Research & Development

Your Timing is Perfect
and other wall works

A new performance by
Jenn Goodwin

January 10 - 12, 2014

Continuing our interest in the relation between liveness and images, Gallery TPW presents Your Timing is Perfect and other wall works, a new work byToronto choreographer Jenn Goodwin. With collaborators/performers: Valerie Calam, Luke Garwood, Kristy Kennedy, Jared MacSween, Zoja Smutny and Heidi Strauss. Laura Nanni (dramaturg) and Camilla Singh (consultant).

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Notes on Back to School:
A Conversation About Making an Open Classroom Happen

Posted November 21, 2013

Art educator and writer Amber Yared responds to Vesna Krstich’s curatorial residency, Back to School, a series of workshops, screenings, lectures, events and conversations focused on alternative pedagogy. In this post Yared sits down with choreographer Ame Henderson to speak about Henderson and Krstich’s co-facilitated workshop, “Making an Open Classroom Happen”.

Wu Tsang: Artist Talk

Sunday, November 17, 7pm

Join us for a talk with Los Angeles-based artist Wu Tsang. Looking at recent and current projects, Tsang will focus the discussion on his performance practice of “Full Body Quotation.” The event includes a screening of the 9-minute film For How We Perceived a Life (Take 3). .

Notes on Back to School:
An Institution Is a Thing Made of People and An Institution Is a Thing Made of Space

Posted October 24, 2013

Art educator and writer Amber Yared responds to Vesna Krstich’s curatorial residency, Back to School, a series of workshops, screenings, lectures, events and conversations focused on alternative pedagogy. In this post Yared reflects on the assumed rigidity of institutionalized education and pedagogic power dynamics in response to a public Skype conversation with Jakob Jakobsen.

Ending an Encounter:
Some notes on the end of a residency

Blog Post

Posted October 22, 2013

In this blog post Gabrielle Moser reflects on her time as Curator in Residence at Gallery TPW.

Feelings

If I Can't Dance Toronto Reading Group
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.

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Show’s Over

Essay

Guest curator Jon Davies responds to Wu Tsang’s exhibition, Show’s Over, at Gallery TPW.

Wu Tsang
Show’s Over

October 4 – November 16, 2013

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.

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Notes on Back to School:
Zmijewski’s Choices

Posted September 25, 2013

Art educator and writer Amber Yared responds to Vesna Krstich’s curatorial residency, Back to School, a series of workshops, screenings, lectures, events and conversations focused on alternative pedagogy. In this post Yared examines ideas of destruction and creation, non-verbal compliance and crappiness in Artur Zmijewski’s Choices .

Back to School
Curatorial Statement

Essay

Guest curator Vesna Krstich introduces the research interests driving the Back to School residency.