FESTIVAL LAUNCH & EXHIBITION OPENING CELEBRATION
MAY 1, 7 - 10PM
Free
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
952 Queen St W
Join us for the launch of the 2009 festival and the opening of our primary exhibition Still Revolution: Suspended in Time at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Come celebrate the start of an exciting photo-packed month of exhibitions and events during an evening of reveling with festival artists, photographers and special guests.
Official Exhibition Sponsor: Scotiabank
APR 29, 9PM
Free
The Bovine
542 Queen St W
Louie Palu will present short videos taken in Afghanistan’s Southern Provinces of Kandahar and Helmand while he was embedded with Canadian, British and American troops in 2008. He will also discuss his public installation, War Zone Graffiti, located in Ace Lane - the alleyway behind the Shanghai Cowgirl and throughout the Queen West neighbourhood.
ARTIST TALK - GWENAËL BÉLANGER
MAY 2, 12PM
Free
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
952 Queen St W
In this bilingual discussion Gwenaël Bélanger will speak about his public installation in the courtyard of MOCCA. Belanger will detail his image creation process of manipulating forms and transforming objects to reveal a fictitious point of view.
ARTIST TALK - LYNNE COHEN
MAY 2, 2PM
Free
Olga Korper Gallery
17 Morrow Ave
Lynne Cohen is known for her photographs of domestic and institutional interior spaces: living rooms, public halls, retirement homes, laboratories, offices, showrooms, shooting ranges, factories, spas, and military installations. Cohen will speak about her current exhibition that includes images from her first trip to Cuba.
MAY 2, 3PM
Free
Peak Gallery
23 Morrow Ave
Andrew Wright, multimedia and photographic artist, will speak about his new series Still Water. With these photo-sculptural works he continues his interest in probing the way in which imaging technologies mediate meaning.
MAY 2, 3 - 5PM
Free
Join us each Saturday afternoon in May aboard the Heineken Behind the Lens Tour, an exclusive interactive tour of CONTACT. Go behind the scenes with top photographers and other culture mavens as they share curated insights on fascinating photography from an insider’s vantage point. Each tour, located in unique neighborhoods, will end at a local watering hole for discussion, snacks and the opportunity to enjoy a cold Heineken.
Tune in on TVO
MAY 3, 9PM
This documentary traces the arc of Leibovitz’s photographic life, her aspirations to artistry and the trajectory of her career. It depicts the relationships and phases that shaped her life, from childhood, the tumultuous sixties, her transition from Rolling Stone to Vanity Fair, to motherhood. Directed by Barbara Leibovitz US, 2007, 81 MIN
KODAK LECTURE - JORGE RIBALTA: WHY PHOTOGRAPHY MATTERS AS DOCUMENT AS NEVER BEFORE
MAY 4, 7PM
Ryerson University, Jorgenson Hall
350 Victoria St., room LIB72, Toronto
Jorge Ribalta, curator of the internationally acclaimed exhibition Universal Archive: The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, at the Museu D’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, walks us through this exhibition, which is nothing short of revolutionary in its scope and reflections on the major movements and micro-histories of photography. Through montage and dialectical juxtaposition of images, Ribalta raises some of the most burning questions facing documentary media today
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