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T C R TCR T The Capilano Review / Presentation House Gallery H THE CAPILANO REVIEW E C A P I L A N O R E V I E W MOODYVILLE 3 · ISSN 0315 3754 8 $10.00 We live in a shack on the sea. Dollarton is an old shipbuilding town, Dollar liners—now dead: slipways covered with brambles, enormous blasted oaks in a fine deep forest. Outside the window, a vast white calm where sea is confused with sky, and the Rockies. We have a boat: and one day, out for a row, a whale came up beside us! I think it was Herman Melville in disguise. Anyhow it is a weird and wonderful place and we love it . Malcolm Lowry 6 September 1940 The “Moodyville” issue of The Capilano Review is dedicated to the late Nancy Shaw—North Vancouver resident, poet, MOODYVILLE artist, curator, scholar, critic, and collaborator extraordinaire. The Capilano Review / Presentation House Gallery The “Moodyville” issue of The Capilano Review is dedicated to the late Nancy Shaw—North Vancouver resident, poet, MOODYVILLE artist, curator, scholar, critic, and collaborator extraordinaire. The Capilano Review / Presentation House Gallery 3.8 / Spring 2009 Editors Jenny Penberthy, Helga Pakasaar MOODYVILLE Managing Editor Tamara Lee The Capilano Press Colin Browne, Pierre Coupey, Roger Farr, Brook Houglum, Crystal Hurdle, Andrew Klobucar, Society Board Aurelea Mahood, Elizabeth Rains, Bob Sherrin, George Stanley, Sharon Thesen 6 Peter Culley 103 Dan Siney / Lee Henderson Five North Vancouver Trees Stump Skulls Contributing Editors Clint Burnham, Erín Moure, Lisa Robertson Founding Editor Pierre Coupey 13 Sxáaltxw-t Siyám, Chief Louis Miranda 106 Jeremy Shaw / Christopher Olson An Excerpt from Moodyville, 1969-76 xSaladxDaysx Designer Steedman Design Website Design James Thomson 19 Daphne Marlatt 114 Jim Breukelman / Stephen Miller from The Given Tooth and Claw The Moodyville special issue of The Capilano Review is a co-production with Presentation House Gallery, originating with the exhibition Moodyville: Jim Breukelman, Karin Bubaš, Bobak Golkar, 26 Lisa Robertson 120 Babak Golkar / Annette Hurtig Mike Grill, Kyla Mallett, Jeremy Shaw, Dan Siney, May 3 – June 15, 2008, curator: Helga Pakasaar. Fourth Walk House of Sulphur: An Extended Dérive The Capilano Review is published by The Capilano Press Society. www.thecapilanoreview.ca 28 Neda Abkari 128 Sharla Sava Copyright remains the property of the author or artist. No portion of this publication may be Koocheyee Shahreza “Igniting the mercurial”: A Conversation reproduced without the permission of the author or artist. Please contact accesscopyright.ca about North Vancouver Culture for permissions. 36 Pierre Coupey The North Vandals: A Conversation 149 Into the Continuum: Squamish Nation Moodyville is financially supported by BC Arts Council Special Projects Grant, Spirit of BC Powwow, North Vancouver, July 2008 Opportunities Program, BC Museums Association: BC 150 Grant, District of North Vancouver 43 Al Neil and the City of North Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs. Laughter on 3rd Street 152 Robert Kleyn The Capilano Review gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the BC Arts Council, Proving Ground for Modernity Capilano University, and the Canada Council for the Arts. We acknowledge the financial 49 Michael Turner support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Magazines Fund toward editorial and Rewriting Lowry for Lowry 166 Christopher Glen Hybrid Ground/Grouse Grind production costs. The Capilano Review is a member of Magazines Canada (formerly cmpa), the 55 Andrea Anderson BC Association of Magazine Publishers, and the Alliance for Arts and Culture (Vancouver). Looking for the Utopian 172 Aurelea Mahood Publications mail agreement number 40063611. Return undeliverable canadian Riding the Shore addresses to circulation—TCR, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, bc, v7j 3h5 60 Ian Wallace issn 0315 3754 and isbn 978-0-920293-83-6 (Published May 2009) Maplewood Mudflats Documents 180 Ingrid Baxter In the Wilds of the Art World: Riverside Drive Presentation House Gallery, 333 Chesterfield Avenue, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 3G9, 67 Colin Browne www.presentationhousegall.com Kingfisher Annex: An Excerpt 188 Trevor Carolan Dorothy Livesay in North Vancouver Printed in Vancouver by Hemlock Printers 75 Brian Ganter The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Binner 190 Steven Harris Tilt 79 Helga Pakasaar Moodyville 197 Gary Geddes Bridging the Narrows: Notes on Falsework 82 Karin Bubaš / Alison Frost Landscaping Form, Space, and Time 201 Reza Naghibi North Van Farsi 89 Kyla Mallett / Aaron Peck Trees without Flowers 203 Andrew Klobucar Moodyville: Tweet This, Digg it, 96 Mike Grill / Jamie Tolagson Add to del.icio.us, Stumble it. Immovable Objects 207 Moodyville Contributors Cover: Jim