Winter 2012 – 13 December 2012 – May 2013 OVERVIEW Winter at the Power Plant

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Winter 2012 – 13 December 2012 – May 2013 OVERVIEW Winter at The Power Plant

Our winter season is extended to offers a dynamic project that poses questions about present a major group exhibition and contemporary democracy and institutionalism. Before the opening of the Winter exhibitions, a new solo project Thauberger will be here to speak (12 December) about her current project. In the New Year, we The new Winter season explores the intersection of present a series of conversations between artists urban culture and Aboriginal identity with the included in the exhibition Beat Nation and curators group exhibition Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and based in Toronto. Aboriginal Culture. This show features twenty-three Our International Lecture Series boasts an artists from across the Americas who meld impressive roster of speakers this season, includ- Aboriginal heritage with pop culture, modern ing widely recognized curators Anthony Huberman imagery and street style. Together, the works in (7 March) and Franklin Sirmans (20 March). Cel- Beat Nation challenge widely-held stereotypes ebrated artist and filmmaker Babette Mangolte will about First Nation art practices, reinterpreting speak with international curator Barbara Clausen tradition to reflect contemporary Aboriginal as part of our ongoing collaboration with the experiences. Images Festival. Re-interpretation is also present in the new In addition, we are pleased to collaborate with work by Vancouver-based artist Althea Thauberger. World Stage, Harbourfront Centre’s international Marat Sade Bohnice is the title of Thauberger’s performing arts series, to present the theatrical run project for The Power Plant. It is an experimental of what are we saying by Toronto-based choreog- documentary/video installation about the restag- rapher Ame Henderson and Canada’s Public ing of Peter Weiss’s play The Persecution and Recordings. Assassination of Marat as performed by the Inmates Our popular Sunday Scene series and family- of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of oriented BMO Power Kids events continue this the Marquis de Sade (1963). Working in collabora- season with a stellar line-up of engaging speakers tion with the experimental theatre company Akanda, and art activities. Thauberger produced her work in the building of the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital in Prague, the We look forward to welcoming you this season. largest psychiatric clinic in the Czech Republic. Please be sure to check thepowerplant.org for Thauberger’s performance and subsequent updated programming information. installation folds in layers of modern history and exhibition 3

cover Skeena Reece, Raven on the Colonial Fleet, 2010. Performance regalia. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Sebastien Krete.

1. Kent Monkman, Dance to Miss Chief, 2010. Still from single channel video. Courtesy the artist.

2. Jordan Bennett, Turning Tables, 2010. Walnut, oak, spruce and audio. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery.

Beat Nation describes a generation of artists who Beat Nation juxtapose urban youth culture with Aboriginal Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture identity to create innovative and unexpected new works — in painting, sculpture, installation, perfor- 15 December 2012 – 5 May 2013 mance and video — that reflect the current realities Opening Party: Friday, 14 December, 7–11 PM of Aboriginal peoples today. Since the early 1990s, hip hop has been a participating artists driving force of activism for urban Aboriginal youth Jackson 2bears, KC Adams, Sonny Assu, in communities across the Americas. The roots of Bear Witness, Jordan Bennett, Raymond Boisjoly, this music have been influential across disciplines Corey Bulpitt & Gurl 23, Kevin Lee Burton, and have been transformed to create dynamic Raven Chacon, Dana Claxton, Nicholas Galanin, forums for storytelling and indigenous languages, Maria Hupfield, Mark Igloliorte, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, as well as new modes of political expression. In the Duane Linklater, madeskimo, Dylan Miner, Kent Monkman, Marianne Nicolson, Skeena Reece, visual arts, artists remix, mash up and weave Hoka Skenandore, Rolande Souliere together the old with the new, the rural with the urban, traditional and contemporary as a means to Organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery and based on an initiative of rediscover and reinterpret Aboriginal culture grunt gallery. Beat Nation is co-curated by Kathleen Ritter, Associate Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery and Tania Willard, a Secwepemc artist, designer and curator. within the shifting terrain of the mainstream. While this exhibition takes its starting point from hip hop, it branches out to refer to pop Presenting Sponsor Lead Donor culture, graffiti, fashion, and other elements of urban life. Artists create unique cultural hybrids 1 Barry Appleton and the Appleton Foundation that include graffiti murals with Haida figures, Exhibition 5

