exhibitions / programs / events

Summer 2018 June – September 2018 OVERVIEW

As we enter The Power Plant’s second Toronto-based Canadian artist, Abbas Akhavan, all year, exhibition season of 2018, we pause Summer 2018 at developed a new site-specific work for the fourth to acknowledge the importance of annual Fleck Clerestory Commission, opening this all free the ALL YEAR, ALL FREE program. The Power Plant Summer and continuing through our Fall 2018 exhibition season. Entitled, variations on a landscape, Thanks to the support of BMO Financial Group, the the artist alters the decentralized space of the gallery is able to eliminate admission fees, enabling gallery’s high and narrow Clerestory. Using a round Presented By This summer, we welcome you back all visitors, young and old, to access our exhibitions. fountain to create a communal space for contem- Join us all year long at The Power Plant, where to see three major exhibitions, two plation and literary engagement, our experience admission is always FREE. of which are first solo exhibitions in within this installation will be dependent on the Canada, and the third by one of changing seasons and their effect on the exhibition’s our very own Toronto-based artists. entire surrounding environment, which will also Each of these three artists are be punctuated by the literary contributions of some of Canada’s best authors. globally-minded, exploring complex Visiting The Power Plant provides opportunity issues with implications on our to intimately engage with the works on display, but shared day-to-day living. we also present a series of public programs and activities, featuring a diverse group of artists, poets, and scholars who provide varied perspectives Rotterdam and New York-based American artist on specific aspects of each of our Summer 2018 Ellen Gallagher’s exhibition Nu-Nile is organized exhibitions. around interrelated nodes, which consider recurrent Hear from artists Grada Kilomba and Ellen dominant themes in her practice. Gallagher’s Gallagher about how their ideas translate into visual exploration of visual culture covers a wide-ranging forms. Watch moving images recommended by temporal terrain stretching from blackface minstrelsy Kilomba and Gallagher for added context and take to 20th-century abstraction, and involves the part in a walking tour with Guest Curator Inês mining of vernacular forms in order to explore the Grosso. Attend a book discussion about Kilomba’s relationship between figuration and non figuration Plantation Memories. Mirror one element of around narratives of race and representation. The Akhavan’s installation by participating in a writing exhibition, in the Royal LePage, the North Galleries workshop. Create family memories by attending and our south terrace, is comprised of new works one of our many Power Kids programs on-site, at as well as seminal artworks from Gallagher’s wide the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, or at one of the two The Power Plant is very grateful to the following Institutional Supporters: ranging multi-disciplinary production of painting, Toronto Public Library branches hosting summer works on paper, film and video. GOVERNMENT FUNDERS Power Kids Funders education & public program support camps. And be sure to drop-in for a Power Tour Grada Kilomba, is a Berlin-based Portuguese artist every Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon to with roots in São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola. hear more about the artists from knowledgeable For her first exhibition in North America, we present RBC Curatorial Fellow supported by and engaging Gallery Attendants. Tate & Cindy Abols Secrets to Tell in which she grapples with the Everyone is always welcome at The Power Plant, intricacies of colonialism and post-colonialism in the Power Youth FUNDERS please come in and experience the work of these early twenty-first century. Often related to textual TD CURATOR OF EDUCATION AND unique artists throughout Summer 2018. OUTREACH FELLOW SUPPORTED BY sources by herself or others, her video, installation ALL YEAR, ALL FREE and text-based works investigate gender and race Dasha Shenkman Gaëtane Verna, Director politics, African identity and its diasporas, trauma and memory, and shared collective imaginations. exhibition #TPPNuNile #TPPNuNile 3

