Research / Conversations

Wanting Images:
on looking as free association

Posted August 15, 2013
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

Posted July 24, 2013.
Curator and writer Jon Davies reflects on the 59th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, History is What’s Happening curated by Pablo de Ocampo.

Wanting Images:
In the Playroom
(on looking as pedagogy)

Posted July 17, 2013
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.

Wanting Images:
On looking at
“difficult photographs”

Posted June 4, 2013
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.

Wanting Images:
Sleeping Soldiers

Posted May 16, 2013
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.

Yes, but (Some Thoughts on Broomberg and Chanarin’s New Work)

Essay

Cape Town-based writer Sean O’Toole responds to Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s To Photograph The Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light at Gallery TPW and across Canada.

The Wanderer

Essay

Chicago-based film scholar and curator Amy Beste responds to Laure Prouvost’s multi-channel video and installation The Wanderer at Gallery TPW.

Talking About
What We Talk About When We Talk About History

Posted April 5, 2013

Artist and writer Sharlene Bamboat responds to What We Talk About When We Talk About History, a screening series curated by Pablo de Ocampo. In this post Bamboat looks at the circulation of power within the film program.