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Winter 2011 – 12 December 2011 – March 2012 OVERVIEW Winter at the Power Plant exhibitions / programs / events Winter 2011 – 12 December 2011 – March 2012 OVERVIEW Winter at The Power Plant Our Winter season presents two major The evening before the opening of the Winter exhi- exhibitions that delve into a wellspring bitions, Stan Douglas will speak in our International Lecture Series (8 December), while the influential of cultural history and the archive of artist Martha Rosler will give an ILS presentation a the social. week later, on 15 December. In the new year, in addition to a lecture by participating artist Stan Douglas: Entertainment features selections Christian Holstad, Coming After extends into a from the Vancouver artist’s outstanding new series of live events and film programs co-present- photographic project Midcentury Studio, in which ed with the Feminist Art Gallery and the Art Gallery Douglas assumes the lens of a postwar photogra- of York University, in tandem with their retrospec- pher as he takes on various jobs from photojour- tive of the late Toronto artist Will Munro. nalism to advertising. The exhibition includes In addition, we are pleased to collaborate with images of novelties and divertissements, as well as World Stage, Harbourfront Centre’s international his Malabar People suite of portraits of the performing arts series for the theatrical run of denizens of a fictional nightclub. The bars, clubs Everything Under the Moon by Toronto artist Shary and bathhouses that appear in the work in the Boyle (who had a solo exhibition at The Power Plant group exhibition Coming After, however, are in 2006) and Winnipeg musician Christine Fellows, absent of revelers — as if the party is over. Coming inaugurating the run with an opening party on 18 After puts forward interpretations of what could be February and a talkshow on-stage interview with called “queer time.” All born after 1970, the artists the artists on 23 February, 2012. included either reflect on and revive past (queer) Our ever-popular weekly Sunday Scene series historical moments or capture a sense of arriving and family-oriented Power Kids events continue too late, as if these past junctures represent paths this season with a stellar line-up of engaging not taken, which we can now only wistfully look speakers and activities. back on. The exhibition was inspired by the increased attention paid to a key cultural moment We look forward to seeing you at The Power Plant of the mid-1980s to early 90s that was decisive in this Winter! terms of the dawn of the AIDS crisis and of “queer” as an identity and theory. exhibition 3 1. Stan Douglas, Dancer II, 1950 (2010). Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York. 2. Stan Douglas, Malabar People: West-Side Lady, 1951 (2010). Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York. 3. Malabar People: Bandleader, 1951 (2010). Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York. 1 2 3 Stan Douglas various jobs from Weegee-esque photojournalism large-scale images of hockey and cricket events. taken place at kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2004), to advertising. A social system — and an economic Together, the works reveal a highly mixed demo- Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2005), Centre Entertainment: Selections system — of entertainment is revealed here in the graphic. The works were shot in Vancouver, and Pompidou, Paris (2007), and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart artist’s inhabitation of a historical fiction. Achieving although the locations are not always revealed, the and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart from Midcentury Studio verisimilitude, Douglas reconstructed a studio city not only plays itself but stands in for a midcen- (2007). He has been included in recent group using authentic equipment as well as hired actors tury every city. The notion of entertainment is exhibitions at such venues as the Hirshhorn 10 December, 2011 – 4 March, 2012 to produce staged photographs that emulate the entwined with a postwar optimism, while at the same Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2008), International Center of Photography, New Opening Reception: 9 December, 8 – 11 PM period’s obsession with noir-ish drama, magic, time inflected with darker ramifications of looking dance, sporting events, curious artifacts, fashion, back. York (2008 and 2009), ZKM/Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (2010), and Guggenheim Museum, Curated by Melanie O’brian, “caught-in-the-moment” scenes, gambling, and, of Like Douglas’s films, which defy straightforward New York (2010). His work is represented by David CuratOr & Head Of PrOgraMs course, shifting technologies. narrative expectations, the artist’s photographs The exhibition includes the Malabar People, a typically complicate linear — and in this case, chrono- Zwirner, New York. series of sixteen black-and-white portraits of the logical — reading. Examining the links between Entertainment: Selections from Midcentury Studio is patrons and staff of a fictional 1950s nightclub. The subjective impressions of a place or event and their The exhibition will be accompanied by a publica- an