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Intersections: 25 years of connecting at the Centre for Art Tapes

by James MacSwain

Halifax: Pottersfield Press and the Centre for Art Tapes, 2004

ISBN 1895900654

This publication celebrates and reflects upon 25 years of artistic production and programming at the Centre for Art Tapes, founded in 1979. It features stories from those intimately connected to the centre, who describe how it came to operate as a community resource and nurture experimentation. These stories highlight the centre's history of feminist and gay cultural production, and collaboration with art organizations across Canada.

Contents:

Introduction by James MacSwain;

In the Beginning... by Bruce Campbell;

Snapshots from Home by Ann Verrall;

New Tools: Past and Present by Doug Porter;

Speaking of: A Memoir of working at 2156 Brunswick St. by Jan Peacock;

Art by Gay Men by Robin Metcalfe;

White Noise in Africadia: Black Voices In and Out of Centre by Pamela Edmonds;

Cultivating Community by Catherine Phoenix;

Full Screen by Feminist Video Production at the CEntre for Art Tapes by Heather Anderson;

The Ear Relationship by Lis van Berkel;

Diary of an Accidental Administrator by Becka Barker;

Acknowledgements.

ITEM 2004.179 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

STORMWATCH – Jan Peacock

Wallace + Theresa – Jan Peacock

SIRENSONG – Jan Peacock

Phallus – James MacSwain

Gay Generations – Jim MacSwain and Neil MacInnis

Chinese Characters – Richard Fung

La Cage – La Cage

Holy Joe – Joe Sarahan

Bon Voyage My Love – David Maclean

Snakes in the Grass – Barry Nicols and Greg Woodbury

Any Hard Surface Will Do – Michael Balser

Nurse Duck Approaches and Enters and Leaves the Garden of Eden – Willyum Rowe

Survivors – Alfons Adetuyi

The Colour of Immunity – Glace Lawrence

My Blues are Like Billie's – Taryn Della

What's Race Got To Do With It? – Taryn Della

My Father's Hands, Speakers for the Dead – David "Sudz" Sutherland

Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones – David "Sudz" Sutherland

On Being Brown – Rita Malik

How Lesbian's Kiss – Lis van Berkel and Jane van Kansas

Applying – Marie Koehler

Black Box – Pam Edmond