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**Xenia Benivolski** is a writer and curator currently based in Toronto.

Kink gives us an opportunity to question the limits of convention as they meet with hierarchical systems. Taking kink as a shapeshifter—a conscious negotiation of desire and relations based on principles like consent—this issue embraces queerness, disobedience, disruption, and complex embodiment. Through artistic explorations of BDSM, impact play, subspace, fan fiction, eroticized debt, Indigenous-settler relations, and more, contributors dive into the fleshy and political consequences of desire as sites to reinvent our bonds to one another.

Kink

“Signal to Noise” ran from 28 October to 3 December 2023 at Hunt Gallery, Toronto.


“Signal to Noise” — John Monteith and Lou Sheppard

Refusal

This article reviews the group show “Le Grand Balcon”, BNLMTL 2016, which was held at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal from October 19, 2016 to January 15, 2017 as part of the Montreal Biennial. 

Le Grand Balcon, BNLMTL

Performance

This article reviews Rodrigo Hernández’s exhibition every forest madly in love with the moon has a highway crossing it from one side to the other presented at Kurimanzutto in Mexico City from Feb. 6 – March 17, 2016.

Rodrigo Hernández: every forest madly in love with the moon has a highway crossing it from one side to the other

Artist Project

D. St-Amour (they/she) is a writer, book-maker, and recovering arts worker. Since 2011, St-Amour has held curatorial, administrative, and research positions at a range of institutions, including the AGO, the Walter Phillips Gallery, Art Metropole, and Galerie SBC. St-Amour regularly writes about artists’ books and publishing practices through the lens of visual arts and media history, and is slowly publishing a series of queer sci-fi and speculative fiction books through their slow-press project, specific. place (with co-editor S F Ho). Recently, St-Amour completed an MA in Art History/Visual Cultures at York University, and is currently an MLIS candidate at Western University in London. 


Predecessors

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

Rearviews: With Onyeka Igwe, Amy Lam, Tiziana La Melia, Raymond Boisjoly, Oliver Husain and Mohammad Salemy

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Xenia Benivolski

“Signal to Noise” — John Monteith and Lou Sheppard

Le Grand Balcon, BNLMTL

Rodrigo Hernández: every forest madly in love with the moon has a highway crossing it from one side to the other

Rearviews: With Onyeka Igwe, Amy Lam, Tiziana La Melia, Raymond Boisjoly, Oliver Husain and Mohammad Salemy