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exhibitions / programs / events 1 Fall 2015 September 2015 – January 2016 OVERVIEW all year, Fall 2015 at all free The Power Plant on three new films shot on location in Toronto that As we enter the The Power Plant’s final For our Fall 2015 season, The Power Plant is pleased to present three address the changing nature of the city’s urban core exhibition season of 2015, we pause as well as the origins and experience of the moving major solo exhibitions by renowned to acknowledge the importance of the image itself. aLL YEAR, aLL FREE program. artists Carlos Amorales, Dora García Our Public Programs this season provide and Mark Lewis. opportunities to hear each guest curator reflect on Thanks to the support of BMO Financial Group, the exhibitions produced for The Power Plant. the gallery is able to eliminate admission fees, Each project has been organized by Canadian guest Chantal Pontbriand will engage in conversation with enabling all visitors, young and old, to access curators who bring their unique perspective to The Spanish artist Dora García, Barbara Fischer will our exhibitions. Power Plant exhibition program. lecture on Canadian Mark Lewis’ installations and Join us again this Fall and all year long at I SEE WORDS, I HEAR VOICES is an exhibition of Christine Shaw will present a Sunday Scene gallery The Power Plant, where admission is always FREE. works by Dora García Guest Curated by Chantal talk and introduce a screening of Mexican artist PREsEntEd By Pontbriand. It takes up numerous facets of artistic Carlos Amorales’ recent film works. Amorales himself experience, language, perception and literature will speak as part of our Power Talks series, as will through a constellation of projects that become Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy and Elisabeth Vollert, indices of actions, past or future. their presentations reflecting Art Toronto’s focus Carlos Amorales’ Black Cloud launches our on the art of Latin America. Acclaimed Chilean-born brand new Fleck Clerestory Commission Program. artist Alfredo Jaar will take part in our International Guest Curated by Christine Shaw and presented in Lecture Series, presented in partnership this partnership with Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, this work season with Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, where his work is at once a beautiful and unnerving installation of will be exhibited. Fall 2015 also sees the return of thousands of black paper moths. Its reference to the our annual student event, featuring performances Industrial Revolution fittingly recalls The Power by Toronto-based artists Guy Mountain, Heretical Plant’s history as a storage space for coal, and the Objects Cooperative and DOOMSQUAD. gradual shift of Toronto’s waterfront from a space of industry to one of culture and tourism. Come in and explore all of The Power Plant’s Invention, Guest Curated by Barbara Fischer and programming this fall. presented in partnership with the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery / University of Toronto Art Centre, is an Gaëtane Verna, Director ambitious exhibition of Mark Lewis’ work. It centres exhibition #PPDoraGarcia #PPDoraGarcia 3 Several universes cross Mad Marginal as García Dora García (born in Valladolid, Dora García investigates and stages the works of authors Spain, 1965) lives and works in Finnegans Wake Workshop with I SEE WOrDS, I HEAR VOICeS James Joyce, Jacques Lacan and Samuel Beckett, Barcelona and Oslo. She currently Collective Reading Kevin Healey to name just a few of the literary references that teaches at the Oslo National 26 September 2015 – 3 January 2016 nourish her thought. Since 2012, García has been Academy of the Arts, Norway Sunday, 27 September, 4 Pm Monday, 2 November, 10 am – 12:30 Pm Opening: 25 September 2015, 8 – 11 pm exploring deviant literature, exploded language and HEAD, Geneva. She is THe Power PlanT and the unconscious — especially through the figures Co-Director for Les Laboratoires free THe Power PlanT gUEST cURATOR: CHANTAL PONTBRIAND of James Joyce and Robert Walser — as well as the d’Aubervilliers, Paris. Her work free Space is limited. Call 416.973.4949 state of exile and its relation to artistic practice. is largely performative and deals sUPPORt dOnORs or email [email protected] for Space is limited. Call 416.973.4949 These dimensions of her practice manifest in Exile with issues related to community advance registration. or email [email protected] for (2012 – ), an ongoing interactive and archival project, and individuality in contemporary advance registration. as well as in her acclaimed film The Joycean Society society, exploring the political Echoing the film The Joycean Society (2013) Dora García will lead Kevin Healey, member of the Since 2009, Spanish multi-disciplinary artist (2013), both on view in this exhibition. potential of marginal positions a collective reading of Finnegans Hearing Voices Network and Dora García has been carrying out the Mad Marginal In her more recent works, García has shifted and paying homage to eccentric Wake by James Joyce, delving into recovery network: Toronto, will lead project, major