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Located Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
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Latest Blog Posts
- The insecurity show on Dec 14, 2008 in All posts Review
This is timid and academic. Put together by the kind of curators who like art but don’t like artists. You know, dour conceptual art, preferably writing on plywood and requiring a handbook to understand. At Centre Pompidou in Paris, during the c.
- Not so important on Dec 10, 2008 in All posts Art plagiarism
Swedish artist Ulf Stensson was charged last week: His popular blog “New art/Old fuck” is largely a work of plagiarism from American author Jeff Danniel’s blog “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to plagiarizing art”. Some entries are entirely tr...
- The Untouched theories on Dec 8, 2008 in All posts Art Film Review conspiracy theory
A rising star on the Mexican scene, Emperatriz Soto Jáquez, always gives the critic and the curator what the critic and the curator wants. Easy to talk about hard to describe, the text about the work is always about the text itself. The omnipresent...
- Reality shows are for the galleries on Dec 2, 2008 in All posts Art Film humane homes jail reality show
Given the outlandish turn of events that transformed “Jail is a private thing”, into an unlikely messiah of contemporary economic turmoil, I thought it might be worthwhile resurrecting the idea that preceded it. The idea was in a way a paraphrase...
- Lo Rez Tours on Nov 30, 2008 in All posts Art Film documenary Lo rez tours slum tours
Slum tourism, or “poorism,” as some call it, is catching on. From the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the townships of Johannesburg to the garbage dumps of Mexico, tourists are forsaking beaches and museums for the slums. Reality tours are what peao...
- Housing crisis resolved through art project on Nov 30, 2008 in All posts Art Private space housing crisis jail private jail solution
A basement art piece by Lars Cuzner dispassionately titled “Jail is a private thing”, overtly places a jail cell in a residential home where a family monitors and cares for an incarcerated criminal. This work has triggered the imagination of US p...
- Kool-Aid for drowning fish on Nov 28, 2008 in All posts Review
If I had a drunk aunt, Stefani Lee would be her – she would show up on Christmas and embarrass the family with tasteless jokes about artist-charter-exhibition-tourism. She is only 29 and has not yet made her mark on the international art scene, but...
