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Thomas of Gabriola Island informs us, Google It was produced from A'32 million random DNA fragments, sequenced by Sanger Maps will be offering new, enhanced resolution to its Map Services. Putting dideoxy technology and assembled into 4,528 scaffolds, comprising 2,810 million to shame the accomplishments of Francis Gary Powers and the U2 program, bases (Mb) of contiguous sequence with approximately 7.5-fold coverage for the upgrade is reputed to allow objects of fifty centimeters diameter to be any given region. Comparison of this genome and the National Center for viewed through Googlemap Software. While not a real-time system, it Biotechnology Information human reference assembly revealed more than 4.1 does raise the options for surveillance to a new height. Forget how creepy million DNA variants, encompassing 12.3 Mb. These variants (of which 1,288,319 it feels to see your house on Google Earth; How about viewing your diary were novel) included 3,213,401 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), 53,823 from space ... block substitutions (2-206 bp), 292,102 heterozygous insertion/deletion events (indels)(1-571 bp), 559,473 homozygous indels (1-82,711 bp), 90 inversions, as well as numerous segmental duplications and copy number variation regions. Resolutions PAGE 6, FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5 Above: Craig Venter has sequenced his entire diploid genome and released it to the world. Tofind out even more about him, go to http.//journals.plos. org/plosbiology/suppinfo/pbio. 0050254/sd00 1.php The image above was supplied by Thomas, whose work with 'placed text' is thus afforded an entirely new mode of dissemination, demonstrating that the medium is ever expanding the number of ways it gets to be the message. Resolutions FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5. PAGE 7 CORRESPONDENCE CONTRIBUTORS Joanne Arnott is a Metis/mixed blood writer. Recent books From: Brad Brace Subject: 12hr contribution include Mother Time: Poems New & Selected (Ronsdale Press, 2007) & Steepy Mountain: love poetry (Kegedonce Press, 2004). Date: September 12, 2007 7:05:35 AM PDT To: frontmagazine@front.bc.ca Marlaina Monstre is a Vancouver-based writer, interested in the local arts, music and fashion scene with of course an undying (*ISBN 0-9690745-0-6*)Synopsis: The lights of the cruise ship dance fascination for superheroes. their reflections across the water. The accompanying book whose title is its ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is the fifth of a number of titles looming on the horizon. It took form sporadically Kim Goldberg's latest book, Ride Backwards On Dragon, was released in September from Leaf Press. She lives in Nananimo over the past year; the various stages in its production occurring across a wide geographical area in central N.S. There are several anchoring positions for ships in the middle of Halifax Harbour. The shavings are residue from whittling activity. The anchoring-positions Meg Walker resolved last August to write about butter as often as possible, but it has yet to appear in her paintings. This tale's for a real person who sculpts butter beautifully. are not visible until they are occupied, usually for no more than a few days. It is the suddenness of another new vessel in the harbour which disperses its otherwise substantive quality. All seems lost. (**ISBN 0-9690745-1-4**) Epigraph: Eyes half-closed. Nothing as strong as solace. Do the themes still connect? A Venus day is longer than a Venus year, the National Geographic Society says. A selection was assembled from more than 2000 photographs taken over an eight month period the year before last. Erect walking became necessary when female pre-hominids lost their estrus cycle. The street runs below the window which is above the cinema. Everything in place. Nothing is ever forgotten, only displaced. The planet spins TRADITIONNEL. TRADITIONNEL~ on its axis once every 243 Earth days and orbits the Sun every 224.7 Earth days. Pyramids have always been. What you once thought still Byron Barrett is a Vancouver photographer and regularly contributes to FRONT. Leah Oates has a B.F.A.from the Rhode Island School of Design, a M.F.A from The School of the Art Institute in Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for graduate study at The Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was born in Boston, MA and currently resides and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her works on paper are in numerous public collections including The Tate, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The MoMA Franklin Furnace Archive, The Victoria & Albert, The Walker Art Center, Kohler Art Library, Getty Research Institute, The British Library, The National Museum of Women in the Arts & The Yale University Arts Library. holds. The man who invented the first lighthouse perished in his own primitive model. "It was a totally whimsical point. It's inarguable of course. The evidence is all around. The facts are there." (**ISBN 0-9690745-2-2**) Addenda: Just between you and me. There was no other. Who does our past belong to tonight? We understand Cameraman is a vancouver photographer. his work can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/hellocameraman Tom Thomas is a poet and web designer living on Gabriola Island at last. And while we slept, we vanished. The walls of the world fell in on us. We claimed always to abide by terms. Shattered mirrors and sliding panels. Always. Except when we choose not to. One must Chloe Lewis and Andrew Taggart most often work