exhibitions / programs / events

Summer 2019 June – September 2019 OVERVIEW

As we enter The Power Plant’s second collaborative video installations of Mario Pfeifer, all year, exhibition season of 2019, we pause Summer 2019 at which investigate and interject in the conventions to acknowledge the importance of of film, from viral music videos to anthropological all free the ALL YEAR, ALL FREE program. The Power Plant documentaries. Together, Summer’s exhibiting artists reinforce Thanks to the support of BMO Financial Group, the the crucial role that artists have to play in helping gallery is able to eliminate admission fees, enabling us make sense of the world around us. Presented By Share some of your Summer with us all visitors, young and old, to access our exhibitions. We are pleased to present a superb schedule Join us all year long at The Power Plant, where as we present three captivating of free public programming, enabling visitors to admission is always FREE. exhibitions by thought-provoking experience the works on view through artist talks, international artists. exhibition tours and film screenings. We welcome you to one (or all!) of our many opportunities to Each of our exhibiting artists this Summer shares a engage more deeply with our exhibitions. commitment to questioning received wisdom Join us as Mario Pfeifer speaks with celebrated and official histories. Working in video, installation Canadian artist Stan Douglas and as Thomas J or sculpture, collaborators Joana Hadjithomas and Price speaks with RBC Curatorial Fellow Justine Khalil Joreige, alongside Mario Pfeifer and Thomas Kohleal as part of our In Conversation series. J Price ask us to think again about often neglected, Experience a lecture performance by Joana yet urgent, social issues. Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and enjoy two We are witnessing the emergence of a ‘post-truth’ of their films. Artist members are invited to politics that privileges emotional responses over participate in one of three Master Classes with factual accuracy, while the biases of the media and Summer’s exhibiting artists — and let their the rise of internet-based news channels voices be heard during an open public panel increasingly divide publics. At this moment, in which and discussion on Navigating Public Art. the relationship between truth and fiction has During the weekend, take in a Sunday Scene become increasingly blurry, our exhibiting artists as guest speakers from the world of contemporary all ask vital questions of the stories we exchange art and beyond offer responses to our current between each other, both publically and privately. exhibitions, highlighting intriguing connections The work of Hadjithomas and Joreige pursues and broader cultural and intellectual debates. an enduring fascination with what they refer to Parents and guardians are encouraged to bring as ‘stories kept secret’ — the original meaning of the their children to our hugely popular hands-on The Power Plant is very grateful to the following Institutional Supporters: ancient Greek ‘anecdote’. Their acclaimed project Power Kids programs. Each session begins with a On Scams focuses on a form of digital communication brief tour of the gallery, followed by experiential GOVERNMENT FUNDERS Power Kids Funders TD CURATOR OF EDUCATION AND OUTREACH FELLOW SUPPORTED BY that is usually swiftly deleted as ‘junk’: the scam art making inspired by the ideas behind our Tate & Cindy Abols email. Their works ask us what these scammers’ exhibitions. Power Kids programs will also take fictions — often grounded in recent geopolitical place at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair and at the Alexander Singh & events — can tell us about global realities. Toronto Public Library summer camps. S. Dixie Ho RBC Curatorial Fellow supported by Inside and outside the gallery, Thomas J Price’s Power Youth FUNDERS figures interject in traditions of monumental public Visit alone or with family and friends and spend sculpture, representing black bodies in a medium some Summer time with us! We look forward to

ALL YEAR, ALL FREE in which they have historically been overlooked. welcoming you very soon. Dasha Shenkman Price’s questioning of who is represented — and how — finds a parallel in the deeply researched and Gaëtane Verna, Director exhibition #TPPOnScams #TPPOnScams 3

this page Joana of actual people, the work’s cacophony of voices Hadjithomas and Joana Hadjithomas Khalil Joreige, The generates a reimagining of recent history in Geometry of Space, and Khalil Joreige which war and unrest are the backdrop to a series 2014. Stretched oxidised steel, of ultimately implausible circumstances. approximate On Scams diameter 80 cm. Considering the scammers’ fictions as Courtesy the artists representative of the geopolitical fault-lines of our and In Situ - fabienne 22 June – 2 September 2019 leclerc. Photo: Jean time, Hadjithomas and Joreige extend this project Brasile. Opening: 21 June 2019, 8 – 11 PM in a series of related works in video, sculpture and

