One Tank Trips: Canada’s leading contemporary art gallery The Power Plant presents Power Ball: Old/New World, Toronto’s most anticipated art party

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23 April 2014, Toronto, ON - The Power Plant, Canada’s leading contemporary

art gallery, presents Power Ball: Old/New World. On Thursday 5 June, more

than 1,500 guests will attend the city’s most anticipated annual art party, raising

vital funds for its exhibitions and public programs throughout the year.

This year’s Power Ball theme “Old/New World” pays tribute to the

revolutionary time when digital technology developed from an analogue world,

transforming everything from music, art, fashion and food. The event will

celebrate the best of the old and new world with outstanding work by local and

international artists that will surround partygoers with playful and spectacular

environments. For ticket information visit: http://bit. ly/1jbUja4.

Setting the standard as the most influential, vibrant and original contemporary

art party since its inception in 1999, Power Ball has grown to become the

gallery’s largest annual fundraiser, attracting a crowd including artists,

fashionistas, celebrities, and financers from creative industries.

“When you attend Power Ball, you join a family of gallery supporters,” says

Director of The Power Plant Gaëtane Verna. “Power Ball is the largest annual

fundraising event for The Power Plant. It is the engine that supports the

exhibitions and public programming the gallery offers all year. I thank all

sponsors of this year’s event and our invaluable co-chairs Aris Andrulakis,

Laurent Fort, Philippe Meyersohn and Georgia Scherman, who are supported

by our hard-working committee. We are truly grateful to everyone, and we look

forward to celebrating the power of the arts with you. ”

The VIP experience of the party happens exclusively between 7 and 9 PM for all

guests with a ticket to the Lounge. This early portion of the evening will feature

a private performance by award-winning British artist Naomi Kashiwagi. During

the multi-disciplinary performance entitled Gramophinca, guests will be wowed

by live gramophone glitching as Kashiwagi plays 78rpm records reappropriated

on a wind-up gramophone, demonstrating the potential to transform sounds from

one era to another.

The party begins at 9 PM and continues late into the evening with outstanding

artist projects. Rising international star Jon Rafman is an award-winning

Montréal artist who will premiere new work at Power Ball that blurs the

distinction between virtual and physical realities. Furthermore, the evening will

also feature an installation of B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Beamer), a one-night

exhibition that hosts a number of artists and their projectors; New York-based

artist duo CONFETTISYSTEM who will create a site-specific installation in line

with their extraordinary set designs; work by artist Christine Davis, who has

exhibited extensively across the globe with work that addresses the

contemporary in relation to critical junctures within modernity; and

Oli Sorenson, a multi-media and performance artist who promotes the

practices of sampling and sharing.

For more information, visit The Power Plant website and follow the discussion

on Facebook and Twitter at ThePowerPlantTO. Join the conversation using

#PowerBallTO.

TICKET INFORMATION

Thursday, 5 June, 2014

The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West at Harbourfront Centre

Lounge

7 -9 PM, the VIP experience of the party with participating artists

$300 Lounge tickets

Party

9PM – late

$150 Members of The Power Plant, $165 Non-Members

Party packages and artist packages are available

Tickets for this event are extremely limited. To purchase, visit

http://bit.ly/1jbUja4

CO-CHAIRS

Aris Andrulakis

Laurent Fort

Philippe Meyersohn

Georgia Scherman

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

BYOB

BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is a series of one-night-exhibitions initiated by

Rafaël Rozendaal and curated by various people across the globe. Each BYOB

event hosts a number of artists, who activate the space with their mobile

projections. BYOB is a celebration of the new world we live in and a glimpse of

what computing could look like in the future. Today, the internet is confined to

screens. Tomorrow, information will surround us, composing our surfaces,

defining our spaces, enmeshing itself with the ether. A moving image is never

an object, and when it is coupled with the increased flexibility of portable

projection, the realm of experience quickly expands. The first BYOB was

organized by Rafaël Rozendaal and Anne de Vries, and was held in the Bureau

Friederich projectstudio, Berlin on 20 July 2010. It has seen innumerable

incarnations in venues around the world, including at Daikanyama AIT Room,

Tokyo (2014), O’NewWall, Seoul (2013), Lightbox Studio, Moscow (2013), The

Glue Factory, Glasgow (2013), El Parche, Bogota (2013), and Riad Biba,

Marrakesh (2013).

CONFETTISYSTEM

CONFETTISYSTEM is Nicholas Andersen and Julie Ho, a duo working as artists,

stylists, and designers from their studio in Manhattan. Sharing a love of

communal celebration and craft-making, they create bespoke party décor, set

designs and jewelry. CONFETTISYSTEM transforms simple materials such as

tissue paper, cardboard, and silk into interactive objects that create a point of

focus and occupy the space between the ephemeral and the permanent,

evoking a sense of nostalgia and lighthearted fun.