Born in the port city of Providence, Rhode Island, cover Ellen Gallagher, Watery Ellen Gallagher Ellen Gallagher has long been an inspired and Ecstatic, 2018. Watercolor, oil, Nu-Nile imaginative chronicler of the watery ecstatic realm. pencil, varnish and Her large-scale history paintings featuring seascapes, cut paper on paper. © Ellen Gallagher. 23 June – 3 September 2018 science experiments, portraiture, abstraction and Courtesy of Gagosian and Hauser & Wirth. Opening: 22 June 2018, 8 – 11 PM minstrelsy are mutinous assertions of blackness Photo: Ernst Moritz this page Ellen in a medium in which the African body has habitually Gallagher, CURATOR: carolin köchling been concealed. Her exploration of visual culture Aquajujidsu, 2017. Oil, ink and paper on assistant curator: Justine Kohleal, covers a wide ranging temporal terrain stretching canvas. © Ellen 2018-19 RBC Curatorial Fellow Gallagher. Courtesy from blackface minstrelsy to 20th-century the artist, Hauser & abstraction, and includes mining of vernacular forms Wirth and Gagosian. co-presenting sponsors presenting donor Photo: Ernst Moritz as diverse as science fiction, advertising, mid- opposite Edgar Diana Billes Cleijne and Ellen century race magazines, travelogues and scrimshaw Gallagher, Highway Gothic, 2017. 16 mm in order to address and release the concealed film installation with lead sponsor lead donor major donor threads which bind the visible. 70 mm film and Rosamond Ivey textile cyanotype banners. © Edgar Nadir & Shabin Encompassing paintings, drawings and films, Cleijne and Ellen Mohamed Gallagher’s first exhibition in Canada takes its Gallagher. Courtesy starting point from her and Edgar Cleijne’s most the artists, Hauser & Wirth and Gagosian support donor international arts partner recent film installation Highway Gothic (2017), Sheldon Inwentash an examination of the impact Interstate Highway 10 & Lynn Factor had on humans and nature. Running through New Orleans and the Atchafalaya Swamp, the Highway was part of a period of mass construction Ellen Gallagher (born 1965 in Providence, Rhode during the mid-20th century which segregated Island) lives and works in Rotterdam and New York. working class, especially immigrant communities, Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been from new urban centres. The exhibition draws organized at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2018); connections between this North American history Haus der Kunst, Munich (2014); Sara Hildén Art and Gallagher’s recent sea bed paintings that Museum, Tampere, Finland (2013); SCAD Museum extend her annotation of the Drexciya mythos of Art, Savannah, USA (2013); New Museum, New laterally, towards an in utero Atlantis conceived York (2013); and , London, UK (2013). in the wake of the Middle Passage. The artist’s Recent group exhibitions include Columbia series of black paintings, Negroes Battling in a University Wallach Art Gallery, New York (2018); Cave (2016), was prompted by the discovery that Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2017); Malevich’s Black Square (1915) had been painted Contemporary Arts Centre, New Orleans (2017); on top of a proto-cubistic painting. Its title makes Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2017); reference to a handwritten note at the edge Museum of Chicago (2017); The of Malevich’s canvas, recently unearthed during , Minneapolis (2017); WIELS, restoration. Brussels (2017); Warsaw Nu-Nile reveals Gallagher’s practice of synthe- (2017); and Mrac – Musée régional d’art contemporain, sizing a wide range of pictorial traditions in Sérignan, France (2017). In 2015 her work was order to counter static representations of black featured in the Venice Biennial. people in culture, and critically examines and reimagines the figure-ground protocols circulating within the canon of Western painting. exhibition #TPPSecretstoTell #TPPSecretstoTell 5

