Power Plant Gallery: These head games are contagious
Place: Toronto
Event: Peter Goddard suggests that three of the best exhibitions of 2009 are already to be found right now and in one place: The Power Plant. The event is co-presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto and curated by the German Curator Nina Möntmann.
(…) The inadequacy of language to convey conjectural futures or imaginary topographies is a leitmotiv throughout all three shows. This is not a stretch considering the prodigious amount of thinly disguised fiction and outright flim-flam at play here. It's impossible not to join in these head games. Aside from the mind-stretching diversity of the three Power Plant shows, the real kicker comes with just how prescient each is in its own way. One particular exhibition even imagines vast sums of money disappearing into mysterious off-shore accounts operated by shadowy financiers presiding over entirely fictional companies. (…) Headless's multi-layered mysteries are mirrored by those in If We Can't Get It Together, the parallel Power Plant group show curated by Stockholm-based academic/writer Nina Möntmann. It includes Eglé Budvytyte's Secta (2006), the "fictional documentary" about a sect so secret its members are unaware they belong to it. (…)
Event: Peter Goddard suggests that three of the best exhibitions of 2009 are already to be found right now and in one place: The Power Plant. The event is co-presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto and curated by the German Curator Nina Möntmann.
(…) The inadequacy of language to convey conjectural futures or imaginary topographies is a leitmotiv throughout all three shows. This is not a stretch considering the prodigious amount of thinly disguised fiction and outright flim-flam at play here. It's impossible not to join in these head games. Aside from the mind-stretching diversity of the three Power Plant shows, the real kicker comes with just how prescient each is in its own way. One particular exhibition even imagines vast sums of money disappearing into mysterious off-shore accounts operated by shadowy financiers presiding over entirely fictional companies. (…) Headless's multi-layered mysteries are mirrored by those in If We Can't Get It Together, the parallel Power Plant group show curated by Stockholm-based academic/writer Nina Möntmann. It includes Eglé Budvytyte's Secta (2006), the "fictional documentary" about a sect so secret its members are unaware they belong to it. (…)
from Peter Goddard, The Star, 17 January 2009
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