CHEYANNE TURIONS

Gallery TPW, in partnership with the Images Festival, is excited to welcome cheyanne turions as our 2010-2011 Curatorial Resident. Over the course of the year cheyanne will be engaged in research and programming culminating in exhibition and screening presentations at both TPW and Images.

Recently relocating from Vancouver to Toronto, cheyanne is an independent writer, programmer and curator with formal training in philosophy. Conceptualizing curation and criticism as social gestures, cheyanne's goal is to engage audiences in a discussion of the cultural, political and theoretical conditions that have informed the production artworks, thereby creating a forum for critical analysis. cheyanne is regularly reflecting on her research process and documenting her curiosities online; visit her website often.

YOU HAD TO BE THERE

Having expanded our mandate in the last few years to actively support film and video practices, Gallery TPW now delves deeper into our role as contemporary-media-practice provocateurs. Through 2009 and 2010 we are thrilled to present You Had to Be There, an intermittent series of events looking at the relation between liveness and images.

I SEE A DARKNESS

The results of a curatorial residency by Ulysses Castellanos. Castellanos brings together two of his primary interests in this unique series of programs. I SEE A DARKNESS looks at contemporary art interested in “dark” subjects such as death, violence, the occult, and evil. Simultaneously, in this age of global do-it-yourself communications, Castellanos looks at the way information technologies, for better or for worse, have shaped a generation of aesthetic and narrative practices.

DUBIOUS VIEWS

A bilingual online exhibition in which artists create alternatives to the institutional representations of place in the tourism industry, cartography, and surveillance culture. Produced by Gallery TPW for the Virtual Museum Canada with funding from Heritage Canada.