3. Kevin Lee Burton, 4. Maria Hupfield, 5. Bear Witness sculptures carved out of skateboard decks, LIVE PERFORMANCE Nikamowin (Song), installation view of and Jackson 2 2008. Digital Survival and Other Bears, abstract paintings with form-line design, live video Skeena Reece video still. Courtesy Acts of Defiance, performance still, remixes with Hollywood films, and hip hop the artist. 2012. Video 2012. Photo by ‘like a boss’ projection, duct tape. Melissa Baker, performances in Aboriginal dialects, to name a Courtesy the artist. Vancouver Art Gallery. few. Beat Nation brings together artists from across Friday, 14 December, 8 pm the continent — from the West Coast as far north as Alaska and Nunavut, as far east as Labrador and The Power Plant FREE south to New Mexico — and reveals the shared connections between those working in vastly In a performance called ‘like a boss,’ different places. artist Skeena Reece honours the late As Aboriginal identity and culture continue to Marlon Brando who expressed his change, and as artists reinvent older traditions into commitment to First Nations peoples when the actor boycotted new forms of expression, their commitment to the 45th Academy Awards ceremony politics, to storytelling, to Aboriginal languages, to to protest the treatment of Aboriginals the land and rights remains constant, whether by the film industry. In her perfor- these are stated with drums skins or turntables, mance for The Power Plant, Reece natural pigments or spray paint, ceremonial embodies both the character of The Godfather and Sacheen Littlefeath- 3 dancing or break dancing. er, the activist hired to give the news that Brando was refusing his Oscar. Skeena Reece is a multi-disciplinary Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist whose work includes performance art, spoken word, ‘sacred clowning’, writing, singing, and video art. Reece is based on Vancouver Island, on the west coast of Canada. She has performed at 5 venues including Modern Fuel, Kingston, Ontario (2011), 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010), Nuit LIVE PERFORMANCE Blanche, Toronto (2009), LIVE from Hollywood blockbuster Biennale, Vancouver (2009), Emily Bear Witness films — to create new narratives Carr University of Art and Design, representing his experiences as an Vancouver (2008), the Museum of Friday, 14 December, 8 – 11 pm urban Aboriginal artist. Bear Anthropology, Vancouver (2008), During the opening party Witness does not propose a and the National Museum of the pedantic critique of “white man’s” American Indian, Washington, D.C. The Power Plant vision of the “red man,” but an (2008). Reece attended Northwest FREE iconoclastic reclamation and Community College, Prince Rupert, recontextualization of Aboriginal Emily Carr University of Art + Bear Witness is a multimedia artist, imagery. Design, Vancouver, and trained at DJ and filmmaker of the Cayuga Six Bear Witness has exhibited his The Banff Centre and grunt gallery Nations. He remixes appropriated work across Canada and in Berlin, as a curatorial practices intern. images and sound to create video and was the recipient of Ottawa’s assemblages, exploring stereotypi- Golden Cherry Award for Video Artist cal representations of Aboriginal of the Year in 2008. He is co-founder people in North American media of A Tribe Called Red, a Native DJ and popular culture. He re-edits collective who host a monthly event 4 these images — many of them taken called Electric Pow Wow. exhibition 7

Artist Talk Althea Thauberger Althea Thauberger Marat Sade Bohnice Wednesday, 12 December, 7 PM

15 December 2012 – 5 May 2013 Studio Theatre, Opening Party: Friday, 14 December, 7 – 11 PM Harbourfront Centre FREE Members, $12 Non-Members Visit thepowerplant.org or call the Support Donor Co-presented with Harbourfront Centre Box Office at Margaret C. McNee 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets.