CURATOR: Lauren Barnes drawing. In the Fleck Clerestory, a group of large-scale oxidized steel sculptures entitled The donors International Arts Partners Geometry of Space (2014) map the geographical trajectories of these stories onto globe-like forms, Barry & Debra Campbell translating fictional narratives into physical space. The video work It’s All Real (2014) explores the life stories of the Beirut-based actors who For over twenty years, artists and filmmakers Joana perform the scammers’ tales in The Rumor of the Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige have collaborated World, conjuring the stories of immigration and across the worlds of art and film to reimagine the refuge-seeking that have shaped their realities. In relationship between fiction and reality. Both The Jerusalem Letter (2014), Hadjithomas and born in Beirut, Lebanon, Hadjithomas and Joreige’s Joreige interrogate historical precedents for scams, collaboration began by exploring histories of reproducing an example of a late-eighteenth their home country. Across diverse media, they have century scam letter sent during the French investigated topics from the Lebanese Civil War to Revolution — a period, like today, when bases of Beirut’s participation in the space race of the 1960s, power and trust were unsettled. Like elements of underpinned by a commitment to questioning the a film in which fiction and reality are blurred, ways that history is written. the exhibition’s works construct a web of stories to This exhibition presents works from the landmark investigate the shifting nature of belief. series On Scams (I must first apologise), a multi-part project exploring notions of trust and faith across Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (both born geographical and virtual borders. This series takes in Beirut, Lebanon, 1969) studied at the Université as its point of departure an archive of over 4,000 Paris X Nanterre, France and collaborate as artists spam emails Hadjithomas and Joreige have received and filmmakers, working between Beirut and Paris. and collected since 1999. They were intrigued by Recent two-person exhibitions have been held at the emotional appeals of these messages, and the IVAM, Valencia (2017); Haus der Kunst, Munich manner in which these fictions were grounded (2016); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston (2016); in political realities: the messages often contain Jeu de Paume, Paris (2016); and Sharjah Art references to real people, places and conflicts Foundation (2016). They have exhibited in group to legitimize their claims. exhibitions at venues including Centre Pompidou, The exhibition presents the immersive multi- Paris; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and the screen installation The Rumor of the World (2014), Guggenheim Museum, New York, as well as in the in which scam emails are brought to life by 56th Venice Biennale (2015), and their work is amateur actors that appear on monitors that encircle included in prominent public collections. They were the viewer. Relocating email texts to the bodies awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2017. exhibition #TPPMarioPfeifer #TPPMarioPfeifer 5

Mario Pfeifer’s work centres on narratives often local men following what they perceived as violent forced out of our frames of vision. In this, his behaviour in a supermarket. Charting his first solo exhibition in Canada, the Berlin-based tragic fate and the polarizing media response that artist presents a trilogy of video installations. followed, Pfeifer’s work uses reconstruction and Demonstrating a profound commitment to the public responses to expose rising xenophobia and stories of individuals and communities, Pfeifer racial division. sees himself as an intermediary to bring uncovered Connecting to each of these works, Pfeifer has stories to broader attention. He immerses himself been commissioned by the Contact Photography in the domains in which he works so as to present Festival and The Power Plant to produce a billboard them in all their complexity and contradiction. outside the gallery depicting the Tierra del Fuego #blacktivist (2015) is a two-channel video landscape. The artist’s overlaid text, reiterating the installation produced in collaboration with exhibition’s title, serves to indicate his open-ended Brooklyn rap group Flatbush ZOMBiES. The work approach, expressing a resistance to preconceived brings together Pfeifer’s music video for the conclusions and his perpetual interest in inviting group’s track Blacktivist with found imagery and us to question our own standpoint in relation to the interviews in a startling critique of contemporary content of his works. One cannot see these works gun violence. Footage of ‘Defense Distributed’, a with indifference; instead, they compel us to think Texan organization notorious for developing of our own behaviour and prejudices. plans for the first DIY 3D-printed handgun, is brought together with disturbing imagery of police Mario Pfeifer (born 1981 in Dresden, Germany) brutality, as well as a surreal narrative charting the studied at the California Institute of the Arts, Flatbush ZOMBiES’ own imagined response. Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, the Universität The footage at the heart of the three-channel der Künste, Berlin and Academy of Visual Arts, installation Approximation in the digital age to Leipzig. He lives and works in Berlin. He has had a humanity condemned to disappear (2014) was solo exhibitions at institutions including filmed over a period of four months with the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (2018), Museum of Yaghan people in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Presenting Contemporary Art Leipzig – GfZK (2016); Ludlow38, an indigenous community forced to abandon New York (2015); Fotomuseum Winterthur (2015); or adapt their traditions as a result of settlers, and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de anthropologists, tourists and the demands Chile (2014). His work was shown at Berlin Biennale of global capitalism, Approximation brings together (2018); Mercosul Biennale (2017); Montevideo high-resolution imagery of the contemporary Biennale (2016) and has been part of group 22 June – 2 September 2019 activities of the community with a soundtrack by exhibitions at venues including CCA – Center of Mario Pfeifer Opening: 21 June 2019, 8 – 11 PM Iranian-born American electronic sound artist, Contemporary Art Lagos; Museum of Art and If you end up with the producer and musician Kamran Sadeghi. Technology, Lisbon and MMK Museum für Moderne CURATOR: Gaëtane Verna Pfeifer’s most recent work, Again (2018), which Kunst Frankfurt am Main. Pfeifer has been story you started with, assistant curator: nabila abdel nabi debuted at the 10th Berlin Biennale, confronts the recipient of Fulbright and DAAD scholarships. attitudes to immigration and justice in the artist’s While in Toronto for his exhibition at The Power Support Donors International Arts Partner then you’re not listening home country of Germany. Playing on the format Plant, Mario Pfeifer is a guest of the Goethe-Institut. Elisa Nuyten & David Dime along the way of television crime re-enactments, the two-channel video installation restages the sequence of events cover Mario Pfeifer, Approximation, 2015. 3-channel-high-definition video installation, color, 5.1 surround sound, 26''. Installation view: KOW, Berlin, 2015. supported by Billboard involving Schabas Saleh Al-Aziz, a Kurdish-Iraqi Courtesy Mario Pfeifer Studio & KOW / VG Bild-Kunst. presented in opposite Mario Pfeifer, production still from Again, 2018. Two channel video partnership refugee in Germany who was tied to a tree by four with installation, high definition, colour and sound (stereo). Courtesy Mario Pfeifer Studio & KOW / VG Bild-Kunst. exhibition #TPPOrdinaryMen #TPPOrdinaryMen 7