Grada Kilomba’s work addresses issues of gender exchange of goods within our global capitalist and race, trauma and memory, in the context of system is inextricably linked to our colonial past current debates on colonialism and post-colonialism and present. and as research into the ambiguous relationship The exhibition Secrets to Tell is accompanied between remembering, forgetting, and the collective by a fully illustrated book with texts by Inês Grosso memory and identity of Africans living in Diaspora. and Alfredo Jaar, and a conversation between Evoking African oral traditions and their power to Theresa Sigmund and Grada Kilomba. carry on the spoken word, the artist’s work gives The exhibition is a production of the MAAT — voice to silenced narratives with the aim of rewriting Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology/ and retelling a history that has been suppressed EDP Foundation, Lisbon, in partnership with The or disregarded. Power Plant, Toronto. Showing her work for the first time in North America, the exhibition Secrets to Tell presents Grada Kilomba (1968, Lisbon, Portugal) lives and The Desire Project (2015 – 2016). Divided into three works in Berlin. Solo exhibitions of Kilomba’s acts, like a theatre play — “While I Walk”, “While work have been organized at Avenida da Índia I Speak” and “While I Write” — this three-channel Gallery at the Municipal Galleries of Lisbon video projection features a rhythmic sequence (2017), and MAAT — Museum of Art, Architecture of sentences that compose a powerful discourse and Technology, Lisbon (2017). Her work has engaged in the decolonisation of contemporary been shown in numerous group exhibitions around thought. The projections are accompanied by a the world, including dOCUMENTA14, Kassel shrine dedicated to Escrava Anastacia, a political (2017); the 32nd São Paulo Biennial (2016); and and religious figure popularised by the Brazilian Rauma Biennal Balticum, Finland (2016). African movement in the 18th century. She has performed in venues such as SAVVY Alongside The Desire Project, the exhibition Contemporary Berlin (2017); the Secession features a new version of the staged reading Museum, Vienna (2016); Münchner Kammerspiele, of Kilomba’s book Plantation Memories (2008) — Munich (2016); the Bozar Museum for Contemporary a compilation of episodes of everyday racism Art, Brussels (2016); SOAS University of London, Grada Kilomba There is an apprehensive fear that if the colonial written in the form of short, psychoanalytical stories UK (2016); and Wits Theatre, Johannesburg (2016). subject speaks, the colonizer will have to listen. and testimonials told by women of the African Kilomba is the author of the book Plantation Secrets to Tell She/he would be forced into an uncomfortable Diaspora. In the wall piece THE CHORUS, Kilomba Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism (2008) and confrontation with “Other” truths. Truths that have introduces the idea of a manifesto based on co-organizer of Mythen, Subjekte, Masken (2005), 23 June – 3 September 2018 been denied, and kept quiet, as secrets. I do like their words. Kosmos2, Labor #10: Video Installation an interdisciplinary anthology of critical studies on Opening: 22 June 2018, 8 – 11 PM this phrase “quiet as it’s kept.” It is an expression of (2015–ongoing), documents a conversation whiteness. She earned a PhD in philosophy from African Diasporic people that announces how between Kilomba and Diana McCarty, who Freie Universität Berlin in 2008 and has taught at guest curator: Inês Grosso, Curator, MAAT— Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon someone is about to reveal what is presumed to be discusses the urgent need for new artistic practices various international universities, including the a secret. Secrets like slavery. Secrets like colonialism. that distance themselves from the norms of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she was an presenting donor support donor Secrets like racism. dominant narratives. Associate Professor until 2013. Laura Hale & John Matheson — Grada Kilomba Kilmoba’s new work, Table of Goods (2017), establishes a direct relationship between the opposite Grada Kilomba, The Desire Project, still image, 2016. Commissioned shrine dedicated to Anastacia and Brazil’s history by the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, 2016. Courtesy the artist and the EDP donors supported by Foundation Art Collection, Portugal of slavery, sexual violence and exploitation. Catherine Barbaro & Tony Grossi Goodman Gallery Sarah Dinnick & Colin Webster Made with soil, sugar, coffee, cocoa, chocolate and Dr. Kenneth Montague & Ms. Sarah Aranha Don Tapscott C.M. & Ana P. Lopes C.M. wax candles, Table of Goods reminds us that the exhibition #TPPvariationsonalandscape #TPPvariationsonalandscape 7

