Queer Frontiers: Queer Futurity Through Canadian Media Art Praxis
London: London Ontario Media Arts Association, 2022
This publication is part of the Queer Frontiers project curated by Christine Negus with the London Ontario Media Arts Association. This text follows a year of programming at LOMAA in 2021. In Belonging, Onscreen Negus outlines the project's objective, to investigate how the "decriminalization" of homosexuality in Canada has been a guise for the implementation of stricter methods of policing. The featured essays and artworks articulate how these methods of policing are experienced and felt. The contributors examine queer representation in media and conduct creative interventions that imagine queer futures.
Contents:
Belonging, Onscreen by Christine Negus;
Just Say SAH: A Brief History of Two-Spirited Activism on The Siksika Nation by Adrian Stimson;
Testing, Testing, Rehearsals in Confession by Aaditya Aggarwal;
Negotiating Identity as Weed or Flower by James Knott;
No Place Like Homo by Jess MacCormack;
"Out" In The Country by Lainh Hrafn & Rin Vanderhaeghe;
We Quite Bible Study by Gislina Patterson & Dasha Plett;
Some Notes On Norman McLaren's A Phantasy by Steve Reinke;
Reading Into, Slantwise by Daniella Sanader & Serena Lee;
Notes;
Contributors;
Acknowledgments.
ITEM 2022.005 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Cruising Utopia – Jose Muñoz
Hollywood – Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan
The Apocalypse In Your Bedroom – James Knott
Rex vs. Singh – Ali Kazimi, Richard Fung, and John Greyson
The Dandelion Club – James
No Place Like Homo – Jess MacCormack
The Three of Fish and Phones – Jess MacCormack
It's not me, it's you – Jess MacCormack
Celebrates us all – Jess MacCormack
Mikiki – Jess MacCormack
A Phantasy – Norman McLaren
Fountain – George Tooker
Reading into, slantwise – Serena Lee and Daniella Sanader