Torching the Record: notes on Montreal’s Olympic Legacy
The new McCord Stewart exhibition tells a story of the 1976 Summer Olympics in which sport is a supporting actor in the Games’ sociocultural cast.
The Problem of Pain
Numbness is antithetical to the productivity that emotional pain potentially stimulates. Rather, it is necessary to feel emotional pain in its entirety — not to induce it, but neither to detach oneself from it — in order to make it useful.
The Goddamn Weight of Dreams
In the malfunctioning cityscape, subconscious mourning is constant when technological breakdown is ever-present. A bug in the system means that there must be a line of code missing somewhere.
Mysterious Skin: in conversation with Genève-Florence
“What I’m doing is less about fashion and more about craftsmanship,” says the fashion designer Genève-Florence. “I like to do everything. But I’m trying not to exhaust myself.”
The Audience is Listening
“Preaching to the choir” means to convince a group of people who already agree with you. But beginning from a place of agreement is where significant changes can occur, even to the most recalcitrant of beliefs.
Elegantly Wasted: in conversation with Dexter Barker-Glenn
“Something is art when it’s not functional anymore,” says the multidisciplinary artist Dexter Barker-Glenn. “It’s like a tumor of wealth or something.”
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