“Elaine Cameron-Weir’s material transformations reference, eschew, and play with these sticky meanings to reveal the invisible traces of power that dance around every aspect of our lives.”
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As the conversation unfolds, the two discuss alchemy, medicine, sickness, symbolism, and artmaking in a tender exchange which is both enchanting and artful.
Traces act as evidence of repression, dispersion, unlikely affinities, secret histories, kinship, and artistic lineages.
the evolving nature of solidarity in fraught moment
Expanding on a discussion that took place at Anthology Film Archives following a screening of Lily Jue Sheng’s work, Steff Huì Cí Ling examines what it means to organize as arts workers while building solidarity beyond the sector and create art with “working-class intention” in a “bourgeois context.”
Use augmented reality to expose clues in the “Celestial Throne” game show.
A chance encounter at a thrift store sparked artist Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s (QC) project ‘Shirleys’. Inspired by vintage Kodak cards used to calibrate colour and skin tone, Ortiz-Apuy challenges the illusion of neutrality in lens-based technology.
Artist and scholar Clint Enns interviews filmmaker and photographer Judah Iyunade about cinematic style and influences, following Iyunade’s recent solo exhibition “Alara” at the Centre for Cultural Arts + Practices (C’CAP) in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In Eyres’ world, the tragicomic reigns, and something is always thrillingly off.
The articles and projects in this issue stem from commissioned responses to the theme of “taste,” framed in part by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s text Distinction, which examines the relationship between taste and class.
“The material reliance of photography—and the artworld—on mining is often overlooked. Palu’s body of work is a corrective to this blind spot in photography and all camera-based image-making.”