Breukelman, Paintball Landscape Series #14 (detail), 2008, Chromogenic print on Kodak Endura Paper, 49.5 x 59 inches. Courtesy the artist and Republic Gallery, Vancouver 3.8 / Spring 2009 Editors Jenny Penberthy, Helga Pakasaar MOODYVILLE Managing Editor Tamara Lee The Capilano Press Colin Browne, Pierre Coupey, Roger Farr, Brook Houglum, Crystal Hurdle, Andrew Klobucar, Society Board Aurelea Mahood, Elizabeth Rains, Bob Sherrin, George Stanley, Sharon Thesen 6 Peter Culley 103 Dan Siney / Lee Henderson Five North Vancouver Trees Stump Skulls Contributing Editors Clint Burnham, Erín Moure, Lisa Robertson Founding Editor Pierre Coupey 13 Sxáaltxw-t Siyám, Chief Louis Miranda 106 Jeremy Shaw / Christopher Olson An Excerpt from Moodyville, 1969-76 xSaladxDaysx Designer Steedman Design Website Design James Thomson 19 Daphne Marlatt 114 Jim Breukelman / Stephen Miller from The Given Tooth and Claw The Moodyville special issue of The Capilano Review is a co-production with Presentation House Gallery, originating with the exhibition Moodyville: Jim Breukelman, Karin Bubaš, Bobak Golkar, 26 Lisa Robertson 120 Babak Golkar / Annette Hurtig Mike Grill, Kyla Mallett, Jeremy Shaw, Dan Siney, May 3 – June 15, 2008, curator: Helga Pakasaar. Fourth Walk House of Sulphur: An Extended Dérive The Capilano Review is published by The Capilano Press Society. www.thecapilanoreview.ca 28 Neda Abkari 128 Sharla Sava Copyright remains the property of the author or artist. No portion of this publication may be Koocheyee Shahreza “Igniting the mercurial”: A Conversation reproduced without the permission of the author or artist. Please contact accesscopyright.ca about North Vancouver Culture for permissions. 36 Pierre Coupey The North Vandals: A Conversation 149 Into the Continuum: Squamish Nation Moodyville is financially supported by BC Arts Council Special Projects Grant, Spirit of BC Powwow, North Vancouver, July 2008 Opportunities Program, BC Museums Association: BC 150 Grant, District of North Vancouver 43 Al Neil and the City of North Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs. Laughter on 3rd Street 152 Robert Kleyn The Capilano Review gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the BC Arts Council, Proving Ground for Modernity Capilano University, and the Canada Council for the Arts. We acknowledge the financial 49 Michael Turner support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Magazines Fund toward editorial and Rewriting Lowry for Lowry 166 Christopher Glen Hybrid Ground/Grouse Grind production costs. The Capilano Review is a member of Magazines Canada (formerly cmpa), the 55 Andrea Anderson BC Association of Magazine Publishers, and the Alliance for Arts and Culture (Vancouver). Looking for the Utopian 172 Aurelea Mahood Publications mail agreement number 40063611. Return undeliverable canadian Riding the Shore addresses to circulation—TCR, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, bc, v7j 3h5 60 Ian Wallace issn 0315 3754 and isbn 978-0-920293-83-6 (Published May 2009) Maplewood Mudflats Documents 180 Ingrid Baxter In the Wilds of the Art World: Riverside Drive Presentation House Gallery, 333 Chesterfield Avenue, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 3G9, 67 Colin Browne www.presentationhousegall.com Kingfisher Annex: An Excerpt 188 Trevor Carolan Dorothy Livesay in North Vancouver Printed in Vancouver by Hemlock Printers 75 Brian Ganter The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Binner 190 Steven Harris Tilt 79 Helga Pakasaar Moodyville 197 Gary Geddes Bridging the Narrows: Notes on Falsework 82 Karin Bubaš / Alison Frost Landscaping Form, Space, and Time 201 Reza Naghibi North Van Farsi 89 Kyla Mallett / Aaron Peck Trees without Flowers 203 Andrew Klobucar Moodyville: Tweet This, Digg it, 96 Mike Grill / Jamie Tolagson Add to del.icio.us, Stumble it. Immovable Objects 207 Moodyville Contributors Cover: Jim Breukelman, Paintball Landscape Series #14 (detail), 2008, Chromogenic print on Kodak Endura Paper, 49.5 x 59 inches. Courtesy the artist and Republic Gallery, Vancouver Peter Culley / Five North Vancouver Trees 1. for Lary Bremner The phylogeny of sleep vs. the ontogeny of waking up Here and there between the pages a skeleton leaf conjured up those lost woods bunnybeard blankets Patrick Leigh Fermor dewdrop the sleeping slutswool drooled voices skitter from the back of a tent (circus) useless user fingers pinch filched bodega grapes awake in sheets so soft you devour them in a dream goosefeathers knuckle a wet November no-hitter’s bloody stucco, horseradish breezes curl brown paint from gray lumber in soft curls— an August half-moon teething at sixes & sevens, in sheets so soft they squeezed phantom pain out of real pain, excuses thumbed a map’s wet fold, a ghost train fringe marked with misty rivers, chenille fingers, flutter gulches, cross-digging legends out of anthracite