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 Volume Number 16



Volume 16, Issue 5&6 (Summer 1993)

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FEATURES

Re-appropriating Cultural Appropriation by Kwame Dawes, pp. 07-15.   Working through Cultural Appropriation by Richard Fung, pp. 16-24.   Dis-Orient-ation by Kyo Maclear, pp. 25-27.   wordS and sWord: An anagram of appropriation by Marwan Hassan, pp. 28-30.   Voices and Stories by Ardith Walkem, pp. 31-38.   Dance Me Inside: Pow Wow and Being "Indian" by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, pp. 39-44.   Cultural Appropriation: Historicizing Individuality, Conscioousness and Actions by Rozena Maart, pp. 45-50.   Taking Dictation by Stuart Blackley, pp. 51-52.  

ARTIST PROJECTS

Skennakowah Ð is it Great peace with you? by Greg Staats, pp. 36-38.  

REVIEWS

Cornelia Wyngaarden's "The Dead Man was a Woman" (Video Out distribution) and "Forged Subjectivity" (Presentation House Gallery) by Nancy Shaw, pp. 53-54.   M. Nourbese Philip's anthology "Frontiers" (Mercury Press) by Rinaldo Walcott, pp. 55-56.   Inside Out Film and Video Festival 1993 (part 1) by Michelle Mohabeer, pp. 57-59.   Inside Out Film and Video Festival 1993 (part 2) by Randi Spires, pp. 60-62.   Images 1993 by Laura McGough, pp. 62-64.   Tim Miller and Marlon Riggs at Images 1993 by Randi Spires, pp. 65-66.   A Pedestrian affair ... "Mayworks 1993" by Gitanjali, pp. 67-70.  

OTHER STUFF

Film and Video News by Susan Kealey, pp. 05-06.  



Volume 16, Issue 4 (May 1993)

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COLUMNS

Censorshipping and Receiving by Lucinda Johnston, pp. 10-14.   Blasted Categories: Observations on desh Pardesh and Recent South asian Film and Video by Ian Rashid, pp. 15-18.  

FEATURES

Like Apples and Oranges: Lesbian Feminist Responses to the Politics of "The Body Politic" by Becki Ross, pp. 19-28.  

ARTIST PROJECTS

Cryptic by Courtnay McFarlane, pp. 24-25.  

REVIEWS

"Black Popular Culture" A project by Michele Wallace, edited by Gina Dent (Bay Press) by karen augustine, pp. 29-30.   Shuttling Subjects through Space Histories: 4 books on artist-run history by Clive Robertson, pp. 31-34.   Biennial Bliss: The 1993 Whitney Biennial by Robert F. Reid-Pharr, pp. 35-38.   Colette Urban's "Tracings" (YYZ artist outlet) by Laura U Marks, pp. 39-40.   Diana Thompson and Andrea Ward's "Correspondences" (A Space) by Nancy Goldhar, pp. 41-43.   Paul Wong's "Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain" (Contemporary Art Gallery) by Robin Laurence, pp. 43-44.   Joe Sarahan's " 'Curse' of the 'Homo' " (Pitt Gallery) by Glenn Alteen, pp. 45-46.   Clamorous Intentions by Andrew J Paterson, pp. 46-47.  

OTHER STUFF

Tie an Orange Ribbon: Artists' Rally in Vancouver by Andrea Fatona, pp. 03.   Hybrids and Hyphens: Black Writers' Panel Discussion in Toronto by Dennis Lewis, pp. 03-05.   No More Multivulturalism: Desh Pardesh Third Intra-national Festival and COnference by Kaushalya Bannerji, pp. 06-07.   Ottawa Schmottawa by Greg Graham, pp. 08.   Film and Video News by Susan Kealey, pp. 09.  



Volume 16, Issue 3 (Spring 1993)

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COLUMNS

Probing Pagliaganda by Sheila Gostick, pp. 10-11.  

FEATURES

Invested Interests: Competitive and Dysfunctional Autonomies within the Canadian Art System by Clive Robertson, pp. 12-22.  

ARTIST PROJECTS

These differences, if must be noted, are geographical .... by Shani Mootoo, pp. 23-24.  

REVIEWS

bell hooks' "Black Looks: Race and Representation" (Between the Lines Press) by Dennis Lewis, pp. 25-26.   Joyce Nelson's "Sign Crimes/Road Kill: From Mediascape to Landscape" (Between the Lines Press) by Laura U. Marks, pp. 27-28.   Review of the NFB's "Radical Reels" by Susan Lord, pp. 29-31.   No Single Gun Theory: Toronto Festival of Festivals 1992 by Kathleen Pirrie Adams, pp. 32-34.   Manifest Diversity: Toward a Video Literature of Community Activism ("Video Witnesses" (Hallwalls)) by Barbara Lattanzi, pp. 35-7.   Some of these are not like the others (Kodak Lecture Series 1992-3) by Paula Gignac, pp. 37-39.   Gathering: The Memorial Project (A Space) by Christopher Eamon, pp. 40-41.   "Maternal Instincts" (Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery) by Andrea Ward, pp. 42-43.   "Calisthenics," curated by Leo Beaulieu (Metro Central YMCA) by Susan Kealey, pp. 44-45.   Kiss and Tell's "True Inversions" (Vancouver East Cultural Centre) by Andrea Fatona, pp. 46-47.   Profile of Desh Pardesh by Prabha Khosla, pp. 47.  

