www.nomorepotlucks.org CREDITS Editors Mél Hogan - Directrice artistique M-C MacPhee - Content Curator Dayna McLeod - Video Curator Fabien Rose - Éditeur & Traducteur Gabriel Chagnon - Éditeur & Traducteur Mathilde Géromin - Éditrice Lukas Blakk - Web Admin & Editor Regular Contributors Elisha Lim Nicholas Little Copy Editors Tamara Sheperd Lindsay Shane Jenn Clamen Renuka Chaturvedi Andrea Zeffiro Traduction Gabriel Chagnon Web Jeff Traynor - Drupal development 2 Mél Hogan - Site Design NMP Lukas Blakk - Web Admin Open Source Content Management System Drupal.org Publishing Mél Hogan - Publisher & Designer Momoko Allard - Publishing Assistant Print-on-Demand Lulu.com http://stores.lulu.com/nomorepotlucks copyright 2010 • all copyrightwith the author/creator/photographer remains http://nomorepotlucks.org subscribe to the online version • abonnement en ligne: TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Natural Artifice: Mél Hogan Elinor Whidden and 12 Point Buck 4–5 Dayna McLeod 50–58 The Party of Not Talking About It Nicholas Little The Translator’s Conundrum www.nomorepotlucks.org 6–11 Daryl Vocat 60–63 Binah: A Configuration of Three Reena Katz La belle et la bête 12–19 Valérie Sury 64–67 Simone Jones is the Perfect Vehicle Simone Jones | Dayna McLeod Such Beastly Love: 20–27 Animals and Affect in a Neoliberal World Yasmin Nair Jane Siberry: 68–77 Thoughts on Creating a Monster Jane Siberry | Mél Hogan Core Samples 28–33 Lindsay Shane 78–86 Search and Destroy Toy: The Garry-Lewis James Osterberg The Illustrated Gentleman Interview Elisha Lim Nelson Henricks | Garry-Lewis James Osterberg 88–89 34–41 3 Material Traces: Video, Sound and Drawing by Nikki Forrest NMP Nikki Forrest | Mél Hogan 42–49 Editorial Welcome to the 8th issue of NMP, theme: BEAST. In case you missed no. 7 WOUND, worry not, it is avail- able to you for free as we do and will do with the first issue of each new year. You can also buy a hard copy or the PDF. So, the theme of this issue is BEAST. Beast as in: an animal other than human, the wild side of the animal. Bête: personne dominée par ses instincts. I had the pleasure and privilege of interviewing Jane Siberry a few months ago when she performed in Mon- tréal. What I discovered after my time with Siberry is that we could all learn a thing or two from tapping into our inner beasts, which, while unruly at times, think and act for themselves. As always, NMP’s regular contributors Nicholas Little Lindsay Shane explores the intimacy of isolation and and Elisha Lim really deliver. the effects of the landscape in her fictional piece, "Core Samples". Au tournant du siècle, un groupe d'artistes a tant cho- qué le public avec leurs œuvres d'art qu'ils ont été Nelson Henricks interviews photographer Shari Hatt's appelés "wild beasts" ou "fauves", en français. Avec un dog, Garry-Lewis James Osterberg, formerly known as style très émouvant, cru, et même choquant et violent, "Chico", about his soft sculpture work and obsession les artistes ont souvent opté pour des couleurs, des with Iggy Pop. lignes et des formes exprimant l'émotion plutôt que de représenter le monde réel. Beast as in: A brutal, contemptible, cruel, coarse, filthy, or uncivilized Voir : Valérie Sury. creature. Illustrators abound this issue, see also Daryl Vocat and Savage nature or characteristics: the beast in wo/man Elisha Lim. [Latin bestia] Beast as in: Bêtes noires: animal nature as opposed to intellect or spirit. Personne ou chose que l'on abhorre et redoute. Dayna McLeod interviews Simone Jones about her epic In an interview, Nikki Forrest lets us in, into the depth installation work inspired by first-draft flying machines of her artist-as-beast, to where inspiration meets ter- and early mechanical inventions. ror. Be sure to check out the beautiful collection of drawings/photographs included with the interview – McLeod also writes about the work of cover photog- amazing! rapher Elinor Whidden, who recently had a show at Gallery 44 in Toronto with collaborative duo, 12 Point Thanks again to everyone who helped assemble this Buck. This essay was commissioned and first published issue and big, big, love to m-c MacPhee and Dayna by Gallery 44 in the publication Natural Artifice. This McLeod, curators extraordinaire. cover is so beautiful, it brings me right back to the open furrows… It’s great to see so many of you comment on the vari- ous articles—keep on doing that—contributors are al- Visual and sonic artist Reena Katz offers herself in digi- ways appreciative of this. Dear readers, we are still and tal portraits as the illegitimate offspring of Zionist