{"id":297,"date":"2016-03-24T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sewerlid.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2016-03-24T18:42:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:42:54","slug":"this-filthy-fuckin-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sewerlid.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/24\/this-filthy-fuckin-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Selections from this filthy fuckin\u2019 city<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

this filthy fuckin\u2019 city<\/em> is a multimedia glitch-art ode to my beloved city of Toronto, blurring the boundaries between lamentation and celebration in a passionate, parodical pastiche. Each entry depicts a unique physical space \u2014 exploring iconic landmarks as thoroughly as intimate neighbourhood details \u2014 mediated through technological lenses, and grounded in a tradition of Canadian print, video and literary media. Each original photo was shot as found, with no posing or props involved. All images were shot on an iPhone 4S and edited on an iPhone 6.<\/p>\n

Intentional enhancement and degradation are both essential to my practice of rendering the vision of memory in tandem with the truth of experience \u2014 not to mention various topographies of imagination! To this aim, this filthy fuckin\u2019 city<\/em> luxuriates in the use of glitch as a means to integrate impressionist elements into an otherwise representational genre. When the editing is complete, each photographic moment has become stratified \u2014 layered with historical allusions, personal associations, and a milieu of sensory impressions not otherwise captured by the lens \u2014 a pluralist reading of an equally pluralist subject.<\/p>\n

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\"An<\/a>

An Icon<\/strong>: Layered images of the CN Tower lit up red and white for Canada Day, and my Toronto-inspired haiku suite \u201cT(ri).O.\u201d (published by carte blanche in June 2015).<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Curbside<\/a>

Curbside Lucite<\/strong>: Overlapping angles of Lucite platform high heels found posed coquettishly by a dumpster in Church-Wellesley Village.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"First<\/a>

First Edition<\/strong>: Knowledge as revered, as treasured, as cloistered, as lost. Photographs of Ayerego Books, 1031 St. Clair West, Toronto.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Goody-Goody:<\/a>

Goody-Goody<\/strong>: Authenticity. Gentrification. \u201cAlternative fashion.\u201d High-end boutiques. Consumption. Displacement. Repression. Shot at Osgoode Station.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"In<\/a>

In Bloom<\/strong>: An early summer stroll through toilet alley, as the bowls are coming into bloom. Shot at Al Sparrow Lane.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Like,<\/a>

Like, Irony<\/strong>: Layers of travelling carnival rides, and a critique of \u201cironic\u201d bigotry. Shot at Christie Pits Park.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"OUTTATIME:<\/a>

OUTTATIME<\/strong>: Shot near the Royal Ontario Museum, during the 2013 St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade. Get Schwifty!<\/p><\/div>\n

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RASIQRA REVULVA<\/strong>\u00a0is a Toronto-based writer, multi-media artist, editor, musician and performer.\u00a0She is a founding member of the synth-punk\/electro\/glitch\/industrial music and visual art collective The Databats<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0In 2010, she was awarded an honourable mention for the Judith Eve Gewurtz Memorial Award for poetry; in 2014, she was named a runner-up in the First Annual Jane Lumley Prize; and in 2015, she was named a finalist in\u00a0untethered<\/a><\/em>\u2019s First Poetry Contest; as well as awarded an emerging writers mentorship through Diaspora Dialogues<\/a><\/em>. Her work has most recently been published in\u00a0<\/em>the anthology (AFTER)life: Poems and Stories of the Dead<\/em>, carte blanche<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0The Pickled Body<\/a> <\/em>and The Puritan<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0Her debut chapbook, Cephalopography<\/em>, is pending publication by words(on)pages<\/a> in autumn.<\/p>\n

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