The Power Plant Presents: Interactive Performance by Lee Walton

Marking the end of an incredible summer to remember, when more than 15,000 visitors have enjoyed FREE gallery admission thanks to the Hal Jackman Foundation and NOW Magazine, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre is thrilled to announce a new interactive performance by exhibiting artist Lee Walton.

In tandem with The Power Plant’s blockbuster summer exhibition, ‘Not Quite How I Remember It,’ participating artist Lee Walton choreographs the everyday actions of dozens of participants on The Power Plant’s lakefront terrace for LIVE on Labour Day, Monday, September 1.

Sometimes described as an 'experientalist,' Walton creates projects that aim to forge new relationships and experiences. For his project in ‘Not Quite How I Remember It,’ Walton led the gallery Animateurs through the area surrounding The Power Plant performing a series of improvised actions. Visitors to the exhibition who wanted to know about the artist’s project had to ask an Animateur to relate their memories and experience of this performance.

For his LIVE performance at The Power Plant, Walton will enlist the help of participants to create an improvised and practically invisible experience on the waterfront. For the duration of each 30-minute performance, participating performers will seamlessly blend themselves in with the real characters of Harbourfront Centre. Playing out simple everyday activities such as sipping coffee, stopping to look at the boats, or zipping up a sweatshirt, the actors will challenge the audience’s perceptions of who is performing and who is not. Non-participating passersby will also appear suspect until the orchestrated actors reveal themselves to the audience through identical loops of repetitive action.

This LIVE event is held at The Power Plant, Harbourfront Centre, 231 Queens Quay West, on Labour Day, Monday, September 1, at 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Admission to the event is FREE and open to the public.

To participate in this performance as an actor or recruiter, please contact the artist immediately. All you need to do is be yourself!
Sign up to participate at www.leewalton.com/contact/index.html

LIVE is presented in conjunction with ‘Not Quite How I Remember It,’ the first major exhibition curated by Helena Reckitt, Senior Curator of Programs. Featuring a Canadian and international roster of artists, the exhibition explores how the past haunts the present and showcases contemporary artistic approaches to forms of historical re-enactment and reconstruction. While building on tactics of montage, remixing, and sampling, artists depart from the cool appropriation tactics of postmodernists. Instead, they take a decidedly time and labour-intensive attitude to remaking and restaging.