Critical Writing Index

marvelous! ruin! collapse!

by Leigh Fisher

The Dark Arts: magic + intuition (curatorial incubator 6), 2009, pp. 22 -31

Toronto: Vtape, 2009

This article discusses the videos curated by Leigh Fisher in Marvelous! ruin! collapse! which address and break down fixed notions of historical progress, capitalist production and social control, allowing Marvelous possibilities to emerge.

ITEM 2009.009 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Light Work I – Jennifer Reeves

The Watermelon Box – Steve Reinke

Family Planning – Steve Reinke

Supposed To – Aleesa Cohene

Magical Thinking – Michael Stecky

Le Tournis – Gwenael Belanger