Critical Writing Index

Queer Frontiers: Queer Futurity Through Canadian Media Art Praxis

by Christine Negus

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 UtopiaJose Muñoz

HollywoodRyan Murphy and Ian Brennan

The Apocalypse In Your BedroomJames Knott

Rex vs. SinghAli Kazimi, Richard Fung, and John Greyson

The Dandelion ClubJames

No Place Like HomoJess MacCormack

The Three of Fish and PhonesJess MacCormack

It's not me, it's youJess MacCormack

Celebrates us allJess MacCormack

MikikiJess MacCormack

A PhantasyNorman McLaren

FountainGeorge Tooker

Reading into, slantwiseSerena Lee and Daniella Sanader