Summer 2016 June – September 2016 All Year, All Free

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Summer 2016 June – September 2016 all year, all free

As we enter the The Power Plant’s second exhibition season of 2016, we pause to acknowledge the importance of the ALL YEAR, ALL FREE program. Thanks to the support of BMO Financial Group, the gallery is able to eliminate admission fees, enabling all visitors, young and old, to access our exhibitions. Join us again this Summer and all year long at The Power Plant, where admission is always FREE.

Presented By OVERVIEW Summer 2016 at The Power Plant

For our Summer 2016 Season, The is a multi-compositional project comprised of two Power Plant is pleased to present two gallery exhibitions, a billboard and a small-scale performance at Blackwood Gallery and an evening- major solo exhibitions by German length performance at Harbourfront Centre Theatre. artists Franz Erhard Walther and Ulla By scrutinizing animality, the project examines von Brandenburg, as well as a new some of the deep-seated compulsions of the performance by American artist human species. Emily Mast. During each of our exhibition seasons, The Power Plant is committed to welcoming a diverse public to engage with the artworks as well as artists, Visitors to our summer exhibitions will be invited curators and other cultural producers. Besides to disrupt the space and landscapes of the works the gallery’s ever-popular Sunday Scene series of – either as contributors to the works’ final form, or talks, audiences will have the chance to hear Ulla as active explorers in the exhibition’s display. von Brandenburg speak personally about her work In Call to Action, Franz Erhard Walther’s first major in an intimate Artist Talk. The Power Plant will solo exhibition in Canada, artworks from the 1950s host the first Public Reading in English of Franz Erhard to the present offer insight into this seminal artist’s Walther’s autobiographical drawn novel novel, radical ideas about the relationship between space, Dust of Stars. The artist will be present at the reading, object and the human body. Visitors will have the joined by other notable persons from Toronto’s opportunity to activate select artworks on display arts communities. Additionally, Walther will host one as they become a part of the sculpture. For her of our bi-monthly Power Kids art workshops for exhibition It Has a Golden Red Sun and an Elderly children and their adult companions. Last but not Green Moon, Ulla von Brandenburg developed a least, in association with our friends at Canada’s new film and a site-specific installation, which mirrors National Ballet School, gallery-goers will also be the spatial context of the Théâtre des Amandiers treated to an interactive Live Dance Performance in Nanterre, France, in which the film has been shot. within the gallery space that will result in the In an exhibition display designed by the artist, we creation of a new dance work. will also show a survey of her earlier film work. As Answer our call to action this Summer: von Brandenburg’s first solo show here in Canada, come and explore all of The Power Plant’s new the exhibition explores recurring themes in her programming this season! work such as colour, ritual, movement, stairs and textiles. Emily Mast’s performance The Cage is a Gaëtane Verna, Director Stage incorporates bodies, movement, sound and light as live sculptural material. The Cage is a Stage exhibition #TPPCalltoAction

Franz Erhard Walther’s first major solo exhibition in Franz Erhard Walther Canada brings together bodies of work produced Call to Action between the 1950s to the present. Call to Action offers insight into Walther’s radical ideas about the 25 June – 5 September 2016 relationship between space, object and the human Opening: 24 June 2016, 8 – 11 PM body. Presenting sculptural form, drawing and video, Walther’s influential practice emphasizes action. His CURATOR: Gaëtane Verna work sheds light on the potential of spectators to consider their body as a means to activate sculpture in partnership with lead donor and disrupt the space of display and the landscapes in which it is presented.

INTERNATIONAL ARTS PARTNERS He first gave this concept physical form with his 1. Werksatz (First Work Set) (1963 – 69), a work comprised of 58 objects made of fabric intended to be used alone or in a group. The sculptures Support donors Supported By materialize through measured actions laid out for Robert B. Bell Brian Pel Peter Freeman, Inc. viewers to enact according to the artist’s instruc- and Diane Walker Peter M. Ross Galerie Jocelyn John Matheson Jeff Stober Wolff tions: unfolding them, standing on them, lying down inside them and pulling them around and over one’s body. With this approach, Walther’s sculptures transcend their physical and formal qualities to position the viewer’s body, and the space and time it acts within, as material form. Paired #TPPCalltoAction 3

