I FEEL GOOD home video from Beck Gilmer-Osborne on Vimeo. Beck Gilmer-Osborne is a person of lists: a self-identified dyke/fag/queer/feminist/non-binary trans* activist and a multidisciplinary artist working in video, performance, sculpture, installation, printed matter, photography and collaborative public events. Their recent show, I Feel Good, marks their graduation exhibition from NSCAD University where they completed […]
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New Art – Jayme-Lynn Gloade
Jayme-Lynn Gloade is serious about her art and her culture. She organized the first Aboriginal Collective at NSCAD and they recently held an exhibit, Aboriginalities at the Anna Leonowens Gallery. Gloade’s contribution was a series of four photographs. Her series, titled “The 8th Movement,” represents Mi’kmaq legends through portraiture. A boy wearing a bear skin, […]
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New Art – Stephanie Yee
“Art-wise, I’m kind of all over the place,” says Stephanie Yee, who dabbles in performance art, installation pieces, and sculpture. “I’m drawn to stories and characters and a lot of my work comes from thinking about people’s experiences and referring to those in a very physical way.” Yee comes from a theatre background–she was enrolled […]
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New Art – Jesse Mitchell
“I like strange cultural products and mass produced stuff,” says Mitchell. In his industrial studio space above the Halifax Army Navy Store, Mitchell surrounds himself with VHS tapes, broken electronics, dusty Fisher Price toys and a selection of his completed work. Mitchell uses found objects to create installation pieces. “I conceptualize ways to fix things […]
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New Art – Dylan Fish
At first glance, Dylan Fish’s series Social Fabric looks like a bunch of Facebook photos printed onto cloth, but appearances can be deceiving: “It’s actually woven,” he says, “so what you’re looking at is exclusively black and white thread.” Social Fabric was made using a process called Jacquard weaving. The Jacquard loom, introduced in 1801 […]
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Dick Averns was caught in an unfamiliar situation. A group of young Jewish women began a protest in the narrow roads around the Western Wall in Jerusalem. As the Israeli military began to break up the protest, Averns quietly recorded the moment. “I recorded the protest with my SLR camera, which really doesn’t look like […]
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Art scene of 2013
Lesandra Dodson‘s The Trilogy Project Dodson collaborated with Mocean Dance and Live Art Dance to produce three pieces that merged original music, film, animation, performance art and dance in a uniquely layered and quirky experience the explored how far duets can go. Activist Ink at the MSVU Art Gallery Artists Emily Davidson, Dan O’Neill and […]
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Hanson and Sonnenberg’s internal language
Most Haligonians are probably familiar with the three lampposts installed on the waterfront: one is drunk and has fallen over, one is pissing in the harbour and the other is probably checking its phone. Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg are the Brooklyn-based duo behind these pieces, which are part of a larger body of work […]
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Our poster past
In the 1990s, the art of Scott Tappen was Halifax’s visual representation to the prying eyes trying to take a peek at the “new Seattle.” Perhaps expecting to see a quaint fishing town that somehow tripped over grunge, Tappen’s posters were a point of pride—skillfully done, fun and inspiring. In short, he made us look […]
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Farewell, to Nova Scotia
We all have a basic understanding of the deal. You hit send on a text message, it travels through the atmosphere, gets triangulated by a satellite or a tower and hits your intended destination. LOLs ensue. Calgary’s art collective Sophie Farewell wants to add a step to this time-honoured process. The large-scale sculptural installation However […]
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Lucy Pullen swings and hits
“There’s this thing that happens where you can’t believe you are walking on this piece of sidewalk again or that you recognize this particular crack, you know?” It’s one week before art lovers take to the streets in the frenzied rush called Nocturne and visual artist Lucy Pullen is describing her connection to the city […]
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Nocturne: Not to be missed
Nocturne Survey & Critical Race Two artists will take on Nocturne 2013 in an attempt to see, critically review and photograph all 91 projects located across Halifax and Dartmouth using Twitter as the competition medium. The first artist to visit all the pieces and cross the finish line at Anna Leonowens Gallery will be the […]