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Papers by Charles Stankievech
Afterall (U.of Chicago Press), 2019
Charles Stankievech dissects the intertwined histories of forensics, ethics and aesthetics in re... more Charles Stankievech dissects the intertwined histories of forensics, ethics and aesthetics in relation to recent art practice.
Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press), 2007
Working from a phenomenological position, the author investigates “in-head” acoustic localization... more Working from a phenomenological position, the author investigates “in-head” acoustic localization in the context of the historical development of modern listening. Starting from the development of the stethoscope in the early 19th century, he traces novel techniques for generating space within the body and extrapolates from them into contemporary uses of headphones in sound art. The first half of the essay explores the history, techniques and technology of “in-head” acoustics; the second half presents three sound artists who creatively generate headphone spatializations. The essay ends with reflections on how these sound “imaging” techniques topologically shape our subjectivities.
Afterall (U.of Chicago Press), 2016
Charles Stankievech uncovers 400 years of interconnected histories of art, military technology an... more Charles Stankievech uncovers 400 years of interconnected histories of art, military technology and espionage. (Originally a catalogue essay for the award winning exhibition "Counterintelligence" at the University of Toronto.)
Afterall (U.of Chicago Press), 2020
The article ventures first entries for an atlas of the monstrous throughout philosophical history... more The article ventures first entries for an atlas of the monstrous throughout philosophical history. Written in the rhetorical style of the Jena Romantics, the result is a reading against the grain of philosophy, with an eye on the radical particularity of imaginary places, creatures, alternative worlds, clearings in the woods, caves, rivers, and islands.
e-flux (2015) / Verso (2017) / Hatje Cantz (2018), 2015
A transdisciplinary history of the nuclear: from cosmic origins to deep time storage, from geneti... more A transdisciplinary history of the nuclear: from cosmic origins to deep time storage, from genetic mutations to the birth of South Pacific neocolonialism. Originally published for the Venice Biennial (2015) by e-flux and then reprinted by Verso in the book "Supercommunity" and by Hatje Cantz's book "Julian Charrière: Second Suns"
Books by Charles Stankievech
Toronto Biennial of Art, 2019
Exhibition Catalogue for the inaugural Toronto Biennial project curated by Charles Stankievech.
No.6092: A Conjectural Catalogue (National Gallery of Canada), 2016
Exhibition Catalogue of Stankievech's show at the National Gallery of Canada for the Sobey Art Pr... more Exhibition Catalogue of Stankievech's show at the National Gallery of Canada for the Sobey Art Prize. Bilingual English/Français. Text by C.Stankievech. ISBN: 978-0-9939074-8-7
The Centre Cannot Hold (Queen's University), 2015
Exhibition Catalogue to award winning show "Monument as Ruin". Essays by C. Stankievech & David M... more Exhibition Catalogue to award winning show "Monument as Ruin". Essays by C. Stankievech & David Murakami Wood. Published by Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Queen's University. ISBN: 987-1-55339-407-5
Magnetic Norths (Concordia University), 2010
Exhibition Catalogue for show curated by Charles Stankievech at Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia Univ... more Exhibition Catalogue for show curated by Charles Stankievech at Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Text by Stankievech.
ISBN 978-2-920384-84
From afar, the shifting phenomenon of magnetic north provides guidance not unlike Polaris, but as one draws close to the shadowy realm of the Arctic, navigation and communication begins to go awry, forcing the nomad to experiment within a no man’s land Military & religious colonisation, hazardous testing, and a disregard for a fragile ecosystem mark the past of the Arctic, but so do inventive and sensitive projects. Within the White Cube of the gallery—here posited as a substitute for the minimalist landscape of the Arctic Sublime—the exhibition takes as its starting point Mercator’s imaginative speculation of dual magnetic north poles from 1569 and ends with recent geomatic renderings by an indigenous government. In between these visual landmarks, a constellation of documents, photographs, sculptures, radio broadcasts, film screenings and installations draw together the overlapping territories of utilitarian artifacts and conceptual artwork. A survey of work starts with techno/military enterprises such as Thomas Edison, Buckminster Fuller, Canada’s NFB, and the US Air Force; revisits 60/70’s conceptual art from Glenn Gould, NE Thing Co., Lawrence Weiner, Michael Snow, and others; and includes a selection of contemporary artists combining both axes. Far from an empty terra incognita, the Arctic, and with it Magnetic Norths, functions both as a historical repository as well as a fantasy projection space generating electro-magnetic distortions, pay dirt, pissing contests, sci-fi warfare, psychedelic skies, conspiracy theories, critical confection, shamanistic loss and shattered cartographies.
Book Chapters by Charles Stankievech
BREATHLESS, 2021
Locating Lispector's and Clark's work within the history of female mysticism.
Rare Earth, 2015
A theory of metallurgy and weapons in the Arctic from prehistoric to networked warfare as it rela... more A theory of metallurgy and weapons in the Arctic from prehistoric to networked warfare as it relates to history of human consciousness and homo necans. . Book chapter in exhibition catalogue "Rare Earth" by TBA21 and Sternberg Press.
