Articles

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  Erica Eyres: Uncanny Deconstructions

  Erica Eyres’s short films tend to hint at stories which are hard to pin down, and do so with a certain awkwardness which may arise naturally and which Eyres chooses not to edit out. She prefers to embrace an aesthetic which seems somewhat amateur and slightly off-kilter but is still visibly produced, more akin to bad TV or instructional videos than to the home products of the Internet.

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  Stitching in Time

  Today she is a painter who stitches her pictures together. But for many years, the artist Colleen Heslin was perhaps best known, around Vancouver art circles anyway, for her project space called the Crying Room, a completely self-motivated curatorial project by an emerging artist studying at Emily Carr, intent on showing other emerging artists.

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  Preying with the Angry Ghosts of Colonization

  The most horrifying of the Aurel Schmidt’s “New Gods” drawings is a demonic chimp around which radiates a gruesome halo of six white baby heads skewered on pointed sticks. Schmidt sees it as a revenge object provoked by wholesale co-opting of primitive images and the implementation of cultural slavery.

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  Floating Identity

  Alisa Henriquez admits that her relationship to collage was generated out of fear of a blank canvas. “It didn’t come from any conceptual position,” says the Michigan-based artist.

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  Feat of Clay

  All Zachari Logan’s work returns to a pair of central concerns: his own body and the ditch, a very particular feature of the prairie landscape. What he finds attractive about the ditch are the plants and grasses that grow in its in-between terrain. He sees parallels between that liminality and queer space.

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  Skating on Thin Black Ice

  Mia Feuer is more than half in love with easeful black. She is the maker of a series of large-scale sculptures that challenge us to entertain questions about the way we are consuming the environment and altering the world we live in.

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  Kim Gordon: Star Turns

  Meeka Walsh’s introductory essay to Issue 134, the all women issue.

  Kim Gordon has just published her memoir, Girl In A Band (William Morrow, Dey Street, 2015) and the opening chapter is called “The End.” After 30 years Sonic Youth, the band she co-founded with Thurston Moore, whom she married three years later, was playing its final concert in a small town outside São Paulo, Brazil, in the rain. Their marriage of 27 years had just ended. The South American tour was a final commitment, the last one to be met as Sonic Youth…

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