As part of a shared cultural outreach vision, KW|AG and Perimeter Institute formed a partnership to bring cutting edge visual art presentations by distinguished artists and cultural figures to Waterloo Region. Each presentation is hosted by Robert Enright, who has a distinguished career as a writer, broadcaster, and Senior Contributing Editor for Border Crossings Magazine. Professor Enright also holds the University Chair in Art Criticism and Theory in the School of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Guelph. Art Talks take place in Perimeter Institute's Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas. KW|AG Series Sponsor: Sun Life Financial Janine Antoni | May 13, 2009 at 7:30 pm | 
Image Credit: Janine Antoni, Touch, 2002. Video installation 132 X 178 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
| Janine Antoni has emerged as one of the most significant artists of her generation. 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 exploration 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 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. $20/ticket, General Seating Order Tickets Online |
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Past Events This Season Shirin Neshat | January 21, 2009 at 7:30 pm |  Shirin Neshat, Women Without Men (untitled 3), 2004, C-print, 72.4 x 233.7 cm, Edition of 5 + 1 AP, Copyright Shirin Neshat, Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York. | | Shirin Neshat has emerged as one of the most important artists of her generation. She is celebrated for Women of Allah, a collection of photographs showing the faces, hands and feet of Iranian women enveloped in chadors, cradling guns and wearing lace-like filigreed script of Farsi poetry across their exposed skin. These photographs have become iconic, as have the dozen films Neshat has made since 1997, including Turbulent/Rapture, which won an international award at the Venice Biennale in 1999, and The Last Word (2003), her dramatic defense of the power of the imagination in the face of political and religious tyranny. Neshat’s art is characterized by a visual lyricism and elegant beauty that is always captivating and occasionally confusing. “My own work tends to have a very sharp knife but in a quiet way,” she explains. As part of her Perimeter Art Talk, Neshat will show scenes from her newest feature-length film which is a work-in-progress. $20/ticket |
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