Digifest at Harbourfront Centre


Exhibition WORLD PROCESSOR Ingo Günther, Artist, Germany/USA This exhibition is a selection representing the photographic counterpart to the ongoing sculptural/installation project that Günther started in 1988. It has grown to more than 300 diversely themed illuminated thematic globes that address global issues. The resulting imagery offers a wide audience immediate, palatable, and synoptic access to otherwise abstract data and reveals the often harsh constituents of our planetary conditions. www.worldprocessor.com This installment of images of World Processor is supported by the Goethe Institute.

Performance HATCH: emerging performance projects WEATHERING ARCHITECTURE Filiz Klassen, Associate Professor, Ryerson University, Toronto Creative Team: Chris Aimone (prototype designer), Dan Browne (film maker), Chad Dembski (performer), Dan Goldman (sound composer), Brendan Healy (dramaturge and staging consultant), Laird Macdonald (lighting/stage designer). Architecture is the protagonist in this performance that brings theatre, film, art and design together within the context of Toronto’s built spaces and natural/urban environment. Sound, video projections and spoken word all reside within the context of a play that captures the interaction between architectural creations, people and the atmospheric conditions that surround them. Funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Research/Creation Grant Presented as part of digifest 2008 and HATCH at Harbourfront Centre.
*Other Showtimes included with digifest Pass: Saturday, March 29 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, March 30 at 2:30 pm (one performance per digifest pass) Filiz Klassen Biography

Performance VIVA EL MALECON! Rebecca Belmore, Artist, Vancouver A new performance by artist Rebecca Belmore, Viva El Malecón, celebrates the famed seawall that protects the city of Havana and its ability to withstand and confront the powerful waves that come crashing in from the north. www.rebeccabelmore.com Rebecca Belmore Biography

Performance Dinner THE WEDDING REHEARSAL ATSA (Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable), Pierre Allard and Annie Roy, Montreal * SOLD OUT* The Theatre Centre and ATSA, as part of Digifest, invite you to an intimate project performance-dinner. This meal will mark the beginning of a series of community brainstorm sessions leading to the creation of the group's next large-scale Toronto project entitled The Wedding. ATSA's The Wedding Rehearsal is presented by the Theatre Centre in partnership with Harbourfront Centre and digifest 2008. ATSA’s past works include: États d'Urgences <http://www.atsa.qc.ca/pages/stateofemergency2004.asp> 2007 [State of emergency], an urban refugee camp in the heart of downtown Montreal, a recurring intervention since 1998. Parc industriel <http://www.atsa.qc.ca/pages/industrialpark.asp> (2001) [Industrial Park], an imitation archaeological site made of discarded objects, provoking thought on society’s over-consumption. Walls of Fire <http://www.atsa.qc.ca/pages/wallsoffire.asp> (2002), a blazing and irreverent evening and walking tour exploring the history of Saint-Laurent Boulevard (“The Main”) through its fires. Attention: Zone Épineuse <http://www.atsa.qc.ca/pages/warningpricklyzone.asp> [Warning: Prickly Zone] (Oct. 2002), an intervention on Mount Royal about the precariousness of our ecological heritage. Attentat#! <http://www.atsa.qc.ca/pages/attack.asp> [/Attack#!] series (nos.1 to 10) against the manufacture of ultra-polluting vehicles for mass consumption. www.atsa.qc.ca ATSA Biography

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