Borderviews

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  The Song of the Recalcitrant Labourer

  The sculpture of Guelph-based artist Andrew Buszchak can be viewed through an altered line of poetry by noted Alberta-born poet Robert Kroetsch.

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  Curious Intersections of SciArt

  Curiosity has had a bad rap through the ages. As a proverb it is the source of feline termination, and in classical myth it blames Pandora for releasing into the world a cornucopia of evils.

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  Taking Back the Territory

  MAWA (the letters stand for “mentoring artists for women’s art”) is in its 34th year of operation and on June 1, 2018, will launch the “National Billboard Exhibition Project,” a two-month public celebration of the art of Indigenous women that will be visible across the country.

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  Cooking Knowledge

  Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Library of Babel,” Aby Warburg’s Atlas Mnemosyne project, British cookery writer Elizabeth David’s A Book of Mediterranean Food and the series of 28 instructional cookbooks published by Time-Life in the early ’80s called “The Good Cook” have two things in common.

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  The Pareidoliast

  Winnipeg musician and painter Scott Cook is a classic autodidact. A high-school dropout, he began teaching himself guitar when he was 18, eventually studying in England for six months with King Crimson founder Robert Fripp before returning to Winnipeg.

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  House Work

  The work of Sarah Anne Johnson, the Winnipeg-based photographer, videomaker and performance artist, can be viewed through the language of a Biblical narrative.

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  Air and Running Water

  In a book-form “conversation” between novelist Adam Thirwell and multimedia artist Philippe Parreno at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto in 2017, the novelist says to the artist, “I don’t want to talk about objects. I want to talk about spirits.”

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  Taking a Gander

  Ryan Gander is a British artist, filmmaker, designer and consultant to landscape firms and property developers. He has written 38 books, the most recent being “Picasso and I”, an artist book that is a collaboration with the Remai Modern Art Gallery in Saskatoon

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  Now and Then

  If Michael Snow were an animal, he’d be a cat. He has had at least nine lives: filmmaker, sculptor, painter, record producer, faux ethnomusicologist, and two kinds of jazz musician.

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  Lights, Kamias, Action

  In between the openings of the Venice Biennale and Documenta this summer, an alternative exposition opened in Quezon City, the Philippines.

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  Close Encounter of a Biographical Kind

  Chris Kraus has written her seventh book, called After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography, which Semiotext(e) will publish this month.

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  The Beautiful Dark

  Matthew Patton is half in love with uneaseful death. The Winnipeg composer and curator of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival’s recent CD/vinyl release from Constellation Records is an audial and musical journey into the art of darkness

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