The year was 1999; a turning point in pop culture for many reasons. It was the bolded year where society as a whole said goodbye to the millennium: the age of the internet was upon us, and so began the much-maligned, and now glorified kitsch of Y2K.
Design
Trashy Clothing Digitally Tackles Palestinian Occupation
Trashing Clothing, an LGBT Ready-to-Wear Palestinian fashion brand was founded with a unique fusion of political satire, provocativeness, kitsch culture, and wit.
Yohji Yamamoto – A New Conceptual Brand and Project
Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto has unveiled his first “collaboration platform” concept project that will feature a store opening. The “Wildside Yohji Yamamoto” project emphasizes the brand’s distinctive aesthetics on a digital platform that showcases exclusive partnerships in fashion, design, and the arts with companies like Dr.
Art In Real Life: the plumb is Toronto’s Underground Gallery Bringing Us Back Together
In September 2020, the plumb christened their newly renovated gallery space in Toronto’s St. Clair West neighbourhood with exhibition Pits, Seeds.
Samuel Arsenault-Brassard Creates Art in The Liminal Space of Virtual Reality
Samuel Arsenault-Brassard is a virtual architect and artist living and working in Montreal. His work, some of which is currently exhibited at Montreal’s ELLEPHANT gallery explores light, shadow and form all through the use of virtual reality technology.
Bubble Houses: Modernist Structures as Sites of Liminality
In 1941 the prominent American architect Wallace Neff was shaving his face. Standing at the bathroom sink in one of the grand Spanish Colonial homes for which had garnered him immense popularity and created his name as an architect Ness’ eye was drawn to a bubble of soap.
Reconceiving Public Space Post-Pandemic
Re-conceptualizing how public space is perceived today in tandem with how they are envisioned has to do not only with the future of a city but also with its past.