CALENDAR OF EVENTS | MAY 2008

INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES
Candice Breitz
Thursday 1 May | 7 pm

Candice Breitz is a Berlin-based South African artist who works in photography, video and other media, using popular imagery to expose the absurdity of how we construct meaning through stereotypes. Through darkly humorous and subversive tactics, Breitz scavenges and then synthesizes the overwhelming remains of vernacular media, striking out at visual and narrative conventions to reveal our fascination with celebrity culture. Borrowing from films such as Basic Instinct, The Witches of Eastwick, Dirty Harry, Kramer vs Kramer, and Postcards from the Edge, and investigating the fan subcultures of musicians including Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Bob Marley, Breitz takes a metaphorical scalpel to contemporary culture, revealing levels of intellectual, technical, and aesthetic sophistication.

Born in 1972 in Johannesburg, Breitz has participated in many major exhibitions including the Johannesburg, São Paulo, Istanbul, Kwangju, Taipei and Venice Biennales. She has had solo exhibitions at De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (2001), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), Modern Art Oxford (2003), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2005), and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005).

FREE to Members
$10 Non-Members
The Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West

SUNDAY SCENE
Stephanie Rogerson
Sunday 4 May | 2 pm

Stephanie Rogerson is the Exhibition Coordinator at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto.

FREE with gallery admission

SUNDAY SCENE
Elizabeth Legge
Sunday 11 May | 2 pm

Elizabeth Legge is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto, who works on Dada, Surrealism and British and Canadian contemporary art.

FREE with gallery admission

LIVE
Will Kwan
Sunday 11 May | 3 pm

Born in Hong Kong and based in Toronto, Will Kwan has performed and exhibited his work internationally. He received his MFA from Columbia University in 2004 and from 2005-06 was a research fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. His work has been presented at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, the 2003 Venice Biennale, the 2007 Montreal Biennale, the Duolun Museum of Modern Art and Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, Art in General in New York, the CAC Vilnius, the Polish National Museum in Poznan, and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy. Will Kwan teaches sculpture and post-studio practices at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Responding to Simon Starling's intervention in Lake Ontario, Will Kwan presents a new gallery performance that considers how national identity is delineated through a population's claims to land, landscape and environmental heritage.

FREE
The Power Plant

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Save the date!
THE ORIGINAL CONTEMPORARY ART PARTY
POWER BALL 10 | DECADANCE
Thursday 22 May, 2008

Power Ball was born on 1 June 1999 and out of the gates set the standard for ambitious, glitzy and outrageous art-party fundraisers. Power Ball turns 10 this year and to celebrate the anniversary as the best and biggest party in town, we have themed Power Ball 10 DECADANCE.

A night of dancing, debauchery and decadence with outstanding entertainment, music, food, art, and fashion! Power Ball is well known within Toronto and beyond for its sophisticated audience of urban professionals comprised of decision-makers, taste-leaders, trend-setters and the movers and shakers from film, fashion, finance, technology, media, advertising, dance, theater, music, design and the visual arts.

FEATURING
LETS GO TO WAR - Toronto electrofunk/hip-hop
DJ Barbi - Electro/freestyle/new wave
+ fabulous food and drink, performances, installations, and dancing ALL NIGHT LONG!

$140 Members
$160 Non-Members

For Membership discount on Power Ball 10 party tickets, please contact the Box Office at 416.973.4000

To purchase tickets for the exclusive Power Ball 10 VIP Preview Cocktail, please contact The Power Plant at 416.973.4949

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