FTA 2019 | Stefan Kaegi: Granma. Trombones from Havana
In Granma, history, of the grand forward-marching and/or circle-turning variety, and narrative threads of the everyday and mundane sort overlap, intertwine and interweave to form a tapestry centred on the heritage of the Cuban revolution. At once intimate and (…)
FIMAV 2019 | L’art sonore au Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville
[texte available in French only], the art critic Karine P. Bouchard publishes a review of the different sound art installations in public spaces as part of the 2019 edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV).
FTA 2019 | Daria Deflorian + Antonio Tagliarini: Quasi niente
[texte available in French only], the critic (and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) Mathieu Teasdale publishes a review of the play Quasi niente, by playwrights (and actors) Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini. The show is presented as part of the 2019 edition of the Festival TransAmériques.
FTA 2019 | Wajdi Mouawad: Tous des oiseaux
[texte available in French only], the critic (and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) Mathieu Teasdale publishes a review of the play Tous des oiseaux, by the author and playright Wajdi Mouawad. The show is presented as part of the 2019 edition of the Festival TransAmériques.
FTA 2019 | Serge Aimé Coulibaly: Kalakuta Republik
[texte available in French only], the art critic and curator (and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) Bénedicte Ramade publishes a review of the play Kalakuta Republik, by the artist and choreographer Serge Aimé Coulibaly. The show is presented as part of the 2019 edition of the Festival TransAmériques.
Simon Bilodeau, Ce que l’on ne voit pas qui nous touche, dessin #5, 2014
For the past ten years, Simon Bilodeau’s multidisciplinary practice has displayed an aesthetics that shows his disenchantment with our civilization. His cynical and scathing look at today’s world enables us to envision the loss and waste that will occur, suggesting the archeological sites of the future in his paintings and installations. Simon Bilodeau holds a…
Destruction/Creation in the Age of Capitalism
Like all handmade objects, artworks will sooner or later disappear. Hannah Arendt, in her essay “The Crises in Culture,” states very well that as a cultural object, its status above all is very different from everyday objects; (…)
Karen Kraven and Radek Brousil, Whrrr Whrrr.
Since 2017, Gallery 17/18, an exhibition space in the building that houses the Embassy of the Czech Republic, in Ottawa, has presented exhibitions featuring a Czech and a Canadian artist together. This salon-type space (…)
To create with animals or not
From cave paintings to today’s animal photography along with television documentaries on the lives and environments of numerous animal species, human beings have always represented living non-humans through diverse technical means.
Guillaume Adjutor Provost, Page 51 (Maude Veilleux), 2018
Guillaume Adjutor Provost holds a Ph.D. in Arts Studies and Practices (UQAM). His research focuses on the notion of curatorial art, namely the use of curatorial approaches as a mode of creation. His recent projects put forward hybrid proposals that borrow from the languages of visual arts, curatorship and literature. Through a certain indeterminism of…