Since 2005, Thomas J Price has focused on creating Thomas J Price what he terms ‘psychological portraits’ in sculpture. Ordinary Men Ranging in size from small busts to monumental bronze statues, these sculptures depict the bodies, 22 June – 2 September 2019 clothing and characteristics typically associated with Opening: 21 June 2019, 8 – 11 PM black men. However, these works are not representations of actual people. Instead, they CURATOR: Justine Kohleal, RBC Curatorial Fellow combine facial expressions drawn from ancient, classical and neo-classical sculpture, stereotypes lead sponsor lead donors represented in contemporary news media and Steven & Lynda Latner observed individuals — some of whom Price knows personally, others whom he has witnessed in donor supported by public spaces. Rennie Collection The exhibition at The Power Plant, Price’s first in Canada, features a series of sculptures in varying sizes. Inside the gallery, a newly commissioned work is presented alongside several smaller bronzes and photographs that challenge the erasure of black bodies within the traditions of classical sculpture. Outside in Canada Square sits Price’s Numen series (2016), a continuation of the artist’s investigation into Greek, Roman and Egyptian mythology. To the west, on the South Terrace, a monumental cast-bronze titled Cover Up (The Reveal) (2019) is presented. These four works extend the exhibition’s reach into the public sphere, thus materials over traditional ones parallels his discomfort Thomas J Price (b. 1981, London, UK) lives and engaging visitors both inside and outside of with a socio-political system that privileges works in London. Solo exhibitions of Price’s work the gallery and confronting us with images of some individuals over others. Who is remembered have been organized at the National Portrait black male bodies on a monumental scale. and who is forgotten or, worse, violently excised Gallery, London (2016); Harewood House, Leeds, Price’s works place traditional materials in from the record? (2015); and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton dialogue with contemporary ones, alluding As if in response to the constant stereotypes (2014). His work has been shown in numerous to historic figures that have been memorialized in being cast on the personas of black men, Price’s group exhibitions around the world, including bronze and marble. This gesture invites the sculptures project a feeling of loneliness. They also Talisman in the Age of Difference, curated by Yinka audience to question the distinction between ‘high’ invoke a quiet contemplation — those tentative Shonibare MBE, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London versus ‘low’ art. In Price’s canon, aluminum heads moments that sometimes flash across the faces of (2018); Sculpture in the City, London (2018); and the perch atop thick marble columns while traditional marginalized individuals as they navigate white- Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver (2016). cast-bronze sculptures rest upon shallow bases dominated spaces. This perceived vulnerability is From 2004 – 06 he was the recipient of the Sir John coated in slick, automotive spray paint; reclaimed made more complex, however, by each sculptures’ Cass Foundation Scholarship. wood plinths support full-length, bronze figures oblique gaze — a nod to ancient Egyptian statuary in

and busts made of an acrylic composite are treated which looking straight ahead represents gazing this page Thomas J Price, Network, 2013. Installation view, Yorkshire Sculpture into eternity. Price’s sculptures rarely address the Park, UK. Photo: Jonty Wilde. with silvery-white palladium — a metal often used opposite Thomas J Price, What Next (Angell Road), 2011. Bronze, automotive in electronics, jewelry and dentistry. Price’s critique viewer directly. Rather, they extend beyond the spray paint and wood. Installation view: Angell Town, Hales Gallery, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Hales Gallery. of a cultural hierarchy that devalues modern spectator as if to suggest that these men will persist. summer programs and events 9

