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Clint Burnham

Clint Burnham is an art critic and professor. He teaches in the department of English at Simon Fraser University. His art writing has appeared as reviews and essays in fillip, Canadian Art, Artforum, Camera Austria, The Globe and Mail, Art Papers, Pyramid Power, and Flash Art, as well as in gallery catalogues in Rotterdam, Koln, Linz, Montreal, and Vancouver. In 2011 he curated, with Vancouver artist Lorna Brown, the Digital Natives public art project. He is currently writing a book about Slavoj Žižek and digital culture; other books include the novel Smoke Show (2005), the poetry collection The Benjamin Sonnets (2009), The Only Poetry that Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (2011); and he co-edited with Paul Budra, From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom (2012).

Features• September 8, 2015

First Nations Art and the Matter of Its Politics

By Clint Burnham

Is contemporary Aboriginal art necessarily political? Does art made by First Nations, Inuit, or Métis artists inevitably engage with such historical events and trauma…

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Reviews• May 1, 2015

The Troubling Thrill of Invernomuto’s Counter-Ritual

By Clint Burnham

Invernomuto is an Italian duo who bring an uneasy postcolonial funk to contemporary art, somehow managing to capture the over-the-top brio of, say, dub…

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Reviews• February 9, 2015

Luc Tuymans Dares Painting to Lose

By Clint Burnham

Luc Tuymans does not shy away from controversy. For his new exhibition at David Zwirner in London, for example, one of his paintings is…

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Reviews• January 30, 2015

The Many Violences of Adel Abdessemed

By Clint Burnham

At first glance, Adel Abdessemed’s charcoal drawings of soldiers do not seem to be up to much. They are large, certainly: two meters in…

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Reviews• December 15, 2014

Tadej Pogačar’s Persistent Perversion of Institutional Critique

By Clint Burnham

Tadej Pogačar is a Slovenian artist who has been making work for over thirty years. For much of that period he has operated under…

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Reviews• December 4, 2014

Russian Collective Chto Delat Heads Straight at the Violence of the Contemporary

By Clint Burnham

Chto Delat is a Russian collective of artists; founded in 2003, they are one of the most respected political art groups working today. Their…

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Reviews• November 26, 2014

Looking At Us Looking At You: Looking Down on Isa Genzken

By Clint Burnham

Isa Genzken is one of the most respected German artists working today, whose brittle sculptures and shiny, glittery collages document a world of trash…

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Reviews• November 19, 2014

The Problematized Fun of Cosima von Bonin

By Clint Burnham

Cosima von Bonin is an artist who won’t let go. Her new exhibition at Vienna’s MUMOK is an explosion of stuffed animals and chicks…

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Reviews• November 10, 2014

The Dreamscapes of Vienna’s Sprawling “Century of the Bed” Series

By Clint Burnham

In last year’s cyber-romance Her, Amy Adams plays a videogame developer who is making a documentary film in her spare time. When she screens…

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Reviews• October 15, 2014

The Militant Image

By Clint Burnham

In 2003 the medieval town of Graz, in lower Austria (a region famously the birthplace of Arnold Schwarzenegger – his cardboard cutout greets you…

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