Discursive Programming

Public Program: Decisive Moments

Saturday, November 19, 2011, 2 pm
Join Jean-Paul Kelly, programmer of Trinity Square Video, and Kim Simon, curator of Gallery TPW, in a conversation about the decisive moment, the position of the gallery in making meaning, and the question of “now what?”

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No Reading After the Internet

Out-Loud Reading Group, Facilitated by cheyanne turions
Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 7 pm

No Reading After the Internet is a free monthly series in which a selected text is read aloud and discussed. Peter Schjeldahl's "Of Ourselves and of Our Origins: Subjects of Art" has been selected to compliment the exhibition The Normal Condition of Any Communication, curated by cheyanne turions.

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The Normal Condition of Any Communication – Public Discussion

Saturday, June 25, 2011, 3-5 pm
In response to The Normal Condition of Any Communication, a panel of artists and thinkers will join curator cheyanne turions in a discussion about what is at stake when artworks attempt acts of translation, be it between one person and another, or between different ways of knowing the world.

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In Conversation with David Levine

Thursday, June 16, 2011, 7 pm
Coinciding with the Luminato presentation of his new work Habit, Levine will discuss his larger practice, staging institutional collisions and the possibilities for short-circuiting the ways people see and hence create meaning.

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Eric Gottesman: Public Discussion

Moderated by Richard Fung
Saturday May 14, 2011, 3-5 pm

Join Eric Gottesman and Richard Fung in a conversation probing the range of interests and concerns solicited by Gottesman's exhibition Paths That Cross Cross Again.

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Renzo Martens

Episode III: Enjoy Poverty
Saturday, May 28, 2011, 7pm

90 min screening, Followed by a moderated discussion with Nikolas Drosos. In juxtaposition with our May exhibition of work by Eric Gottesman, Gallery TPW presents a discursive screening of Renzo Marten’s film Episode III: Enjoy Poverty.

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Let’s make this uncomfortable

Saturday, June 26, 2010, 4 - 6 pm
Panelists: Jon Davies, Sharon Sliwinski, Kika Nicolela, Matthew Ryan Smith,
A panel of discussants will address these questions and more as we explore ideas of discomfort, vulnerability and the emotional consequences of social interactions gone awry in lens based practices.

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Ultra-red | Toronto Session

What is the sound of the pedagogy of the boarder?
Friday, March 12, 2010, 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Ultra-red members Janna Graham and Elliot Perkins will perform a 'listening session' inviting participants to follow a collective procedure for listening to recordings made during the collective's long term investigations from within the struggles of migration in the UK and contintental Europe. Participants from Toronto are also invited to bring recordings and statements in any format responding to the title's proposed question.

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War at a Distance Public Programs

Co-presented by The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University and the Centre for Media and Culture in Education, OISE University of Toronto
In conjunction with War at a Distance, TPW presents two events as part of This is Not a Blog; an intermittent and intimate series of public discussions on culture related matters.

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WHITE HOT Walkthrough with Alison Syme

Thursday October 8, 2009, 7:00pm
Join us for a "point of view" walk-through of Kelly Lycan's exhibition WHITE HOT with Alison Syme, Assistant Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto.

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