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Politics play prominently at the 54th Venice Biennale
2011-10-24 10:00:00 Water is the political motif for a significant number of works and death stalks the corridors of the Venice Biennale. More About: Politics , Screen , Reviews , Features
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
2011-10-24 05:26:00 On a recent visit home I stopped to visit my Aunt. Her partner of 23 years, my other aunt, had passed away suddenly in January and it was the first time since I received the heart breaking news that I had been able to make it home. While commiserating together I learned that my aunts ...
Art as a Weapon - Eric Drooker and the persistence of the committed artist
2011-10-19 14:40:00 Eric Drooker's visual art responds to political crisis and upheaval by inspiring reflection and action. More About: Artist , Howl , Allen Ginsberg
Russian artists VOINA detained, harassed - Russian police pose as German jo
2011-10-19 04:01:00 MOSCOW — Yesterday, members of the Russian artist collective VOINA were arrested without charges by Russian police posing as German television journalists. Natalia Sokol and her two-year old son were detained overnight at a Moscow police station and later released. The same night, plainclothes agents tried to break into VOINA member Leonid Nikolayev’s apartment and ... More About: Performance , Police , Artists
Occupy Montreal & Toronto ? Videos from the Media-Coop - More videos of the
2011-10-17 00:59:00 And here are some artfully assembled videos from ‘occupy’ movements in Canada. Enjoy these, too. More media, testimony, photos and coverage can be found at the Media Coop. More About: Videos , The Media , Performance , Montreal
Occupy Wall Street on Vimeo - A selection of some recent videos of the NYC
2011-10-16 22:03:00 Three beautifully shot Occupy Wall Street videos. More About: Videos , Recent
Happy Birthday Nietzche & Foucault!
2011-10-15 09:02:00 There’s only a little to say about this – Michel Foucault was born October 15, 1926, and by weird coincidence, Friedrich Nietzsche was born on the same day 82 years earlier- October 15, 1844. Big thinkers in the canon of Dead White Men. So what, you might be asking — and what does that have ... More About: Editorial , Happy , Birthday
Ambiguous portrait of the well known Wiebo Ludwig - Friday Film Pick: Wiebo
2011-10-14 23:58:00 When we left the theatre after seeing Wiebo’s War at VIFF (The Vancouver International Film Festival) the main thing on our lips was ?that man is incredibly well spoken,? followed by “that is a seriously difficult situation”. Wiebo Ludwig is a stranger to few who live in BC and Alberta. The articulate bearded man was ... More About: Friday , Portrait , Pick
?Pipe Dreams? hits screens - U.S. documentary maker takes on the Keystone X
2011-10-14 18:00:00 American filmmaker, Leslie Iwerks, has turned her attention to Canada once again in her new film “Pipe Dreams .” In 2009, Iwerks produced two documentaries — “Downstream” and “Dirty Oil” — that were critical of the health and social impacts associated with the Alberta oil sands. This year, the Academy Award nominated director is shedding light on the environmental battle ... More About: Screen , Documentary , Maker , Hits
Art in Exile - Iranian born Shirin Nashat speaks to art as voice
2011-10-08 01:15:00 I recently came across this beautiful and moving talk by Shirin Nashat, an Iranian born artist who has lived most of her life in exile from her native country. “Art is our weapon,” she says in the talk. “Culture is a form of resistance.” Enjoy. More About: Voice
Understanding the Crash illustrates resistance to capitalism
2011-10-04 23:13:00 Graphic novel Understanding the Crash features stories of struggles against speculative economics are skillfully outlined. From the Miami housing market bubble burst that ignited housing rights struggles, to community struggles for affordable housing in Cleveland, the book etches a detailed picture of a corrupt economic system and stories on grassroots organizing for change. More About: Wall Street , Capitalism , Resistance , Et Cetera
Radiohead to Occupy Wall Street today?
2011-09-30 18:21:00 Rumor has it that Radiohead will be performing for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who are camping out in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. More About: Today , Sound
Vancouver seeks Viaduct variations - re:Connect competition looks to obtain
2011-09-30 01:18:00 It?s the site of what is arguably Vancouver ?s most notable event, a bitter battle between the Non-Partisan Association and an alliance of Strathcona activists and Chinatown business people ? the Georgia Street Viaduct. Built as a first phase of a planned interurban freeway system, this minute stretch of freeway reaches like a tree root from ... More About: Design , Competition
Heaven and Earth, VIFF?s enviro film series - Tend to your green thumb at t
2011-09-29 06:37:00 Vancouver?s largest film festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival, is set to begin today. With 300+ films showing over 16 days, and hundreds of volunteers coming together to make it happen, it?s no surprise that this time of year becomes the ?what are you seeing at VIFF?? time of year. If you?re looking to spend ... More About: Earth , Heaven , Series , Green
Althea Thauberger?s photo mural speaks of Vancouver?s darkness
2011-09-21 23:00:00 It would be nearly impossible to accuse Vancouver artist Althea Thauberger of being weak or fearful; in fact she is quite the opposite. Not only does she happily invite controversy and criticism, but she willingly flew to Kandahar, Afghanistan as a part of the Canadian War Artist program while Canada was still active at the ... More About: Photo , Performance
Haunted animals - New doc project explores animal suffering
2011-09-21 18:01:00 Liz Marshall, the director of Water on the Table, is working with photographer Jo-Anne McArthur on a new cross-platform documentary about the price animals pay as subjugated, commodified and oppressed beings in the human-controlled global industrial capitalist system. The blurb: THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE is a cinematic point-of-view documentary and an immersive educational online ... More About: Screen , Animal , Animals , Project , Suffering
3D Hitler photo album launched in Germany
2011-09-16 19:06:00 "The Face of the Dictatorship: the Third Reich in 3D" contains roughly 100 images of the dictator shot in 3D, originally used as Nazi propaganda beginning in 1936. More About: Photo , Germany , Hitler , Photo Album , Word
Art exhibit seeks to foster dialogue on 9/11 - September 11 ? Past, Present
2011-09-14 05:12:00 Curated by Andrea Arrovo, "September 11 ? Past , Present , Future" features work from 16 artists across the globe.
