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RM Vaughan

RM Vaughan is a Canadian writer and video artist based in Berlin. He is the author of many books and contributes articles on culture to a wide variety of publications. Vaughan's short videos play in festivals and galleries across Canada and around the world.

Features• January 15, 2016

Towards the Quiet, or with Larger Amplifiers: An Interview with Berlin Performance Artist Aleks Slota

By RM Vaughan

Nothing about Aleks Slota’s elfin appearance prepares you for his performances. Small-framed and wiry, his body hardly looks bullish enough for acts of endurance…

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Features• December 18, 2015

Why Can’t We Talk About Class and Art in Canada?

By RM Vaughan

A couple of weeks ago, an old friend posted a j’accuse on social media. It was brief and blunt and perhaps even rude. They…

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Features• November 2, 2015

Why We Photograph

By RM Vaughan

For reasons good, and some of little consequence, and a few terrible, indeed shattering, I’ve been to more cities in the last year than…

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Features• September 16, 2015

A Spitting Fit of Teenage Rage: On the Increasing Impotence of Political Art

By RM Vaughan

This is not a review. In August, I went on holiday to the delightful small city of Poznan, in western Poland. One of Europe’s…

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Reviews• August 18, 2015

Nothing is Absolute: The Fairy-Winged Failure of “Absolute Beauty: Neoacademicism in Saint Petersburg”

By RM Vaughan

Absolute Beauty’s curators Ekaterina Andreeva and Andrei Khlobystin have tasked themselves with an unsolvable puzzle: how to capture, in a medium-sized exhibition with limited…

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Features• July 27, 2015

On Jurassic World’s Blockbusting Fear of Art

By RM Vaughan

It’s easy to ignore pop culture’s messages. Too easy. Popular culture delivers its ideas and manifestos with such ham-fisted, careless presentation that the first…

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Features• July 6, 2015

It’s Not Stealing If It’s Art: A Re-Primer on Image Appropriation for the Internet Generation

By RM Vaughan

… every text is from the outset under the jurisdiction of other discourses which impose a universe on it… [text operate] within the totality…

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Reviews• June 18, 2015

VSVSVS at Mercer Union: A White-Cube Compromise

By RM Vaughan

The frisky Toronto collective VSVSVS – a collective of emerging artists, most of whom are connected to Guelph University, and many of whom share…

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Reviews• May 5, 2015

Taking On “The Gaze,” and Doing Away With it, Too: Warsaw’s Elsner and Rogalski

By RM Vaughan

Whenever I am asked to fill out a form that requires a description of my eye color, I have to get up, find a…

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Features• April 7, 2015

The Alchemist: A Studio Visit with Sadie Weis

By RM Vaughan

It is often said of desks and other work spaces that their appearance mirrors the mind of the person who uses said spaces –…

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