FUSE 33.4: Fall 2010
01 Sep 2010, Posted in Back Issues, 0 Comments
IMAGINED COMMUNITIES
The fall issue of Fuse sees writers and artists considering how they imagine, participate in and construct their communities. Creating alternatives despite opposition or interference, or simply using unexpected methods, contributors explore how they shift their own circumstances and broader belief systems by going DIY.
In this issue’s interview, Amy Fung talks with the organizers of the National Portrait Gallery, exhibited this summer at Latitude 53 in Edmonton. For the organizers of the Gallery, collectively putting on a show of portraiture – despite the city losing the national bid for the official gallery twice – allowed them to creatively think about what identity they wanted to present of Canada to other Canadians. Kristy Trinier, one of the members makes an important point in explaining the impetus behind their project – “If we don’t make our own identity, one will be imposed on us.”
INSIDE:
/ Observations from The International Chilliwack Biennial by Allison Collins
/ Putting a Face to the Nation: Amy Fung in Conversation with the Organizers of the National Portrait Gallery
/ Field of Our Dreams by Nick Tobier
/ Oh. Canada. by Gita Hashemi
/ Little Distance Between Us by Margaret Farmer and David Garneau
/ OurGoods by ourgood.org
/ Constantly Changing Ecosystem by Raquel Ormella
/ Centre and Periphery: Lancelot Coar’s On The Road/En Route review by Jonah Corne & Andrew Harwood
/ Re-visiting the Warrior: Gord Hill’s The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book review by Lisa Myers
/ Ours, and the Hands that Hold Us: Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking/Alternative Spaces review by Suzanne Morrissette
/ Modern Metaphors: Frank Shebageget’s Light Industry review by Deborah Kirk
/ Arts, Activism and the Academy: Resistance is Fertile review by Ashok Mathur
/ Foiled Islands: Abbas Akhavan’s Islands review by Sara Mameni
/ Disrupting Currents: Ruth Beer’s Catch + Release, review by Rita Wong
/ The Pinky Show
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