SEPTEMBER 19 – NOVEMBER 18
OPENING PARTY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 8 - 11PM
The Power Plant is thrilled to present ‘Candice Breitz: Same Same,’ the first North American survey of internationally acclaimed artist Candice Breitz. Breitz investigates contemporary media culture using the language of the entertainment industry, including pop music, television, and Hollywood films. Featuring Hollywood icons such as Jack Nicholson and music legends like Bob Marley, Breitz’s work straddles the ambiguous terrain between art, entertainment, and consumerism. She edits, re-contextualizes or otherwise reinterprets familiar elements of our mass culture landscape to produce dazzling and critically engaging video installations.
One of the most anticipated features of this exhibition is the debut of Breitz’s new work, a major commission generously supported by The Power Plant and Toronto benefactors Partners in Art. This new work, Factum, made in Toronto and focusing on identical twins, is the fifth installment of The Power Plant’s Commissioning Program. Attend the opening party and be one of the first to see this new project. More, a new limited edition series of photographic portraits from Candice Breitz’s Factum series, produced in association with the exhibition, will be available for sale. Each work is in an edition of 30 (plus 5 or 6 artist’s proofs) which can be purchased in a custom-designed frame or unframed. Each work is signed and numbered by the artist. Editions are available from The Power Plant Store. All proceeds benefit The Power Plant’s exhibitions and programs.
Candice Breitz will be in attendance at the opening party and will be available to sign copies of the full-colour 128-page exhibition catalogue. Members of The Power Plant receive a 15% discount on their purchase of the book, which features texts by Gregory Burke, Anne M. Wagner, Claire Gilman, and Jon Davies. Curator: Gregory Burke, Director of The Power Plant
Factum Commissioning Partner: Partners in Art
With Support From: Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund
Support Donors: Elisa Nuyten & David Dime and Ken Zuckerman
Catalogue Supporters: Sarah Dinnick & Colin Webster
Presented in Association With: Future Projections, Toronto International Film Festival
IN CONVERSATION– OPENING WEEKEND / CANDICE BREITZ AND LYNN CROSBIE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 6PM
Internationally-acclaimed artist Candice Breitz will speak with cultural critic Lynn Crosbie. Crosbie teaches at OCAD and is a columnist for The Globe and Mail. Attend this special event when Crosbie will talk one-on-one with Breitz about her work and related issues in contemporary culture. Call the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets.
$4 Members, $6 Non-Members
Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre
LECTURE – CHRIS KRAUS: INDELIBLE VIDEO
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 7PM
The ubiquity of video within contemporary art renders any reference to it as a medium obsolete. How can we think about video work that uses the medium to reflect back on itself? How is intensity acheived in a continuous present? Novelist and critic Chris Kraus discusses questions of time and space as reflected in the works of contemporary video artists like Candice Breitz and Grant Stevens, as well as Third World philanthropy , artists collectives, structuralism, vertical marketing, outsourced security, and privatized prisons.
Chris Kraus is a fiction writer who often writes about art. She writes regularly for international art magazines and will curate an exhibition this fall in Williamsburg, NY, with artists Jorge Pardo, George Porcari and Naomi Fisher. Chris Kraus is a fiction writer who often writes about art. She writes regularly for international art magazines and will curate an exhibition this fall in Williamsburg, NY, with artists Jorge Pardo, George Porcari and Naomi Fisher.
$4 Members, $6 Non-Members
Our popular SUNDAY SCENE series reboots for fall 2009. Every Sunday, speakers from the world of art and beyond offer their responses to the current exhibition.
SUNDAY SCENE - HELENA RECKITT AND BIANCA SEMENIUK
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2PM
Helena Reckitt is the Senior Curator of Programs at The Power Plant. Bianca Semeniuk works as the Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at The Power Plant and was the Assistant Director for the production of Candice Breitz's 'Factum.'
FREE WITH GALLERY ADMISSION
SUNDAY SCENE - ROBERT LENDRUM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2PM
Robert Lendrum is a writer and artist working in performance, new media, video, and documentary.
FREE WITH GALLERY ADMISSION
LECTURE – MARK KINGWELL ON GLENN GOULD
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 7PM
$4 Members, $6 Non-Members
Author of fifteen books about philosophy, design and architecture, Mark Kingwell is a philosophy professor at the University of Toronto and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. His new book, Glenn Gould, focuses on Canada’s most renowned classical musician of the twentieth century. Kingwell’s lecture will link to the Candice Breitz exhibition by examining connections between live and recorded performance, repetition, and improvisation.
INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES - PHIL COLLINS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 6PM
FREE to Members, $12 Non-Members
Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
Call the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416.973.4000 to purchase/reserve tickets.
Internationally renowned UK artist Phil Collins will speak about his politically engaged media practice and screen his acclaimed film zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom) (2008), commissioned by the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2006, Collins uses photography and video to explore individual and collective processes of representation - particularly in places of great unrest - by foregrounding the ambivalent relationships between camera and subject.
2009 International Lecture Series Lead Donor: J. P. Bickell Foundation
GALLERY ADMISSION: free to Members/$6 Adults/$3 Students and Seniors
FREE on Wednesdays 5 – 8PM
GALLERY HOURS:
Tuesday to Sunday / 12–6 PM and Wednesday / 12–8 PM, also open on holiday Mondays
Image Credit: Candice Breitz, Still from Factum Kang, 2009. Featuring Hanna Kang and Laurie Kang.
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