The A Word

Here’s this week’s radio show people: I talk about Ellen Moffat, Lucas Soi, and a few other things of note. You can listen to it here.

Here’s this week’s radio show, where I mention two specific things, in terms of Wanuskewin’s exhibition of Buffy Sainte-Marie (the image below is from that show) and the exhibition and adjunct programming at the SCC and the exhibition in the Affinity Gallery there, which is all about the anniversary of their Dimensions exhibition. Enjoy.

Here’s this week’s radio show, with information on opportunities for studio visits / interactions with two visiting curators / writers, and some info on upcoming events and current events at SCYAP. Enjoy.

This week’s radio show, people, can be heard here. There’s a number of events and exhibitions I mention, some of which you only have a few more days to see, and some that are one night only events, like the performance at the Mendel Art Gallery.

Here’s this week’s radio show: listen to it here. I play some Billy Bragg, for those of you who will catch it on air at CFCR, and those that download it will miss out on Waiting For the Great Leap Forward and A New England. The images I’ve included are shots of Kim Adams’ work that is at the WDM, and the basic invite for the Senior Level Photography Students exhibition.

This week’s radio show: a conversation with Associate Curator Sandra Fraser, from the Mendel, talking about the Home Show currently at the Mendel. You can listen to the show here. And besides that, you want to check out this panel discussion at the Mendel this Saturday, that I’ve included a lovely poster with all the information you need about that event. Go see Janet Werner’s show at the College Gallery, Mélanie Rocan’s work at the Kenderdine, and Tammy Salzl’s exhibition opens this Friday at AKA.

This week’s radio show is here, and there’s a few other notable things to pass on, some that I mention during the show, some that I don’t.

Firstly, the polling the city is doing re: public sculpture can be read about here, at the Star Phoenix. Make your voice heard, as you can see there is already the obligatory idiot comment that wants to know why we don’t spend this on potholes. I mean, the money for this was all clearly marked “SPEND THIS ON POTHOLES OR ART?”, right? Just like we all know that everything would be sweetness and light and pretty and with kittens if the new art gallery wasn’t happening….sorry, didn’t mean to channel Eyre, or Bell, or Corbett, the three or so people who take turns writing letters to the SP with that sentiment, with some puling and whining thrown in.

So, make your voice heard on what should stay, and what should go, and maybe suggest that we model ourselves after Calgary in a GOOD way by insisting all construction over a specific price tag MUST allocate money to public art. Or we could just pretend that people will live in the downtown with flooding and obscene rents, and pretend that suburban sprawl has been really successfull…..sorry, it’s a ranty day.

Let’s speak of good things: I have a post at Musing About Mud, about the Incite Insight show at the Affinity Gallery at the Saskatchewan Craft Council. Check out Carole Epp’s blog while you’re there, as it’s engaging even if you’re not a craft artist, and a useful and vibrant resource in this community.

Now, I have mixed feelings about Emma Lake: it’s suffused with nostalgia and hasn’t been relevant in years, but the manner in which the University of Saskatchewan chose to shutter it is unacceptable, heavy handed and systematic of the larger issues at that institution. They could have at least looked at consulting the larger community, looking at what people are willing to do, and perhaps farming out the karaoke modernists and hippies, and making the Art Department do something relevant there: but nevermind, in light of a common enemy – the board of the U of S, the administrative leeches, the “Dean” of Fine Arts and Humanities who has become a co opted apologist with a secure paycheque - go and check this group out, and support them. Do it, and ask why we can have tenured faculty on sabbatical / leave / paid vacation every second year, but not support this place?

And let’s end on a note of appropriate rage, shall we? Murray Mandryk calls out the hypocrisy of the Sask Party, as he does so well with politicos of all stripes. Keep this in mind whenever the ruling class (no austerity for them) tell us how much they support culture….and remember that the U of S might not be cutting so much if they were being supported appropriately by a provincial government that tittered for ages about “boom boom boom” and the “Saskatchewan Advantage”.

This week’s A Word is a bit different than the usual fare: Troy Gronsdahl has taken control of the show this week to interview me about my work in The Performative Lens, at PAVED, and we talk about a number of ideas and issues within the work, and beyond. A large thank you to Troy for suggesting this format, and I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

You can listen to this week’s episode of the A Word here.

…with a number of shows having receptions that evening.

Here’s this week’s radio show, which you can listen to here. I’ve also included some images from a few of the exhibitions I talk about, and you can be sure to see me at my opening this Friday, at PAVED, in The Performative Lens with Evergon. I spend some time on Mélanie Rocan’s Souvenir Involontaire, as well, which is a show you must go and see.

Attack of the Radio Show! You can listen to this week’s show here, and I mention many things, as it’s a show that is jam packed full of artful goodness….yeah, weird mood today, just deal with it, my A Word listeners.
Here’s some images to go with some of the stuff I talk about, so enjoy.