Art and Democracy

In November 2008, I saw a theatrical piece by Dave St. Pierre at Theatre La Chapelle in Montreal.  The piece was entitled “Warning” and it was produced by Mandala Situ.  It was my first exposure to the choreography of Dave […]

Artist Biography: Self-taught in traditional photographic practice, dating to the 1960’s, David Duchow switched to the less-polluting digital in the late 1990’s. In 2001 he began to flip images, creating a Rorschach-like mirrored result. Central to his work is the […]

Art is Democracy ! Acknowledgements: 1)The Design of Dissent, Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic, Rockport Publishers Inc. www.rockpub.com 2)Paper, Paper Publishing Company, New York, www.papermag.com 3)Jean-Michel Basquiat, by Richard Marshall, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York I am strolling […]

Biography: Montreal-born Martin Duckworth came to filmmaking from a background in history. Duckworth was on staff at the National Film Board of Canada from 1963 – 1970 and since that time, has made films there as a free lancer. He […]

  Artist Biography: Mike Wozniewski is a designer and developer of interactive software for the arts. As a freelance researcher, he maintains collaborations with several recognized institutions and works with many creative minds who likewise seek to push the boundaries […]

  “The Noise/Silence of Lasting Peace” [after seeing Yoko Ono “Imagine” exhibit in the Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal] @ 2009 by James Cockcroft   End wars by noise of revolutionary multitudes. Enduring silence.

  When a person experiences invasion of any kind, one of three phenomena happen: Flight, Fight or Freeze. Any degree of aggression, force, trauma, violence, and post-traumatic stress, triggers the nervous system to react in one of these ways.  Modern […]

  1. At Checkpoint Charlie customs huts   The death strip – scraped earth :wildflowers.   Sepia postcard of the Brandenburg Gate. Organized bus tour. A one-day visit.   2. Windows are bricks instead of glass.   3. A summer […]

[From the book The Men Who Killed Me: Rwandan Survivors of Sexual Violence, © 2009, by Anne-Marie de Brouwer & Sandra Ka Hon Chu, with photographs by Samer Muscati, published by Douglas & McIntyre: an imprint of D&M Publishers Inc. […]

  Norman Bethune by Adrienne Clarkson Penguin Canada hardcover, 200 pp, 2009 At a conference on April 15, 2009 at Concordia University, Adrienne Clarkson, former governor general of Canada and now biographer of Norman Bethune, suggested that one of the […]

               Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art.  Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. By Ruud Priem and others. Vancouver Art Gallery and D & M Publishers Inc, 2009.                 Art is often likened to a gadfly […]

[See English version below]           غزوة غزة    بأكتبلَك من جوه حصار بأكتبلَك من تحت جدار كان يوم شايل سقف الدار بأكتبلك من أرضي الحِبلى بالأحرار بأسمي وبأسم الشهدا والثوار … بأكتبلَك … وفي حلقي مرار […]

  Kolkata Dreams K. Gandhar Chakravarty 8th House Publishing, Montreal Canada 2009, 75 pages “I wonder what it must be like To fuck with a severed penis.”   Montrealer K. Gandhar ‘Ginsburg’ Chakravarty knows his penis from his elbow.  He […]

  June 04, 2009   Note for readers of Serai: I recently composed this poem in homage to my dear Cuban friend Celia Hart for a book being published in her memory by Havana’s Martí Studies Center. The poem’s title […]