The Tautological Reeling of Young & Giroux
“When a point becomes movement and line, it takes up time. Similarly, when a line pulls itself out into a plane. And the same…
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A Shattered Mirror: Geoffrey Farmer’s Disobedient Object in Venice
The Canadian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale has been partially destroyed. Its roof has been punctured, so it seems, by some inexplicable disaster….
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What Happened to the Anthropocene? Searching the 57th Venice Biennale for Signs of Destruction
There’s no greater risk to our species than the one posed by humankind’s impact on the environment. It’s unnerving how familiar this adage has…
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The Sadean Woman: Tricia Middleton and the Violence of Art
Tricia Middleton came late to showing in commercial galleries. In a career spanning fifteen years, her late-2014 exhibition at Jessica Bradley Gallery in Toronto…
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Bad Dream of the Bauhaus: Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s IKEA Fantasia
Entering Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s Out of This Light, Into this Shadow, his second solo exhibition at galerie antoine ertaskiran, the first thing that strikes me…
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“He Did Not Ring My Head Like a Bell”: Reviewing Geoffrey Farmer
Kathy Acker rang my head like a bell. It happened in the Spring of 1990, while she was reading out loud, a passage to…
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