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by Vik Hovanisian (the Proust Questionnaire) smART Magazine Presents: Le Questionnaire de Proust In 1886, young M. Proust revealed his precocious and subtle spirit in a common parlour game, the “confessional” questionnaire, that was popular within Victorian society. While significant cultural and intellectual figures such as Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also left such confessions to posterity, it was Proust’s, in his refined form, that provided one of the most widely used personality questionnaires in history. Discovered and published in 1924 by psychoanalyst A. Berge, who found that Proust had “strived to reflect the most elusive nuances of thought,” the document became well-known as “Le Questionnaire de Proust.” Marcel Proust by Sarah Alinia Ziazi Episode 3: Lynn Hershman Leeson As an artist, Lynn Hershmann Leeson’s work has been featured in many international art galleries, including the public collections of the MoMa in New York, the National Gallery of Canada, the Tate Modern, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. As a filmmaker, her six feature films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, TIFF and the Berlin International Film Festival. Her work has always looked to the future, whether by experimenting with artificial intelligence and virtual reality as art media, or with genetics and biotechnology in her The Infinite Engine installation and her 2018 exhibition Anti-Bodies at the House of Electronic Arts in Basel. Lynn Hershman Leeson by Ella Mazur 5.6 1 Your chief characteristic? Curiosity and persistence. 2 What would you like to be? Younger. 3 What do you detest above all? Conflict. 4 The quality you favour in women? Honesty and humour and kindness. 5 Your friends’ best virtues? Honesty and humour and kindness. 6 Your main flaw? Self-deprecation. 7 Your favourite past-time? Probably the 18th century. 8 The faults you most indulge? Things that taste sweet. 9 Your idea of happiness? Being with my family and everybody’s healthy. 10 Your real-life heroines? People like Ada Lovelace, Gertrude Stein… People who fight to make a difference, who fight to do their art, who protect their own creativity and use it as a gesture to help humanity. 11 The historical figures you hold in contempt? Hitler. Maybe that’s enough. 12 The reform you most admire? Women’s right to abortion. 13 The natural gift you wish to have? Straighter hair. 14 How would you like to die? Peacefully, with my family. 15 Your motto? Never give up. 16 Your current state of mind and spirit? Bouncy.

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The TSO hosts Saariaho, Crow, and Shostakovich A satisfying, if unsurprising, tour of two giants of the symphonic genre. WORDS BY ARLAN VRIENS | Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto JAN 29, 2023 | COMMUNITY An unfamiliar face guided the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) through some rather more familiar works on Sunday afternoon at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall. Under the idiosyncratic baton of young Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski – here making his North American debut – the orchestra made a convincing case for the first piece on the program, Kaija Saariaho’s Ciel d’hiver (2010). Aficionados of Saariaho’s music would recognize her characteristic language of complex, rippling sonic textures, launched in this case by crystalline figures from piccolo and harp. The titular winter sky was well rendered by the orchestra, encouraged by the understated conducting of Peltokoski, who often stood statue-like with only his right hand in motion. Despite its bleak colours and occasionally glacial pace, the work was well-received, holding the audience in a long and suspenseful silence after its final notes died away.

In The Garden: Caroline Shaw Caroline Shaw by Dayna Szyndrowski Make Small Good Things WORDS BY ARLAN VRIENS | NEW YORK | MUSIC NOV 14, 2022 | ISSUE 9 The most remarkable thing about Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize for Music isn’t the fact that she was the youngest to ever receive the honour; it’s that, since then, her artistic voice has only increased in creativity, innovation, and relevance. Whether working with Sō Percussion, the Brentano Quartet, the Yale Baroque Ensemble – and, at one time, Kanye ‘Ye’ West – her presence continues to radiate further and deeper into contemporary music circles. Likewise, her inspiration for compositions flows from unpredictable and organic sources; her works have employed oranges, clay pots, and Boris Kerner (German physicist) as subject matter. Joining smART Magazine from her plant-filled apartment in New York, Shaw outlines her big ambitions to celebrate the small, the everyday, and the overlooked.

