Border Crossings Magazine
List of Contents
Issue No.
124
MADE and unMADE
Dec, 2012
Bordernotes
The City in Decline: Dreaming of Mickey Mouse
With the four volume Selected Writings, which began with entries in 1913 and concluded in 1940, the year of his death, Walter Benjamin was leaving notes for the future. Not just in the way that...
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Show and Tale: Ming Hon's "The Exhibitionist"
The sleep of reason brings forth monsters, as Goya warned us, and they can be a complicated brood. In Ming Hon’s compelling performance piece, called The Exhibitionist, the Winnipeg-based dancer constructs a story in which...
View MoreImpossible Architectures: Martin Golland's "The Archivist's Etagere"
Martin Golland, the Ottawa-based painter and teacher, has been keeping himself busy. In his recent show at Toronto’s Birch Libralato, titled The Archivist’s Étagère, he exhibited three large tower paintings that showed an engagement with...
View MoreShantytown redux: Karine Giboulo's "Democracy Village"
Montreal-based sculptor Karine Giboulo knows that both God and the Devil are in the details. Her most recent installation, a three-part reconstruction of a shantytown in Haiti called Democracy Village, is a world of detail,...
View MoreArtifactotems: Drawings of Ted Barker
The tense that drives the drawn world of Winnipeg artist Ted Barker is the present-past. He has set himself the task of reinventing his grandfather’s life in a wilderness that was already an invention, even...
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Headgames: Deco Dawson's "Ne crane pas sois modeste (keep a modest head)"
The opening scene of Deco Dawson’s tribute film to Jean Benoît, who was the last surrealist, is a marvelous camp spectacle, brim-filled with psycho-sexual mystery, sonorous music and enough swirling black smoke to set off...
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Space Stories: An Interview with Mike Nelson
Mike Nelson is always in a world of his own. Beginning in the early 1990s, he has been devising and constructing immersive environments of which he is the principal architect and primary storyteller. Whether dealing...
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- Layer Upon Layer of Absences: The Films of Yael Bartana
- Assertive Possibilities: Alighiero Boetti and Arte Povera
Crossovers
- Review of Seth Woodyard's "Good Work"
- Review of "A ciel ouvert: Le Nouveau pleinairisme"
- Review of Gary Spearin's "iNifiNiTi" and "PAINTING BEYOND a body of views"
- Review of Tom Ngo's "Let It It Be"
- Review of Marion Wagschal's "Works on Paper"
- Review of Taryn Simon's " A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapter I - XVII"
- Review of "Earth Art 2012"
- Review of "Foire d'art alternatif de Sudbury"
- Review of "Van Gogh: Up Close"
- Review of "Zoo"
- Review of "Sanaz Mazinani: Frames of he Visible"
- Review of "Atomic Suite: An Exhibition by Mary Kavanagh"
- Review of "Deb Thompson: Tales From the Underworld"
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