stages of which were shown at her focus to compulsive writing, collective reading, characters and anti-heroes. issues presented by Joyce’s a workshop exploring the ways dOCUMENTA 13 (2012) and the 54th Venice Biennale endless or circular books, graphomania and the She has exhibited her work at jubilatory writing such as identity, in which language both enables and limits our understanding of (2011). Her work examines the wellsprings of parallels and intersections between reading and numerous international events migration, politics, madness and psychiatry. Participants are invited experiences not easily explained artistic experience, altering the traditional relation- writing, as the works Exhausted Books II (2013) such as the 54th, 55th and to bring their own copy of this by a simple understanding of ships between artist, work and viewer, as well as and Mad Marginal Charts (2014) reveal. Her explora- 56th Venice Biennale (2011, 2013 seminal novel for discussion. perception and the five senses. those of the individual, whose daily behaviour she tions of compulsive writing and graphomania also and 2015), dOCUMENTA(13) Inspired by and responding to ideas CO-presEntEd with questions through performance, film and discussion. opened up new areas of interest as García began (2012), the 29th São Paulo Biennale addressed in Dora García’s exhibition I SEE WORDS, I HEAR This ongoing project continues at The Power Plant investigating the notion of voice-hearing and (2010), the 16th Sydney Biennale VOICES, participants will join in during our Fall 2015 season. other extrasensory perceptions, and their relation (2008) and the Münster Sculpture a morning of dialogue, share their to creativity and visionary world-making, even Projects (2007). own experiences of what they prophecy. ESP (2015) and Imposed Words/Palabras Saturday Encounters: see, hear, feel or otherwise sense both described in words of their Impuestas (2015) betray a Lacanian accent of cover Dora García, 1. Dora Garcia, still Sharing a diversity of detail from Exile, from The Joycean own choosing and expressed language as something that is imposed upon us, and 2012. Courtesy the Society, 2013. Video, experience, perception as works on paper. We will then sit another more Proustian accent of literature as artist and Gallery 52 min. Installation Juana de Aizpuru, view: PunktØ, Moss. and language together in a listening circle, “always written in a foreign language”. All of the Madrid. Photo: Courtesy the artist making space for images, sounds Vegard Kleven. and Auguste Orts, and utterances. works have a performative character and act as Brussels. Photo: Saturdays, 2 Pm indices of an action, past or future. Maintaining traces Vegard Kleven. 26 September, 2015 – For as long as he can remember 2 January, 2016 Kevin Healey has been hearing, of continuous and lifelong activity, a strong seeing and otherwise sensing things archival impulse also emerges from these works. THe Power PlanT that others do not and has become A four-hundred page reader by Dora García free an activist and leader in the Hearing and edited by Chantal Pontbriand accompanies the Voices Movement and his work Each Saturday experts by experience exhibition. The Mad Marginal Cahier #4: I SEE has been profiled in both Toronto will describe in words of their Star and The Globe and Mail. As WORDS, I HEAR VOICES brings together major choosing a part of what they see, a trainer, facilitator and workshop essays by international authors who delve into hear or otherwise sense and leader Healey is interested in different threads in Garcia’s research. The publica- perceive. In that way we will share working with approaches that are tion has been co-published by Academy of Fine personal insights into living with liberating and invites you to join experiences that may seem extraor- Art /Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Fonderie a conversation about how we might dinary and therefore not easily come to understand and accept our Darling / Darling Foundry, Punkt Ø, The Power conveyed to others. diverse experiences. 1 Plant and Sternberg Press. exhibition #PPBlackCloud #PPBlackCloud 5 Since 1998, Amorales has been building his storage space and points to the “lightening” of Archivo Líquido (Liquid Archive), a digital archive Toronto’s Waterfront amidst the recent transforma- of vector images — birds, spiders, trees, wolves tion of sites of industry into post-industrial centres — taken from books and magazines, downloaded of creativity, tourism and commercial enterprise. from the internet or shot by the artist himself Black Cloud stands as a poetic allegory should the and transformed into black silhouettes modified concatenation of industrial metabolism, urbanization, through processes of hybridization. With Black climate change and the extinction of species Cloud, Amorales translates Liquid Archive into three continue unabated. dimensions. The artist replicates thirty-six types Black Cloud will be featured in the exhibition The of moths — all culled from his archive — in thousands Work of Wind, Curated by Christine Shaw for of life-size, black paper cut-outs that are individually Scotiabank Nuit Blanche from 3 – 4 October 2015.