The Narrative and Repertoires of Resistance by Noor Bhangu
The Narrative and Repertoires of Resistance by Noor Bhangu These past decades, when reality and hope has become estranged for those blistering under the sun of the empire, many have found themselves turning to history to seek out narratives of resistance and survival. For Scheherazade,…
Tracing a line by Jenn Law
Tracing a line by Jenn Law “Where are we to put the limit between the body and the world, since the world is flesh?” ~Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, 1964 In many places, a rock with an unbroken line running through it…
Salvador Alanis: Blue. Orange. Yellow. Line Scapes and Landscape.
Blue. Orange. Yellow. Line Scapes and Landscape. by Salvador Alanis In a recent interview, Galia Eibenschutz recounts the challenges she faced during her training as an artist. She belongs to an unusual generation of Mexican artists who emerged in the 90s, such as Damián Ortega,…
Structures for the Expanded Plane By Emma Healey
Structures for the Expanded Plane, 2019, c-print, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist. Structures for the Expanded Plane by Emma Healy Chris Foster tells me about his favourite billboard. On a recent vacation, he and his partner, the artist Layne Hinton, were driving from…
Sylvia, from here By Tyler Bright Hilton
A Reversal of Winds, 2018, bookwork, 6″ x 7″. Image courtesy of the artist. Sylvia, from here by Tyler Bright Hilton The short-sighted cannot love mountains as the long-sighted do. Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain I Sylvia Matas and I met…
Spatial Codifications: Hannah Claus / by Dr Léuli Eshrāghi
the route that ocicak preferred (detail), Hannah Claus, 2017. Photographer: Paul Litherland. Llaser-engraving on handmade tea-stained paper, chinécollé, 2 pass screen print, japanese hole punch, copper leaf. Image courtesy of the artist. Spatial Codifications: Hannah Claus by Dr Léuli Eshrāghi Hannah Claus and I first…
A Sense of Place: Sandra Brewster at YYZ / by Canisia Lubrin
Town Girls Beneath, Sandra Brewster. Image courtesy of the artist. A Sense of Place: Sandra Brewster at YYZ by Canisia Lubrin Town Girls Beneath is a re-iteration of Sandra Brewster’s A Trace | Evidence of Time Past, her master’s thesis show composed of a jar of…
Haley Uyeda—under the veil of morning mist By Daniella Sanader
Haley Uyeda—under the veil of morning mist by Daniella Sanader March 14— Today was one of the first warm days of the year. Gray and wet, that first moment when the air seems to soften and people emerge from their homes in less layers; exposed…
Notes on Nikolai Fedorov’s ‘Philosophy of the Common Task’
Notes on Nikolai Fedorov’s ‘Philosophy of the Common Task’by Peter Bowyer YYZ Lending Library Reading Club Peter Bowyer, March 14th, 2019 I have been aware of Cosmism for a while now, as an extension of my research into some slightly overlooked aspects of visual art…
Toronto’. Trialogue by Guy Sioui Durand
Toronto ‘. Trialogue by Guy Sioui Durand Tsei8ei 8enho8en ‘ Note the apostrophe added at the end of Toronto ‘ . Linguistic symbol which indicates a cut in the sound in its name in Huron-Wendat language, it conceals a great significance. It supposes to dream….