Winter 2016 January – May 2016 OVERVIEW All Year, Winter 2016 at All Free the Power Plant

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Winter 2016 January – May 2016 OVERVIEW all year, Winter 2016 at all free The Power Plant

As we enter the The Power Plant’s first For our Winter 2016 Season, The Power The Power Plant remains committed to welcom- Plant is pleased to present three solo ing a diverse public, and our seasonal roster exhibition season of 2016, we pause of education and public programs provide more to acknowledge the importance of the exhibitions by artists Patrick Bernatchez, opportunities to engage wider audiences with ALL YEAR, ALL FREE program. Leslie Hewitt and Aude Moreau, along- our current exhibitions. We welcome our French- speaking visitors to engage with artist Aude Thanks to the support of BMO Financial Group, side our Fleck Clerestory Commission Moreau and curator Louise Déry in our In Conver- the gallery is able to eliminate admission fees, by Carlos Amorales. sation series, a lecture presented in French with enabling all visitors, young and old, to access Alliance Française de Toronto. The season’s our exhibitions. Carlos Amorales’ Black Cloud, which launched our International Lecture Series will bring Sven Lütticken, Join us again this Winter and all year long at Fall 2015 Fleck Clerestory Commission Program, German author and lecturer of art history at the The Power Plant, where admission is always FREE. recreates an ecological phenomenon of the Industrial Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and James Lingwood Revolution by attaching thousands of black moths and Michael Morris, Co-Directors of London-based to the gallery walls, recalling The Power Plant’s past arts organisation Artangel, to Toronto. We are also life as a coal burning facility. Patrick Bernatchez’s proud to present a symposium titled Constructions works are multidisciplinary and amorphous, embrac- of Time: Still and Moving Imagery, which will include ing film, sound, sculpture and photography. Les artist Leslie Hewitt and cinematographer Bradford Temps inachevés, loosely translated as “unending Young, curator Sohrab Mehebbi, editor and curator times,” is a reference to the evolutive nature of Filipa Ramos among others. Bernatchez’s practice. Leslie Hewitt’s exhibition Last but not least, thanks to the support of the Collective Stance features her collaboration with Ontario Trillium Foundation, we are excited to renowned cinematographer Bradford Young announce that we will now be hosting not one but alongside a selection of works from her individual two monthly Power Kids art workshops and tours! practice. Both are informed by the artists’ research Find details on all of these events and more here into experimental film and expose the tension in this guide. between still photography and the cinematic experience of moving images. The use of photography Come in and explore all of The Power Plant’s new and film are also used to explore meaning in programming this Winter. Presented By The Political Nightfall, in which artist Aude Moreau refashions the hidden political and economic issues Gaëtane Verna, Director embedded within the iconography of stereotypical North American urban imagery. exhibition #BlackCloud #BlackCloud 3

types of moths — all culled from his archive — in Carlos Amorales thousands of life-size, black paper cut-outs that are Black Cloud individually hand-glued to the walls and ceiling of the space. Multiplied to create a dense mass with 26 September 2015 – 15 May 2016 both wondrous and threatening qualities, Black Opening: 29 January 2016, 8 – 11 PM Cloud becomes a surreal yet sublime gathering of insects delicately poised in sculptural formation, GUEST CURATOR: CHRISTINE SHAW a phenomenon that suggests the potential for harm,

In Partnership with destruction and irreversible doom. Black Cloud can be understood as a cautionary tale if we go back to the years of the Industrial

Lead Donors Revolution in the mid-nineteenth century, when the grizzly environment, tinged by coal combustion, originated a natural selection of black moths in cities. Supported By The typical moth in England prior to the Industrial Revolution was the dominant light-coloured form which made it very difficult for birds and other predators to see it against light-coloured trees and clean walls. The coal that was burned as industry Mexican artist Carlos Amorales’ Black Cloud (2007 / spread throughout the north of England blanketed 2015) immerses spectators in a swarm of 30,000 the countryside with black soot and a new dark delicate black moths whose frailty and stilled flight form of moth emerged. It appeared suddenly, came contrasts with the sordidness of their forceful to dominate the population in industrial areas, and infestation of The Power Plant’s Fleck Clerestory. This then declined just as sharply following the closure of site-specific installation envelopes spectators in coal mines and many industrial centres. The soot- a territory that fluctuates between the obscure and iness that prevailed during the nineteenth century the optimistic, the macabre and the alluring, distilling soon disappeared from cities. Dramatically, as a kind of claustrophobic sensuality. Black Cloud the cleaner, lighter conditions returned, so did the signals Amorales’ propensity toward ambiguous lighter form of the moth. Some biologists suggest scenarios where the boundaries between beauty that the dark moths will soon be extinct. and awe, good and evil, calm and calamity are Appearing to have entered The Power Plant 1 constantly blurred and where imagination is called through the smoke stack, the swarm of black upon to mediate between multiple interpretations moths calls upon the history of the clerestory as a of the work. coal storage space and points to the “lightening” presented by Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in October Georges Pompidou, Paris (2013). He has also Since 1998, Amorales has been building his of Toronto’s waterfront amidst the recent transfor- 2015. There, two swarms converged, human and exhibited his work at numerous biennials including Archivo Líquido (Liquid Archive), a digital archive mation of sites of industry into post-industrial non-human, begging the question: have we not the 10th and 12th La Habana (2009, 2015), the of vector images — birds, spiders, trees, wolves — centres of creativity, tourism and commercial enter- reached a tipping point? 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), the 2nd and 8th Berlin taken from books and magazines, downloaded prise. Black Cloud stands as a poetic allegory Carlos Amorales (born in Mexico City, 1970) Biennale (2001, 2014), Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013), from the internet or shot by the artist himself and should the concatenation of industrial metabolism, continues to live and work in Mexico. His work Manifesta 9 (2012), the Belgium Biennial (2012), transformed into black silhouettes modified urbanization, climate change and the extinction makes use of different media including drawing, Performa (2007) and the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). through processes of hybridization. With Black of species continue unabated. animation, installation, performance, video and 1. Carlos Amorales, Black Cloud, installation view at The Power Plant, Cloud, Amorales translates Liquid Archive into Black Cloud was featured in the exhibition The painting. Recent solo exhibitions have been held Toronto, 2015. Courtesy the Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation. three dimensions. The artist replicates thirty-six Work of Wind, also curated by Christine Shaw, at kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2013) and Centre Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. exhibition #LesTempsinacheves #LesTempsinacheves 5

