Revisiting Lists in a Time of Rebellion
Black film must be understood as art, not prescription.1Michael B. Gillespie, Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016), 2.
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Infrastructural Sovereignty: IsumaTV at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale
Each column hosted on Mediapolis is written by a Contributing Editor member of our board, appears two to three times a year, and engages a topic, methodology, or medium in which the author is expert. In each “Screening Canada” column, …
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‘Unceded’ as Elsewhere: Indigenous-Led Concepts of Architecture at the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale
[But our demise is greatly exaggerated – Chelsea Vowel, Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Issue in Canada]
‘Unceded: The Voices of the Land’, the very first Indigenous-led exhibition to be presented at the 2018 …
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The World Is Not Enough
We are pleased to announce that we are now hosting columns on Mediapolis. Each column is written by a Contributing Editor member of our board, appears two to three times a year, and engages a topic, methodology, or medium …
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The Space Between: ‘Rethinking Canada 150: Networks and Nodes in Asian Canadian Visual Culture’
Jinny Yu’s mixed-media piece Black Matter (2013) materializes some of the oppositions that are endemic to the diasporic experience. As Homi K. Bhabha suggested in a recent keynote address, the experience of displacement lends itself to a series of oppositions …
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