Michael Stone
Grasping (money) March. 4, 2014Notes on a talk by Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity, Toronto on March 4, 2014 Stages Here at Gravity our practice doesn’t proceed in laid out stages exactly – mostly we’re sitting and feeling our breathing. Over time you … Continue reading
Michael Stone
Who am I? What should I do? Feb. 4, 2014Notes on a talk by Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity on Feb. 4, 2014 Tonight we’re going to mull over this koan: “What is the core of Buddhism?” a student asks. Qinguan (the teacher) replies, “What is the price … Continue reading
Interviews
Practice and Revolution: an interview with Chase Joynt (Dec 2013)Chase: How much of your method can be described as a (never-ending) quest to make “that film?” The one that tells it, the one that shows it, the one that makes it make sense to you, or perhaps to other … Continue reading
Essays
Infection as Practice (January 2014)This paper was read as the beginning of my MFA ‘defense’ at York University in Toronto. Research Perhaps inevitably, after all these years living in the universe of my computer, I am struck by the gravitational pull of my new … Continue reading
Michael Stone
Why Can’t the Tail Pass Through? January 14, 2014Notes on a talk by Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity, January 14, 2014 Koans Koans are often teaching devices that take the form of a dialogue between two people. They were dished orally, and eventually collections would form, often … Continue reading
Essays
Collaboration (November 2013)I wanted to take up this question of how to take a photograph, how to make a picture. And this question is related to the more fundamental question underlying photography, underlying all of art: how do I look? It’s a … Continue reading
Freud Signs
Freud SignsWhen the art world of an entire country stretches out for just a few blocks in a handful of cities, perhaps it’s inevitable that do-it-yourself efforts would poke up out of the concrete for a season or three, before giving … Continue reading
Books
Now as a Bird (2013)Why not download this handsome PDF? hallwalls_book_FINAL_2013 Now as a Bird, Now as a Worm, Now as a Plant is a 120 page catalogue for a show at Hallwalls Gallery in Buffalo, NY by Dani Leventhal, Mike Hoolboom, Emily Vey Duke … Continue reading
Posters
CEAC in picturesKensington Arts Association, October 1975 (4 Kensington) CEAC (Centre for Experimental Arts and Communication), December 1975 CEAC, January-Feb 1976 (86 John Street) CEAC, March 1976 (86 John Street) CEAC, April 1976 (86 John Street) CEAC, May 1976 schedule, and poster for John Faichney’s … Continue reading
