Fringe Arts
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Fringe Arts
Ariel Pink Is Way More Than You Think
“We are afraid of monsters because they are ugly.”
So goes one of Ariel Pink’s most lucid tweets. Of course, any sense of austerity is immediately blown off by a silly GIF, sitting directly under the statement, a quick clip of a lo-fi monster, awkwardly flailing about.
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Fringe ArtsA Hip-Hop Artist Turned Concordia Professor
I could hear the music getting louder as I approached the door—this was not my imagination. MF Doom’s Potholderz was playing full blast on the professor’s MacBook Pro. A short, young-looking man with a black beard, big round glasses and a toque that read “POUTINE” was bobbing his head to the music. So this was the famous “Narcicyst” my friends were raving about, the MC turned professor.
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Fringe ArtsBruins, Beers and Body Modifications
To survive being in a metal band requires serious endurance: no one knows this better than Ahren Stringer, 29-year-old bassist and vocalist for The Amity Affliction, who has simulated drowning, been lit on fire, and has remained on the open road doing nonstop touring over the last year, all in the name of the band.
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Fringe ArtsFree Punk, a New Musical Genre
Peregrine Falls is a Vancouver-based instrumental duo composed of drummer Kenton Loewen and guitarist Gordon Grdina. The musicians mix their musical backgrounds in jazz and heavy rock to create a rousing musical combination with an improvisational feel. Their unique sound is difficult to place in a single generic category, so the duo coined their own genre and called it “free punk”.
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Fringe ArtsA Roar to Shake the World’s Foundations
Prepare to be immersed in a land which you had thought to be inconceivable: a world without capitalism. This exhibition will whisk you away from the conservative grounding most of us are long-familiar with.
From Feb. 27 to March 15, Montrealers can take in Unground, a multi-dimensional, multi-channel video installation containing references to what the press release describes as “mineral understructures of the modern metropolis, financial meltdowns, thawing glaciers, archaic caves and volcanic, arctic wastelands at the border of the inhabitable world.” -
Fringe ArtsObsessive-Despondent Disorder
Red Light Winter is the story of two friends, Matt and Davis, who head to Amsterdam and end up in a love triangle with a prostitute, Christina. Matt is depressed, and following his suicide attempt, Davis arrives at their place in Amsterdam with Christina to cheer him up. Instead, the love triangle that ensues creates conflict and carries over to Manhattan when they return.
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Fringe Arts
The Heartbreaking Tale of a Cheese Stealer
How can I begin to describe The Cheese Stealer’s Handbook? The novella is everything from unique to heartbreaking and its ability to get under your skin is intense. The author uses his writing as a platform to confess every inch of his misfortunes and doesn’t hesitate to share explicit details.
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Fringe ArtsSoftening The Borders
Artist Vessna Perunovich has a lot of experience with borders. Having lived in Canada for the past 25 years, the artist fled her birthplace Yugoslavia, a country on the brink of civil war, during the 1980s. It’s fitting to say that the artist uses visual art and performance to explore her past and the world around her.
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Fringe Arts
Eagle Tears : An Insider’s Look
The revving of motorcycle engines during the 36th edition of the Harley Davidson show could not compete with the timeless rock sound of Montreal-based band Eagle Tears performing at the Bell Centre two Saturdays ago.
