It's funny -- in a laugh so I don't cry way -- to notice how people are getting dumber. Yes, social skills have crumbled (ask anyone who's worked in the service industry, or with the public long enough to see), and we can blame the whole internet for that.

Fannie L’Heureux is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice reclaims femininity and resilience as radical acts of resistance. With a background in visual and media arts from UQÀM, her "undisciplined" work spans performance, relational art, and video.

Let's take a short time warp back to Monday of last week. It was a lovely day, the hope of spring was shining brightly, and I was sure we'd seen the last frost warning of the season. (More disappointed than surprised, my flowers are in for the night as I write this, because, well, weather.)

In 2011 I read Patti Smith’s Just Kids, and what stood out to me was the idea of identifying as an artist. The idea of saying, “I am an Artist”. I was living in Toronto, working as a “professional actor”. I wasn’t just an actor, though, I was a writer, a singer, a dancer, I enjoyed painting and sculpting, making music, but out of necessity, I was an actor.

Naghmeh Sharifi is a New Rosemont-based multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges the gap between the tangible immediacy of painting and the narrative depth of time-based media. An Iranian-Canadian artist with degrees in both Visual Arts and Psychology, she explores the oral transmission of matrilineal folktales. Through a process of layering and erasure, she investigates the body as a site for memories that are personal, cultural, and ancestral.

While everything at the moment feels like an unprecedented shit-show-screaming-match, collectively, we seem more sensitive than ever. It’s logical that being pulled in so many directions while navigating the incessant noise and schoolyard level communication styles leaves us all a bit raw.

IRL (Amanda Harvey) is a Villeray-based composer, DJ, and writer whose work bridges the gap between ethereal ambient textures and the low-slung rhythms of IDM.

My mind loves a loop. It finds something that doesn't fit, or sit correctly with me, and proceeds to circle it until it's emotionally processed, logicized, or definitively solved.

Natasha Fagant is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges the gap between fluffy cheesecake erotica and the sobering grit of performance art. Whether she is recounting the bloody history of Montreal as a ghost storyteller or challenging audiences as the queen of uncomfortable arousal, her work uses physical theatre to explore the visceral friction between technology and the human body.

Times of secure, stable, peace are few and far between (for some countries more so than others, and globally all at once, it's never happened). Thus, peace is one of those ideas that runs as an undercurrent, as a rule: pageant queens wish for it, believers pray for it, idealists talk about it.