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Things of Desire Issue #10 23 Oct 2008 | 05:57 pm
Greetings Bloglings! The temperature may be dropping outdoors but here at ToD we bring the hottest shows to keep you toastier than your toes inside one of grandma’s extra-itchy wool socks. Also I have...
Disco Sec 23 Oct 2008 | 05:56 pm
By Mike Landry Invite Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist and writer Christof Migone to a party, and it’s a safe bet he’ll spend his time scoping out your books and record collections. It’s someth...
Bee Kingdom 23 Oct 2008 | 05:55 pm
By Mike Landry Ryan Marsh Fairweather, Phillip Bandura and Tim Belliveau haven’t yet come to blows or fallen apart like many communal households. For the past four years, like good worker bees, the th...
Orientalism and Ephemera 23 Oct 2008 | 05:54 pm
By Stacey Ho Jamelie Hassan has been in conversation with Edward Said for quite sometime. Said’s pivotal 1979 publication, Orientalism, examined and challenged inscribed Western notions of the exotic ...
Body Break with Francis Arguin 23 Oct 2008 | 05:53 pm
By Mike Landry This week Quebec City-based multidisciplinary artist Francis Arguin is opening two shows in two different cities, Rouyn-Noranda and Toronto, and in two different mediums, performance an...
Making Of 23 Oct 2008 | 05:52 pm
By Mike Landry A series of ass paintings, a large mound of papier-mâché, and a homage to Jackson Pollack in the form of a studying desk littered with gum on it’s underside—just three of Mathieu Lefevr...
COM POSE 23 Oct 2008 | 05:51 pm
By Mike Landry During the last five years of his life, Saskatoon-based artist Ellen Moffat‘s dad suffered from dementia. His language deteriorated beyond the point of common understanding. However, Mo...
Surfacing 23 Oct 2008 | 05:50 pm
By Mike Landry After making a name for himself with his video work, Collin Zipp is taking breaking a break. He had been editing something on his computer a few months ago and was getting a nasty heada...
Hollow cores, other findings and one last chance 23 Oct 2008 | 05:49 pm
By Stacey Ho A brief list of some of the items in Jerry Ropson’s upcoming exhibition, Hollow cores, other findings and one last chance: drawings, framed and unframed; drawings done on glass with vinyl...
Proverbs for Paranoids 23 Oct 2008 | 05:48 pm
By Mike Landry Rather than spending his lunch hours Tupperware dining, Pete Smith would go exploring with his digital camera. He was living in Toronto at the time and was documenting the physical geog...