For the fourth iteration of the Fleck Clerestory cities, the installation aims to give way to a circular Abbas Akhavan Commission Program, The Power Plant has point for gathering, one that reflects on the role of variations on a invited Abbas Akhavan to develop a new work an art institution, one that might offer a communal for this specific site. space for contemplation. landscape Abbas Akhavan’s practice ranges from site- The artist’s intervention alters the environment specific ephemeral installations to drawing, of the institution, engages with the architecture 23 June – 30 December 2018 video, sculpture and performance. The domestic of the building while highlighting some of the natural Opening: 22 June 2018, 8 – 11 PM sphere, as a forked space between hospitality and urban surroundings. The exhibition takes and hostility, has been an ongoing area of research into consideration elements outside the white cube, CURATOR: Carolin Köchling in his practice. More recent works have shifted allowing the visitor’s experience in the space to Assistant Curator: Nabila Abdel Nabi focus, wandering onto spaces and species just be shaped by the seasons, the time of day and the outside the home — the garden, the backyard, weather conditions. presenting donors major donors and other domesticated landscapes. Akhavan has invited six writers and artists to Nancy McCain Nadir & Shabin & Bill Morneau Mohamed Akhavan’s installation, variations on a landscape, contribute a text the the installation. Each uses a round fountain to shift the decentralized text will be introduced to the physical space on support donors donors space of the gallery’s high and narrow Clerestory. a monthly basis. Robin Thomson Anthony & Barry Campbell & Working against the rigid symmetry of the space, Mary Dawn Thomson Debra Grobstein Campbell Abbas Akhavan earned a BFA from Concordia Susie & Vahan Kololian recalling the grid so prevalent in all North American University (2004) and an MFA from the University of British Columbia (2006). Recent exhibitions include Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2017); Villa Stuck, Munich (2017); Mercer Union, Toronto, (2015); The Delfina Foundation, London, UK (2012); and The Darling Foundry, Montreal (2012). Recent group exhibitions include Prospect 4, New Orleans (2017); SALT Galata, Istanbul (2017); Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2016); Wellcome Collection, London (2016); Beirut Art Centre (2015); and Gwangju Biennale (2014). Recent residencies include Atelier Calder in Saché, France (2017), Fogo Island Arts, Canada (2013/2016), Flora: ars+natura, Bogota (2015), and Western Front Artist Run Centre, Vancouver (2013). Akhavan is the recipient of Kunstpreis Berlin (2012), The Abraaj Group Art Prize (2014), the Sobey Art Award (2015), and the Fellbach Triennial Award (2016).

opposite Abbas Akhavan, Push Broom, 2017. Horse hair and wood. Photo: Jann Averwerser this page Abbas Akhavan, Study for a Garden, 2015. Emerald Green Cedar trees and string summer programs and events 9

Calendar June 2018 September 2018 Friday, 22 June, 8 – 11 pm Saturday, 23 June, 2 pm Saturday, 1 September, 3 pm at a Glance PUBLIC OPENING PARTY IN CONVERSATION POWER TOUR (PG 17) Grada Kilomba (PG 14) SUNDAY SCENE FREE Saturday, 23 June, 1 pm Hear speakers from the world of art CURATOR-LED TOUR Sunday, 24 June, 1 pm and beyond offer their responses to Inês Grosso (PG 14) in conversation the current exhibitions. Ellen Gallagher (PG 14) POWER KIDS FREE July 2018 Participate in multigenerational studio activities with a guided tour Thursday, 5 July, 6:30 pm Thursday, 19 July, 7 pm of the gallery. POWER TOUR (PG 17) FILM POWER TOURS FREE Wan Pipel (PG 15) Saturday, 7 July, 3 pm Join a guided tour of the exhibitions POWER TOUR (PG 17) Saturday, 21 July, 3 pm and engage in dialogue about art POWER TOUR (PG 17) and ideas. Sunday, 8 July, 2 pm SUNDAY SCENE Sunday, 22 July, 3 – 5 pm ARTIST TALKS FREE Ngozi Paul (PG 10) POWER KIDS Hear from exhibiting artists as they Sea Snail Studies (PG 12) speak about their work and Thursday, 12 July, 6:30 pm take questions from the audience. POWER TOUR (PG 17) Monday, 23 – Friday, 27 July POWER YOUTH Saturday, 14 July, 3 pm Summer Camp (PG 17) POWER TOUR (PG 17) Thursday, 26 July, 6:30 pm August 2018 Sunday, 15 July, 2 pm SLOW ART TOUR (PG 16) SUNDAY SCENE Eisha Lim (PG 11) Saturday, 28 July, 3 pm Thursday, 2 August, 6:30 pm Saturday, 18 August, 3 pm POWER TOUR (PG 17) POWER TOUR (PG 17) POWER TOUR (PG 17) Sunday, 15 July, 3 – 5 pm POWER KIDS Sunday, 29 July, 2 pm Saturday, 4 August, 3 pm Sunday, 19 August, 2 pm Colouring on the Walls (PG 12) SUNDAY SCENE POWER TOUR (PG 17) SUNDAY SCENE Kwame McKenzie (PG 11) Nilou Salimi (PG 11) Thursday, 19 July, 6:30 pm Sunday, 5 August, 3 – 5 pm POWER TOUR (PG 17) POWER KIDS Sunday, 19 August, 3 – 5 pm Family Features (PG 13) POWER KIDS On Fountains and Wishes (PG 13) Sunday, 5 August 7 pm Sunday Scene Thursday, 23 August, 6:30 pm Chelsea Rothman (PG 11) POWER TOUR (PG 17)

