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Saelan Twerdy

Saelan Twerdy is a writer, editor, and cultural worker living in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is currently the Managing Editor of RACAR, the official journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), and is pursuing an MLIS degree at McGill University.

Features, Reviews• March 17, 2022

Plague Medicine: Reading Avocado Ibuprofen in a Pandemic

By Saelan Twerdy

Over the last several years, Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Instagram comics (produced under the handle @avocado_ibuprofen) have become a minor phenomenon. Beloved among art world participants,…

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Features, Reviews• October 22, 2020

The Anxious “I”: Walter Scott’s Autofictional Universe

By Saelan Twerdy

Walter Scott faces a dilemma that has confronted many multi-disciplinary artists, especially those who work in both contemporary art and more mass-cultural fields: being…

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Features• May 29, 2020

The Internet is “Never Peaceful, Never Fair, Never Good”: An Interview with Joanne McNeil

By Saelan Twerdy

One likely constant amid the uncertain reality of lockdown is that your screen time has probably gone up. While we are unable to access…

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Reviews• January 10, 2020

After the Afterparty: Alan Belcher and Friends, in Retrospect

By Saelan Twerdy

Alan Belcher’s Friends at Downs & Ross is an afterparty. The works in the exhibition are a series of mascot-like plush sculptures sitting in…

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Features, Reviews• June 12, 2019

Free Your Mind, or Else: “Acid Communism” and Contemporary Art’s Futurism

By Saelan Twerdy

Along with the blog posts, articles, reviews, and interviews collected in K-Punk, last year’s voluminous anthology of writings by the late British cultural theorist…

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Features, Reviews• July 27, 2018

Recognition and Reckoning: Montreal’s Alternative Art Spaces at the Crossroads

By Saelan Twerdy

On a sunny weekend in June, a multigenerational crowd of artists and art enthusiasts flocked to a series of vacant storefronts and office spaces…

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Reviews• June 1, 2018

Touch, Desire, and the Trinket Box: Celia Perrin Sidarous Shifts Time

By Saelan Twerdy

Celia Perrin Sidarous’s second solo exhibition at Montreal’s Parisian Laundry was suffused with a sense of authority and sobriety that feels new in her…

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Features• January 9, 2018

“Speaking from a Wound”: Jesse Darling on Faith, Crisis, and Refusal

By Saelan Twerdy

Over the past year, I’ve had considerable difficulty maintaining my faith in art. In the short version of this introduction to an interview, I…

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Features, Reviews• November 22, 2016

Morbid Symptoms: In Search of the Post-Contemporary at the 2016 Montreal Biennial

By Saelan Twerdy

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s nauseating election victory, hard on the heels of this year’s earlier Brexit vote in the UK, it has…

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Features• August 4, 2016

Who Was Edmund Alleyn? Rediscovering a Mercurial and Untimely Talent

By Saelan Twerdy

Staging a major retrospective of Edmund Alleyn as a flagship summer show is a bold move on the part of the Musée d’art contemporain…

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