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Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsHaving Nun Of It
Most people wouldn’t say they have the supreme, bar-bragging-worthy ability to relate with the plight of a ninety-one-year-old nun with a chip on her shoulder.
The folks behind The Motherhouse, however, beg to differ. -
Fringe ArtsStreet Artist Roadsworth Takes His Art Indoors
If one ventures out to see Roadsworth’s exhibition Off and On at Galerie Punkt, a larger-than-life banana peel will greet you.
The spray painted peel is a visual pun. It sits innocuously in the centre of the street, waiting for someone or something to come and slip on it. -
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Fringe ArtsFrom A to Zines
Enough has been written about the death of print media to fill a Kindle. But like the common cold, Rasputin and the Road Runner, print media refuses to go down easy.
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Fringe ArtsGet Contemporary!
The Lateral is a humbling reminder that poetry still rules.
Jake Kennedy, who was the recipient of the 2010 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, throws you into a labyrinth of language, seducing you into a strange world of contemporary theory. -
Fringe ArtsLit Writ
Editor’s Note:
In an effort to strengthen ties with Concordia’s creative writing program, The Link will be featuring exercise poems produced by creative writing workshops. Below is a poem from David McGimpsey’s ENGL 425 Advanced Poetry workshop. -
Fringe ArtsPoems From Shillers
I’m a big fan of supporting indie culture. I like giving my money to small bands, though I’m loath to pay for things by Kanye West. It’s probably because I like culture that challenges accepted genre and medium constraints.
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Fringe ArtsEye of the Storm
Don’t be fooled by the name of Valleys new EP Stoner.
As lead songstress Matilda Perks explained, the EP’s matter-of-fact title isn’t intended as an adjective for the band or their music, but comes from a book by John Williams. -
Fringe ArtsMontrealers Make It Big
Kathleen Winter’s Annabel, which is a finalist in the Fiction category for the 2010 Governor General’s Literary Awards, traces the story of a child named Wayne, born with an inherent identity crisis: it has both male and female anatomical parts.
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Fringe ArtsResurrection
At what point do useful objects become unwanted?
This is a question that exhibition Grade, displayed at Parisian Laundry, asks its viewer to ponder.
Grade is a mixed media exhibit that plays with ideas of efficiency versus inefficiency and practicality versus impracticality. -
Fringe ArtsFuck The Police
By bringing an amplifier, a sampler and a tweaked out sense of psychedelic-infused electronica to street corners around Concordia University and the Montreal region, Cop Car Bonfire brings a new approach to the act of busking.
