Critic’s Picks 2019
All of the 2017 Venice Biennale buzz (where Lisa Reihana represented New Zealand) could not have prepared me for the magnificence of this work. As I made my way to the second floor’s Indigenous and Canadian Art galleries, I needed only to follow the sounds of drums, polyrhythmic clapping, and bellowing horns to find myself in a room with a 68 foot-long screen…
School for Movement of Technicolo(u)r People, Gallery TPW 2019
This is the sort of exhibition that resists explanation and possibly even description (after all, it’s billed as a public school/dance studio/project/exhibition/artist exchange), but it is my job to try.
Pamila Matharu, A Space 2019
This exhibition “explores the politics of archives” and interrogates how we (BIPOC) artists and makers survive within and in spite of exclusionary archival practices.
Productive Discomfort, Xpace 2019
What if the first thing you encountered when visiting someone’s home was an object that made a different kind of declaration, one that unsettled and reminded you of the discomfort many spaces cause?
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