exhibition of new photographic work by patrons range from single women to loggers, and official representations, Douglas rethinks aesthetic tion — please see p. 12 for details. Vancouver artist Stan Douglas. The work in the the staff encompass bartenders, waitresses and structures while grounding his works in the specific. exhibition continues the artist’s practice of reexam- entertainers (a dancer, a female impersonator, a The photographs in Entertainment collectively ining historical, site-specific layers, particularly the musician). Accompanying them are additional speak to notions of history and reproduction, and imaging of postwar North American diversions photographs from Midcentury Studio that provide a offer a partial portrait of a specific place and time. from cabaret to sports. The body of work is largely further context for period entertainment including a Stan Douglas (born in Vancouver, 1960) has had Presenting Sponsor a meticulous studio project in which Douglas multiple exposure image of a dancer, photographs numerous solo and group exhibitions at prominent assumes the lens of a photographer who takes on of stage magic tricks or sleight of hand, and institutions worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions have exhibition 5 something. The potential represented by this very sense of themselves as part of queer genealogies Coming After recent and more faraway radical (queer) historical and cultural lineages, with influence and affinity Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Aleesa Cohene, moments is both an open wound and a fount of moving across time and space. Glen Fogel, Onya Hogan-Finlay, Christian Holstad, inspiration. What was lost along the way from then to Danny Jauregui, Adam Garnet Jones, Jean-Paul now? Some works are specifically referential, while Coming After will be accompanied by a publication — Kelly, Tim Leyendekker, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, others more obliquely capture a sense of having please see p. 12 for details. James Richards, Emily Roysdon, Dean Sameshima, arrived too late, a kind of knotty nostalgia or even melancholic deflation. For example, one motif in the Onya Hogan-Finlay’s project includes a parallel exhibition at the Jonathan VanDyke, Susanne M. Winterling Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives Gallery, 34 Isabella Street, exhibition is of spaces haunted with both historical January – April 2012. www.clga.ca resonance and a glimmer of future potential. 10 December, 2011 – 4 March, 2012 Negotiating their hope and despair about the Opening Reception: 9 December, 8 – 11 PM present and future of our world in complex and support Donors compelling ways, the artists in Coming After share a Liza Mauer & Andrew Sheiner Curated by JOn davies, assistant CuratOr cover Jean-Paul Kelly, detail from Rag Featuring artists from New York, Los Angeles, (Le Monde), 2010. Berlin, Toronto, and beyond, Coming After is a Courtesy the artist. response to the recent renewal of interest in the 1. Emily Roysdon, period from the mid-1980s to early 1990s that was detail from untitled (David Wojnarowicz decisive for North American cultural politics. project), 2001–07. This time period witnessed the (first of many) Courtesy the artist. Culture Wars, the birth of “queer” as an identity 2. Pauline Boudry/ and theory, and the rise of a direct-action AIDS Renate Lorenz, detail from No Future/No activist movement — epitomized by ACT UP — fight- Past (still), 2011. ing a new plague that was devastating communi- Courtesy the artists. 1 ties of artists, queers and people of colour. While 3. Dean Sameshima, these years were highly traumatic, they also detail from Gauntlet II (LALC), 2003. Courtesy represented a galvanizing, dynamic moment for the artist and Peres queer citizenship — one that is arguably haunting Projects, Berlin. our present and our future. This exhibition does not focus on those artists who were, as artist Christian Holstad succinctly put it, “burying their dead” at that time, but instead those who grew up in the shadow of the crisis, whether by fate or by choice. Artist Sharon Hayes has noted, “what marks me generationally is that … it wasn’t my friends who were dying, it was the people I was just discovering, people I was just beginning to model myself after, people I longed to become.” The artists in Coming After were primarily born in 1970 or later and share a certain queer sensibility that is in dialogue with the past in some way. Rather than melding with the consumer-culture lifestyle that has been touted as GLBT citizenship over the past fifteen years, the work evidences a sense of having come after or missed out on 2 3 WINTER programs and events Primary Education Sponsor 7 Sunday Scene Johnson Ngo David Balzer December Sunday, 15 January, 2 pm Sunday, 12 February, 2 pm international lecture series the poWer plant free With admission Johnson Ngo is an artist exploring David Balzer is a Toronto-based Stan Douglas connections and disjunctions author, editor and teacher. His Every Sunday, speakers from the between his gaysian identity and writing on art and film has appeared Thursday, 8 December, 7 pm world of art and beyond offer their Western queer culture.
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