McIntosh Gallery
January 5 - February 11, 2012
Opening reception January 19, 7:30pm

Curated by Matthew Brower and Carla Garnet

Suzy Lake’s rigorous and challenging approach to art-making has earned her recognition as a seminal figure in Canadian visual art. Over the past 40 years, she has captured the experience and expression of female identity within contemporary political, social, and media milieus. Widely regarded as a pioneer in body-based work, her photographic and performative explorations offer a powerful and nuanced investigation of embodiment, femininity, and beauty. Political Poetics showcases Lake’s most recent time-based works, framing them within the broader context of a career long exploration of embodied subjectivity.

Organized by the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and the University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC). 

The exhibition is supported in part through contributions from the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts; Partners in Art; the Ontario Arts Council; Celebrate Ontario; the Toronto Arts Council; the Canada Council, and the Delta Gamma Women’s Fraternity. With additional support from: Janal Bechthold, Jane Bunting, Gillian Fleming, Jean Griffiths, Sasha Krstic, Judith McErvel, Margaret McKelvey, Nancy Robinson, Patti Stoll, Annita Wilson and Jane Zeidler.

McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
N6A 3K7
Tel: (519) 661-3181
mcintoshgallery@uwo.ca
www.mcintoshgallery.ca

Suzy Lake: Political Poetics  was presented at University of Toronto Art Center for CONTACT 2011, May 3 - June 25.

The exhibition also travels to the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre at the University of Guelph, March 7 - April 29, 2012 | Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, August 25 - October 7, 2012 | Art Gallery of Peterborough, November 9, 2012 - January 6, 2013.

Publication:

Suzy Lake: Political Poetics
With essays by: Matthew Brower, Carla Garnet and Dot Tuer.
Catalogue of an exhibition curated by Matthew Brower and Carla Garnet and held at the University of Toronto Art Centre from April 30 – June 25, 2011.

Co-published with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and with the generous support of Partners in Art

Includes bibliographical references, pp. 68, colour plates

Price $30

The Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, presents two CONTACT exhibitions, September 30 - November 16, 2011

Through the Vanishing Point
Lewis Kaye & David Rokeby

Illuminated Manuscripts
Robert Bean

Curated by Bonnie Rubenstein

The Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris presents two multimedia exhibitions dedicated to Marshall McLuhan. Originally conceived for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto, these exhibitions celebrate this major intellectual figure of the 20th century.

In Through the Vanishing Point, Lewis Kaye and David Rokeby aurally and visually reconstruct McLuhan's presence. Working with his ideas about acoustic and visual space, the artists recreate the atmosphere of McLuhan's legendary Monday night seminars at the Coach House.

Robert Bean's Illuminated Manuscripts presents a selection of recent photographs of obsolete technologies, alongside new video works that animate 100 of McLuhan's original documents.

2011 marks the centenary of Marshall McLuhan's birth. Born July 21, 1911 in Edmonton, Alberta, McLuhan became a literary and media icon of extraordinary renown; no figure is more universally associated with the rise of media, information, and our transformation into a digital society. Every passing year, relentless changes in the world deepen our appreciation of the power and scope of his vision.

Organized by the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, McLuhan100, the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology of the Faculty of Information Coach House Institute, University of Toronto.

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Canadian Cultural Centre
5 rue de Constantine, 75005 Paris
+33 1 44 43 21 48 | fax +33 1 44 43 21 99
www.canada-culture.org