1. Patrick Bernatchez, still from I Feel Cold Patrick Bernatchez Today, 2007. 16mm colour film Les Temps inachevés transferred to digital support, 13 min. Courtesy of Private 30 January – 15 May 2016 Collection, Montréal. Opening: 29 January 2016, 8 – 11 PM 2,3. Patrick Bernatchez, still from Lost in Time, 2014. Colour film Presentation and circulation of the exhibition is organized by the transferred to digital Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Curated by Lesley Johnstone, support, 46 min, head of Exhibitions and Education, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Exhibition Coordination by Clara Halpern, RBC Curatorial sound. Co-production Fellow, The Power Plant. Musée d’art contemporain de Co-produced by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Casino Montréal and Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, in partnership with Argos, Luxembourg – Forum Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, and The Power Plant, Toronto. d’art Contemporain, with the support of SUPPORT DONORs DONORs 1 Conseil des arts et Anonymous Catherine Barbaro & des lettres du Peter Ross Tony Grossi Québec and Canada Council for the Arts. Courtesy of Private Collection, Montréal. Les Temps inachevés brings together a selection of works by Canadian artist Patrick Bernatchez drawn from two cycles that span years of conceptu- alization, creation, production and presentation: Chrysalides (2006 – 2013) and Lost in Time (2009 – 2015). This exhibition provides an opportunity to examine the scope of an interdisciplinary, polymor- phous practice that embraces film, sound, sculpture and photography, in addition to painting and drawing. The title of the exhibition, which may be 2 3 translated as “unending times,” refers to the evolutive nature of Bernatchez’s practice, in which each work, cycle and exhibition is considered by It also includes the trilogy of films I Feel Cold Today film completed for the exhibition, two parallel acclaim for his films I Feel Cold Today and Chrysalide: the artist as being open-ended. (2007), Chrysalide (2008) and 13 (2009) which narratives intertwine: the first follows a helmet-clad, Emperor, presented at the MAC’s 2008 Québec Triggered by the chance discovery of a notebook together provide a portrait of the building’s inner faceless horse and rider adrift in an indeterminate Triennial, he was selected as Québec finalist for the in which mould patterns had grown, Chrysalides workings, architecture and inhabitants. landscape of ice and snow — quite literally lost in 2010 Sobey Art Award. His work has been featured revolves around questions of life and death, the Time in all of its various dimensions is the time and space — while the second seems to allude in solo exhibitions at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, passing of the seasons, growth and decomposition, overriding leitmotif of Lost in Time: past, present to a strange scientific experiment. Berlin (2010); Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris (2009 metamorphosis, mutation and transformation, decay and future, lived time, cosmic time, performative Circles, spirals, rotations, revolutions and and 2012); Galerie West, The Hague (2009 and and contamination. The Fashion Plaza, an industrial time, time travel, the space-time continuum. repetitions are omnipresent in Bernatchez’s work. 2012); and Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal (2011). Les building in Montréal where the artist had his studio Thus far, the cycle comprises over twenty works, From the circularity of the passage of time to the Temps inachevés has recently been presented at for many years, is the locus of the cycle — at once including films and videos, audio recordings, rotating and revolving of vinyl records, musical different venues: Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art production site and exhibition venue, subject and sound-based installations, photographic and etched- scores, camera movements and narrative arcs, these Contemporain (2014); Argos–Centre for Art and shooting location, metaphor and allegorical device. mirror works and sculptural objects. At its centre geometric figures and actions function on visual, Media, Brussels (2015); and Musée d’art contempo- The cycle, which began in 2006 with a series of is BW (2009 – 2011), a watch that measures millennia, metaphorical, allegorical and structural levels. rain de Montréal (2015). graphite and ink drawings, was completed in 2013 its single hand taking a thousand years to make a Bernatchez (born in Montréal, 1972) continues with the sound installation Fashion Plaza Nights. full rotation. In Lost in Time (2014) a feature-length to live and work in Montréal. Following much exhibition #CollectiveStance #CollectiveStance 7

