The concept of the readymade is hardly new to the art world. Art students–if not your average gallery-goer–learn about Duchamp’s urinal shortly after discovering that mixing Cadmium red and Naples yellow produces tangerine. Despite his virtuoso skill in signing “R. Mutt” on a urinal and drawing facial hair on a postcard of the Mona Lisa, […]

At turns haunting and hilarious, Calvin Paugh’s recent exhibition The Bakery of fine art reproduction explores the production and promotion of a television series about making bread in an abandoned bakery. The installation consists of a single-channel art reproduction showing several “pilot” episodes, oil paintings of the starring actors and a series of baking tools […]

Artistic experiments in communal living and working such as these are important sites for artist-initiated activities outside of art world structures, serving as interventions into and critical mirrors of society at large. Thauberger’s residency evoking the Paris Commune of 1871 was a performance in ways of working together and acting out alternative ways of being […]

To mark its 30th anniversary, Winnipeg’s platform centre for photo to painting took an unexpected approach and mounted a pair of exhibitions operating under the deja vu umbrella title Haven’t We Been Here Before? Presented in the modest gallery space was the in – house – generated So Many Letdowns Before We Get Up …, […]

Entering the F.E.K. Archives is like encountering the Sphinx. We are made to answer the riddle: Who do we have here? A man? A woman? A woman behind the man, or the reverse? And that’s exactly the trouble. It’s none of the above. It’s just a room. There’s no woman here. There never was. Let […]