July 2019 August 2019 Sunday, 18 August, 2 pm Calendar sunday scene Thursday, 4 July, 7 pm Thursday, 1 August, 7 pm Kate Cooper (PG 11) at a Glance town hall film screening Navigating Public Art (PG 18) Ismyrne (PG 17) Sunday, 25 August, 2 pm SUNDAY SCENE FREE sunday scene Hear speakers from the world of art Saturday, 6 July, 1 pm Sunday, 11 August, 2 pm Yasir Naqvi (PG 11) and beyond offer their responses to film screening sunday scene Sunday 25 August, 3–5 pm the current exhibitions. Lebanese Rocket Society (PG 17) Liam Maloney (PG 11) POWER kids POWER KIDS FREE Sunday, 7 July, 2 pm Sunday 11 August, 3–5 pm Patterns in Percussion (PG 13) Participate in multigenerational sunday scene POWER kids Margaret Osborne (PG 10) Afternoon of Illusions (PG 13) studio activities with a guided tour September 2019 of the gallery. Sunday, 7 July, 3–5 pm Thursday, 15 August, 7 pm POWER TOURS FREE power kids artist talk Sunday 1 September, 3–5 pm Join a guided tour of the exhibitions Iconic Individuals (PG 16) Liam Maloney (PG 17) POWER kids and engage in dialogue about art Creative Casts (PG 13) and ideas. 8–12 July power kids ARTIST TALKS FREE Toronto Public Libraries Power Kids Hear from exhibiting artists as they Camps: Parliament Branch (PG 12) speak about their work and take questions from the audience. Tuesday, 9 July, 6 pm portfolio night (PG 20) film screeningS Watch films selected in relation to 13–14 July an exhibition, often with an power kids introduction and post-screening Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (PG 12) discussion about parallel themes. Sunday, 14 July, 2 pm SUNDAY SCENE OLUSEYE (PG 10)

Thursday, 18 July, 7 pm film + panel June 2019 Bruce Eves in Polari (PG 16)

Wednesday, 12 June, 7 pm Friday, 21 June, 8–11 pm Sunday, 21 July, 2 pm in conversation Public Summer Opening Party sunday scene Thomas J Price with Justine Kohleal Charmaine Lurch (PG 10) (PG 14) Saturday, 22 June, 1 pm in conversation Sunday, 28 July, 2 pm Thursday, 13 June, 6 pm Mario Pfeifer with Stan Douglas sunday scene master class (PG 14) Nestor Kruger (PG 11) Thomas J Price (PG 15) Sunday, 23 June, 1 pm 29 July–2 August Sunday, 16 June, 1 pm master class power kids master class Mario Pfeifer (PG 15) Toronto Public Libraries Power Kids Khalil Joreige (PG 15) Camps: High Park Branch (PG 12) Sunday, 30 June, 2 pm Tuesday, 18 June, 8:30 pm sunday scene lecture performance Simon M. Benedict opposite Summer 2018 Opening Party. Photo: Henry Chan. Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (PG 10) this page Winter 2019 Opening Party. Photo: (PG 14) Henry Chan. Sunday, 30 June, 3–5 pm power kids Skies Unfolding (PG 10) s ummer programs and events #SundayScene #SundayScene 11

Sunday Scene

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Speakers from the world of art and other disciplines offer their Margaret Osborne Charmaine Lurch Kate Cooper responses to the current exhibitions in these free gallery talks. Whether focusing on a single work, a specific artist or on multiple exhibitions, guest presenters draw provocative connections between our exhibitions and broader cultural and intellectual debates. Simon M. Benedict OLUSEYE Nestor Kruger Liam Maloney Yasir Naqvi

June 2019 July 2019 OLUSEYE Museum of Fine Arts, Royal Ontario August 2019 and the Royal Ontario Museum, Museum, Station Gallery, Toronto where she is now a Research Simon M. Benedict Margaret Osborne Sunday, 14 July 2019, 2 pm Centre for the Arts, The Gladstone, Liam Maloney Associate. She has also taught at Nuit Blanche, the National Gallery the Universities of London and OLUSEYE is a Nigerian-Canadian Sunday, 30 June 2019, 2 pm Sunday, 7 July 2019, 2 pm of Jamaica, and more. Lurch will Sunday, 11 August 2019, 2 pm Cambridge and currently lectures artist. His practice is rooted in the discuss Thomas J Price’s exhibition at the University of Toronto. Simon M. Benedict is an artist and interplay of seemingly dichotomous Margaret Osborne has held many Ordinary Men. Liam Maloney is an award-winning Dr. Cooper will discuss Thomas J translator of Franco-Québécois ideas — Christianity and Indigenous senior marketing and IT roles at documentary photographer, artist Price’s exhibition Ordinary Men. and Abenaki descent working with some of Canada’s largest retailers African beliefs; vulnerability and Nestor Kruger and filmmaker based in Toronto. His video, sound, still images and strength; spirituality and sexuality; in addition to leading start-up work has been published in TIME, Yasir Naqvi text. His work combines audiovisual ventures with partners in the US and socio-politics and pop-culture. Sunday, 28 July 2019, 2 pm The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Mother material and documents from Europe. She is a former director He creates paintings, photographs, Jones, Le Monde, The Globe and Sunday, 25 August 2019, 2 pm various archives to examine how of the Canadian Internet Registration sculptures and installations that Nestor Kruger uses various functions Mail and many others. Known for his fictional and historical narratives Authority (CIRA), directed the explore notions of Black masculinity, in computer software to both innovative approach to storytelling, Yasir Naqvi is the Chief Executive inform and stem from our marketing efforts for an internet value, representation and existential- attenuate the idiosyncratic marks his installations and photographs Officer of the Institute for Canadian understanding of unmediated reality. security start-up funded by the ism. OLUSEYE will discuss Thomas J that connect the artist to the have been widely exhibited, from the Citizenship (ICC), Canada’s leading Benedict holds an MFA from the Ontario Centres of Excellence, and Price’s exhibition Ordinary Men. work and as a way to uncover new Nobel Peace Centre to the MoMA. voice on citizenship and inclusion. University of Guelph and a BFA from is Professor of Computer Studies qualities. He is an Associate Maloney will discuss Mario Pfeifer’s Pro-democracy advocates, Yasir’s Concordia University. Benedict and Marketing at Seneca College. Charmaine Lurch Professor in Digital Media at the exhibition If you end up with the family emigrated from Pakistan to will discuss Mario Pfeifer’s exhibition As an expert on cybercrime and University of Guelph and is story you started with, then you’re Canada in 1988. Inspired by his If you end up with the story you online fraud, Osborne will discuss Sunday, 21 July 2019, 2 pm represented by goodwater gallery not listening along the way. parents, Yasir spent the past 11 years started with, then you’re not listening Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil in Toronto. Kruger will discuss Joana serving as a member of the Legislative along the way. Joreige’s exhibition On Scams. Charmaine Lurch is a sculptor, painter Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s Kate Cooper Assembly of Ontario, representing and installation artist whose work exhibition On Scams. a diverse community in Ottawa. In imagines inside and outside of history, Sunday, 18 August 2019, 2 pm 2016, he was sworn in as the Attorney involves quiet moments of joy, and General of Ontario. Yasir Naqvi Dr. Cooper is a Classical Archaeologist draws our attention to the relations will discuss Mario Pfeifer’s exhibition who studies the Greek and Roman between humans and the environ- If you end up with the story you world. She has worked as a curator ment. Her work has been exhibited started with, then you’re not listening at the British Museum, the at the Art Gallery of Ontario, along the way. Durham Art Gallery, the Montreal Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge) summer programs and events #PowerKidsTO #PowerKidsTO 13

