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LECTURES + TOURS
SUMMER 2008
JUNE
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Kerri Reid
Sunday 8 June | 2pm
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
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Lisa Deanne Smith
Sunday 15 June | 2pm
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
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Amish Morrell
Sunday 22 June | 2pm
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
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Nina Levitt
Sunday 29 June | 2pm
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
JULY
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Cheryl Sourkes
Sunday 6 July | 2pm
Cheryl Sourkes is a photo and time-based digital artist based in Toronto and Manchester, UK. She curates Toronto's akau project space for pure pleasure.
FREE
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Zin Taylor
Sunday 13 July | 2pm
Zin Taylor is an artist based in Toronto. He is represented by Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin and Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto.
FREE
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Andrea Carson
Sunday 20 July | 2pm
An art writer and curator based in Toronto, Carson's writing appears in Canadian and international publications. She is founder and publisher of the online resource, View on Canadian Art.
FREE
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Alexandra Fraser & Eva Kolcze
Sunday 27 July | 2pm
Alexandra Fraser holds a degree in Art History from the University of British Columbia. Her scholarly interests lie at the crossroads of art education, museum studies and cultural politics in both modern and contemporary contexts. Video and installation artist Eva Kolcze graduated from the Integrated Media Program at OCAD. Both are Curatorial Interns at The Power Plant.
FREE
AUGUST
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Brenda Goldstein
Sunday 3 August | 2pm
Brenda Goldstein is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist, writer and curator. Her work uses video, film, performance, and installation to make visible the more elusive aspects of human experience by representing uncanny parallel universes loaded with opposing systems and ideas.
FREE
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Gregory Elgstrand
Sunday 10 August | 2pm
Gregory Elgstrand is a Toronto-based curator and writer. He is co-editor of a survey of artist multiples that will be published by YYZBOOKS in 2009.
FREE
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Jennifer Matotek
Sunday 17 August | 2pm
Jennifer Matotek is a video-maker, multi-disciplinary artist and curator. Formerly employed in programming departments at The Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Hamilton, she is pursuing a joint MA/MBA at York University.
FREE
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Molly Sigalet & Andrea Raymond
Sunday 24 August | 2pm
Molly Sigalet is an MA candidate in Art History at York University and an emerging curator and a Curatorial Intern at The Power Plant. Andrea Raymond is a graduate of OCAD and a Curatorial Intern at The Power Plant.
FREE
LECTURE
Dan Adler: Hanne Darboven and Cultural History
Thursday 28 August | 7pm
In tandem with our summer exhibition, 'Not Quite How I Remember It,' art critic and art historian Dan Adler discusses German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven's work on time, history and memory. Adler focuses on the monumental piece Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983) (1980-1983). Comprising 590 wall-mounted panels of uniform size and format and nineteen objects, the work traces one hundred years of history via images and texts that include postcards, art reproductions, portraits of film stars, and the covers of weekly magazines. Many bear handwritten notes and quotations. Beginning with the date, whose numbers are manipulated into a temporal and chronological system, the work constructs an encompassing, encyclopedic archive that fuses public history and collective memory with personal experience.
Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Guelph, Dan Adler specializes in the history of art writing and the aesthetics of installation art. He has published in Art History and regularly contributes to Artforum and Canadian Art. His study of Darboven's Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 will be published by Afterall books.
$4 Members
$6 Non-Members
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Gabrielle Moser
Sunday 31 August | 2 pm
Gabrielle Moser is a writer and independent curator studying art history at York University and a Curatorial Intern at The Power Plant.
FREE