Althea Thauberger (born 1970) is an artist based in Vancouver. Her internationally produced and While Thauberger’s practice defies strict definition exhibited work typically involves by medium, she has produced remarkable films, interactions with a group or community that result in perfor- videos, photographs, and performances over the mances, films, videos, audio course of her decade-long career. Driven by her recordings and books, and reflect interest in, and unique facility for, collaboration, sometimes provocative departures the thread that connects her projects is her of social, political, institutional, and thoughtful engagement with groups of people aesthetic power relations. Her work has been presented at the Liverpool – most often well-defined social enclaves – as her Biennial (2012); 17th Biennale of subjects. She works with these communities to Sydney (2010); National Gallery of develop performances that offer the participants Canada, Ottawa (2009); The Andy opportunities for self-exploration and self-defini- 1 Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2009); tion. The final works – whether videos or photo- Guangzhou Triennial, China (2008); Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy (2008); graphs – produced by Thauberger to record the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, collaborations, are always striking documents that Vancouver (2008); Vancouver Art entice, engage and surprise her viewers. inmates enact the drama, and are always partly theatrical director Melanie Rada in which play was 1. Althea Thauberger, Gallery (2008); BAK, Utrecht (2007); Marat Sade Bohnice, Thauberger’s project for The Power Plant is an themselves, as “mental patients,” and partly in presented to the patients and staff of Bohnice as 2012. Performance Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and video. Courtesy (2006); Kunstverein Wolfsburg, experimental documentary/video installation historical character. The play reveals an ongoing well as general audiences who came to the the artist. Photo by Germany (2006); Art Gallery of Nova about the restaging of Peter Weiss’s 1963 play debate about whether the imperatives of revolu- hospital over a 5 night run. Thauberger’s The Jan Faukner. Scotia, Halifax (2006); Singapore persecution and assassination of jean-paul marat Marat/Sade at the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital in tion originate within the individual or within society History Museum (2006); Presenta- Prague. Thauberger’s new work approaches issues as a whole. as performed by the inmates of the asylum of tion House Gallery, Vancouver of timely reassessment, institutionalization and While the original play is set in the bath house charenton under the direction of the marquis de (2005); Museum van Hedendaagse sade as performed by the prague-based experimen- shifting political terrain. of the Charenton asylum, Thauberger’s production Kunst, Antwerp (2005); Berkeley tal theatre company akanda for the patients and Art Museum (2005); Insite, San The original 1963 play imagines that the is set in the decommissioned laundry/water staff of the bohnice psychiatric hospital is a video Diego/Tijuana (2005); White Marquis de Sade wrote and directed a play about facilities of another post-revolutionary mental work that documents and reconfigures the staging Columns, New York (2004); and the assassination of Jean Paul Marat while the institution: Bohnice, the largest psychiatric clinic in Seattle Art Museum. She was a 2011 of the play in this location, to audiences of the former was interned in the Charenton asylum in the Czech Republic. Currently undergoing finalist for the Grange Prize and patients and staff of the institution. 1808, nineteen years after the beginning of the institutional reform, Bohnice is in the beginning her work is represented by Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto. Thauberger French Revolution and a time of massive institu- stages of de-institutionalization and the final Production assistance will speak about her art practice tional reform. This period saw beginnings of the stages of privatization of some of its services. The The Power Plant; The Liverpool Biennial; The Canada Council for the Arts; in conjunction with her solo project production was a collaboration with the Prague- Prádelna Bohnice, Prague; University of Waterloo, Department of Slavic and reformation of the treatment of “mental illness” Germanic Studies. at The Power Plant, opening from punishment to “therapy.” In the 1963 play, the based experimental theatre company Akanda and 14 December. w inter/spring programs and events 9