together. They currently reside on a small island, in a lake, in Ontario. keep alert to all possibilities. The old Indian pearl diver clambered onto the dock, grinning and shaking the water from our body. At night we could hear our mind ticking like some cheap alarm clock. Brad Brace's work is ephemeral and can be found at http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/ Radio broadcasts played on tribal feelings. Our voice trailed off. Truth was delay. A heavy splash followed many ripples. Food, batteries Elizabeth Fischer is currently in Barcelona and water-purifying chemicals arrived over the week-end. ♦LES MAGAZINES CANADIENS RENDENT VOS CHAMPS D'INTERET PLUS INTERESSANTS. Ou'il s'agisse de questions feminines ou de voyages, tout le contenu reflete une optique originale afait canadienne qu'on ne retrouve nulle part ailleurs. Recherchez le logo Magazine Canadien dans les kiosques a journaux ou visitez le site magazinescanada.ca pour y trouver ce qui vous interesse. tout ,, Florentine Perro contributes regularly to FRONT. My series of ISBN Books continues via the Net as The 12hr-lSBN- MAGAZINE J PEG Project. CANADIEN Above: We received this from Brad Brace, along with some seventy five images to date. Please see page 21. Resolutions FRONT,VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5, PAGE9 FEATURE I POETRY he affixes the marked card to his bedroom wall where it becomes a kind of compost a gathering place for slender ultra-fine, short needle, •cc disposable syringes Joanne Arnott Perforated Man If a condition is that which defines the self by mandating a pattern of thought, or behaviour, in a popular song we hear reference made to another man lost to the needle changing that pattern alters both the condition and the self. Making the pattern meaningful, I he has a little book of days that he keeps with his kit why waste ritual? why not gather souvenirs- however, requires a particular type of resolve. Artist at work, Seattle, 2000: "beauty from necessity" the endless march of days can be marked, and thus contained on stiff paper lines, vertical lines, horizontal paper, black or white red or green the negative space between the lines so drawn newborn rectangles to each of these new beings he assigns a name, one number beginning with three or fourteen cycling through some time-honoured patterning Dec Jan Feb playful, i ask is that another diabetes reference? heroin he responds, quietly as if i didn't know already as if i didn't understand each needle with it's spritely orange cap comes pre-marked with thin black lines and thick black numbers 5 10 15 20 all the way to 50 we talk about writing a screenplay a romantic comedy i want to include a diabetic character to whom nothing bad happens he wonders, why? time 6:30 blood sugar level 169 how much of each kind of insulin* 20N 4R which side of his human body to press the needle in L *N=slow-acting, R=fast-acting insulin A retrospective: over the years the ritual has changed the cards and the books are new strategies the generation of a history a track record paper trail as a child, he used a glass needle Resolutions PAGE 10, FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5 Resolutions FRONT,VOLUMEXVIII, NUMBER5, PAGE11 continue:J oan"'n e Arnott PerforatedtMan kept in the kitchen, disposable tips insulin harvested from cattle and pigs pee samples daily in his twenties still he took a high dose calibrated by a doctor not seen in years based on his mother's home cooking, by then rarely eaten in his forties, he used insulin synthetically designed for humans the slow- and fast-acting together in tiny increments what has changed? he doesn't wake up sleepy-drunk and kissy nor quite so late at fifty years of age between the lancet and the needle he now pokes small holes in himself six times a day from the plunger pulls the orange hat from the tip he turns the insulin bottle round and round and round between careful fingers immigrant to Canada, 2002: different measures he pulls the plunger back an invisible measure, pierces the skin at the bottle's mouth pushes air in as the diabetic is to the addict so the nursing mother is to the stripper turning the bottle upside down he holds the apparatus high he is frowning watching for bubbles he pulls the tiny plunger with precision removes the bottle, flicks the needle sometimes does the _wholejob over agam at the cafe we lift our shirts in unison in a new country in a new century he shows a doctor his numbers, faithfully recorded finally he pops the metal tip through his body's surface all about the doctor excitement is stirring hitch-hiking across Canada, 1981: my observations: expels insulin he wants to discuss all the awful possibilities once a day every day he spins the metal nib free of the needle's body he opens a small silver-lined envelope pulls out a folded paper cloth drenched in alcohol a habit left over from earlier days in the diabetic person a kind of fatigue called when the card is full he mounts it on canvas then buries it in glue in fabric in paint imaging, first calendars of days then his own face, his torso taking a shot with lace items of clothing transform into needle-strewn cityscapes friends' faces appear on rippled carpets of needles it is like a forest floor in here four decades of diabetes elaborated, mapped and painted a perforated man quietly wielding and lacing stitching his whole life into the frame new beginnings precaution against strangers re-using his needle Artist at work, Seattle, 2000: "use once only and destroy" he swabs a small patch of freckled skin on an arm or a leg a small sort of assertion of self he reaches up he pulls the white cap revenge on the tiny implement and tapes the syringe onto the newborn rectangle on his bedroom wall Resolutions Resolutions PAGE 12, FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5 Joanne Arnott writes: "Please find enclosed submission of a long poem, "Perforated Man.