“Revising the notion of home through the transformations and upheavals of our time, “User’s Manual for an Invisible Home” traverses migrations, uprootings, the fragmentation of traditions, and the toxicity of everyday materials.”
Tag: Exhibition
truth_kissed_flesh: Romantigoth affect, enchantment and angst
“An artist-led show from a generation steeped in the digital, where technology is an ambient given rather than a topical theme.”
Client Work: Manal Kara at Pangée
“I wrote about Indiana-based artist Manal Kara’s work for their exhibition at Pangée here in Montreal.”
Client Work: Michelle Cieloszczyk
“It was a pleasure to work on the exhibition text for Michelle Cieloszczyk’s recent show ‘hairline fracture’.”
Notebook: Ghost Town
“There was something natural to me about this concept of a disembodied presence haunting the streets of NYC.”
Personal Work: Book of Shadows
“Referencing the concept of a grimoire, or witch’s book of spells, the show was based around a series of texts displayed on the gallery walls in adhesive vinyl lettering.”
Personal Work: TRIPPPLLLE PETTTALLLED FLOWWWERRRSSS
“It was two extremes at the time for me: the radical presence of performance, where I was watched and acted in real time; and then the almost completely disembodied practice as a writer.”
Exhibition Text: “Erik Lindman: Metal Paintings”
“Awareness is a feedback loop created somewhere between our faculties and the object, while the boundaries of a painting could provide a theoretical if not a literal kind of mirror.”
Fiction: “DEPT. WITHIN”
“Watching, I imagined her mind as an electrical, muscular diamond – both consummately and consumingly luminous, equally ultra-absorbent and ultra-resistant to surrounding energies.”
Poem: “Signal”
“My cigarette is imaginary, a ghost
Smooth scar where once shone a rosy gash,
glossy as the jaws of bloodthirst”