A Supplement to THE ENCLAVE, 2014
Genealogy of the phenomenon of infrared, published in Richard Mosse's Enclave exhibition catalogu... more Genealogy of the phenomenon of infrared, published in Richard Mosse's Enclave exhibition catalogue, on six screens: astronomy, camouflage detection, spirit photography, espionage, environmental sciences and forensics
Published by Broken Dimanche Press. ISBN: 978-3-943196-25-2
Continent, 2015
The costs of prosecuting a war are egregious and fatiguing. There will be years of antagonisms de... more The costs of prosecuting a war are egregious and fatiguing. There will be years of antagonisms developed between the belligerents with discontent, anxiety, and hostility saturating all strata of those societies. The states will redirect their means of life-sustaining activities toward generating the most death and mayhem across as many actors as possible. It will culminate in a single battle, but the process of victory-making will have been much greater, and the ensuing precarious period of stability will be riddled with opportunities for discordant social relations. Given these longterm social harms that accompany the prosecutions of wars, the sixth century BCE philosopher Sunzi argued that it is inhumane for generals and the states leadership to engage in such military actions without the use of advance intelligence. This foreknowledge, as Roger T. Ames calls it, can only be educed through the proper understanding of people. The sagely ruler and superior commander conquers their e...
David Spriggs : Archaeology of Space, 2008
Exhibition Publications by Charles Stankievech
Exhibition Catalogue edited by Charles Stankievech in partnership with The Center for Land Use In... more Exhibition Catalogue edited by Charles Stankievech in partnership with The Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Yukon School of Visual Arts. Collects research done by students at the Yukon School of Visual Arts under a project directed by Matt Coolidge at The Center for Land Use Interpretation and organized by Charles Stankievech. Exhibition occurred at the ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.
Interviews by Charles Stankievech
Oh Canada, 2012
Interview with Michael Snow in «Oh Canada», the catalogue for the exhibition we were in together ... more Interview with Michael Snow in «Oh Canada», the catalogue for the exhibition we were in together and showed side by side at MASS MoCA in 2012. I ask him about Glenn Gould, the sublime Canadian landscape and transcendence. In turn I was asked some questions about the Arctic, philosophy and silence by Patrick Bernatchez, a chain interview structure initiated by curator Denise Markonish.
Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, 2021
Interview with Science Fiction writer Irenonsen Okojie for Afterall Journal. Full text available ... more Interview with Science Fiction writer Irenonsen Okojie for Afterall Journal. Full text available here:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/719779
Afterall (U.of Chicago Press), 2019
Charles Stankievech dissects the intertwined histories of forensics, ethics and aesthetics in re... more Charles Stankievech dissects the intertwined histories of forensics, ethics and aesthetics in relation to recent art practice.
Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press), 2007
Working from a phenomenological position, the author investigates “in-head” acoustic localization... more Working from a phenomenological position, the author investigates “in-head” acoustic localization in the context of the historical development of modern listening. Starting from the development of the stethoscope in the early 19th century, he traces novel techniques for generating space within the body and extrapolates from them into contemporary uses of headphones in sound art. The first half of the essay explores the history, techniques and technology of “in-head” acoustics; the second half presents three sound artists who creatively generate headphone spatializations. The essay ends with reflections on how these sound “imaging” techniques topologically shape our subjectivities.
Afterall (U.of Chicago Press), 2016
Charles Stankievech uncovers 400 years of interconnected histories of art, military technology an... more Charles Stankievech uncovers 400 years of interconnected histories of art, military technology and espionage. (Originally a catalogue essay for the award winning exhibition "Counterintelligence" at the University of Toronto.)
Afterall (U.of Chicago Press), 2020
The article ventures first entries for an atlas of the monstrous throughout philosophical history... more The article ventures first entries for an atlas of the monstrous throughout philosophical history. Written in the rhetorical style of the Jena Romantics, the result is a reading against the grain of philosophy, with an eye on the radical particularity of imaginary places, creatures, alternative worlds, clearings in the woods, caves, rivers, and islands.
e-flux (2015) / Verso (2017) / Hatje Cantz (2018), 2015
A transdisciplinary history of the nuclear: from cosmic origins to deep time storage, from geneti... more A transdisciplinary history of the nuclear: from cosmic origins to deep time storage, from genetic mutations to the birth of South Pacific neocolonialism. Originally published for the Venice Biennial (2015) by e-flux and then reprinted by Verso in the book "Supercommunity" and by Hatje Cantz's book "Julian Charrière: Second Suns"
Toronto Biennial of Art, 2019
Exhibition Catalogue for the inaugural Toronto Biennial project curated by Charles Stankievech.
