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Volume 33, Issue 65, 2022
- Introduction
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Between Mermaid and Cosmonaut: Another Past is Possible
More LessIntroduction to PUBLIC 65: DEVOTION: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive
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- Interviews
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Fervor Forever
Authors: Nicole Brossard and Christine DavisA conversation Nicole Brossard and artist Christine Davis about their collaboration Typhon Dru (1990), and Brossard’s relationship to archives (her own and historical) as well as queerness, desire, and the theme of devotion.
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What I Did for Love: The Double (Half) Life of Mr. Lavern Cummings
More LessAn interview with Dennis McBride about female impersonator Paul Lavern Cummings and queer archives more broadly.
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- Articles
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A Pietà for the 80s
By Allen FrameAn essay exploring a particular pietà iconography in the work of Darrel Ellis, related to the art world context of his life in 80s New York City.
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Dancing Through the Archive: Researching René Highway’s Final Choreography: Prism, Mirror, Lens
By Cara MumfordAn essay exploring the last work by dancer and choreographer René Highway, in the context of indigenous art of his time, via the author’s own work as a filmmaker.
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- Interview
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René Highway: David Earle with Jonathan Osborn
More LessA conversation with David Earle about his friendship and collaboration with dancer René Highway, spending particular attention to his collection of personal photographs and how memory/legacy functions in a dance context.
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Working for Willi Smith
More LessAn essay about the American designer Willi Smith and his brand Williwear, focusing on the experience of curating the first ever exhibition of his work at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the particular problems of archives in the case of streetwear designer of his generation.
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- Interview
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Remembering Ching Ho Cheng
By Simon WuAn interview with Sybao Cheng-Wilson, the sister and executor of Ching Ho Cheng’s estate, with a focus on his life and art and the decisions made after his death regarding his legacy.
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Alexander Wilson: Queer Parrhesiast
More LessDrawing on and contextualizing the papers of Alexander Wilson (1953-1993), a Toronto-based writer, activist, and horticulturalist, this article explores the reciprocal relationship between Wilson’s intellectual and political work. It focuses on Wilson’s involvement with The Body Politic during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and highlights Wilson’s role in interviewing Michel Foucault in Toronto in 1982. Encompassing feminism, socialism, and environmentalism as part of a critique of narrow notions of ‘gay’ identity and aesthetics, Wilson’s project, it is suggested, prefigured the emergence of queer politics. At the same time, Wilson enacted a queer parrhesia in keeping with Foucault’s Toronto lectures on “speaking the truth about oneself.”
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- Interview
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Alexander Wilson: Heart and Mind
Authors: John Greyson and Stephen AndrewsAn interview with artists Stephen Andrews and John Greyson about the life and work of Alexander Wilson (1953-1993) in the context of the Toronto queer milieu, beginning with his time with the collectives The Body Politic and Border Crossings.
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Afterworlding: On Curating a Dead Writer
More LessAn essay about the life and work of multitalented poet Itzolin Valdemar García, and the emotional and intellectual work of his mother in assembling a posthumous collection of his work, Book of Itzolin.
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Dad Can Dance
By Jamie RossAn essay about the author’s unexpected discovery about his father’s artistic past, a subsequent search through an archive, and the process of excavating its implications for their relationship and family histories.
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Vertical Integration (I visited Vince Aletti)
By Marc MayerAn essay about the interior of Vince Aletti’s home in the context of queer archival practices.
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Two Hungry Children: A Prodigal Return
By Cason SharpeAn essay about the author’s long term collaboration with Kalale Dalton-Lutale, focusing on histories of queer artists of color in Canada, and their own podcasted conversation, “Two Hungry Children”, as an archive.
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- Interviews
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Light Your Name
Authors: Ian Lewandowski and Jack ColemanIntroduction to Ian Lewandowski’s interviews with Tim Smith and Gil Sanders about the queer dance club The Saint, the role it played for the queer community throughout the AIDS crisis, and how the ephemera they’ve saved speaks to that history.
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My Comrade
Authors: Linda Simpson and Alexis Blair PenneyAn interview by Alexis Penney with drag queen Linda Simpson about her night life photography, her zine MY COMRADE, and intergenerational dynamic between queer communities.
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- Artist project
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María Lugones Remains
More LessArtist project utilizing notes taken as a student in María Lugones seminars.
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Ghost in the Machine: Remembering Donald Ghostkeeper Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwêw
More LessAn essay about the life and legacy of pioneering indigenous media artist Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwêw, including the author’s own re-performance of his performance White Shame (1992).
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- Interviews
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On the Edge of Visibility
Authors: Simone Kearney and Léonie GuyerPoet and artist Simone Kearney interviews artist Léonie Guyer about the history of her work, focusing on the relationships between “shape” and space, form and content, queerness, and the working archives of her own artworks.
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Robert Flack
Authors: Carla Garnet and Jarrett EarnestAn interview between Carla Garnet and Jarrett Earnest about the artist Robert Flack.
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NIGHTSENSE
Authors: Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick
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