Publication history.

 

"you can't spell slaughter without laughter." Essay for artist Christine Negus's 2012 exhibition at Gallery TPW, Toronto.

"Fast Trip Long Drop" in Little Joe 3 (2011). Essay on the 1993 film by Gregg Bordowitz.

"Matthew Brower, Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography" in RACAR (Revue d'art canadienne | Canadian Art Review) 36.2 (2011). Book review.

"Close Up: Stan Douglas" in Canadian Art, Summer 2011. Short text.

"Alberta, Authenticity, and Queer Erasure" in The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon (University of Nebraska Press, 2011), edited by William R. Handley.

"Superlovestarpower 2: The Album Project." Short essay for artist Goody-B Wiseman's exhibition at Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, March 7 - April 18, 2011.

"One Dead Queer" in American Quarterly 62.4 (December 2010). Review essay of the event Live Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World, Berlin .

"Le Quattro Volte / Michelangelo Frammartino & Nostalgia for the Light / Patricio Guzmán" in Cinema Scope 45 (Winter 2011). Article.

"Pop Life: Bad Art, Good Gossip" on Canadian Art online, July 22, 2010. Review of the exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada.

"On Year of the Dog" in C Magazine 107 (Autumn 2010). Appreciation of Mike White's 2007 film.

"My Rectum Is Not a Grave: Will Munro's Inside the Solar Temple of the Cosmic Leather Daddy" in Fuse 33.3 (Summer 2010). A review of Munro's exhibition at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.

"The World Is Made of Work." Essay for artists Elisabeth Belliveau and Jessica MacCormack's exhibition natural disasters, pets, and other stories at Stride Gallery, Calgary, June 11 - July 9, 2010.

"Monitors: Susan Lakin and Steve Lyons." Essay for the artists' two-person exhibition at Gallery 44, Toronto, June 4 - July 3, 2010.

"When We Were Young, When We Grew Up" in No One Helped Me: Story Drawing and Animation by Daniel Barrow (Winnipeg: ace art inc., 2010). Essay on the artist's work.

"Ryan Trecartin: Data Purge" in SWITCH 3 (2010). Curatorial essay to accompany his exhibition Any Ever at The Power Plant (co-curated with Helena Reckitt).

"The Gossip and Ghosts of Colin Campbell" in Public 39 / New Communities (2010), edited by Nina Möntmann. Essay on Colin Campbell's life and work, and on the ghosts of dead queer artists.

"Spotlight: La Pivellina (Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel)" in Cinema Scope 41 (Winter 2010). Review of the Austrian/Italian film.

"Animal House" in Canadian Art, Winter 2009. Review of the group exhibition curated by Stefan St-Laurent at SAW Gallery, Ottawa.

"An Incubator for Utopia: Luis Jacob and Noam Gonick's Wildflowers of Manitoba" in Luis Jacob: Towards a Theory of Impressionist and Expressionist Spectatorship (Kunstverein in Hamburg / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2009), edited by Meike Behm and Yilmaz Dziewior.

Trash: A Queer Film Classic. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009. 175 pp. Book on the 1970 Paul Morrissey/Andy Warhol film. Available online and in stores. Brief interview here. Reviews from Quill & Quire, Cineaste online and C Magazine. Toronto & Berlin launch pictures here.

"Form Follows Fiction: A Reconstruction of a Reconstruction" in No More Potlucks 6 "Crux" (Nov/Dec. 2009). Review of the exhibition The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion at the Art Gallery of York University.

"Chris Flanagan, Cambridge." Essay for artist Chris Flanagan's Cambridge: The Album Project (2009) in Cambridge, Ontario, commissioned by RENDER, Waterloo.

"Possibilities of Redemption" in Canadian Art, Fall 2009. Feature on the artists Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

"John Greyson Has Got Us Covered" in Xtra!, September 10, 2009. Feature on filmmaker John Greyson and his new short Covered.

"Hide-&-Seek" in Xtra!, September 10, 2009. Feature on filmmaker Jamie Travis and his new short The Armoire.

"Aleesa Cohene: Something Better" in C Magazine 103 (Autumn 2009). Review of the exhibition at YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto.

"Brüno is messy, perverted & brilliant" in Xtra!, July 9, 2009. Review of Larry Charles's film Brüno, starring Sacha Baron Cohen.

