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 - Contributrice Lukas Blakk - Web Admin & Editor Regular Contributors Elisha Lim Nicholas Little Copy Editors Tamara Sheperd Jenn Clamen Renuka Chaturvedi Karen Cocq Traduction Gabriel Chagnon Web 2 Jeff Traynor - Drupal development NMP Mél Hogan - Site Design 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 Five Things You Need to Know about Sex Mél Hogan Workers www.nomorepotlucks.org 4–5 Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Gayle MacDonald 52–56 Open Source Communities of the North, Unite Landlocked and Lonesome: Arctic Perspective Initiative | Dayna McLeod LIDS, Queer Feminism and Artist Run- 6–15 Culture in Boomin’ Calgary Anthea Black Langsamkeit: 57–63 Telling Stories in a Small World Florian Thalhofer | Matt Soar The Illustrated Gentleman 16–19 Elisha Lim 64–65 Chez les eux Massime Dousset “We Show Up”: Lesbians in Rural British 20–22 Columbia, 1950s-1970s Rachel Torrie Moonshine and Rainbows: 66–75 Queer, Young, and Rural… An Interview with Mary L. Gray Assimilation in the Land of Cows Mary L. Gray | Mandy Van Deven Bob Leahy 3 24–27 76–81 Queer in a Haystack: Queering Rural Space Sound Bites of Rural Nova Scotia NMP Rosemary MacAdam M-C MacPhee & Mél Hogan 28–35 82–87 The History of the Queer Crop Code: Memory Hoarding: Symbology in the Settlement Era An Interview with Rocky Green Cindy Baker Rocky Green | M-C MacPhee 36–51 88–105 www.nomorepotlucks.org Editorial Qui est relatif à la campagne ou caractéristique de celle-ci. As a general approach in this issue, the notion of rural is validated but its surrounding myths are questioned. Rural, bucolique, rustique, pastoral. Qui se distingue de la ville. Rachel Torrie re-imagines the gay landscape and chal- lenges the myth of ‘the rural’ as off limits to outsiders Relatif à celles et ceux qui vivent à la campagne : villages, and resistant to difference in a piece addressing lesbi- fermes, agriculture. anism and rurality in British Columbia, 1950s-1970s. Le thème: rural. Ce numéro est le premier s’inscrivant Anthea Black tackles the hardships of queer art- dans une série annuelle portant sur la vie et la créa- ists working in Alberta–the hotbed of conservatism tion en milieu rural. Une fois par année, nous avons in Canada–and the dilemma of staying or going... in décidé de consacrer un numéro aux artistes, aux search of more hospitable communities. This is why écrivains et producteurs culturels qui travaillent et the Ladies’ Invitational Deadbeat Society’s (LIDS) perfor- créent à partir de la campagne, de la ferme, du village, mance, JDH: Keepin’ On, Keepin’ On, has a particular du non-urbain. Nous invitons également les voyageurs geographical and political significance. et les gens nomades de contester, de faire valoir, et de définir ce thème. Cindy Baker explores the Queer Crop Code. To find out if you are a “Peach” a “Lentil” or a “Chickpea”, Each year we will have an issue dedicated to rural read on. themes. If you are reading this and you are from or 4 located in a remote or rural area, or have great proj- From West to East... NMP ects ideas about rural life, write us. Like any theme, you can counter the definition of rural, challenge it, According to Bob Leahy, “there are many defining or explore it further. The theme is always as much a moments that occur when one first moves to the provocation as it is a way grouping ideas within issues. country”. Assimilation in the Land of Cows takes on al- ternative living, fitting in, and the politics of unobtru- As part of our continuing Video Curatorial spot, Matt siveness–for a HIV-positive gay guy. Soar interviews Berlin-based artist and filmmaker, Florian Thalhofer, the inventor of the Open Source Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Gayle MacDonald’s study of sex Korsakow System. In a stellar interview by Soar, Thal- work and sex workers in the Maritimes–”traditionally hofer reminisces on his early work–’Small World’–a viewed as a backwater of economically marginalized first attempt at creating an interactive narrative. and traditionalist people”–overtly challenges common assumptions about sex work from a rural purview. Inspired by the way of life of her farming lesbian aunts Huge thank-you to M-C MacPhee, without whom in rural Nova Scotia, Rosemary MacAdam explores NMP would vanish into thin air. her urban roots and rural prejudices and proposes the Thanks to Dayna McLeod, as always, contributing possibility of being “queerly in place” anywhere. perfect pieces to NMP. Thank you to our editors and copy editors for this issue, Renuka Chaturvedi, Jenn Similarly, a few years ago, I joined M-C MacPhee (NMP Clamen, Tamara Shepperd, Karen