KW|AG in the Community

KW|AG staff members are invited to speak in the community for various events, including spOtlight - a weekend festival of free arts events, and the Open Ears Festival. If you would like to request an arts professional from the Gallery to speak at your upcoming event, contact (519) 579-5860 ext. 222. 

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Director's Circle and Curator's Circle Artist Talks and Special Evenings

Director's Circle and Curator's Circle members are invited to special evenings featuring artist talks with exhibiting artists throughout the year. Information on upcoming events will be provided to members through e and print communications.

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Past Presentations & Speakers

Artist Talk: June 29, 2010

Stefan Rose - "Grand River / River Grand: Chronicles and Conversations"
Artist-in-Residence at the City of Kitchener
Free admission; everyone is welcome.

What part does the Grand River play in the imagination of today's residents of Kitchener, and how can sense of place translate into artwork?  Join photographer Stefan Rose for an evening talk about his creative process, and how conversations with residents and engagement with the landscape can reveal grander artistic insights, using large-format photographs and poems.  Rose will describe how temporality, psychogeography, seriality, and beauty coincide in his artwork, in relation to his ongoing project Grand River: Grand Conversations, and in context with the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery's ongoing series River Grand Chronicles, this year featuring the art of Gwen McGregor.  This is the second in a series of public talks by City of Kitchener's 2010 Artist-In-Residence, Stefan Rose. Pre-registration is encouraged.

 

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Art Talk with Janine Antoni

Sun Life Financial Art Talks at Perimeter Institute:
May 13, 2010 

Art Talk with Janine Antoni
Co-presented by:
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Hosted by:
Robert Enright

View the Exhibitions Photo Gallery
for images of Janine Antoni's work.
 

Perimeter Institute's Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas
31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo

New! Read Janine Antoni: The Physics of Art and Life in Canadian Art >

Janine Antoni, Mortar and Pestle, 1999. C-print, 48 X 48 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.

In 2005, KW|AG and Perimeter Institute formed a partnership to bring cutting edge visual art presentations by distinguished artists and cultural figures to Waterloo Region. The commitment to the world of ideas shared by both institutions and the desire to see art as part of the constellation of contemporary discussion was the basis for this new partnership. Each presentation is hosted by Robert Enright in a lecture and interview format. Enright has a distinguished career as a writer, broadcaster, and Editor-at-Large for Border Crossings Magazine.

Janine Antoni, the American multi-media artist, will be the ninth speaker in this prestigious series.

Janine Antoni has emerged as one of the most significant sculptors and performance artists of her generation. Born in 1964 in the Bahamas, she was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and the Rhode Island School of Design, from which she graduated with an MFA in 1989. She lives and teaches in New York. Ms. Antoni is admired for a number of works from the 1990s which transformed everyday activities, like eating, sleeping and bathing, into acts and objects that conveyed a startling visual and visceral intensity. Her work Gnaw from 1992 is a sculptural installation of two massive cubes, one of lard and the other of chocolate, which bore the marks of her teeth. She subsequently reformed some of this material into sculpted candy boxes and lipstick tubes. Continuing the critique of beauty and its processes, she performed Loving Care in which she used her hair as a paint brush to paint a gallery floor with hair dye. In Lick and Lather from 1993, she fashioned self-portrait busts out of soap and chocolate, which she set on classical pedestals. "I had the idea that I would feed myself with myself and wash myself with myself" she said in an interview for Art 21. In Mortar and Pestle, she also documented what may be the most unconventional kiss in the history of art. Antoni has consistently used her own body as a source for memorable images. Her work is about nurturing and sustenance and what we need to do as humans to stay alive, physically, emotionally and psychically. What she makes us realize is that art is a necessary nutrient for all of those conditions.

Janine Antoni, Touch, 2002. Video installation, 9.37 minute loop. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.

About Janine Antoni
Janine Antoni has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, S.I.T.E. Santa Fe, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, The Reina Sofia, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She is represented in New York by the Luhring Augustine Gallery.

Artists who been a part of our Perimeter Institute Art Talk series include:

• Edward Burtynsky
• Eric Fischl
• Rebecca Belmore
• Jim Dine
• Guy Maddin
• Ann Hamilton
• Stan Douglas
• Shirin Neshat

KW|AG Series Sponsor:

 

 

 

 

Learn more about Artist Talks at KW|AG.