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At the Ends of the Earth: Spectral Signs and Outer Spaces in Charles...

The Soniferous Æther of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond, Film Installation (Film Still), 2012, courtesy of the artist Charles Stankievech’s visual and sound installation, The Soniferous Æther of The...

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Frieze Framed: Or, One Little Passenger Goes to Market

Sometimes circumstance dictates that a passenger travels alone and then posts her findings rather late. Two weeks ago on an unseasonably chilly day I boarded the luxury Greyhound liner and trundled off...

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Frieze Framed: Or, One Little Passenger Goes to Market

Sometimes circumstance dictates that a passenger travels alone and then posts her findings rather late. Two weeks ago on an unseasonably chilly day I boarded the luxury Greyhound liner and trundled off...

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Putting the “Cult” Back in Culture: Power and Performance in Marina...

Unpopular as this opinion may be, we have been little impressed by the recent activities and incarnations of Marina Abramović, the much-acclaimed “Grandmother of Performance Art.” Of course, as...

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Babies and Tigers and Cyborgs, oh my! Species Anxiety and Future Uncertainty...

Walking into Italian artist Donatella Landi’s Les resonances sur l’image at Galerie UQAM is entering a synthetic environment in which species interact and contrast with one another in shared...

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“We have no history of colonialism,” and Other Great Canadian Myths: why Beat...

On Wednesday, October 16th, James Anaya, the UN Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, left Canada after a nine-day investigation into the conditions facing the country’s First Nations, Inuit...

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Notes on Performance Art: Risk, Resilience and the Art of Starting Over

Until recently, neither of us had engaged very closely or exhibited much interest in contemporary performance art. Of course we pay due respect to the medium in the historical rearview as a force and...

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War Games: Micro Politics and Big Play in Contemporary Art

Entering the Alfred-Pellan room at the Maison des arts de Laval, visitors are confronted with a large mural comprising several sutured panels of rough white concrete. Contrasting with the surface’s...

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School’s Out For Summer and The Kids Are OK: An MFA Thesis Exhibition

Tellingly, the suggested ending to the Google search “what do curators…” is “actually do?” The Curator is a bit of a dark horse because it is a relatively new category, birthed at a historical moment...

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Shock and Blah: The Curious Conservatism of the Brothers Chapman

“Contrary to the popular image of the wild-eyed radical, artists are usually slow to sense and slower to respond to social currents.”[1] The Chapman brothers’ retrospective Come and See: It was a long...

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