Border Crossings Magazine

Stutter: The Body and the Institution

Meeka Walsh

Antonin Artaud holds enduring appeal because he occupied a state of contingency—much more than that of course—but here, I am making an argument against fixity and the structures that work to sustain it. Susan Sontag...

Smashing Success: Robi Walters & Leanne Wright

When Robi Walters and Leanne Wright met in 1997 in London, they began a rich and varied collaboration. They designed record and cd covers for the music industry; they developed and printed a line of...

The Canonoclast: Derek Liddington

Postmodern art would please Aristotle; it shows signs of being a Self-Thinking Thought. Nowhere is this generative self-regard more evident than in the photographs and drawings of Derek Liddington, a young Toronto artist who has...

The Tragic Optimist: "You, the Living" directed by Roy Andersson

Robert Enright

About half way into You, the Living, Roy Andersson’s brilliant comic dystopia, a psychiatrist walks through a waiting room packed with patients before entering his office, at which stage he delivers a thoroughly bleak assessment...

Graham Cracklings: Rodney Graham's Conceptual Energy

Introduction and Interview by Robert Enright

Introduction It’s not enough that what artists have to do is invent work; sometimes they have to invent themselves. In1997, Rodney Graham decided it was time to become a new artist. He had been producing conceptual...

The Beautiful Trap: Janine Antoni's Body Art

Introduction by Robert Enright, Interview by Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh

Introduction When Janine Antoni performed Loving Care in 1993, she moved herself into the history of contemporary art, and she has occupied that place ever since. Like any negotiation with history, the understanding of her performance,...

Christopher Olson

Tales from the Creeped: The Animated Films of Barry Doupé

Lee Henderson

  To read Lee Henderson’s article on Barry Doupé pick up Issue 113 on newsstands now. Big Smash! Productions and Video Pool Media Arts Centre present Barry Doupé’s animated film, Ponytail, at the Park Theatre, on Friday,...

Robin Laurence

Earl Miller

Petra Halkes

Sally Frater

Malcolm Sutton

Hot Potatoe

Lee Henderson

Drawn & Quarterly is a Montreal-based publisher known for printing comics and graphic novels, and HOT POTATOE, Canadian artist Marc Bell’s latest book for them, is, in its scope and presentation, more like a catalogue...

Gerta Moray

Gregory Beatty

Tracy Valcourt

Alison Gillmor

Brian Grison

Tacita Dean

James D Campbell

Tacita Dean’s landmark six-film projection titled Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS (in three movements) to John Cage’s composition 4’33" with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007 has varying levels of accessibility—and several orders of...

Ben Portis

Stephen Horne

M J Thompson

Randall Anderson

Sandee Moore