OTHER STUFF

Letter to the editor by M. Nourbese Philip, pp. 03.   Letter to the Editor by Cameron Bailey, pp. 03-04.   Refusing Censorship by Kika Thorne, pp. 07-08.   Memoryworks by Andrea Fatona, pp. 08-09.   Academics and Activists: acknowledging institutional complicity by ki namaste, pp. 09-10.  



Volume 16, Issue 2 (Winter 1992/93)

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COLUMNS

Taking Liberties by Lisa Godfrey, pp. 10-12.   Censorship and the Mainstream Media by Catherine Creede, pp. 13-15.   The Rhetoric of Degradation: How the anti-porn lobby sold us out by Christopher Eamon, pp. 16-17.  

FEATURES

Obscenity Chill: Artists in a Post-Bulter Era by Claire Barclay and Elaine Carol, pp. 18-28.  

ARTIST PROJECTS

"Straight White Males Rule ..." by Robert Windrum, pp. 29-31.  

REVIEWS

Turn of the Screw: review of Steven Seidman's "Embattled eros: Sexula Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America" (Routledge) by Shawn Syms, pp. 32-34.   "Twist and Shout: A Decade of Feminist Writing in This Magazine" ed. Susan Crean (Second Story Press) by Diana Bryden, pp. 35.   "A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art and Contemporary Culture" ed Allan Klusacek and Ken Morrison (Artexte editions) by Paul Della Penna, pp. 36-37.   Historical Revisions: Sex, Gender and the Past (Toronto Festival of Festivals 1992) by Richard Fung, pp. 38-39.   Fire: programme at the 6th New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival by Robert F Reid-Pharr, pp. 40-41.   Ellen Flander's "Looking Beyond Identity: Coalition Initiatives from the Left" (Tangle Gallery, Toronto) by Sandra Haar, pp. 42-43.   Diana Thorneycroft's "Touching the Self" (Folio gallery, Calgary) by David Garneau, pp. 44-45.   Chaotic Kinds of Dreams: Profile of Rungh Cultural Society by Lloyd Wong, pp. 46-47.  

OTHER STUFF

Letter to the editor by ki namaste, pp. 03.   Dreamspeakers Showcases Aboriginal Talent by Terry Lusty, pp. 06-07.   Red, Hot, Chill by Lloyd Wong, pp. 07-08.   Funding Watch by Clive Robertson, pp. 08-09.   Solidarity Mural by Carole Beaulieu, pp. 09.  



Volume 16, Issue 1 (Fall 1992)

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COLUMNS

The 'Post-colonial' Imagination by Lee Maracle, pp. 12-15.  

FEATURES

Lighten Up: Reflections on Everyday Racism by Kwame Dawes, pp. 16-22.   White Skin, Black Makeup by Kwame Dawes, pp. 19-23.  

ARTIST PROJECTS

It is a Crime ... by Shani Mootoo, pp. 24-25.  

REVIEWS

"Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts" ed. Russell Leong (LA: Visual Communications and UCLA Asian American Studies Center) by Helen Lee, pp. 26-27.   "Fluid Exchanges: Artists and Critics in the Aids Crisis" ed. James Miller (University of Toronto Press) by Fadi Abou-Rihan, pp. 28-29.   A Gender of Self-Determination: Kate Bornstein's "The Opposite Sex ... is Neither" by Shawn Syms, pp. 29-41.   "Exquisite Corpse" (Pleasure Dome, Toronto) by Andrew James Paterson, pp. 30-31.   "Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories" ed. Diana Fuss (Routledge Press) by Tom Folland, pp. 32-33.   Peter Karuna's "My Father was an Englishman" (NIIPA, Hamilton) by Jane Gordon, pp. 34-35.   "The Black Line" and "Ethos" (Harbourfront Centre, Toronto) by Dennis Lewis, pp. 36-37.   Shelley Niro's "Mohawks in Beehives" (Mercer Union) by Lloyd Wong, pp. 38.  

OTHER STUFF

Letter to the editor by Lee-Ann Martin, pp. 05-06.   Letter to the editor by Rita Davies, pp. 06.   News and Events: Fighting back with Fashion by ki namaste, pp. 07-09.   About Face, about frame by Mina Shum, pp. 10-11.   Index of volume 15 by Rob Butz, pp. 42-45.  

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