Sunday Scene February March April Christopher Innes Kristie MacDonald Cheryl L’Hirondelle Sunday, 21 April, 2013 at 2 pm The Power Plant free Sunday, 10 February, 2 pm Sunday, 10 March, 2 pm Christopher Innes, Distinguished Research Professor at York Univer- Speakers from the world of art and Kristie MacDonald is an artist and Cheryl L’Hirondelle was the recipient sity, and Research Professor at beyond offer their responses to the writer who lives and works in Toronto. of the imagineNATIVE New Media Copenhagen University, holds the current exhibitions. Whether focusing She is currently the Archivist at Vtape. Award for her projects: treatycard.ca, Canada Research Chair in Perfor- on a single work, a specific artist or on Her art practice engages notions of 17:TELL (horizonzero.ca) and mance and Culture. Author of fifteen multiple exhibitions, guest present- the archive and the collection, as well wepinasowina.net Her interdisciplin- books – translated into eight different ers draw provocative connections as their roles in the evolving meanings ary project nikamon ohci askiy (songs languages – and over between our programs and broader and contextual histories of images because of the land) [vancouversong- 120 articles on various aspects of cultural and intellectual debates. and artifacts. MacDonald holds a BFA lines.ca] was recognized as an modern drama, his website is from York University specializing in Honoree in the Net.Art category of www.moderndrama.com. Innes will Visual Arts, and an MI from the the 13th Annual Webby Awards. speak on our current exhibition December University of Toronto specializing in L’Hirondelle is based in Toronto and Marat Sade Bohnice. Archival Studies. MacDonald will is an artist included in the exhibition Skeena Reece speak about our current exhibition Beat Nation. May Sunday, 16 December, 2 pm Beat Nation. Brad Tinmouth Sunday, 7 April, 2 pm Leila Timmins Skeena Reece is a Tsimshian/Gitksan Shannon Cochrane Sarah Thorpe and Cree artist whose work includes Brad Tinmouth is an artist living and Sunday, 5 May, 2 pm Sunday, 27 January, 2 pm Sunday, 17 February, 2 pm performance, spoken word, writing, working in Toronto. His work aims to singing, and video art. She is based Leila Timmins is a Toronto-based Shannon Cochrane is a Toronto-based Sarah is a Toronto based actor, make everyone as happy as he is. on Vancouver Island and is included writer and arts administrator who performance artist and cultural director and producer, and she is the Tinmouth is the co-director of in the current exhibition Beat Nation. holds an MA in Art History from the Artistic Director of Soup Can Butcher Gallery, a founding member worker. She is a founding member University of Toronto. She is Theatre, a local independent theatre of Pro Click Dot Biz and Studio and co-curator/organizer of the 7a*11d currently the Communications company. She holds an Honours Manager for Kent Monkman. His January International Festival of Performance Coordinator at Gallery TPW and has - Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre work has been shown at Nuit Blanche, Art, and is the current Artistic + helped to launch the new project from York University, and received Toronto; Esam Caen, France; Wanda Nanibush Administrative Director of FADO space TPW R&D. She is a member of York’s Mira Friedlander Award for Preteen, Mexico; and Dokfest, Performance Art Centre. Her work the Board of Directors for Sunday, 13 January, 2 pm her achievements in theatre writing, Germany. Tinmouth will speak on has been presented in galleries, C Magazine and a member of the theatre and performance festivals criticism, world, and Canadian our current exhibition Beat Nation. Wanda Nanibush is an FUSE Editorial Committee. Timmins internationally. Cochrane’s most theatre studies. For Soup Can Anishnawbe-kwe curator, writer, will speak on our current exhibition recent work plays with the audience’s Theatre, she has directed Marat/ Vanessa Dion Fletcher consultant, and media artist. Beat Nation. perception of the performance Sade (Nominee – Best Direction of a She has a Masters of Visual Studies Sunday, 14 April, 2 pm through the manipulation of its linear Musical, 2011 Broadway World Bryne McLaughlin from the University of Toronto. structure, formal qualities, and some- Toronto Awards), Love is a Poverty As a curator, her work has largely Sunday, 24 March, 2 pm Vanessa Dion Fletcher is a multidisci- times by employing the use of You Can Sell (2012 Next Stage concentrated on re-contextualizing plinary artist who focuses on “invisible” materials. Cochrane will Festival, 2010 Toronto Fringe Indigenous time-based media and Bryne McLaughlin is the managing printmaking and performance. In ad- speak about our current exhibition Festival & Best of Fringe), and performance art to examine the editor of Canadian Art. His writing dition to her own practice, Dion Marat Sade Bohnice. produced Antigone (2012 Toronto underlying philosophical complexity has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Fletcher works with the T.D.S.B. Fringe Festival). Thorpe will speak of the work, as well as rethinking C Magazine, various exhibition Aboriginal Artist collective on about our current exhibition Marat how culture and identity are framed catalogues, and most recently in a community arts projects and Sade Bohnice. by contemporary artistic discourses. feature article on the work of co-curated the exhibition Emnowaa- Nanibush will discuss the current Canadian artist Emanuel Licha in the gosjig || Coming Out: The Shifting exhibition Beat Nation. Winter 2013 issue of Canadian Art. and Multiple Self. She will speak on McLaughlin will speak about the our current exhibition Beat Nation. current exhibition Marat Sade Bohnice. fall programs and events Primary Education Sponsor 11

