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CALENDAR OF EVENTS | JUNE 2008
NOT QUITE HOW I REMEMBER IT
Opening Reception & Summer Party
Friday 6 June | 7:30 PM
Diane Borsato (Canada) / Gerard Byrne (Ireland) / Nancy Davenport (Canada) / Felix Gmelin (Sweden) / Sharon Hayes (USA) / Mary Kelly (USA) / Nestor Kruger (Canada) / Michael Maranda (Canada) / Olivia Plender (UK) / Walid Raad (Lebanon/USA) / Dario Robleto (USA) / Michael Stevenson (New Zealand) / Kelley Walker (USA) / Lee Walton (USA)
Curated by Helena Reckitt, Senior Curator of Programs
FREE
The Power Plant
231 Queens Quay West
FORUM
Let's Do It Again: Contemporary Art and Remaking
Saturday 7 June | 12-6:30 PM
This one-day symposium, developed in collaboration with art historian Amish Morrell, combines perspectives from artists, art historians and critics to consider the generative and critical potential of historical reconstruction and re-enactment. The afternoon is divided into three keynote lectures with breaks between panels and also includes a verbatim performance by Toronto artist Johanna Householder: The Subject of Art 2.0 Alain Badiou/Paul Miller.
$10 Members
$15 Non-Members
The Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
AMELIA JONES
Live Art in History: Remembering the Ephemeral Body
How are live events written into history (or not)? Exploring questions of documentation, re-enactment, history, and memory, Amelia Jones asks how and why particular bodies of knowledge get represented or remembered.
Professor and Pilkington Chair in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester, Amelia Jones is renowned for her work on the intersections of feminism, performance and contemporary art including Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada (2004) and Self Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (2006). She is co-editing the book Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History.
Jim Drobnick (Toronto critic, curator and art historian) responds and moderates questions.
DARIO ROBLETO
Artist Talk
San Antonio-based Dario Robleto has exhibited internationally. He has made solo exhibitions with institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, 2003, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2001, and participated in group shows such as 'Old, Weird America,' Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2008, and 'Ahistoric Occasion,' MASS MoCA, North Adams, 2006. Robleto creates intricate hand-made objects that result from intense periods of research, experimentation and fabrication. Mixing metaphors of DJ'ing, alchemy and the life sciences, his work embodies the generative potential of transformation. Just as a hip hop DJ treats the musical canon as an archive to be sampled and remixed, so Robleto fuses objects, substances and narratives into new constructions that are rich with historical association.
JAN VERWOERT
Living with Ghosts
Jan Verwoert lives in Berlin and is a contributing editor of frieze. He writes for publications including Afterall and Metropolis M and teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and at the Royal College of Art in London. His book Bas Jan Ader-In Search of the Miraculous was published in 2006 by Afterall Books/MIT Press.
Drawing upon Jacques Derrida's ideas of hauntology, Verwoert explores the move from appropriation to invocation in contemporary art.
RESPONSES AND CONVERSATION
Helena Reckitt, Senior Curator of Programs at The Power Plant and curator of 'Not Quite How I Remember It' chairs responses from the audience and invited guests including Amish Morrell (Toronto art historian and symposium consultant) and Jessica Wyman (Toronto curator and critic).
Let's Do It Again: Contemporary Art and Re-Enactment is presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Toronto
SUNDAY SCENE
Kerri Reid
Sunday 8 June | 2 pm
Born in Vancouver and now based in Toronto, Reid has participated in exhibitions in Lethbridge, Vancouver, and Toronto and has a solo show currently on view at Montreal's Centre des arts actuels Skol.
FREE
LOUNGE
PROCESS > PRODUCT
Sunday 8 June | 4-8 pm
Exploring the idea that the process of making music is as important as the product, Process>Product is an improvised music event led by musician and producer Noah Mintz. For the third event in the Process>Product series at The Power Plant-this time outside under the tent on the lakefront terrace-Mintz invites musicians of all ages and levels of experience, from beginner to professional, to bring their own handmade/homemade musical instruments to The Power Plant and to participate in an ongoing jam session.
Titled H2Orchestra, this installment of Process>Product is a collaborative event for all ages featuring the "Hydraulophone" water organ. Participants can to listen, play, bring their own pipes, use pipes provided, or help create working Hydraulophones.
Noah Mintz has been intregral to the Toronto indie rock scene since the early 1990s in bands like hHead and Noah's Arkweld. Process > Product events so far have attracted celebrated musicians including Hayden and Jeff Burke, Kurt Swinghammer, Simon Wilcox, and Michael Philip Wogiwoto.
Go to www.processproduct.ca for more information.
FREE to Members
$4 Non-Members
The Power Plant
SUNDAY SCENE
Lisa Deanne Smith
Sunday 15 June | 2 pm
Lisa Deanne Smith is an artist, educator and mother. She will be exhibiting this summer at Toronto's Convenience Gallery and teaches at Ontario College of Art & Design.
FREE
SUNDAY SCENE
Amish Morrell
Sunday 22 June | 2 pm
Amish Morrell is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, where he does work that examines how artists' re-stagings of historical images shapes conceptions of community and identity.
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, 25 June | 7 PM
AFFECTIONATE HOMAGES AND HOSTILE TAKEOVERS, PART 1
John Baldessari, John Baldessari Sings Sol le Witt, 1972, 12 min, 50 sec.
Modelling his performance on Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cole Porter, John Baldessari sings each of Sol LeWitt's thirty-five conceptual statements to a different pop tune.
Mike Kelley/Paul McCarthy, Fresh Acconci, 1995, 45 min.
The artists restage several 1970s Video Acconci performances, employing a cast of beautiful naked models and setting the film in a sun-drenched mansion on the California coast.
Felix Gmelin, Two Films Exchanging Soundtracks, 2003, 32 min.
Gmelin switches the didactic voiceovers of two films: the first, Michael Makritsch's Traktat (1967), argues that utopia is achieved through drug use; the second, Cecilia Lindqvist's Revolutionens barn (Children of the Revolution) (1974), explains that utopia results from intense discipline.
Zin Taylor, Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: A Conversational Documentary Recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-Net Station in Dawson City, Yukon, 2007, 22 min.
In his study of the construction of identity, Taylor explores the personalities that form a fantastic narrative around artist Martin Kippenberger's Metro-net subway entrance/sculpture Dawson City, Yukon Territory.
SUNDAY SCENE
Nina Levitt
Sunday 29 June | 2 pm
Levitt's photographic and media practice ranges from resurrecting lesbian pulp novel covers to recent video installations about women in space to her current obsession with women spies.
FREE
SATURDAY PLAYLIST
Nestor Kruger
Saturday, 28 June | 2-8 PM
Relax at our lakeside listening lounge and enjoy an exclusive mix of eclectic music selected by a different artist every Saturday from 28 June through to the end of our summer exhibition.
Nestor Kruger is a Toronto artist whose work is included in the current exhibition 'Not Quite How I Remember It.' He teaches sculpture and drawing at the University of Guelph.
FREE
