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MR: Collage is a well-established tradition in the history of art. All the Dadaists and Surrealists made collages. Think of the cartoons of Terry Gilliam in Monty Python's Flying Circus. Or rap and hip-hop music. Or the films of Arthur Lipsett, easily one of Canada's greatest filmmakers. It's all collage. Collage is a normal human impulse. It's all about reinterpreting the cultural material that surrounds us. That is the artist's job and art shouldn't be illegal.
MR: I grew up in Winnipeg, in a belligerent hornet's nest of human antipathy known as "River Heights." But I've spent nearly all of my adult life in Quebec, which is a nice place. My last few years there were spent almost entirely in French.MR: Winnipeg is not a city like Paris or New York. It hasn't been immortalized through the ages in song and story. So it is a very exotic place for an artist, and that's why I came back here. But it is also very fragile. The wrong images could take hold of Winnipeg and ruin it. So the Atelier tries to create alternative imagery.See the full content of this document
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Matthew Rankin: Myth Congeniality
Q & A / By Morley Walker
WATCH your backs, Noam Gonick, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan.Winnipeg filmmaker and video artist Matthew Rankin is developing a reputation as the new enfant terrible of the Winnipeg cultural scene.With his colleag...See the full content of this document
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