I can’t write about the last performance I saw Sylvie Tourangeau do without acknowledging that I won’t really write...
Reviews
Reflections around the Commons, Care, and Justice in Art Circles
Today, a number of artists are transcending disciplinary boundaries in their work, shattering aesthetic values and...
Practicing Pain: Anouk Verviers’ Doing and Undoing
In her work, Anouk Verviers does. Moulding with her hands, body, and mind, she gives raw materials historically...
Side steps: attempts of translating
Upon entering the exhibition space at Joe Project, we find a night scene. Specifically, it is an urban night scene...
Collecting Bodies, Visualizing & Figures: A Shared Response to Looking the World in the Face
Janneke and I wrote this review collaboratively.(1) We met in the course Issues in History and Culture: Transversal...
An expansive performative practice: Fashion Fictions at the Vancouver Art Gallery
The practice of performance art touches a nerve that resonates back through history and then bounds forward, opening...
Informed by Ritual and Structured Through Repetition: A Brief Look at VIVA! Art action, 2023
VIVA! Art action, Montreal’s pre-eminent performance art biennial festival, re-emerged this past September with its...
Trevor Kiernander : The other dimensions of a roaming painting practice
Trevor Kiernander’s expansive recent solo exhibition of twenty-six paintings gave visitors an overview of his distinct...
Witness and Memories: A Refusal to Forget
I had the opportunity to attend the opening of the first Canadian solo exhibition by the internationally acclaimed...
The (re)opening of TAP Art Space, or, a review of Stat. Sig
Marx Ruiz-Wilson is a singular figure in the Montreal contemporary art scene. A scientist by trade, Ruiz-Wilson began...
Willful ambivalence in A Flower and a Thousand Paths
The collectives gathered in A Flower and a Thousand Paths explore the possibilities of becoming that emerge from...
Engaging Art with Life: General Idea at the National Gallery of Canada
That General Idea has contributed significantly to the history of art is widely acknowledged in publications and...