Papers by Landon MacKenzie
Landon Mackenzie : nervous centre
Landon Mackenzie : Accounting for an Imaginary Prairie Life : Performance Script, 1997
This artist's book contains prose poems by Mackenzie which were performed orally on various o... more This artist's book contains prose poems by Mackenzie which were performed orally on various occasions in conjunction with the showing of her "Saskatchewan Paintings" (1993-1997). Art, landscape and emotional experience are the central themes considered. Includes the artist's rendition of a map of "The Carlton Trail". 12 bibl. ref.
Mary Kelly and Griselda Pollock in Conversation at the Vancouver Art Gallery, June 1989
Transcript of a semi-informal public conversation between Pollock and Kelly with contributions fr... more Transcript of a semi-informal public conversation between Pollock and Kelly with contributions from Landon Mackenzie, Sara Diamond and Judith Mastai. Feminist positions on essentialism, language, recognition and discovery, power and "mastery", disaffirmative and strategic practice, marxism, history, modernism and postmodernism, audience and community are discussed. With an introduction by Iversen. 23 bibl. ref.
Landon Mackenzie : Saskatchewan Paintings
Pointing to biographical clues, Townsend-Gault analyses how Mackenzie's 1994-1995 large canva... more Pointing to biographical clues, Townsend-Gault analyses how Mackenzie's 1994-1995 large canvases refer to writing, the body, and "black holes". With texts by the artist. Biographical notes. 38 bibl. ref.
The Painter/her Dilemma: Visualizing Uncertainty in a Territory of Visual Art
To present visual art within the confines of a scholarly journal and as part of a discussion on t... more To present visual art within the confines of a scholarly journal and as part of a discussion on the impact of gender on the academic disciplines is not straightforward. I do not consider myself to be an academic, even though I work in the academy of visual art and attempt to critique it with my fictional practices as well as inside the art institute and university studio classroom. I present my work here as a set of visual images together with a parallel text in the form of prose/poetry. The text addresses some of the issues I raise in my painting without trying to explain the visual work. By turning to words, I can provide a woman's voice, a Canadian location, and a more specific context in the discipline of painting while letting the pictures speak on several ambiguous levels. My paintings involve imaging complexity itself. They represent hidden histories and secrets woven between layers of official colonial documentation, including maps, charts, schedules, treaties, scientifi...
DB : Landon, in your painting, you challenge the traditional representation of the world as a wor... more DB : Landon, in your painting, you challenge the traditional representation of the world as a world of states (no national boundaries) and even as a world of natural geography (no differentiation between sea and land), and the effects are astonishing. Could you give us some elements about this eradication of the traditional boundaries ? LM : Here we are talking about a specific piece called Vancouver as the Centre of the World, 2009, which began with questions of how I could reorganize the wo...
Medrie MacPhee, Landon Mackenzie : Double Vision
The text for this exhibition catalogue, concerning the paintings of Mackenzie and MacPhee, is mad... more The text for this exhibition catalogue, concerning the paintings of Mackenzie and MacPhee, is made up of an email exchange between the artists and the curator. Curator Baldissera questions them on a variety of themes related to their work, such as the private and the public, place, art history, memory, and the artistic process. Biographical notes.
Painting as mending structure: Landon Mackenzie in dialogue with Jacqueline Davidson
Cogent Arts & Humanities
The Painter/her Dilemma: Visualizing Uncertainty in a Territory of Visual Art
Resources For Feminist Research, 2002
Medrie MacPhee, Landon Mackenzie : Double Vision
Landon Mackenzie : Saskatchewan Paintings
Cultures Conflits, Sep 13, 2010
Medrie MacPhee, Landon Mackenzie : Double Vision
Vancouver is not where it is supposed to be. An interview with Landon Mackenzie (november 2009, Paris)
Cultures Conflits, Dec 5, 2009
DB: Landon, in your painting, you challenge the traditional representation of the world as a worl... more DB: Landon, in your painting, you challenge the traditional representation of the world as a world of states (no national boundaries) and even as a world of natural geography (no differentiation between sea and land), and the effects are astonishing. Could you give us some elements about this eradication of the traditional boundaries? LM: Here we are talking about a specific piece called Vancouver as the Centre of the World, 2009, which began with questions of how I could reorganize the wor...
Vancouver n’est pas là où il devrait être
Cultures & conflits, 2010
Vancouver is not where it is supposed to be. An interview with Landon Mackenzie (november 2009, Paris)
Cultures & Conflits, 1970
DB: Landon, in your painting, you challenge the traditional representation of the world as a worl... more DB: Landon, in your painting, you challenge the traditional representation of the world as a world of states (no national boundaries) and even as a world of natural geography (no differentiation between sea and land), and the effects are astonishing. Could you give us some elements about this eradication of the traditional boundaries? LM: Here we are talking about a specific piece called Vancouver as the Centre of the World, 2009, which began with questions of how I could reorganize the wor...
Mary Kelly and Griselda Pollock in Conversation at the Vancouver Art Gallery, June 1989
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