I received my PhD in Art History from Stanford University in early 2023. My dissertation is titled “The Fountain: Art, Sex and Queer Pedagogy in San Francisco, 1945–1995.” I’m back in my hometown of Montreal now.
*NOW*
I currently hold the General Idea Fellowship at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
I guest-curated this year’s annual retrospective for the Berlin Porn Film Festival. San Francisco Sexual Babylon consists of six film programs that highlight the San Francisco Bay Area as the epicenter of the sexual revolution, and a place where artists of all kinds worked to advance sexual liberation. It runs from Tuesday, October 22 to Sunday, October 27 at Kino Moviemento, Berlin, and tickets are available online.
I guest-curated That Directionless Light of the Future: Rediscovering Russell FitzGerald from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery collection at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, which runs from September 3 to December 8, 2024. The webpage above includes the exhibition brochure, the full curatorial essay, installation shots, and audio of my curatorial tour from the opening reception. There will be a panel in tandem with the show on the topic of “Difficult Kinship” at UBC on November 22, 2024 at 3pm.
I wrote an essay titled “The End of the Line” about Nelson Henricks’ work for as part of the Vidéographe publication accompanying his winning the 2024 Robert-Forget Award.
I have articles forthcoming in Afterimage, Archives of American Art Journal and Journal of Canadian Art History, and in the anthology Pop Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), edited by Glyn Davis and Tom Day.
*RECENT*
I wrote the text for Kyle Alden Martens’ exhibition Spun Through the Heel at Patel Brown, Montreal, April 25 – June 1, 2024.
I curated a four-screening series, Vibrations for a New People, for the Moving Image department of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, May 3–4 (in person) and May 10–11, 2024, 7pm. I also wrote an essay, “Morbid Symptoms,” for the Walker’s online Reader.
My article “‘Landscapes’: Andy Warhol and Victor Hugo’s collaborations in gay sex and art” was published in Porn Studies journal in April 2024.
I co-curated the 68th Flaherty Film Seminar “Queer World-Mending” with artist Steve Reinke, June 17–23, 2023 at Skidmore College, NY. You can find the list of artists here, the program listing here and the publication here. I later presented the curated program Unshielded in the Tang Teaching Museum’s “Whole Grain: Experiments in Film & Video” screening series on Monday, March 18, 2024.
I reviewed the exhibitions Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal for Camera Austria (issues 165, 163).
My paper “The Word Made Flesh: On John Bentley Mays’s ‘Miracles of Emanuel Jaques'” is in RACAR 48.1 (2023). I presented it at the UAAC Conference at the University of Toronto on October 29, 2022 on the panel Queer Episodes of Canadian Art and at the General Idea Symposium at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, on June 4, 2022.
I have an essay called “Defaced” in Chris Curreri (Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Contemporary Calgary, 2023), edited by Emelie Chhangur.
I reviewed Rui Mateus Amaral, Paul P. and Scott Treleaven’s book Scott Burton: Garden Court for C Magazine online (May 24, 2023).
I had the great pleasure of writing personal ads for horses (“Horse 4 Horse”) with illustrations by Logan MacDonald for Hazel Meyer’s project DEEP HORSE TEXTS (2022).
EDITING
I edited an anthology of video artist Colin Campbell’s scripts and other writings (short fiction, articles, talks, excerpts of his two novels, etc.) for Concordia University Press entitled More Voice-Over: Colin Campbell Writings. It has been reviewed by Charles Reeve in RACAR, Francisco-Fernando Granados in C Magazine and Keith Garebian in Literary Review of Canada.
I also edited issues #5 and #6 (2021) of Little Joe magazine with Sam Ashby.
CURATING
“I Almost Ran Over Liza Minnelli Today”: Colin Campbell and Lisa Steele in L.A., 1976–77 was on view at the ONE Gallery, West Hollywood, from July 8 until September 23, 2018. Press: Artforum Critic’s Pick. It toured to VOX – Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal (February 11–June 26, 2021) and Or Gallery, Vancouver (November 19, 2022–January 28, 2023). Press from tour: Le Devoir, Vie des Arts and ReIssue.
Shary Boyle & Emily Vey Duke: The Illuminations Project was on view at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, from February 3 until April 29, 2018. Press: Halifax Magazine, Visual Arts News, The Coast, Akimbo, and Rachel M Thornton.
See my Curating page for all other exhibitions and screenings.
WRITING
I wrote “Where Nostalgia Languishes: Josh Faught and San Francisco” for the CCA Wattis Institute Library’s 2022 Open Call.
I wrote a short text for students about David Wojnarowicz’s Untitled (One Day This Kid…) for Smarthistory.
I wrote “Cinema for the Dead?: Queer Diaristic Film & Video” for A Companion to Experimental Cinema (Wiley Blackwell, 2022), edited by Federico Windhausen.
My PhD advisor Richard Meyer and I have “A Dialogue” in A Concise Companion to Visual Culture (Wiley Blackwell, 2021), edited by Aubrey Anable, Joan Saab and Catherine Zuromskis.
A personal introduction to the films of Curt McDowell was published on the Friends of Canyon Cinema platform in December 2021.
My article “Sell Your Parents: Marketing the Handwriting of Julia Warhola and Phung Vo” was published in Master Drawings 58, no. 3 (2020).
I wrote a short memorial text for RM Vaughan (1965–2020) to accompany the curated program A Selection of Dazzling Scarves: Films & Videos by RM Vaughan for CFMDC and Vtape.
“The Fountain” for The Hoosac Institute 6 (2020).
My review “The Not-Quite-Forbidden Fruit: Sexploitation’s Queer Temporality” of Elena Gorfinkel’s 2017 book Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s was published in GLQ 25, no. 3 (2019).
I contributed short texts on Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Zackary Drucker, Josh Faught, Steve Reinke and James Richards, Ashley Hans Scheirl, and Akram Zaatari for the 2nd revised and updated edition of Art & Queer Culture (Phaidon, 2019), edited by Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer.
My curatorial esssay “Tongue and Groove” for the 2015 solo exhibition House & Home & Garden was published in Roula Partheniou: Index (Dunlop Art Gallery, 2018), edited by Jennifer Matotek and Roula Partheniou.
I wrote a short text on Andil Gosine’s artwork 1, 2 for the Coolie Coolie Viens exhibition catalogue (McIntosh Gallery, Western University, 2018), edited by Matthew Ryan Smith.
I have an essay called “From Stillies to Stills” in the book Contact Warhol: Photography Without End (Cantor Arts Center + The MIT Press, 2018) by Peggy Phelan and Richard Meyer. The accompanying exhibition was at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 2018–9.
My review “Misfitting Together” of Douglas Crimp’s 2016 book Before Pictures appeared in Criticism 60, no. 1 (2018).
I wrote “Michael Wallin: The World Is Full of Miracles ” for the Canyon Cinema 50 website in 2018 (it was also published in Canyon Cinemazine #6).
“A Love Letter to Videofag” was published in The Videofag Book (Book*hug, 2017), edited by William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill.