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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Yellow Line: Whose View Is It Anyway?, Harriet Fraser
The Yellow Line: Whose View Is It Anyway?, Harriet Fraser
The Goose
Poetry by Harriet Fraser
Magnetic North, Pyramiden, Svalbard, Jenna Butler
Magnetic North, Pyramiden, Svalbard, Jenna Butler
The Goose
excerpts from Magnetic North Pyramiden, Svalbard
Petrography, The Tar Sands Paradise, And The Medium Of Modernity, Warren Cariou, Jon Gordon
Petrography, The Tar Sands Paradise, And The Medium Of Modernity, Warren Cariou, Jon Gordon
The Goose
This article engages with the artistic practice of petrography, the art of creating photographic images through the action of sunlight upon bitumen, the heavy-oil material that is the source of the petroleum in the Athabasca tar sands. It presents several examples of petrographs that document the process of industrial bitumen mining itself. Further, it theorizes the ways in which both the process of producing petrographs and the act of engaging with them as a viewer require a degree of collaboration normally absent from our consumption of petroleum as the medium of modernity. A key argument of the paper is the …
Vex, A Rawlings
Vex, A Rawlings
The Goose
"Vex" is a visual poem from the serial work Dump. The series focuses on language discarded at rural Canadian landfill sites. "Vex" was sourced at Kennisis Lake Landfill Site, July 2014.