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily LISTEN NOW https://loveinexile.lnk.to/pre order Cody Fry LISTEN NOW www.codyfry.com Víkingur Ólafsson ON TOUR NOW www.vikingurolafsson.com Samara Joy LISTEN NOW www.samarajoy.com In Focus: bluemouth inc. "Our mission is to create a unique experience for adventurous audiences in alternative spaces." TORONTO | INTERVIEW BY VIK HOVANISIAN | FILM - Issue 5 “The true theatre, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way. (…) To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre; the essential thing is not to believe that this act must remain sacred, meaning set apart…. This leads to the rejection of the usual limitations of man and man’s power, and infinitely extends the frontiers of what is called reality.” Expressed by Antonin Artaud, these words have since 1998 been given life in the spellbinding creations of bluemouth inc. performance collective . Challenging the levels of interaction between performers and audience, the collective creates site-specific Lucy Simic and Stephen O'Connell by Jeremy Lewis performances by knitting together choreographed movement, text, visual media, immersive sound design, original live music, video, and film to create experiences in alternative spaces. Every creation by the collective is an immersion into a new world, each with its specific atmosphere, colors, sounds, scents, notes and forms, where the artist is a thousand characters in one. As a deep and pure immersion into life – with its surprises and challenges – the creations of the collective awaken the senses and extend them beyond the frontiers of our realities, questioning our era in its time and its space, its human and its natural boundaries. With one foot on either side of the border, the award-winning company and its founding members (Stephen O’Connell, Lucy Simic, Ciara Adams, Sabrina Reeves, Richard Windeyer) have their roots in New York City, Toronto, and Montreal. Their new piece, Elephant , is available for streaming. I have the pleasure of welcoming Lucy Simic and Stephen O’Connell for an IN FOCUS conversation for smART Magazine. Issue 11 – 1NTERSECT1ONS Sign Up to Keep Up ! Our newsletters bring you the best in the visual and performing arts. Exclusive interviews. Global Coverage. Local Perspectives. Substack Medium

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Hella Feminist Female Riveters Working The Oakland Museum of California Delivers a Defiant Feminist Narrative WORDS BY CAMILLA MIKOLAJEWSKA | SAN FRANCISCO | VISUAL ARTS MAR 31, 2023 | ISSUE 4 The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) launched Hella Feminist in late July, an exhibit exploring the fight for gender equity with focus on the San Francisco Bay Area. By incorporating perspectives often excluded from knowledge production and preservation, the exhibit challenges dominant historical and cultural conceptions of feminism. From the show’s curation to its creative partnerships, Hella Feminist imparts a holistic, fresh, and community-focused approach to understanding feminism and gender. “There’s some really incredible artwork in this exhibition,” said Hella Feminist co-curator and OMCA Curator of Art, Carin Adams. This includes portraits by Los Angeles-based, Bay Area-raised Shizu Saldamando , who paints her friends, creative peers, and subjects from Latin-Punk and queer communities. The Western canon’s influence on our education limits what most Americans consider “appropriate” for fine art galleries. By painting identities that aren’t typically seen in fine art museums, Saldamando hopes to broaden our conception of who belongs in the creation of art and culture.

MINNEAPOLIS — AiR TOUR — Issue 10 Kate O’Donnell MINNEAPOLIS — AiR TOUR — Issue 10 Art by Kate O’Donnell Kate O’Donnell sM | How do you maintain a fresh and artistic perspective when creating works with social or political relevance? KO ── When I attempt to create something that acknowledges political events, I have a focus or a message I am trying to get across. Finding your own explicit focus for your work can help maintain a “fresh” perspective because it stems completely from your own take on a current social issue. In the past, I have created socially relevant works in which the focus derived from my emotional response to a current event. For example, in an artwork of mine entitled Thank You , I was filled with gratitude for healthcare workers who were working non-stop during the pandemic. Continue the AiR tour in print: ISSUE 9 | ISSUE 10 Sign Up to K eep Up! Our newsletter brings you the best in the visual and performing arts. Exclusive interviews. Global coverage. Local perspectves. sM | What did you learn from the process of live painting during your time as the Artist in Residence at the Lighthouse ArtSpace Minneapolis? KO ── Firstly, I learned how to balance socializing and focusing. I talked to the guests but remembered not to get too distracted from my artwork. Eventually, I learned how to effectively paint and talk with people. It seemed the guests enjoyed watching me paint as I chatted too, which was a relief. Beyond this, I learned how to create many pieces in one day. Basically, I worked on at least five different projects at once. I had two big paintings, a flower pot, and multiple earrings that I constantly rotated through during the day. Adding to this, I also learned so much about the guests and which of my pieces were the most popular among them. I was so interested to hear everyone’s takes on my artwork, what it reminded them of, and how it made them feel. One woman cried looking at a painting! sM | What is one social issue that your art speaks to the most? KO ── I believe my art speaks to the issue of disconnection the most. I have quite a few paintings that I created in March 2020. I felt extremely disheartened by the forced separation at this time. I remember feeling a huge sense of hope when I saw imagery from Italy of people playing music, dancing, and singing from their balconies. They were all safely separated but still enjoying a sense of togetherness. From this image, I was inspired to create a painting called Connected from a Distance . It was inspiring to see that there were so many people doing their part to be safe, quarantine, and respect health guidelines in order to keep everyone safe. PREVIOUS NEXT

Norris Yim: Nameless Nameless 0522 (2022) by Norris Yim Hiding in plain (and colourful) sight WORDS BY FLYNN DAUNT | CHICAGO | STUDIO SESSIONS NOV 28, 2022 | ISSUE 7 On either side of my work desk as I write this, hangs a print from a unique series by Hong Kong artist Norris Yim: Nameless No.1 and Nameless No.19 . The Nameless series is essentially a vast collection of faceless portraits, and while that might sound like a contradiction, these paintings invite the viewer to unpeel their ambiguous brushstrokes. Long before N95 masks became the ubiquitous uniform of the pandemic-era, Yim has been exploring the figurative masks that we don in order to navigate the social and political spaces we occupy. What is remarkable about these portraits is how completely married the mask and the face behind it appears to be, and yet, the real face remains enticingly concealed and recognizable. Yim joins smART Magazine to discuss on a series that is pivotal to his artistry and reflects the turmoil of his city’s political sphere.

