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Dreaming Undreamt Dreams with Lara Kramer
In her 75-minute performance Eating bones and Licking bread(2020), Lara Kramer returns to a recurring dream that has periodicallyvisited her since childhood: she is standing in a long line waitingto enter a huge dome-like glass house. Soldiers filter who can get in.The dream is a thicket of nostalgia, scarcity, and otherworldliness,and basking in those—at times…
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Turning our ears to our soft pulsating bellies
Ji zoongde’eyaang (2022) was a collaboration between Lara Kramer and her mother Ida Baptiste, artist, and retired Ojibwa language teacher (Member of Berens River First Nation, Manitoba, Treaty 5). Together they created a series of bright jingle-adorned trade blankets, one of which inspired the 2024 performance by the same name: Gorgeous Tongue. The title refers…
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Birds at War
“Birds Aren’t Real” read massive billboards in Memphis and Los Angeles.On TikTok, the satirical Gen Z meta-conspiracy movement says birds aredrones. The US government has killed all the birds, replacing them withbio-replicas that spy on its citizens. The movement’s followers know thatbirds are, in fact, real. The social parody is meant to satirize a post-truth…
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Jin-me Yoon
In Untunnelling Vision (2020), a photography and video installation, viewers are immersed in an apocalyptic landscape. The Canadian Armed Forces leased some of the land of the Tsuut’ina Nation and contaminated it while conducting “war games” over a ninety-year period. This same land was later used as the backdrop for the Canadian war film Passchendaele (2008). The movie’s producer…
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Vertigo Sea et Typhoon Coming On, récits obliques d’un sublime aquatique
Un banc de méduses en suspens, des migrant·es entassé·es sur un radeau de fortune en mer tourmentée, les passagers et passagères d’un voilier solitaire qui profitent du spectacle du coucher de soleil, ce sont là trois scènes qui se juxtaposent dans Vertigo Sea (2015), une installation vidéo de l’artiste britanno-ghanéen John Akomfrah. L’œuvre de 48 minutes se déploie sur trois écrans…
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Chun Hua Catherine Dong: Choosing Resilience
Dressed in matching camo pants, t-shirt and cap, Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s face is entirely covered in deer hide she has painstakingly glued onto her face prior to the performance. Over the course of 2.5 hours, the China-born and Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal-based artist sits atop a bright yellow scaffolding, towering over the audience of the Harold J.…
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Resisting Ex-Appropriation: Artistic Remains at Time of Environmental Instability
With rapidly spreading extractive practices on a global scale, the amount of residue generated raises the question of waste management and economic externalities. Are humans, and most crucially the Earth, equipped to welcome such an exponentially increasing quantity of restants? Artworks, as inexhaustible in their readings, are congenial to this idea of irreducible remains. In this…
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J’entends ton chaud murmure à travers la brûme froide
Présentée à l’approche du solstice d’hiver, l’exposition J’entends ton chaud murmure à travers la brume froide fait la part belle à l’espace transitionnel qui se (re)crée d’un changement de saison à l’autre. Commissariée par Camille Larivée, elle se veut une exploration formelle, engagée et critique du rapport aux saisons – qui s’exprime différemment d’une communauté…
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Maryse Goudreau : Dans l’œil du Béluga
Dans l’œil du béluga est une exposition monographique de l’artiste gaspésienne Maryse Goudreau dont le commissariat est assuré par Noémie Fortin. Un souffle marin accueille les visiteurs et visiteuses à la Galerie d’art Foreman de l’Université Bishop’s : portraits de béluga, peaux de phoque au sol, images maritimes imprimées sur des toiles suspendues au plafond… impossible…
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Dans l’atelier de Ayam Yaldo
A recent graduate from Concordia University with an MFA in intermedia arts, Montréal-based artist Ayam Yaldo was on the hunt for a studio space. Adamant that her work should not permeate her home, she settled on this small yet charming studio space, which she shares with four other fine arts graduates. Upon entering her space,…