The Desert Turned To Glass

Charles Stankievech from his solo exhibition The Desert Turned To Glass just closed this past weekend at Oakville Galleries, Oakville, in the southwest of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA):

Frigid Lake Ontario just outside the gallery at Gairloch Garden:

Alternative Histories

From the exhibition Alternative Histories currently at Division Gallery, Toronto ...

Nicolas Baier:

Charles Stankievech:

Miruna Dragan:

Patrick Coutu:

The Soniferous Æther Of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond 2

I first saw this short film two years ago at Toronto's Nuit Blanche.  I was very pleased to see Charles Stankievech's The Soniferous Æther Of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond showing here again at Prefix ICA last week.  Perpetual nights of the unforgiving Nunavut winter, where everything seems to have frozen ...

CounterIntelligence

This show is a surprise.  It's closing this week.  So I must write about it before flying to London tonight.  The ambitious exhibition CounterIntelligence curated by Charles Stankievech at Toronto's Justina M. Barnicke Gallery reveals the seemingly unlikely connection between art and secret intelligence/military surveillance from historic to the most recent times.  Close to 100 items are on display.

Anna-Sophie Springer's Cleve Backster Interrogates To Janet Craig:

El Lissitzky's Proun Room drawing:

Edward Snowden's Public Encryption Key:

Harun Farocki's Serious Games IV: A Sun With No Shadow:

Trevor Paglen's NOYFB:

Abbas Akhavan's Study For Blue Shield:

Yves Klein's book Peintures: 10 Planches En Colours:

Canadian Forces' CADPAT Camouflage Design:

Site (Specific): Satellite Images Of Earthworks:

Paul Virilio's book Bunker Archéologie:

Charles Stankievech's redacted postcard 89°29'58"N 62°20'5"W:

The Soniferous Æther Of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond

Stills from Charles Stankievech's beautiful film showing an abandoned military outpost in the perpetual night of Nunavut winter, at Toronto's Nuit Blanche, downtown financial district last night:

Here's the trailer from STANKIEVECH's vimeo channel - brilliant sight and sound!