Speaking with Estraven Lupino-Smith and Regan Shrumm about Collective Grief, Collective Futures, a workshop series they orchestrated in Victoria with K.P. Dennis as the facilitator, Esmé Hogeveen opens up questions about the implications of community support mechanisms offered by art spaces.

Hogeveen and Sharpe conduct a frank and comprehensive anonymous survey to find out the desires, dreams and (sometimes sad) realities of the Canadian art writer.

Esmé Hogeveen reviews Alexia Laferté-Coutu and Jessica William’s recent show Between Two Eternities at Projet Pangée, Montreal. (January 19 – March 2, 2019).

Esmé Hogeveen reviews American novelist Helen DeWitt’s collection of short stories, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories published with New Directions, 2018.

This article features an interview with Canadian filmmaker Charles Officer whose documentary films deal with the power of language and intercultural stories. In the context of Canada 150, Officer discusses the question of audience and the dilemma of contextualizing work for a country that is still finding its own national identity and voice.

This is a review of Nav Haq’s “RAVE: Rave and Its Influence on Art and Culture” (Black Dog Publishing, 2016).

In this text Esmé Hogeveen discusses Xenofeminsim with Lucca Fraser, Halifax-based theorist, scholar and programmer, and one of the members of Laboria Cuboniks (LC). LC’s relationship to Xenofeminism – a cause for which the group created a manifesto –accounts for the myriad ways it can “facilitate pluralistic feminisms, but also the extent to which technology may constitute an interdisciplinary means for revising, and ideally revitalizing, discourse about gendered identity, labour and bodily experience.” The conversation is divided into five question clusters: DEFINE, ATTEND, UPEND, EXTEND and MANIFEST.

A short and partial compilation of existing experiments in alternative learning.

This article reviews the book Rich and Poor (Book Thug, 2016) by Jacob Wren.

This article, written by Esmé Hogeveen, reviews Linda Rosenkrantz Talk (New York Review Books, 2015).