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School’s Out For Summer and The Kids Are OK: An MFA Thesis Exhibition
Tellingly, the suggested ending to the Google search “what do curators…” is “actually do?” The Curator is a bit of a dark horse because it is a relatively new category, …
To Be A Reader
This month marks Passenger Art’s first anniversary. One year ago, we took the increasingly common step to assert ourselves on the Internets—to assume a “web presence,” as the shorthand goes. …
War Games: Micro Politics and Big Play in Contemporary Art
Entering the Alfred-Pellan room at the Maison des arts de Laval, visitors are confronted with a large mural comprising several sutured panels of rough white concrete. Contrasting with the surface’s …
Notes on Performance Art: Risk, Resilience and the Art of Starting Over
Until recently, neither of us had engaged very closely or exhibited much interest in contemporary performance art. Of course we pay due respect to the medium in the historical rearview …
“We have no history of colonialism,” and Other Great Canadian Myths: why Beat Nation is so important today
On Wednesday, October 16th, James Anaya, the UN Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, left Canada after a nine-day investigation into the conditions facing the country’s First Nations, Inuit …
Babies and Tigers and Cyborgs, oh my! Species Anxiety and Future Uncertainty in Donatella Landi’s “Les resonances sur l’image”
Walking into Italian artist Donatella Landi’s Les resonances sur l’image at Galerie UQAM is entering a synthetic environment in which species interact and contrast with one another in shared subjugation …
The September Issue: Where to Get Art and Culture in Montreal this Fall
From inside the hazy, humid bubble of summer in Montreal, September seemed almost mythical and forever in the future. But someone turned the heat off quite abruptly after Labour Day …
Another Kick(starter) at the Can: Passenger Art and the Marina Abramović Institute Discuss Legitimacy, Power and Popularity in Performance Art
Shortly after we published our review of Marina Abramović’s MAI prototype and lecture at the 2013 Luminato Festival in Toronto, we were contacted by the head of social media at …
Putting the “Cult” Back in Culture: Power and Performance in Marina Abramović’s New World Order
Unpopular as this opinion may be, we have been little impressed by the recent activities and incarnations of Marina Abramović, the much-acclaimed “Grandmother of Performance Art.” Of course, as feminists, …
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