Exploring the liminal world of dreams.
Vol. 31, No. 3 Issue No. 123
In this issue: Guy Maddin, Tommy Hartung, Louise Bourgeois, Arni Haraldsson, Julia Feyrer
BORDERNOTES
Meeka Walsh’s poetic imagination explores dreams and the spaces in between. Far less interested in the recounting of a vivid dream, for Walsh, it is “the elusive, allusive space, the trails of confusion we feel on waking and best, the sensation of falling into dream, slipping, Alice-over-rabbit down or into anticipation, that is a pursuit worthy of real effort”.
BORDERCOLUMN
Robert Enright takes a close look at Alison Klayman’s documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. Enright notes that for Weiwei there is no separation between public and private, nor between art and life.
INTERVIEWS
“A Constellation of Narratives: Dreaming the History of Lost Cinema, An interview with Guy Maddin”
In this intriguing and hilarious interview, Meeka Walsh and Robert Enright converse candidly with world-renowned filmmaker, Guy Maddin about lucid dreaming, the death of his father, and the idea of making lost or forgotten films in his newest project, Séances.
Maddin confesses: “I knew I would never make the originals; I’m not Gance or any of these people, but at least it would be something. I immediately thought of the contagion of Salome adaptations that spread across Europe in the late-19th century, when Gustave Moreau made his paintings and Beardsley his prints; Wilde himself, Strauss and countless others made their Salomes. So I thought, why not treat a lost movie like a Biblical text that you’re free to adapt and make your own version of.”
“Showing Nothing, Showing Everything: Tommy Hartung’s Search for the Sublime”
In Tommy Hartung’s first Canadian interview the eccentrically unique video artist, animator and sculptor talks about his creationist upbringing, his intimate connection to the materials he uses, and how this all relates to his most recent project, Anna.
Probed about his ambiguous relationship to the narrative of Anna Karenina (the video’s inspiration), Hartung reveals, “I wanted to give people pieces, like with Hansel and Gretel and the breadcrumbs. I leave behind little traces of that narrative with which people can identify”.
ESSAYS
“Shouting at the Silents: The Cine-Dreams of Delmore Schwarz” by Jonah Corne
Jonah Corne’s profound and lyrical essay explores the filmic qualities of Delmore Schwarz’s essential short story, In Dreams Begin Responsibility.
“Dark Utopias: the Dream Life of New Cinema” by Daniel Baird
Daniel Baird discusses the ethereal link between dream worlds and realities in the contemporary cinematic creations of Jeremy Blake, Ben Rivers, and John Akomfrah.
ARTICLES
“Timekeeper, Timemaker: The Art of Julia Feyrer” by Lee Henderson
Beautifully linking the concepts of time and memory with that of dreams, Lee Henderson examines the work of inter-disciplinary artist, Julia Feyrer. Henderson’s careful reading of Feyrer’s films, sculptures and installations responds to the question: “Does our socialized notion of time do an accurate job of representing how we experience life?”
“Living On: Louise Bourgeois’s Dangerous Passages” by Mariianne Mays Wiebe
Mariiane Mays Wiebe eloquently places Louise Bourgeois’ work in an intelligent context through referencing Freud’s seminal work, The Interpretation of Dreams. What results is a decidedly perfect fit for this issue. About Bourgeois’s work, the writer astutely notes: “She transforms vulnerable, problematic, very private and often unacknowledged feelings—the powerlessness of shame, the helplessness of chaotic emotions, forbidden thoughts—into concrete form.”
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
“5 Poems,”elegantly touchingondreamsby John Wall Barger, and Arni Haraldsson’s documentation of his experiencing “the appearance of the past within the present and the fate of certain images,” in Roger Fenton and the Fate of Images: A Journal and a Journey.
BORDERVIEWS
A glimpse at the bookshelf featuring four recent artist’s books: Sylvia Matas‘s In Every Direction, michael benjamin brown‘s Winterhouses, Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier‘s Call Ampersand Response, and the latest creative production of Paul + Wendy Projects, Rob Wakshinki‘s DOTSSSS.
CROSSOVERS
Extensive Crossovers section featuring 18 reviews:
Lynne Cohen, Cindy Sherman, Karina Kraenzle, Francesca Woodman, Valérie Blass, Wangechi Mutu, Ghada Amer, Luke Painter, Pieter Hugo, Stephen Hutchings, Gordon Peterson, Keren Cytter, Enn Erisalu, Zin Taylor, Oh Canada, Paper Doll, dOCUMENTA (13), Beat Nation, and The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968–1978.
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