This month's Featured Artist mix takes the silly and turns it into the strange, happily. Check out Anna Kasko's found-photography piece, BBQ, and discover its suburban absurdity. We can practically smell the barbecue sauce and freshly-mown grass—all we need are The Stooges to serenade us there.
The bi-annual Shooting Gallery Performance Series is a “breeding ground for raw works of dance and performance art”, said co-curator Julie Chapple at Saturday night’s performance. Produced with Sarah Gallos, the two women sift through submissions of established and emerging performance artists interested in exploring new approaches performance. Held at the artist collective The Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret, the series offers a much needed experimental clearing for Vancouver’s performance-based artists.
“Introducing Anna Kasko, SAD's Featured Artist for the month of April, just in time for the Capture Photography Festival. She's one of the talented and expressive photographers exhibiting work in the fest, and I just can't get enough! A few words one could use to describe her photographs are: subdued, familiar, contemplative. I'm in love.”
The 2018 Capture Photography Festival opened today, and opportunities for artistic engagement are boundless! So how do you pick what to see, and where to go? Don't worry, SAD's got you covered. We've compiled a list of exhibitions and events as starting points, to curb your festival-going anxiety. You're welcome!
This dreamy poem from Alison Braid harks back to the era of our Space issue. Now it is presented here for your reading, viewing, and feeling pleasure accompanied by some of Alina Senchenko's lovely photos.
“Jeselnik seems aware of satire’s limits... The pleasure [of his comedy] is as fun and pointless as a box of buttered popcorn, a bad movie, a freezing cold shower. And maybe that’s okay. At his recent Vancouver show, the crowd loved it; Jeselnik roasted us, we sizzled, and it was fun.”
In this interview, we get to know our February Featured Artist, Max Ammo. Raised in Mexico City and now based in Vancouver, Max is a formidable and subversive audiovisual artist. In this interview, they talk about their humble beginnings, their process, and their exciting upcoming projects. Check it out!
Following the oh-so-conventional (puke in my mouth a bit) hallmark holiday came this refreshingly honest, open, and humourous series of acts responding to ideologies of love, romance, and relationships. The Unconventional Romance Variety Show celebrated sex and uncovered stereotypical notions of modern-day romance. Spicy, gritty and sometimes grotesque, the show offered racy entertainment for those seeking a not-so-hallmark approach to sensory stimulation.
Here's the second of our two JFL NorthWest interviews; this time Sasheer Zamata is in the hot seat. Read on, and get excited about all the amazing comedy that's soon to grace Vancouver's stage! Lots to look forward to!
As a warm up for this year's JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Comedy Festival, we've prepared interviews with two of the fest's headliners. First up! Comedy whiz Beth Stelling. Stay tuned for more, very soon!
We are exceptionally pleased to present our latest Featured Artist playlist, inspired by Max Ammo's piece, Jardin (de los Sentidos). Stare into its strange depths while listening to some equally strange/punk-y/lush/electrifying tunes.
If you’re a lover of fairy tales with teeth, then look no further than Mallory Ortberg’s newest work The Merry Spinster, a collection of dark short stories adapted from her series “Children’s Stories Made Horrific”. Beloved for her daily literary wit on the cult-hit website The Toast, and bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre, Ortberg has curated a chilling and hilarious romp through eleven classic stories.
The underground art scene, where so much of the hard work of creative production takes place, can seem strangely disconnected from the white-cube world of fine art. Nicolas Sassoon’s new show at Wil Aballe Art Projects, ‘Index Avenue Skylight’, brings these two halves of the art world together.
The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg is an exhibition curated in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, which offers an in-depth retrospective of the development of Murakami’s paintings from the 1980s to the present, featuring fifty-five paintings and sculptures across the second floor of the gallery.
Some final PuSh reviews for you! Read 'em and either be glad you attending excellent theatre, or be sad that you missed out. There's always next year, though!
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