Guest Editors for Ruin Lead EditorâRicky Varghese received his PhD through the Department of Social Justice Education (formerly known as the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education) at OISE/University of Toronto. He, as well, holds an MA…
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MOLECULAR
How might we break down the known into particles of the unknown in order for a new consciousness to emerge? Drain calls for works of art, thought experiments, essays and reviews that explore the unknown micro-universe beyond the perceptible, rational…
Conversion
Emily Nachison.
My artwork explores the human perception of nature and transformation. Mythology, scientific history and New-Age idealism become starting points for an investigation into the cultural creation of landscape.
This series of work, titled Conversion, investigates the transformation of matter. Both installations, Hall of Conversion and Crystalline Conversion are comprised of suspended glass apothecary dishes. Each dish balances a cast glass sculptural piece that shares the exact same weight and volume as the rest. The glass pieces shape shift from one form to the next, illustrating natural cycles of growth and decay, while retaining the same volumetric proportion. This work serves as a reflection of our ever-changing, yet never dying, world. Our world is one of transformation and not destruction.
Urban Art Interventions and Molecular Flows
Elisha Masemann Abstract: The underlying premise of most urban art interventions is to challenge the functional use of urban space and disrupt the social relationships integral to public life. They materialise as an extensive range of ephemeral constructions, spontaneous installations…
Jason Lazarus
Natasha Chaykowski All images courtesy Jason Lazerus. Studio-style portraits with a patina and palette that shines of decades past; ill-framed candid group photos; and unfocussed 4 x 6 snapshots of unremarkable landscapes, dreary skyscapes and abstract seascapes. This is some…
F’d Up!
Jaclyn Qua-Hiansen In a January 2013 interview with the National Gallery of Canada Magazine, Kai Chan says he works with everyday materials like fiber because, unlike traditional fine art materials such as bronze and oil paint, âthey speak a lot…
Occasional Rays
Linden How I A prism is an object whose function requires that it be placed between things. It can be made of glass, plastic, water. It must have at least three sides, but can have many more. In its simplest…
Sediments and the Other Untitled…
Vibha Galhotra The earthâs composition is seventy percent water. Our bodyâs composition is an average of sixty percent water. In this relationship, the environmental responsibility of human beings towards the vitality of preserving the major percentage of an element that…
Molecular Texts
David Abel. Zetaqop Ladder (for Alison Knowles) and Molecular Text #2: Solids were created for the 2011 exhibition Object Poems at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
The processes under development and on display in these works can be taken in many ways. Two approaches that seem especially apt to point out: an intervention in the rules governing the representation of a text by constituent parts; and a concretization of the figurative character of writing, a literalization of the nonliteral. Here Iâm taking my senses of âfigurativeâ and âliteralâ from Owen Barfieldâs Speakerâs Meaning (Wesleyan, 1967):
Science’s Monsters, Monstrous Feminisms
Alison Roth Cooley In the summer of 2012, at the Tate modern, I line up to see Damien Hirstâs major retrospective with my mother. The line is so long we wonât be able to get in for several hours. People…