Who: Althea Thauberger
Where: 611 Yonge
Why: Vancouver-based Althea Thauberger makes provocative staged photographs, video and performances, often in collaboration with communities living in some form of seclusion. (Her project with the Canadian Forces Artists Program featured photos of oddly cheerful women soldiers in Afghanistan.) Her Nuit Blanche performance – a temporary police station where uniformed actors “arrest” and “detain” random passersby, who participate in a workshop with Thauberger and are released with “processing paperwork” – may take us back to the mean days of the G20, or her use of “period-appropriate law enforcement costumes” may indicate that she’s aiming for something more fantastic or cinematic.
