DECEMBER 07 | CALENDAR OF EVENTS

ARTIST AND CURATORS TOUR
Steven Shearer, Nigel Prince, Helena Reckitt
Saturday 01 December | 5 pm

Exhibiting artist Steven Shearer leads a gallery walk-through with Nigel Prince, Curator of the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, and Helena Reckitt, Senior Curator of Programs, The Power Plant.

FREE with gallery admission
The Power Plant.

LECTURE
Andrea Bowers
Saturday 01 December | 6:30 pm

As part of International World AIDS Day, exhibiting artist Andrea Bowers discusses her installation, The Weight of Relevance, an installation comprising video, textiles and drawings concerning the AIDS Memorial Quilt, an enormous textile made by thousands of people that memorializes the lives of the people who have died of AIDS-related illnesses. Her installation focuses on the current status of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and on the people who maintain and display this monumental cultural artifact.

$6 | $4 members
The Power Plant.

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Allyson Mitchell
Sunday 02 December | 2 pm

Allyson Mitchell is a Toronto-based maximalist artist working predominantly in sculpture, installation, performance and film. You can see her work at allysonmitchell.com.

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Kym Pruesse
Sunday 09 December | 2 pm

Kym Pruesse is an artist, writer, curator and Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

LECTURE
John Oswald
Tuesday 11 December | 7 pm

Regarded by many as the inventor of appropriation art, and a major influence on the work of exhibiting artist Steven Shearer, John Oswald is a recent Governor General Award Media Arts Laureate, Ars Electronica Digital Musics and Untitled Arts Award winner, as well as the fourth inductee into the CBC Alternative Walk of Fame. Oswald has also been nominated to third place in a list of the most internationally influential Canadian musicians, tied with Celine Dion. He has just completed working with the Continuum contemporary music ensemble, the NOW jazz orchestra, and the BBC Scottish Orchestra, who performed a retrospective of his concert works. He is currently preparing visual and sound installations for 2007, including a permanent aural environment for the ROM's Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, and a video for Canada's largest LCD screen in Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto.

$6 | $4 members
The Power Plant.

LECTURE
Seth Price
Friday 14 December | 7 pm

New York artist Seth Price appropriates early sampler-based academic music, anonymous Internet-circulated video, and art historical imagery to reflect upon media technologies and information systems. In this event he introduces selections of his film work and discusses his practice. Price's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York and The Art Gallery of Ontario, at group shows at The Kitchen, New York, and the Serpentine Gallery, London, and major exhibitions including the 2007 Lyon Biennale and the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Price is a member of the art and publishing collective Continuous Project with Bettina Funcke, Wade Guyton and Joseph Logan.

$6 | $4 members
The Power Plant.

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Bryne McLaughlin
Sunday 16 December | 2 pm

Bryne McLaughlin is a writer and the Managing Editor of Canadian Art magazine.

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Animateur Tour
Sunday 23 December | 2 pm

A guided tour through the current exhibitions by one of the The Power Plant's Animateurs.

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Emma Couttreau
Sunday 30 December | 2 pm

Emma Couttreau is an art history graduate of McGill University and a Curatorial Intern at The Power Plant.