Lindsay Dobbin: Where sound meets space Lindsay Dobbin has always expressed themself through art, so picking a start date of their practice causes them to pause. Was it when they launched the music project Broken Deer in the early 2010s? Or was it when they began doing water-drumming performances circa 2015? If we’re being honest, […]
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Review: Catching Gut Feelings
Gut Feeling to Mar 15 , Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun noon-5pm Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue, Lower Level free A gut feeling can hit us when looking at art. While some work takes serious contemplation, often our response is an immediate one, an instinctual feeling that tells us this is beautiful; this is ugly; this […]
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First look: Eyelevel Artist Run Centre & Bookstore
Eyelevel Artist Run Centre & Bookstore Tue-Fri noon-5pm 2177 Gottingen Street Of all the doors lining Gottingen Street, only one is as bright yellow as a banana or sunflower petal. Only one is a secret portal to shelves lined with work by some of the city’s most exciting artists. Only one leads to Eyelevel Artist […]
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Halifax sees the Venezuela diaspora remember what it has lost with new Khyber show
Seven emerging Venezuelan diaspora artists are bringing their art to Halifax this week. Their pieces touch on themes of loss and memory as a result of being disp laced from their birthplace. The exhibition, Memorial: Work by Venezuelan Diaspora Artists, opens at the Khyber Centre for the Arts on Jan. 16 and runs until Feb. […]
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Reid K. White and the art of the everyday
We’re all familiar with tourist tchotchkes—those mass printed trinkets you suspect have the city names swapped out all over the eastern seaboard, lobster beer cozies, “Grandma went to [insert town here] and all I got was this t-shirt” t-shirts. These staples will always have their place, of course. But for a truly unforgettable piece of […]
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Francesca Omolara Ekwuyasi moves from Penance to reconciliation
Screening and reception: Penance and Reconcile Nov 28 The Khyber, 1880 Hollis Street 6:30-9:30pm free Francesca Omolara Ekwuyasi has been thinking a lot about the intersection of queerness and faith. “The faith I grew up in, the way that it’s practiced in my home country of Nigeria, is inherently homophobic and heavy on the shame,” […]
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Jonathan Monaghan releases the Disco Beast
Exhibit 100, Old Memorial Library, 5381 Spring Garden Road Do you remember unicorn nails? Unicorn slime? Unicorn frappuccinos? Do you remember when social media was so soaked in glitter, rainbows and horns that it looked like a unicorn factory exploded? Jonathan Monaghan does. He’s a digital artist from Washington, D.C., who’ll be exhibiting his work […]
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The view from the peak of Tough Guy Mountain
Exhibit 400, Parking garage beneath Staples, 2003 Gottingen Street T ough Guy Mountain is a Toronto-based artist collective that has been operating for the past seven years. With several of its members being from Halifax, the collective is excited to showcase its work on home soil for the first time at Nocturne 2019. “We do […]
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Anne Macmillan explores the anxiety of change with Rattle Array
Exhibit 203, 1749 Argyle Street (best viewed from across the street) N ova Scotian artist Anne Macmillan joins Halifax in bringing the visual art scene to the streets at this year’s Nocturne. Macmillan, who hails from Wolfville and has art degrees from both NSCAD and MIT, focuses much of her work on challenging the idea […]
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Jessica Wiebe and The Veteran Farm Project unveil A (Temporary) Memorial to Ongoing Conflict and War
Exhibit 211 Barrington Street entrance to Grand Parade Square, 1770 Barrington Street Jessica Lynn Wiebe has been keeping her calendar packed. She’s currently writing a piece for Visual Arts News and has started a residency at Centre for Art Tapes where she’s building a body of work from a past residency with a Canadian Forces […]
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Camila Salcedo on Replacing the monument
Exhibit 202, Peace and Freedom Park, at South and Hollis Streets E xploring topics like migration and identity is sometimes difficult. It can open controversial discussions or ones that were once concealed. For interdisciplinary artist Camila Salcedo, she doesn’t shy away from these topics. Instead, her art faces them head-on. “I personally believe that borders […]
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Caroline Monnet knows History Shall Speak For Itself
Exhibit 200, Scotia Square second floor window (best viewed from Halifax Transit terminal Bay 1 at Barrington after Duke Street) When examining the work of Caroline Monnet, two words are bound to come up: Indigenous and regal. As a woman with Algonquin, Quebecois and French ancestry, her hybrid portrayals of Indigenous culture and an aesthetic […]