with Walther’s 1. Werksatz are a series of videos that Franz Erhard Walther (born in Fulda, Germany, show documentation of each fabric piece being 1939, lives and works in Fulda) is one of Germany’s activated. Throughout the duration of the exhibi- seminal artists whose work has expanded the wider tion, visitors will be invited to activate various discussion of contemporary art practices. His work elements, reminding audiences that the work is has been featured in significant exhibitions meant to be physically experienced through including: Out of Actions: Between Performance their participation. and the Object (1949 – 79), Museum of Contem- Walther’s interest in the body continues in porary Art, Los Angeles (1988); documenta V, VII Formantwort (Form Answer) from the Configuration and VIII, Kassel (1972, 1982 and 1987); Spaces, Series (1989 – 90). Made of fabric and hung in the MoMA, New York (1970); and Live in Your Head: gallery, this body of work is installed with the archi- When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern; tecture of The Power Plant’s Fleck Clerestory in mind. Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld; and Institute of The dimensions and proportions of the hanging Contemporary Arts, London (1969). Recent forms make reference to the human body while their exhibitions of Walther’s work include Franz Erhard spatial configuration calls for a physical experience Walther: The Body Draws, Henry Art Gallery, beyond static spectatorship. Walther does not view Seattle (2015); Franz Erhard Walther, MUDAM, the physical form of Formantwort (Form Answer) as Luxembourg (2015); Franz Erhard Walther: The a completed work, but rather as objects that must be Body Decides, WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain, experienced by the viewer and read by the body. In Brussels and CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain so doing, Walther relinquishes control of the work’s de Bordeaux (2014); and Franz Erhard Walther, Work realization by calling upon his respective audiences as Action, Dia Art Foundation, New York (2010 – 12). to contribute to its final form. Analogous to the Walther’s work was included in group exhibitions visitors’ movement in space, the works are constantly in Canada at a very early stage, including the changing. Schreitbahnen (Stride Paths) (1972) and Musée d‘art contemporain de Montréal (1989), the Handlungsbahnen (Action Paths) (1997 – 2003) will be Art Gallery of Hamilton (1983), as well as the Institut presented and activated throughout the exhibition d’art contemporain de Montréal and National at regular hours on a weekly basis. Doing so allows Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1977). visitors to experience the work within the four walls of the gallery as well as outside at the waterfront, 1. Franz Erhard where they will change our perception of and Walther, detail from Activations 1. Werksatz (First Work engagement with the landscape. Set), 1963 – 69. Walther’s Das Neue Alphabet (The New Alphabet) Activations of Franz Erhard Walther’s Installation view: artworks will take place throughout Franz Erhard Walther: (1990 – 96) is comprised of 26 sculptural objects The Body Decides, the duration of the exhibition. WIELS, Brussels, 2014. made of fabric and wood that formally relate to Collection of The the letters of the alphabet. A selection of works outside the galleries Franz Erhard Walther (south side and east side of the Foundation. Courtesy WIELS & The Franz from this series on view at The Power Plant – hung power plant): Erhard Walther on the wall or placed on the floor – have a human Saturdays & Sundays, 1 pm Foundation. scale that evoke the possibility of action through Photo: Sven Laurent. linguistic reading. inside the galleries: Thursdays, 6 pm Through the presentation of Walther’s past and Fridays, 11:30 am & 4:30 pm more recent pieces, as well as video and drawing Saturdays & Sundays, documentation, Call to Action highlights the artist’s 11 am, 3 pm & 5 pm and the viewer’s shared role in shaping material form. exhibition #TPPUllavonBrandenburg

ness that allow the characters in her films and the Ulla von Brandenburg viewer to experience worlds caught between past It Has a Golden Red and present, reality and illusion, the sacred and the secular. Sun and an Elderly It Has a Golden Red Sun and an Elderly Green Moon, von Brandenburg’s first solo exhibition Green Moon in Canada, brings together five recurring themes in her work: colour, ritual, movement, stairs and 25 June – 5 September 2016 textiles. The inspiration for these themes are drawn Opening: 24 June 2016, 8 – 11 PM from the architecture of modern theatre and theorist Adolphe Appia’s stage designs; the dances guest CURATOR: Alexandra Baudelot, Co-Director of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, France, Director of of movement theorist Rudolf von Laban and the ROSASCAPE (Paris) Judson Dance Theater; the work on movement by Assistant Curator: Clara Halpern, playwright Samuel Beckett and the artist Bruce RBC Curatorial Fellow, THE POWER PLANT Nauman; and John Cage’s musical constructions

