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• Editor's Note

  This issue of Luma Quarterly looks at film, video, performance, and media art grounded in a sense of discomfort. Whether it is the abject, ejaculating cactus in Matthew Rankin’s...

• Matthew Rankin Asks “Who Owns The Twentieth Century”?

  The film is a beautiful mixture of history, satire, dedication, and deep questioning. Rankin has been absorbed in all of the aesthetic power of Winnipeg, and taken it...

• Matthew Rankin Asks “Who Owns The Twentieth Century”?

  *GC: The heart is on the sleeve in Québec. * MR: Denis Coté, Stéphane Lafleur and Robert Morin, those are great Québécois ironists. I think for the most part, everyone...

• The Monsters Are Due in Calgary: RED LETTER DAY and the Suburban Gothic

  Red Letter Day has plenty of echoes of other films, ranging from The Purge franchise (2013-ongoing) that represents a special “day” that encourages violence, to Calgary filmmaker Gary Burns’s...

• Intimacy and Distance: Mona Hatoum at the Western Front

  Hatoum’s So Much I Want to Say (1983) fragments the body through the devices of the close-up and remote viewing. The video documents a live performance at the...

• Being Artful: An Interview with Multimedia Artist Brad Necyk

  *SC: Due to these diverse mediums, you exhibit shows in a number of different contexts and gallery spaces. In Alberta alone to start 2020 you're participating in the...

• That Battle is Over, Girl: Alice Schoenberg

  I first met Schoenberg at the Alberta University of the Arts together where we both graduated in April 2019. Despite having only had one class together in our...

• 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...

• Matthew Rankin Asks “Who Owns The Twentieth Century”?

  *GC: I feel like it comes across in the film. Even the acting, everyone seems very much living in the world you created. It’s like they bought in...

• Matthew Rankin Asks “Who Owns The Twentieth Century”?

  *GC: We learn it in school, we’re taught the steps.* MR: Exactly, and to some degree it can be a source of great collective action, and emancipation, but...