2004 Top Ten Art Related Things
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Sally McKay, who’s run an excellent Toronto arts-related blog over the past year, sent out an email last week asking for 2004 top-tens. Here is my list, which you can see on her blog here, although it’s no different there than here.
1. David Hoffos at TPW [...]
The Queen West Scene, year in review
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As the sunlight rises on the rooftops on Queen West on January 1st, few will remember K-Os’ stroll through the hood late last spring when he filmed his Crab Bucket video. Unlike Jan 1 2004, which opened on a scene unchanged from Jan 1 2003, [...]
From yesterday’s journal entry:
According to the records, it occurred at 7.58pm our time last night, which was a little after midnight local time. They keep saying it????s the largest earthquake in the world in 40 years – Susan Mernit’s blog quotes somebody saying that it even disrupted the earth????s rotation. I am typing this on [...]
There was posting this morning on Slashdot, which got picked up by Metafilter proposing a static calendar, one in which every day of the year falls on the same day of the week in perpetuity. Instead of leap days we have leap weeks called ‘Newtons’.
This reminded me of my interest in a universal world chronology, [...]
Caught in the Act
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I’m on the board of YYZ Artists’ Outlet, and last night I got an advance copy of our latest publication, Caught in the Act which documents through essays and interviews, the history of Canadian women in performance art from the 70s and 80s. Sally McKay, who used to [...]
Vs. at the Latvian House
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Earlier this year, I ran into Alissa Firth-Eagland and Gareth Long on Queen St, and I witnessed an handover. She had just given him a video tape, which he in turn was to give to Jeremy Drummond. The ultimate result was seen on Saturday night at the [...]
You can go to agriculture school for years, but in the end it all depends on the rain. IE KNOWLEDGE ONLY GETS YOU SO FAR.
There is the authority of tradition, whihch sometimes amounts to the testimony of a complacent history. The sort of thing passes itself off as a type of authority based on [...]
From: shayla.morreau@canadacouncil.ca
To: tim@goodreads.ca
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:38:21 -0500
Subject: RE: feedback on the proposed changes
Dear Colleague,
Thank you very much for your letter, which articulates your opinions about the proposed changes to the Grants to Professional Artists: Creation/Production program. We welcome your views, and will take them into consideration before any new program receives final approval.
Let [...]
The following is a response to Jennifer McMackon’s question, “What do you mean when you say ‘…in today’s world, artists can’t afford the luxury of being insignificant…’ ? What makes art significant? What hampers the significance of art? And also why is it (insignificance) a luxury – what makes insignificance so expensive we can’t afford [...]