by Lee van der Kamp | Mar 31, 2016 | Culture, Literature
The “world’s best-selling poet,” University of Calgary’s Christian Bök, is hard at work on The Xenotext, a project for which he’s used genetic modification to implant an enciphered poem into the living DNA of a bacterium. Bök’s plan is to to make use of D....
by Lee van der Kamp | Mar 10, 2016 | Culture, Music
“What does it take? A balancing act on top of the Empire State Building? Jumping off of the Empire State Building? Jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge? I don’t know. I don’t know what it takes. I mean — does it take that much, to get to the next level? I guess...
by Lee van der Kamp | Jan 21, 2016 | Op-eds, Opinions
During the renaissance, before medicine was all that reliable, an important concept in the western world was the Ars Moriendi, or “the art of dying.” Because death was always an imminent thing, it was considered essential to know how to “die well.” What that entailed...
by Lee van der Kamp | Dec 4, 2015 | Culture, Theatre
Theatre Inconnu’s latest offering is a brand-new reworking of a West Coast classic. Spit Delaney’s Island reimagines the title story of Jack Hodgins’ 1976 collection of the same name, now adapted for the stage by veteran playwright Charles Tidler. The play revolves...