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“…a container for mere possibilities that have not yet happened, a body in a state of becoming through time, or a structure for the expression of time as it moves both forwards and backwards at once.”

March 20 – 28, 2015
In 1968, Jill Johnston stated “I’ve seen Trio A a number of times and still think I haven’t really seen it.” This week of discursive events and performances initiated by FADO Performance Art Centre in collaboration with Sara Wookey allows the opportunity to see Yvonne Rainer’s canonical 1966 dance again within a constellation of conversations, readings and newly commissioned works.

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Kevin Jerome Everson Park Lanes

Special 8 hour screening, Saturday April 18, 2015 11:00am - 7:00pm

In March 2014 Everson and his crew spent 3 days shooting in a Mechanicsville Virginia factory that produces all the components needed to build bowling alleys. The resulting work consists of a full shift – eight hours – worth of documentation of the numerous different tasks performed by the staff of the facility.

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Ariana Reines

CANADIAN ECSTASY
June 23 - 26, 2014

Gallery TPW hosts a week of events with Ariana Reines including performance, reading, writing and talking together.

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HYPNOTIC SHOW

June 12 - 13, 2014

A project by Raimundas Malašauskas and Marcos Lutyens, with Tamara Henderson, Angie Keefer and Maryse Larivière. Partnering with Kunstverein Toronto to present their first project, HYPNOTIC SHOW, an exhibition that develops in the mind.

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A workshop with Charles Stankievech

Intelligence is Knowledge with a Shelf Life
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Blackwood Gallery and Gallery TPW partner with Justina M. Barnicke Gallery to think out loud about curatorial experimentation on the occasion of Charles Stankievech’s curatorial debut in Toronto.

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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 by Toronto choreographer Jenn Goodwin.

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Wu Tsang

Artist Talk
Sunday, November 17, 2013, 7:00 pm

Looking at recent and current projects, the discussion will focus 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).

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Feelings

A Reading Group, moderated by Jon Davies
Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 7:00 pm

Jon Davies, guest curator of Wu Tsang: Show's Over, will moderate a discussion of several texts selected in dialogue with the exhibition.

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No Looking After the Internet

No Looking After the Internet, A Monthly "Looking Group"
Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 7:30 pm
The July meeting 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.

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No Looking After the Internet

No Looking After the Internet, A Monthly "Looking Group"
Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 7:30 pm
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 meeting will examine images included in the Photograph Wall: a key component of the exhibition. Co-facilitated by Erin Silver and Karen Stanworth

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