INTERNATIONAL ARTS PARTNERS on randomness. The exhibition features the new commissioned film It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon (2016), co-produced by The Power Plant, Toronto; the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Ulla von Brandenburg has developed a visual art Melbourne; the Darling Foundry, Montreal; Aarhus practice in which films, performances, sculptures, 2017: European Capital of Culture, Denmark; and installations, books and drawings exist side by Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich. side. The apparatuses in her films and installations It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon echo those found in the history of theatre and (2016) takes place on the stage of Théâtre des stage design. Her work explores states of conscious- Amandiers in Nanterre, France. This space is

cover Ulla von Brandenburg, still from It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, 2016. Film, super-16-mm, colour and sound, 22 mins. Courtesy the artist; Art : Concept, Paris; Pilar Corrias, London; Produzentengalerie Hamburg. Photo: Martin Argyroglo.

1. Ulla von Brandenburg, Innen ist nicht Außen, 2013. Installation view: Secession, Vienna. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler.

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2. Ulla von Brandenburg, still from It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, 2016. Film, super-16-mm, colour and sound, 22 mins. Courtesy the artist; Art : Concept, Paris; Pilar Corrias, London; Produzentengalerie Hamburg. Photo: Martin Argyroglo.

2 structured by two large staircases that serve as funded by the Australian Centre for Contemporary a platform. Comprised of different levels, the Art (ACCA), Melbourne; The Power Plant Contem- staircase is a means of architecturally representing porary Art Gallery, Toronto; Aarhus 2017: European hierarchies in space. The various actions taking Capital of Culture, Denmark; Museum Haus place are embodied by dancers’ simple movements Konstruktiv, Zurich; the Ricard Foundation; and the and their handling of coloured pieces of fabric. CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques, France. The film is presented in a black and white scenogra- It Has a Golden Red Sun and an Elderly Green phy that mirrors the stage on which the action of Moon is presented concurrently with an exhibition the dancers takes place. at the Darling Foundry, Montreal. Alongside the new film and installation, The Power Ulla von Brandenburg (born 1974 in Karlsruhe, Plant presents a survey of von Brandenburg’s film Germany) lives and works in Paris. Her work has works in an installation designed by the artist. The been exhibited at The Common Guild, Glasgow selection includes Die Strasse (2013), Singspiel (2016); 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); Witte (2009) as well as The Record (2005 – 14), which was de With, Rotterdam (2014); WIELS Centre d’Art filmed in Toronto. Contemporain, Brussels (2013); Succession, The exhibition is accompanied by the publication Vienna (2013); Kunsthaus Hamburg (2013); Biennale It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, edited de Lyon, France (2011); Chisenhale Gallery, London by Alexandra Baudelot. Between a mongraph and (2009); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2008); an artist’s book, this publication brings together texts Kunstverein, Düsseldorf (2007); Art:Concept, by various authors exploring the five themes of Paris (2007); Tate Modern, London (2007); Palais the exhibition, which are also present in von de Tokyo, Paris (2006); and Kunsthalle Zürich Brandenburg’s wider work. Published by Mousse, (2006). Von Brandenburg is nominated for the 2016 It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon is Prix Marcel Duchamp.

