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A Reamplified Archive with Jonathan Adjemian and Nicholas Murray

A Reamplified Archive with Jonathan Adjemian and Nicholas Murray
Saturday, March 16, 2:00—5:00pm
Jumping off from Ferreira da Silva and Neuman's explorations of the ways technologies—framing, modelling, captioning, scanning—produce meanings out of place, musicians Jonathan Adjemian and Nicholas Murray will be repurposing audio from the archive, transforming it in new, unrecognizable directions.

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The Loud Object Readings and Becoming Unreal performed by Xuan Ye

The Loud Object Readings and Becoming Unreal performed by Xuan Ye
Saturday, February 23rd, 5:00-7:00pm
To celebrate the closing of Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau’s exhibition What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest? at Gallery TPW, join us for an evening reading session and performance of Becoming Unreal by Lum and Desranleau, interpreted by Xuan Ye.

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The Lead Apron: Performed by Sarah Wendt

The Lead Apron
Sunday, February 10, 4:00–4:30pm
Gallery TPW

Presented as a chapter within Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau’s What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest? at Gallery TPW, The Lead Apron is a solo performance for French horn interpreted by Montreal-based artist Sarah Wendt.

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Alison S.M. Kobayashi

Say Something Bunny!
February 13 – March 26, 2016

Alison S.M. Kobayashi is an identity contortionist. In her work, Kobayashi performs a variety of characters that are both studiously and playfully rendered. These personas are inspired by Kobayashi’s extensive collection of lost, discarded and donated objects; ranging from answering machine tapes purchased at a secondhand shop to a love letter left on a sidewalk.

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All My Holes Are Theirs & Eric Cazdyn’s Blindspot Machine

Residency with Eric Cazdyn, Aleesa Cohene, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot
Throughout the month of January, writer and filmmaker Eric Cazdyn, artist Aleesa Cohene, and dancers/choreographers Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot will work together in residence at Gallery TPW. Each brings a specific aspect of their practice to the collaboration. Aleesa Cohene, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot bring their 2013 trio all my holes are theirs to the table, an attempt by two performers to disappear through radical devotion to a third.

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Grand Opening

Grand Opening of 170 St Helens
Thursday, April 30, 2015, 8:00 - 10:00 pm

Join us for our grand opening party with a special installation/performance by Tough Guy Mountain.

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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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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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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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