CALENDAR OF EVENTS | JULY 2008

SATURDAY PLAYLIST
Adam Harrison
Saturday, 5 July | 2-8 PM

Adam Harrison is a Vancouver-based artist working principally in photography and is represented by Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver and Toronto. He also co-curates CSA Space, a self-funded, independent project space.

FREE

SUNDAY SCENE
Cheryl Sourkes
Sunday 6 July | 2 pm

Cheryl Sourkes is a photo and time-based digital artist based in Toronto and Manchester, UK. She curates Toronto's akau project space for pure pleasure.

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, 9 July | 7 PM
AFFECTIONATE HOMAGES AND HOSTILE TAKEOVERS, PART 2

Jill Godmillow, What Farocki Taught, 1998, 30 min.
A frame-by-frame recreation of Harun Farocki's 1969 Inextinguishable Fire - a film about civilian responsibility for the development of Napalm B during the Vietnam War.

Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, File Under Sacred Music, 22 min. The artists take an infamous video documenting a live performance by the Cramps for patients at Napa Mental Institute, California, on 13 June 1978 as the original source to remake. Forsyth and Pollard re-enacted that legendary performance in order to film it and remake the rarely seen video document.

A S M Kobayashi, Dan Carter, 2006, 15 min. The acquisition of a discarded answering machine that once belonged to a man called Dan Carter prompts Kobayashi to invent characters and roles for the recorded voices, creating an exaggerated portrait of the man and his circle.

Elisabeth Subrin, Shulie, 1997, 36 min., 30 sec. An exploration of feminism's undetonated past, Shulie is a shot-by-shot remake of a 1967 documentary about a prominent feminist activist and writer.

SATURDAY PLAYLIST
Matthew Higgs
Saturday, 12 July | 2-8 PM

Matthew Higgs is the Director and Chief Curator of White Columns, New York's oldest alternative art space. In Northern England in the late 1970s he published the fanzine Photophobia and occasionally promoted concerts in his home town of Chorley. In January 1981, aged 16, he organized one of New Order's first concerts, and has been organizing things ever since.

FREE

SUNDAY SCENE
Zin Taylor
Sunday 13 July | 2 pm

Zin Taylor is an artist based in Toronto. He is represented by Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin and Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto.

FREE

SATURDAY PLAYLIST
Dean Baldwin
Saturday, 19 July | 2-8 PM

Toronto's Dean Baldwin is represented by the Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects. He likes a nice Brandy Alexander on a cool winter's night.

FREE

SUNDAY SCENE
Andrea Carson
Sunday 20 July | 2 pm

An art writer and curator based in Toronto, Carson's writing appears in Canadian and international publications. She is founder and publisher of the online resource, View on Canadian Art.

FREE

SATURDAY PLAYLIST
Kelly Mark
Saturday, 26 July | 2-8 PM

Kelly Mark is a Toronto artist who works in a variety of media including drawing, sculpture, photography, installation, sound, multiples, video, and public interventions. She is represented by Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Tracey Lawrence Gallery and Paul Conway Editions.

FREE

SUNDAY SCENE
Alexandra Fraser & Eva Kolcze
Sunday 27 July | 2 pm

Alexandra Fraser holds a degree in Art History from the University of British Columbia. Her scholarly interests lie at the crossroads of art education, museum studies and cultural politics in both modern and contemporary contexts. Video and installation artist Eva Kolcze graduated from the Integrated Media Program at OCAD. Both are Curatorial Interns at The Power Plant.

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