Barbara Claus : Dérobée (à la)

Claus' photographs, created around the theme of childhood, are complemented by a poem by Beharry. Brief biographical notes

Open Doorways : Paintings by Susan Bustin

"Illustrations" for phrases from a 1950s primary school science text, Bustin's paintings are viewed as unveiling a paradigm of an attitude which condones domination and control of nature. Biographical notes

The Glade : A Performance/Installation by Zachery Longboy

Stressing the "almost fetishistic accumulation of empty AZT pill vials" for the performance "The Glade", Fabo elaborates on Native artist Longboy's "totemic expressionism", his quasi-painterly video practice, and his recourse to technology. The text read during the performance and photographs are reproduced. Beharry contributes a tale about a woman and a bird. Biographical notes

Marie-France Brière, Barbara Claus : Blancs

Intended as a complement to an exhibition presented at Dazibao, this book brings together photographs by two women who have chosen to explore the repetition of family gestures and myths. Brière and Claus’ images (which are accompanied by a poem by Beharry) use blur as a means of evoking memory while placing emphasis on touch and the gaze. Text in French and English. Brief biographical notes

Subject To Representation : Essays on the Politics of Representation

This publication documents a series of four exhibitions based on the theme of representation, presented at Gallery 101 in 1996-97. Lacey’s essay draws attention to how J. Grant’s paintings deconstruct familial ideology by means of “a subversive act of memory work.” Antick focuses on the subject of conflict within T. Moffatt’s “Scarred for Life?” series of photographs. Mercer suggests I. Udé employs an interventionist strategy of “diasporic neo-situationism” to critique stereotypes and the coding of difference in contemporary visual culture. S. Beharry’s response to M. Wong’s installation “She Takes His Bed,” centres on the problem of reductionism in art interpretation. The authors situate the artists’ works within various theoretical contexts – historical materialism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, multiculturalism and post-colonialism – and address a wide range of issues, including: childhood, memory, nostalgia, nationalism, colonialism, race, gender, silence and the body. Brief biographical notes on artists and authors. 65 bibl. ref

Interventions : AKA Annual 1991

A record of a year of programming at AKA is presented in reviews of five performances and one installation. In a text that accompanied a programme of women's video, Mills explores feminist film theory as a "method of discussing sexual difference in the production and reception of visual imagery.

Remembering and Telling : Stories of Identity and Location

Bell seeks to elaborate on recent feminist debates about enunciation and identity, and reveal "woman" as the speaking/questioning subject. Statements by 13 artists focus on the aspects of hardship, nostalgia, doubt, labelling/naming, cross-dressing, folk art and personal history. Biographical notes. 14 bibl. ref