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IMAGES FESTIVAL 2020

Toronto’s IMAGES FESTIVAL is live streaming a selection of their 2020 festival online—new works as well as artist conversations.

This year’s participants include Tiara Roxanne, Silvia Kolbowski, Julia Feyrer, Skawennati, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Patrick Staff, Morgan Quaintance, Simon Liu, Cheng-Hsu Chung, Yashaswini Raghunandan, Ben Rivers, and individual and joint works by the COUSIN collective (Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil, Alexandra Lazarowich, and Adam Piron).

See link below for schedule.

IMAGES FESTIVAL 2020

April 16 through 22.

Toronto.

Images Festival 2020, from top: Tiara Roxanne, photograph by Charlotte de Bekker; Julia Feyrer, Irregular Time Signatures, 2011; Patrick Staff, The Prince of Homburg, 2019; Morgan Quaintance, South, 2020; Skawennati, TimeTraveller™, 2008–2013; Simon Liu, Signal 8, 2019; Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Spit on the Broom, 2019; Silvia Kolbowski, That Monster: An Allegory, 2018; Cheng-Hsu Chung, Adorable, 2019; Tulapop Saenjaroen, People On Sunday, 2020; image courtesy of Cousin; Yashaswini Raghunandan, That Cloud Never Left, 2019; Ricarda Roggan, Weimar 3, 2017, C-print, brome silver gelatin, from the series Apparate, 2015–2018; Ben Rivers, Now, At Last!, 2018. Images courtesy and © the artists, photographers, and Images Festival.

ZOE LEONARD — I WANT A PRESIDENT

On the occasion of ZOE LEONARD—ANALOGUE, Hauser & Wirth presents an afternoon of performances and readings in response to Leonard’s 1992 text I WANT A PRESIDENT.

Participants include Lita Albuquerque, Edgar Arceneaux with performer Joana Knezevic, Nao BustamanteAndy CampbellPatrisse Cullors, Edgar Heap of Birds, Amy Gerstler, Kimberli Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Bidhan Roy, and Patrick Staff.

 

I WANT A PRESIDENT

Saturday, November 3, at 1 pm.

ZOE LEONARD—ANALOGUE

Through January 20.

Hauser & Wirth, 901 East 3rd Street, downtown Los Angeles.

Zoe Leonard, I Want a President. Image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

PATRICK STAFF — WEED KILLER

The next time you’re at MOCA Grand Avenue (before July 4), grab a beanbag chair and check out Patrick Staff‘s new 17-minute video piece WEED KILLER (2017), curated by Lanka Tattersall.

“The intersection of gender, illness, and contamination is the focal point of the video installation, [which] was inspired by artist-writer Catherine Lord’s memoir The Summer of Her Baldness (2004)—a moving and often irreverent account of the author’s experience of cancer. At the heart of Staff’s work is a monologue, adapted from Lord’s book, which reflects upon the chemically induced devastation of chemotherapy. This text is enacted with unrelenting intensity by actress Debra Soshoux, who recites Lord’s description of taking chemotherapy drugs as akin to ‘mainlining weed killer’….Throughout WEED KILLER, Staff intertwines notions of affliction and contamination with the demand for survival on one’s own terms.

“The monologue is intercut with comparatively otherworldly sequences. These include choreographic gestures shot with high-definition thermal imagery and performed primarily by Staff. The thermal scenes draw attention to the ways in which our ostensibly uniform bodies are actually composed of varying zones of heat and coolness, suggesting a visual analog for the complexity of identity.

“Towards the end of the video, artist Jamie Crewe presents a passionate, lip-synched rendition of a love song in a gay bar.* As Crewe ardently moves to the lyrics ‘to be in love with you is everything,’ thwarted desire appears as a kind of intoxicating illness.” — Tattersall**

 

PATRICK STAFF—WEED KILLER, through July 3.

MOCA GRAND AVENUE

moca.org/exhibition/patrick-staff-weed-killer

 

*The song was adapted by Staff from versions of the song “To Be in Love” (1999) by Masters at Work, featuring India.

**Curator Lanka Tattersall, “Notes on Weed Killer”:

moca.org/notesonweedkiller

Patrick Staff, Weed Killer, 2017, video still, courtesy of the artist
Patrick Staff, Weed Killer, 2017, video still, courtesy of the artist. Image credit: MOCA.
Patrick Staff, Weed Killer, 2017, video stills, courtesy of the artist
Debra Soshoux in Patrick Staff‘s, Weed Killer, 2017, video stills, courtesy of the artist. Image credit: MOCA.
Patrick Staff, Weed Killer, 2017, video stills, courtesy of the artist
Jamie Crewe in Weed Killer, 2017, video stills, courtesy of the artist. Image credit: MOCA.
Patrick Staff, Weed Killer, 2017, video stills, courtesy of the artist
Patrick Staff, Weed Killer, 2017, video stills, courtesy of the artist. Image credit: MOCA.