Cocq, and Gabriel curator) on her project to interview various people Chagnon. straddling the urban/rural divide. The project involved exploring the impact of traveling–and often returning Fabien Rose, tu nous manques et nous pensons beau- www.nomorepotlucks.org ‘to the land’ after several years in the city–on sexual coup à toi ! identity and self-representation. It is presented here with precious audio clips from these interviews. Special thank-you to Momoko Allard, NMP’s assistant publisher, for her invaluable assistance getting the M-C also interviews cover photographer, Rocky print issues ready and available at Lulu.com. Green, a writer and visual artist who lives in the Ban- croft/Maynooth area in Ontario Canada where he Other special thank you to Miriam Ginestier for offer- was born. ing us another NMP fundraiser. Please join us Decem- ber 4th at Sala Rosa for the Meow Mix! From East to North... Merci à tous et à toutes pour vos contributions à NMP’s prized Dayna McLeod spoke with Matthew NMP. Si vous aimeriez contribuer à NMP, s.v.p écrire Biederman and Marko Peljhan about The Arctic Per- un courriel à [email protected]. spective, a non-profit organization of scientists, activ- ists, artists and organizations, working to empower You can look forward to December’s launch of Issue peoples of the north by sharing resources, technol- 12 themed RAGE wrapping up NMP’s second year as ogy, education and training. an ad-free, independent, love-powered project. Stay tuned for year 3, with themes that will blow your mind From North to South... and rock your soul. Any Chance that under that Ve- neer lurks an Animal with a Motive for... Amour? Mandy Van Deven interviews Mary L. Gray from a 5 small town in California. Based on her groundbreaking Remember to comment a lot on the articles (contrib- research on what life is like for the young and queer in utors love that! And don’t be afraid of the skill testing rural America, Gray discusses pride and hostility, race question - it’s a spam filter). NMP and risk, and the importance of the ‘local’ in coalition building. Chères lectrices et lecteurs, nous nous engageons à vous livrer à chaque édition un magazine intime et Elisha Lim is back with another beautiful rendition in serein. her Illustrated Gentleman series. Mél Hogan Massime Dousset est de retour à NMP avec ‘Chez les eux’, une courte histoire poétique. OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES OF THE NortH, UNITE Arctic Perspective Initiative | Dayna McLeod A non-profit organization of scientists, activists, artists and DM: How does API work as a collaborative organizations, The Arctic Perspective Initiative is empow- project? ering peoples of the north by sharing resources, technol- ogy, education and training through epic hands-on projects API: API is really an idea – any organization that feels that invigorate and stimulate their participants, collabo- they would like to collaborate is welcome to contact rators and audience. NMP spoke with Matthew Bieder- us. For the last three years we have worked very man and Marko Peljhan about The Arctic Perspective, the tightly with the organizations above to carry out a group’s vision, some of their projects, and how they get it number of our initial ideas, like the development of all done. the architectural system and the support systems around it as well as the logistics based around bring- Dayna McLeod: What does API do? How ing such a complex project to fruition, which included did you get Arctic communities involved in organizing an international architectural competition, the project? editing a series of cahiers to reflect the project, and curating a set of exhibitions and public discussions API: API works in collaboration with many different with this same aim. partners around the world, both circumpolar and southern on a number of ideas based around free and DM: What role does science play and what open communications systems, architectures, and is the relationship between migration and technologies. culture within the context of API? Our approach to finding collaborators is a pretty nat- API: Science and art share many similarities, among ural one – essentially by going places, meeting people, them is the constant quest for the understanding and sharing ideas and seeing what comes out of those dis- representation of the unknown: for the materializa- cussions. Already API’s agenda has grown exponen- tion of immateriality. Certainly when you start dealing tially as we continue to work with our collaborators with technologies in particular, one needs a certain in the North and meeting new people and groups level of expertise on a practical level, but we also see along the way.