35-1/ONLINE: CARROTWORKERS’ COLLECTIVE
11 Jan 2012, Posted in Articles, Current, 0 Comments
The Carrotworkers’ Collective are a London-based group of current or former interns, cultural workers and educators primarily from the creative and cultural sectors who regularly meet to think together around the conditions of free labour in contemporary societies. They undertake participatory action research around voluntary work, internships, job placements…
Continue Reading...FUSE MAGAZINE 35-1/FORMS OF THE STRUGGLE
08 Dec 2011, Posted in Articles, Current, News, 0 Comments
Contributors: Harsha Walia, Syed Hussan, Max Haiven, Erin Konsmo & Louis Esme Cruz, Etienne Turpin, Kevin Smith & Clayton Thomas-Muller, Nasrin Himada w/ Red Channels, Haseeb Ahmed, Peter Morin, Chase Joynt & Alexis Mitchell, Linda Grussani, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Julian Jason Haladyn & Miriam Jordan, Nahed Mansour
Continue Reading...Not a Collection of Cool Stuff: On The Bidoun Library
27 Nov 2011, Posted in Articles, Back Issues, 0 Comments
“The thing is, the library is not a collection of the coolest or best art books coming out of the Middle East—although we may possess many of them—it is in fact a material critique of cultural production and the discourses that presuppose such books…They are no longer just the transparent envelopes for discourse, they are objects—and as objects are subject to the pressures and incentives of material production and a wide range of material objectives; economic, historical and political.” -Babak Radboy (Bidoun Library)
Continue Reading...Contemporaneous Archaeologies
18 Nov 2011, Posted in Articles, Back Issues, 0 Comments
Film curation and exhibition necessarily become essayistic practices, critical programs in poetic dialogue with social reality. While history offers innumerable instances in which the imperialist impulse of commercial film distribution and exhibition has used the developing world as grist for its mill… —Aliza Ma
Continue Reading...Any Celebration is Premature
11 Nov 2011, Posted in Articles, Back Issues, 0 Comments
A striking aspect of the Egyptian revolution is the frenzy of creative response and accelerated cultural production that has gripped Cairo and other parts of the country. The creativity and sense of urgency expressed in the streets continue on as competing groups give voice to their visions for the country’s future. —Joseph Banh
Continue Reading...The Form of Struggle
04 Nov 2011, Posted in Articles, Back Issues, Featured, 0 Comments
By embodying social antagonism within urban space, riots such as the Battle of the Camel often fall prey to the accusation of destructiveness, a claim that overlooks the far more destructive role played by capital within social relations on an ongoing basis. Riots shift the power to disrupt urban space from capital and the state to the riot’s collective body. —Olive McKeon
Continue Reading...Anything But Its Own Uncovering
28 Oct 2011, Posted in Articles, Back Issues, Featured, 0 Comments
“I think institutions perform their independence in order to survive and be able to receive the little financial support that is available. I think that as an institution there is a certain performativity of independence that calls for constant posing as the alternative to the official discourse. But with ACAF, on a working level, we’ve tried to avoid that as much as we can.” —Bassam el Baroni (Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum)
Continue Reading...Ritual Practices
26 Jul 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 0 Comments
Let’s say I love you from afar, so I visit a magician who places our photographs in a bowl with (perhaps) pieces of paper with out names written on them and several spoonfuls of honey. Candles are lit, words are said, and it is done. You and I are together in a bowl, cemented with sticky sweetness. At the level of appearance, we are together, even if events in the world have yet to catch up with events in the bowl…
Continue Reading...The Museum Formerly Known as Centre A
27 Apr 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 0 Comments
For the past 10 years, Centre A — Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art — has been a vigorous anomaly in the contemporary art scene in Vancouver. The institution straddles the roles of artist-run centre and public gallery, as it focuses on connecting artistic practices from across the pacific region
Continue Reading...Dancing Mounties, Flamingo Pink Jackets, Culture and Elitism
25 Apr 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 1 Comments
At the closing ceremonies for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, as crooner Michael Buble belted out the lyrics to the 1867 nation-building anthem “The Maple Leaf Forever,” centre stage at BC Place Stadium was overtaken by a spectacle of dancing helium-filled balloon statues, including gigantic prancing moose and beavers, gold-medal-toting 20-foot-tall hockey players and plaid-shirted lumberjacks.
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