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By scrutinizing animality, the project examines some Emily Mast of the deep-seated compulsions of the human The Cage is a Stage species, such as the need to control, tame, punish and play. Mast constructs a landscape of stylized Performance at the vignettes in order to expand on ideas that John Harbourfront Centre Theatre Berger puts forth in his essay “Why Look at Animals” 29 & 30 June 2016, 8 pm (1977), in which he compares zoos to art galleries. Stating that each cage acts as a frame around the FREE Members / $12 Non-Members animal inside, he proposes that visitors stroll from cage to cage in the zoo much like they stroll from Visit thepowerplant.org or call the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets. Please note that artwork to artwork in an exhibition. Like a theatre if the event is sold out, reserved Members’ tickets that are not set, the zoo décor is pure illusion, and what is picked up by 7:55pm will be released. outside of these delusory environments therefore Please note that performances will be standing room only, holds the promise of being “real.” As a result, for more information on accessibility please contact us at [email protected]. what’s inside becomes a fictionalized account of the “natural,” revealing more about who we are co-CURATORs: Julia Paoli, Associate Curator, The as storytellers than the subject of the story itself. Power Plant and Christine Shaw, Director/Curator, During the development of her project Mast Blackwood Gallery researched both animal captivity and human confine- in partnership with major donor ment. She conducted interviews with animal experts, Lonti Ebers including a zoo curator, an anthrozoologist (who studies the interaction between humans and animals) and a telepathic interspecies communicator. At the The Power Plant and Blackwood Gallery are pleased same time, she examined emotional expression in to present The Cage is a Stage, a co-commissioned animals, the affective bonds between humans and project by Los Angeles-based artist Emily Mast. In animals, and the intersections of speciesism, racism her choreographed performances and installations, and sexism. To highlight her findings, she cast a core Mast incorporates bodies, movement, sound and group of performers to physically interpret and light as live sculptural material. Her work emerges embody her integrative points of interest. Her cast from collaborative practices that celebrate their is comprised of a method actor who specializes ambiguous position between art, theatre, poetry in emulating ape movement, a Butoh dancer who and dance. Mast often allows her work to unfold explores animal and human social psychology, in chapters, presenting iterations and offshoots of a ballerina turned cirque performer, an artist who the same piece in various contexts. This strategy works with the animal/human gaze, and a child comes from her longstanding interest in the impre- actor and horse fanatic. In her collaborative work with cision of language, the unreliability of memory, them, Mast has generated scores that serve as and the value of inaccuracy as they relate to systems “frames” in which to explore and examine both the of belief in contemporary society. political implications of marginalization and the The Cage is a Stage is a multi-compositional behaviour of humans through a cultural understand- project composed of two gallery exhibitions, a ing of animal nature. The Cage is a Stage was billboard and a short performance at the Blackwood developed in collaboration with and performed by Gallery and an evening-length performance that Heyward Bracey, Kiara Gamboa, Garrett Hallman, premieres onstage at Harbourfront Centre Theatre. Angelina Prendergast and Joe Seely. #TPPTheCageisaStage 7

Emily Mast (born in Akron, Ohio, 1976) recently 1. Emily Mast, The Cage Is A Stage staged a solo “choreographed exhibition” called (Redacted), 2016. Exhibition at the Courtesy the artist. Missing Missing at La Ferme du Buisson in Noisiel, Photo: Betsy Lin Seder. Blackwood Gallery France, and an 18-part roving procession of perform- 22 June – 18 September 2016 ances based on the poetry of Joan Brossa at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In Opening Reception addition, her video, installation and performance and Performance Saturday, 25 June, 2 – 5pm work was part of the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. Biennial (2014). Mast’s performances have free and open to the public Blackwood Gallery been exhibited at venues including: China Art University of Toronto Mississauga Objects Galleries, Los Angeles (2015); Mona Mississauga, Ontario Bismarck American Center, Paris (2015); Silencio, blackwoodgallery.ca Paris (2015); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2014); Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York (2013); Public Fiction, Los Angeles (2012); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2012); MUHKA, Antwerp (2011); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2010); and Performa, New York (2009).