Skies Unfolding Patterns in Percussion Power Kids Join Power Kids The Power Plant Sunday, 30 June 2019, 3 – 5 pm Offsite Sunday, 25 August 2019, 3 – 5 pm free Mario Pfeifer is interested in Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Mario Pfeifer’s Approximation in the For children ages 7 – 12 and their adult landscapes as sites of knowledge. 13 – 14 July 2019 digital age to a humanity condemned companions. In his film Approximation in the to disappear, features a techno digital age to a humanity condemned Toronto Public Libraries soundtrack using archival sound Email [email protected] to disappear, we see the landscape recordings. In this workshop, we or call 416.973.4949 to reserve a spot. Power Kids Camps: Tierra del Fuego unfold through a will learn about beat-making with multi-screen video installation. parliament branch JUNO Award nominee Ruben Tours and workshops are led by Amanda 8 – 12 July 2019 Foulds, Power Kids & Outreach Mario Pfeifer lived and worked in Esguerra. We will begin with beat- Coordinator and Erica Cristobal, Power Tierra del Fuego for four months, high park branch making through body percussion, Kids Teaching Assistant. learning from the land and its 29 July – 2 August 2019 then explore more complex patterns inhabitants. In this workshop, we will on instruments and with digital POWER KIDS FUNDERs illustrate the landscapes we call Visit thepowerplant.org for recording software. home into an unfolding accordion full details Alexander Singh & Tate & Cindy Abols S. Dixie Ho book using watercolour, paper and markers. Creative Casts

Sunday, 1 September 2019, 3 – 5 pm

Many of the sculptures in Thomas J Price’s exhibition were created through a casting process. This means the artist created a mould into which he poured a liquid material to create a sculpture. In this workshop, we will experiment with modelling clay and plaster to design and cast unique sculptural forms.

opposite Power Kids Summer 2017. Photo by Henry Chan Iconic Individuals Afternoon of Illusions this page Power Kids Winter 2018. Photo by Henry Chan

Sunday, 7 July 2019, 3 – 5 pm Sunday, 11 August 2019, 3 – 5 pm Need a few activities to get you started In his exhibition Ordinary Men, Trust and belief are important themes on your tour through the exhibitions? Thomas J Price asks us to consider in Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Pick up a copy of the Family Guide, who we look up to as individuals Joriege’s work. In The Rumor of the available in the gallery and online at and communities. His work often World, we hear and see amateur bit.ly/powerkids. features the faces of people actors recite scam emails intended who are not typically celebrated to trick readers and viewers into or monumentalized. Using believing a story that is untrue. In this cardboard, paper and spray paint, workshop we will create a series participants in this workshop will of optical illusions that will trick our create a personalized trophy of an viewers into seeing things that are icon to celebrate a special person not there, like levitating objects and in their life. ghost images. summer programs and events 15

in conversation Thomas J Price with Master Classes Justine Kohleal 13 – 23 June 2019

Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 7 pm the power plant FREE FOR ARTIST MEMBERS Private Location FREE, registration required Each workshop is limited to 10 participants. Please contact RSVP to [email protected] or [email protected] 416.975.4949 to confirm participation. or call 416.954.4235 to register.