LAS VEGAS — AiR TOUR — Issue 10 Penelope Spyratos LAS VEGAS — AiR TOUR — Issue 10 Art by Penelope Spyratos Penelope Spyratos sM | What qualities in a portrait do you think are key in shaping a countenance? PS ── What I find is essential for getting someone's likeness is being honest with the proportion and shape of their features. When I was first drawing people I knew, there was this urge to be polite and adjust things to look “prettier”. We're so acclimated to filtering photos of ourselves that many of us are uncomfortable or unfamiliar with our appearance. So much so that I found myself doing this not only in my self portraits, but projecting these ideas I had on the subjects I painted. Doing this erased Continue the AiR tour in print: ISSUE 9 | ISSUE 10 Sign Up to K eep Up! Our newsletter brings you the best in the visual and performing arts. Exclusive interviews. Global coverage. Local perspectves. the character in my faces. When I stopped making noses smaller and lips bigger, I could finally see a person I recognized. sM | What sentiment do the depictions of flower arrangements evoke the most in your work? PS ── Whenever I'm working on a piece where the subject is flowers, I try to remind myself that flowers are alive. They aren't just beautiful stationary objects, they change and move and breathe. It's easy for flowers to come off as stiff, and appear sort of perfect in an unnatural way. This is why I challenge myself to give plants a presence, with an energy and tone of their own. It almost gives them a surreal and fluid look, perpetually swaying in a breeze or tilting to follow a sunbeam. I feel placing flowers as the sole focus of a piece can still be exciting. PREVIOUS NEXT

Fran Gogh Illustration by Jeremy Lewis Lighthouse Immersive Arrives in SF WORDS BY ISABELLA ELIAS | TORONTO | VISUAL ARTS MAR 03, 2023 | ISSUE 10 Amid power outages, fires, a heatwave, and with a cross-national Stop Asian Hate protest right outside the venue, the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit weathered its first weekend on the West Coast as well as any native San Franciscan. After months of tantalizing posters featuring the artist’s self-portrait against a backdrop of city landmarks, the ribbon was cut and doors opened to the public last Thursday. With the Chicago installation currently sold out until mid-June, more than 120,000 tickets have already been purchased for the new ‘Fran Gogh’ experience—now extended into September to accommodate the highest presales yet for the travelling show. Since even the largest HD TVs tend to

CERAMICS: Raluca Buzura Photography Courtesy Of The Artist From kindling to kiln, how ceramics become wearable art installations WORDS BY AMELIA JOHANNSEN | TORTOSA | VISUAL ARTS FEB 28, 2023 | ISSUE 11 Can jewellery have the same magnitude of expression as more traditional visual arts media? Romanian designer Raluca Buzura thinks so. By pushing the limits of personal adornment to communicate something deeper about the human condition, Buzura promotes a broader understanding about the role of jewellery in the progressive art movement. Her evocative works of wearable art are not only beautifully handcrafted, they’re a representation of cultural and societal attitudes of our time. Buzura’s unique body of work is the result of many years of inquiry, experimentation, passion, and dedication. This process led her to combine classical craftsmanship with sophisticated symbolism. Through her choice of materials, patterns, colours, and forms, Buzura is able to express complex realisations of femininity, climate change, and materialism while staying at the cutting edge of fashion design. Joining smART Magazine from Tortosa, in the north-eastern coastal region of Spain, Buzura breaks down her creative process, from the kindling of an idea to the firing of a kiln...

Zaria Forman Zaria Forman by Jenny Nichols Painting the Climate Crisis into Each Precious Detail WORDS BY NAVYA POTHAMSETTY | OAKLAND | VISUAL ARTS MAR 02, 2023 | ISSUE 10 In Antarctica, the air is alive with sound. Penguins whir, ice crackles, and waves lap against barren landscapes while painter Zaria Forman absorbs the endless detail of a glacier’s icy wall. On-site research is crucial for Forman, and she has dedicated her practice to observing - and capturing - the Arctic, a region of our planet crucial for regulating our climate and under the fatal threat of collapse. Whether it has been aboard the National Geographic Explorer or traveling with NASA’s scientific expeditions, Forman has collected imagery of one of the most rapidly changing continents on earth for her creative practice and climate change advocacy.