First edition of “No Looking After the Internet,” Jan. 28 at Gallery TPW R&D
After a brief hiatus over the holidays, I'm back at Gallery TPW's R&D space, working on some discursive programming for "Coming to Encounter," a series of events about the strategies employed by artists and curators when presenting difficult images. In keeping...
Feature on Jessica Eaton in Canadian Art magazine
This past summer, I had the pleasure of visiting with Jessica Eaton in her studio in Montreal for a feature article for Canadian Art magazine. I've been following Eaton's work for a long time, and have always been fascinated and perplexed (in a good way) by it. Her...
Last week of open curatorial studio hours at Gallery TPW R&D
Next week marks my last week of actually "residing" at TPW's R&D space in the first phase of my curatorial residency there. There are finally some things up on the wall, and audio excerpts from the "Unshowable Photographs" panel discussion playing (the full audio...
Curatorial residency continues at Gallery TPW R&D
I missed today's curatorial open studio hours (due to an unexpected and poorly timed migraine) and am very sorry if anyone came by looking for me to find an empty desk. But, I'll continue to be in the gallery next week, working on how to extend some of the questions...
Open curatorial studio at Gallery TPW R&D
As a follow up to "Unshowable Photographs," the panel discussion that launched my curatorial residency at Gallery TPW R&D space, I'll be spending the next few weeks there in an "open curatorial studio," testing out how to transform the questions that the panel...
“Coming to Encounter” at Gallery TPW R&D
It's been so quiet around here lately, I wouldn't be surprised if a few tumbleweeds had rolled through. But it's not (just) because I've retreated from the internet to try and finish my dissertation. It's also that I've been working away at a couple of...
Cindy Sherman and Keren Cytter reviewed in esse
In the just-released fall issue of esse magazine, I offer two reviews of exhibitions I saw last spring in New York and Toronto. The first was a blockbuster exhibition of the work of Cindy Sherman at the Museum of Modern Art, which was one of those shows that seemingly...
Why we have such a hard time talking about work and money
Earlier this month, I spent a few weeks in Vancouver, installing an exhibition I curated for Access Gallery, called Always Working. While I was there, I had the good fortune to be able to talk about the show, and the issues it tries to address, with some generous and...
David Horvitz’s “For One Minute”
One of my favourite projects to show the students I teach is David Horvitz's 58 Cents. Started long before the Montreal Student Protests of this year, Horvitz created an interactive artwork where anyone can help pay down his $58,000 student loan from the Sallie Mae...
“Always Working,” in more ways than one
This was about to be one of those classic "sorry I haven't posted in a while" posts, and I guess it still is in many ways: I am sorry I haven't posted in so long, but I've been busy with a couple of academic projects, and some burgeoning curatorial work that I'm...
“Chronicles of a Disappearance” and Annie MacDonell reviewed in esse
The newest issue of esse magazine, themed around "Living Things" and complete with a cover image by Montreal sculptor Valérie Blass, is on newsstands now. Not only is it beautifully designed (as always), but it includes some fascinating takes on the work of Blass,...
This Sunday at The Power Plant: Thinking about Andrea Bowers’s “The Weight of Relevance”
This Sunday, I'm pleased to be taking part in some of The Power Plant's 25th anniversary programming by speaking in their "From the Archives" series: presentations by local artists, critics and curators that look back at the gallery's programming from the past quarter...