Trust
Colette Urban's Kopfstand
Nathalie Derome & Anna Beaudin's Three Huggers
Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan's SML
Mara Verna's A Touch of Class
Tagny Duff's Make your own Fictional Weapons of Mass Destruction
Johanna Householder's Diversionary Targets
Suzanne Joly & Sylvie Tourangeau's Take the Pulse of a Taboo
Julie Andrée T's Anthology of Displacement
Pam Patterson's Breast Cancer Bomb
Marie-Suzanne Désilet'' Pigeon à la Nasturtium

24 cards in French and English, $10, members price $8 © La Centrale 2004
ISBN 2-9808648-0-3

This project was entirely financed from the operating budget of La Centrale, who thank the following organisations for their support: the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal et Le Fonds de stabilisation des arts et de la culture du Québec.