Thursday, 9 August, 6:30 pm Saturday, 25 August, 3 pm POWER TOUR (PG 17) POWER TOUR (PG 17)

Saturday, 11 August, 1 pm Sunday, 26 August, 2 pm WRITING WORKSHOP SUNDAY SCENE The Gathering Place (PG 16) Sandra Brewster (PG 11) opposite Abbas Akhavan, Kids, Cats and 1 Dog, 2016. Installation view: Flora: ars+natura, Bogotá. Saturday, 11 August, 3 pm Sunday, 26 August, 3 – 5 pm Paint on rooftop. Photo: Gonzalo Angarita POWER TOUR (PG 17) POWER KIDS this page, left Grada Kilomba, Plantation Memories, still image, 2018. Courtesy the artist. DIY Zoetropes (PG 13) this page, right Fall 2017 Opening Party, The Thursday, 16 August, 6:30 pm Power Plant. Photo: Henry Chan POWER TOUR (PG 17) Thursday, 30 August, 6:30 pm POWER TOUR (PG 17) summer programs and events #SundayScene #SundayScene 11

Sunday Scene July 2018 Elisha Lim August 2018 Nilou Salimi Sunday, 15 July 2018, 2 pm Sunday, 19 August 2018, 2 pm The Power Plant free Elisha Lim is a queer and transgender Nilou Salimi is a Gallery Attendant at story-teller and graphic novelist, The Power Plant Contemporary Speakers from the world of art and other disciplines offer their responses to whose book 100 Crushes was publish- Art Gallery. An artist and educator the current exhibitions in these free gallery talks. Whether focusing on a ed by Koyama Press. Lim has created based in Toronto, her work is single work, a specific artist or on multiple exhibitions, guest presenters draw award winning claymation films primarily in contemporary drawing. provocative connections between our exhibitions and broader cultural and and founded the annual anti-racist She holds a BFA from OCAD U and intellectual debates. Montreal art festival “Qouleur.” an MFA from Western University. Lim holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Salimi will discuss Abbas Akhavan’s Criticism and Curatorial Practice exhibition. at OCADU and is currently writing a PhD at U of T on race and social