In conjunction with Beat Nation, artists included in the exhibition will Philip Monk & recipient of the Ontario Association In Conversation participate in a series of conversations with key curators based in Toronto. of Art Galleries Lifetime Achievement They will discuss aspects of the artist’s practice as well as transformations Jordan Bennett Award and in 2011 he received the to institutional and curatorial models that explore Aboriginal artistic practices. Hnatyshyn Award for Curatorial Wednesday, 27 February, 7 PM Excellence. As a recipient of the award, Monk selected three artists The Power Plant to receive the Hnatyshyn Founda- FREE Members, $12 Non-Members tion Prize for Emerging Canadian Bonnie Devine & Visit thepowerplant.org or call the Visual Artists. Harbourfront Centre Box Office at Dylan Miner 3 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets. Tickets available at the door. In 2012, Bennett was among the first to receive the award. Bennett is a Wednesday, 13 February, 7 PM Beat Nation exhibiting artist Jordan multi-disciplinary visual artist of Mi’kmaq decent from the west coast the power plant Bennett speaks in conversation with of Newfoundland. He currently FREE Members, $12 Non-Members Toronto-based curator Philip Monk. resides in Edmonton, AB where he is Visit thepowerplant.org or call the the first Indigenous Artist in Harbourfront Centre Box Office at Monk is Director of the Art Gallery 1 2 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets in of York University in Toronto. Residence at the University of advance. Tickets available at the door. Previously he was Curator at The Alberta. Bennett has shown Power Plant (1994 – 2003) and the Art extensively over the past few years Artistic Director of the Native Steven Loft & Bonnie Devine and Dylan Miner will Gallery of Ontario (1985 – 1993). across Canada and abroad, in Indian/Inuit Photographers’ discuss the emergence and signifi- 4 Between 1977 – 1984, he was a writer venues including The Museum of Art Kent Monkman Association (1993 – 1998). cance of the artist/activist in historic and freelance curator. As well as and Design, New York (2012), and contemporary Indigenous many catalogues, articles, essays, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Wednesday, 23 January, 7 PM Monkman’s work spans a variety of Founding Chair of OCAD University’s aesthetic practice. Their conversa- and reviews, he has published the (2012), the Alternator Artist Run media including painting, film/video, Aboriginal Visual Culture Program. tion will address the convergence of books: Glamour is Theft: A User’s Centre, Kelowna, BC (2012), Ottawa The Drake Hotel installation and performances. He has art-making and political action to Guide to General Idea (2012), while I Art Gallery, Ottawa (2011), Modern 1150 Queen St. West had solo exhibitions at numerous Miner (Métis) is a border-crossing affect social change. have lying here perfectly still : The Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, ON FREE Members, $12 Non-Members Canadian museums including the artist, activist, historian, curator, and Saskia Olde Wolbers Files (2009), (2011), and The Rooms Provincial Art Visit thepowerplant.org or call the Montréal Museum of Fine Art (2009), professor working throughout Turtle Devine is artist, curator, writer and Disassembling the Archive: Fiona Gallery, St. Johns NL (2011). Harbourfront Centre Box Office at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (2008), the Island (the Americas). In 2010, he 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets educator. She is a member of the Tan (2007), Stan Douglas: Discordant Together Bennett and Monk will Museum of Contemporary Canadian was awarded the Artist Leadership in advance. Cash only at the door. Serpent River First Nation of Absences (2006), Spirit Hunter: The discuss the artist’s multi-disciplinary Art, Toronto (2007), and the Art Fellowship from the National Northern Ontario (Anishinaabe/ Haunting of American Culture by practice which aims to push Gallery of Hamilton (2007). His award- Museum of the American Indian Multi-disciplinary artist Kent Monkman Ojibwa). Her work has been Myths of Violence (2005), Double- boundaries and play with ideas of winning short film and video works (Smithsonian, USA). He has had solo discusses his acclaimed practice in exhibited at venues including the Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas re-appropriation, reclamation, have been screened at various exhibitions at venues including Small conversation with curator Steven Loft. National Museum of the American Gordon (2003), and Struggles with the participation, and the artifact within international festivals, including the Projects, Norway (2012) and Indian, New York City (2012); Image: Essays in Art Criticism (1988). traditional aboriginal craft, ceremony Berlinale (2007 and 2008), and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana Loft is a Mohawk of the Six Nations Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis In 2009, Monk was the inaugural and contemporary culture. with Jewish heritage. A curator, Toronto International Film Festival Indiana (2011 – 2012); The Museum of (2011). His project Anishinaabensag scholar, writer and media artist, he (2007). He is represented by Arts and Design, New York City Biimskowebshkigewag (Native Kids was named Trudeau National Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art (2012); Art Mûr, Montreal (2012); Ride Bikes) is presently touring Visiting Fellow at Ryerson University Contemporain, Montréal; Galerie Devine curated The Drawings and North America and includes a in 2010, where he is continuing his Florent Tosin, Berlin; and Trepanier Paintings of Daphne Odjig: A workshop with Native youth and research into Indigenous art and Baer, Calgary. Retrospective Exhibition in collabo- emerging artists. Miner holds a PhD aesthetics. Loft has held positions as Together, Loft and Monkman will ration with the Art Gallery of in the history of art from The Curator-In-Residence, Indigenous discuss the artist’s practice and Sudbury and the National Gallery of University of New Mexico, USA. Art at the National Gallery of Canada inquiries into the representation and Canada in 2007. The accompanying (2008 – 2010); Director/Curator of the recontextualization of Aboriginal catalogue was the first publication Co-presented with Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg traditions. by the National Gallery in the (2002 – 2008); Aboriginal Curator at Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwa) the Art Gallery of Hamilton Co-Presented with language. Devine is an associate (2000 – 2002); and Producer and professor at OCAD University and the 5 6 fall programs and events Primary Education Sponsor 11

