Articles

Diedrick Brackens

Brackens’s ghosts turn up as lifesized silhouettes, often in pairs, reaching out for, carrying and working to heal one another across highly saturated hand-dyed threads.
“One Queer City”

Whereas Millan and Dempsey’s original project articulated queer people’s struggle to express their identity within a public space governed by restrictive heteronormative ideology, the new works face a different challenge, one rooted precisely in an apparent abundance of freedom.
Rita McKeough

These twinned (but reversed) plant/human relationships point to an ethical question: What do we owe plants that make our survival possible? “Come closer. Please help us,” whisper the roses.
Maria Hupfield

Transforming everyday objects into new assemblages, and then employing these not as simple ready-mades for contemplation but as useful, processual or ritualized extensions of herself, Hupfield gives life and vitality to the often dry, obtuse minimalism of contemporary conceptual art.
Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador
Marie-Michelle Deschamps
Walker Evans: Starting From Scratch by Svetlana Alpers

“In more ways than one, photography is closer today to literature than it is to the other graphic arts. The final moral is: let photography be ‘literary.’”
Nelson Henricks and Michael Morris
Kapwani Kiwanga

Decolonization is not simply a matter of sharing power but of dismantling the hierarchical structures that inhibit a polyvocal society while paying symbolic lip service to it.
Francisco-Fernando Granados

co-respond-dance- Version II reacted to the health crisis by reaching out towards the “other,” reinforcing communal bonds at a time when touch, sensuality and intimacy are critically constrained.
Barry Schwabsky’s PictureLibrary: Fine Focusing

Danger lives in close proximity to joy.
The Occidental Hotel by John Bentley Mays

And although it touches on many ideas and things, and is deeply pleasurable to read because of the masterful quality of Mays’s gifted language, it is finally and fundamentally a critique and satire of Western white supremacy and the attending wickedness and lunacy of that historical and current force.

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