September 2012
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Craig Francis Power’s “Fuck You Rooms”
By Blair Brennan
“Their throat is an open tomb; With “their tongues they have practiced deceit; The poison
of asps is under their lips”; Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
—Romans 3:13-14
Stills from the video “Fuck You Rooms”, 2009 By Craig Francis Power
Craig Francis Power’s video “Fuck You Rooms” was included in the recent Latitude 53 Exhibition, I...
August 2012
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Vue Weekly reviews And All the Queen's Men →
Agnieszka Matejko wrote a review of Jorden Blue and David James Doody’s show And All the Queen’s Men for this week’s issue of Vue Weekly. The show is up in the Main Space until September 8, and Latitude 53 will be hosting an artist talk before everything is taken down — stay tuned for details.
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Visualeyez 2012: Call for Participation
We’re putting together the full program for Visualeyez this week, scheduling all the performances between September 10–16. Among them, artist Tanya Doody is inviting participation during the festival.
Can I buy you a coffee?
Surprising things can happen while among strangers…
Whether you accept the invitation out of curiosity, are allured by the temptation of a creative encounter...
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Capricious! — just three days left of fundraising →
Miranda Yasmin’s Capricious! pop-up art show project is just days away from the end of its fundraising period.
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Space in ArtsHab One available →
ArtsHab One, a series of rental spaces for artists working in a variety of fields, has a space opening up for the fall. Applications are due September 14 — check out the link for all the details on how to apply!
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What Art is For Part 2: Dirt City:Dream City
By Blair Brennan – Part 2 of 2
Aaron Paquette, “Everyone is Welcome”, photo by Chelsea Boos
Regular readers of these Writers in Residence posts (if such a thing exists) will have read my apoplectic outpouring on The Works and Art Walk in Part 1 of “What Art is For”. I would be one of those guys who seethed and complained without offering a solution but one was conveniently provided...
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WatchWe visited the home-studio of Dallas Whitley, the last artist in this summer’s Incubator Series. He told us—and showed us—how he works, and talked about the importance of darkroom craft and visualization, as well as the fundamentals of portraiture, in his practice. Come see his show until August 25th in the Community Gallery!
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What Art is For Part 1: The Works and Art Walk
By Blair Brennan - Part one of two
A Rainy Day at Art Walk – Some day a real rain will come…
No, painting is not done in order to decorate apartments. It is an instrument
of war for attack and defense against the enemy. —Pablo Picasso, conversation on
Guernica as recorded by Jerome Seckler, 19451
Picasso was wrong. There are two kinds of art—art that decorates our homes and art...
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fast & dirty presents: Garage Show 2
Fast & Dirty sent us some info about their upcoming project:
fast & dirty artist and curatorial collective present an exhibition of painting and a screening of video art in Edmonton from August 25 to August 26, 2012.
For Garage Show 2, fast & dirty will be exhibiting paintings within one residential garage and screening projections of video art, short films, and animation...
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WatchLeslie Sharpe, this week’s Incubator artist, is planning a participatory event for the Rooftop Patio tomorrow. She told us a bit about it, and the rest of her project based on migratory patterns of caribou that she tracks online, her recent work is about restaging these movements in different spaces.
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WatchWe visited Edmonton artist Blake Betteridge in his studio, where he talked to us about the work in his new ProjEx Room show, “Surrealist Gestures”. See the show August 9–September 8 at Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture.
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Gig City on Blair Brennan →
Gig City’s Stuart Adams talked with our writer-in-residence Blair Brennan:
To date, Brennan has logged about 4,500 words on Latitude 53’s blog, with topics ranging from observations and opinions to ruminations and his own artistic self-expression. “It’s always about a hopefully, well-formed argument about my opinion,” Brennan says, but at the same time he avoids taking himself too...
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Announcing Visualeyez 2012 →
We’re excited to announce the festival lineup for Visualeyez 2012 today, featuring the artists Adriana Disman (Montreal), k.g. Guttman (Montreal), Gerry Morita & Heidi Bunting (Edmonton), Martine Viale (Montreal), Stephen Mueller (Calgary), Tanya Doody (Parksville, BC), and Lilian Gael (Portland) and Festival Animator Amber Landgraff (Toronto). The festival runs September 10–16.
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WatchWe visited the studio of artist Daniel Chmielewski, where he told us about street art and the street that he lives on, and the way that he makes paintings. See his Incubator mini-show in the Community Gallery until August 11, and catch a talk by the artist at the Rooftop Patio party tomorrow at 7:30.
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WatchWe visited local artist Dwayne Martineau to talk about his photography practice and the work he’s showing as part of our Incubator Series this summer. See his work in the Community Gallery until August 4.
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Catherine Burgess: Absence | Presence
By Blair Brennan
Catherine Burgess’ exhibition Absence | Presence is on display at the Art Gallery of Alberta from July14—October 14, 2012 in the RBC New Works Gallery. This is a reprint of the brochure/catalogue essay.
Catherine Burgess, “Echo”, 2012. Steel, granite, 203 x 160 x 188 cm
I’m not a fan of art writing that reveals more about the author than it does about...
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