Projected Lights

Apparently (or so says my girlfriend) I am getting a new DVD in the mail from Blocks Recording Club that compiles 14 projection works that accompany or illustrate music from some of their bands:Projected Lights is a DVD of Toronto’s shadow play and projection...

Candice Breitz

I went to The Power Plant’s International Lecture Series featuring Berlin-based South African video artist Candice Breitz. I want to say that it changed my life, but that seems like a bit of an overstatement. Let’s just say that it was mind-blowingly...

Re-enactment (the curatorial theme of the year)

I went to Montreal last weekend to visit my sister and my good friend/her boyfriend who was in town, visiting from Vancouver. It was beautiful and warm out and the Raptors were still in the playoffs for a while, so there was lots to do that wasn’t art, but we...

Interweb art debates

It looks like April is going to be a one or two post kind of month. Blame end of term and Costa Rica, where I just spent the past ten days reading novels on a porch or beach and searching for wild animals in the jungle (we saw massive sea turtles lay their eggs in the...

Everytime I See Your Picture I Cry

On Thursday, I am going to the first screening of the premiere of Daniel Barrow’s latest performance/manual animation, Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry.I have been excited about this/waiting for it with anticipation since I found out about it last September ....