In Toronto, artist filmmakers Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca produced the film RISE to illuminate the creative force of a local youth-led spoken word movement known as RISE Edutainment. A subway station serves as the set where the collective’s poets, rappers, and musicians voice their experiences as first and second generation immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa.
These views reveal how the new Toronto Biennial of Art transforms the city with exhibitions and performances that engage with the urban landscape.
What does it take to stage complex art? Contemporary artists are known for envisioning projects that challenge the resources of exhibition spaces. Whether inviting animals…
On Skype, Cathy Byrd speaks with London-based curator Helena Reckitt about the artists she selected to participate in Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2012. Projects in Once…
Cathy Byrd meets independent curator Christopher Eamon at Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, to talk about his latest project, Manscape: Male as Subject and Object, on…
Attention Artist Interventionists! Based in Montreal and initiated in London in 2007 by Jean-François Prost, Adaptive Actions encourages and documents interventions that speak to…
