“A cool draft comes through each time a takeout order is picked up and there is always an open table for those who choose to stay. The soup of the day never changes and there is nutmeg in the meat sauce. The unevenly lit sign out front reads The [insert here] House. There is something for everyone.”
Cole Thompson
Cole Thompson is an essayist from Treaty 4 territory in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, currently residing on Treaty 6 territory and the traditional homeland of the Métis in Saskatoon. His current work and research centres on the horizon as an aesthetic and political genre. He is the Coordinating Curator for the University of Saskatchewan Art Galleries and Collections and holds an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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.
Embracing the curiosity of his audience, Sean Weisgerber’s practice explores the materiality of painting and encourages a close reading through the repetition of patterns and numbers.
Fresh off the presses!
Our spring issue celebrates and explores moments of collectivity—sharing spaces, experiences, and knowledge. The issue features writing by Christina Hajjar, Michael Peterson, Cléo Sallis-Parchet, and Cole Thompson as well as artists Diane Borsato, Sean Weisgerber, Leonard Suryajaya, and Preston Pavlis.
Cole Thompson discusses the work of Shelley Niro, Lori Blondeau, Marja Helander, and Thriza Cuthand in an attempt to showcase how Indigenous artists dissect consumer culture and its impact on contemporary ideologies, imagery, and relationships.