“I will also say the journey to this neighbourhood wasn’t easy. . . . It took a great deal of time to reach the clarity of mind needed to agree to the stipulations of living here.”
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This conversation emerges from the 2020 Allied Media Conference event, Remote Access: Witches N Glitches, organized by Kevin Gotkin, Aimi Hamraie, Yo-Yo Lin, Jerron Herman, and Ezra Benus.
Reflecting on an afternoon visiting the museums of New York City, the traditional homeland of her Lanape ancestors, Vanessa Dion Fletcher shares how colonialism shapes her relationship with public institutions as well as language, archives, and community.
A conversation between Amanda Cachia and guest-editor Carmen Papalia
The clip is eight minutes and fifty-one seconds long, whereas the event itself took approximately an hour and a half for the walkers to complete. I watched the footage fourteen times in writing this and, in doing so, extended the duration of the severely truncated clip to nearly correspond to the original length of the live event.
Playing with vulnerability and containment, Christopher Lacroix launches a jibe at stereotypical expectations of how a queer person should behave, as well as how these entrenched perceptions are manifested in everyday queering.
Edouard Beaupré is known for being one of the tallest men in recorded history. His legacy as the “Géant de Willow Bunch” has permeated Fransaskois culture and the French immersion curriculum. For a number of years, Jessie Ray Short has investigated Beaupré’s Métis lineage and in this candid conversation with Laura St. Pierre, explores why this important fact has been omitted from history.
Despite the rudimentary technology with which it was made, Osamu Sato’s “LSD: Dream Emulator” captures the atmosphere of actual dreamscapes surprisingly well—shaping its environments as though it were attempting to collage together a coherent scene from a stream of disparate memories.
Over nine years and fifty exhibitions, window Winnipeg has been a space for mentorship, collaboration, and experimentation.
Working in many forms from performance installation, music/sampling, poetry, video collage, to experimenting with artificial intelligence, Hunter creates portals: openings that collapse time and unite the past with the future to reflect divergent spaces of respite.
Centred around preparation for their upcoming exhibition at AKA Artist Run Centre in Saskatoon, artist Erika DeFreitas and curator Tarin Dehod’s ongoing conversation reflects the admiration and consideration imperative for a fruitful collaboration.