media. Chelsea Rothman Ngozi Paul

Ngozi Paul Chelsea Rothman Sunday, 5 August 2018, 2 pm Sunday, 8 July 2018, 2 pm Chelsea Rochman is an Assistant Ngozi Paul is an award-winning Professor in Ecology at the actress and creator. Ngozi has University of Toronto. Chelsea has played on numerous stages across been researching the sources, Canada and world-wide and is sinks and ecological implications best known for starring in the critically of plastic debris in marine and acclaimed and awarded-winning Sandra Brewster freshwater habitats for the past series, ‘da Kink in my Hair. Currently, decade and has published scientific she is developing the film The papers in respected journals and Emancipation of Ms. Lovely. Paul will Sandra Brewster has led international working groups discuss Grada Kilomba’s exhibition about plastic pollution. In addition Sunday, 26 August 2018, 2 pm Secrets to Tell. Kwame McKenzie to her research, Chelsea works to translate her science beyond Sandra Brewster is a multi-disciplinary academia. Rothman will discuss Ellen artist based in Toronto. Her work Kwame McKenzie Gallagher’s exhibition Nu-Nile. has been exhibited nationally and abroad, engaging many themes Sunday, 29 July 2018, 2 pm that grapple with notions of identity, representation and memory. Sandra Dr. McKenzie is Director of Health holds a BFA from York University and Equity at CAMH. As a physician, a Masters of Visual Studies degree psychiatrist, researcher and policy from University of Toronto. She will advisor, Dr. McKenzie has worked discuss Ellen Gallagher’s exhibition to identify the causes of mental illness, Nu-Nile. particularly in cross-cultural health, for over two decades. McKenzie will discuss Grada Kilomba’s exhibition Secrets to Tell. Elisha Lim

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Family Features On Fountains and Wishes Sunday, 5 August 2018, 3 –5 pm

Sunday, 19 August 2018, 3 –5 pm Many of the works in Grada Kilomba’s exhibition, Secrets to Tell, explore Throughout history, fountains have language and its effect on how we provided running water for cities see ourselves. In this workshop, and have been sites for gathering, families are invited to choose three rituals and making wishes. Partici- words or phrases that best describe pants in this workshop will learn how their family and then illustrate them to create their own mini wishing using paper, paint and markers to fountains using clay and paint. create triptychs.

DIY Zoetropes

Sunday, 26 August 2018, 3 –5 pm

In Nu-Nile, Ellen Gallagher uses both analogue and digital animation to activate images and create the feeling of being transported into new worlds. Inspired by Gallagher’s interest in moving pictures, we will explore the history of film by creating zoetropes using wood, cardboard and paper.

Power Kids Colouring on the Walls Sea Snail Studies Join Power Kids Offsite The Power Plant Sunday, 15 July 2018, 3 –5 pm Sunday, 22 July 2018, 3 –5 pm free Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition As part of his site-specific installation, As part of an oceanography course, 7 – 8 July 2018 For children ages 7 – 12 and their adult artist Abbas Akhavan uses sunlight Ellen Gallagher spent a semester companions. from the Fleck Clerestory’s glass ceil- studying, collecting, and drawing Toronto Public Libraries ing to create ‘wall paintings’ that small wing-footed snails called Power Kids Camps: Email [email protected] change depending on time of day pteropods. Her time spent drawing or call 416.973.4949 to reserve a spot. fort york branch and season. Inspired by Akhavan’s these underwater creatures helped 16 – 20 July 2018 playful use of light and space and his inform the work she makes today. In Tours and workshops are led by Amanda parkdale branch Foulds, Power Kids Family Programs interest in bringing elements of this workshop, we will look at images Coordinator and Erica Cristobal, Power the outdoors inside, we will create of underwater creatures, abstract 13 – 16 August 2018 Kids Teaching Assistant. ‘wall-paintings’ using paper, colour them, and then transform them into gels and projectors. mixed-media paintings using canvas, Visit thepowerplant.org for POWER KIDS FUNDERs paint and Plasticine. full details

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Need a few activities to get you started on your tour through the exhibitions? Pick up opposite Photo by Henry Chan a copy of the Family Guide, available in the gallery and online at bit.ly/powerkids. this page, left Power Kids Fall 2017 this page, above Photo by Henry Chan summer programs and events 15

curator-led tour Inês Grosso, Curator at the MAAT- film Inês Grosso Museum of Art, Architecture and Wan Pipel Technology in Lisbon, and the curator of Grada Kilomba’s Saturday, 23 June 2018, 1 pm Thursday, 19 July 2018, 7 pm exhibition Secrets to Tell, will lead a tour of the exhibition. the power plant Studio Theatre, FREE Stick around for the In Harbourfront Centre Conversation program that follows! FREE Members / $10 Non-Members