"What Can Cinema Do?" in C Magazine 101 (Spring 2009). Article on Steve McQueen's film Hunger and Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige's film Je veux voir.

People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell. Oakville Galleries, 2008. Texts by Jon Davies and John Greyson. 64 pp. Available on Amazon or from the distributor ABC Art Books.

“Peter Kingstone” in Canadian Art, Winter 2008. Review of his exhibition 100 Stories About My Grandmother at Gallery TPW.

“Queerly Provocative” in Xtra!, December 4, 2008. Interview and article on Bruce LaBruce for his retrospective at the Royal Theatre.

“Shaking the Foundations” in Xtra!, December 4, 2008. Review of Nagisa Oshima’s Gohatto at Cinematheque Ontario.

“A Movie and Much, Much More” in Vertigo 4.1 (Winter 2008). Extended obituary of Bruce Conner.

“Darkness Visible” in Vertigo 4.1 (Winter 2008). Extended interview with Peter Greenaway about his film Nightwatching.

“Ferocious Empathy” in Xtra!, November 6, 2008. Article on Paul Wong.

“Flaming Pixels, Cosmic Puke: Ryan Trecartin’s A Family Finds Entertainment” in Cinematic Folds: the furling and unfurling of images (Pleasure Dome, 2008), edited by Firoza Elavia.

“It was a dark and stormy night…” Essay for artist Jean-Paul Kelly's solo exhibition And fastened to a dying animal at Gallery TPW, Toronto, October 16 - November 15, 2008.

"Bruce Conner, 1933-2008" in C Magazine 99 (Autumn 2008). Obituary.

"Black and White" in Xtra!, September 11, 2008. Review of Glenn Ligon's video installation The Death of Tom at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art during the Toronto International Film Festival.

"Savagery, Slums & Cinema Magic" in Xtra!, August 28, 2008. Feature interview with filmmaker Terence Davies and review of his film Of Time and the City at the Toronto International Film Festival.

"A Polite Way of Being Desperate" in Cineaction 75. Interview with Marjane Satrapi about her film Persepolis.

"High Artifice & Raw Performances" in Xtra!, July 17, 2008. Article on the Luchino Visconti retrospective at Cinematheque Ontario.

"Props to the Fairy People" in C Magazine 98 (Summer 2008). Feature on the artists FASTWÜRMS and their touring exhibition DONKY@ NINJA@WITCH. Expanded and reprinted in the catalogue FASTWÜRMS: DONKY@NINJA@WITCH, published by the Art Gallery of York University in 2011.

"Rightfully Yours," in C Magazine 98 (Summer 2008). Review of curator Tejpal Singh Ajji's group exhibition Rightfully Yours, at the Justina M Barnicke Gallery. Reprinted in ESPACE 84 (Summer 2008).

Review of Chris Gehman and Steve Reinke's anthology "The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema" in Canadian Journal of Film Studies 17.1 (Spring 2008).

"The Dream Machine" in Xtra!, April 10, 2008. Interview and review of Nik Sheehan's documentary FLicKeR at Hot Docs.

"Images Fest: GB Jones" and "Queer View" in Xtra!, March 27, 2008. Interview and preview of Jones's film The Lollipop Generation and overview of queer programming at the Images Festival.

"Drawing Blood: Artist Daniel Barrow" in Xtra!, March 27, 2008. Interview and preview of Barrow's performance Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry at the Harbourfront Centre (during the Images Festival).

"Kadar Brock: You Only Live Once" in Artkrush 80, March 19, 2008. Review of his exhibition at Angell Gallery.

Essay for video artist Nelson Henricks’s exhibition Undertones at Gallery 44 (and Images Festival), Toronto, March 13 - April 12, 2008.

“Strangers in a Strange Land: Christina Battle’s Pirates.” Essay for filmmaker Christina Battle’s show Uncharted Histories: Pirates at YYZ Artists Outlet (and Images Festival), Toronto, March 8 - April 19, 2008.

“One, Some, Many: 3 Shows by Carsten Höller” in C Magazine 97 (Spring 2008). Review of his exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada’s Shawinigan Space.

"Steven Shearer" in Artkrush 77, February 6, 2008. Review of his exhibition at The Power Plant.

"Viva Anna Biller!" in Xtra!, February 28, 2008. Review of Anna Biller's film Viva.

"Family Romance" in C Magazine 96 (Winter 2007). Feature on the art of Guy Ben-Ner.

