Were they an app, we'd call them Insta-poets. We think they are awesome. They turn the economics of poetry on its head. They take literature from the page and turn it into performance art. By engaging people on the street--where they live, work, and play--they become ambassadors for poetry; emblems of living differently. And for those reasons, we think they are heros.
Nina Gaby’s Pocket Shrines are intimate sacred vessels that incorporate the fragments of those old religions: Virgin Mary, Maneki Neko, dice, glitter, etc. Each Shrine is an ornamented box that contains a tassel of sacred objects reflecting its theme or purpose.
Maison Kasini invited Ashley Roark to Montreal. She spent much of her time sourcing materials from around the Belgo Building, downtown Montreal, the Village, and Mile End. The results of her work were on view at Galerie Maison Kasini, October 19-November 19, 2011. These prints are the manifestation of that project.
The materials Janet Van Fleet uses to make "Curious Lifeforms" (a series of sculptures of humans and animals) are sticks, rusty nails, buttons, and old clothespins. "As I gather (and subsequently manipulate and assemble) these materials, I become an archivist, preserving and bringing into new relationships oddities from material culture and natural history that would otherwise disappear into the planetary dumpster."
They walk on water with fire in their hearts and ice in their veins. They play a game that Jim Murray called Murder on Ice: High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing… everything else is just figure skating. These are the Hunks of Ice. Marie-Maude Polychuck presents a dozen of hockey’s greatest players in two-color linocut on paper and mounted to old barn wood under plexiglass. The line up: Minnesota North Stars Left Wing Bob Barlow and Center Charlie Burns, Philadelphia Flyers Center Bob Clarke, Chicago Blackhawks Left Wing Bobby Hull and Defense Keith...