RECENT
New Queer Cinema Aesthetics
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ArtReview Asia
Opinion, Fall 2025 "The bond between Arakawa and Takuya also drifts between mentorship, mutual admiration and a quiet intimacy that resists definition. My Sunshine avoids reducing queerness to identity, orientation or even romantic connections. Queerness here is about desiring and withholding, relationships that drift between care, longing and unspoken yearning: a hand adjusting a wrist, a palm pressed gently against the back, a gaze held just a beat too long. The film lingers in this ambiguity, allowing care and discomfort to coexist. The line between guidance and intimacy, between admiration and projection, is never clearly drawn, only traced in passing under faint fluorescent lights." |
Lotus L. Kang on Mirroring, Roots, and in-Betweenness
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The AMP
Interview, June 2025 "Following the cardinal points on a compass, the slow-moving bulb creates a sense of anticipation as it nearly touches a glass bottle but never quite makes contact, two bodies and spirits, so close yet forever apart—like Félix González-Torres’ Perfect Lovers (1987-1990) or Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam (1508-1512). This intangible adoration echoes the diasporic experience: a closeness that remains just out of reach, an unattainable longing that crystallizes into Kang’s concept of 'intimacy via distance.'" |
Glitching the user-friendly interface: in conversation with artist Yehwan Song
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Public Parking
Interview, November 2025 "Hundreds of phones, tablets, and video projections flash in dissonance. Water cascades over touchscreens, tapping, swiping, and scrolling through websites and apps. This endless flow of information animates the hypnotic whiplash of Yehwan Song’s multimedia installations. A Korean-born, New York-based web artist with a background in UX/UI design, Song stages dystopian fantasies of the digital world that subvert the notion of “user-friendly.” Saturating screens with fragmented images of her own body, Song leans into glitch aesthetics (or glitches), seeking out the loopholes and flaws that most interfaces work to conceal. Through immersive installation and interactive performances, Song hacks the design logic of machines, tinkering with her websites, videos, and sculptures to expose the hidden infrastructures of digital systems." |
Crip Trip: Reframing Disability
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PhotoED Magazine
Features, MOVEMENT - Issue #75, 2025 "One of the technical challenges faced by Daniel, who doesn’t have hands, was figuring out how to shoot photographs without lifting a camera to eye level. The team modified film cameras with waist- level viewfinders, including a medium format Mamiya RB67 and a 35mm Nikon F4. This allowed him to frame shots by looking downwards (...)The Crip Trip project looked to challenge the myth of dependence within disability narratives. “As a disabled person, I’m constantly forced to confront the fact that I am interdependent,” Daniel says. “I rely on other people and community to accomplish my goals, and I lean into collaborators and their skill sets.” On the road, Frederick and David assisted with film loading, lens changes, and lighting — processes that require patience, trust, and deep collaboration. What emerged was a body of work celebrating their collective spirit." |
The Object of Desire in Dreams (Love Sex)
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Gleaning
Review, Issue 04, Winter 2025/Spring 2026 "Did these charged moments happen as Johanne describes them, or are they projections of her desire? Haugerud crafted a Rashomon-like blend of truth and fabrication, complicated by the volatility of a teenager’s first love — an all-consuming state in which memories twist, imagination fills the gaps, and neither the narrator nor the audience can fully discern what is true, constructed, or exaggerated (...) Elsewhere in the film, Johanna is shown in close interactions with various women, further unsettling the audience’s certainty. She becomes a knot of projections: is she a potential predator, a misunderstood woman, or a blank screen onto which adolescent fantasy is cast? Johanna is not a single character but many, shaped by who is looking and what they desire. |
Ayanna Dozier on the Sacred Labour of a Whore
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Femme Art Review
