I first posted about Alex McLeod‘s digital dreamlands over at Posterous to plug his show at Switch Contemporary, which I unfortunately didn’t manage to see at the time. Luckily for me, McLeod’s work appears again this summer at Angell Gallery (with paintings by Michael De Feo; read my interview with De Feo here) until August [...]
This essay was written for YYZ’s exhibition of Dax Morrison’s The Willing and Able, on until Saturday, August 8, 2009. It’s a rare thing for galleries to find themselves as the subject of an artist’s exhibition. Yes, there have been plenty of artists who have staged interventions within a gallery space (Vito Acconci); some who [...]
Wooster Collective recently asked their readers, “If I gave you $50 today, with the condition that you had to spend it on ‘art’, what would you do with it?” They received immediate feedback, and though it wasn’t their intention when they asked, they decided to give $50 to the individual behind one of their favourite [...]
During the school year, I’d often complain that required courses were scheduled on either Thursday or Friday evenings between 6:30 pm and 9:30 pm. It just didn’t make sense for a curatorial program to develop a schedule that conflicted so regularly with gallery openings in the city. Unfortunately, the predicament doesn’t end with the term. [...]
By Marissa
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Posted 26 05 2009
in recommendation
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Tagged art metropole, balint zsako, dan adler, daniel barrow, divya mehra, hanne darboven, lorna mills, mocca, peter morin, replyall, shaan syed
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I haven’t written in ages! April and May turned out to be a lot busier — and a lot less saturated in art — than I expected. Although there’s a lot more to report on, I wanted to share a project that I worked on for an aesthetics class last semester. It’s called Everyone’s a [...]
As a long-time fan of Douglas Coupland, I bought both Souvenir of Canada books as soon as they were available. I read them both cover to cover but remained fairly neutral about either of them. There were parts that reminded me of the Canada I know, and other parts that felt as foreign to me [...]
Here is an essay that I wrote for a Conceptual Practices class. It could use a lot of refining but I think there are a few interesting ideas here about the body’s relationship to art. I’d be curious to hear what you think of these human/technological hybridities as mechanisms for art-making. Ray Kurzweil’s theory of [...]
In the past, art’s marriage to religion was paradoxically logical, functioning as a tool of communication and even intimidation—bullying to incite belief. But where, in the last two hundred years, when art has transcended its relationship with the church, does art fit into this niche anymore? What is left to believe in? The configuration of [...]
Hello everyone. My apologies for not posting this notice sooner, but I am in the final stretch of my third year at OCAD so posting will be spare to non-existant (most likely the latter) in the next three weeks. I’m working on two projects in particular that I will be sharing soon. The first deals [...]
Coming to Luminato this spring! I saw Robert Lepage’s The Image Mill last summer in Quebec City, and I can’t wait to make a day out of Lipsynch. Lepage does monumental like no other. From the Luminato press release: Robert Lepage’s nine-hour multimedia epic weaves together the stories of nine interconnected lives over the span [...]
