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 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