Thomas J Price will engage in lively Become a Member discussion about his exhibition with The Power Plant’s RBC Curatorial Email [email protected] Fellow and curator of Ordinary or call 416.954.4235. Men, Justine Kohleal. Following this discussion, the artist will take questions from the audience. Thomas J Price

Thursday, 13 June 2019, 6 – 10 pm in conversation

LECTURE PERFORMANCE Mario Pfeifer with Khalil Joreige Stan Douglas Aida, Save Me by Sunday, 16 June 2019, 1 – 5 pm Joana Hadjithomas Saturday, 22 June 2019, 1 pm and Khalil Joreige Mario Pfeifer Brigantine Room, harbourfront centre Sunday, 23 June 2019, 1 – 5 pm Tuesday, 18 June 2019, 8:30 pm FREE

Aga Khan Museum Artist Members are invited for a In conjunction with Mario Pfeifer’s 77 Wynford Drive, north york, unique opportunity to meet first exhibition in Canada, The ontario with the Summer 2019 artists for a Power Plant presents a conversation $10 AKM / TPP Members / $15 facilitated critique of participants’ between Pfeifer and renowned Adults / $10 Students & Seniors work. Each participant will have 15 Canadian artist, Stan Douglas. The minutes to discuss up to 8 two first met when Douglas was For tickets, please visit event that blurs the line between images and/or videos of artworks thepowerplant.org. a professor of media science at the fiction and so-called reality, (an on-going series or recently- Berlin University of the Arts Hadjithomas and Joreige explore completed). After sharing personal (2000–06) and Pfeifer was a student Aida, Save Me is a performative the connections between archives, insights about the intentions and (2005–07). The conversation lecture, consisting of film images, disappearance, context and progression of their art-making, the will conclude with questions from stills, clips and a reading by Joana truth. This performative lecture exhibiting artist will lead a group the audience. Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. The measures the distance between discussion for creative feedback and work emerges from an extraordinary recognition and representation constructive criticism. real-life event: at the premiere of of oneself, and recounts this adventure this page top left Thomas J Price. Courtesy the their second feature film A Perfect Day whereby fiction has, all of a sudden, artist. Photo: Dan Fontanelli. (2006) in Beirut, an extraordinary taken the appearance of a document. this page top right Mario Pfeifer. Courtesy this page Thomas J Price. Courtesy the artist. incident “unbelievable but true” was the artist. Photo: Jamie Ferguson. this page bottom Joana Hadjithomas and to disrupt the film to release This program represents a first-time Khalil Joreige. Courtesy the artists and In Situ - and resonate strangely vis-a-vis the collaboration of The Power Plant fabienne leclerc. Photo: Jessica Forde. artist’s work. Beginning with this and the Aga Khan Museum. summer programs and events 17

FILM experts — tried to reach that final In addition to gallery installations, frontier. This film was an Hadjithomas and Joreige are notable official selection at the 2012 Toronto filmmakers. To complement their ex- International Film Festival. hibition On Scams (p. 2-3) The Power Plant is pleased to screen two films: Ismyrne Lebanese Rocket 2016, 50 min., colour Society: The Strange Tale of the Lebanese Thursday, 1 August 2019, 7 pm Space Race Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre 2012, 95 min., colour Joana Hadjithomas met fellow artist Saturday, 6 July 2019, 1 pm Etel Adnan in the 1990s. They quickly grew close, bound by family links to Studio Theatre, Smyrna, now known as Izmir on Harbourfront Centre Turkey’s Aegean coast, a city neither had been to. While both imagine In the early 1960s, the Cold War Smyrna, they question the transmis- between the Soviet Union and United sion of history and their attachment States, with its dramatic race into to objects, places, imaginary space and to the moon, coincided constructions and mythologies with the apex of Panarabism. without images. This film is part of But little has been said about Manoug the project I Stared at Beauty So Manougian who — with other Much which interrogates notions of scientists, students and army identity, belonging and nationalism.

FILM + PANEL original, plus witty and unflinchingly and archival projects. Bruce Eves in ARTIST TALK In this talk, Maloney will explore the honest. While engaging the Polari is his cinematic debut. Artist Talk with modulations between vernacular Bruce Eves in Polari intellect, it ranges emotionally from image-making in the digital age and laugh-out-loud funny to deeply sad. Peter Dudar’s origins are in painting, Liam Maloney the age-old iconography that 2018, colour, 78 min. Its fresh approach to the culture and graphic design and performance informs the burdensome tropes of politics of the last half century is a Thursday, 15 August 2019, 7 pm modern photojournalism. Thursday, 18 July 2019, 7 pm art. For a decade, he partnered with must-see. Following the film, Bruce dancer/choreographer Lily Eng — Liam Maloney is an award-winning Eves and Peter Dudar will be joined Studio Theatre, documentary photographer, artist Studio Theatre, and they performed internationally as Harbourfront Centre Harbourfront Centre by UK-based curator David Gleeson Missing Associates. His uniquely and filmmaker based in Toronto. His FREE FREE for a panel discussion. creative documentary films, which work has been published in TIME, screen worldwide, disclose The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Mother Conceived and directed by Peter Bruce Eves received the 2018 ‘choreographed’ movement in Liam Maloney’s work examines the Jones, Le Monde, The Globe and Dudar, the film details Bruce Governor General’s Award everyday life and focus on intersection of technology and Mail and many others. Known for his Eves’ cutting-edge career in the for Outstanding Achievement in individuals engaging with political intimacy in contemporary conflict innovative approach to storytelling, international art scene. Eves’ the Visual and Media Arts. His and cultural history. zones, where the experience of his installations and photographs visually creative use of code includes practice centers on conceptually- living through war is heavily mediated have been widely exhibited, from the Polari, a ‘secret’ gay anti-language. driven photo-based work and by smartphones, social media, Nobel Peace Centre to the MoMA. this page Still from Bruce Eves in Polari. Courtesy propaganda and entertainment, Stylistically the film is dynamic and writing. In the past Eves has involved the director. himself with curatorial, performance, algorithms and neural networks. this page, right Texting Syria. Courtesy the artist. summer programs and events #PowerYouthTO 19

