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• That Battle is Over, Girl: Alice Schoenberg

  Her superwoman character appears in THIS IS A PROTEST (2018), performed in the dark and highlighted by a strong incandescent spotlight, and a projection on the back wall. The...

• Blue Corridors: VOICES - Laura Anzola

  Many histories in Voices describe trying to fit in, adjust to their new surroundings, and find acceptance when immigrating to Calgary while also being constantly othered, navigating social, geographic...

• Broken Knobs and Glass Eyes: Jan Svankmajer's ALICE

  Calgary’s Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival (GIRAF) screened Alice on November 23, 2018. A loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 literary classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Svankmajer’s film shares the...

• Carbon Capture: Experimental Strategies for Re-Presenting the Anthropocene

  Nisha Platzer and Malin Schmid’s Seed (2018) is an example of hand processing used in this way. The rough, mottled, hand-processed textures complement the close-up images of plants, water,...

• The Many Faces of NOFAC3: Documenting Calgary’s Queer Underground

  It’s a very Warholian tendency – to always be creating and “cranking out” a high volume of media projects, honing their craft as they advance. Like their other influences...

• Desolate Stillness, Infectious Creativity: Polina Teif at WRECK CITY

  After a three-year long project like Eulogy, the playfulness and camaraderie of Wreck City allowed Polina to explore the documentary format with a lighter hand and a shorter...

• If you tell yourself garbage is art, is it possible to be wrong?

  Collecting and examining what is discarded by popular culture seems like a secret key for cultural change. Maybe that is why indie culture, rare records, and unique but...

• Sue-Shane Tsomondo

  *Sue-Shane Tsomondo* is an artist, arts administrator, and occasional writer based in Mohkinstsis (also known as Calgary). Born and raised in Zimbabwe, she is interested in the stories that...

• PORTABLE CLOSETS by Kyle Alden Martens

  Every individual/collective is welcome to participate. The rules are not set in stone, but rather in the turtlenecks. With turtlenecks the players will move forward as instructed by one...

• Desolate Stillness, Infectious Creativity: Polina Teif at WRECK CITY

  Wreck City is a collective of artists and curators who organize public exhibitions in unconventional sites including pre-demolition houses, abandoned buildings, and vacant commercial spaces (https://www.wreckcity.ca/residency[https://www.wreckcity.ca/residency]). This year, the collective hosted...