“Evolutions in Art Writing”: A panel on art criticism for Canadian Art’s Gallery Hop
Last week, I sat down with Sarah Milroy, Richard Rhodes and Sky Goodden for a panel discussion about the past, present and future of art writing. Organized as part of the Canadian Art Gallery Hop and the magazine's 30th year, the talk asked each of us—chosen from a...
“Flood of Rights” symposium reviewed in Journal of Visual Culture
Last fall, I was fortunate to be able to attend "The Flood of Rights," a conference in Arles, France, organized by Thomas Keenan, Suhail Malik and Tirdad Zolghadr that aimed to address "how technologies of image-capture and the channels of communication have in recent...
Yokohama Triennale reviewed for Canadian Art online
Last month, I was invited to participate in a press tour of the Yokohama Triennale and the Sapporo International Art Fair, two triennial art festivals in Japan that each meditated on local histories of development and the legacies of modernism on contemporary art....
“Photography and Self-Fashioning” workshop at the AGO
It has been a good year for seeing photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario: first, there was Associate Curator Sophie Hackett's two-part meditation on the gallery's permanent photo collection, "Light My Fire," an elegant, thoughtful and often surprising overview of...
Open Sesame Critics Forum, April 26 at LUFF
I've been thinking a lot about live or performative criticism lately: ways to try to move critical discourse away from its seemingly inevitable destination as printed or posted words, into another space that might be more fleeting, more experimental and more social....
No Looking with cheyanne turions and Annie MacDonell at SBC Gallery, Montreal, April 12
This weekend, No Looking After the Internet meets in Montreal as part of cheyanne turions's "A Problem So Big It Needs Other People," an exhibition about sovereignty as a form of negotiation at Montreal's SBC Gallery. Co-facilitated with turions and with artist Annie...
Artforum.com Critics’ Pick: “CounterIntelligence” at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
I feel particularly lucky to have been able to chat with Charles Stankievech about his "CounterIntelligence" exhibition at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, both while he was researching the project and once it was up in the space. Half research/curatorial project,...
Stephen Shore reviewed in esse
Despite my best efforts to say "no" to any writing jobs that are not my dissertation in 2013–14, there are sometimes exhibitions that still catch me off-guard and are so memorable, or perplexing, that it seems I can't not write about them. That's how it felt when I...
Ariella Azoulay, on privileged citizenship
“Breaking out of this circular relationship [where victims are always the ones pictured as victims and must demand rights in the face of their violation, and where perpetrators and the laws responsible for these violations are never directly pictured] requires that we...
Not Reading Nor Looking at Prefix ICA, Dec. 12
When I first began thinking about how to run a looking group, I had always hoped to do a session on images that were not really photographs: scenes produced by a camera, but rarely reproduced or circulated and instead largely known through textual and verbal...
One Person’s Play is Another Person’s Work
"The effects of the ‘digital revolution’ have been analysed for the most part in terms of their effects on individual consumers, rather than from the perspective of the pressures exerted on those charged with their production" (Harry Sanderson, "Human Resolution,"...
“No Looking…” in London: Harry Sanderson’s “Unified Fabric”
I'm taking No Looking After the Internet on the road this month, hosting a special edition at London's Arcadia_Missa gallery in conjunction with Harry Sanderson's "Unified Fabric" project. Part installation, part render farm, part curated exhibition, Sanderson has...