CONFETTISYSTEM has created installations for fashion brands Lanvin, Lane

Crawford, Opening Ceremony, United Bamboo, and J.Crew. Their work

extends to include sets for music industry clients such as Beyoncé, Yeah Yeah

Yeahs and Beach House. In addition to decorating for private celebrations and

working as creative consultants for numerous private labels, CONFETTISYSTEM

has created custom design work for PS1/MOMA, American Ballet Theatre,

Mercedes Benz, Partners & Spade, Other Criteria, and Pop Magazine with

Gagosian Gallery. CONFETTISYSTEM’s line of jewelry and festive objects are

sold internationally through Opening Ceremony, Bergdorf Goodman, and Le

Bon Marche and the duo have been exhibited in art galleries and museums in

New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Japan, and Holland.

Christine Davis

Christine Davis (born Vancouver, 1962) lives and works in Toronto and New

York. She holds a B.F.A. from York University, Toronto, and attended the

College International de Philosophie in Paris. Davis served on the board of

directors of The Power Plant and YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, and she is a

founding editor of the international journal Public: Art/Culture/Ideas. Her work

seeks to retrieve the past through the lens of the present and establish a

dynamic where meanings from disparate historical and pedagogical moments

collide, addressing the contemporary in relation to critical junctures within

modernity. To this end, the work refutes recognizable style in favour of the

conceptual mobility of materials; from words laser etched on contact lenses to

slide dissolves onto morpho butterflies and video projected through mesh

satellite dishes.

Davis has exhibited extensively across the globe, including exhibitions at

Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal (2009), the Art Gallery of Alberta,

Edmonton (2008-2009), Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto (2006), Presentation

House Gallery, Vancouver (2005) Musée de beaux arts de Montreal (2003),

Seoul Museum of Art (2003), The Power Plant, Toronto (2000). Her work is held

in numerous collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Le Musée

d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Collection Helga de Alvear, Madrid and the

Yvon Lambert Collection Avignon.

Davis is represented by Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto.

Naomi Kashiwagi

Naomi Kashiwagi is an award-winning artist from the United Kingdom

whose practice playfully provokes the fringes of disciplines and genres, the

intersections and impacts of visual art and music upon one another and the

cyclical nature of obsolescence and technological innovation. She works

through reinvention- recycling the redundant and that of the established order

to reveal the ordinary as being inherently extraordinary.

Notable exhibitions include Innsbruck International: Festival of the Arts,

Innsbruck, Austria (2013); SOUNDWORKS, ICA, London (2012); Progress

Reports: Art in an Era of Diversity, INIVA, Rivington Place London (2010); and

The Intertwining Line: Drawing as Subversive Art, Cornerhouse, Manchester

(2008).

Jon Rafman

Jon Rafman (born Montréal, 1981) lives and works in Montréal. He received his

M.F.A. in Film, Video and New Media from the School of Art Institute of

Chicago and he also holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Literature from McGill

University. Inspired by the rich contradictions that technology presents, his

work examines the effects of digital media on individual consciousness and

social and cultural memory. Mixing irony, humour and melancholy, his work

explores the paradoxes of modernity. He has been the recipient of awards from

the Canada Council for the Arts (2012, 2008), National Film Board of Canada

(2010) and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (2008).

Rafman has exhibited extensively across the globe, including solo exhibitions at

Zach Feuer Gallery, New York (2013), Seventeen Gallery, London (2013), Future

Gallery, Berlin (2013), The Photographer’s Gallery, London (2013), and New

Museum, New York (2013). His work is held in public collections in the United

States, Italy, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Rafman is represented by Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, Seventeen Gallery,

London, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, Future Gallery, Berlin, and Galerie Antoine

Ertaskiran, Montréal.

Oli Sorenson

Oli Sorenson (born Los Angeles, 1969) lives and works in Montréal. He is a

multimedia and performance artist who is fascinated by the overabundance of

online content, which he thinks inhibits the creation of new or original work and

instead promotes the practices of sampling and sharing. Recognized as one of

the world’s top ten VJs between 2003 and 2008 by DJ Magazine (UK),

Sorenson describes his approach as that of a remix artist.

Sorenson gained international acclaim under the moniker “VJ Anyone” and

collaborated with numerous bands such as Leftfield, MIA, Bloc Party, Talvin

Singh and more, while continuing his studio production. Sorenson has

exhibited internationally, including audiovisual performances and screenings at

Quartier Des Spectacles, Montréal (2011), Pause Festival, Melbourne (2011),

British Film Institute, London (2010), Club Spoutnik, Geneva (2009),

KuenstlerHaus, Vienna (2008), Tate Britain, London (2008). His work is in

notable collections such as the Canada Arts Council, Arts Council England,

FRAC Collection in Orléans, France and the ZKM collection in Karlsruhe,

Germany.

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