Magnetic North
Minneapolis: Walker Art Centre, 2000
ISBN 0816637792
Magnetic North, an anthology edited by Jenny Lion accompanies a 6-part series of experimental video by Canadian artists. This series, also titled Magnetic North, consists of 40 tapes by 47 artists made between 1971 and 2000. The project aims to bring Canadian video to the US, thus crossing the cultural border. The book features film stills, excerpts, critical essays, conversations, and thoughtful responses. It is organized with the intention to facilitate alliances and interactions across media and generations. Magnetic North celebrates artists working in Canada with specific acknowledgment of the artist-run-centres that support the production and presentation of art across the country.
Contents:
Contributors;
Forewords by Kathy Halbreich, Val Klassen, and Sheryl Mousley;
Acknowledgments by Jenny Lion;
Project/Process: An Introduction to Magnetic North by Jenny Lion;
Richard Fung on 60 Unit: Bruise;
Catherine Opie on Untouchable;
Sara Diamond on Whitewash;
George Lipsitz on Continuons Le Combat;
Body, Voice, Narrative by Nicole Gingras;
Wendy Clarke on Qulliq;
Rebecca Baron on Somalia Yellow;
Yvonne Rainer on Delicate Issue and Object/Subject of Desire;
George E. Lewis on Television Spots;
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun on In Response to the Dumbest Question of the 20th Century;
Film to Video/Video to Film: Two Case Studies from Canada by Bruce Jenkins;
Ernest Larsen on Le Voleur Vit en Enfer;
George Kuchar on Awakening of Desire and Danny Kaye's Eyes;
Puhipau in Conversation with Zacharias Kunuk;
Indigenous Experimentalism by Victor Masayesya;
Marjorie Beaucage on Maigre Dog;
Gary Kibbins on Good Afternoon Royal Tower;
Performing the Body: Work, Eat, Die on Video by Chris Straayer;
Bill Horrigan on The Jungle Boy;
Sherry Millner and Carrie Mae Weems on Birthday Suit-With Scars and Defects and Hollywood and Vine;
An Other Videoscape by Peggy Gale;
Program Listing;
Artist-run Centres and Distribution;
Artists' Biographies;
Suggested Readings;
Reproduction Credits;
Colophon/Copyright.
ITEM 2000.163 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Continuons le combat – Pierre Falardeau
60 Unit Bruise – Paul Wong and Kenneth Fletcher
Untouchable – Thirza Cuthand
Whitewash – Jan Peacock
Delicate Issue – Kate Craig
Face Story – Cathy Sisler
Stagger Stories – Cathy Sisler
Better Me – Cathy Sisler
Qulliq – Arnait Ikajurtigiit
Piujuq and Angutautuq – Arnait Ikajurtigiit
Ataguttaaluk Starvation – Arnait Ikajurtigiit
Aqtuqsi – Mary Kunuk
Yes Sir! Madame... – Robert Morin
Le voleur en enfer – Robert Morin and Lorraine Dufour
The Hundreds Videos – Steve Reinke
Rien que la vérité, toute la vérité – Manon Labrecque
C't aujord'hui qu' – Manon Labrecque
En deçà du réel – Manon Labrecque
Die Dyer – Alain Pelletier
Faust médusé – Alain Pelletier
Maigre Dog – Donna James
Interrupted Attempt – Grant Poier
Somalia Yellow – Allan Harding MacKay
Meetjoy – Carolee Schneeman
Object/Subject of Desire – Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan
Television Spots – Stan Douglas
Thirty-Second Spots – Joan Logue
Amerika – Al Razutis
98.3 KHz: (Bridge at electrical storm) – Al Razutis
Die Dyer – Alain Pelletier
Ballet Mécanique – Fernand Léger
The Draughtsman's Contract – Peter Greenaway
Danny Kaye's Eyes – Doug Melnyk
Awakening of Desire – Simon Hughes
Atanarjuat – Igloolik Isuma Productions
Avamuktalik – Igloolik Isuma Productions
Hopiit – Victor Masayesya
Itam Hakim Hopiit – Victor Masayesya
Imagining Indians – Victor Masayesya
Good Afternoon Royal Tower – Leon Johnson
What Food Did – Toni-Lynne Frederick
A Prayer for Nettie – Donigan Cumming
The Jungle Boy – John Greyson
Hollywood and Vine – Colin Campbell
Birthday Suit – Lisa Steele
Womb with a view – Sherry Millner
Disaster – Sherry Millner
An Insertion (My Mouth) – Eric Cameron
My Five Years in a Nutshell – Vincent Trasov
Pilot – General Idea
Monodramas – San Douglas
Halifax Broadcast Works – Ian Murray
Changing Channels – Ian Murray
Crime Time Comix Presents Steel and Flesh – Eric Metcalfe and Dana Atchley
Out of Control – Noel Harding
No voice Over – Colin Campbell
Black and Light – Colin Campbell
Tristesse modèle réduit – Robert Morin and Lorraine Dufour
Quartet for Deafblind – Norman Cohn
Scars – Lorna Boschman
Doing Time – Lorna Boschman
Ten Dollars or Nothing – Sara Diamond
The Lull before the Storm – Sara Diamond
Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade – Paul Wong
The Way to My Father's Village – Richard Fung
Chinese Characters – Richard Fung
Legal Memory – Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak
Nunaqpa (Going Inland) – Igloolik Isuma Productions
Le temps d'une prière – Jacques Benoît and Jean-Claude Germain
Pea Soup – Pierre Falardeau and Julien Poulin
Mémoire d'octobre – Jean-Pierre Boyer
L'amiantose tue – Claude Bélanger
Chaperons rouge (Little Red Riding Hood) – Hélène Bourgault and Helen Doyle
Joe – Norman Thibault
Hitch-Hiking – Frank Vitale
Réaction 26 – Charles Binamé
Distance – Luc Bourdon and François Girard
Tango Tango – François Girard
Le train – François Girard
Réminiscences carnivores – Marc Paradis
Positiv – Mike Hoolboom
Le Beau Jacques – Stéphane Thibault
La conversation: métaphore vidéo – Daniel Carrière and Richard Angers
Buffalo Bone China – Dana Claxton
Slang – Rae Staseson
1/4 Moon – David Askevold
Emporium – Nathalie Bujold
99 Men – Ho Tam