NOVEMBER 2007

Thursday 1 November | 7 PM
FORUM : Paradise Lost: Romanticism's Return
From the glam rock band Scissor Sisters to Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, contemporary culture is infatuated with ecstatic, anguished decadence. Responding to Paul P.'s interests in the dandyism of writer Marcel Proust and painter James McNeill Whistler, this forum considers the resurgence of romanticism, touching on issues of artist relationships and personae, nineteenth-century portraiture, pornography's infiltration of visual culture, and images of desire and loss. Chaired by Max Allen, producer/host of CBC's IDEAS. Speakers include: GB Jones, artist/musician whose work appeared with Paul P.’s on the cover for The Hidden Camera's The arms of his 'ill', Katherine Lochnan, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Gallery of Ontario and curator of 'Turner, Whistler, Monet' which toured to Tate Britain and Musée d’Orsay, and John Potvin, author of Bachelors of a Different Sort whose research concerns the male body and intimacy in Victorian and Edwardian culture.

The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West
$4 Members, $6 Non-members.

Sunday 4 November | 2 PM
SUNDAY SCENE: Gregory Burke
Gregory Burke is The Power Plant's Director and curator of Francesco Vezzoli: A True Hollywood Story!.

FILM
Video Art in Germany from 1963 to the Present
Monday 5 November | 7pm
Tuesday 6 November | 7pm
Wednesday 7 November | 7pm

Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto and The Power Plant.

Six evenings (see also: OCTOBER listings) of screenings featuring newly-restored video works from 1963 to the present by such avant-garde luminaries as Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Beuys, Valie Export, Harun Farocki, Rebecca Horn, Imi Knoebel, Marcel Odenbach, Nam June Paik, Ulrike Rosenbach, Rosemarie Trockel, and Robert Wilson.

With an archival mandate to restore groundbreaking avant-garde film works, 40yearsvideoart.de was organized by five leading German museums, selected by specialists such as Dieter Daniels, Rudolf Frieling, Wulf Herzogenrath and Nan Hoover, and is accompanied by an extensive catalogue.

Each program lasts between 120 - 160 minutes and includes an intermission with cash bar.

Screenings take place at CAMERA, Toronto's premiere lounge and screening venue.

Program:

Monday 5 November | 7pm

• Dieter Froese, The Piece In The Country (Failure Piece #2), 1979, 11:55 min
• Marina Abramovic/Ulay, City Of Angels, 1983, 20:09 min
• Malaria!, Geld (Money), 1983, 4:00 min
• Franziska Megert-Vogt, Sweet Dressing, 1983, 3:00 min
• Die Tödliche Doris (The deadly Doris), Über-Mutti Live Concert - Paris, 1983 –Played Back Berlin 1984 (The 'Über-Mommy' Concert - Paris, 1983 - Played Back Berlin 1984), 1984, 4:27 min
• Ingo Günther, Fünf Fünfzig im Dunkeln (Fifty Five in the Dark), 1985, 5:50 min
• Marcel Odenbach, As If Memories Could Deceive Me, 1986, 17:35 min
• Nam June Paik, Good Morning, Mr. Orwell, 1984, 58:00 min
• Bettina Gruber and Maria Vedder, Der Herzschlag des Anubis (The Heartbeat of Anubis), 1988, 4:57 min

Tuesday 6 November | 7pm

• Jörg Herold, Körper im Körper (The Body in the Body), 1989, 11: 40 min
• Norbert Meissner, Pfingsten (Pentecost), 1989, 6:30 min
• Volker Schreiner, Wipe Board, 1989, 2:58 min
• Angela Melitopoulos, Transfer, 1992, 12:23 min
• Granular-Synthesis, Sweet Heart, 1997, 7:30 min
• Bjørn Melhus, No Sunshine, 1997, 6:15 min
• Heike Baranowsky, Passage I, 1998, 3:00 min
• Rosemarie Trockel, Buffalo Billy+Milly, 2000, 5:45 min
• Christoph Giradret and Matthias Müller, Phoenix Tapes (#3 Artist Derailed, #4 Why don't you love me?), 1999, 47:00 min
• Corinna Schnitt, Das schlafende Mädchen (A Girl Asleep), 2001, 9:00 min

Wednesday 7 November | 7pm

• Harun Farocki, Gefängnisbilder (Prison Images), 2000, 60:00 min
• Danica Dakic, NY Diary, 2001/2002, 25:06 min
• Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann, Es gibt immer nur mehr (There's Always Only More), 2002, 9:37 min
• Solmaz Shahbazi and Tirdad Zolghadr, Tehran 1380, 2002, 45:00 min
• Volker Eichelmann, Kurlichtspiele (Reminiszenz, 12. Dezember 1953) (Spa Cinema (Reminiscence)), 2004, 6:00 min
• Jan Verbeek, On A Wednesday Night in Tokyo, 2004, 5:35 min

CAMERA, 1028 Queen Street West | camerabar.ca
$5 admission per evening
Series Membership included for members of The Power Plant;
Add: $5 Series Membership for non-members