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Calendar June 2016 Tuesday, 21 June, 7 PM Sunday, 26 June, 3 – 5 pm at a Glance artist talk POWER kids Ulla von Brandenburg Take Action! Hear artist Ulla von Brandenburg Join artist Franz Erhard Walther Programs and events at give insight into her practice and in this special session of The The Power Plant are made her Summer 2016 exhibition at Power Plant’s Power Kids art possible by our Primary The Power Plant. (PG 15) tour and workshop. (pg 12) Education Sponsor Saturday, 25 June, 3PM Wednesday, 29 June, 6 pm public reading MEMBeRS-ONLY EXHIBITION VIEWING Franz Erhard Walther: Dust of Stars, Meet fellow Members and view the A Drawn Novel exhibition after-hours before Emily Artist Franz Erhard Walther, Mast’s performance. Director of The Power Plant Gaëtane SUNDAY SCENE Verna, art writer and critic Sarah Milroy Wednesday, 29 June, 8 pm FREE and others present a public reading performance Hear speakers from the world of art of Walther’s autobiographical drawn Emily Mast and beyond offer their responses novel, Dust of Stars. (pg 14) The Cage is a Stage (pg 6 – 7) to the current exhibitions. Thursday, 30 June, 8 PM POWER KIDS performance FREE Emily Mast Participate in multigenerational The Cage is a Stage (pg 6 – 7) studio activities with a guided tour of the gallery.

POWER TOURS FREE Join a guided tour of the exhibitions and engage in a dialogue about art and ideas. artist talk Listen in as artists from the current exhibition season provide insight into their work and practice.

PERFORMANCE Watch performances by some of the most exciting contemporary artists, live and in person. public reading Gather and hear artists, curators, scholars or other cultural profession- als read from a book or publication.

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July 2016

Saturday, 2 July, 3 PM Thursday, 21 July, 7 PM POWER TOUR (PG 14) live performance Arthur Stashak Saturday, 9 July, 3 PM License to Disturb (pg 15) POWER TOUR (PG 14) Saturday, 23 July, 3pm Sunday, 10 July, 2 PM POWER TOUR (PG 14) SUNDAY SCENE Katie Lawson (pg 10) Sunday, 24 July, 2 PM SUNDAY SCENE Sunday, 10 July, 3 – 5 PM Ian Keteku (pg 10) POWER KIDS A Sound Story (pg 12) Sunday, 24 July, 3 – 5 PM POWER KIDS Saturday, 16 July, 3 PM Wearable Soft Sculptures (pg 13) POWER TOUR (PG 14) Saturday, 30 July, 3 PM Sunday, 17 July, 2 PM POWER TOUR (PG 14) SUNDAY SCENE Sarah Quinton (pg 10) Power Kids

September 2016

Saturday, 3 September, 3 PM POWER TOUR (PG 14)

Sunday, 4 September, 2 PM SUNDAY SCENE Melissa Addison-Webster (pg 11)

Sunday Scene, Winter 2016

August 2016

Saturday, 6 August, 3 PM Sunday, 14 August, 3 – 5 PM POWER TOUR (PG 14) POWER KIDS All the World’s a Stage (pg 13) Sunday, 7 August, 2 PM SUNDAY SCENE Saturday, 20 August, 3 pm Maryse Larivière (pg 11) POWER TOUR (PG 14)

Saturday, 13 August, 3 PM Sunday, 21 August, 2 PM POWER TOUR (PG 14) SUNDAY SCENE Erika DeFreitas (pg 11) Sunday, 14 August, 2 PM SUNDAY SCENE Saturday, 27 August, 3 pm Roald Nasgaard (pg 11) POWER TOUR (PG 14)

Sunday, 28 August, 3 – 5 PM POWER KIDS Power Tour All Spelled Out (pg 13) summer programs and events #SundayScene

Sunday Scene July 2016 Sarah Quinton Sunday, 17 July, 2 PM The Power Plant Sarah Quinton is Curatorial Director free at Toronto’s Textile Museum of Canada. Her curatorial projects Speakers from the world of art and focus on studio art practices that beyond offer their responses to the explore contemporary textiles as current exhibitions in these free they inform and intersect with gallery tours. Whether focusing on sculpture, photography, design a single work, a specific artist or on and site-specific installations. Quinton multiple exhibitions, guest presenters will discuss Franz Erhard Walther’s draw provocative connections exhibition Call to Action within the between our programs and broader context of participatory engagement cultural and intellectual debates. and textiles in everyday life.

