ARTS:

 

  GENERAL WORKS AND MISCELLANEOUS

UNCLASSIFED / OUVRAGES GÉNÉRAUX ET DIVERS

   

 

Abou-Rihan, Fadi.

   “Queer Sites: Tools, Terrains, Theories.”  Canadian Review of Comparative

   Literature  24(3) (Sept. 1997): 501-508.

 

Adelman, Shonagh.

   “Desire in the Politics of Representation.”   Matriart: A Canadian Feminist Art

   Journal 3(3) (1993): 21-25.

 

Bailey, Buseje.

   “I Don’t Have to Expose My Genitalia.”  Matriart: A Canadian Feminist Art Journal

   3(3) (1993): 16-20.

 

Ballantyne, Robert.

            “Glamour, Pageantry and Knives: Gay Identity in File Megazine [i.e., Magazine].”

            MA thesis, University of British Columbia, 1994.

            (ca. 83 leaves)

                                    Compiler has not determined place of publication of File.

 

Barclay, Clare, and Carol, Elaine.

   “Obscenity Chill: Artists in a Post-Butler Era.”  Fuse Magazine 16(2) (Winter

   1992/93): 18-28.

 

Blackbridge, Persimmon.

   “In Collaboration/En collaboration.”  Muse 8(3) (1990): 57.

 

Blackbridge, Persimmon, and Gilhooly, Sheila.

   Still Sane.  Photography by Kiku Hawkes.  Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers,

   1985.

   (101 p.; ISBN 0889740283)

                           Review: Resources for Feminist Research 15(2) (July 1986): 4.

 

Bociurkiw, Marusya.

   “Right Wing Arithmetic: Transgressive Speaking = Economic Silence.”

   Fuse Magazine 20(2) (Spring 1997): 81-84.

                           CBCA index entry indicates this is reprint of a Fuse article from 1990.

 

“The Chill Factor: Artists Fight against ‘Unofficial Censorship’.”

   Parallelogramme [ Toronto] 18(3) (Winter 1992/93): 16, 18+.

                           Article also in French in same issue, pp. 17, 19+, under title:

                           “Le facteur d’intimidation: la lutte des artistes contre la censure ‘non

                           officielle’.”

 

Cooley, Miriam.

                        “Audacious! And Courageous: The Videos and Performances of Shawna

                        Dempsey and Lorri Millan.”  Canadian Art Teacher 5(2) (2006): 20-21.

 

Dawkins, Heather.

   “Pedagogical Issues in Art and Culture.”  Collapse 3 (1997): 197-222.

 

Dempsey, Shawna, and Millan, Lorri.

           [Winnipeg, Man.] In the Life: Portrait of a Modern Sex-Deviant.  [ Man.?]: Finger in

            the Dyke Productions, c1995.

            (14 p., chiefly illustrations)

                                    Other title: Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke.

                           Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record.

 

Fernandez, Sharon.

“More Than Just an Arts Festival: Communities, Resistance, and the Story of

                        Desh Pardesh.”  Canadian Journal of Communication 31(1) (2006): 17-34.

                                                Ref.: CBCA index, which notes: “Desh Pardesh was a Toronto-based

                                                arts festival…[for] the voices of those who are most silenced inside

                                                the South Asian community and society at large: gays, lesbians,

                                                bisexuals and trans-gendered people….”  Article presents story and impact

of the organization.

 

Fluid Exchanges            .

   SEE entry at Miller, James, ed., in this section.

 

Foley, Bartholomew Fergus.

   “Significant Others: Gay Subcultural Histories and Practices.”  MA thesis,

   Simon Fraser University, 1993.

   (226 p.)

                           “Attempts to explain what is missing from the work of cultural studies

                           and theory.  The absence of analyses of gay cultural productions in cultural

                           theory is first identified,” consequences are suggested and a framework for

                           discussion is drafted – abstract from Canadian Research Index.

 

Francis, Margot.

            “The ‘Lesbian National Parks and Services’: Reading Sex, Race and the Nation

            in Artistic Performance.”  Canadian Woman Studies 20(2) (Summer 2000):

            131 (6 pages)

                                                Ref. Expanded Academic ASAP index.

 

Gottlieb, Amy.

                        “The Status of Different Women in the Arts.”  Parallelogramme 20(3)

                        (Winter 1994/95): 18.

                                                Article also in French in same issue, pp. 19, 21, under title: “Le statut

                                                des femmes différentes dans les arts.”

 

Greyson, John.

Fig trees.  Libretto, John Greyson; music, David Wall. Curated by Marnie

                        Fleming; catalogue edited by Paddy O’Brien; essay by Bongani Ndodana.

                        Oakville, ON: Oakville Galleries, 2003.

