Today we premiere the latest video from Montreal electronic duo Pelada. Producer Tobias Rochman and vocalist Chris Vargas came up in the Montreal afterhours scene, and have since played internationally at raves in Chicago, Prague, Paris, Moscow, and more. Pelada borrows from classic Chicago Acid house…
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Camille Rouzaud’s photographs are visceral, rough, intimate, and voyeuristic. Her vision tends to focus on the exuberance of youth, though it is tempered by a kind of remote detachment, articulated in high-contrast color and what often looks like digital grain. Rouzaud’s work is like a…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 Photography by Samuel Fournier Clothes by @laughbylafaille Models: Jodie Heartz, Steven Wang, Emile De Vasconcelos (Faces), Sophy Merizzi Marcil, Jasmine Brousseau-Muir, Alexander Malicki Casas
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Today we visit Montreal’s Projet Pangée to catch their latest exhibition André Ethier + Jasmine Reimer. “Freedom” was the first word that came to mind when observing these works, and what followed was some kind of mix of artist-envy and excitement. I wish I could make…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 Windows to a monstrous soul, black and green with the weight of carrying hopes and dreams around in a sack of skin. The eyes are the site of mortal discomfort in these grotesquely alien illustrations penned by Lala AKA Lauren Albert,…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 WRITTEN BY ESTELLE DAVIS I really don’t know a single frocking thing about Bruce LaBruce, acclaimed northern darling of the queercore cinema movement, except that he’s a creepfuck shitbag. As I’m sitting down to write what feels like something roughly equivalent…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 INTERVIEW BY SARAH IANNONE Nydia Blas’ photographs are inspired by the relationships she creates within her community, possessing the desire for her subjects to reclaim their identities and their bodies. The recent portraiture series The Girls Who Spun Gold, is made…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 Where are my glasses? Airbrushed, out-of-focus, pop-art optical illusions, Austin Lee’s paintings begin as iPad sketches, before pixel is transferred to canvas as his digital doodles become more traditional works of art. Figurative yet abstract and reminiscent of early internet animation, his…
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Sweat Loaf Hallelujah is an exhibition organized by artist Jay Isaac that includes the work of Zoe Barcza, Robin Fry, Jasmine Reimer, and Object Catering. The title is a combination of two songs, “Sweat Loaf” by Butthole Surfers, and “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen. “Sweat Loaf”…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 BY CRISTINE BRACHE You are a Hungarian Countess. Your name is forbidden to be spoken. You are a myth. You became the absolute ruler of a large part of Transylvania after your husband died in battle. He gave you a castle…
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PHOTOS BY YULIA ZINSHTEIN CLOTHING & STYLING BY ANNABELL P. LEE MODEL: LOW PATTERSON STYLING ASSISTANT: SAVANNAH MACIS Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky—painter-turned-designer Annabell P. Lee takes us down the rabbit hole to a world reminiscent of…
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Did you stay home and miss Frieze this year? We did. If you’re also one of those who missed out, you are in luck—photographer Anastasiia Chorna took to Randall’s Island this past week and has returned with documentation! Join us on her cinematic tour of the 2017 Frieze Art…
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And God created Transwoman. Guardian of God’s garden. Protector of its citizens and beacon of inexhaustible wisdom, though absolutely unaware of it, for the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was located far in the midst of the vast haven and hence far from Temptation.
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 ESSAY BY BRAD PHILLIPS ILLUSTRATION BY PIERCE MCGARRY Philip Seymour Hoffman died 896 days ago as of today. Soon after his death I learned he was something I’m all too familiar with—an opiate addict. Philip Seymour Hoffman played out a classic…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 PHOTOS BY ALEIA MURAWSKI TEXT BY REBECCA STORM “Having a little snail sit in a cramped computer office, or move out of an apartment alone is a caricature of our everyday stress,” explains Aleia Murawski, “it helps me contemplate life…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 An Exclusive Interview with the Surrealist’s Granddaughter Christina Kenton and the Guderna Family by Darby Milbrath I first saw Ladislav Guderna’s surrealist paintings a few months ago online and was surprised that I’d never heard of him before. Guderna’s grand-daughter, Christina,…
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PHOTOS BY KRISTIE MULLER INTRODUCTION BY DARBY MILBRATH INTERVIEW BY ROSA AIELLO On first meeting Dylan Aiello, I am taken aback by how present he is. He is one of those people with dancing eyes, like he was struck by lightning and has electricity coursing through…
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Do you suffer from wry neck, also known as torticollis or turtleneck syndrome? Now you don’t have to give up your interconnected life as a networked global citizen for a healthy supple spine. Text and scroll for hours from a comfortable, supported position with this…
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