· Resolution is sought here on many levels, between an artist and chronic illness, between self and other, within temporal progressions, and between stereotypes and pop culture images and the people who in passing may inhabit them." FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5, PAGE 13 IMAGEI ~HOTOGRAPHY TEXTI POETRY Marlaina Monstre The Blind Superhero lcouldnotfindyou: I scoured the city, lifting up the buildings, turning up dust, seeing no hints as Ix-rayed the streets, the hills, the bridges and the parks, finding no the footprints, finding no lost scarves. I swooped up speeding cars in my giant arms fearing they would cause you harm. I swam out to the sharks, pried their jaws open wide to check that you were not inside. And after I searched the kidnapper's homes, after I dug through the martyr domes, roped my legs so as to ostrich into quicksand; checked hangouts, back alleys, secret hideouts and wielded my way into biker gangs Transitory Space, Bite to make certain you were at no dangerous brinks; by Leah Oates And after every impossible thing I could think, until at last I took a bullet in the head, I surrendered to find you in my best friend's bed. Resolutions PAGE 14, FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5 Above: Transitory Space, Bite, Newfoundland, Canada, c-print, 20"x24'1/24"x30",2005-06 Marlaina Monstre writes: "This piece embraces the theme of resolution by the speaker's dauntless resolve to believe anything else but the truth about his lover, and also by the poem's resolution which is the end of illusion and denial. " Resolutions FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5, PAGE 15 REPEATABLEI URBAN ISSUES I think it's time for everyone to give up on the ghost- ohyouknow, the ghost that whines: next year, next year, Vancouver will be great, that 1/you/s/he can feel it, that next year, Vancouver will engender all kindsa fun and smart events that will make the streets be full with thousands of Vancouver persons indulging in many fun and colourful Vancouver enthusiasms, it will be a Vancouver where sidewalks will have to be widened triple to make room for the many atmospheric Vancouver cafes and bars from which much loud tableslapping and raucous laughter will be ringing forth amusing all the happy Vancouver citizens lining up to enter the incredibly interesting and adventurous Vancouver galleries where nothing will ever be for sale. And all cars will be banned from Vancouver city except maybe major Vancouver thoroughfares like Kingsway and Broadway where there will be buses every 5 minutes, but everywhere else only Ken Gerberik artcars full of waving Vancouver violinists will be allowed, well okay, from 6 pm to 7pm cars manufactured between 1950 and 1962 will be allowed in a stately procession up Hastings to Main there to be parked and be admired by the happily employed Vancouver ex-drugaddicts and at precisely 8pm, 12 midnite can drive a hotrod- I I by only if he paints one candy coloured red. And there will be built squares with grand statues to famous philosophers, poets, composers and thinkers on every Vancouver street named for a tree, squares with benches where Vancouver oldfolks of the artistic persuasion can gather and dialogue with Vancouver oldfolk's of the carpenterish persuasion for both to dispense alternate wisdoms to innocent Vancouver children sweetly playing at their feet while dogs of every size run about and smell butts and drink from special Vancouver doggie drinking fountains constructed for that very purpose. by ElizabethFischer And yes, you will be able to smoke if you feel like smoking, and you People Give Up What are we waiting for, exactly? For the war to end? For a government of the people by the people for the people? For a time when the city ceases to be run by developers and is left to develop into what it could be - for a resolution, in short? Elizabeth Fischer advises against it. can drink too cause no one will ever again feel the need to get stinking Vancouver drunk since everyone will already be perfectly intoxicated by the soft and fragrant Vancouver air caressing their cheek and uplifting their spirit; the Vancouver air off the Vancouver mountains recently denuded of condo developments and housing estates. Oh, and all Vancouver high rises will be dynamited back to three stories max and will be gargoyled with petrified British Columbia provincial politicians and a Vancouver mayor or two, all holding hands and attractively strung about with garlands of used Vancouver condoms. People, I think it's time to give up, give up the ghost- you know, that things will improve, that Vancouver has the potential to be more than what it is, this fucking 100 ft naugahide cowboy, pissing in the sea. Resolutions PAGE 16, FRONT,VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5 Above: An. Urban Miracle. based on an image by 'Cameraman', part of the current exhibition "The Recincarnation ofW" Resolutions FRONT,VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5, PAGE17 TEXT I FICTION He says, "Even the friendliest, happiest dogs want to bite me when I'm walking by, just because I'm there. It's unnerving, to put it mildly," and I offer, "If you want, I'll make you a remedy that protects your hancjs, at least, from their mouths. He says, "It's worth a shot. My neighbours bought a pup." Meg