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OCTOBER 2007
Thursday 4 October | 6 PM
FILM: Francesco Vezzoli
Selected films by Francesco Vezzoli including An Emboidered Trilogy, directed
respectively by John Maybury, Lina Wertmüller and Carlo Di Palma; The Kiss (let's play Dynasty) starring Helmut Berger and the show-stopping Trailer for a
Remake of Gore Vidal's 'Caligula'.
The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West
$4 Members & TIAF Ticket Holders, $6 General Admission.
Thursday 4 October | 8-12 PM
LOUNGE: Process > Product
Back by popular demand, the second Process > Product is an immersive musical
and social experience featuring impromptu collective performances and live video mixing. Organizer Noah Mintz notes: "In an industry where we all get plenty of opportunity to celebrate the finished product of music, we thought it was time to draw attention to the pieces, the building blocks—the background of it all." For over 18 years Mintz has been involved in the Toronto music scene. A member of the bands hHead and Noah's Arkweld, Mintz works with some of Canada’s most successful bands as a Mastering Engineer at the mastering studio, Lacquer Channel.
The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West
FREE to Members, $4 Non-members (includes gallery admission).
Sunday 7 October | 2 PM
SUNDAY SCENE: Tatiana Mellema
Tatiana Mellema is an art history graduate of The University of Toronto and a Curatorial Intern at The Power Plant.
Thursday 11 October | 7 PM
LECTURE : John Paul Ricco / Us To Come: Towards Nonconsensual Futures
A TV pilot for a reality show that will never be aired, a trailer for a film that will never be made, ads for presidential campaigns that will never materialize. John Paul Ricco considers Vezzoli's appropriations of promotion and publicity genres as practices of invention: artistic, cultural, and political. Addressing consensus, spectacle and contemporary economies of labour, Ricco assesses the hyper-mediated and scripted real in which we live, and suggests ways to re-think a future that would have been more properly "ours", if only we could re-make it now. Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art, Media Theory and Criticism at the University of Toronto, and author of The Logic of the Lure (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Ricco is curating exhibitions at The University of Illinois, Chicago, on sound and touch, and at V-Tape on queer video.
The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West
$4 Members, $6 Non-members (includes gallery admission).
Sunday 14 October | 2 PM
SUNDAY SCENE: Daniel Faria
Daniel Faria, Director of the Monte Clark Gallery in Toronto, examines the work of Paul P. and Francesco Vezzoli in the context of the international art market.
Thursday 18 October | 7 PM
LECTURE : Lance Fung
Lance Fung is Artistic Director of SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2008. He has curated exhibitions with contemporary artists and key figures from Fluxus, Minimalism and Conceptual Art, including 'Crossing Parallels', in Seoul, 'Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark' at the Venice Architectural Biennale 2002, and 'The Snow Show', 2004, for which Fung brought 30 artists and architects to Lapland for a show exploring ephemerality and collaboration. For SITE Santa Fe, Fung is collaborating with leading contemporary arts institutions including the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, the Ullens Center for the Arts, Beijing, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul and The Power Plant.
The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West
$4 Members, $6 Non-members (includes gallery admission).
Sunday 21 October | 2 PM
SUNDAY SCENE: Jean-Paul Kelly
Jean-Paul Kelly is a Toronto-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes the production of both moving and still images.
POWER TALKS
For the second year running, Power Talks presents influential Canadian and international critics and curators to discuss their current projects, preoccupations and ideas. In a climate of intense public interest in the visual arts, reflected by record visitor numbers at museums and record prices for contemporary art, speakers consider their roles in bridging the work of artists and audiences: from specialists to the general public.
Access to Power Talks is free for Toronto Internation Art Fair (TIAF) four-day pass holders and exhibitors. Admission to individual Power Talks is included with daily TIAF admission. Doors open 15 minutes before the start of each lecture. Seating is limited. Non-TIAF pass holders can purchase lecture tickets for $5 (The Power Plant Members), $10 (Non-Members) directly from The Power Plant. Four-day general admission pass (including access to Power Talks): $40 (Members/Non-Members)
Friday 26 October | 6 PM
POWER TALKS: Louise Déry: Canada in Venice
Montréal-born artist David Altmejd's exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale is widely seen as the most successful response yet to Canada's notoriously awkward pavilion. By mirroring the interior walls so that they reflected his installation of glittering sculptures and fetishistic objects, Altmejd fused the aesthetics of window dressing, taxidermy and minimalism to dramatic, often hilarious, effect. Curator of the Canadian Pavillion at Venice and Director of Galerie de l'UQAM, Louise Déry has worked with Altmejd since 2000. Dr. Déry discusses collaborating with Altmejd and taking Canada to the world stage at Venice.
Saturday 27 October | 6 PM
POWER TALKS: Hou Hanru: The Istanbul Biennale
Born and educated in China, Hou Hanru has worked in France for many years. He is Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chair of the Exhibitions and Museum Studies program at the San Francisco Art Institute and has curated exhibitions including 'Cities on the Move' in 1998–9. As Artistic Director of the 10th Istanbul Biennial, 8 September – 4 November, 2007, Hou curated 'Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary – Optimism in the age of global war'. The biennial emphasizes collective intelligence and the process of negotiating historically and functionally resonant sites.
Sunday 28 October | 3 PM
POWER TALKS: Jery Saltz: The Good, The Bad, and the Very Bad; A Year in the Life of an Art Critic
As senior art critic at The Villege Voice from 1998 – 2007, and now as New York Magazine's art critic, Jerry Saltz passionately chronicles the city’s art scene. Saltz has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and in 2007 received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism. Seeing Out Loud (2003) is a collection of his wittiest and most insightful Voice columns which generously consider art of all kinds in relation to its social role and relevance.
Sunday 4 October | 6 PM
FILM: Francesco Vezzoli
Selected films by Francesco Vezzoli including An Emboidered Trilogy, directed
respectively by John Maybury, Lina Wertmüller and Carlo Di Palma; The Kiss (let's play Dynasty) starring Helmut Berger and the show-stopping Trailer for a
Remake of Gore Vidal's 'Caligula'.
The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West
$4 Members & TIAF Ticket Holders, $6 General Admission.
Sunday 28 October | 2 PM
SUNDAY SCENE: Robert Windrum
Robert Windrum, the General Manager of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, has curated the work of Paul P. and collaborated with him on archival sources for his work.
FILM
Video Art in Germany from 1963 to the Present
Monday 29 October | 7pm
Tuesday 30 October | 7pm
Wednesday 31 October | 7pm
Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto and The Power Plant.
Six evenings (see also: NOVEMBER 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 29 October | 7pm
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
