On Thursday, March 13, Wild Canada – the first large-scale documentary to comprehensively showcase Canada’s varied and unique natural history, including the role of humans – premieres on the CBC.
Artists
Ecotopia
We tend to section nature into neat grids with roads and fences. We wrap it up into little parcels of parks surrounded by pavement. Forests are cleared for farms. This interaction between the natural and the constructed is the subject of Ecotopia, a diverse collection of multimedia artwork currently making […]
The Art of Organizing
In the latest issue, I profile the Beehive Design Collective, a group of volunteer activist-artists based in Maine, and their latest project, the epic three-by-six-foot double-sided poster, Mesoamérica Resiste. The poster depicts both the projects in a major Mesoamerican development plan and the many resistance movements springing up against it.
Pollinating Resilience
Kim Ondaatje
Kim Ondaatje’s current exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, ON surveys a career spanning over fifty years, and in doing so, serves to entrench the artist within the canon of the Canadian landscape tradition.
Planet in Focus 2014
Toronto has a seemingly neverending cycle of film festivals, but only Planet in Focus trains its crosshairs exclusively on environmental concerns. The 14th annual version (from November 21 to 24) featured a slate of strong, complex and curious documentaries, and another handful of very well deserved PiF award winners.
Incredible Community Response to AJ’s NIGHTSHIFT Festival
Nocturnal adventurers of K-W (and beyond): This past Saturday night you contributed to building a portal into another dimension of this community. Seeing so many bundled-up faces out on the streets for Night\Shift — exploring, absorbed, smiling wide and soaking up a side of this city that seems to bubble […]
AJ Presents NIGHTSHIFT, Kitchener’s Own Overnight Arts Festival
On November 2nd, A\J is launching NIGHT\SHIFT, Kitchener’s inaugural nuit blanche-style festival of art, culture and nocturnal adventure. On the night of the autumn time change, come downtown to explore an unconventional showcase of arts, technology, bright ideas and nightlife on foot.
Louis Helbig: Sunken Villages
Canada has had its share of massive, global-scale industrial development, including the Alberta oil sands and the James Bay Hydroelectric Project. The construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958 was one of the biggest industrial projects of its time. The US$470-million project, meant to open the Great Lakes to […]
Sebastião Salgado: Genesis
A mushroom island of Baobab trees perched atop the Bay of Moramba. A leopard’s gaze as it drinks from a water pool in the blackness of night. A group of nomadic Nenets surrounded by the hostile Siberian tundra. This is but a glimpse of Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis, an environmental art exhibit […]
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