CBC News came down to Lindsey Bond’s public forum at the Remand Centre on Saturday.
Bond says that change could mean the end of the chalk messages, which will leave inmates one less way to communicate with people on the outside.
“All of the court sessions and stuff will be done through video conferencing. It’s very isolated, there’s gonna be a lot of fencing. And then also just actual location and people being able to travel out there, there’s not a lot of bus transportation,” she said.
“There’s going to be a lot of isolation happening.”
Read their quick story on the CBC Website.
Galleries West magazine visited PAVED Arts to review Emanuel Licha’s work there—if you’ve only seen the work we had up here this January, take a look at their take on other half of the show in Saskatoon.
ION Magazine profiled Latitude 53 and artist Jorden and David Doody, showing here in August in their summer issue—read the story on their website.
Vue’s Carolyn Jervis reviews our three shows in this week’s issue, finding a common thread:
A consequence of a city being alive is all the death, and remnants thereof that it creates: the once-faithful mattress discarded in back alleys, and the coffee cups and fast food wrappers that once held lunches and hot fortifying liquids that find gutters as their final resting place. As with human beings, our material lives do not come to a clean and final end. A material and remembered presence extends beyond a lifespan.
Read the review at vueweekly.com or pick up a copy on the street.
We talked with Avenue Edmonton’s Ana Maria de la Fuente about Parka Patio:
Executive director Todd Janes knows people may think having a party outside in minus -20°C weather is a little crazy, but he thinks it’s time to embrace the realities of the city’s climate and have some fun with it.
The party is “taking the idea of loving winter and mixing it with truly Latitude flair,” he says.
Read the preview on their blog, and join the conversation on twitter at #yegparka.
Leah Sandals talked to Emanuel Licha about his show Striking a Pose in today’s National Post:
Q What started your War Tourist series?
A In 2004, I was living in Sarajevo and documenting a bombed house. A car arrived and one woman and two men stepped out. The men were journalists and started taking photographs. They stayed five minutes, then the woman handed me her business card, and I saw that she was a tourist guide. I was pretty naive then, because I didn’t know there were tourists of war-torn areas, and that there have been for centuries. That night, I decided to abandon my projects. I felt concerned by the war, but obviously, being Canadian and never having been under a bomb attack, I felt it wasn’t legitimate for me to speak about. But the next morning, I called the woman, and that became the first video in the series. It was like, “OK … I’ll be a tourist.” Finding the idea of the “war tourist” was, to me, an answer to this problem of legitimacy, a ridiculous way for me to address my own situation vis-à-vis wars.
Read the full article and then come on down to Latitude 53 (or PAVED Arts in Saskatoon) to see for yourself.
In “How Do We Know What We Know?” Licha does a brilliant job of opening up questions about journalism of such horrors through coverage of the recent political unrest in Syria. His film reveals the production behind a “real” live conflict, jumping between American news footage and video that records its production from the otherwise hidden windy hillside in Turkey. As the American production team leaves, a member of the local camera team asks a telling question: “How will it be when they’re gone?” Licha punctuates this question by showing how journalism makes an event real, alluding to the invisibility of stories that aren’t told in front of the camera.
Carolyn Jervis writes on our two new shows for this week’s Vue Weekly.
So how do we know what we know about war? That’s a central question raised by Montreal- and Paris-based artist Emanuel Licha in his two-part exhibition “Striking a Pose” at Latitude 53 in Edmonton and PAVED Arts in Saskatoon. The exhibition (which is curated by Marie-Hélène Leblanc and will also show at Musée régional de Rimouski later this year) takes a wide-ranging look at the way conflict is staged and the effect of this blurring of fact and fiction—not only on official reports and histories, but also on collective memory.
Today Byrne McLaughlin of Canadian Art takes a look at Striking a Pose.
Artist Emanuel Licha (emanuel-licha.com) was living in Sarajevo when he witnessed a car stop in front of a demolished home. Out poured a guide with a group of tourists who furiously snapped photos before heading off to the next viewing spot. The incident sparked the idea for War Tourist, a series of videos shot from the point of view of a tourist seeking postwar conflicts and disasters.
Opening today in Latitude 53’s Main Space, an installation of five 20-minute films shot between 2004 and 2008 will transport you from Sarajevo to Chornobyl, Auschwitz, New Orleans (after hurricane Katrina) and the suburbs of Paris (site of the 2005 civil unrest).
In each location, Licha presented himself as a tourist, hired a guide and asked to see the “worst destruction” and “most dangerous” part of the city.
In the Edmonton Journal today, Janice Ryan talks to artist Emanuel Licha about his show, Striking a Pose—opening tonight with a curator’s talk at 6:00 and a reception following.
In Vue this week, Carolyn Jervis reflects on some highlights of 2011 in Edmonton art—and we’re there:
Solo Exhibit: Gary James Joynes/Clinker, 12 Tones, Latitude 53
Latitude kicked off a strong year of programming with this powerful exhibit by Edmonton artist Joynes. This show provided more than a viewing experience—it was a powerful, overwhelming immersion in raw, tonal sound—sound seen, heard and felt through your whole body. This intensity was so well balanced by photos of sand mandalas, suggesting the meditative aspect of the art experience, each created through the vibration of one of those intense tones.
There’s lots more in the article from all around town. We’re looking forward to another great year, starting with our opening receptions this friday.