                        (201 p., accompanied by one compact disc; ISBN 1894707192)

                                                “Catalogue for an exhibition held at Oakville Galleries at Centennial

                                                Square and Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens from November 19,

                                                2003-January 25, 2004” –p. 200 of catalogue, as referred to in AMICUS

                                                catalogue record no. 28521805.

                                                AMICUS descriptors include: AIDS (Disease) in art and Video art.

 

Hall, Lynda.

            “Lesbian Solo Performance Artists Perform Gender Binds: De(Con)Structing

            Patriarchal Classical Lines.”  International Journal of Sexuality and

            Gender Studies 5(2) (April 2000): 155-175.

                                                Includes discussion of Shawna Dempsey’s work.

 

Holtz, Nairne.

                        “The Gong Show of the Oppressed.”  Matrix 70 (Spring 2005): 5+  (2 pages)

                                                Ref.: CPI.Q and CBCA indexes.

                                                CPI.Q description: Critical essay.

                                                CBCA descriptors applied to article: Performing arts;

Homosexuality; Personal narratives.

                                                Item not seen.

 

Honeychurch, Kenneth G.

                        “Inside Out/Outside In: Sexual Diversity: A Comparative Case Study of Two

                        Post-Secondary Visual Art Students.”  Ph.D. dissertation, University of

                        British Columbia, 1998.

                        (200 p.)

                                                Study of two gay male students “considers three primary questions: what

                                                are the ways in which individual subjectivities and cultural practices of

                                                white, gay male artists inter-relate; what is the impact of each artist’s

cultural productions on the broader culture…; and what are the

experiences” of the two in the programs they are enrolled in – abstract from

 Canadian Research Index.

 

Kiss & Tell (Group of artists).

                        Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies.  Vancouver: Press Gang

                        Publishers, 1994.

                        (112 p.; ISBN 0889740585)

                                                Kiss & Tell is Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones, and Susan Stewart.

 

Kudelka, James.

            “The Goldberg Variations – Side 2: Adam & Eve & Steve.”  Dance choreographed by

            James Kudelka.

                                    Presented by Ballet British Columbia , Vancouver, February 2009.

                                    Paula Citron notes in Globe & Mail [ Toronto], Feb. 28, 2009, p. R11, that

                                    a nerd is in love with a cool male dancer who dallies with a girl and breaks his heart.

                                   

 

LeBel, Sabine.

                        “Camping Out with the Lesbian National Parks and Services.”

                        Canadian Woman Studies 24(2-3) (Winter/Spring 2005): 182-185.

 

Lee, Robert Westley-George.

            “AIDS, Art and Activism in Canada: Contextualizing the Work of Steven

            Andrews and Andy Fabo.”  MA thesis, Concordia University, 1995.

            (ca. 98 leaves)

                                    Summary from AMICUS catalogue record gives, in part, “the work of

                                    two Canadian artists is seen as a means of representing, self-identifying,

                                                and affirming gay communities, thereby encouraging safer-sex practices.”

 

Leiss McKellar, Elisabeth.

                        “Out of Order: Florence Carlyle and the Challenge of Identity, 1864-1923.”

                        MA thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1995.

                        (179 p.)

                                                “This thesis intends to survey first the unique background of

                                                Woodstock [Ontario] and the Carlyle family; second, the general art

milieu; and finally Carlyle’s life as a painter and lesbian….As

a…practising lesbian, Florence Carlyle required the respectability that her

relationship to British man-of-letters Thomas Carlyle provided” – abstract

from Canadian Research Index.

 

Lockard, Ray Anne, and Waugh, Thomas, comps.

            Queer Customs: Censorship on the US-Canadian Border: A Selective

            Bibliography.  Montreal: Concordia University, 1995.

                        (13 p.)

 

MacDonald, Ingrid.

                        “A Shared Life.”  Broadside: A Feminist Review 9(2) (Nov. 1987): 2.

 

Miller, James, ed.

                        Fluid Exchanges: Artists and Critics in the AIDS Crisis.  Toronto: University of

                        <Toronto Press, 1992.

                        (402 p.; ISBN 0802058922; 0802068243)

 

Mills, Josephine M.

                        “Theoretical Play in a Field of Desire: A Road Map for Negotiating a Space of

                        Lesbian/Feminist Subjectivity, Complete with (1) Key to Explain Signposts;

                        (2) Glossary of Local Terms and Phrases; (3) Recommendations for the Best

                        Places to Dine; (4) Annotated Directions; and (5) Allowance for the

                        Unexpected.”  MA thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1993.

                        (186 p.)

                                                “An attempt to produce a theoretical field which can support lesbian/

                                                feminist visual art and…an example of this theory.”  Works of four artists

– Shauna Beharry, Margot Butler, Shani Mootoo, and Susan Stewart – are

                                                discussed – abstract from Canadian Research Index/UMI.

 

“Multi-Faceted Artist Uses Talents to Explore Gay Native Identity.”

