Editorial Director Kari Cwynar introduces the theme of “institutions” in this issue.

Editor Jaclyn Bruneau and Editorial Director Kari Cwynar introduce the theme of “trust” in this issue.

Editor Kari Cwynar introduces the theme of “games” in this issue, as well as welcoming Jaclyn Bruneau as C Magazine’s new editor and collaborator as Kari takes on a new role as Editorial Director.

Editor Kari Cwynar introduces the theme of Time in this issue, offering a strong focus on artists and writers that re-imagine traditional time-based institutions like archives and libraries. The issue invites readers to look at “gaps” in history and documentation and explore alternate voices and narratives.

Editor Kari Cwynar introduces the theme of “Voice” in this issue, in which critical conversations and dialogue-based writing from artists in a wide variety of disciplines are highlighted.

Editor Kari Cwynar introduces the theme of “Land” in this issue, structured specifically around Canada 150 conflicts and with consideration to the way that artists interact with land, intentionally or otherwise.

Editor Kari Cwynar introduces this issue’s theme of “Refusal”, emphasizing its inherent “messiness” and deep relevance in today’s political climate.

Artist John Edmonds began his series Hoods in 2016. In these selected portraits, the evocative nature of the anonymous hooded subjects suggests a new kind of conversation about bodies and communication. Kari Cwynar introduces the series and proposes her critical stance on the work.

This article explores how words and voices are reproduced in art. It employs the practice of typographer, and occasional musician, Will Holder as the medium through which varying issues in oral and textual artistic documentation are raised and discussed. The article focuses on the collaborative nature of documentation and suggests that the idea of conversation in the creation of extant works and the diversity of their reproduction.

This article discusses Ieva Misevičiūtė and Michael Portnoy’s Experimental Comedy Training Camp residency held at The Banff Center for the Arts in 2012, and Doored, a performance series in Toronto. The author argues that this experimental practice employs the formal structure and conventions of stand-up comedy to engage and develop the performer-audience relationship, without producing humour for its own sake.

This article reviews the exhibition A Problem So Big It Needs Other People, which was curated by cheyanne turions and held at the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art in Montreal from March 15 to May 3, 2014.

This article discusses the notion of parasitism within art writing, and the art writer’s relationship to existing linguistic discourses, rules, and regulations.

The article reviews the art exhibition Models for Taking Part, featuring several artists including Tobias Zielony, Artur Zmijewski, and Anetta Mona Chisa, on display at the Presentation House Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, on display from February 19 to May 1, 2011.