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Mark Mann

Mark Mann is a writer and editor who specializes in longform narrative journalism. He has written feature stories for Toronto Life, The Walrus, Report on Business, Reader’s Digest, The Dance Current, Torontoist, Broadview and Maisonneuve, as well as essays about art and culture for Momus, The Toronto Star, and others. His writing about science and tech has appeared extensively on Motherboard. His essay “Lucky Strikes” won a National Magazine Award and was published in The Best Canadian Essays of 2011 by Tightrope Books; he was shortlisted again for the National Magazine Award in 2018, in the literary longform category. He has told stories on CBC Radio, Lipstick Studios podcast, and at Raconteurs events in Toronto. As a member of the art collective CCC, he creates scripts for historically-researched site-specific audio walks. Apart from his freelance work, Mark is a senior editor at Beside, the managing editor of Research Money, and a contributing editor at Momus.

Artists in Isolation Series, Features• April 24, 2020

Artists in Isolation: Instagram, Leave Us to Our Darkness

By Mark Mann

Sometime that feels pretty recent, the internet turned into an actual talent show. Social media always felt performative, and now, with TikTok ascendant and…

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Features• December 2, 2019

It’s Okay to Laugh: The Political Turn in Bridget Moser’s Prop Art

By Mark Mann

When we meet on St. Catherine Street in Montreal on a chilly Thursday afternoon in October, Bridget Moser tells me she has recently been…

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Reviews• June 19, 2018

Me For You: The Modest Directives of Ho Tam and Rainer Ganahl

By Mark Mann

Remember the “long tail”? It was the theory that digital technology would redistribute demand for cultural products, away from a few empowered hit-makers and…

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Features, Reviews• March 23, 2018

The Trouble with Occupying Others: Althea Thauberger Confronts the Violence of the Archive

By Mark Mann

Gazing out from a large photograph on the second floor of Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, Althea Thauberger wears a yellow dress, pearl earrings,…

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Reviews• February 13, 2018

Maria Hupfield Returns to the Beginning

By Mark Mann

Maria Hupfield is a Brooklyn-based artist from Wasauksing First Nation, an Anishinabek community on Parry Island, five hours north of Toronto along Georgian Bay….

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Reviews• November 14, 2017

Joseph Tisiga Unsettles Exoticism with Mythic Force at Parisian Laundry

By Mark Mann

Joseph Tisiga paints people in odd situations, and I keep wondering, how do they feel? The Yukon artist’s characters rarely show much emotion, even…

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Reviews• October 12, 2017

White Like Me: Encountering Divya Mehra’s “You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist”

By Mark Mann

It doesn’t matter what you think you know about Divya Mehra’s You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist, currently at Georgia Scherman…

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Reviews• September 6, 2017

The Five Disappearances of Tammi Campbell

By Mark Mann

One The first threatens all artists, and everyone else too: simple disregard. The viewer makes a rolling stop at each frame, not accelerating past,…

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Reviews• July 18, 2016

From a Safe Distance: Guy Maddin Stills His Lens with Collage

By Mark Mann

Guy Maddin’s latest exhibition finds the artist in a splendid mood, if preoccupied by the subtle, inescapable persistence of his loneliness. Maddin and his…

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Reviews• February 12, 2015

The Temptation of Everything in Michael Dudeck’s “Messiah Complex 5.0”

By Mark Mann

When a contemporary performance artist adopts religion in general as the theme of a work, a few things are likely to occur: the work…

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