1. Leslie Hewitt in also debut, a work which incorporates footage experiences simultaneously. collaboration with cinematographer from the two-year shooting of Untitled (Structures) The exhibition is co-produced with Bradford Young, production still from to expose aspects of the evolution of Hewitt and SculptureCenter, New York, and is accompanied Untitled (Structures), Young’s nuanced and structural approach. by a book co-published with Dancing Foxes 2012. Dual channel video installation, 35 The exhibition also includes a selection of works and SculptureCenter, New York. mm film transferred to HD video, 17 mins. from Hewitt’s individual practice informed by Leslie Hewitt (born in Saint Albans, NY, 1977) Produced by Karin Chien. Commis- her collaboration with Young. Her study of the Menil received her BFA from The Cooper Union, studied sioned by the Menil Collection’s archive prompted several questions Africana / Cultural Studies at New York University Collection, Houston, with the support of regarding memory and the encoding of historical and graduated with an MFA from Yale University. Jerean and Holland Chaney, in narratives. The subtext of the image archive asks: Recent solo exhibitions include the Museum of collaboration with the what wasn’t pictured? What was missed? What Contemporary Art, Chicago (2014); Sikkema Jenkins Des Moines Art Center and the moments have been lost between the release of the & Co., New York (2013); The Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art original camera shutter and now? How do the Museum St. Louis (2012); Des Moines Art Center, Chicago. Additional funding provided by original images circulate in the collective historical Iowa (2012); The Menil Collection, Houston (2012); Joseph Chung, imagination? Hewitt and Young take up these Artpace, San Antonio (2012); the Studio Museum, Marilyn and Larry Fields, and Elliot and questions in a myriad of ways. With a micro lens, Harlem (2010); The Kitchen, New York (2010); and Kimberly Perry. Material support Hewitt photographs fragments of recorded history the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, provided by Kodak, via the original imagescape. By obscuring the New York (2009). She has participated in numerous Panavision, Harbor Picture Company. original and repositioning or translating it to the group exhibitions at institutions internationally and Courtesy the artists and Lucien Terras present tense, Hewitt’s photolithographs suggest in several biennials including Göteborg International Inc., New York. multi-directional and plural interpretation of a Biennial for Contemporary Art, Sweden (2015) and shared past and a singular memory object. the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York. 1 Hewitt’s installation Untitled (Where Paths Meet, Bradford Young (born in Louisville, KY, 1977) Turn Away, Then Align Again) (2012) consists of a received his BA and MFA from Howard University. Seeing its Canadian premiere at The Power Plant, series of steel sculptures carefully positioned in the Young’s Director of Photography credits on feature Leslie Hewitt Untitled (Structures) (2012) is a two-channel video gallery alongside these photolithographs. The films include: Selma (2014), A Most Violent Year (2014), Collective Stance installation by Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with removal of the artist’s hand and the use of geometric Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Featuring collaborations with cinematographer Bradford Young cinematographer Bradford Young. Provoked by forms reference the 1960s conceptual art move- (2013), Mother of George (2013), Middle of Nowhere a collection of mid-twentieth-century photographs ment Minimalism as well as our contemporary (2012), Pariah (2011), Restless City (2011) and Entre 30 January – 15 May 2016 exploring shifting notions of nationhood, protest relationship with mass produced objects. Viewing Nos (2009). He has also been the Director of Opening: 29 January 2016, 8 – 11 PM and belonging housed at the Menil Collection in each steel object from a variety of angles suggests Photography for several music videos, including Houston, the work is comprised of a series of silent a condition where no reference to or writing of videos for Beck, MGMT and Seu Jorge. CURATOR: Julia Paoli (non-linear) vignettes, filmed at locations signifi- historicity can be conclusive. cover Leslie Hewitt, Where Paths Meet, Turn Away, Then Align Again (Distilled Lead Sponsor Major Donor cant to the era. Hewitt and Young’s close examination Hewitt frequently pushes the limits of form to moment from over 72 hours of viewing the Civil Rights era archive at The Menil CONSULATE GENERAL Collection in Houston, Texas) (detail), 2012. Lithographs on paper, dimensions OF THE UNITED STATES of historical matters through architecture, still take on multiple meanings and considerations, from variable. Commissioned by Artpace, San Antonio, 2012. Courtesy the artist Toronto, Canada photography and body memory, move away from individual and collective relationships to memory, and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. Support Donors Donors nostalgia and re-enactment as conventions. history and, ultimately, time. Her compositions often In honour of Dr. Henry A Dr. Kenneth Montague Collins & Adeline D Collins & Ms. Sarah Aranha Through the assertion of the work’s contempora- comprise fragments that subtly challenge viewers Lonti Ebers Olga Korper Gallery neity, Hewitt and Young’s project explores to experience new relationships between histories Lillian & Billy Mauer Sikkema Jenkins & temporality, exposing the tension between still not often considered in tandem. Her uses of space In memory of Muriel Prokopow Co., New York photography and the cinematic experiences figuratively and concretely are a means to gain SUPPORTED BY of moving images, and between the past and the perspective and investigate the possibility to trans- present. A new film installation, Stills (2015), will form and complicate personal and collective exhibition #ThePoliticalNightfall #ThePoliticalNightfall 9

