FUSE Magazine

FUSE 23.3: February 2001

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Let the fireworks begin! Donna Scott’s recent announcement of resignation from the Ontario Arts Council might yet be a good thing for the arts in Ontario. If Bronwyn Drainie’s recent criticism of Hal Jackman’s matching grants program is any indication, we might yet see a renewed public debate about the arts, a debate that moves beyond the immediate arts community. Should we call these hopeful times? We should also be waiting to see whether anything will come of Department of Canadian Heritage’s recent national policy consultation on a federal Arts Policy Framework. Indications that Sheila Copps might move on from Heritage to another portfolio leaves things for the arts fairly wide open at the federal level. But one thing seems certain: the arts will continue to play a vital role in the lives of Canadians at both the aesthetic and political levels – a pleasure that we cannot live without.

INSIDE:

/ Letters to FUSE
/ A Way of Imagining Film: in conversation with Loretta Todd by Richard William Hill
/ All the World’s a Stage theatre as a political tool by Carlyn Zwarenstein
/ Barbara Ramos, Patient Care Assistant (SEIU, 1199 Upstate) by Karl Beveridge and Carole Conde
/ e/rector/scape by Kerry Mogg
/ Compulsive Consumption by Johanna Mizgala
/ alt.shift.control by Sherri Telenko
/ Fresh Paint by Anne Kim
/ Wink and Banter by Annthea Whittaker
/ Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas review by Meera Sethi
/ Constructing Female Identities review by Rebecca Raby
/ Short FUSE: More! More! More! by Christopher Smith

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FUSE 23.4: April 2001

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This issue of FUSE critically engages a dialogue of the political. It asks us to think about artistic freedom and expression, the relationality of multicultural feminism and alteric moves in identity and representational strategies.

INSIDE:

/ Of Moose and Mel: Recent Disasters in Toronto’s Public Art by Kate Stevens
/ Drag Racing: Dressing Up (and messing up) White in Contemporary First Nations Art by Richard William Hill
/ Talking Visions, Talking Art, Talking Politics: Ella Shohat on her Latest Book interview with Meera Sethi
/ Carnegie International review by Sylvie Fortin
/ An Inuit Perspective review by Sheila Butler
/ “Private Thoughts/Public Moments” review by Germaine Koh
/ The Shit I Ain’t Got review by Peter Hudson
/ Richard Fung’s Sea in the Blood review by Margo Francis
/ Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving review by John McCullough
/ Toward a New Feminist Politic in the Age of the Transnational review by Rinaldo Walcott
/ Artist Project: Patti Young Kim Is Activism Sexy?
/ Short FUSE: Going Postal by Alex St. Marc

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FUSE 24.1: June 2001

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You’ll cover a lot of territory in this issue of FUSE: from the La Jolla Indian Reservation in California to the Banff Centre for the Arts, from Vancouver to Mexico City. These diverse places have an impact upon the production of art and culture on levels ranging from institutional policy to the highly personalized politics of memory and community.

INSIDE:

/ You say you want to fund the revolution? Oh well… by Robin Pacific
/ BANFF: Utopian Memeplex Machine Making the Invisible Visible by Oliver Hockenhull
/ It’s Very rewarding if it Works: James Luna and Rebecca Belmore talk to Richard William Hill
/ Artist Project by Will Munro
/ Sympathetic Magic review by Patrick Mahon
/ c/o La Ciudad: working in Mexico City
/ Live at the End of the Century – Aspects of Performance Art in Vancouver review by Johanna Householder
/ Practice Practise Praxis – Serial Reception, Organizational Behaviour, and Strategic Action in Architecture review by Emily Andreae and Janice Andreae
/ Magnetic North – Experimental Canadian Video review by John McCullough

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FUSE 24.2: Summer 2001

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Money. Money. Money

The recent announcement by the Heritage Minister and the Prime Minister in Toronto, (in the atrium of the CBC, an institution they also killed) of an infusion of “new” money for the arts and culture sector was greeted with a bit of welcome relief. It’s been a long time coming. But those of us in the alternative arts and culture scene can’t yet celebrate. Not much of this new money is targeted at us. It will be mainly targeted at the arts and culture sector of the elite. In short, our struggle to survive may become even harder (if that’s possible). For the alternative culture scene that does so much to maintain a national art and cultural presence in this country, the question “Where’s the money?” remains imperative. It needs to be asked again and again.

