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An expansive performative practice: Fashion Fictions at the Vancouver Art Gallery 

The exhibition is divided into three sections. “Aesthetic Prophesies” presents fashion that uses traditional cultural dress adapted to contemporaneous contexts and speculation; “Material Futures” features technological and scientific innovations in materials research; and “Responsible Vision”…
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L’art et la vie : General Idea au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

(Texte) Julie Oakes
Cependant, comme le chantait Bowie, General Idea « [was] saying more and meaning less » (ils disaient plus pour signifier moins, ce qui peut aussi être perçu comme meaningless, une absence de signification). Le groupe présageait l’époque actuelle, dans laquelle la popularité sur Facebook est…
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Engaging Art with Life: General Idea at the National Gallery of Canada

(Texte) Julie Oakes
General Idea, however, was, as Bowie sang, “saying more and meaning less” (which can also be read as “meaningless”). General Idea presaged the present era, in which Facebook fame is available to anyone with an understanding of algorithm, and ambitious entrepreneurs advertising their wares through…
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Erasing Space Between: Rhodnie Désir’s Performance at the Cultch Theatre

(Texte) Julie Oakes
In 2020, Désir, who lives and works in Montreal, was awarded the Grand Prix de la Danse de Montréal. Since 2017, she has been the artistic director and choreographer for RD Créations, which is “committed to respecting cultures by fostering genuine collaborations and prioritizing listening,…
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Northern Narratives

(Texte) Julie Oakes
In these probing mixes of there and here, then and now, generational and geographic differences are bridged by a practice that originated from a European tradition—drawing on paper and printmaking—introduced by James and Alma Houston, a Canadian couple who established the arts and crafts…
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Kerry James Marshall – Black in America

(Texte) Julie Oakes
During his artist talk at the University of British Columbia, Kerry James Marshall said that although he grew up knowing that he had a gift for making things, it was not his African American identity that first drove him forward but the study of art. He loved to visit museums and was especially…
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Sean Caulfield: Dead Weight Creates Another Stillness

(Texte) Julie Oakes
Simplicity underscores the installation Dead Weight. Each of the materials, paper and wood, have been allowed an individual life and dressed to advantage. Wood blocks, usually used as a secondary partner, a tool for printmaking and overshadowed by the glory of the paper print destined to be born…
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Joice M. Hall - “GWAII HAANAS – Islands and Sacred Sites”

(Texte) Julie Oakes
The late Linda Nochlin in her pivotal essay The Realist Criminal and the Abstract Law wrote: “realism implies a system of values involving close investigation of particulars, a taste for ordinary experience in a specific time, place and social context; and an art language that vividly transmits a…
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Dossiers

Called Johnson
Loosening Identity

(Texte) Julie Oakes
Experience and desire without inhibition from fetters, enables the birth of hybridity. From the Greeks for instance a new generation of gods came to be. Zeus as a swan mated with Leda and Venus was born to become the Goddess of love. But first, Zeus needed to transform and Leda had to be able to…
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From Russia with Interest

Entering Red Square just as the sun is beginning to set, the gates are slightly lower than the square so that the magnificent buildings come into view slowly. A red wall punctuated by manicured trees, a building delineated by lights, corner towers with ruby stars shining atop and in front, the…
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