Fringe Arts

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  The Dark Side of Rose-Coloured Lenses

  Athina Lugez – Published October 27, 2014

  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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  Baby Face Killa Enters The Underworld

  Julian McKenzie – Published October 27, 2014

  “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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  Spinning a New Urban Yarn

  Rudrapriya Rathore – Published October 27, 2014

  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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  What’s For Dinner? Western Imperialism

  Noelle Didierjean – Published October 21, 2014

  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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  Changing the Conventions of Techno

  June Loper – Published October 21, 2014

  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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  Leaving the Working Class Life for Rock ‘n’ Roll

  Leigha Vegh – Published October 14, 2014

  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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  A Language of Light and Liquid

  Elysia-Marie Campbell – Published October 14, 2014

  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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  What Is Photography When Everyone’s a Photographer?

  Athina Lugez – Published October 14, 2014

  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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  Creating Art with DNA

  Leigha Vegh – Published October 7, 2014

  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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  Feminism for Young Men: A Bite-Sized Introduction

  Dori Julian – Published October 7, 2014

  Feminism for Bros is a short web series that deals with consent, harassment and the expectations of masculinity in our culture.