INSIDE:

/ Movement by DJs by Christopher Smith
/ ISAAC JULIEN’s CHILDREN: Black Queer Cinema after Looking for Langston by Rinaldo Walcott
/ Kathak, the Classic Indian Art Form: Renuka Sooknanan Speaks with Joanna Das interview with Renuka Sooknanan
/ Richard Fung and Jamelie Hassan speak about their recent honours interview with Meera Sethi
/ Artist Project by June Clark
/ Vice Squad review by Kelly McCray
/ Freestyle review by Michelle Jacques
/ Mixed Identities and Other Fictions Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Grant Farred’s Midfielder’s Moment review by Tess Chakkalakal
/ Being Black by Althea Prince review by Jennifer Harris
/ Writing to Legacy: Rachel Manley’s Slipstream and Ken Wiwa’s In the Shadow of a Saint review by Gamal Abdel Shehid

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FUSE 24.3: Fall 2001

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How do viewers respond to exhibition sights/sites?

For the individual writers featured in this issue, visual sights are sites of active knowledge-making with the potential for social and political change. In our feature essay “‘Take good care of it, it is my whole life’: Encounters with Charlotte Salomon’s address to the living,” Sharon Rosenberg discusses viewers’ encounters with the traveling exhibition Life? or Theatre?

INSIDE:

/ “What if daily life in Canada is boring?”: Contextualizing Greg Curnoe’s Regionalism by Dot Tuer
/ Rummana Hussain’s In Order to Join by Jamelie Hassan
/ Jill Culiner from La Memoire Effacee
/ “Take good care of it, it is my whole life”: Encounters with Charlotte Salomon’s address to the living by Sharon Rosenberg
/ Study Skins review by Scott Sorli
/ a better place review Christine Shaw
/ breathtaking: Sue Lloyd’s searchworks/chest cavity
/ Other Conundrums: Race, Culture, and Canadian Art review by Meera Sethi
/ Short FUSE: Persistent Misses by Jill Arie

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FUSE 24.4: Winter 2001

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The world has changed – or so the claim goes – since 9.1.1. Just how it has changed, or how much, can be seen as a question of perspective: whether one perceives “it” as an unprecedented world event, or as a particularly horrific event that has brought anglo-North America into the real time that much of the world was already living. Either way, much is changing fast: public opinion polls are reporting alarming stats about citizens willing to give up civil liberties for a comfort and safety they thought they had, but never really did. Could it be that post-cold war “wars” and the “new wars” of global reordering are finally “trickling down” and hitting closer to home? At this juncture, we would do well to remember North America’s terrible history of internment in times of crisis for those whom it is always willing to read out the national body politic.

INSIDE:

/ The Stores of Venice by Sarindar Dhaliwal
/ The Politics of Curating. The Trouble with Normal: Queering Our Identities. by Elleni Centime Zeleki
/ Working between Memory and Imagination: The Visual Art of Sarindar Dhaliwal by Meera Sethi
/ memorandum by Greg Staats
/ High Tech Storyteller: A Conversation with Performance Artist Lori Blondeau by Lyne Bell & Janice Williamson
/ Tashme²: Early Works of Kazuo Nakamura review by Richard William Hill
/ Africa in or out? review by Veronika Klaptocz
/ Venice Biennale 2001 review by Corinna Ghaznavi
/ Money Value Art: State Funding, Free Markets, Big Pictures review by Emily Andreae
/ Short FUSE: Flip/Flop by Jayce Salloum

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FUSE 25.1: Spring 2001

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Last summer, before the events of September 11, Francis Coppola’s famous film about the Vietnam war, Apocalypse Now, was re-released. Despite its confused and often offensive politics, the film has a quality that is rare among American war pictures. This is not simply because it is a war film played as a horror movie. It is that what we fear throughout the film is not so much what will happen to the central characters, but what terrible things they might do and become.

INSIDE:

/ “Yes, my name is Ibrahim and I am an atheist!” Confessing Asrar: Art, Answerability and the Death of the Author by Awad Ibrahim
/ Initial impact … an immediate response by Shani Mootoo
/ 21st Ramadhan, 1422 – 8th December, 2001 by Nuzhat Abbas
/ Of Arabs, Museums and Civilizations by Rawi Hage
/ The Wars: Tariq Ali on building anti-war movements, debating the “civilization mongers” and narrating the history of Islam Interview by Cynthia Wright
/ All In A Day, Oct 13th 2001 by Shani Mootoo
/ Canvas of War review by Kirsty Robertson
/ Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and Future review by Sarah Sharkey Pearce
/ Digital Dissent and States of Emergency: Patricia Zimmermann Speaks at the University of Toronto. review by Patricia Molloy
/ The Neutron Hazer and the Mystic Gulf: Remembering Remembrance Day review by Robin C. Pacific
/ Short FUSE: 9/11: Diary of a Suspected Hijacker by Gamal Abdel-Shehid

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FUSE 25.2: Spring 2002

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FUSE Magazine is entering its twenty-fifth year. Perhaps on an unconscious level, this anniversary in part inspired us to compile this issue. In many contexts, “25″ represents the gateway between youth status and adulthood. As we look back on our history and chart a course for the magazine’s future, it seems an apt moment to explore the experiences of the sector of the population that similarly exists in a period of youthful unrest.

