Border Crossings Magazine

Georges Perec: Soft Chalk and Pigeons

Meeka Walsh

    He was living in Paris, writing in Paris in the ’60s, the ’70s and until his death in 1982, but Georges Perec, in the middle of Paris, could have been a prairie dweller. For him,...

Cartographics: Brian Howell

    Vancouver photographer Brian Howell has always been interested in marginal cultures, from minor league extreme wrestling to celebrity look-alike impersonators. In his most recent project, he has focused his attention on the world of binners,...

Building Memory: 5468796 Architecture Inc

    Canada’s entry for the 2012 Venice Biennale will be a three-dimensional landscape populated by projects that settle into a state of unsettledness. The founding members of Winnipeg’s 5468796 Architecture, Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic, in...

Lamentations: Joanne Tod

    When Toronto painter Joanne Tod began “Oh Canada - A Lament,” in 2007, it was a body of work she hoped would be short-lived. Four years later, her project to paint every Canadian serviceman and...

Words and Pictures, Pictures and Words: Shary Boyle and Emily Duke

    When artists Shary Boyle and Emily Duke began an intense and unguarded e-mail correspondence over a decade ago, they could never have guessed what it would become. They called their picture-and-word collaboration Illuminations, and what...

The Aim of Artists

Robert Enright

KOOP: The Art of Wanda Koop, directed by Katherine Knight and Bull’s Eye: A Painter on the Watch, directed by Bruno Boulianne   In an early scene in Bruno Boulianne’s documentary about Marc Seguin, the Quebec-born painter...

The Toirtoise and the Air: An Interview with Brian Jungen

Robert Enright

    Brian Jungen is a shape-shifter. He is what he makes. The practice of shape-shifting draws attention to his gift for seeing the transformative possibility of the world and the objects in it. When he looks...

The Presents of Film: Guy Maddin and John Waters in Conversation

Introduction by Robert Enright

    No two filmmakers could be more closely associated with the cities where they were born and grew up in than John Waters and Guy Maddin. Waters has shot all of his films in Baltimore (cult...

Daniel Baird

Prophets of Information, Profits of Figuration: Bertram Brooker/IAIN BAXTER&

Adam Lauder

    Canadian art has an addiction to landscape. Recent critical projects exploring what—or more accurately who—has been excluded from Romantic constructions of landscape as pristine and unpopulated have merely reinforced landscape as the common denominator of...

David Garneau

Between Gut and Intellect: Conceptual Writing and the Postmodern Sublime

Malcolm Sutton

    Visual artists, or anyone with a sense of recent art history, will find something ridiculous about the release of an anthology of conceptual writing as a kind of event marking a new movement. Against Expression:...

Shary Boyle and Emily Duke

Emily Falvey

Christine Walde

Joel Faflak

William V Ganis

Guy Michael Dault

John Luna

Robin Laurence

Rosemary Heather

Ross Woodman

James D Campbell

Caroline Bem

Terence Dick

Anna Kovler

Tracy Valcourt

Tom Kohut

Lee Henderson