Katie Lawson

Sunday, 10 July, 2 pm

Katie Lawson is currently a Master’s Candidate in Curatorial Studies with Ian Keteku the Daniel’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the Ian Keteku University of Toronto. Her research interests include theories of spectator- Sunday,24 July, 2 PM ship, subjectivity and material agency. Lawson will discuss Franz Erhard Ian Keteku’s poetry is an articulation Walther’s exhibition, Call to Action. of a generation’s heartbeat. A magician with syntax and a multi- media artist, Keteku conjures new realities in an attempt to better understand our existence. A two- time national slam champion and the 2010 World Poetry Slam champion, Keteku has showcased his poetry and art on a global stage having worked with some of the biggest names in music and literature. Keteku will discuss Ulla von Brandenburg’s exhibition It Has a Golden Red Sun and an Elderly Green Moon.

Sarah Quinton Primary Education Sponsor #SundayScene 11

August 2016 Roald Nasgaard September 2016

Sunday, 14 August, 2 PM

Roald Nasgaard is Professor Emeritus of Art History and former chair of the Department of Art at Florida State University. In 2013, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. Nasgaard served as Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario (1978-1993) where he oversaw many projects including the seminal 1984 exhibition and book The Mystic North. In 2007 he published Abstract Maryse Larivière Painting in Canada: A History, a com- Melissa Addison–Webster prehensive study of pioneering artists Maryse Larivière from the 1920s through early century. Melissa Addison-Webster Nasgaard will discuss Franz Erhard Sunday, 7 August, 2 PM Sunday, 4 Septmeber, 2 PM Walther’s exhibition Call to Action. Maryse Larivière is an artist, writer Melissa Addison-Webster studied and scholar whose work re-imagines Expressive Art Therapy, Haliburton how we engage with the textual, School of the Arts, has an Honours visual and social through bodily and Degree in History (Trent) and an emotional acts of encounter. Her Honours Degree in Social Work practice crosses art, literature, politics (Lakehead). She performed at the 8 and theory, taking the form of text, to 8, From the Floor (Peterborough) performance, sculpture, collage and and the FFIDA Dance Festival film. Recent projects include Talking (Toronto). Melissa has collaborated Back, Otherwise, Art Museum with Picasso Pro since 2006, Propeller Univeristy of Toronto and Down to Dance (Ottawa) and most recently Write You this Poem Sat, Oakville has been working with Ahuri Theatre Galleries. Larivière will discuss Ulla and Michelle Silagy. Combining her von Brandenburg’s exhibition It Has passions of spiritual and social a Golden Red Sun and an Elderly Erika DeFreitas change, Melissa’s practice endeavours Green Moon. to create more harmony, respect Erika DeFreitas and balance across society. Addison- Webster will discuss Ulla von Sunday, 21 August, 2 PM Brandenburg’s exhibition It Has a Golden Red Sun and an Elderly Erika DeFreitas is a Toronto-based Green Moon. multidisciplinary conceptual artist. DeFreitas explores the influence of language, loss and culture on the formation of identity through textile-based works and performative actions. She often makes use of photography to document image credits Ian Keteku photo: Luca Fiore her work, placing emphasis on Maryse Larivière photo: Courtesy the artist process and gesture. DeFreitas and Yannick Grandmont will discuss Franz Erhard Walther’s Roald Nasgaard with Claude Tousignant’s Roald Nasgaard Chromatic Accelerator (1968) photo: Aaron Harris exhibition Call to Action. Melissa Addison-Webster photo: Dave Chan Primary Education Sponsor

Power Kids Take Action! A Sound Story

The Power Plant Sunday, 26 June 2016, 3 – 5 pm Sunday, 10 July 2016, 3 – 5 pm free Join Franz Erhard Walther, a In this workshop, inspired by Ulla For children ages 7–12 and their adult contemporary German artist, who von Brandenburg’s film It Has a companions, who are strongly encouraged invites you to engage with both Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon to join their children in all activities. sculpture and the institution in (2016), we will collaboratively write new and moving ways. Partici- a theatrical play without dialogue. Visit thepowerplant.org or call pants will begin with a tour of Call After a short investigation into the 416.973.4949 to reserve a spot. to Action, Walther’s first Canadian qualities of sound and silence, we solo exhibition, followed by the will create sound-producing Tours and workshops are led by Nadijah activation of his wearable fabric instruments with plastic, metal, Robinson, Power Kids Family Programs forms and the chance to design wood and re-purposed materials. Coordinator, with assistance of Erica Cristobal, Power Kids Teaching Assistant their own imaginative 1. Werksatz We will then compose a musical and Adrienne Costantino, TD Curator of (First Work Set), (1963-69). score for our play using our new Education and Outreach Fellow. instruments. A performance of our play will be recorded, available for Power Kids Funder participants to access digitally, after which participants will take their instruments home.