ten- always committed to bringing forward an untamed and dencies in an integrated circuit of ethnicity, nationalism feral magazine bimonthly. and violence through her most feared alter egos. Mél Hogan Yasmin Nair argues that neoliberalism is structured around an affective relationship between humans and With the help of M-C MacPhee + Dayna McLeod animals. According to Nair, capitalism in its current form would have us believe that advances in increased com- munications between humans and animals and more compassionate methods of care and slaughter also ad- vance the reach and survival of the "natural world". THE PartY OF Not TALKING ABOUT IT Nicholas Little After running an art gallery and giving sex-ed classes NL: I want to read you something. It’s in prairie high schools, six months working in a bath- from Bruce LaBruce’s introduction to the house in San Francisco and a summer spent in his Taschen compendium of the first five years Newfoundland hometown, in 2005, performance of BUTT Magazine[1]: artist and HIV activist Mikiki set up shop in Ottawa. There he revamped Ottawa's languishing gay men's "You may notice that BUTT is very post- outreach program for the AIDS Committee of Ot- AIDS… even though, as we all know too tawa while immersing himself in SAW Gallery's queer- well, AIDS never really went away. Whoev- positive community. Mikiki left Ottawa in 2006 and er kick-started AIDS in the first place – the has since worked for AIDS service organizations in CIA, God, the Pharmaceutical Industry, Montreal and Toronto. Patient Zero, Liberace – you have to admit that they did a pretty good job of wrecking Mikiki is both a mentor and one of my best friends. In our party. Everything was going just swim- early 2008, we sat down to talk about what it means mingly until the gay plague came along. It to be gay in various Canadian cities, how he adjusted would be futile (fruitless?) to attempt to to his own sero-conversion and whether or not AIDS list the countless gay icons that have been killed all the cool people. lost to the disease since it appeared in the mid eighties, many of whom, in a kinder This is an edited version of the second part of the world, would have probably ended up grac- interview. You can read all four parts in full at http:// ing the pages of BUTT. But it’s that very bit.ly/9iOQyT pre-AIDS history, gay interrupted, that BUTT seeks to continue, an objective that I feel like everything wasn’t going fine. I mean, I wasn’t includes taking some of the fear out of sex there. But even from reading Dancer from the Dance and trying to make it fun again. and seeing Gay Sex in the 70s, I feel like everything wasn’t hunky dory and that there was this sense of… Many of the interviewees in BUTT rumi- not “This party must come to an end!”, but rather nate about the devastation that rampant that there’s something kind of lurking. Maybe this is promiscuity (let’s face it) and AIDS (exac- my romanticized way of reviewing or re-examining erbated by the shameless disinclination of that history. I certainly don’t want this to become a politicians and the medical establishment parable or "this is the moral of the story" because it’s www.nomorepotlucks.org alike to find a cure) has reeked on the gay important to encourage people to participate in their community. It almost makes you want to sexuality however they want to and to acknowledge cry when Peter Berlin… reveals that he that everyone is an “innocent victim” of HIV. But yeah, talks to his friends who’ve died of AIDS that Fran Leibowitz line is really intense. as he walks down the streets of San Fran- cisco. …In the same issue, the artist and It’s weird too, now thinking of myself as becoming a performer Jonny Wooster tells a harrow- statistic. ing story about years of unsafe sex at the Bijou in New York (been there) and sub- NL: Because you’re positive? sequently coming down with a nasty case of stage two syphilis (done that), and then Mikiki: Yeah. And it’s kind of terrifying. Like when I confesses to not having as much sex as he realized I was making AIDS art, say four years ago, and used to, “…because the sex I was having… realized that all my work was about HIV and AIDS, Some of it was good. A lot of it was just and then thinking, “Well I’m so glad I’m not positive messy. Most of it was all over the place, because then I’d just be making AIDS art because I’m and I can’t fucking remember ninety per- positive.” (laughs) And now I’m in a position to exam- cent of it.” I think a lot of us can relate. ine why I was interested as a negative person in the It’s gay men like Wooster, …whose sto- first place.