Border Crossings Magazine

Behind our Eyelids, Dreaming

Meeka Walsh

Carefully remembered and recounted dreams interest me not at all. Accretions of detail are suspect and qualify the telling as pedestrian fiction; don’t tell me yours and I won’t bother you with mine. But the...

Ampersanders

Winnipeg’s Michael Dumontier and Toronto’s Micah Lexier have much in common. The artists share a minimalist sensibility, and when it comes to books and ephemera they are both collectors. It was this characteristic that led...

A Still, Quiet and Ferocious Calm

Michael Benjamin Brown’s artist book, Winterhouses, takes the form of 61 loose pages (mostly drawings, and a few photographs and texts) contained in a box with hard cover boards. The drawings, rendered in grey tones...

The Holding Centre

In Every Direction, the first artist’s book by Sylvia Matas, is a subtle, visual meditation on time, space and sensation. Simply printed in an edition of 100 copies, black-and-white and unpaginated, the 45 drawings, photographs...

An Affordable Evolution

One day a friend showed Paul Van Kooy a catalogue that included a reproduction of a drawing by Marcel Dzama. It was an epiphany for the Torontonian, who had studied graphic design and retained a...

Father Courage: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, directed by Alison Klayman

Robert Enright

Father Courage Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, directed by Alison Klayman The opening shots of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman’s 91-minute-long documentary about China’s best-known dissident artist, are so well-chosen they reverberate throughout the film. We see...

A Constellation of Narratives: Dreaming the History of Lost Cinema

Robert Enright

A Constellation of Narratives Dreaming the History of Lost Cinema an interview with Guy Maddin Guy Maddin has embarked on the most ambitious film project of his already celebrated career. He is in the process of shooting some...

Showing Nothing, Showing Everything

Robert Enright

Showing Nothing, Showing Everything Tommy Hartung’s Search for the Sublime By Robert Enright Tommy Hartung, the video artist, animator and sculptor who lives and works in Queens, New York, admits that as a child he wanted to be...

Timekeeper, Timemaker: The Art of Julia Feyrer

Lee Henderson

Back in 2005, the Vancouver artist Julia Feyrer was keeping time as a drummer for the short-lived but internationally popular rock band They Shoot Horses Don’t They? In March of 2012, with her debut solo...

Living On: Louise Bourgeois's Dangerous Passages

Mariianne Mays Wiebe

Living On Louise Bourgeois’s Dangerous Passages by Mariianne Mays Wiebe Freud has written nothing on women – In a moment of strain I call maman maman –Louise Bourgeois, November 1, 1954, in The Return of the Repressed: Psychoanalytic Writings, Volume II....

Shouting at the Silents:The Cine-Dreams of Delmore Schwartz

Jonah Corne

Shouting at the Silents The Cine-Dreams of Delmore Schwartz by Jonah Corne I looked toward the movie, the common dream, The he and she in close-ups, nearer than life, And I accepted such things as they seem, The easy poise, the...

Dark Utopias: The Dream Life of New Cinema

Daniel Baird

Dark Utopias The Dream Life of New Cinema by Daniel Baird There are several dreams that I have had for the greater part of my adult life. They are not specific dreams or nightmares repeated over and over...

5 Poems

John Wall Barger

Lynne Cohen

Daniel Baird

"Oh Canada"

JJ Kegan McFadden

Cindy Sherman

MJ Thompson

Karina Kraenzle

Peta Halkes

Francesca Woodman

Anna Kovler

"Paper Doll"

Joan Borsa

Valérie Blass, Wangechi Mutu, Ghada Amer

Sarah Milroy

Luke Painter

Krystina Mierins

Pieter Hugo

Robert Kotyk

Stephen Hutchings

Alsion Gillmor

"Beat Nation"

Robin Laurence

Gordon Peterson

Sky Glabush

Keren Citter

Earl Miller

Zin Taylor

Saelan Twerdy

The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978

Cliff Eyland

"dOCUMENTA (13)"

Rosemary Heather

Enn Erisalu

Robin Laurence

Douglas Bentham

Ron Shuebrook

Roger Fenton and the Fate of Images: A Journey and a Journal

Arni Haraldsson

Roger Fenton and the Fate of Images A Journey and A Journal by Arni Haraldsson The dated entries that follow are excerpted from a journal I kept last summer when I travelled to Crimea in Ukraine in order...