"Auto Emotion" in C Magazine 96 (Winter 2007). Review of the group exhibition Auto Emotion: Autobiography, Emotion and Self-Fashioning at The Power Plant.

"Deviant Wishes" in Xtra!, December 6, 2007. Interview with John Waters about his one-man Christmas show.

"I Dream in Technicolor" in NY Arts, November-December 2007. Article on Los Super Elegantes.

"Diva Face-off" in Xtra!, September 13, 2007. Interview and profile of artist Francesco Vezzoli.

"Two Versions of Engagement" in C Magazine 95 (Fall 2007). Polemic on Rirkrit Tiravanija and Harrell Fletcher.

"Roy and Silo's Gay Wading" in the catalogue for wade 2006 (eds. Sally McKay, Christie Pearson and Sandra Rechico). Text on John Greyson and Margaret Moores's installation Roy and Silo's Wedding at the Vermont Park pool, Toronto, July 9, 2006.

"Breathing Life into Phantoms" in Xtra!, June 7, 2007. Interview and profile of filmmaker Barbara Hammer.

"The Lost World of Atlantis" in Xtra!, May 24, 2007. Review of Mary Jordan's film Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.

"Dr. Strangelove by Kristan Horton" in Prefix Photo 15 (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2007). Book review.

"Imagining Intergenerationality: Representation and Rhetoric in the Pedophile Movie" in GLQ : A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Vol. 13, Nos. 2-3 (2007). Moving image review essay in the special issue Queer Temporalities.

"Kenneth Anger Me" in C Magazine 93 (Spring 2007). Report on Kenneth Anger's appearance, retrospective and Elio Gelmini's documentary Anger Me at the Bloor Cinema.

"Written in the Body" in Xtra! March 29, 2007. Review of Babette Mangolte's film Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramovic and other programming at the Images Festival.

"Deeply Unsettled and Uncertain" in Xtra!, March 1, 2007. Profile of artist Steve Reinke.

"The Diva of Suburbia" in Xtra!, February 1, 2007. Review of Oliver Husain's video art trilogy Swivel, Shrivel and Squiggle.

"Nurtured in Darkness: Queer Childhood in the Films of Todd Haynes" in The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven Allows (Wallflower Press, 2006), edited by James Morrison.

"The Virtuosity of Slavoj Zizek" in Cinema Scope 29 (Winter 2007). Article on the theorist's star image and the documentaries Zizek!, Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual and The Pervert's Guide to Cinema.

"Quixotic Liberty" in Xtra!, December 21, 2006. Review of Lasse Nielsen and Ernst Johansen's 1978 film You Are Not Alone.

"By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them" in Xtra!, November 23, 2006. Biography of Charles Laughton and appreciation of his classic film The Night of the Hunter.

"Action, Animation, Archival Abyss: Virgil Widrich's Fast Film" in Animation Journal, Vol. 14 (2006), edited by Maureen Furniss.

"Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby" in Canadian Art, Fall 2006. Review of their video Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects.

"Are You You or Are You Me?" in Xtra!, August 17, 2006. Review of Louis Pepe & Keith Fulton's film Brothers of the Head.

"Somebodies to Love" in Cinema Scope, Issue 27 (Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 2006). Article on video installation artist Candice Breitz. Reprinted in the catalogue Candice Breitz: Same Same, published by The Power Plant in 2009.

"Queer Manifestations" in Xtra!, July 20, 2006. Review of the exhibition Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Death and Disaster 1962-1964 at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

"Circles of Confusion" in the catalogue Deirdre Logue: Beyond her Usual Limits (ed. Mike Hoolboom) for her exhibition Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, April 14 - May 13, 2006

"Prairie Babylon" in Xtra!, April 13, 2006. Interview with artist Daniel Barrow and review of his public access TV curatorial project Winnipeg Babysitter at the Images Festival.

Review of Steve Reinke's book "Everybody Loves Nothing: Video 1996-2004" [.pdf] in the "Letters in Canada 2004" issue of University of Toronto Quarterly 75.1 (Winter 2006).

"Just Say Cut!" in the catalogue for the screening (Mary, Mary) Are These the Hands That Cut?, Pleasure Dome/Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, April 8, 2006.

"Destruction Mirrors Creation" in Xtra!, March 30, 2006. Interview with artistic director Rob Tannion and review of his company Stan Won't Dance's performance Sinner.