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Wearable Soft All the World’s A Stage All Spelled Out Sculptures Sunday, 14 August 2016, 3 – 5 pm Sunday, 28 August 2016, 3 – 5 pm Sunday,24 July 2016, 3 – 5 pm Build an environment inspired by Experiment with felting techniques Ulla von Brandenburg’s elaborate and make your own expressive letters Make a fabric sculpture that doubles stage-like installations. After a inspired by Franz Erhard Walther’s as a costume! While we activate one short discussion about the artist’s Das Neue Alphabet (1990 – 96). We of Franz Erhard Walther’s interactive installation, we will use a variety of will begin by exploring Walther’s works of art we will learn about flexible materials to transform empty wooden exhibition and discussing how art materials, and how our imagination boxes to into imagined spaces that symbols can represent ideas and and participation can animate minimal set the stage for our favourite stories. emotions. Participants will learn how sculptures. Each participant will then Once complete, all the boxes will be to use felting to achieve a desired create a unique soft sculpture that positioned together in different forma- descriptive effect when making their fits them. At the end of the program, tions to explore what new worlds and own letter (or letters). Together, we will engage in a performative stories their juxtaposition suggests. participants will arrange their letters intervention by wearing our sculptures to create a brand new alphabet, and parading into the gallery. before taking their letters home.

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PUBLIC READING Public Reading from Franz Erhard Walther: Dust of Stars, A Drawn Novel

Presented by Franz Erhard Walther, Gaëtane Verna, Sarah Milroy and others

Saturday, 25 June 2016, 1 pm

The Power Plant free

The original work by Walther is autobiographical, presented as a monumental cycle of 524 sheets filled with pencil drawings and inscribed by hand. For the first time, a public reading of a new English translation will be conducted – with the artist present!

Power Tours

Saturdays, 3 PM 2 July – 4 September 2016

The Power Plant Frelatesree to temporality, materiality, memory and historicity. Learn more about contemporary art and engage in a dialogue about art and ideas on a thirty- minute guided tour of the current exhibitions, led by one of the gallery attendants at The Power Plant.

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artist talk Ulla von Brandenburg

Tuesday, 21 June 2016, 7 PM studio theatre, Harbourfront Centre FREE MEMBERS / $12 NON-MEMBERS

Visit thepowerplant.org or call Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets. Please note that if the event is sold out, reserved tickets that are not picked up by 6:55 pm will be released.

Join the artist Ulla von Brandenburg as she gives insight into her artistic approach and speaks about her current exhibition It Has a Golden Red Sun and an Elderly Green Moon. The exhibition features a new film and site-specific installation, as well as a survey of recent film works. In von Brandenburg’s films, figures act in mise-en-scène like environments that are hard to situate in a specific time or place, although they contain an abundance of references from theories of theatre, movement, 7 dance, colours and modernism. Live Performance graphed License to Disturb, which is Arthur Stashak improvisational, but as the audience interacts it becomes more of a struc- License to Disturb tured choreography. The dancer has prepared 30 movements, with each Thursday, 21 July 2016, 7 pm movement assigned its own number. The audience is encouraged to say The Power Plant any number, from 1 to 30, in any FREE order and at any speed to essentially Presented in association with Canada’s create their own choreography. Keep National Ballet School in mind that when a number is not being called out, the dancer(s) will Franz Erhard Walther has created start improvising. artworks intended to be activated in a prescribed manner so that particpants become part of the art. In this live performance, experience choreography This performance will take inspired by Walther’s exhibition. place in the Franz Erhard Arthur Stashak, an award-winning Walther exhibition in the young dancer trained at Canada’s Royal LePage Gallery. 6 National Ballet School, has choreo- Members of The Power Plant form an amazing community of Become a artists, curators, collectors and art enthusiasts. As Canada’s leading contemporary art gallery, The Power Plant provides our passionate network of supporters with exceptional opportunities to access, engage with and exchange ideas around the best artwork of our time Member by world-renowned artists. Your Membership directly supports artists and the opportunities they have to develop and present new work to engaged audiences.

