Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsEastern Bloc’s Sight + Sound Fest Returns to its Roots
This year’s Sight + Sound explores networked art in an ultra-localized setting, while addressing financial insecurities in the art world by bringing the festival back to its roots.
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Fringe ArtsExperimenting with Catharsis
In anticipation of the series of screenings entitled David Rimmer: A Retrospective taking place at the Cinémathèque Québécoise on April 10 and April 11, The Link spoke with Mark Toscano from the Academy Film Archive, a film preservationist who worked on the restoration of Rimmer’s films.
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Fringe ArtsA Review of Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Listening directions:
Combine with 6 oz. apricot brandy, 2 oz. lemon sour, 1 vinyl LP, 2 electroacoustic transducers, 800-3500Hz, preferably vint. b/w 1973-’86, 1 sheltered room bathed in sunlight, 40mins. -
Fringe ArtsLadyCab Offers One-Way Service for Ignorance
Three women are using humour to challenge Montreal police’s offensive response to sexual assault allegations in cabs last fall.
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Fringe ArtsAntigone à la Montréalaise
Known as one of the best dramatic plays ever written, Sophocles’ Antigone captures something essential about human nature and the power of the state. Although it was written as early as 441 BC, Sophocles’ message is still on point, as the play presents civil disobedience as a moral responsibility while denouncing the dangers of having an autocratic leader.
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Fringe ArtsMontreal Hip Hop Scene Combines Rap with Altruism
The ultra-commercialization of big beat hip-hop by US major labels leads many to forget that this genre of music is primarily a vehicle for social change and positivity—uniting oppressed minorities within a single mode of art.
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Fringe ArtsA Planet by Design
“We’re tipping towards the unknown,” said President of Buckminster Fuller Institute David McConville, setting the tone for the two-day Degeneration-Regeneration conference held on March 27 and 28.
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Fringe ArtsDocumenting Civil Disobedience
Til the Cows Come Home, is a film that documents the protests in front of Frontenac Prison Farm in Kingston, Ontario in 2010 following the Harper government’s decision to transform the Canadian correctional system and close all of Canada’s rehabilitative prison farms.
