Midnight Indigo
Air fluctuates differently at night. The city’s oscillations and its corresponding pulse appear to slow to a gentler rhythm. This is when those with acute sensitivity can rest, or feel at peace, or feel more comfortable inside their own skin.
One Weird Trick
Montreal is a tech-savvy city. But does technology make better art? Does it make our artists better? The tools artists use no doubt shape the works they create. But do modern technological advancements actually stimulate creativity?
Animal Instinct: in conversation with Dana Gingras
“There are obviously aesthetic languages that come with dance. I’ve always been interested in stripping that back. I start from a very pedestrian place: how does the body move in space?”
Heroes & Villains
In order to transcend capitalism, it is necessary to devolve to a state of persistent vagueness, for incongruity and indeterminacy to endure. We should redefine heroism not as victory but as resistance to the tendency to take form.
The Dislocation of Culture: notes on Art Speaks with Homi K. Bhabha and Glenn D. Lowry
Removing works of art from their chronological context is the equivalent of gerrymandering history.
The Mass Ornament
The criteria for cultural importance are not popularity, marketability, or influence. Import is weighed in granular increments, accumulative intuition. Mass movement is science. Stirring a single soul is magic.
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