CALENDAR OF EVENTS | AUGUST 2008

SATURDAY PLAYLIST
Dario Robleto
Saturday, 2 August | 2-8 PM

Dario Robleto is based in San Antonio, Texas, and is a participating artist in 'Not Quite How I Remember It'.

FREE

SUNDAY SCENE
Brenda Goldstein
Sunday 3 August | 2 pm

Brenda Goldstein is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist, writer and curator. Her work uses video, film, performance, and installation to make visible the more elusive aspects of human experience by representing uncanny parallel universes loaded with opposing systems and ideas.

FREE

SATURDAY PLAYLIST
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Saturday, 9 August | 2-8 PM

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard are artists who have collaborated since the early nineties. Their projects embrace live performance, music, film, and video. They are currently working on video series with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

FREE

SUNDAY SCENE
Gregory Elgstrand
Sunday 10 August | 2 pm

Gregory Elgstrand is a Toronto-based curator and writer. He is co-editor of a survey of artist multiples that will be published by YYZBOOKS in 2009.

FREE

FILM
Am I Repeating Yourself?
Wednesday, 25 June | 7 PM
Wednesday, 9 July | 7 PM
Wednesday, 13 August | 7 PM

Three nights of artists' films linked to our current exhibition. Affectionate Homages and Hostile Takeovers features artistic remakes that range from the reverential to the mischievous. History in the Remaking presents efforts to restage and revisit the political, social and artistic past. Together these films posit the generative and critical potential of adaptation and repetition. Featuring films by John Baldessari, Mike Kelley/Paul McCarthy, Felix Gmelin, Zin Taylor, Jill Godmillow, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, A S M Kobayashi, Elisabeth Subrin, T. R. Uthco and Ant Farm, Anri Sala and Magnus Bartas.

$4 Members
$6 Non-Members (each evening)
The Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre

Wednesday, 13 August | 7 PM
HISTORY IN THE REMAKING

T. R. Uthco and Ant Farm, The Eternal Frame, 1976, 22 min., 12 sec.
Footage of T.R. Uthco and Ant Farm's re-enactment of the assassination of JFK at its original site in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, combined with spectator responses, footage of the original event, and a mock documentary.

Anri Sala, Intervista, 1998, 26 min.
Sala finds a silent newsreel of his mother as a young Communist making a speech and giving an interview. Intervista documents his attempt to match dialogue to the footage and his presentation of the result to his mother.

Magnus Bartas, Kumiko, Johnnie Walker & the Cute, 2006-2007, 50 min. Inspired by a Chris Marker film about Tokyo, Kumiko, Johnnie Walker & the Cute traces Marker's movements, and personal connections in Tokyo and Paris, commenting on reading, storytelling, self-loss, authorial control, and animal/human relations.

SATURDAY PLAYLIST
Nicholas Pye & Sheila Pye
Saturday, 16 August | 2-8 PM

Nicholas Pye and Sheila Pye maintain an active, collaborative art practice which integrates their collective interests in performance, cinema and large-format photography.

FREE

SUNDAY SCENE
Jennifer Matotek
Sunday 17 August | 2 pm

Jennifer Matotek is a video-maker, multi-disciplinary artist and curator. Formerly employed in programming departments at The Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Hamilton, she is pursuing a joint MA/MBA at York University.

FREE

SATURDAY PLAYLIST
Instant Coffee
Saturday, 23 August | 2-8 PM

Instant Coffee is a service-oriented artists' collective based in Toronto and Vancouver. IC has declared this THE YEAR OF BRIGHT DAYS.

FREE

SUNDAY SCENE
Molly Sigalet & Andrea Raymond
Sunday 24 August | 2 pm

Molly Sigalet is an MA candidate in Art History at York University and an emerging curator and a Curatorial Intern at The Power Plant. Andrea Raymond is a graduate of OCAD and a Curatorial Intern at The Power Plant.

FREE

LECTURE
Dan Adler: Hanne Darboven and Cultural History
Thursday 28 August | 7 pm

In tandem with our summer exhibition, 'Not Quite How I Remember It,' art critic and art historian Dan Adler discusses German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven's work on time, history and memory. Adler focuses on the monumental piece Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983) (1980-1983). Comprising 590 wall-mounted panels of uniform size and format and nineteen objects, the work traces one hundred years of history via images and texts that include postcards, art reproductions, portraits of film stars, and the covers of weekly magazines. Many bear handwritten notes and quotations. Beginning with the date, whose numbers are manipulated into a temporal and chronological system, the work constructs an encompassing, encyclopedic archive that fuses public history and collective memory with personal experience.

Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Guelph, Dan Adler specializes in the history of art writing and the aesthetics of installation art. He has published in Art History and regularly contributes to Artforum and Canadian Art. His study of Darboven's Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 will be published by Afterall books.

$4 Members
$6 Non-Members
The Power Plant

SUNDAY SCENE
Gabrielle Moser
Sunday 31 August | 2 pm

Gabrielle Moser is a writer and independent curator studying art history at York University and a Curatorial Intern at The Power Plant.

FREE

SATURDAY PLAYLIST
Animateurs
Saturday, 30 August | 2-8 PM

The final Saturday Playlist of the summer features music selected by The Power Plant's animateurs.

FREE