28 films on 9/11 and its impact on our world
2011-09-12 16:14:00 Over the past decade, filmmakers across the globe have tackled issues that have come about as a direct consequence of 9/11 and the United States' response to the attacks. More About: Screen , World , New York , Films , World Trade Center
Whistle while you wait
2011-09-12 14:59:00 Skattered throughout Vancouver, bus stop shelters have been turned from ad space to sheet music. Adorno and Nose, as the piece is called, is a collection of ten songs composed and illustrated by Barry Doupe and James Whitman. Each poster contains a different song, notated as standard sheet music, the verse, and a drawn graphic. ... More About: Whistle , Installations
The war, on found objects - Artist Profile: Anthony Freda
2010-10-27 04:57:00 Anthony Freda’s illustrations may be familiar to you. They’ve shown up in Time and The New Yorker, in the Rolling Stone and Esquire and Playboy, and more ‘serious’ publications like Business Week and The New York Times. His work at once speaks to contemporary issues of America at war, problems of patriotism, and harkens to ... More About: Artist , Profile , Objects
Beating the pro-Israel melody - John Greyson's pop music subversive "brain
2010-10-26 19:51:00 You won't be able to get some of these political tunes out of your head for a while.... More About: Screen , Music , Israel , Elton John , Sound
Drop Everything and Read Day
2010-10-25 19:17:00 Ok so, this isn’t exactly political, but I’m into it. Today is, apparently, Drop Everything and Read Day in British Columbia! At 11am put down whatever you’re doing, pick up a book or magazine or a newspaper and do some reading. Hopefully you’re here at Art Threat, reading one of the interesting things from our ... More About: Policy , Et Cetera
Curing queerness - Friday Film Pick: Cure for Love
2010-10-23 05:19:00 A documentary that looks at religion's attempt to "cure" gayness. More About: Film , Love , Friday , Pick
Enrique Chagoya makes peace with Loveland, Colorado - Agrees to depict a lo
2010-10-22 06:24:00 Last week, I posted about a woman who walked into the Loveland Museum/Gallery and destroyed a piece of artwork by Enrique Chagoya. I questioned at the end of my article whether critiques with the weight and emotional volume of Chagoya’s print ? which depicted Jesus in sexual acts (a Christian favourite) and an Islamic prophet ... More About: Peace , Colorado
We are all responsible for Omar Khadr - A Review of the documentary You Don
2010-10-21 20:43:00 A new documentary puts us in the personal space of oppression, where we can learn, understand and ultimately take inspired action. More About: Screen , Documentary , Review , Features
Chancellor Merkel comments on industrial labour in Germany - But mistakes l
2010-10-20 22:33:00 What was astonishing about your statement is that the reason workers stayed for longer periods in Germany ? that they were allowed to stay - is because German industries found it too expensive to retrain new workers. It was more efficient to keep them here! But you?re right, there was never an expectation that they would stay forever ? not on the part of government, the public, or the workers themselves. Like you said, everyone hoped they would disappear. More About: Word , Editorial , Industrial , Comments
Picturing the world - Reflections on the World Press Photo 2010 exhibition
2010-10-20 08:01:00 The 2010 World Press Photo exhibition strikes a balance between highlighting striking images of moments in the past year that captivated the world to offering more subtle photography that explores popular unknowns in societies globally. More About: Reflections , The World
Along Bayou Road traces a way of life - Photographer Michael M Khoeler look
2010-10-19 06:54:00 ?With the oil spill you realize it is so vulnerable down there, it’s a way of life but it’s a part of our life. The gulf is a part of us. I’m in New York and I can’t help but just see water around me all day, and just think about as much oil as ... More About: Life , Michael , Photographer , Road
Banksy?s Simpsons opening: a failed cultural critique?
More articles from this author:2010-10-18 05:55:00 Like pretty much everyone on Twitter Sunday night, I was excited that Banksy had done an intro for The Simpsons . Given that the show has for the last few years struggled to regain any sense of current cultural legitimacy, involving Banksy ? the noted British graffiti artist ? seemed like a legitimately cool idea, even ... More About: Screen , Reviews , Features , Opening 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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