Fringe Arts
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Fringe Arts
The Dark Side of Rose-Coloured Lenses
Casting a pink hue over a modern-day Heart of Darkness, Irish photographer Richard Mosse documents the effects of armed conflict on everyday life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, unveiling violence and instability that has largely been misunderstood and insufficiently covered by Western media.
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Fringe Arts
Baby Face Killa Enters The Underworld
“Y’all want to hear some Canadian shit?” yelled DJ Izzo, the opening act for Friday night’s set at Cabaret Underworld. He was met with boos from possibly unpatriotic and restless fans that had waited since as early as 8 p.m. for the American indie rapper Freddie Gibbs.
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Fringe Arts
Spinning a New Urban Yarn
Last Wednesday morning found the VAV gallery at Concordia’s Fine Arts building in an unusual state: balls of yarn hung in the windows, couches and comfy chairs turned one corner into a living room and the walkway leading up to the entrance of the building asked in bright chalk, “Feeling Crafty?”
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Fringe Arts
What’s For Dinner? Western Imperialism
A group of 13 individuals eat dinner with a PTSD-suffering war journalist, downing shots of liquor from the Eastern Bloc, eating pie, and discussing the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. Although everyone at the table is part of a play, only one of them is an actor—in this production, to spectate is to participate. While Rats Eat Pie fully immerses its cast-audience hybrid in the fallout of what has moved from the tragic to the historical.
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Fringe Arts
Changing the Conventions of Techno
The new electro-art platform Human Pause is throwing its official launch party on Oct. 24, marking its debut in the Montreal music scene.
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Fringe Arts
Leaving the Working Class Life for Rock ‘n’ Roll
Indie rock band The Glorious Sons have dropped a new album, The Union, an acknowledgment of the members’ labour-intensive jobs before the band’s formation.
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Fringe Arts
A Language of Light and Liquid
Montreal’s Society for Arts and Technology is launching Miscible, a mix of audiovisual performance and interactive experience in telepresence, presented by Manuel Chantre on Oct. 16.
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Fringe Arts
What Is Photography When Everyone’s a Photographer?
Today, we can all claim to be photographers. With the proliferation of digital cameras, cellphones and the ability of photographic devices to technologically enhance images, we all possess the means to produce quality photos with just one click.
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Fringe Arts
Creating Art with DNA
What began as exposing a tiny hair trapped in an artwork’s display case shifted into an artist collecting bits of DNA around the city and creating sculptural portraits of individuals who had left their traces behind in public spaces.
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Fringe Arts
Feminism for Young Men: A Bite-Sized Introduction
Feminism for Bros is a short web series that deals with consent, harassment and the expectations of masculinity in our culture.