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Artist Ellen Gallagher selected the film IN CONVERSATION Wan Pipel as it depicts themes similar Ellen Gallagher to those she explores in her exhibition Nu-Nile. The film holds an extra significance for Gallagher who lives Sunday, 24 June 2018, 1 pm in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The film will be introduced by Vincent Parra. The film was the first produced and clash of Surinamese, African, Jackman Hall, art gallery of ontario van Velsen, writer, curator and after Suriname established Indian and Dutch cultures. Roy must 317 dundas st w editor of Metropolis M, who will also independencefrom the Netherlands. make difficult choices about his FREE engage in conversation following Roy, a young Surinamese man, love life which mirror larger cultural the screening. returns to his native country from the and personal decisions that people In this program, co-presented with Wan Pipel is a 1976 Surinamese/ Netherlands and is confronted living in diasporas all over the world the Art Gallery of Ontario, Ellen Dutchfilm directed by Pim de la with the consequences of colonialism must make about their lifestyle. Gallagher will be in conversation with poet Natasha Trethewey, to be in conversation moderated by Ivy Wilson. Trethewey was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Grada Kilomba film violinist, philanthropist and gay for Poetry and served two terms as rights activist. Jim is unique, and so Joseph Clement: the 19th Poet Laureate of the United Saturday, 23 June 2018, 2pm is his Integral House. Completed States (2012-2014). Wilson (Ph.D. Yale Integral Man in 2009, almost ten years after he University), is currently Associate Studio Theatre, initially commissioned two young Harbourfront Centre Professor of English and Director of 26 May – 25 November 2018, architects for the project, Integral FREE Members / $10 Non-Members American Studies at Northwestern 10 am – 6 pm House is hailed as a masterpiece by University, teaches courses on the some of the greatest architecture Grada Kilomba will engage in lively comparative literatures of the black Palazzo Michiel and design critics in the world. One conversation with The Power Plant’s diaspora and U.S. literary studies Venice, Italy of the house’s many remarkable Director, Gaëtane Verna, about her with a particular emphasis features: it is designed around a career as a writer and artist and on African American culture. The Power Plant and the Global Art stunning internal concert hall where Secrets to Tell, her exhibition at The Affairs Foundation co-present Jim could host some of the world’s Power Plant. Integral Man during Venice Design greatest living musicians. Integral this page top left Ellen Gallagher. Photo by This program will include the 2018 at the Venice Biennial of Man follows Jim as he confronts his Philippe Vogelenzang, courtesy HALAL. Courtesy Canadian premiers of two video the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Architecture. declining health, inability to play this page top right Grada Kilomba, Table of works by Kilomba. This program Dr. James Stewart is the most pub- violin as arthritis cripples his hands, Goods, 2017. Installation view: MAAT – Museum of is co-presented with the Black Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisboa. Cour- lished mathematician since Euclid. and his diagnosis in summer 2013 tesy EDP Foundation. Photo: Bruno Lopes Artists’ Network Dialogue (B.A.N.D.). this page bottom Grada Kilomba. Photo by In addition to his work as a calculus of multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, Esra Rothoff. professor, he was a concert level from which he died in December 2014. summer programs and events 17

