Right off Yonge Street, in the midst of Toronto’s all-night Nuit Blanche art festival, I and some others found respite from the revels in the atrium of a relatively nondescript office building. After a short line-up and passage through a revolving door, we found ourselves within a captivating sound installation. Over two hundred pocket-sized radioContinue reading “Anna Friz”
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Extermination Music Night
It’s quarter past midnight in late May 2008. Storm clouds loom but hold, on this surprisingly humid night. I open the garage, grab my bike and check my backpack: flashlight, five cans of beer, five-dollar donation, notepad and pen. I recheck the instructions I printed from an online forum: “Do not be seen entering theContinue reading “Extermination Music Night”
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Cathy Lane, ed. Playing With Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice.
“There are no more powerful things in the world than words,” says Laurie Anderson in an interview with editor Cathy Lane in Playing With Words, where the primacy of language in art and politics is discussed in a clear and compelling manner. With over thirty-five artist contributors at various stages in their careers, Playing WithContinue reading “Cathy Lane, ed. Playing With Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice.”
Densités Festival. Fresnes-en-Woëvre, France. October 23-25, 2009.
A rural French hamlet in the Lorraine countryside isn’t the setting you would imagine for a world-class festival of unadulterated Electronic and Free Jazz music. Yet the Densités Festival in Fresnes-en-Woëvre—population five hundred—about eighty kilometres from Nancy, is just that. During three days in late October, the sixteenth edition presented a sonic banquet of unstoppableContinue reading “Densités Festival. Fresnes-en-Woëvre, France. October 23-25, 2009.”
