Research & Development
Notes on Back to School:
A Partial Re-enactment
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 practices of re-enactment and reinvention.
Wanting Images:
What does a landscape want?
On illumination as a hermeneutics of looking
Writer and scholar Sara Matthews contributes a series of blog posts to TPW R&D Online. Entitled Wanting Images, the series explores the relation between art, pedagogy and desire. Taking the form of a conversation with various images, visual projects and curatorial strategies, the intent is to explore the notion of what constitutes a pedagogical encounter in looking and to consider the methodological dilemmas raised by such provocations. In this post Matthews explores relationships between power, landscape, human subjectivity and technology while looking at Andrew Wright’s “Illuminated Landscapes.”
Back to School
Curatorial Residency with Vesna Krstich
Gallery TPW is pleased to present a three week residency with historian, curator and educator Vesna Krstich. Back to School re-envisions the TPW R&D storefront as an alternative classroom space for curriculum planning and experimentation, playing host to a series of school workshops, after-school programs public events.
Wanting Images:
on looking as free association
Writer and scholar Sara Matthews contributes a series of blog posts to TPW R&D Online. Entitled Wanting Images, the series explores the relation between art, pedagogy and desire. Taking the form of a conversation with various images, visual projects and curatorial strategies, the intent is to explore the notion of what constitutes a pedagogical encounter in looking and to consider the methodological dilemmas raised by such provocations. In this post Matthews experiments with free associative reading methods while looking at the work of Lieko Shiga.
Notes on the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
Curator and writer Jon Davies reflects on the 59th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, History is What’s Happening curated by Pablo de Ocampo.
No Looking After the Internet
Discussion
Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 7:30 pm
No Looking After the Internet is a monthly “looking group” that invites participants to look at a photograph (or series of photographs) they are unfamiliar with, and “read” the image out-loud together. The July meeting of No Looking After the Internet 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.
Wanting Images:
In the Playroom
(on looking as pedagogy)
Writer and scholar Sara Matthews contributes a series of blog posts to TPW R&D Online. Entitled Wanting Images, the series explores the relation between art, pedagogy and desire. Taking the form of a conversation with various images, visual projects and curatorial strategies, the intent is to explore the notion of what constitutes a pedagogical encounter in looking and to consider the methodological dilemmas raised by such provocations. In this post Matthews questions pedagogic potentials in Jonathan Hobin’s “In the Playroom.”
T.H.T.K. (Toronto)
Essay
Gallery TPW’s curator in residence Gabrielle Moser reflects on Jason Lazarus’ T.H.T.K. installation at Gallery TPW.
Jenn Goodwin
Reflections on a Residency
Choreographer Jenn Goodwin reflects on her ongoing research residency with Gallery TPW.
No Looking After the Internet
Discussion
Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 7:30 pm
Canadian Lesbian and
Gay Archives
(34 Isabella St.)
No Looking After the Internet is a monthly “looking group” that invites participants to look at a photograph (or series of photographs) they are unfamiliar with, and “read” the image out-loud together. 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 looking group will examine images included in the Photograph Wall: a key component of the exhibition. Co-facilitated by Erin Silver and Karen Stanworth