Power Youth

The Power Youth outreach program connects youth ages 12 – 17, members of our partnering organizations in priority neighbourhoods, with local professional artists in a 15 week program. The program, led by a contemporary Artist-in-Residence selected by the youth participants, includes art-making, a visit to The Power Plant, and culminates with a youth art exhibition.

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Power Youth town hall material. Art in the public realm can moderator will be Chloë Catán, Artists-in-Residence Navigating Public Art mean collaborating with engineers, Public Art Program Manager, Call for Proposals architects, landscape architects and Waterfront Toronto. Fall 2019 Thursday, 4 July 2019, 7 pm fabricators, and as such can seem light years away from studio practice. This is one of several Town Halls Deadline: Friday, 12 July 2019 Summer Camp Visit harbourfrontcentre.com/camps Studio Theatre, and Focus Groups organized by a to register. Harbourfront Centre This Town Hall invites artists at all collective of ten non-profit, non- Senior Arts: FREe We are currently seeking to hire stages in their careers who want collecting contemporary art/film four Power Youth Artists-in- During Summer 2019, The Power to know more about the public art organizations in Toronto that received Power Youth project Funder Residence for Power Youth, Fall Plant will exhibit the work of artist process. By answering any and Open Door funding from Toronto Thomas J Price (based in London, 2019 Cycle, to deliver a Organized by Amanda Foulds, Power all questions, a panel of artists with Arts Council. For more information, England) and Mario Pfeifer (based 14-week program at one of our Kids and Outreach Coordinator varying levels of experience in the email [email protected]. in Berlin, Germany). While Price off-site locations. All artists and Elahe Rostami, Power Youth Securing a public art commission field, as well as representatives from creates figurative sculpture examining from any discipline — from visual Teaching Assistant, in collaboration can seem like a daunting task: commissioning bodies, will aim to the African diaspora in the UK, clockwise from left Georgia Dickie; Hadley art to new media, dance to with Harbourfront Centre Summer the application process often asks demystify the process and provide Pfeifer creates videos and installations House; Dean Drever; Catherine Dean; Chloë music, literary arts to theatre, Camp staff. artists to list their experience multiple perspectives on the nuts Catan. All images courtesy the speaker. and more — who have experience based on subjects around the world. in the field and yet it’s hard to gain and bolts of public art. Youths will create a three-dimensional working with youth from diverse For youth ages 11 to 15 experience if previous projects communities are welcome sculpture and documentary video are a prerequisite. Developing a Panelists include artists Georgia to explore how both Price and Pfeifer to apply! To apply visit Monday, 22 July – Friday, 26 July 2019 proposal can be complex, Dickie, Dean Drever and Hadley bit.ly/TPPOpportunities depict traditionally under-represented often involving large budgets, long peoples, histories and narratives. House; and Catherine Dean, Public Registration Fee: $325 timelines and technical support Art Officer, City of Toronto. The fundraising and major events #PowerBallTO 21

Portfolio Night POWER BALL: 21 CLUB Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 6 pm Thank You!

the power plant Thank you to our guests, sponsors FREe FOR ARTIST MEMBERS and partners for joining us at Power Ball: 21 Club, presented by Limited to 10 participants. Registration Holt Renfrew. will be open from 15 June – 1 July 2019. Should registration exceed capacity, participants will be selected via lottery For the event’s 21st edition, guests and a waitlist will be formed. To register were welcomed into the or to become a Member, email shadows for a night of revelry. [email protected] or call Under the cloak of darkness, 416.954.4235. the city’s notorious art world characters, artists, and fans Participants are invited to discuss of the forbidden were treated their work with a panel of Power to artist projects by Sarah Plant curatorial staff and local arts Keenlyside, Bruno Billio, Max professionals. Each artist will meet Streicher, Chelsea Culprit and with three reviewers and have fifteen performances curated by Tobaron minutes to discuss their practice Waxman of the Intergenerational and receive feedback. Following the LGBT Artist Residency. formal reviews, participants are invited to enjoy refreshments and As the gallery’s annual fundraiser, conversation with fellow artists. all profits from Power Ball: 21 Club will support the ambitious View highlights of the night on Save the date: Power Ball 22 is exhibitions and free public social media using #PowerBallTO & taking place on 4 June 2020! left Portfolio Night Fall 2018. Photo: Hayley Jones. programming at The Power Plant. #PowerBall21Club

