Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsModern Mythmaking
Montreal author Claude Lalumière knew he was an atheist by age 10, as did graphic artist Rupert Bottenberg.
But neither of them quite knew how to reconcile their beliefs—or lack thereof—with their obsession with cryptomythology and ancient superstitions. -
Fringe ArtsUne Carte Postale
Great things come in twos: shoes, socks, eyes, mittens, ears, lungs, kidneys, chopsticks and now, local band Postcards.
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Fringe ArtsPossible Worlds
Anything is possible in a sci-fi world. Possible Worlds attempts to portray that onstage.
A scientist simultaneously lives on several dimensions of existence. In love with the same woman in each of his alternate realities, he yearns for her contact but contact is seldom. -
Fringe ArtsBlue Hawaii
Blue Hawaii has reasons to be melancholic about Art Matters events.
“It was actually on the Art Matters Opening Party night we decided to make music together,” explained Alex Cowan, who, along with Raphaelle Standell-Preston, comprise the two-piece electro-pop group. -
Fringe ArtsWater: A Right or a Commodity?
Whether it’s mineral, flavoured, sparkling or simply flat, buying bottled water has become a habit for the young.
Liz Marshall’s documentary Water on the Table, featuring Maude Barlow, demands an answer to the question of whether water is a commodity or a right. -
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Fringe ArtsHaving a Gas
“We are, all of us, after a myth, I think,” Peter Dubé says in his new book Subtle Bodies: A Fantasia on Voice, History and René Crevel.
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Fringe ArtsYarn Wars
If you have recently wandered around the Mile End or Plateau, you may already be familiar with Heather Utah’s yarn bombs.
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Fringe ArtsMonster Mash
Halloween is approaching, and what better way to pay homage to this wonderful holiday than by celebrating the art of monsters?
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Fringe ArtsNo End In Sight
So much for the notion that the “Alberta dream” is a safe and reassuring one.
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Fringe ArtsRage Against the Drum Machine
“I think that computers will be able to do things that up until now in history would have been seen as only in the realm of possibility of humans.”
Drum machinist and founder of the one-man band SuperFossilPower, Tyler K. Rauman, could easily be talking about advances in cybernetics, or the event horizon in which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence.
