Fringe Arts
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Fringe Arts
Surveyed by Wolves
Light skin, dark hair, and not one ounce of exuberance, she sits down in front of me. The first few minutes before our interview remind me strangely of a few blind dates I had in the past, nervous laughs and awkward silences included. We are both, for very different reasons, seemingly nervous. Pon-Layus ‘s work is both unsettling and deeply meditative, and I’m eager to discuss the foundations of these controversial images with her.
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Fringe Food
When Ken Ilasz began baking fruitcake according to a recipe handed down by his Austrian great-grandmother, he had no idea of the profound connections it might hold right here in Montreal.
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Exploring the Darkness
We are often perched just at the edge of a void—going through life with an unrealized deep-rooted fear of death, the unknown and the unfamiliar. Chronicles of a Disappearance, on now at the DHC/ART Gallery, is the kind of exhibit that leaves you thinking about these things for days afterwards.
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Life of the Promoter
It’s funny how things can turn around on you in the music business sometimes. When local concert promoter Noah Bick first started out, he was so hard up for shows that he would take up any offer given.
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A Different Point of View
Quebec was a turbulent place in the 1970s, wrought with the burgeoning Franco-nationalist movement’s political skirmishes and a province-wide cultural upheaval. And while it’s not common to see an anglophone author depicting this time period, Raymond Beauchemin’s first novel, Everything I Own, is taking it on.
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A Trail Through the Digital Mountains
Two decades into the Internet era, more writing, more photographs, more video, music and art than could ever be consumed in a lifetime now get created—and uploaded—in a week or so.
Rather than attempt to create new and engaging art in the pretense of a vacuum, artists are now increasingly embracing the clutter, and creating by interacting directly with the mountains of data we produce, and re-contextualizing it.
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Weekly Spins
With an approach that sits somewhere between those of artists like Dirty Beaches and Women, Damon McMahon’s solo project Amen Dunes offers an edgy introversion with his second LP.
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Interaction et échange : le journalisme en 2012
André Lavoie, journaliste et critique de cinéma a présenté à la Cinémathèque québécoise du 18 au 22 janvier son projet ambitieux : un cycle de documentaires sur l’évolution du journalisme.
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Frame to Frame
You hear that title and I bet sex is the last thing on your mind. Not so for Arcand. It’s one of those conversational films where dialogue is the core strength of the whole piece.
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Concordia Does Mixed Media
A cross-section of media artists will be coming to Concordia starting Saturday, Feb. 4, to unpack the meanings and models of Japanese animation and gaming.