Miles Greenberg: RESPAWN
Photo by Eva Roefs
@ 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
This performance is free for Luminato Members, Ontarians under 25, AGO Members and Annual Pass holders and is included in General Admission from 12 pm to 6 pm.
Free for everyone after 6 pm.
Filming Notice:
This event is being filmed. By attending this event, you acknowledge that your image and/or voice may be recorded and used by The Miles Greenberg Studio as part of a video artwork, and by the AGO, for promotional purposes and hereby release The Miles Greenberg Studio and the Art Gallery of Ontario from any liability resulting from such use.
Miles Greenberg: RESPAWN
Internationally acclaimed, Montreal-born, New York-based artist Miles Greenberg debuts a new durational performance in Walker Court.
In this day-long performance, inspired by first-person fighting video games, Greenberg wields a weapon. His opponent—an imaginary foe—is located directly behind a robot-mounted camera. On a mirrored stage littered with the silicone replicas of the artist himself, he will perform to exhaustion. The piece includes text by Canadian writer Jordan Tannahill. Visitors are encouraged to come and go as they please.
Join us for Miles Greenberg in Conversation on June 7.
Miles Greenberg (b. 1997 in Montreal, Canada) is a performance artist and sculptor. His work consists of large-scale, sensorially immersive, and site-specific environments revolving around the physical body in space. Rigorous and ritualistic in its methodology, Greenberg’s universe relies on slowness and the decay of form to heighten the audience’s sensitivities.
Greenberg has worked under the mentorship of Édouard Lock, Robert Wilson, and Marina Abramović, and has been an artist in residence at La Manutention at Palais de Tokyo (2019), and The Watermill Center Residency, NY (2017 & 2018) among others. His exhibition history includes The Southbank Centre, (London), The Louvre (Paris), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), The New Museum (New York), Pace Gallery (New York) and more. Greenberg’s work has also been included in numerous international art surveys, including the Athens Biennial, BoCA Lisbon, the Bangkok Art Biennale, and most recently, La Biennale de Venezia.
This work is co-commissioned and co-presented by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Luminato Festival Toronto.
