FUSE 24.3: Fall 2001

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?

FUSE 24.4: Winter 2001

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

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.

FUSE 25.2: Spring 2002

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.

FUSE 25.3: Summer 2002

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.

FUSE 28.2: Summer 2005

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.

FUSE 28.1: Spring 2005

SHIFTING THE FRAME In his 2005 Sate of the Union address, George Bush turned his greedy, oil invested, monopolizing, privatizing, restructuring, war mongering government toward North Korea and Iran, stating that people of these countries, like the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, deserve freedom and democracy.

FUSE 27.4: Winter 2004

We here at FUSE are baffled and deeply disturbed by the results of the US election. We expect the next four years will demonstrate major changes in the way democracy is practiced in the West. If there is any hope to be salvaged from election results it is that the world has become more polarized, and liberalism - the kind of passive fence sitting that we are especially prone to in Canada - will lose its position as a viable political option. Connecting the articles in this issue is writers' and artists' desire to get at the complexities of our situation, to find the spaces in between those that have been institutionally sanctioned and launch them into the public domain.