Feature

Jamie Ross is a visual artist and ﬁlmmaker living in Los Angeles and Montreal. Their current project touches the microhistorical world of a Los Angeles secret society of drag queens, harmonic hymn singers, and sea-shell collectors raided by the police in 1914.

Environment

Activism

Jamie Ross reflects on the growing fight to save the Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts as the corporation managing the space enters receivership. Conversations with the queer arts community at Gibraltar Point, and recollections of Ross's memories of the space, frames this moment of transition.

Gibraltar Point: A Transition 

Review

This issue expands on codes as ethical, social, political, and legal boundaries—considering them as sets of visible and invisible instructions moving within and beyond the digital imaginary. Through features, interviews, and experimental texts, artists and writers probe how developments in AI and coding are products of existing mechanics of the world, and how else codes are constituted. From programming languages as poetry to paranormal readings with the land against settler ideas of an inanimate wilderness, contributors ask how the material consequences of an array of codes might be re-inscribed to understand or lay form to (alternate) conditions of life.


Codes

Theatres of the Intimate” ran from 20 October 2022 to 23 April, 2023 at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City.

“Theatres of the Intimate” — Evergon

Column

Community

Memory

Sexuality

Jamie Ross reflects on Canada’s first gay picnic, at Hanlan’s Point in Toronto, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the nation’s Pride celebrations.

One Thing: Gay Day 1971

Randy Lee Cutler is a Vancouver-based writer, artist and educator. She contributes essays to catalogues and art magazines as well as maintains an experimental relationship to pedagogy, gardening and walking. Her art practice takes up themes of food and sustenance through performance, video and textual strategies. In the intersections of gender, art, science and technology, she investigates the emergence of new cultural forms and expression. She is an associate professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, BC.

Multidisciplinary artist **Vera Frenkel** is a Governor General’s Award and Gershon Iskowitz Prize laureate, currently re-creating as a website the September 2017 installation of her multi-channel Body Missing project inside the Altaussee salt mine where the Nazis stored looted art.

Amy Fung is a writer and organizer of multifarious exhibitions and events. She is Toronto-based, not raised. 

Jacob Korczynski is an independent curator.

Kegan McFadden is a writer and independent curator whose research explores printed matter, recent histories and melancholy. McFadden’s curatorial investigation into magazines produced by artists in Canada during the 1990s, >em>Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool)</em> will be hosted by The Banff Centre later this year.

David Senior is Senior Bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York.

Predecessors

Sixteen writers each contribute to a collection of essays about an influential individual from the art world and culture at large.

Predecessors: Linda Rubin, Ruth Maleczech, David Antin, Derek Jarman,  Andrew James Paterson, Mary Daly, Albert Dumouchel and Yvonne Rainer, Queer Elders, Mary Anne Staniszewski and Mick Wilson, James McSwain, Red Burns, Bill Murray, AA Bronson, and more

Surveillance

Video

Narrative

Fairytale

This article reviews the video work Smile Stealers by artists Allison Moore and Jasa Baka. The video was screened during NXNE in Toronto on June 13, 2013 and Festival Phenomena in Montreal on October 18, 2013.

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Jamie Ross

Gibraltar Point: A Transition

“Theatres of the Intimate” — Evergon

One Thing: Gay Day 1971

Predecessors: Linda Rubin, Ruth Maleczech, David Antin, Derek Jarman, Andrew James Paterson, Mary Daly, Albert Dumouchel and Yvonne Rainer, Queer Elders, Mary Anne Staniszewski and Mick Wilson, James McSwain, Red Burns, Bill Murray, AA Bronson, and more

Allison Moore and Jasa Baka: Smile Stealers