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What do you do with yourself when you visit a gallery? Do you disappear or do you take up space? Moving from virtual worlds to real live bodies, this episode, the first of a two-part series on bodies, considers our sense of self, whether we dissolve ...
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Two artists take two different approaches to using their own bodies in their work. Suzy Lake treats hers as a medium to dramatize the construction of the self, while Deirdre Logue emphasizes our material and sensory selves. Both wrestle with the phys...
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Conflicting accounts of the past provide one way of thinking about Canada’s Sesquicentennial. These stories are tied to the land and link the pre-colonial past of Indigenous peoples to a future threatened by environmental crisis. Art, among oth...
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For those of us who haven’t made it into the history books, family photo albums are our only visual record of the past century. As analogue photography becomes obsolete, museum exhibitions reveal the ways these documents bring hidden histories ...
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Art collector turned artist Ydessa Hendeles creates expansive installations of antique objects that set the scene for a consideration of how the past is remembered, forgotten, and invented. In each case, history is concerned with the present as mu...
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