1. Aude Moreau, Moreau’s thinking and observations on the city Aude Moreau (born in Gençay, France, 1969) Waiting for Landing, 2015. Digital print, 71 are informed by the works of artists such as Gordon holds a Masters in Visual Arts and Media from the x 107 cm. Courtesy the artist and galerie Matta-Clark, Ed Ruscha and Van der Rohe. By Université du Québec à Montréal, and has devel- antoine ertaskiran, investing architecture with a metaphorical power oped a practice that encompasses her dual training Montréal. and examining what lies between the image and in scenography and the visual arts. Recent solo what it recounts, the artist binds spectators — exhibitions include: Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris immersed in the texture of the images and sounds — (2015); galerie antoine ertaskiran, Montréal (2015); to the endless loop generated by these mechanisms Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal (2015); Smack Mellon, of power, and prompt them to grapple with the Brooklyn (2013); Musée d’art contemporain de possibility of resulting catastrophic scenarios. Montréal (2012); Casino Luxembourg– Forum d’art The exhibition is accompanied by a richly Contemporain (2009); and the Darling Foundry, illustrated monograph. It is a production of the Montréal (2008). She has received awards including Galerie de l’UQAM in partnership with the Canadian the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Cultural Centre, Paris; Casino Luxembourg – Forum Contemporary Art, Montréal (2011) and the d’art Contemporain, and The Power Plant, Toronto. Powerhouse Prize from La Centrale, Montréal (2011).

1 In Conversation majeure individuelle de l’artiste. Cette Aude Moreau Aude Moreau conférence sera présentée en français. Aude Moreau, née en France, vit à Downtown Toronto issues such as the privatization of the public space & Louise Déry Montréal. Détentrice d’une maîtrise (twilight time), 2016 Aude Moreau and the omnipresence of economic power. In en arts visuels et médiatiques de Tuesday, 26 January 2016, 7 pm deflecting and refashioning the iconography of l’UQAM, elle a été récipiendaire de IN PARTNERSHIP WITH The Political Nightfall la Bourse Claudine et Stephen these often stereotypical urban images, Moreau SPADINA THEATRE, ScotiaBank CONTACT Bronfman en art contemporain (2011), Photography Festival 30 January – 15 May 2016 highlights issues that dim towards a gathering ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE TORONTO 24 Spadina Road ainsi que du Prix Powerhouse de La political darkness. Opening: 29 January 2016, 8 – 11 PM FREE Centrale (2011). Son œuvre a été In conjunction with The Political The Political Nightfall features moving panora- exposé internationalement, notamm- Nightfall, Aude Moreau was invited Presentation and circulation of the exhibition is organized by Galerie mas of Los Angeles and Toronto. The exhibition Space is limited. Contact 416.922.2014 ent en France, au Luxembourg et aux to create a site-specific image de L’Uqam, Montréal. Curated by Louise Déry, Director, Galerie de ext. 37 or [email protected] L’Uqam, Montréal. Etats-Unis. as a large-format billboard on The also includes the film The End in the Background of for advance reservation. Louise Déry vit à Montréal où elle Power Plant’s south facade. Co-produced by Galerie de L’Uqam, Montréal, in partnership with the Hollywood (2015), which was shot by helicopter Please note: If the event is sold out, dirige la Galerie de l’UQAM. Déten- Captured from Toronto Fire Station Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art over Los Angeles, with the twin towers of the City reserved seats that have not been Contemporain, and The Power Plant, Toronto. filled by 6:55 PM will be released. trice d’un doctorat en histoire de l’art, 315 at College Street and Bellevue DONORs National Plaza conveying an ominous end-of-the- Members of The Power Plant can lauréate de plusieurs prix d’excel- Avenue just after sunset, commer- also reserve tickets by contacting Lillian & Billy Mauer world message. The video exploits the geographic lence (Prix Hnatyshyn (2007), Prix du cial logos glowing in the remaining [email protected]. interconnection of Los Angeles and Hollywood, gouverneur général du Canada light of dusk compete for visibility. (2014), etc.), elle a été commissaire Continuing her mediation on The photographic, film and sound works of Aude drawing attention to the luminous presence of Montréal-based artist Aude Moreau du Canada à la Biennale de Venise private and public space, Moreau’s Moreau cast a hitherto unexampled light on the and curator Louise Déry will speak powerful multinational corporations in its night sky en 2007 et a réalisé une centaine photograph of Toronto’s skyline in conversation about the artist’s conventional North American city, with its modernist against an industry built on the creation of unreality. d’expositions et catalogues en art is here embedded in the cityscape first major solo exhibition The grid, its towers soaring to breathtaking heights The starry night of the world’s film capital is also contemporain. that emerges beyond it. Political Nightfall. This lecture will and its illuminated logos that speak the language of captured in several photographs depicting the city’s be presented in French. Co-presented with Special thanks to Dan Sell and the firefighters multinational corporations and their prowess. iconic Hollywood sign. In Less is more or… (2014), Aude Moreau, artiste basé à at Station 315, Rafael Goldchain, Zack Hobler and Alexis Bellavance. Moreau embeds film in architecture, writing in glass the architectural faces of Mies van der Rohe’s towers Montréal et Louise Déry, commis- and transparency in opacity – all visual means in Toronto form a loop within a loop, producing an saire, discuteront de La nuit politique, la première exposition by which the artist directs a critical gaze on hidden intense interplay of reflections on growth. winter programs and events 11

