Just a note to officially launch the tinygrants website! I’m pretty pumped about this project, and I can’t wait to hear some feedback from friends and strangers alike. A few things: 1. Subscribe for email updates. I will send information about the projects that receive funding, as well as monthly updates about the status of [...]
This year, for the second year in a row, I am choosing TPFF over TIFF. There isn’t any particular reason why I began this tradition, except that last year, $50 got me into 10 TPFF screenings and it seemed like an incredible deal for festival action. I wasn’t sure what the quality of the festival [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The recent proliferation of university-level curatorial programs inspires Gabrielle Moser to interrogate the necessity of curatorial training in the latest issue of C Magazine. Although Moser dedicates most of her essay to graduate-level programs, I thought I’d post some of my thoughts as an undergraduate student of OCAD’s Criticism and Curatorial Practice (CRCP) program. Here [...]
I don’t claim to have a deep understanding of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, or of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, but in reading The Social Contract I came upon a passage whose startling prescience speaks to the injustice of land stolen by states: Is it enough to put one’s feet on a piece of common land in [...]