No.6092: A Conjectural Catalogue (National Gallery of Canada), 2016
Exhibition Catalogue of Stankievech's show at the National Gallery of Canada for the Sobey Art Pr... more Exhibition Catalogue of Stankievech's show at the National Gallery of Canada for the Sobey Art Prize. Bilingual English/Français. Text by C.Stankievech. ISBN: 978-0-9939074-8-7
The Centre Cannot Hold (Queen's University), 2015
Exhibition Catalogue to award winning show "Monument as Ruin". Essays by C. Stankievech & David M... more Exhibition Catalogue to award winning show "Monument as Ruin". Essays by C. Stankievech & David Murakami Wood. Published by Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Queen's University. ISBN: 987-1-55339-407-5
Magnetic Norths (Concordia University), 2010
Exhibition Catalogue for show curated by Charles Stankievech at Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia Univ... more Exhibition Catalogue for show curated by Charles Stankievech at Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Text by Stankievech.
ISBN 978-2-920384-84
From afar, the shifting phenomenon of magnetic north provides guidance not unlike Polaris, but as one draws close to the shadowy realm of the Arctic, navigation and communication begins to go awry, forcing the nomad to experiment within a no man’s land Military & religious colonisation, hazardous testing, and a disregard for a fragile ecosystem mark the past of the Arctic, but so do inventive and sensitive projects. Within the White Cube of the gallery—here posited as a substitute for the minimalist landscape of the Arctic Sublime—the exhibition takes as its starting point Mercator’s imaginative speculation of dual magnetic north poles from 1569 and ends with recent geomatic renderings by an indigenous government. In between these visual landmarks, a constellation of documents, photographs, sculptures, radio broadcasts, film screenings and installations draw together the overlapping territories of utilitarian artifacts and conceptual artwork. A survey of work starts with techno/military enterprises such as Thomas Edison, Buckminster Fuller, Canada’s NFB, and the US Air Force; revisits 60/70’s conceptual art from Glenn Gould, NE Thing Co., Lawrence Weiner, Michael Snow, and others; and includes a selection of contemporary artists combining both axes. Far from an empty terra incognita, the Arctic, and with it Magnetic Norths, functions both as a historical repository as well as a fantasy projection space generating electro-magnetic distortions, pay dirt, pissing contests, sci-fi warfare, psychedelic skies, conspiracy theories, critical confection, shamanistic loss and shattered cartographies.
BREATHLESS, 2021
Locating Lispector's and Clark's work within the history of female mysticism.
Rare Earth, 2015
A theory of metallurgy and weapons in the Arctic from prehistoric to networked warfare as it rela... more A theory of metallurgy and weapons in the Arctic from prehistoric to networked warfare as it relates to history of human consciousness and homo necans. . Book chapter in exhibition catalogue "Rare Earth" by TBA21 and Sternberg Press.
A Supplement to THE ENCLAVE, 2014
Genealogy of the phenomenon of infrared, published in Richard Mosse's Enclave exhibition catalogu... more Genealogy of the phenomenon of infrared, published in Richard Mosse's Enclave exhibition catalogue, on six screens: astronomy, camouflage detection, spirit photography, espionage, environmental sciences and forensics
Published by Broken Dimanche Press. ISBN: 978-3-943196-25-2
Continent, 2015
The costs of prosecuting a war are egregious and fatiguing. There will be years of antagonisms de... more The costs of prosecuting a war are egregious and fatiguing. There will be years of antagonisms developed between the belligerents with discontent, anxiety, and hostility saturating all strata of those societies. The states will redirect their means of life-sustaining activities toward generating the most death and mayhem across as many actors as possible. It will culminate in a single battle, but the process of victory-making will have been much greater, and the ensuing precarious period of stability will be riddled with opportunities for discordant social relations. Given these longterm social harms that accompany the prosecutions of wars, the sixth century BCE philosopher Sunzi argued that it is inhumane for generals and the states leadership to engage in such military actions without the use of advance intelligence. This foreknowledge, as Roger T. Ames calls it, can only be educed through the proper understanding of people. The sagely ruler and superior commander conquers their e...
David Spriggs : Archaeology of Space, 2008
Exhibition Catalogue edited by Charles Stankievech in partnership with The Center for Land Use In... more Exhibition Catalogue edited by Charles Stankievech in partnership with The Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Yukon School of Visual Arts. Collects research done by students at the Yukon School of Visual Arts under a project directed by Matt Coolidge at The Center for Land Use Interpretation and organized by Charles Stankievech. Exhibition occurred at the ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.
Oh Canada, 2012
Interview with Michael Snow in «Oh Canada», the catalogue for the exhibition we were in together ... more Interview with Michael Snow in «Oh Canada», the catalogue for the exhibition we were in together and showed side by side at MASS MoCA in 2012. I ask him about Glenn Gould, the sublime Canadian landscape and transcendence. In turn I was asked some questions about the Arctic, philosophy and silence by Patrick Bernatchez, a chain interview structure initiated by curator Denise Markonish.
Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, 2021
Interview with Science Fiction writer Irenonsen Okojie for Afterall Journal. Full text available ... more Interview with Science Fiction writer Irenonsen Okojie for Afterall Journal. Full text available here:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/719779