Hi everyone, I just wanted to promote a few exciting media-art events that are being held by Pleasure Dome this summer in Toronto. More info on our website: www.pdome.org or on our social media (listed below). Cheers, Melanie Wilmink
*Wednesday May 28 - Mike Kelley Videos: Early Works & Day is Done* Co-presentation with the Art Gallery of Ontario. 6 PM Early Works 8 PM Day Is Done $12, Members $10, Students $8 @ Jackman Hall, AGO, 317 Dundas Street West American artist Mike Kelley was one of the most provocative and influential figures in contemporary art. His idiosyncratic works negotiate a charged terrain of desire, dread and sociopathology in everyday life. His video projects, often created with collaborators such as Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon and Tony Oursler, inhabit a peculiarly American landscape infused with irony and pop cultural debris. We are honoured to be presenting this two-part programme with the Art Gallery of Ontario in association with the exhibition Elevated: Contemporary Art in the AGO Tower. *June 1 - New Toronto Works 2014 Call for Submissions Deadline* Pleasure Dome is seeking short experimental film/video works, expanded cinema performances and media art installations by Toronto-based artists for the annual New Toronto Works Show. Works must be produced after January 2013 and be no longer than 15 minutes. To submit please send a weblink of the work, single page synopsis, and artist bio to: [email protected] For film or un-digitized analog video, please submit to: C/o Pleasure Dome 2466 Dundas Street West, Box 502 Toronto,ON M6P 1W9 or Drop off with Erik Martinson @ Vtape, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452 Submissions must be post-marked by June 1st. For returns, please include self-addressed envelope, or indicate other means of return. *Thursday, June 5 - Dirty Looks NYC: Three Years with Performance by Narcissister* 7:30 PM $10, $ 8 Members + Students @ Tallulah's Cabaret, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street Dirty Looks NYC, a platform for queer experimental film and video, culls from their first three years of programming. Including artists such as Tom Rubnitz, Chris E. Vargas, Charles Atlas, Jill Reiter, Michael Robinson, Luther Price, Charles Lofton, Michael Lucid, and Narcissister, it is a program of works that have shaped or defined the Dirty Looks project and queer visual culture at large. Looking back from the edge of queer futurity, Dirty Looks NYC features queer takes on Black Power, riot grrrl, maternity, and Madonna’s “Vogue,” culminating with a live performance by Narcissister! *Friday, June 6 - Narcissister and The Mask; A Workshop* Co-presentation with VideoFag 12 — 3 PM @ VideoFag, 187 Augusta Avenue $30, limited to 15 participants. Email: [email protected] to reserve. As an extension of her video screening and performance in the Dirty Looks, NYC program at Pleasure Dome, Narcissister is pleased to offer her first-ever workshop. Informed by her own practice, the workshop will investigate what it means to mask ourselves, to disguise ourselves to the point that a radical physical transformation takes place. Narcissister will initiate discussions and pose questions about what it means on personal, societal, political, and spiritual levels not only to mask ourselves, but also to de-mask ourselves. Participants are asked to bring the masks and costumes that define their alternate personae. There will be opportunities for verbal and performative expression. Participants will be photographed as their personae for an on-going photo-project. The workshop will begin with a presentation of Narcissister’s body of work. *Saturday, July 5 - A Public Conversation on Diverse Media Exhibition & Open Screening* Free 5 PM: Public Conversation 6:30 PM: BBQ 8 PM: Open Screening @ CineCycle, 129 Spadina Avenue We have recently been involved in discussions around a certain aspect of Pleasure Dome’s mission statement preamble, a piece of text which was added to our mission statement in 1993 in order to address the changing format landscapes of media art at the time. Now, 20 years later, perhaps the time has come to re-address this issue, in light of continuing changes to media art technology and practices. The preamble currently reads: Preamble #6. Pleasure Dome seeks to exhibit a balance of work from both the film and video mediums and as such, will show video up to a limit of fifty percent of our total screen time and financial resources devoted to exhibition, in each season. As such, on Saturday July 5th, 2014 at 5pm all are invited to join us at CineCycle to begin a discussion on updating the mission statement concerning a 50/50 exhibition quota of film and video. At 8 PM join us for our annual Open Screening where we invite our members and audience to present any film or video work (under 10 min.) in this non-curated screening. Bring your latest experimental work—finished or unfinished, found or stolen — to CineCycle prior to 8 PM. We screen on a first-come, first-shown basis and can accommodate most formats (Super 8, 16mm, VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray or Quicktime file on disc or flash drive). Please contact us at [email protected] if you require more information. *Saturday, July 19 - Site/Sight/Cite: The Cinema of Nancy Holt* 8:30 PM $8/ $5 Members + Students @ Outdoors at the 401 Richmond Street West Courtyard Nancy Holt’s art demonstrated a life-long quest for self-orientation in space, time, and in the relativity of perspective. Only a few years prior to her death this past January, Holt completed Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971-2011). A project spanning 40 years, this collaboration with Robert Smithson examines the ideas surrounding his final large-scale earthwork. In this rarely screened film, Holt assembles a sprawling self-reflexive account of both the earthwork and the collaborative film they were planning, materializing a world in constant flux and entropic return — where water turns to land, and land to water, culminating a career-long obsession of mapping time onto space. ___________________________ Pleasure Dome is a film and video exhibition collective dedicated to the presentation of experimental film and video by artists. Since 1989, Pleasure Dome has been committed to exhibiting local, national and international work that features shorter length and small format work, as well as non-traditional work that mixes film and video with other media such as performance and installation. We organize approximately 20 events per year in a fall/ winter/summer schedule. Pleasure Dome does not submit any of its film and video programming for prior approval by any censoring bodies. 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