Anni Araújo Spadafora threads together discussions around contemporary textile-based artists, noise music, myth, and memory. With editorial contributions from D. St-Amour, Spadafora interprets the hours of time spent on the loom as a kind of devotional repetition that makes absurd temporalities possible and reveals patterns of life.

Danielle St. Amour reviews Paul Soulellis’s 2018 publication QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK. She situates this work in the context of mass information erasures leading up to and following the presidential election of 2016.

Following their collaborative gathering at the Banff International Curatorial Institute in the spring of 2015, these writers reflect upon works of art they encountered both within, and outside of, the Banff Centre’s collection. Writing about concealed artworks, frequent returns to the Banff Centre, and the minor events that constitute one’s visit, these writers ruminate upon the ways in which these works defy their intended ephemerality, coming to embody a sense of place and history within the context of the Banff Centre.

Rearviews is a publication project co-organized by Xenia Benivolski and Danielle St-Amour.