Calendar January 2016 March 2016 May 2016 Tuesday, 26 January, 7 PM Saturday, 5 March, 3 PM Sunday, 20 March, 2 PM at a Glance IN CONVERSATION POWER TOUR (PG 15) SUNDAY SCENE Aude Moreau & Louise Déry Meera Margaret Singh (PG 16) Aude Moreau and curator Louise Sunday, 6 March, 3 PM Programs and events at Déry will speak about the artist’s POWER KIDS Sunday, 20 March, 3 PM The Power Plant are made first major solo exhibition, The Mixed Media Timescapes (PG 16) Power Kids possible by our Primary Political Nightfall. Lecture presented Visit thepowerplant.org for Sunday, 6 March, 2 PM Education Sponsor in French. (PG 9) more details. (PG 16) SUNDAY SCENE Louise Déry, In Conversation Adelina Vlas (PG 12) Saturday, 26 March, 3 PM POWER TOUR (PG 15) February 2016 Saturday, 12 March, 3 PM POWER TOUR (PG 15) Thursday, 31 March, 7 PM Saturday, 6 February, 3 PM INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES POWER TOUR (PG 15) Sunday, 13 March, 2 PM SUNDAY SCENE Sven Lütticken Power Kids SUNDAY SCENE FREE Sunday, 7 February, 2 PM Motion, Captured Bruce Kuwabara (PG 13) Sunday, 1 May, 3 PM Hear speakers from the world of art SUNDAY SCENE Sven Lütticken will analyze modern and contemporary forms of motion Symposium (PG 17) and beyond offer their responses to Michael Götting (PG 12) Saturday, 19 March, 3 PM study, motion tracking and motion the current exhibitions. POWER TOUR (PG 15) Saturday, 7 May, 3 PM Sunday, 7 February, 3 PM capture. (PG 14) POWER TOUR (PG 15) POWER KIDS POWER KIDS What’s In an Image? (PG 16) April 2016 FREE Sunday, 8 May, 3 – 5 PM POWER KIDS Participate in multigenerational Saturday, 13 February, 3 PM Saturday, 2 April, 3 PM Sunday, 10 April, 2 PM City After Dark (PG 16) studio activities with a guided tour POWER TOUR (PG 15) POWER TOUR (PG 15) SUNDAY SCENE Mani Mazinani (PG 13) of the gallery. Sunday, 8 May, 2 PM Saturday, 20 February, 3 PM Saturday, 2 April, 2 PM Workshop Tuesday, 12 April, 7 PM SUNDAY SCENE POWER TOURS POWER TOUR (PG 15) Sven Lütticken INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES Olga Korper (PG 13) FREE Sunday, 21 February, 2 PM Motion, Captured (PG 14) James Lingwood & Michael Morris Join a guided tour of the exhibitions Rebecca Carbin, Sunday Scene Monday, 9 May, 7 PM SUNDAY SCENE Co-Directors James Lingwood and engage in a dialogue about art POWER YOUTH Rebecca Carbin (PG 12) Saturday, 27 February, 3 PM Sunday, 3 April, 3 PM and Michael Morris will reflect on and ideas. Spring Exhibition POWER TOUR (PG 15) POWER KIDS 25 years of Artangel. (PG 15) Sunday, 21 February, 3 PM Through the Looking Window (PG 16) Our first annual Power Youth Spring IN CONVERSATION POWER KIDS Sunday, 28 February, 2 PM Saturday, 16 April, 3 PM Exhibition celebrates the work Listen in as artists engage in Visit thepowerplant.org for SUNDAY SCENE Tuesday, 5 April, 5:30 PM POWER TOUR (PG 15) produced in The Power Plant’s Power conversation with a curator, scholar more details. (PG 16) Alejandro Reyes-Andreu (PG 12) MEMBERS-ONLY EXHIBITION VIEWING Youth program. (PG 18) or other arts and culture professionals. Meet fellow Members and view the Sunday, 17 April, 3 PM exhibition before a lecture with Ryan Power Kids Saturday, 14 May, 3 PM Visit thepowerplant.org for more POWER TOUR (PG 15) INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES Mayberry, Founder of ArtMoi. (PG 20) details. (PG 16) Hear a series of lectures from Tuesday, 5 April, 7 PM Sunday, 15 May, 3 PM international artists, curators and LECTURE Saturday, 23 April, 3 PM Power Kids cultural commentators. Ryan Mayberry POWER TOUR (PG 15) Visit thepowerplant.org for ArtMoi: Catalogue Your Art. more details. (PG 16) PERFORMANCE Preserve Your Legacy. Sunday, 24 April, 2 PM Watch performances by some of the Ryan Mayberry will discuss his work SUNDAY SCENE June 2016 most exciting contemporary artists, as Founder of ArtMoi and Partner at Geneviève Wallen (PG 13) Thursday, 9 June, 6 PM live and in person. Mayberry Fine Art and Consignor Saturday, 30 April, 3 PM PERFORMANCE Auctions Limited. (PG 19) POWER TOUR (PG 15) Jacob Wren SYMPOSIUM Saturday, 9 April, 3 PM Every Song I’ve Ever Written Hear artists, curators, scholars and POWER TOUR (PG 15) Discover through this interactive others discuss key ideas raised by the performance what songwriting, current exhibitions. community and collaboration mean Power Kids in the internet age. (PG 19) winter programs and events #SundayScene Primary Education Sponsor #SundayScene 13