In conjunction with Beat Nation, artists included in the exhibition will Philip Monk & Tan (2007), Stan Douglas: Discordant In Conversation participate in a series of conversations with key curators based in Toronto. Absences (2006), Spirit Hunter: The They will discuss aspects of the artist’s practice as well as transformations Jordan Bennett Haunting of American Culture by to institutional and curatorial models that explore Aboriginal artistic practices. Myths of Violence (2005), Double- Wednesday, 27 February, 7 PM Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon (2003), and Struggles with the The Power Plant Image: Essays in Art Criticism (1988). FREE Members, $12 Non-Members In 2009, Monk was the inaugural Bonnie Devine & Visit thepowerplant.org or call the recipient of the Ontario Association Harbourfront Centre Box Office at Dylan Miner 3 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets. Tickets of Art Galleries Lifetime Achievement available at the door. Award and in 2011 he received the Wednesday, 13 February, 7 PM Hnatyshyn Award for Curatorial Beat Nation exhibiting artist Jordan Excellence. As a recipient of the the power plant Bennett speaks in conversation with award, Monk selected three artists FREE Members, $12 Non-Members Toronto-based curator Philip Monk. to receive the Hnatyshyn Founda- Together Bennett and Monk will tion Prize for Emerging Canadian Visit thepowerplant.org or call the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at discuss the artist’s multi-disciplinary Visual Artists. 1 2 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets in practice which aims to push advance. Tickets available at the door. boundaries and play with ideas of In 2012, Bennett was among the first re-appropriation, reclamation, to receive the award. Bennett is a (2008 – 2010); Director/Curator of the Steven Loft & Bonnie Devine and Dylan Miner will participation, and the artifact within multi-disciplinary visual artist of Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg discuss the emergence and signifi- 4 traditional aboriginal craft, ceremony Mi’kmaq decent from the west coast Kent Monkman (2002 – 2008); Aboriginal Curator at cance of the artist/activist in historic and contemporary culture. of Newfoundland. He currently the Art Gallery of Hamilton and contemporary Indigenous resides in Edmonton, AB where he is Wednesday, 23 January, 7 PM (2000 – 2002); and Producer and Founding Chair of OCAD University’s aesthetic practice. Their conversa- Monk is Director of the Art Gallery the first Indigenous Artist in Artistic Director of the Native Aboriginal Visual Culture Program. tion will address the convergence of of York University in Toronto. Residence at the University of The Drake Hotel Indian/Inuit Photographers’ art-making and political action to Previously he was Curator at The Alberta. Bennett has shown 1150 Queen St. West Association (1993 – 1998). Miner (Métis) is a border-crossing affect social change. Power Plant (1994 – 2003) and the Art extensively over the past few years FREE Members, $12 Non-Members artist, activist, historian, curator, and Gallery of Ontario (1985 – 1993). across Canada and abroad, in Visit thepowerplant.org or call the Monkman’s work spans a variety of professor working throughout Turtle Devine is artist, curator, writer and Between 1977 – 1984, he was a writer venues including The Museum of Art Harbourfront Centre Box Office at media including painting, film/video, Island (the Americas). In 2010, he 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets educator. She is a member of the and freelance curator. As well as and Design, New York (2012), installation and performances. He has was awarded the Artist Leadership in advance. Cash only at the door. Serpent River First Nation of many catalogues, articles, essays, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver had solo exhibitions at numerous Fellowship from the National Northern Ontario (Anishinaabe/ and reviews, he has published the (2012), the Alternator Artist Run Canadian museums including the Museum of the American Indian Multi-disciplinary artist Kent Monkman Ojibwa). Her work has been books: Glamour is Theft: A User’s Centre, Kelowna, BC (2012), Ottawa Montréal Museum of Fine Art (2009), (Smithsonian, USA). He has had solo discusses his acclaimed practice in exhibited at venues including the Guide to General Idea (2012), while I Art Gallery, Ottawa (2011), Modern the Winnipeg Art Gallery (2008), the exhibitions at venues including Small conversation with curator Steven Loft. National Museum of the American have lying here perfectly still : The Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, ON Museum of Contemporary Canadian Projects, Norway (2012) and Together, Loft and Monkman will Indian, New York City (2012); Saskia Olde Wolbers Files (2009), (2011), and The Rooms Provincial Art Art, Toronto (2007), and the Art University of Notre Dame, Indiana discuss the artist’s practice and Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis Disassembling the Archive: Fiona Gallery, St. Johns NL (2011). Gallery of Hamilton (2007). His award- (2011). His project Anishinaabensag inquiries into the representation and Indiana (2011 – 2012); The Museum of recontextualization of Aboriginal winning short film and video works Arts and Design, New York City Biimskowebshkigewag (Native Kids traditions. have been screened at various (2012); Art Mûr, Montreal (2012); Ride Bikes) is presently touring international festivals, including the Devine curated The Drawings and North America and includes a Loft is a Mohawk of the Six Nations Berlinale (2007 and 2008), and the Paintings of Daphne Odjig: A workshop with Native youth and with Jewish heritage. A curator, Toronto International Film Festival Retrospective Exhibition in collabo- emerging artists. Miner holds a PhD scholar, writer and media artist, he (2007). He is represented by ration with the Art Gallery of in the history of art from The was named Trudeau National Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Sudbury and the National Gallery of University of New Mexico, USA. Visiting Fellow at Ryerson University Contemporain, Montréal; Galerie Canada in 2007. The accompanying in 2010, where he is continuing his Florent Tosin, Berlin; and Trepanier catalogue was the first publication Co-presented with research into Indigenous art and Baer, Calgary. by the National Gallery in the aesthetics. Loft has held positions as Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwa) Curator-In-Residence, Indigenous Co-Presented with language. Devine is an associate Art at the National Gallery of Canada professor at OCAD University and the 5 6 fall programs and events Primary Education Sponsor 13

