Volume Number 20

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Volume 20, Issue 5 (November 1997)

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EDITORIAL

Rewiring Bodies, Art and Technology by FUSE, pp. 07.  

FEATURES

Dreams of Bones and Wires by Michael Balser, pp. 09-13.   Biocolonization and Biopiracy: The Final Frontier by Jeannette Armstrong, pp. 17-19.   Mining the Media Archive: When history meets simulation in the recent work of Dara Birnbaum and Stan Douglas by Dot Tuer, pp. 21-29.   Driving Mauve Desert: Borrowing, Translation and Navigation in Hypertext by David McIntosh, pp. 34-38.  

ARTIST PROJECTS

The Commodification of Life by Ron Benner, pp. 14-15.   A Small Protest by Deborah Waddington, pp. 30-33.  

REVIEWS

Gender In Transit: "Brandon" web-based multimedia project by Cylena Simonds and Reggie Woolery, pp. 39-42.   Technology [not equal to] Art by Nancy Paterson, pp. 43-45.   Pop Goes the Breast Surgery: "Breat Wishes" (Vu) by Anne Golden, pp. 46-48.  

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Volume 20, Issue 4 (August 1997)

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EDITORIAL

The Politics of Cultural Representation by FUSE, pp. 05.  

COLUMNS

Up for Sale: The Commodification of Canadian Culture by Katarzyna Rukszto, pp. 07-11.  

FEATURES

The Only Good One is a Dead One: The Art of Willie Doherty by Aoife Mac Namara, pp. 13-23.   Interview with Kobena Mercer by Daniel Yon, pp. 26-31.  

ARTIST PROJECTS

A Vous de Nous (Hoping This Finds You As It Leaves Us, Well And Happy) by Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe, pp. 24-25.  

REVIEWS

Coco Fusco's "Better Yet When Dead" (YYZ) by Alberto Gomez, pp. 33-35.   City on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown -- "Cities at the End of Time: Hong Kong 1997" (Pomelo Project) by Kuan Foo, pp. 36-38.   "(Be)Longing, Ellen Pau, Laiwan, Xui Li Young, Yau Ching" (Galerie Optica) by Alice Ming Wai Jim, pp. 39-40.   Notes on "Scoping Boys and Scoping Girls" (Gallery TPW) by Robert W.G. Lee and Lee Rodney, pp. 41-42.   Desperation Disrupted: "Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies" (Press Gang Publishers) by Ann Decter, pp. 43-44.   Poetry's Posse: Honor Ford-Smith's "My Mother's Last Dance" (Sister Vision Press) by Rinaldo Walcott, pp. 45-46.   "Studiolo: The Collaborative Work of Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe" (Artextes Editions) by Camilla Griggers and Neil Tenhaaf, pp. 47-48.  

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Volume 20, Issue 3 (June 1997)

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EDITORIAL

Topographies, Geographies, Social Space by FUSE, pp. 08.  

COLUMNS

1611 by Warren Arcan, pp. 11-14.   New Cartographies, New Ways of Seeing: Mapping with Global Positioning Systems by Andrea Wollensak, pp. 15-17.  

FEATURES

Commentaries on the McMichael Canadian Art Collection: Introduction by FUSE, pp. 28.   Commentaries on the McMichael Canadian Art Collection: A Rambling Fireside Commentary on the Seven Dukes of Kleinberg by Andy Fabo, pp. 29-30.   Commentaries on the McMichael Canadian Art Collection: On the Subject of Justice, Natural or Otherwise by Lisa Steele, pp. 30.   Commentaries on the McMichael Canadian Art Collection: A Parable by Shelley Niro, pp. 31.   Commentaries on the McMichael Canadian Art Collection: The Subject of Displacement: A response to the judicial decision regarding what constitutes a work of art that is neither Canadian nor Indian enough to be part of the said collection by Gerald McMaster, pp. 34-36.  

ARTIST PROJECTS

The great hope of culture ... by Buseje Bailey, pp. 06-7.   Commentaries on the McMichael Canadian Art Collection by Stephen Andrews, pp. 18-19.   DISTRESS by Arthur Renwick, pp. 18-19.  

REVIEWS

Ingrid Bachmann: A Portrait in Three Parts by Lorraine Oades, pp. 20-27.   "The Watering Hole: Lyle Ashton Harris" (Jack Tilton Gallery) by Reggie Woolery, pp. 37-38.   PSI Kit: "Passport Sized Interference" by Kit collective (Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Ottawa International Airport) by Kandis Weiner, pp. 39-40.   Rencontre Performance: "International Performance Festival" presented by Le Lieu (Cinecycle) by Johanna Householder, pp. 41.   Ignoring the Role of Violence in Fanon, Playing with the Bones of an Exumed Hero. "The Fact of Blackness" (ICA, Bay Press) by Julian J Samuel, pp. 44-46.   Public Art and Homelessness/Behind the Space Industry:"Evictions" (MIT Press) by Gordon Brent Ingram, pp. 47-48.  

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Volume 20, Issue 2 (Spring 1997)

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EDITORIAL

Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Retrospective Issue by Susan Kealey and Clive Robertson, pp. 13-15, 17.  

FEATURES

A Chronology:1976-96, compiled by Susan Kealey, with assistance from Clive Robertson by Susan Kealey, pp. 113-127.   Naming Names: A list of Centerfold/Fuse staff, writers, editors, and other contributors (1976-96) by Susan Kealey, pp. 18-19.  

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Volume 20, Issue 1 (Winter 1997)

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EDITORIAL

Identity, Food, and Representation by FUSE, pp. 05.  

COLUMNS

Topographies: Aspects of Recent BC Art, Reflections of Diversity and Institutional Reality by Kuan Foo, pp. 07-9.   Food as Metaphor: Is Diversity the Spice of Life? by Samir Gandesha, pp. 11-15.  

FEATURES

Sex Migrants: Paul Wong's Video Geographies of Erotic and Cultural Displacement in Pacific Canada by Gordon Brent Ingram, pp. 17-26.   Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World by Paul Wong, pp. 19-21,23,25.   Can I Have MSG, An Egg Roll To Suck On And Asian American Media On The Side? by Yau Ching, pp. 27-34.  

ARTIST PROJECTS

#220 by Patti Kim, pp. 16.  

REVIEWS

Gifts and Cruelties of Displacement: "Nothing to be written here" (Wendy Oberlander) by Nancy Pollak, pp. 35-36.   Fresh Blood: b.h. Yael's "A Consideration of Belonging" (V Tape, Toronto) by Sandra Haar, pp. 37-38.   Reformation: Michael Belmore (Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto) by R. William Hill, pp. 39-40.   Transmission Ruses: "small, medium and not large, books and collages, 1982 to present" by Laiwan (Grunt Gallery) by Karlyn Koh, pp. 41-43.   Curtain Drawn On Rising Sun, "Yasufumi Takahashi: Red Reflection I" by Kyo Maclear, pp. 44-45.