Sunday Scene February 2016 Alejandro Reyes-Andreu April 2016 May 2016 Sunday, February 28, 2 PM Mani Mazinani The Power Plant free Alejandro Reyes-Andreu is a Cuban Sunday, April 10, 2 PM visual artist, production designer and Mani Mazinani is a Toronto-based Speakers from the world of art and stage designer. Reyes-Andreu holds multidisciplinary artist who produces beyond offer their responses to the an HBA in Stage Design from the work in installation, video, film, current exhibitions. Whether focusing Cuban University of Arts. For the past photography, painting, printmaking, on a single work, a specific artist or thirteen years, Reyes-Andreu has multiples, sound and music. on multiple exhibitions, guest pres- been creating work that focuses on Mazinani’s work directs attention to enters draw provocative connections the discourse around individuals’ the physicality and logic of his between our programs and broader experience, documenting their space subject medium. His current research cultural and intellectual debates. in society. Reyes-Andreu will lead a discussion around Leslie Hewitt’s interests include the origins of Michael Götting exhibition Collective Stance. Bruce Kuwabara ancient philosophical thought, the Olga Korper limits of human perception and Sunday, Febrary 7, 2 PM Sunday, 13 March, 2 PM Sunday, 8 May, 2 PM Hiphop culture. Mazinani will discuss March 2016 Michael Götting is an author, journalist Bruce Kuwabara is one of Canada’s Patrick Bernachez’s exhibition Les Olga Korper has been Director of Olga and curator. His novel Contrapunctus leading architects and a founding Temps inachevés. Korper Gallery for more than forty (Counterpoint) was published in partner of KPMB Architects. He is the years, having dedicated her life and September 2015. He received his MA recipient of the RAIC Gold Medal career to the service of highly concep- in North American Studies and (2006) and in 2012 was invested as an tual contemporary art. She served German Studies from Freie Universität Officer of the Order of Canada for eight years on the Canadian Cultural Berlin. Götting writes for ZEIT shaping “our built landscape in lasting Property Export Review Board, was ONLINE, Deutschlandfunk and the ways.” Kuwabara has worked on major President of the Professional Art Tagesspiegel. He is currently living in national projects including the Dealer’s Association of Canada for Toronto, working on his second novel. Canadian Museum of Nature and TIFF four years, and currently serves on Götting will discuss Leslie Hewitt’s Bell Lightbox. Kuwabara will discuss the board for CONTACT Photography exhibition Collective Stance. Aude Moreau’s exhibition The Festival. In 2013, Korper was Political Nightfall. the recipient of the ADAC’s Lifetime Rebecca Carbin Achievement Award. Korper will Meera Margaret Singh discuss Leslie Hewitt’s exhibition Sunday, February 21, 2 PM Collective Stance. Adelina Vlas Sunday, 20 March, 2 PM Rebecca Carbin is the Public Art Sunday, 6 March, 2 PM Michael GÖtting: Wagner Carvalho Program Manager for Waterfront Meera Margaret Singh is a Toronto- Geneviève Wallen Bruce Kuwabara: John Rennison Geneviève Wallen: Joan Lillian Wilson Toronto and Founder of I Heart based visual artist. She holds a BA Olga Korper: Jeremy Korn Adelina Vlas is the Associate Curator Sunday, April 24, 2 PM Your Work Art Futures. Carbin holds in Anthropology and a BFA in of Contemporary Art at the Art As a curator and art historian, a Master in Contemporary Curating Photography from the University of Gallery of Ontario. Previously, she has Geneviève Wallen is interested in from Goldsmith’s College, UK. She Manitoba in Winnipeg as well as worked at the Philadelphia Museum issues of ethnocultural representa- has worked with Artangel, Public Art an MFA from Concordia University, of Art and the National Gallery of tional spaces in Canada. Wallen Development Trust and most Montréal. Singh has received several Canada. Over the last decade, she has has curated exhibitions in Montréal recently, as Public Art Officer at City awards and residencies and has organized exhibitions with artists and Toronto. She is currently of Toronto, where she opened up exhibited her work across Canada and including Carlos Amorales, Mohamed contracted by Nia Centre for the opportunities to artists working in internationally. Currently, Singh Bourouissa, Martha Colburn, Manon Arts as a guest curator for their different media at different stages is an instructor in the Photography de Boer, Fiona Tan, Liz Magor and annual exhibition Exposed, and serves in their careers. Carbin will discuss department at OCAD University. Michael Snow. Vlas will discuss Carlos as a curator, volunteer coordinator Aude Moreau’s exhibition The She will discuss Patrick Bernachez’s Amorales’ exhibition Black Cloud. and Board member of YTB (Younger Political Nightfall. exhibition Les Temps inachevés. Than Beyoncé) Gallery. Wallen will discuss Aude Moreau’s exhibition The Political Nightfall. winter programs and events Primary Education Sponsor 15

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James Lingwood & film to sculpture, music and dance to Workshop literature and sound installation. Motion, Captured Michael Morris Artangel always enjoys close collaboration with artists to realize the full Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 7 pm Saturday, 2 April 2016, 2– 5 pm potential of their ideas in whichever form and context seems best, Brigantine Room, Small World Music Centre generating some of the most talked- Harbourfront Centre 180 Shaw Street, Studio 101 about, contentious and acclaimed

FREE with tickets to art of recent times, including work by Under the joint leadership of the lecture Francis Alÿs, Matthew Barney, Atom Co-Directors James Lingwood and Egoyan, Jeremy Deller, Brian Eno, Call 416.973.4949 for advance Michael Morris, more than 100 Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen, registration. Space is very limited. outstanding international artists have Workshop participants are required Michael Landy, Susan Philipsz, Gregor worked with Artangel to transform a to have purchased or reserved tickets Schneider, P.J. Harvey, Rachel range of particular places from the to the International Lecture Series. Whiteread, Tony Oursler and many ordinary to the extraordinary; ornate others. palaces to terraced houses, aban- Presented in Partnership with James Lingwood and Michael Morris doned villages to empty department will reflect on twenty-five years with stores, daytime television, late-night no fixed address. radio and online spaces. These projects have materialized in 1 many different sites and situations and in countless forms of media from 2

