Curator
John Price (converSalón, Toronto, 2024)converSalón_40: John Price October 26, 2024 The Arcadia Room, 680 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto Life is eternal for five minutes by John Price 3 projector performance with live guitar doors: 6:30pm dinner: 7pm performance: 8pm Hand-processed materials fill a pair … Continue reading
Curator
Keith Lock (converSalón, Toronto, 2023)converSalón with Keith Lock Saturday January 13 6pm 2023 680 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto Relics of Love and War (40 minutes 2023) Keith Lock, the first Chinese-Canadian filmmaker, returns with a new movie, Relics of Love and War (40 minutes), … Continue reading
On Artists
Nicholas KovatsIt was Holy: an interview with Nicholas Kovats (May 2017) Mike: How did you get interested in movies? Nick: I think the substantial virus was embedded as a 12-year old. My father packed the kids in a 70s-era station wagon … Continue reading
On Artists
Mark CiraTwo Worlds: an interview with Mark Cira (2023) Mike: Armie (2018) is a short one-person psychodrama, featuring a young woman lost in a dream of her haunted past. Her surroundings, whether it’s the abandoned cars in the desert, or surging … Continue reading
Promises (9:25 minutes 2024)
DescriptionA wordless film made of photographs taken from around the world. These briefly glimpsed serial portraits, arranged in sequences of patterned gestures, offer a flow of undreamt pleasures and ruins. “It starts by showing people without faces, and then we … Continue reading
Interviews
Wind at Experimental Brasil Festival (July, 2023)1. Hi Mike. How are you? Please tell our readers a little bit about yourself and your work. I’m burned out, depressed, living on screens. It took me many years to learn how to make a movie, or even to … Continue reading
Books
Birgit Heindownload the PDF Viva Birgit Hein by Caspar Stracke (Facebook, September 26, 2023) Here is a free, downloadable .pdf for those of you interested to read about one of the most exciting key figures in feminist, structural, hard-core experimental European … Continue reading
Michael Stone
Politics 3: Communities of CareBased on a talk by Michael Stone delivered at Centre of Gravity, Toronto. Burn Out I think for many of us burn out is something we don’t recognize. The first form of burn out is vital exhaustion. It’s caused by … Continue reading
Michael Stone
Politics 2: What is Needed?Notes on a talk by Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity Service I’m here because I find that doing this practice and sharing it with other people and working with other people and listening and talking to other people about … Continue reading
Michael Stone
Politics 1: Engaged BuddhistsNotes on a talk by Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity, September 2010 Meeting This summer (August 9-14, 2010) there was a meeting of “engaged Buddhists” which was quite exciting. 70 of the leading Buddhist teachers in North America came, … Continue reading
