SPECIAL EVENTS
WINTER 2009 - 2010

JANUARY

LIVE - GARETH MOORE
Tuesday, 19 January, 7 PM
FREE Members, $6 Non-Members

Members' Appreciation Skating Party
8 - 10 PM, FREE

Working in the tradition of the journeman apprentice and the itinerant artist/storyteller, Vancouver artist Gareth Moore builds narratives around objects that he gathers on his travels. His fusion of performance, storytelling and sculptural practice has strated to gain international attention, and Moore's work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2008) and Witte de With, Rotterdam (2008), as well as the group exhibition 'Nomads' at the National Gallery, Ottawa (2009). For this special live event, Moore presents a 'sculptural story' that makes eccentric connections between artifacts, fictions and encounters.
After the LIVE event, Members of the gallery are invited to bring their friends and family for winter fun on ice at The Natrel Rink at Harbourfront Centre, hosted by The Power Plant.

FILM
Michael Snow
La Region Centrale
Thursday, 28 January, 7 PM
Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West
FREE

A film as fresh and radical as it was when first made, La Region Centrale (1971, 180 min) is both monument and masterpiece. Upon the film's release, Artforum declared it "an unimaginable film, literally like nothing you have ever seen before" and the film quickly attained cult status. Snow created a camera that could be programmed to record and move autonomously through the landscape - the barren, big skied, and rocky terrain , 100 miles north of Sept-Isles, Quebec. This screeing is co-presented with TIFF Cinematheque.

FEBRUARY

FILM
Snows Gone By
Wednesday, 3 February, 7 PM
Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
$4 Members, $6 Non-Members

Snows Gone By features three films from three decades by Michael Snow. Triage (2004, 30 min.) is a dual-projection collaboration with Carl Brown where each artist was unaware of what the other was doing with their half-hour of film. Snow’s contribution is a dazzling visual encyclopedia of animals, vegetables, minerals, products, images, and colors: “24 frames of everything.” See You Later – Au Revoir (1990, 18 min.) features Snow performing a series of simple gestures in a room. Recorded with a “Super Slo-Mo” video camera, the banal transforms into the sublime. Presents (1981, 90 min.) is a playful exploration of three different camera movements. A film set moves while the camera stays still; the camera presses forward into the set, crushing everything in sight; finally, the camera breaches the walls before engaging in a barrage of rapid zigzagging. Co-presented with the Images Festival.

FILM
Wavelength, with Elizabeth Legge and Michael Snow
Wednesday, 18 February, 7 PM
The Drake Hotel - Underground, 1150 Queen Street West
FREE - no reserve seating available

“In 1966, at the height of minimal art in New York, Snow chose not to make another object to be placed in a room but instead spent a year planning a film of a room: Wavelength, a forty-five-minute more or less straight-line zoom from the near to the far wall of a loft space, accompanied by a rising sine wave…[I]t has functioned ever since as a touchstone for art and film studies, and as a blue screen in front of which a range of ideological and intellectual dramas have been played.” – Elizabeth Legge

Launching her new book in Afterall’s One Work series about the film, Elizabeth Legge introduces a screening of Snow’s legendary Wavelength (1967, 45 min.), considered one of the most important experimental films of all time. Legge is the Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Toronto. She has written extensively on Dada and Surrealism, and on contemporary British and Canadian art.

Wavelength will be followed by a Q&A with Michael Snow, and preceded by Snow’s short film Standard Time (1967, 8 min.). Copies of the book Wavelength will be on sale and Legge will be available to sign them at the event. Co-presented with The Drake Hotel.

FILM
New Snow
Tuesday, 23 February, 7 PM
The Power Plant
$4 Members, $6 Non-Members

New Snow presents the Toronto premiere of Reverberlin (2006, 67 min.). Snow’s digital video creates a visual counterpoint to the audio recording of a 2002 Berlin concert by CCMC, the legendary noise band featuring Snow (piano, radio), Paul Dutton (soundsinging, harmonica) and John Oswald (alto saxophone, saxo-voice). Reverberlin will be preceded by Puccini Conservato (2009, 10 min.), which stages a confrontation between the video camera and a stereo system playing Puccini’s La Bohème. The artist will be present for a post-screening Q&A.