AGOEX-1917
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Conceptual
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1978-09-30 - 1978-11-12
AGOEX-1118
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Conceptual
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1966-06-11 - 1966-07-17
http://viaf.org/viaf/159397882
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Corporate body
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1989-
Pleasure Dome (active 1989– ), also operating as Artists Film Exhibition Group (Ontario), is an exhibitor of experimental and independent motion pictures and video recordings in Toronto, administered by an artistic collective. The original collective, comprising Jonathan Pollard, Barbara Sternberg, Gary Popovich, Phil Hoffman and Michael Hoolboom, presented its first program 22 Sept. 1989 at the Euclid Theatre in Toronto. Since then, Pleasure Dome has presented as many as 17 exhibitions per year, with works varying in length from less than 5 minutes to over an hour.
While it was in principle a requirement of the provincial government that publicly-exhibited motion pictures be approved by a board of examiners, the collective nonetheless declined to submit films and videos to the Ontario Film Review Board (previously the Ontario Censor Board) for approval as a matter of policy.
Annual membership subscriptions for Pleasure Dome events were introduced in the third season (1991–1992). Film and video exhibitions and associated lectures have been held in various locations in downtown Toronto apart from the Euclid Theatre (which closed ca. 1994), including chiefly Cinecycle, but also Latvian House, Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario and others.
AGOEX-3038
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Conceptual
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2010-06-05 - 2010-09-05
AGOEX-1154
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Conceptual
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1967-10-28 - 1967-11-14
Art Rental Exhibition.
AGOEX-0452
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Conceptual
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12/16/1938
AGOEX-2723
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Conceptual
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1996-05-08 - 1996-10-14
AGOEX-0566
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Conceptual
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1944-01-08 - 1944-01-30
AGOEX-1810
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Conceptual
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1977-08-20 - 1977-10-23
AGOEX-2777
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Conceptual
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1997-11-14 - 1998-01-04
Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, and The American Federation of Arts. Made possible with generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Additional funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. The exhibition was a project of ART ACCESS II, a program of the AFA, with major support from the Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund. Philip Morris Companies Inc. was the sponsor of the tour.
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