LIVE PERFORMANCE Plant brings together dancers Beat Nation representing moments in Aboriginal and hip-hop dance history to create Break Dance Battle a unique, interdisciplinary event, where Toronto’s best dance crews Friday, 22 March will compete for top prizes. Benzo, Doors open at 8 PM one of the founders of Canadian Bag Competition begins at 8:30 PM of Trix/RBP will be hosting the Beat Nation competition and the judges Enwave Theatre, are some of the best dancers in Harbourfront Centre Canada. This is an experience you FREE do not want to miss. Visit thepowerplant.org for more information A co-production with Planet This Hip Hop-inspired event will IndigenUS Initiative feature a mashup of music, dance and art in celebration of the exhibition Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop 8 and Aboriginal Culture. The Power

LIVE PERFORMANCE What can we say about the present Established in 2003, Public Ame Henderson/Public moment – the moment we’re in now, Recordings is an atelier that together? explores and shares choreographic Recordings (Canada) This series of live performances is experimentation through artistic what are we saying the world premiere of what we are research, performance creation, 7 saying from the acclaimed Toronto publication and education. The based company Public Recordings. company has a history of presenting 22 – 25 May, 7 PM This new work creates the condi- works in a diversity of performance Musical Instrument Masked Characters tions for communication to emerge contexts. Guided by the choreogra- the power plant BMO as spontaneous choral conversation, pher Ame Henderson, the company $25 Sunday, 17 February, 3 – 5 PM Sunday, 5 May, 3 – 5 PM illuminating the radical possibility of initiates cross-disciplinary projects Power Kids Visit thepowerplant.org or call the Harbourfront Centre box office at a leaderless togetherness. that situate collaboration as both a For children ages 8–12 and their younger For children ages 8 – 12 and their 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets. Using language and movement to political and aesthetic interest. The Power Plant siblings and adult companions. adult companions. FREE explore new perspectives on our Presented by world and each other, an assembly Co-produced by Dance4 and Festival Please call 1.416.973.4949 to Participants of this workshop will Inspired by themes of theatricality TransAmeriques. Developed in residence of performers responds to uncer- at Dance4, OBORO and TPW R&D reserve a spot. engage with the work on display in and performance found in the work Please note: Parents are expected to join tainty, potential danger and possibil- Beat Nation while exploring elements of Althea Thauberger, this workshop their children in all activities. in association with The Power Plant ity in an open performance space. of First Nation contemporary culture focuses on character development Tours and workshops are led by and identity, as well as various facets and mask-making. Participants will artist-educator and Animateur at of pop culture. A discussion focused begin by developing an imaginary The Power Plant Anna Bouzina on personal imagery will aid character using various theatrical and her artist-educator assistant participants in developing their own techniques. Following this, each Marina Guglielmi. unique design for a musical participant will make a creative mask instrument. Using traditional based on their character, using techniques and found materials, various artistic materials. The 2012 power kids sponsor children will make their own creative workshop culminates in a perfor- instrument and have a chance to mance where each participant may participate in a group performance. act out their character. Each Participants will have a finished participant will have a finished mask instrument to take home. to take home. 9 fall programs and events Primary Education Sponsor 15

FREE Members, $12 Non-Members Visit thepowerplant.org or call the Harbour- International front Centre Box Office at 416.973.4000 to 2012 International Lecture Series Donor purchase tickets. Please note that if the event is sold out, reserved Members’ tickets that Lecture Series J.P. Bickell Foundation are not picked up by 6:50 PM will be released.