Sven Lütticken Taking in a range of practices from visualization strategies in propelling artistic and other contexts, Lütticken new forms of motion management Motion, Captured will analyze modern and contempo- and appropriation? From the 1920s rary — Fordist and post-Fordist — forms to the present, artists have both Thursday, 31 March 2016, 7 pm Power Tours of motion study, motion tracking and participated in and problematized motion capture. Taylorism, the theory these forms of corporal and Saturdays, 3 PM Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre of scientific management, and the temporal discipline and control. In his 6 February – 14 May 2016 Gilbreths’ motion studies will be dis- lecture entitled Motion, Captured, Sven Lütticken teaches art history at cussed in relation to contemporary Lütticken will draw upon a number of The Power Plant Free the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, motion-tracking and efficiency these artistic practices, from the relates to temporality, materiality, where he coordinates the Research operations in museums and other Constructivists to Harun Farocki and memory and historicity. Learn more about contemporary Master’s Programme Visual Arts, public spaces through techniques Hito Steyerl, not to mention Picasso art and engage in a dialogue about Media and Architecture: Critical such as capturing a performers’ and Drake, as analytical pointers for art and ideas on a thirty-minute Studies in Art and Culture. He is the movements through digital animation. discussion. guided tour of the current exhibi- author of the books Secret Publicity: In particular, Lütticken will explore Presented in Partnership with tions, led by one of the gallery Essays on Contemporary Art (2006), the ways in which motion has been attendants at The Power Plant. Idols of the Market: Modern made efficient and mined for value, Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist and what fundamental shifts have Spectacle (2009) and History occurred in motion-mining as we in Motion: Time in the Age of the transition to a post-Fordist labour 3 Moving Image (2013). system. What are the roles of Primary Education Sponsor winter programs and events 17

Power Kids What’s In an Image? Through the Symposium Looking Window The Power Plant Sunday, 7 February 2016, 3 – 5 pm Constructions of free Sunday, 3 April 2016, 3 – 5 pm This workshop draws inspiration Time: Still and Visit thepowerplant.org or call from Leslie Hewitt’s lithographs, Inspired by Leslie Hewitt’s work Moving Imagery 416.973.4949 to reserve a spot. sourced from Civil Rights era Untitled (Structures), in collaboration Caregivers are expected to join their photographs housed at the Menil WITH: Leslie Hewitt and Bradford Young, with cinematographer Bradford children in all activities. Collection in Houston, Texas. Sohrab Mohebbi, Filipa Ramos and other Young, this workshop will focus on Participants will experiment with participants to be announced. creating visual narratives through Tours and workshops are led by perspective by constructing paper artist-educators, including Anna Bouzina image manipulation and juxtaposi- viewfinders and then selecting Sunday, 1 May 2016, 10 am – 6 pm and assisted by Adrienne Costantino, TD tion. After a short discussion about 5 photograph fragments from news- Curator of Education and Outreach Fellow. image production and manipulation, paper and magazine images and Brigantine Room, participants will create a fantastical Harbourfront Centre Speakers will consider the contem- use their imaginations to create a new Morning Session For children ages 7 – 12 and their adult diptych collage out of found images FREE poraneity and intersectionality of companions. story. The fragments will then be and various artistic materials. Playing each, foregrounding the relationships transformed using mono-printmaking Participants include Leslie on the idea of the creative viewpoint, Doors open at 9:30 AM. Coffee and pastries Hewitt (artist) and Bradford Young between film and photography, and Power Kids Funder techniques into a larger visual the collages will be framed within will be available for purchase. Space is (cinematographer), Sohrab Mohebbi motion and stillness. Close attention narrative. At the end of the workshop, limited. Visit thepowerplant.org or call an imaginary window, emphasizing (Assistant Curator, REDCAT) and more. to these relationships will point toward participants will share their work 416.973.4949 to reserve tickets. Please perspective and point of view. At the possibilities for each medium as before taking their creations home. note that if the event is sold out, reserved the end of the workshop, participants tickets that are not picked up by 9:55 AM The morning session explores they relate to temporality, materiality, will take their collages home. will be released. temporality as it relates to still memory and historicity. photography and the cinematic Beginning in Winter 2016, Power Kids Mixed Media will be presented twice monthly! Timescapes City After Dark This one-day symposium invites experience of moving imagery. Please see the Calendar at a Glance audiences to explore new approaches (PG 10 – 11) or visit thepowerplant.org on still and moving imagery in artistic Sunday, 6 March 2016, 3 – 5 pm Sunday, 8 May 2016, 3 – 5 pm for additional session dates practices. The relationship between Afternoon Session paradigms in philosophical, artistic and details. both media remains a critical concern and poetic terms. How might the Taking cues from the series Lost in Drawing inspiration from Aude for scholars and practitioners alike Participants include Filipa Ramos (Editor intersection of still and moving images Time by artist Patrick Bernatchez, this Moreau’s exhibition The Political in art history and cinema studies. The in Chief of art-agenda and Co-Curator of offer a model for simultaneously Nightfall, this workshop will explore workshop will focus on the element symposium will feature contributions Vdrome) and more. looking forwards and backwards? How how cities become transformed of time and how it can be represented from artists, curators and writers from might we consider the viability of at night. Starting with a discussion using symbolism. The workshop will both theoretical and practice-led The afternoon session considers still and moving imagery in the age about how a city is structured, begin with a brief discussion about perspectives, examining how still and constructions of time. The speakers of image proliferation? participants will brainstorm and the representation of time and space, moving imagery have developed will offer research and curatorial sketch out what elements will be after which participants will work with and defined themselves through their methodologies that expose temporal included in their own imaginative a partner to brainstorm and create a relationship. From a variety of per- city after dark. Using sculpture visual vocabulary representing these spectives, the speakers offer critical techniques and materials such as concepts. The new vocabularies will investigations on the projected image cardboard, neon paint and black be incorporated into mixed-media in contemporary art spaces and in lighting, participants will build their “timescapes” using paint, canvas and an age of image proliferation. other studio materials. Participants own miniature city. At the end of the workshop participants will place will learn various art-making Introduction WITH: Julia Paoli (Assistant approaches, including acrylic paint all of the individual cities together Curator, The Power Plant) image transfer and collage to create to create a large scale installation The curator of Leslie Hewitt’s Collective symbolic representations of time. At and photo opportunity, after which Stance will contextualize the exhibition, the end of the workshop, partici- each participant will take their positioning it as the symposium’s point pants will take their artworks home. creations home. of entry.

