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Being Drawn In
Gillian Sze“The Hesitant Gaze”quiet night think Ekphrasis is not only to compose a text inspired by the artwork itself, but also to be carried off by the uncontainable surge of memory and affect, judgment and speculation. And so for day … Continue reading
Thinking Through Actions and Images
Lev ManovichSoftware Takes Command p. 97-98 According to Kay, the key step for him and his group was to start thinking about computers as a medium for learning, experimentation, and artistic expression which can be used not just by adults … Continue reading
Ce Sexe Que N’est Pas Un Qui Nez Pas
Nicole Brossard Picture Theory un sexe de femme c’est mathématique. Ultrasounds translated by Lucille Nelson in Nicole Brossard: Selections Beautiful liaison, to which many women are indebted for a glimpse of the possibility that their sexual parts are more numerous … Continue reading
In Imagination We Wander
Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking edited by Duncan Minshull Passing, glimpsing, everything seems accidentally but miraculously sprinkled with beauty, as if the tide of trade which deposits its burden so punctually and prosaically upon the shores of Oxford Street … Continue reading
Desideratum
Scott Ferguson Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care Critical theory must, therefore, loosen its historical attachments to power’s shifting vicissitudes and risk the embarrassments of care’s apparent guilelessness. Without this affective labor, its conceptual tools remain … Continue reading
The Ordinary Openness to the Not Ordinary
Mary Pratt obituary by Leah Sandals [concluding paragraph] “I think with my work, even things that are are ordinary are not ordinary,” Ms. Pratt said in 2015. “Because I don’t really believe that anything is ordinary — I think everything … Continue reading
Combo Credo
The evidence is common knowledge (our tastebuds proclaim it) yet this nicely balanced sentence is a welcome reminder of the encounter at the heart of the preparation of good food. Great food happens at the intersection of your ingredients and … Continue reading
Protean Position: Sitting
I admire her self-possession and her imagination and, as the poet stresses, her ability to sit very still. Here are the concluding stanzas to her portrait. We are captivated by her swift transformations. […] First she is an ancient queen … Continue reading
Time & Space: chronobiopolitics
Knowledge keeper, Kim Wheatley refers to these acknowledgements as “necessities” not “niceties”. The sign reads: The TDSB Outdoor Education Schools acknowledge the land that we are situated on is the traditional territories of the Aboriginal founding Peoples of the Great … Continue reading
Blackboy Utopia
Danez Smith in Don’t Call Us Dead creates a utopian space in which to reinvigorate the Black psyche through an artful homoerotics. He saves the body. The mind bends the body politic to imagine another place and another time beyond … Continue reading