Interview, July 2025 "Ayanna Dozier is an artist, writer, and scholar who approaches sex work as a sacred form of labour. For her, erotic labour is not just performed, it is studied, historicized, and positioned alongside artistic and mystical practices as a site of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional expertise (...) Her work asks: Why is spiritual labour exalted, domestic labour expected, and erotic labour condemned, especially when all three are so often enacted by the same gendered and racialized bodies?" |
Morris Fox’s Chainmaille: A Queer Armour
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Ornamentum
Features, Fall/Winter 2025 "For instance, Fox’s Creeper (2024) refers to Creeping Charlie, a small wildflower, or more accurately, a weed. Fox is drawn to weeds as a metaphor for queerness because of their resilience: they keep spreading and cannot easily be eradicated. As he said, “People are always trying to kill weeds, and yet, they persist.” For this piece, Fox used carbon steel and rusted select links by bathing and spraying them with a mixture of vinegar and salt (...) Since rust naturally spreads, over time, it may corrode neighbouring links, allowing the flowers and the queerness they symbolize to gradually overtake the whole piece." |
Invisible Forces: Cecilia Caldiera’s Diagrammatic Language
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Whitehot Magazine
Review, December 2025 "Caldiera extends her directional forces in Under the Moon’s Attraction (2025), a series of three sculptural installations referencing tidal rhythms, gravitational pulls, and lunar cycles. Under the Moon’s Attraction 1 features curved blackened steel structures pointing in multiple directions. Viewers find their gazes shifting back and forth—horizontally, diagonally, across the room—like waves crashing and recoiling, colliding at invisible points within the space. (...) The directional arrangement operates like choreography: viewers are subtly guided and magnetically drawn toward certain angles or pathways, as if led by gravitational pull." |
Editor's Selects: June 2025 - Jo Shane: Lilies Into the Void
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Impulse Magazine
Review, June 2025 "Jo Shane’s work confronts the cult-like pursuit of immortality, eternal beauty, the dream of staying forever young, pure, and immaculate, like lilies in perpetual bloom. This imagery materializes literally in Lilies Into the Void (2025), installed behind the gallery’s front window. Fresh lilies are sealed and preserved in a cryotherapy chamber, their delicate petals trapped behind frosted glass. Set on a plastic sheet of an artificial green hue eerily reminiscent of surgical gowns or latex gloves, the work assumes the unsettling form of an MRI machine or a coffin (...) Both dreamy and morbid, the lilies serve as a metaphor for suspended life: can science, or consumer products, truly freeze time?" |
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Lotus L. Kang on Mirroring, Roots, and in-Betweenness The AMP
Ayanna Dozier on the Sacred Labour of a Whore Femme Art Review
Editor's Selects: June 2025 - Jo Shane: Lilies Into the Void Impulse Magazine
Exhibition Essay for All watched over by machines of loving grace InterAccess
The Art of Artificial Intelligence Imagining Futures of Experimental Media (eBook), Pleasure Dome
To see and speak, like you: Comparing visual and written documentary sources about disability Gleaning, Issue 01, Winter 2024
Exhibition Essay for Sometimes Guilty, Always Responsible Hamilton Artist Inc.
Exhibition Essay for The Reality of Unprecedented Times Blackwood Gallery
Blackwood Gallery Work Study Student Reflections on WISH YOU WERE HERE, WISH HERE WAS BETTER ORGANIZAING OUR GRIEF: A Collaboration in Response to the Overdose Crisis, Blackwood Gallery
Denyse Thomasos: Just Beyond The Varsity
Creativity, Colours and the Mind Compass (Volume 9), University of Toronto Mississauga
Leap into Truth: Decipher the Fall WA Magazine International
Expressive protection: How masks have evolved into fashion The Varsity
Pulse Topology: A collective artwork of light and sound The Strand
Meet Eva Jurcyk, a U of T librarian whose debut novel is a love letter to rare books The Varsity
Forever (Bird Botanicals): how David Constantino's exhibit demonstrated taking flight when faced with crisis The Varsity
"I hope to be doing it until the last moment of my life":retired printmaking instructor Lisa Neighbour reflects on her legacy The Varsity
Build your own Batcave: Thang Vu on what it means to be an artist today The Varsity
A campus lightbox tour of the natural and artificial The Medium
Art major Alek Vuksinic-Gauthier on the trials of remote learning The Medium
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