JANUARY 08 | CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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Miles Collyer
Sunday 06 January | 2 pm

Miles Collyer is a visual artist and the Shop Manager at Art Metropole.

FORUM
LEAVE THE HALL: METAL VERSUS THE MAINSTREAM
Monday 07 January | 7 pm

Once widely dismissed as a deviant, marginal subculture, Heavy Metal has recently been valorized as a lifestyle and creative force. Yet this shift to the mainstream has met opposition both within and outside the Metal community. While films such as Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005) propose that Metal is ripe for critical re-evaluation, exhibiting artist Steven Shearer's pictures of disaffected long-haired youths suggest that such legitimization contradicts Metal's dissident spirit. New music historian and EDGE 102.1 program director Alan Cross chairs a discussion on music, youth, resistance, and identity formation with panelists including Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen, Writers/Directors/Producers of the film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey; and Susan Cross, McMaster University Professor and author of Led Zeppelin, Rock Culture and Subjectivity (Oxford University Press, 2001).

$6 | $4 members
The Power Plant.

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Alan Zweig
Sunday 13 January | 2 pm

Alan Zweig is a filmmaker and Director of the autobiographical film trilogy Vinyl; I, Curmudgeon; and Lovable.

FILM
DROP THE CAMERA: APPROPRIATED FOOTAGE, CULTURAL ANXIETIES
Steven Shearer, Nigel Prince, Helena Reckitt
Thursday 17 January | 7 pm

Sampling sound and image, a new generation of artists is taking film and video footage from its original narrative contexts to generate fresh meanings and relevance. This one-night screening considers how we understand and circulate images today, with a reference to the use of found imagery by artists in our winter exhibitions. Drop the Camera features work by artists that challenge ideas about authorship and intellectual property while meditating upon contemporary social and political anxieties.

Featuring:
Steve Reinke's The Mendi (2006)
Nicolas Provost's Gravity (2007)
Dara Gellman and Leslie Peter's Impossible Landscapes (2006)
Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller's Kristall (2006)
Aleesa Cohene's Ready to Cope (2006)
Nguyen Tan Hoang's A Horse, A Filipino and Two Officers (2005)
Eduardo Menz's racas (2007)
Heidi Phillips' Isolating Landscapes (2007)
Seth Price's Proposal for New Video Transition (2004).

$6 | $4 members
The Power Plant.

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Stephen Andrews and Swapna Tamhane
Sunday 20 January | 2 pm

Stephen Andrews is the subject of the current solo exhibition Cartoon at The Power Plant, curated by Swapna Tamhane.

LIVE
Nicholas and Sheila Pye
Tuesday 22 January | 7 pm

This will be the first public performance by Toronto artists Nicholas and Sheila Pye, the collaborative duo whose videos and staged photographs draw on the history of performance art and vaudeville to explore tropes of auto-eroticism, narcissism, and co-dependence. Responding to themes of gender politics and sexuality in the work of exhibiting artists Steven Shearer and Andrea Bowers, they present a fable-filled world where masculine and feminine collide. Work by Nicholas and Sheila Pye has been exhibited and screened internationally and was recently acquired by the Hirshhorn Museum, DC.

$4 | $2 members
The Power Plant.

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Sarah Quinton
Sunday 27 January | 2 pm

Sarah Quinton is Senior Curator at The Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto.

INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES
Matthew Higgs
Thursday 31 January | 7 pm

Matthew Higgs is a New York-based critic, artist, and Director and Chief Curator of White Columns, the city's oldest alternative, non-profit art space. Since 2004 he has organized over fifty exhibitions and projects at White Columns, featuring 250 international artists of all generations. Higgs' artwork often takes the form of framed book pages, exhibition catalogues and photographs in the form of 'found conceptual art'. He wrote about the work of Steven Shearer for Artforum in 2002 and contributes regularly to their pages. For The Power Plant ILS, Higgs discusses current critical and curatorial practices.

$10 | FREE members
The Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West.