• PUBLISHED on November 13, 2014

Myriam Bleau, Soft Revolvers, 2014. (photo: Reilly Forbes) Sounds Like is an annual audio art festival based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Started in 2011 by AKA artist-run, it quickly expanded to a three-fold partnership between PAVED Arts, a Saskatoon media based artist-run gallery and production centre and Holophon, a non-profit organization that seeks to unite communities using sound as an […]

• PUBLISHED on December 01, 2012

La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers. Correspondances, Charles Baudelaire Des tombeaux illustratifs de Jean-Philippe Deneault   Un des premiers contacts des représentants d’un lieu d’exposition avec les œuvres se fait souvent […]

• PUBLISHED on December 01, 2012

[Translation] Nature is a temple in which living pillars At times emit garbled speech Man crosses it through forests of symbols That watch him with familiar eyes “Correspondances”, Charles Baudelaire On Illustrative Elegies By Jean-Philippe Deneault English translation by Sue Stewart   One of the first occasions for contact between workers at an exhibition venue […]

• PUBLISHED on October 16, 2012

Fiona Annis The After-Image (Swan Songs) November 2nd to  December 1st, 2012 Opening reception Nov. 2 @ 8 PM The expression ‘swan song” is derived from the Greek myth that swans are mute, but burst into song before they die. This legend was embraced by poets and came to mean a person’s last eloquent words […]

• PUBLISHED on October 09, 2012

Every Line & Every Other Line Bruce LaBruce \ Cathy Busby \ Brendan Fernandes \ Suzy Lake \ Arthur Renwick Curator’s essay by J.J. Kegan McFadden “It is the face that has the privilege, endlessly observed, of expressing itself on its own expression.  The minute play of the facial actors (eyes, mouth, brows, chin, nose) […]

• PUBLISHED on September 11, 2012

Every Line & Every Other Line September 14th to October 20th, 2012 Opening Reception : Friday September 14th 2012 @ 8 PM Pulling together the work of emerging and established artists in the lens based and photographic arts, Every Line & Every Other Line calls into question the history of portraiture, but also makes evident […]

• PUBLISHED on September 05, 2012

The political landscape has often been divided geographically and few divisions are so evocative of conflict and exoticism as East and West. Notions of East and West are often imagined, with political and geographic borders changing and rarely lining up. More than anything, they evoke attitudes and ideologies rather than geopolitical realities.   Canada is […]

• PUBLISHED on July 27, 2012

Musician/audio artist Jeffrey Allport (SK) explores sound through composition, installation, performance, and recording, focusing on its comprehensive characteristics. Allport will perform in AKA gallery, amidst his recent collaboration with Kara Uzelman, WARBLERS. He’ll be joined by Gil Arnò (NYC) and Rob Pederson (BC).

• PUBLISHED on May 23, 2012

Warblers is an audio exploration of rural life in Nokomis SK by Kara Uzelmen and Jeffery Allport.

• PUBLISHED on May 04, 2012

Heather Passmore examines the politics of taste, class and “cultural value” in the contemporary Canadian art world.