The temptation to introduce this special youth issue of FUSE with earnest claims about young people as the “leaders of tomorrow” or their “power to change the world” is indeed great. But isn’t it much more revealing to be perfectly frank about what we have here? Members of the editorial board solicited texts from a range of individuals who coordinate and administer youth-oriented cultural programs, the young people who participated in them, as well as those, both adult and youth, who theorize and critique this activity. This publication is the result – a selection of ideas, observations, theories, analyses and diatribes about the intersection of youth and culture.

INSIDE:

/ Difficult Knowledge and Contemporary Art: New Pedagogies for Adolescent Learning in the Art Gallery and Museum by Warren Crichlow
/ Superheroics and Desire Made Fresh: What do Girls (and Women) Want? by Katherine Dodds
/ WARSTORIES: Working with Youth and Hip Hop by Paula Gonzales
/ Brutally Honest: Spencer Nakasako in Conversation with Kelly O’Brien
/ Artist Project: untitled by Alex Snukal (mentored by Dave Dyment)
/ untitled by various
/ Roundtable: The Fountain of Youth – A discussion about cash, culture and the currency of being young.
/ Three Short Essays on Growing Up by Terence Dick
/ Short FUSE: ART VS. AIDS by Domenic Tomas
/ “Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post Latin American Art” by Daniel Baird
/ The National Day of Action for tuition freeze rally by Jason van Horne

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FUSE 25.3: Summer 2002

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Arts funding has been a long-term obsession for FUSE. Typically, as in this case, our interest is precipitated by a crisis. Still, you needn’t look back further than the late 1980s to find FUSE articles about artists protesting for a living wage. By the early 1990s, as global capital pushed hard to be the only game in town, “please give us enough to live on” was replaced by “please don’t cut us” and then shortly thereafter by “please don’t cut us again.” And of course the recent Liberal years might be best described as “please don’t cut us and then throw millions of dollars at high profile but stupid one-time projects like the Millennium Fund or Super-build.”

INSIDE:

/ Flatland Funding: The Saskatchewan Arts Board by Peter White
/ Upping the Anti: Of poetic ironies, propaganda machines and the claims for public sponsorship of culture by Barbara Godard
/ Roundtable: Selling Out? Who’s Buying It? A FUSE roundtable on funding the arts.
/ Artist Project: Untitled by Chris Lloyd
/ Feature: A Principle in Exile: The Elimination of the Nova Scotia Arts Council by Ken Schwartz
/ Short FUSE: Culture Crash by Kathy Walker
/ Thelma Rosner: STILL LIFE. Review by Patrick Mahon
/ Obvious. Kelly Mark. Review by Shelley Ouellet
/ Returning to unfinished Business. Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung. Review by Claudia McKoy
/ Vijay Mishra. Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire. Review by Gurbir Singh Jolly

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FUSE 28.2: Summer 2005

fuseboard — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:00:11 +0000

COMING OUT OF THE MARGINS

In speaking from the margins, community and participatory art practices provide an analysis that offers a much needed alternative to mainstream practices and institutions. By engaging with issues of social justice and democracy, producing work that isn’t object driven, activating and involving a broader audience in creating meaning and recognizing alliances across disciplines and communities, community arts are positioned to offer a critique that is integral to producing a third reading – one that activates an audience to conceptualize meaning through participation.

INSIDE:

/ Leaving it be: What we talked about when we talked about political shifts by Ashok Mathur
/ Drawing Detention: A conversation with No One is Illegal interview by Oona Padgham
/ The Temple and the Forum Together: Re-configuring community arts by Declan McGonagle
/ The Numbers Game: Evaluating public art collections in Canada by Josephine Mills
/ A Hotbed of Hotheads: Artists Talk 1969-1977 (NSCAD Press) by Sally McKay
/ Where is the Flipside?: Flipside (Artist Space, NY) by Mira Friedlaender
/ The Irony of Aural Cultures: The sound of regular art: Aural Cultures (YYZ Books)
/ Short FUSE: On the subject of counting as an advanced skill by FUSE Magazine

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