Articles
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A Moral Place in the World
Incredulous, exhausted by disbelief I, among others, find myself speechless in this time when the necessity for speech is urgent. - Meeka Walsh
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Studio Worker
William Basinski, the Los Angeles-based experimental electronic composer will be one of the Guest Composers at the 2017 Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival in January. He will perform The Deluge and will participate in the 12 Hour Drone Festival. William Basinski spoke to Border Crossings in November, 2016 for the Borderview section of the magazine. What follows is an extended version of that conversation.
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The Voice of Moving Meditation
“I don’t think utterance was just grunting, but a very nuanced set of sounds. I think music goes deeper than language. That is why I have had the privilege to do my music all over the world, because people don’t have to go through the filter of language to understand the music or respond to it emotionally.” — Meredith Monk
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Breath Taker
From the time her father took her to see the John Carpenter movie The Thing, 1982, when she was nine years old, her imagination has been captivated by films that are most entertaining when they are most anxiety-provoking…
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The Natural Entropy of Things
Stephen Waddell’s book Hunt and Gather, published in 2011 by Steidl in Germany, is descriptive, by title, of his process and intention. It isn’t anthropological in referring to stages in the development of homo sapiens, making our way; it describes instead Waddell’s preference, pursuit and methodology…
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Nostalgia for the Present, Max Blecher
“Staring at a fixed point on the wall, I occasionally have the feeling that I no longer know who or where I am. At such times, I experience the loss of my identity from a distance: I feel for a moment that I have become a complete stranger, this abstract personage and my real self vying for authenticity with equal strength.” —Max Blecher
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The Portable Robert Frank
Truth is Frank’s nemesis; he admits to a fear of telling it at the same time that he recognizes, “somewhere the fearful truth seems to endure.” —Robert Enright
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Ear Full
William Basinski, the Los Angeles-based experimental electronic composer, will be one of the guest composers at the 2017 New Music Festival. He will perform The Deluge, 2015, and will participate in the 12-Hour Drone Festival…
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The Democratizer
Vancouver-based photographer, videographer and bookmaker Ho Tam is committed to the idea of a picture democracy. In his recent exhibition at Winnipeg’s Platform Centre for Photographic Art, he brought along only a quarter of the 400 images he had taken for a series called “Posers”…
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Stoke Signals
If you were a regular gallery-goer and had wandered into the limestone-clad entrance to the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Eckhardt Hall on the evening of November 18, you would have thought you had entered the wrong building…
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The Stone Snake
Louis Bakó has been a presence in the Winnipeg art scene for 50 years. His family emigrated to Winnipeg in 1957, fleeing the revolution in Hungary. As a child, he had been interested in art and that dedication continued into his adult life…
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The Intimate Idealogue
“It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”
—John Berger
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