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Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation
Canadian documentarian and artist Lynne Fernie’s21seventeen-minute Apples and Oranges(2003)is the longest of the five films I have selected and was created with a children’s audience in mind. As noted in the synopsis,...
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Our Message to You
Hong Kong, an urban jungle. The city hosts 7.4 million people on a territory of 1104 square kilometres, one of the most densely populated cities in the...
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Our Message to You
Originally a sparsely populated farming and fishing village, Hong Kong became a British colony by the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The city gradually developed...
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Kate Barry
*Kate Barry* has performed and exhibited in galleries and festivals throughout Canada and internationally, including the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Open Space (Victoria), 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art (Toronto),...
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Editor's Note
Katarzyna Kozyra’s The Rite of Spring (1999-2002) is a seven-channel video installation in which a group of older bodies, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, dance to Igor Stravinsky’s ballet of the same title. As the...
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Editor's Note
The second video art installation that has been replaying in my mind like a loop in a black box gallery is Steve McQueen’s Deadpan from 1997. McQueen recreates...
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
The idea for a new screen began in 2014 when a City of Vancouver public art consultant approached three artist-run centers in Mount Pleasant: grunt gallery, The Western...
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
Vancouver artist Paul Wong, created six short 10-second videos titled, CHINESE ONLY Television Bumpers. These brightly colored digital graphics are written specifically in Chinese characters. The characters, “Chinese Only” are overlaid...
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
As Steyerl reminds us, to participate in image culture means to take part in its violent history, a history that is often re-created through 21st century technology without question. Wong...
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
In Amanda Strong’s work the idea of place is explored through a six-minute, stop-motion animation titled Ghosts. It’s a story about the plight of the wolf and the caribou that...