Franklin Sirmans Disaster, 1964 – 66 (2010 – 2011). The latter two traveled to LACMA, where Wednesday, 20 March, 7 PM Sirmans has also organized Color and Form and Robert Therrien and Studio Theatre, co-organized the exhibition Human Harbourfront Centre Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection. Sirmans was the 2007 Franklin Sirmans is the Terri and recipient of the David C. Driskell Michael Smooke Department Head Prize awarded by the High Museum and Curator of Contemporary Art of Art, Atlanta. He has written essays 10 at the Los Angeles County Museum for several exhibition catalogues of Art. From 2006 to 2010, he was and articles and reviews in publica- Anthony Huberman the Curator of Modern and tions such as The New York Times, Contemporary Art at The Menil Time Out New York, Essence, Parkett, Be Maladjusted Collection in Houston, TX, where he and Grand Street. He is the artistic organized ten exhibitions including director of Prospect.3 New Orleans. Thursday, 7 March, 7 PM NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Sirmans will touch upon his early Brigantine Room, Faith (2008 – 2009), Maurizio work as an independent curator, Harbourfront Centre Cattelan: Is There Life Before Death leading to his work in an institution (2010), Steve Wolfe: On Paper (2010), and in the context of an institutional Anthony Huberman is a curator and and Vija Celmins: Television and biennial exhibition, Prospect.3. writer based in New York, where he is currently the Founding Director of 12 The Artist’s Institute. Prior to this, he was Chief Curator of the Contempo- rary Art Museum St. Louis, Curator of FILM and CONVERSATION She recently has been creating new performative curatorial practices. the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Curator of works from her photo archives that Since 1997, she has worked at Dia SculptureCenter, New York, and Babette Mangolte highlight specific movement in Art Foundation in New York, Director of Education and Public in conversation with known choreography and has also DeAppel in Amsterdam, and Programming at MoMA PS1, New York. created media installations testing documenta 11 in Kassel and has He has organized a wide variety of Barbara Clausen ways of looking. curated a series of exhibitions and independent exhibitions in venues We are pleased to present a performance programs at the around the world and has written for Friday, 19 April, 6 – 8 PM screening featuring a program of MUMOK, Vienna; Tate Modern, magazines such as Artforum, Afterall, Mangolte’s acclaimed film work London; and Argos, Brussels. Dot Dot Dot, Bomb, and Mousse, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery followed by a conversation with Together, Mangolte and Clausen will among others. Huberman presents a of Ontario international curator Barbara speak about the artist’s practice and lecture on The Artist’s Institute, an 317 Dundas Street West Clausen. In January 2013, Clausen the relationship between a live exhibition/event/research space he Visit thepowerplant.org for ticket information. presents the first retrospective event and its documentation. founded in 2010. He will talk about exhibition of Mangolte’s work for what it means to be small, with- Programmed and co-presented with Artist Babette Mangolte has been VOX, Centre d’art Contemporain and drawn, repetitive, vulnerable, and involved with dance, theatre, the Cinématheque Québecoise in maladjusted. performance art, and performers Montréal. Clausen teaches at UQAM Co-presented with since the early 1970s when she in Montréal and writes extensively 11 moved to New York City from Paris. on performance art and 17 When it comes to winter, The Power of Upcoming Member Events Membership for all levels of membership FOR INSIDE TRACK LEVEL AND ABOVE there’s no place like Members-Only Curator’s Tour Exhibition Viewing Members of The Power Plant form Friday, 14 December, 5:30 pm an amazing community. For as Tuesday, 5 February, 6 – 8 pm Join the Curators’ Tours of Beat Harbourfront Centre. little as $30, you can join this pas- sionate network. Become an Talks and tours of Beat Nation and Nation and Althea Thauberger’s insider and enjoy all of the benefits Althea Thauberger’s Marat Sade Marat Sade Bohnice during the VIP Regardless of what you do on Harbourfront Centre’s 10-acre lakeside of membership. Bohnice led by featured speakers. Opening Reception. site, remember that when you’re here, you’re at the heart of everything

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Weekend Festivals image credits 7. Power Kids workshop, Fall 2012 11. Franklin Sirmans 1. Steven Loft 8. Nicholas Galanin, Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan Part 12. Babette Mangolte, Looking and Touching, 2. Kent Monkman 1 and 2, 2008. Video. Part 1 4:37, Part 2 4:08. installation view, Hansard Gallery, 2007 Food, family activities, music... 3. Bonnie Devine Courtesy the artist. 13. Performance entitled Water Banquet by 4. Dylan Miner 9. Photo from what are we saying, Ame Swintak and Jiva MacKay, August 2012, 5. Philip Monk Henderson/Public Recordings (Canada) The Power Plant. 6. Jordan Bennett 10. Anthony Huberman Celebrating 25 years of the best in contemporary art. all year, all free

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Please note: A new underground parking facility is open, located directly in front of the gallery at Queens Quay and Lower Simcoe. Due to ongoing construction, the east entrance to the gallery is inaccessible so guests can enter on the west side of the building. Construction on Queens Quay forces traffic to move westbound only between Bay Street and Lower Spadina. To arrive by TTC, take the 509 bus(Harbourfront) westbound on Queens Quay through the construction. Eastbound buses will be diverted via Lakeshore Blvd.