“An artist-led show from a generation steeped in the digital, where technology is an ambient given rather than a topical theme.”
Tag: Exhibition
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”