The thirteenth annual edition of Spatial Poetics, a series of curated performances pairing artists from different disciplines in collaboration, was just presented at The Western Front. My review is up on VANDOCUMENT. Check it out.
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Spatial Poetics XIII: WeMix
Published 7 July 2014 Art & Culture 1 CommentTags: art, performance, Powell Street Festival, review, Spatial Poetics, VANDOCUMENT, WeMix, Western Front
An Autobiography Carved from Biography
Published 26 November 2013 Art & Culture 1 CommentTags: autobiography, biography, Claire Clairmont, Fanny Imlay, film, goddesses, Mary Wollstonecraft, Moyra Davey, review, VANDOCUMENT
Trailer for Moyra Davey’s film, Les Goddesses.
My latest review for VANDOCUMENT is online. This one takes-on Moyra Davey’s challenging 2011 film, Les Goddesses, in which she tells the story of a sad, distant time in her past via the biographies of other women: the 18th Century proto-feminist philosopher and literary figure Mary Wollstonecraft, Ms. Wollstonecraft’s daughters (including the writer Mary Shelley), and Ms. Davey’s own three sisters.
One thing about the review bears mentioning. I attempt to take Ms. Davey’s project seriously and therefore offer my best effort to dissect whatever-the-hell might be going-on in the film. Without in any way abandoning criticality, I am loathe to write derogatorily about any of the work I cover for VANDOCUMENT. My objective there (unlike the sometimes-harsh things I write on memestream) is to present a fair sense of a project or event contributing to the current local art scene while being supportive of the artists and institutions who are putting themselves on-the-line and bringing value to the community. So, if I have committed to a degree of non-negativity and intellectual engagement with Ms. Davey’s work in my review, please do not be misled into thinking that the film is any good. It is not.
VANDOCUMENT: Creating a Vivid Record of the Thrilling Artistic Present
Published 26 October 2013 Uncategorized 1 CommentTags: archive, archiving, arts, arts scene, Ash, document, documentation, review, SFU theater, Tanasiychuk, theatre, Ubu, Ubu Cocu, Vancouver, VANDOCUMENT
I’m always a sucker for a well-conceived project, started by passionate, talented people, which has the aim of building community and supporting the creative work of others. That’s why I am now contributing to VANDOCUMENT, the six-month-old brain-child of local arts photographer Ash Tanasiychuk.
VANDOCUMENT is a collective of photographers, videographers, and writers who are endeavouring to capture the exciting vibe of Vancouver’s arts scene in images and words. The aim is both to generate interest, awareness, and support for the art-makers in our midst, and to create a vibrant archive that tells the story, if only anecdotally, of the creative surge Vancouver is now experiencing.
My first contribution to the VANDOCUMENT collection – a review of Nicole DesLauriers’s smart, ambitious take on the fin de sicle absurdist play Ubu Cocu, by Alfred Jarry – is now up on the VANDOCUMENT site, for your reading pleasure.
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