Institute Parachute in print

Sarah Hamilton has written a nice piece about Chelsea Boida's show at the Hydeaway right now, Yet again, and again.... Read it here or in this week's Vue Weekly. In that same issue, I review two shows at Harcourt House, Cesar Forero's The Box and Christine Koch's Entropy. I also recently wrote about Jon Sasaki's Some Unabashed Optimism.

I also wrote a longer piece about the current state of things in Edmonton over at Prairie Artsters. I think that it is important: it goes over some things that maybe people are not really talking about. For example:

Overwhelmingly, we shy away from real discussions of the faults in our community, making only quick-and-easy statements that we can almost all agree on (often about how something is wrong with our city), and Fung's short and therefore inevitably simplistic articles are the best that we generally see. So what is wrong with Edmonton and why are we all so upset about it?

And:

Reliance on authority is an explanation for the constant reassertion of modernist theory, as well as explaining for a simpler time in criticism, and Peacock's recurring comments to his classes about how the AGA is now afraid to show abstract work. The result is resistance to attempts, like Fung's, to construct a new critical discourse, which is met with disheartening attacks on the credibility of writers, or a passive lack of acknowledgement.

And it gets better!