REBEL Fringe
It is funny that the ON THE EDGE fringe festival’s artistic Director Kelsey Ruhl chose this year’s theme as “REBEL THEATRE” after just finishing my rebel book. I am very excited to be helping with…
Author Archives: Clayton Windatt
REBEL Catalogue being published
I am very excited to be publishing my book “Rebel” after working on it for the past year. This 64 page hard cover will include writings and imagery of artists working on the fringe of…
“Canadiana” A Program for 8fest
“Canadiana” A Program for 8fest January 30th at 9pm Looking at the country as a whole is difficult when determining a conceptually driven curatorial statement as regional identities all stand out from each other and…
Asking questions looking for the big dream
The Downtown Gallery Hop is proving to still be jumping as we enter this New Year. The arts and culture shops of downtown North Bay are all gearing up for a new series of semi-monthly…
Arts needs to be a priority at City Hall
The Nipissing District has very little public support for cultural initiatives in comparison to similar regions across Ontario. As an example, the cities of Thunder Bay and Sudbury both have fairly comprehensive programs to fund…
Zakide
Over the past two years Zakide has sprung up as an ad-hoc group operating through small projects and research collaborations locally in and around Nipissing First Nations. I have played my role in this groups…
Mid-Life Crisis // Hyperbolic ARC
After reflecting on the history of the White Water Gallery as well as several other Artist-run Centre’s Curators Fynn Leitch and Clayton Windatt generated the following text as a summary. It was installed at the…
Mike Nelson: always a bridesmaid, never a bride
What does it feel like to be someone that always looks through other people’s eyes? Can Mike Nelson work from his own experiences or does he need to borrow from everyone else. In many ways…
Jalopy North Bay
Making Jalopy films is to celebrate the internal crash life of artists. Exploiting the state of being in which they exist behind the public view and pushing the bizarre and ugly into the spotlight. Cutting loose…
Keep on “KEEPING ON”
Iakwé:iahre [we remember] October 16 – 18, 2014 Concordia University, Montreal I AM GOING TO THIS EVENT AND PRESENTING AT IT. READ MORE: The Iakwé:iahre Colloquium is presented by the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective / Collectif…