                        Windspeaker 12(1) (March28/April 10, 1994): 11  (548 words).

                                                Zachary Longboy.

 

Namaste, Viviane.

                        “Beyond Leisure Studies: A Labour History of Male to Female Transsexual and

                        Transvestite Artists in   Atlantis 29(1) (2004): 4-11.

                                    See also the Namaste’s monograph, C’était du spectacle!, below.

 

Namaste, Viviane K.

                        C’était du spectacle! : l’histoire des artistes transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985.

Montréal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, c2005.

(266 p.; ISBNs 0773528512 and 077352908X)

                                    Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 30549503.

                                    Review by Line Chamberland, Canadian Historical Review 87(3) (2006):

                                    524-526.

                                    Review by Roxanne Martin, Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française

                                    61(1) (2007) : 135-137.

 

“The New Degenerates.”  <Toronto Star, October 18, 1997, pp. J3, J18.

                                                “Five of the most prominent gay members of Toronto’s arts community…

                                                argue for the return of the concept of the gay artist as a person who

                                                challenges socio-cultural norms through his (or her) sexual/creative

                                                transgression” – from Richard Lippe, CineAction 45 (1998): 52+.

 

Packwood, Nicholas.

                        “Looking Hot: Gay Performances of Masculinity.”  Border/Lines [Bethune

                        College, York University] 32 (1994): 44-45.

                                                Subject: Attila R. Lukacs; art criticism.

 

Pushing the Limits

                        SEE entry at Tremain, Shelley, ed., in this section.

 

Salah, Trish.

                        “What’s All the Yap? : Reading Mirha-Soleil Ross’s Performance of Activist

                        Pedagogy.”  Canadian Theatre Review, no. 130 (Spring 2007): 64-71.

Mirha-Soleil Ross is, as described in an online Vegan Voice interview

published in Satya, Octoboer 2003, “many thing: transsexual videomaker,

performance artist, …          advocate for queer rights and animal rights…,” who

grew up in Montreal  (interview by Claudette Vaughan, titled “Shaking

Things Up: Queer Rights/ Animal Rights: The ‘Vegan Voice’ Interview

with Mirha-Soleil Ross,” at:

                                                www.satyamag.com/oct03/ross.html (viewed October 07, 2008)

 

Tremain, Shelley, ed.

                        Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture.  Toronto: Women’s Press,

                        1996.

                        (246 p.; ISBN 0889612188)

 

Weinberg, Abbie.

                        “Identity Politics in Canadian Artwriting: C Magazine and Parachute 1983-1996.”

                        MA thesis, Concordia University, 1997.

                        (93 p.)

 

Weir, Scott A.

                        Quintopolis.”  M.Arch. thesis, Carleton University, 2000.

                        (202 p.)

                                                “This thesis writes a posthumous manifesto of ‘Quintopolis’ (the virtual

                                                construction of Sodom in the contemporary gay male ‘city’) through essay,

       collage and fiction.  It is an analysis of gay male identity as evidenced in

the gay         ghetto, the gay press, and the circuit party, and positions these

with reference to the Sodom myth….The aim…is to rewrite the myth of

Sodom as a founding moment to a virtual nation” – ProQuest Digital

Disserations abstract.

 

“What It Feels Like for a Girl,” with an essay by Sally McKay and a story by Sheila

                        Heti.  “Sinbad in the Rented World,” with an essay by R.M. Vaughan and a

story by Derek McCormack. Curated by Philip Monk.  Toronto: Art Gallery of York

University, c2004.

                        ([60] p.; ISBN 0921972431)

Review of “Sinbad in the Rented World” by Sarah Milroy, “The Silly Side

of Subversion: An Exhibition Designed to Explore the ‘Queer Aesthetic in

<Toronto But As Applied to a Social Function’ Succeeds Mostly in Having

a Bit o’ Lite Fun.”  Globe & Mail [February 21, 2004, p. R8

(933 words).

                                                Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 30664037, which applies

descriptors for women artists and gay artists. This is a catalogue of two

exhibitions held at the Art Gallery of York University, the first from Dec.

3, 2003 to Feb. 1, 2004 and “Sinbad…” from Feb. 11 to Mar.28, 2004.

Degree of relevance to this list not known.

 

Wray, B. J.

                        “Choreographing Queer: Nationalism, Citizenship, and Lesbian Dance Clubs.”

                        In Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writing about Dance and

                        Culture, pp. 22-47. Edited by Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn.  Banff, Alta.:

                        Banff Centre Press, 2000.

                                                Paper from “Foothills and Footsteps” conference, January 1999,

                                                University of Calgary[?]

 

Wright, Cynthia.

                        “Talking Cock: Lesbians and Aural Sex.”  Fuse Magazine 17(4) (May/June 1994):

                        44-48.

                                                Interview with Shonagh Adelman.