Advocate

Eduardo Ralickas is an art historian and art critic. His essays have been published in Parachute, Blackflash Espace Sculpture, ETC and Ciel Variable. From 2004–06 he was the English-language Assistant Editor of Parachute contemporary art magazine. He has taught courses on photography and contemporary art at Concordia University, and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Montreal-based magazine ESSE arts + opinions. His current research interests include the role of the beholder in Romantic and post-Romantic art, theories of the artistic subject both historical and contemporary, and the historical trajectories of the performative. As an art critic, he has written mainly on contemporary Canadian photography (Evergon; Rodney Graham; Clara Gutsche + David Miller; Ève K. Tremblay), the intersections of sculpture, politics and theory (Jochen Gerz; Thomas Demand), and the performance of identity (Marie-Claude Pratte; Yinka Shonibare). His texts have also been published in exibitions catalogues. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies in art history at the University of Montreal and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Residency

Raymonde April will be staying in Beijing staying in an artist apartment run by the Red Gate Gallery.