ALL LEVELS ARTISTS & STUDENTS THE CLUB Members Only Collection Visit at Studio Visit with Exhibition Viewing BMO Project Room Vejas Kruszewski

Wednesday, 29 June, 6 pm Friday, 5 August, 1 pm Details to be provided upon RSVP

Tour the current exhibitions after Curator Dawn Cain will lead a tour Combining common or familiar hours, enjoy refreshments and meet of Michel de Broin’s new installation elements with a twisted sensibility, fellow Members. Castles Made of Sand and a selection this emerging fashion designer of the BMO art collection. aims to pervert the natural to create areas of interest in otherwise uniform garments.

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GOVERNMENT FUNDERS Power Kids Funder Power Players

RBC Curatorial Fellow supported by Power Youth FUNDERS

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TD CURATOR OF EDUCATION AND OUTREACH FELLOW SUPPORTED BY Primary Education Sponsor

ARTIST MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM DONOR Anonymous international lecture series 2015 – 16 lead Donor STUDENT MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM DONOR Nancy McCain and Bill Morneau W. Bruce C. Bailey image credits 1. Power Kids, Summer 2015 4. Franz Erhard Walther, detail from 6. Ulla von Brandenburg. Photo: Jan Northoff 2. Power Kids, Winter 2016 Dust of Stars, 2012. 7. Arthur Stashek. Photo courtesy the artist. 3. Power Kids, Fall 2015 5. Power Tours, Winter 2016.

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Global Wellness Festival Habari Africa Festival Free Flicks Sailing & Powerboating 29 June Co-produced by Presented by Billy Bishop Daily Batuki Music Society Toronto City Airport Canada Day 12 – 14 August Wednesdays Harbourfront Centre Shop Fireworks, music 22 June – 31 August Daily and more! Hot & Spicy Food Festival 1 July Savour the flavour of the Dancing on the Pier Boxcar Social South Thursdays Daily Oh Canada! 19 – 21 August 23 June – 1 September Harbourfront Centre’s The Slip weekend party TAIWANfest: A Cultural Summer Music in Daily 2 – 3 July Tango with Hong Kong the Garden Craft & Design Studio Co-produced by Asian Presented by Daily Future Routes Canadian Special Events TD Bank Group New sounds, Association 30 June – 18 September Craft & Design deep traditions 26 – 28 August Courses and Workshops 8 – 10 July Paddleboat Rides Year-round Ashkenaz Festival Natrel Pond Ritmo y Color: Produced by Ashkenaz Thursdays – Sundays Visual Arts The Streets of Mexico Foundation in partnership All Over Town 15 – 17 July Lakeview Market with Harbourfront Centre 25 June – 18 September 3 – 5 September & World Café Shields to Shore 1 July – 5 September IFOA Weekly Sounds of the Veg Food Fest September – June St. Lawrence Produced by Toronto Summer Camps 22 – 24 July Vegetarian Association 4 July – 2 September NextSteps 9 – 11 September Canada’s Dance Series Island Soul September – June Turn up the heat The Word on the Street 29 July – 1 August 25 September Beats, Breaks & Culture: The Bridge 5 – 7 August

Weekends Start Wednesdays Find out more at harbourfrontcentre.com or call 416.973.4000 all year, all free presented by

gallery hours LOCATION Tuesday - Wednesday 10 – 5 PM 231 Queens Quay West Thursday 10 – 8 PM Toronto, Ontario, Canada Friday - Sunday 10 – 6 PM M5J 2G8

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Please note: Underground parking is located directly in front of the gallery at Queens Quay West and Lower Simcoe Street. To arrive by TTC, take the 509 or 510 streetcar from Union Station to Harbourfront Centre. To arrive by car from Lake Shore Boulevard, take Lower Simcoe Street directly south to the gallery.

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