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SPECIAL EVENTS
SUMMER 2009
JUNE
LIVE – OPENING NIGHT
CERITH WYN EVANS
Thursday, 11 June | 10 PM
Join us on opening night for the lighting of a firework text by Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, especially commissioned by The Power Plant. Using chandeliers, searchlights and fireworks, Evans’ artworks often dramatize the role of language as a catalyst, poetically encrypting and transmitting words into light. In previous fireworks pieces, Evans ignited texts by Gertrude Stein and Pier Paolo Pasolini, using the ephemeral medium of blazing light to spell messages from beyond for a live audience. This new work will feature a text from seventeenth-century German theorist of the universe Johannes Kepler’s book Harmonices Mundi (Harmony of the World).
Evans started his career as a filmmaker working closely with Derek Jarman and John Maybury before beginning to make his renowned sculptural installations and film works in the 1990s. His work has been included in many international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (1995, 2003), Documenta 11 (2002) and the 9th International Istanbul Biennial (2005).
FREE
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FRIDAY NIGHT GALLERY TOURS
12 June–28 August | 6 PM | FREE
Every Friday during our special summer evening hours, The Power Plant’s trained Animateurs offer free guided tours of the exhibition ‘Universal Code.’
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SATURDAY PLAYLIST
13 June to 29 August | 2-8 PM
Relax at The Power Plant’s lakeside listening lounge and enjoy eclectic music selected by contemporary artists every Saturday throughout the summer exhibition.
13 June + 20 June | Emily Roysdon
Emily Roysdon is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and member of the band MEN. She participated in The Power Plant’s 2008 exhibition ‘If We Can’t Get It Together.’
27 June + 11 July | Mark Laliberte
Mark Laliberte is a Toronto-based artist/designer/soundmaker who knows how to splice a tape loop in complete darkness. He is the editor of the eclectic hybrid-lit journal Carousel and a founding member of the new media collective Thinkbox.
FREE
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FILM
THE END / OUT OF THE PRESENT
Tuesday, 30 June | 7 PM
Andrei Ujica’s cult classic Out of the Present (Germany/Russia, 1995, 96 min) recounts the riveting story of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who was launched in May 1991 to the Russian space station Mir. As he carries out his daily routine of experiments, exercise, chores, and leisure activities, the Soviet Union collapses. The world he returns to in March 1992 differs hugely from the one he left behind. With tongue-in-cheek references to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Tarkovsky’s Solaris, Out of the Present contrasts the seemingly neutral and idyllic experience of outer space with the bitter inter-ethnic strife back on Earth. Of course, none of this terrestrial conflict is visible from the heavens – the planet looks as beautiful as always.
Out of the Present will be preceded by Turner Prize-winning British artist Mark Wallinger’s 2006 short 35mm film The End. Set to Johann Strauss’s waltz ‘The Blue Danube,’ The End is a cinematic credit roll listing, in order of appearance, all of the characters in The Bible.
$4 Members, $6 Non-Members
Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
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JULY
LIVE DJs
6-8 PM
The first Saturday evenings of July and August, come out to our lakeside terrace to hear a live set by a local DJ.
Saturday, 4 July | Matt SmithFREE
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SATURDAY PLAYLIST
GEOFFREY FARMER
18 July + 25 July | 2-8 PM
Vancouver artist Geoffrey Farmer has gained an international reputation for his evocative installations. His recent solo exhibitions have taken place at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2008) and Witte de With, Rotterdam (2008).
FREE
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FILM
THE OTOLITH GROUP
Wednesday, 29 July | 7 PM
By activating media archives, histories of the future, and legacies of non-alignment and tricontinentalism, The Otolith Group’s artistic projects trace the end of utopian ideals. We present the first two installments of their acclaimed, in-progress video trilogy in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Universal Code.’ Otolith (2003) concerns a 22nd-century descendant of artist Anjalika Sagar based on a space station after the human race has been forced to leave Earth’s gravitational field. Otolith II (2007), also set in the future, explores two ideas of the “city of tomorrow”: Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh of 1963 and the Mumbai of today. The Otolith Group was founded in 2000 by UK-based artists Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun. Their work has been included in group exhibitions such as the Tate Triennial, London (2006), and at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2006), and in a solo show at Gasworks and The Showroom, London (2009).
Co-presented with the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC) and in collaboration with the Images Festival.
$4 Members, $6 Non-Members
Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
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AUGUST
SUMMER SALE
Saturday, 1 August | 12-8 PM
Catalogues, artist books, editions, t-shirts, artist-designed toilet paper … and so much more! Titles for $20 or less. One afternoon only. Sway to DJ beats and sweat the recession away with slashed prices on select titles from The Power Plant’s shop.
FREE
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LIVE DJs
ALEX SNUKAL
Saturday, 1 August | 6-8 PM
Alex Snukal is an artist, musician and writer who performs regularly as part of Awesome, Animal Monster and New Feelings. He is currently the Gallery and Studio Assistant at InterAccess, and formerly an Animateur at The Power Plant.
FREE
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SATURDAY PLAYLIST
TYLER CLARK BURKE
8 August + 15 August | 2-8 PM
Tyler Clark Burke is an artist and rabblerouser. She loves math. She isn’t gloomy. Her work often seems to be about death.
FREE
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FILM
SIMA URALE
Tuesday, 18 August | 7 PM
Presented as part of Planet IndigenUs
Join us for an evening of films by Samoan—New Zealand director Sima Urale. O Tamaiti (1996, 35mm, 15 min.) offers insight into Samoan family life through the eyes of eleven year-old Tino. The playful documentary Velvet Dreams (1997, video, 47 min.) explores the kitschy genre of “exotic” velvet paintings of South Sea maidens. Still Life (2001, 35mm, 11 min.) counters the invisibility of the elderly with its moving story of aging, lasting love and death.
Urale was born in Savaii, Samoa, and moved to New Zealand with her family in 1974. A graduate of the New Zealand Drama School and Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television School in Australia, Urale is an actor, writer and director. Her first feature film, Apron Strings (2008), screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
$4 Members, $6 Non-Members
Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
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SATURDAY PLAYLIST
TIM LEE
22 August + 29 August | 2-8 PM
Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee is currently a DAAD Artist in Residence in Berlin. He has had recent solo exhibitions at CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2008), the Hayward Gallery, London (2009), and Goodwater Gallery, Toronto (2009). He was the winner of the 2008 Sobey Art Award.
FREE
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POWER KIDS
Sunday, 23 August | 2-5 PM
Enjoy hands-on artmaking projects, interactive gallery tours and discussions about the galaxy, all inspired by the exhibition ‘Universal Code.’ The program includes a drawing and watercolour workshop led by artist Kerri Reid, an introduction to the cosmos by a physicist and gallery tours designed for young visitors by The Power Plant’s Animateurs. Events take place throughout the afternoon, so just drop by. However, spaces are limited and are offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
FREE for children ages 5–10 and their adult companions
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