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Jason Lazarus and Sara Matthews

In Conversation
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.

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recent future: Residency with Zoja Smutny and Guntar Kravis

Research residency with Zoja Smutny and Guntar Kravis
June 15 – 29, 2013

TPW R&D hosts 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.

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No Looking After the Internet

No Looking After the Internet, A Monthly "Looking Group"
Monday, June 10, 2013, 7:30 pm
The June meeting 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.

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Who Killed Vincent Chin?

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.

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If I Can’t Dance Toronto

Reading Group
Saturday, May 25, 2013, 2:00 pm

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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No Looking After the Internet

No Looking After the Internet, A Monthly "Looking Group"
Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 7:00 pm
In dialogue with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s national billboard campaign and exhibition, To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light, the May meeting will consider images of refusal.

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No Looking After the Internet

No Looking After the Internet, A Monthly "Looking Group".
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 7:30 pm
For the April meeting, artist Chris Curreri presents a collection of found photographs that elude easy interpretation.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About History

A series of discursive screenings organized by Pablo de Ocampo
March 13, 20 & 27, 2013, 7:00 pm
Curator Pablo de Ocampo has invited six curators and artists to each offer one programming suggestion in response to a video document of civil rights activist Queen Mother Moore. The responses will be shown over three screenings with discussions lead by de Ocampo and Kim Simon.

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Anthony Huberman

Lecture and Workshop. Co-presented by The Power Plant and TPW R&D
March 7 & 8, 2013

Gallery TPW and The Power Plant co-present an intimate working session with curator Anthony Huberman. A two-part event, participants are first asked to attend a lecture by Huberman where he will discuss The Artist’s Institute. The following evening, you are invited to re-convene and consider productive misbehavior within art institutions.

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Karen Azoulay

Performance and Book Launch
Saturday, March 2, 2013, 8:00 pm

Gallery TPW and Nothing Else Press host a performative lecture by Karen Azoulay. Presenting a slide show of approximately 200 images from her larger collection, Azoulay speaks about her personal phobia of the monument, which instigated the project, and reads from her new book.

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