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Power Youth From September 2015 to May 2016, Lecture Spring Exhibition youth from both locations have been Ryan Mayberry working with Power Youth Artists-in- Group Tour Residence to learn new forms of Monday, 9 May 2016, 6 pm Daily ArtMoi: Catalogue contemporary art-making and to work 6 February – 14 May 2016 Your Art. Preserve The Marilyn Brewer Community together as a community to create art that relates to their own lives. Please Space, Harbourfront Centre The Power Plant Your Legacy. FREE join us for an evening of refresh- relates$2.50 to p ertemporality, person materiality, ments, music, art and conversation. memory and historicity. Tuesday, 5 April 2016, 7 PM Email [email protected] Call 416.973.4949 to schedule or call 416.973.4949 to RSVP. Power Youth Partners a group tour Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre Our first annual Power Youth Spring Regardless of your age or FREE MEMBERS / $10 NON-MEMBERS Exhibition invites the Toronto com- knowledge, The Power Plant can Visit thepowerplant.org or call the munity to the final exhibition event in tailor a tour to match your needs. celebration of The Power Plant’s Harbourfront Centre Box Office at Tours can be arranged for 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets. Power Youth program. The exhibition Power Youth Funders educators and their students, Please note that if the event is sold out, will feature the work of youth from the parents and their families reserved tickets that are not picked up 9 Boys and Girls Club of Weston-Mount or corporate, tourist and other by 6:55 PM will be released. Dennis, Humber Clubhouse and the organized groups. Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club, Live Performance musical community and collaboration Ryan Mayberry is the of ArtMoi. Miles & Kelly Nadal Youth Centre. He is also a software engineer and La Power Plant Art Gallery offre mean in the internet age. Jacob Wren Partner at Mayberry Fine Art and des visites personnalisées pour An eccentric performer and writer, Consignor Auctions Limited. Through tous les groupes d’âges selon Every Song I’ve Jacob Wren is also Co-Artistic Mayberry’s two passions, art and intérêts et conaissances. Ever Written Director of PME-ART. His recent novel Polyamorous Love Song was included technology, he and the company strive Des visites guidées franco- in The Globe and Mail‘s Top 100 to fulfill ArtMoi’s mission: to empower phones peuvent être organisées Thursday, 9 June 2016, 6 pm Books of 2014. Through performances, artists and make art more accessible à des fins éducatrices pour les installation, public process and to everyone. écoles, entreprises, familles, The Power Plant theoretical and practical research, ArtMoi is an initiative to create the touristes, et toutes autres organ- FREE interdisciplinary group PME-ART world’s first artist-controlled artwork isations communautaires. Presented by World Stage in association confronts its contemporary practice registry, which enables artists to cat- with The Power Plant via local, national and international alogue their body of work and artistic collaborations. Combining control how it is accessed and pub- Join Jacob Wren for a five-hour creation, exploration, critical reflec- lished. In 2015, the company launched durational performance as he plays tion, dissemination and casual yet a suite of free online services and his entire catalogue of songs in significant interactions with various tools that give artists the ability to chronological order. From 1985 to publics, the work is an ongoing create official records of their work 2004, Jacob Wren wrote 58 songs process of questioning the world, of and remain in control of those that few people have ever heard. In finding the courage to say things records during their lifetime and a way, because hardly anyone has about the current predicament that beyond. listened to them, they don’t yet exist are direct and complex, of interrogat- In this lecture, Mayberry will — not without you. Spanning different ing the performance situation. highlight the role that artwork doc- performance platforms, Every Song umentation plays in the larger arts I’ve Ever Written is an interactive Every Song I’ve Ever Written is part of and culture industry. He will provide project with ambitious ideas and a a three-part performance. For more insight into how and when an artist mixtape heart. It examines certain information visit harbourfrontcentre. should start documenting their own personal regrets about the past, com/worldstage work, therefore beginning the while also exploring the much larger process of preserving their legacy. cultural shift in how we listen to This production was created with support from FFT-Düsseldorf, and NRW foundation (Germany), 8 and understand music. Lend an ear CALQ and CAM. 7 and discover what songwriting, 21

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