Edwin Janzen

Edwin is a multidisciplinary artist, editor and writer. He usually works in screenprint and video — especially using appropriated footage — but has lately shifted to pursue projects in sculpture, electronics and low-fi photography. His favourite inspirational themes include, but are not limited to:

 

• • Maneki Neko porcelain lucky fortune cats
• • Horror and other cinema — especially works by F.W. Murnau, William Friedkin, Masaki Kobayashi and lesser names
• • The history and society of the Soviet Union
• • Monetary policy and the world’s central banking system
  
• • Plastic Ziploc containers
  
• • Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century naval warfare and colonialism
  
• • The work of Andy Warhol, Louise Nevelson and Claes Oldenburg
  
• • Greasy breakfasts

 

Edwin is a founding publisher and editor of Les Fleurs du Mal magazine. He has also written and published a great many art reviews, feature articles, essays, columns, op-eds, tracts, screeds, rants, harangues, and so forth.

Edwin also seeks to serve on as many boards, councils and committees as he possibly can. So, it’s probably good that he’s in university again. Edwin is currently pursuing his M.F.A. at the University of Ottawa.