"Althea Thauberger" in Canadian Art, Spring 2006. Review of her video installation A Memory Lasts Forever at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.

"The Passion" in Xtra!, February 16, 2006. Review of Javier Téllez's video installation La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Rozelle Hospital) at The Power Plant.

"Sexual Environments" in Xtra!, February 2, 2006. Interview with painter Rebecca Anweiler and review of her exhibition Nature Lover at Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects.

"Dawn of Gay Time" in Xtra!, January 19, 2006. Review of Kenneth Anger's 1947 film Fireworks.

"Astounding Adventure" in Xtra!, January 5, 2006. Review of John Geiger's book "Nothing is True Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin."

"Brief Glimpses of Beauty: Jonas Mekas at the 2005 Venice Biennale" in Cinema Scope, Issue 25 (Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 2006). Web only. Review of his retrospective exhibition Celebration of the Small and Personal in the Time of Bigness.

"The Bold and the Blubbering" in Xtra!, December 22, 2005. Compendium of the most potent scenes in sixties Hollywood queer cinema.

"Bounding over Boundaries" in Xtra!, November 10, 2005. Preview of the Toronto Dance Theatre and The Hidden Cameras' performance In the Boneyard.

"Love Avant-Garde" in Xtra!, October 27, 2005. Reviews of "The Memo Book" (ed. Stefanie Schulte) and of the art of Matthias Müller and Chirstoph Girardet.

"Manned Claims" in Xtra!, October 13, 2005. Feature interview with artist and filmmaker Kent Monkman.

"Vertov Nation" [.pdf] in The Collegium Papers VI (ed. Luca Giuliani and David Robinson). Gemona, IT: Le Giornate de cinema muto, 2005. Essay on Dziga Vertov's practice of "life caught unawares."

Catalogue essay for painter Scott Waters's show The Hero Book at the Alternator Gallery, Kelowna (BC), September 16 - October 22, 2005.

"Libertine Liar" in Xtra!, July 21, 2005. Article on Federico Fellini's 1969 film Fellini Satyricon .

"Truth Wrapped in Trash and Vice Versa: George Kuchar's Video Diaries" in the catalogue for the screening Truth Wrapped in Trash and Vice Versa: George Kuchar at Sixty-Two, Pleasure Dome, July 8, 2005.

"Eloquent Ambiguity" in Xtra!, July 7, 2005. Review of the Fennel Plunger Corporation's exhibition Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp) at Gallery TPW.

"Haunting Reality" in Xtra!, June 9, 2005. Review of Gregg Araki's film Mysterious Skin.

"A Funky Parliament" in Xtra!, May 26, 2005. Review of Luis Jacob's installation Flashlight at the Toronto Sculpture Garden.

"Energetic Freedom" in Xtra!, March 31, 2005. Review of the exhibition Edgewise: A Slice of Video by Paul Wong at Vtape.

"Mike Hoolboom and The Invisible Man" in Synoptique #8, March 2005. Review of his exhibition at the Art Gallery of York University.

"Sexual Liberation" in Xtra!, February 17, 2005. Review of Bruce LaBruce's film The Raspberry Reich.

"Sublime Humiliation" in Xtra!, February 3, 2005. Summary of queer theories of F.W. Murnau and review of his films.

"Howling & Homemade" in Xtra!, January 20, 2005. Review of Jonathan Caouette's film Tarnation.

"Sex = Knowledge = Power" in Xtra!, January 6, 2005. Career overview and interview with artist Shu Lea Cheang.

"My Secret Shame: Martha Colburn's Homemade Art-Crimes" in the catalogue for the screening Collage Collisions: Recent Films by Martha Colburn, Pleasure Dome, October 29, 2004.

"Humiliation" in Xtra!, September 30, 2004. Review of Steve Reinke's exhibition Anthology of American Folk Song at Robert Birch Gallery.

"Trash or Treasure" in Xtra!, July 8, 2004. Review of Laura Kikauka's installation Exactly the Same, But Completely Different at The Power Plant.

Trash is Truth: Performances of Transgressive Glamour [.doc]. MA Thesis. Graduate Programme in Film and Video, Critical and Historical Studies. York University, Toronto. June, 2004.

"Flickering Liquor" in Xtra!, April 1, 2004. Review of Peter Kingstone's video installation The Strange Case of Peter K. (1974-2004).

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