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The Power Plant Regardless of your age or prior Uniquely situated on Toronto’s Free knowledge of art, The Power Harbourfront, The Power Plant Plant can tailor a tour to match is comprised of four gallery spaces, Learn more about the exhibitions your needs. Add a hands-on a naturally lit clerestory, a sleek on view with free 30-minute art-making activity! Tours can be and modern lobby and a spacious interactive tours led by one of arranged for educators and their outdoor terrace which provide an The Power Plant’s gallery students, parents and their ideal setting for an array of events. attendants. Consider the artists’ families or corporate, tourist and All rental proceeds go directly intentions, the prominent other organized groups. to funding the public programming themes with which they grapple and exhibitions at The Power Plant. right Winter 2019 Opening Party. Photo: and their materials and methods. Henry Chan. shop 23

publications ARTIST limited EDITION The Shop Vivian Suter Thomas J Price

The Power Plant $70 / $55 MEMBERS $600 / $500 MEMBERS regularly collaborates Abbas Akhavan: Extending his focus to the medium with artists to produce of print, Thomas J Price has editioned artwork variations on a produced a series of 10 woodblock landscape prints on paper exclusively for exclusive to the gallery, The Power Plant. Since 2005, Price award-winning Power Plant Pages has focused on creating what he terms ‘psychological portraits’ in exhibition catalogues $23 / $20 MEMBERS sculpture, animation and photo- and art-centric graphy, challenging characteristics Omar Ba: Same Dream stereotypically associated with publications. black men by depicting fictional Power Plant Pages characters that reject the conventions of portraiture. Price Bring the best of contemporary $23 / $20 MEMBERS continues to explore these ideas art home. Visit the Shop at in this new limited edition. The Power Plant during gallery This Summer features many new hours or 24/7 online at books available in the Shop! The bit.ly/TPPShop Power Plant Pages series continues limited edition merchandise with new publications by Abbas Akhavan and Omar Ba. Akhavan’s Artist Limited Edition publication features a collection Tote Bags of texts from his 2018 exhibition, variations on a landscape, by Derek $25 / $20 MEMBERS McCormack, Douglas Coupland, Geoffrey Farmer, Aisha Sasha John, The Power Plant branded Tote Bag, Marina Roy, and Riisa Walden. featuring artwork designed by Ba’s publication features essays by Francesca Chan, winner of Toronto Mary-Dailey Desmarais, Roger Outdoor Art Fair’s The Power Plant Malbert and the exhibition’s curator, Emerging Artist Award. This award is Nabila Abdel Nabi, with all texts intended to support an emerging also translated into French. Vivian artist with an official commission for Suter’s linen-bound monograph The Power Plant. Printed in a features poetic reflections, essays, limited edition of 50, this 12-ounce and installation photographs from Tote Bag is made from 100% natural recent exhibitions, including her cotton canvas. 2018 exhibition at The Power Plant.

opposite top left Vivian Suter top centre Abbas Akhavan, variations on a landscape top right Omar Ba, Same Dream bottom left, centre Roodboy 1, 2019. Archival relief print, ink on Japanese paper. 520 mm x 430 mm. Edition of 10, plus two artist proofs bottom right Francesca Chan, Artist Limited Edition Tote Bag The Power Plant provides all art lovers with exceptional opportunities Support to access, engage with and exchange ideas around the very best artwork of our time. None of this would be possible without our donors, an amazing cultural community of artists, producers, collectors and art The Power enthusiasts whose philanthropic support at all levels allows The Power Plant to present leading international art, groundbreaking contempo- Plant rary Canadian art, and a broad array of culturally diverse programming. To learn more or to make a donation to The Power Plant, please contact our Donor Programs team at [email protected] or 416.954.4235.

the club & above ALL LEVELS Exhibition Tour: Exhibition Tour: Textile Ryerson Image Centre Museum of Canada

Wednesday, 3 July 2019, 6 pm Wednesday, 17 July 2019, 6 pm

Paul Roth, Director of Ryerson Members are invited for a special Image Centre, will lead tour of Balancing Acts, Nadia Members through the Scotiabank Myre’s solo exhibition at the Textile Photography Award exhibition Museum of Canada led by by Moyra Davey, as well as a solo Curatorial Director Sarah Quinton. exhibition by Meryl McMaster.

Circle of Contemporaries is a Membership program for young art enthusiasts and those seeking greater engagement with the art world. The program consists of a series of annual events, with an emphasis on networking, interdisciplinary exchange and inspiring emerging collectors, in order to cultivate the arts patrons of tomorrow. Learn more: bit.ly/CircleofContemporaries

circle of contemporaries Collection Visit: Gesta & Lilian Abols

Thursday, 13 June 2019, 6 pm

Lifelong collector Gesta Abols will lead Members through his collection of Canadian and international art. LOW YO B AY . ST RK . ST all year, all free S ER I M

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