Power Youth Artists-in-Residence Call for Proposals Fall 2018

Deadline: 20 July 2018

We are currently seeking to hire four Power Youth Visit harbourfrontcentre.com/camps Artists-in-Residence for Power Power Youth to register. Youth, Fall 2018 Cycle, to Summer Camp deliver a 14-week program at Inspired by Summer 2018 solo one of our off-site locations. Power Youth Summer Camps are exhibitions by artists Ellen Gallagher, All artists from any discipline organized by Elyse Rodgers, Power who have experience working workshop Grada Kilomba and Abbas Akhavan, Youth Coordinator, Amanda Foulds, (visit bit.ly/TPPExhibitions), youth will with youth from diverse Slow Art Tour Power Kids Family Programs learn how a variety of mediums may communities are welcome to Coordinator and Charmae be used to consider history, narrative apply! To apply visit Thursday, 26 July 2018, Freeman, Power Youth Teaching and mythology. Inspired by all thepowerplant.org/AboutUs/ 6:30 – 7:30 pm Assistant. three artists, youth participants will Opportunities.aspx write stories and then transform the power plant For youth ages 11 to 15 their stories into finished drawings, free paintings or stop-motion animations. Monday, 23 July – Friday, 27 July 2018 Pivoting off of the global event Slow Art Day, this program seeks to the power plant help more people discover for them- writing workshop Akhavan’s re-imagining of the selves the joy of looking at and gallery’s Clerestory through a guided loving art by encouraging visitors to The Gathering Place look at art slowly, and then meet tour and discussion. Creative writing tours exercises inspired by Akhavan’s work to talk about their experiences. While Saturday, 11 August 2018, 1 – 4:30 pm will follow. Some pieces will be we share personal associations Power Tours Group Tours written independently; others in with the art, we can also make inter- the power plant collaboration or groups. All the personal connections with other Thursdays, 6:30pm To schedule an arranged tour, please $50 Members / $60 Non-Members email [email protected] or call exercises will be completed in a safe, participants. Saturdays, 3pm 416.973.4949. non-critical environment suitable for From 6:30 to 7 PM, we will look in 23 June – 3 September 2018 Public places invite and provoke us. writers of all levels. Writing materials silence at three artworks for An empty seat on a patio allows us to Regardless of your age or prior will be provided. 10 minutes each. Grab both a light- The Power Plant people watch, eavesdrop, or retreat Free knowledge of art, The Power David Bester is a writer, editor weight stool to sit comfortably into our own thoughts. Conversations Plant can tailor a tour to match and long-time student of the creative as you look, and a handout with can bring friends, lovers and stran- your needs. Tours can be process. He has worked with suggestions of what to look for Learn more about the exhibitions gers together in new and unexpected arranged for educators and their hundreds of Toronto writers in work- and questions to ponder. From 7 to on view with free 30-minute ways. And everything can be affected students, parents and their shops including Writers’ Boot Camp, 7:30 PM, we will facilitate a group interactive tours led by one of by the ever-changing atmosphere families or corporate, tourist and The Novel and 10 Self-Portraits. discussion about your observations The Power Plant’s gallery and mood around us. other organized groups. Visit startwriting.ca for more and insights. In the end, participants attendants. Consider the artists’ The Gathering Place is a writing information about David and The should feel empowered to see intentions, the prominent workshop connected with Abbas right Amalia Pica: ears to speak of. Instal- Gathering Place. and experience art without an expert themes with which they grapple lation view: The Power Plant, Toronto, 2017. Akhavan’s site-specific installation at (or expertise). and their materials and methods. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid The Power Plant. First, we will consider shop 19

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Often I am permitted to return to a meadow as if it were a given property of the mind… Announcing: Circle of Contemporaries is a new Membership program for young art —Robert Duncan enthusiasts and those seeking greater engagement with the art world. The program will consist of a series of annual events, with an emphasis As now, this meadow of seagrass, tangle of history—a nest of myriad, on networking, interdisciplinary exchange and inspiring emerging collectors, in order to cultivate the arts patrons of tomorrow. Learn mirrored faces. How not to think of words more: bit.ly/CircleofContemporaries like cargo and jettison, each syllable

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Fill out the form below to join as a Member today! how it takes hold and grows: like lacuna all levels snails, slow and deliberate, on a reed? Tour: Public Art Artist/Student/Senior $30+ Inside Track $500+ Why is everything I see the past Management Individual $60+ Silver Circle $1,000+ I’ve tried to forget? In dreams, Family/Dual $100+ Gold Circle $2,500+ I am a child again, underwater, my limbs Wednesday, 18 July 2018 The Club $250+ Platinum Circle $5,000+ sluggish as I struggle to wake. Always, Ben Mills of Public Art Manage- Method of Payment ment, Canada’s most acclaimed I am pursued. Waking, I am freighted public art consulting firm, will Cheque (enclosed, payable to The Power Plant with memory: my mother’s last words lead Members on a walking tour, Contemporary Art Gallery) exploring public art installations spoken, after her death, in a dream: in Toronto’s downtown core. VISA MasterCard AMEX Do you know what it means

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