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Peggy
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Pour le laboratoire collection : Conférence L'oeuvre-collection Musée d'art de Joliette, 19 octobre 1994
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Peggy Gale de passage à Joliette | |||
Biographical notes
Born in Guyana in 1944, Peggy Gale studied art history at the University of Toronto and the Universita degli Studi (Florence, Italy), graduating from UofT with an honours B.A. in 1967. She worked at the Art Gallery of Ontario from 1967 to 1974, briefly in the audio-visual library and then as Education Officer, where she was responsible for originating and coordinating all lectures, concerts, films, performance events, etc. She was Assistant Film and Video officer at the Canada Council 1974-75, then returned to Toronto to work as Art Metropole's first Video/Film Director (1975-79). For the next two years she was Executive Director of A Space in Toronto and from 1985-87 was Special Projects Coordinator for Art Metropole.
Peggy Gale has also worked since 1974 (full-time since 1981) as an independent curator and writer/critic, on contract to institutions both in Canada and abroad. She was Canadian commissioner for the XIV Bienal lnternacional de Sao Paulo (1977) and for the XII Biennale de Paris (1982), and curator for performance works at OKanada in Berlin (Akademie der Kunste, 1982-83). She has been active as well as a speaker, lecturing on video and contemporary artists' media issues at numerous colleges and universities, as well as in panels and conferences at Graz (Austria), Rome, Barcelona, Lisbon, Tokyo, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. In 1989 she was Curator in Residence at the Western Front in Vancouver, and presented Electronic Landscapes at the National Gallery of Canada; she was also a commissioner for the Third International Video Biennale in Fukui City, Japan. She was a member of the curatorial group for the first Biennale of the Moving Image at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Madrid (1990), and co-curator (with Akihiko Morishita) of the exhibition Northern Lights at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, 1991. For TV Ontario in 1994, she was curator and on-screen host for a ten-programme series by Canadian artists, Video Art Video, in collaboration with National Gallery curator Jean Gagnon and producer Robin Cass. Later the same year she was a jury member for the 40th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, Germany.
Gale has published extensively since the mid-seventies, especially in Parachute magazine (Montreal) and Canadian Art (Toronto). She has edited three books in Art Metropole's By Artists series, among them Museums by Artists in 1983, and contributed essays to such books as Art, Artists and the Media (Graz, 1978), Performance and Multi-Disciplinarity : Post-Modernism (Montreal, 1981), Video By Artists vols. 1 and 2 (Toronto, 1976, 1986) and Video (Montreal, 1986). Her texts have appeared as well in a significant number of museum catalogues ; a collection of her essays entitled Videotexts is forthcoming from Wilfrid Laurier University Press and The Power Plant.
Peggy Gale has participated in juries and advisory committees for the Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council on numerous occasions ; she has also served two six-year terms on the Contemporary Collection committee of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Presently a contributing editor of Canadian Art magazine, Gale has been a member of the International Association of Art Critics for some years.
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