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Why I feel like watching playoff hockey...

1) eye/brain candy

keep your eyes on the puck!

fluidity of movement: seemingly random, game-changing events happen unexpectedly, yet observation of patterns and energies allows for anticipation in the moment, ie: hope*

temporal mind fuck: time speeds up and slows down in a variety of juxtapositions with the ticking clock

2) narrative structure

1st period 2nd period 3rd period

regular season starts off exciting, ends boring long and boring, ends the same way the 1st period ended final 7-3 minutes may or may not be interesting

play off hockey exciting tense like a chess match tense like a chess match played by exhausted people
(all hell breaks loose) sudden death overtime
aaaugh!

*note: I say "hope" because I usually don't care very much who wins and just want to see the hockey players do cool stuff. For real fans that would have to read "hope & dread."

Aganetha Dyck

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EASTER FUCK YEAH!

Soweto Gospel Choir does their scales

Thicket: The Peaceable Kingdom (La vie des bętes)
By Sally McKay and Von Bark

A window installation at Fly Gallery, 1172 Queen St. West, Toronto
Best viewed after dark, any evening until May 26, 2011

Thicket: The Peaceable Kingdom is the latest installation in our ongoing Thicket series. In Thicket 1: The Voyage (Harbourfront Centre, 2006) an intrepid crew of kitty cat protagonists (fabricated by Jean McKay) abandoned ship in a fiery space battle, leaving only their captain to man the rabbit robot space craft. In Thicket 2: Stranded (Fly Gallery, 2007), we joined our heroic captain, crash landed on an uncanny desert planet inhabited by mechanical owls and watched over by animal constellations. Newton in the Peaceable Kingdom (Harbourfront Centre, 2008) was a Thicket side project in which the dreams of animal species became entangled with the human science of perception.

For Thicket: The Peaceable Kingdom we look back in time on an unspecified date millions of years in the future. Human beings have become extinct. Other species have evolved — the Fox's Fascination, Turdis Turdis, Ed the Horse, Coelacanth, Axolotl and Hallucigenia. Every once in a while observers come by, keeping a casual eye on things to make sure that it doesn't happen again.

We wish to extend our sincere thanks to Fly Gallery for their present and past support of the ongoing Thicket series.

Emma Borg, “If mirror neurons are the answer what was the question?,” in
Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 14, no. 8 (August 2007) p.8

Homi Bhabha, “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse,” in October, Vol. 28, Discipleship: A Special Issue on Psychoanalysis, (Spring 1984) p.129

Moxey, Keith, “Visual Studies and the Iconic Turn,” in Journal of Visual Culture, vol.7, no.2 (2008) p.131-32

Anselm Franke, In Memory: Omer Fast, Sabine Schaschl, ed., (Berlin: The Green Box, Kunst Editionen, 2009) p.85

Bruno Latour, “What Is Iconoclash? Or Is There a World Beyond the Image Wars?” in 2002: Iconoclash. Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art, Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds.,: (MIT Press and ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany, 2002)

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