Saelan Twerdy

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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.

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Contributions

Guest: Podcast S1 E1, "The Venice Biennale"
Faculty member: Momus Residencies & Fellowships
Author: Contributing to Momus since October 2014

Writing (20)

Features, Reviews March 17, 2022 Saelan Twerdy

Plague Medicine: Reading Avocado Ibuprofen in a Pandemic

Features, Reviews October 22, 2020 Saelan Twerdy

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

Features May 29, 2020 Saelan Twerdy

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

Reviews January 10, 2020 Saelan Twerdy

After the Afterparty: Alan Belcher and Friends, in Retrospect

Features, Reviews June 12, 2019 Saelan Twerdy

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

Features, Reviews July 27, 2018 Saelan Twerdy

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

Reviews June 1, 2018 Saelan Twerdy

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

Features January 9, 2018 Saelan Twerdy

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

Podcast

Season 1 Episode 1

"The Venice Biennale"
Andrew Berardini, Kimberlee Córdova, Saelan Twerdy, Catherine G. Wagley, Alison Hugill, Mitch Speed

Residencies & Fellowships

Momus Emerging Critics Residency 2020

Residency

August 3–28, 2020

With faculty members Rahel Aima, Osei Bonsu, Daisy Desrosiers, Tammer El-Sheikh, Sky Goodden, Nora N. Khan, Mark Mann, Tausif Noor, James Oscar, Aliya Pabani, Andy Patton, Saelan Twerdy, and Lauren Wetmore.