CALENDAR OF EVENTS | MARCH 2008

FORUM
Moore, Mussels and Modernism
Saturday 1 March | 4 pm

To mark his exhibition at The Power Plant, Simon Starling joins art historians and curators to consider questions of cultural and environmental contamination, with particular reference to the reception of Henry Moore's work in Toronto. Gregory Burke, Director of The Power Plant, chairs a panel with Reid Shier, Director of Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, PhD candidate Sarah Stanners, whose research addresses the polemics generated by Henry Moore's work in Toronto, and Mark Cheetham, University of Toronto art historian who is interested in notions of cosmopolitanism and regionalism in the contemporary art world.

$4 Members
$6 Non-Members
The Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay Terminal

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Sandra Rechico & Gwen MacGregor
Sunday 2 March | 2 pm

Sandra Rechico is a Toronto artist who draws, teaches and sometimes curates. Gwen MacGregor is a Toronto-based multi-media artist.

FREE with gallery admission

FILM
Annie Pootoogook
Directed by Marcia Connolly, Produced by Katherine Knight
Thursday 6 March | 7 pm

Director Marcia Connolly and producer Katherine Knight introduce this one-off screening of their documentary about Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook. Pootoogook describes her drawing process and the personal experiences that inform her art. Images of the Arctic landscape, her Cape Dorset community, domestic interiors, her artwork and a series of interviews capture the artist's perspective. The film contextualizes Pootoogook as a third-generation contemporary female artist at a threshold of opportunity as she prepares and attends an important solo exhibition at The Power Plant.

Following the screening curator Nancy Campbell, who organized Annie Pootoogook's first solo exhibition at a public gallery at The Power Plant in 2005, joins the filmmakers in discussion.

Annie Pootoogook (2006) produced by Katherine Knight and Site Media Inc. in association with Bravo! Canada, The Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, the Ontario Arts Council, APTN, and the Power Plant.

$4 Member
$6 Non-Members
The Power Plant

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Pamela Meredith
Sunday 9 March | 2 pm

Pamela Meredith is a freelance curator, writer and educator. Her most recent exhibition was As it Seems at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto.

FREE with gallery admission

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Dot Tuer
Sunday 16 March | 2 pm

Dot Tuer is a writer, cultural historian and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her writing on contemporary art concerns the intersections of history, memory, and technology.

FREE with gallery admission

FILM
Sadie Benning: Selections
Wednesday 19 March | 7 pm

At age fifteen, Sadie Benning sparked international attention with videos that she had made with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision toy camera. Shot in her bedroom and featuring herself, these intimate, funny, and revealing missives explored Benning's emerging lesbian consciousness. Throughout her work Benning embraces low-tech, DIY production techniques, including co-founding the feminist post-punk band Le Tigre in the late 1990s. She received a Rockefeller grant when she was nineteen and was included in the Whitney Biennial in 1993 at age twenty. In 2007 the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, organized 'Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation', her first museum retrospective.

This one-night screening includes highlights from Benning's oeuvre, from early autobiographical classics such as Jollies (1990) and Me and Rubyfruit (1989) to animated shorts which aired on MTV, The Judy Spots (1995), and Benning's acclaimed featurette, Flat Is Beautiful (1998).

$4 Member
$6 Non-Members
The Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West

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Ginger Scott
Sunday 23 March | 2 pm

Ginger Scott is a student at the University of Toronto's Museum Studies program and a Curatorial Intern at The Power Plant.

FREE with gallery admission

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Derek Sullivan
Sunday 30 March | 2 pm

Derek Sullivan is a Toronto-based artist represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects.

FREE with gallery admission