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Blackity: Constellations of Black Canadian Art
Walking through the stacks at Artexte, in the heart of downtown Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles, we come to a small dark nook where two documentary videos play on monitors. In one thirty-two-minute film from 1994, curator Andrea Fatona and media […]
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Observing the Changing Same: MOCA Toronto’s GTA21 Triennial
At the steps of the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto entrance sits a large wooden game board. On its surface are more than a hundred black painted wooden tops that visitors are invited to try their hand at spinning. Upon […]
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Reframing Natural History at the MAC LAU
In the foothills of the Laurentians, one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world, in the town of Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (MAC LAU) regularly presents some of the most enticing programming in the province. […]
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Becoming Better Future Ancestors: The BAU’s “Functioning Circuits” at Mercer Union
Rejecting the Modernist ideal of separating art and life, Pop artists of the 1960s looked to advertisements and other forms of popular culture for inspiration. Among their source materials was the billboard, a medium with the power to transform the […]
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QUADrature: A Piece for Many Players
One impact of the closure of cultural institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been the reinvention of virtual events and exhibitions. Some curators were already adept at producing online content, but most were taken by surprise when programming had […]
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An Artistic Examination of Medical Records: A Critic of Biopower in the Work of Salima Punjani and Carolyn Lazard
Medical imagery and medical records, far from being disinterested documents, are the dehumanizing and violent artefacts of medical objectification. These records contain only the point of view of doctors and are devoid of the voice of the person to whom […]
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