Past Exhibitions
School for the Movement of the Technicolo(u)r People
taisha paggett and WXPT in collaboration with Ashley Hunt and Kim Zumpfe
September 12—October 26, 2019
A large-scale artist exchange, exhibition, and public school platform, the School builds a site/home and experimental curriculum that responds to the limited positioning of Black and queer movers in the worlds of dance, visual art, and beyond.
September 12—October 26, 2019
A large-scale artist exchange, exhibition, and public school platform, the School builds a site/home and experimental curriculum that responds to the limited positioning of Black and queer movers in the worlds of dance, visual art, and beyond.
k.g. Guttman
Visiting Hours
June 29—August 3, 2019
Positioning the image as an encounter between performer and audience, Visiting Hours is a live exhibition hosted by an ensemble of performers. k.g. Guttman offers a participatory experience where visitors are guided in embodied observation techniques with images from the practices of six Toronto-affiliated artists.
June 29—August 3, 2019
Positioning the image as an encounter between performer and audience, Visiting Hours is a live exhibition hosted by an ensemble of performers. k.g. Guttman offers a participatory experience where visitors are guided in embodied observation techniques with images from the practices of six Toronto-affiliated artists.
Erika DeFreitas
It is now here that I have gathered and measured yes.
May 4—June 8, 2019
Erika DeFreitas’ new body of work explores intuitive processes and their representation as extended ways of knowing. Influenced by 19th and early 20th century occult photography, she employs camera and cameraless photographic techniques that recall photography’s important role in the heyday of the Spiritualist movement.
May 4—June 8, 2019
Erika DeFreitas’ new body of work explores intuitive processes and their representation as extended ways of knowing. Influenced by 19th and early 20th century occult photography, she employs camera and cameraless photographic techniques that recall photography’s important role in the heyday of the Spiritualist movement.
Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman
4 Waters: Deep Implicancy
March 9 to April 20, 2019
4 Waters: Deep Implicancy traces the striking possibility of a state without value. The film assembles fragments that touch on a kind of knowledge imbedded in a moment preceding human history or geological timescales.
March 9 to April 20, 2019
4 Waters: Deep Implicancy traces the striking possibility of a state without value. The film assembles fragments that touch on a kind of knowledge imbedded in a moment preceding human history or geological timescales.
Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau
What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest?
January 16—February 23, 2019
Presented as a poly-vocal mini-opera, Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau’s What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest? stages a conversation about illness, pain, and what it means to become inanimate.
January 16—February 23, 2019
Presented as a poly-vocal mini-opera, Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau’s What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest? stages a conversation about illness, pain, and what it means to become inanimate.
Jeneen Frei Njootli, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Chandra Melting Tallow, Tania Willard
Coney Island Baby
September 13—November 3, 2018
Emphasizing invisible labour and Indigenous-led economies, Coney Island Baby features a collaborative film project by Jeneen Frei Njootli, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Chandra Melting Tallow and Tania Willard.
September 13—November 3, 2018
Emphasizing invisible labour and Indigenous-led economies, Coney Island Baby features a collaborative film project by Jeneen Frei Njootli, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Chandra Melting Tallow and Tania Willard.
Eileen Quinlan
Enough
June 28–August 4, 2018
Enough continues Eileen Quinlan’s investigation into the material conditions of vision, through a new installation of densely tactile black-and-white photographs produced by the American artist over the last two years.
June 28–August 4, 2018
Enough continues Eileen Quinlan’s investigation into the material conditions of vision, through a new installation of densely tactile black-and-white photographs produced by the American artist over the last two years.
Laurie Kang
A Body Knots
May 5–June 9, 2018
A Body Knots is a new site-responsive installation by Laurie Kang that coalesces several threads of the Toronto-based artist’s research into studies of genetics, science fiction, feminist theory, and her personal and cultural history.
May 5–June 9, 2018
A Body Knots is a new site-responsive installation by Laurie Kang that coalesces several threads of the Toronto-based artist’s research into studies of genetics, science fiction, feminist theory, and her personal and cultural history.
Trisha Baga
Biologue
March 15–April 21, 2018
Biologue creates an immersive 3D-video environment that playfully explores what the concept of “immersion” can promise across physical and virtual space.
March 15–April 21, 2018
Biologue creates an immersive 3D-video environment that playfully explores what the concept of “immersion” can promise across physical and virtual space.
Bambitchell
Special Works School
January 13–February 24, 2018
January 13–February 24, 2018
Bambitchell’s first major solo exhibition, Special Works School transforms Gallery TPW into the speculative workshop of a surveillance artist.
