Events / Exhibitions
Feelings
Tuesday, November 5, 7pm
The May session of the If I Can't Dance Toronto reading group will be hosted by TPW R&D in conjunction with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin's exhibition, To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light.
Wu Tsang
Show’s Over
Gallery TPW is pleased to present an exhibition by Los Angeles filmmaker, artist and performer Wu Tsang. Tsang’s work draws on legacies of vocal performance, re-enactment, trans/queer representation, and anti-oppression activism to stage the complex relationships between individual and collective subjects and the charged dynamics of the body, identity, voice and politics.
Back to School
Curatorial Residency with Vesna Krstich
Gallery TPW is pleased to present a three week residency with historian, curator and educator Vesna Krstich. Back to School re-envisions the TPW R&D storefront as an alternative classroom space for curriculum planning and experimentation, playing host to a series of school workshops, after-school programs public events.
No Looking After the Internet
Discussion
Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 7:30 pm
No Looking After the Internet is a monthly “looking group” that invites participants to look at a photograph (or series of photographs) they are unfamiliar with, and “read” the image out-loud together. The July meeting of No Looking After the Internet will respond to Jason Lazarus’ current solo exhibition at Gallery TPW, examining recurring tensions between public and private viewing. Co-facilitated by artist Michèle Pearson Clarke.
No Looking After the Internet
Discussion
Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 7:30 pm
Canadian Lesbian and
Gay Archives
(34 Isabella St.)
No Looking After the Internet is a monthly “looking group” that invites participants to look at a photograph (or series of photographs) they are unfamiliar with, and “read” the image out-loud together. In dialogue with the exhibition Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives, 1973-1983 at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and its critical counterpart of collaborative interventions, TAG TEAM, this month’s looking group will examine images included in the Photograph Wall: a key component of the exhibition. Co-facilitated by Erin Silver and Karen Stanworth
Jason Lazarus and Sara Matthews in Conversation
Public Discussion with the artist
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 2:00 pm
Join writer and scholar Sara Matthews in a public conversation with Jason Lazarus about how we find meaning in images that already exist, what we want from images and what images want from us in return
Jason Lazarus
T.H.T.K. (Toronto)
Gallery TPW is pleased to present “Too Hard to Keep,” a site-specific installation by Chicago artist Jason Lazarus, drawn from a growing archive of photographs donated by owners who find them too painful to live with any longer. Initiated in 2010, “Too Hard to Keep” (T.H.T.K.) is a repository for photographs, photo-objects, and digital files that are too difficult for their owners to hold onto, but which are too meaningful to destroy.
No Looking After the Internet
Discussion
Monday, June 10, 2013, 7:30 pm
No Looking After the Internet is a monthly “looking group” that invites participants to look at a photograph (or series of photographs) they are unfamiliar with, and “read” the image out-loud together. The June meeting of No Looking After the Internet will respond to Doug Ischar’s current solo exhibitions at Gallery 44 and Vtape, examining desire as a force that often exceeds the usual codes of photographic representation. Co-facilitated by artist and curator Jean-Paul Kelly.
recent future
Residency with Zoja Smutny and Guntar Kravis
Residency with Zoja Smutny and Guntar Kravis
June 15 – 29, 2013
TPW R&D is pleased to host a two week residency with choreographer Zoja Smutny and photographer Guntar Kravis. Their recent collaborative research takes form in a developing body of durational performance video portraits.
Who Killed Vincent Chin?
A Screening and Talk With Christine Choy and Richard Fung
Thursday June 6th, 2013, 6:30 pm
Gendai invites you to this first "module" in the Model Minority series that takes an intersectional approach to analyze the practices that construct hierarchies, conflict and power struggles in the terrain of multiculturalism and cultural diversity in North America.