Walker On a lightly clouded morn, I'll meet him on a corner and we'll walk to the off-leash park that holds the ocean back from the blue-glass towers. It will be easy to be there together and easy to forget about the dogs. Until they Hands for the Dogs the green like small stitches unraveling towards us and that's when it will be Resolve to act in a particular way and observe time for protection and resolve. begin to arrive, one by one. They'll start their running on the far corner of the future bifurcate into a dialectic of events that will or won't align with what you intended. As I'll ask to begin and he'll be all "yes". I'll pivot him onto the slatted bench Meg Walker demonstrates here, language permits and he'll be chatty, trying to knit his nerves. I'll stretch his arms along the us to explore this tension by allowing the telling bench back and he'll settle in without complaint except, "How will I smoke?" of what it will have felt like to have completed "I'll do this one hand at a time, and I'll light them for your other hand." an act now merely imagined. A pound of butter in a shopping bag. I'll open the foil all at once, like someone opening their shirt before a shower. The pale block of butter will sit exposed but calm. I'll keep the butter in the fridge until half an hour before I leave; it will be firm and cool but not quite hard. Soft enough to scoop and shape with the plastic spatula I'll bring. It will feel good, the coolness sleeking his skin in the almost-warm air, the butter luscious under my thumbs as I push wedges into place. H_isfingers will flex a little and he'll use his free hand to smoke as I carefully form a squarish butter shape over his right hand. I won't smudge it on his yellow sweatshirt, or my floppy red windbreaker sleeves. "You seem so serious-" he'll say before an exhale. "More serious than the entire canine race considering you their enemy?" I "Youseem so serious" The butter will sculpt wonderfully. It will form and reform easily, depending how I'll push it around. My hands will recall the pleasure of shaping waves in merangue to top a pie. The pleasure of pushing wet sand into heaps to start a sandcastle, or of playing with mashed potatoes on a plate. The pleasure of, well, carving butter, something my brother brought home at his peak of teenage boredom. He decorated dinner hours with a knife, twisting it into the square of butter on the table: scoop out circles for squashes, carve a triangle for the bread, strip-mine a zigzag for his pork chop or for Mom's. Butter became Swiss cheese. Butter became tunnels under tiny golden mountains. Butter a bell, now, complete with clapper and handle. Resolutions PAGE 18, FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5 continued from previous page Meg Walker Hands for the Dogs l People will cluster now too. "What are you doing?" someone will ask, "Nothing much," I'll say. He, the crowd-pleaser, will begin to witticize but then there'll be a young girl. She'll shove her smaller.brother away, "No, I was here first!" Reaching up, she'll take a bite of the butter herself! Down to the flesh on the side of his palm. "Owww! Aggh! Shit!" He'll reflex away from her teeth and butter will fly everywhere - dogs barking, toddler yelping, girl laughing. I'll wince that the dogs might attack, but she'll be too fast. She'll run to the next patch of benches and jump on one, wiping her lips. "I can't believe you didn't see her coming!" he'll yell, grasping one fatted hand with the other. I'll be stunned. Dogs will sprint and quickly tongue up bits of sprayed butter. Owners will re-attach leashes and scowl at us. My friend will rush to the salt water to wash off all this enthusiasm. Once I see the little brother safely latched on his father, I'll walk' to the shoreline too. "No broken skin?" "Nope, thank god. That was fucking strange!" He'll dry his hands on his sweatshirt and dig around for a smoke. He'll light one, then hold out his bitten hand for a good look. It will be red, but will fade before noon. "Well, you were half-right," he'll say wryly, "none of the dogs bit me. But what am I supposed to do now, avoid children too? Never take the bus?" I'll be amused. "So, for a few minutes you were a dog's heaven. What'd you think?" "Their mouths are warmer than I thought." "Well, it seems like dogs are slimy, and easily bribed! That I already knew. I guess it was okay, their mouths are warmer than I thought, which was cool. And it was tingly, I didn't expect them to have soft tongues! Surprisingly soft, lapping tongues." "Softies get to ya," I'll grin. "Tongues get to me," he'll joke, then stop because we don't go there anymore. "I think I'll just revert to my regular protective leather gloves." "Good thing you already knew you don't want dogs or kids," I'll say. He'll tug my hair, "Ha!" Then wipe his greasy palms on his jeans, a gesture he'll need to repeat all day. We'll head toward the vertical hardness of city, smelling of cream. When we walk past the girl, she'll still be on a bench, smirking and licking a piece of the buttery foil. Resolutions 20 FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5 Meg Walker writes: " ...but then this other kind of resolution kept poking at my muse & produced this. Here's a short piece of amusing fiction that is called "hands for the dogs." It's about resolution of the willpower kind. Hope you like. " We did continued from page 21 The 12 hr ISBN-JPEG Project Here's how: .,by Brad Brace l Set www-link to one of th following: http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/12h r.htm I http://bbrace. laugh i ngsq uid.net/12h r.htm I http://bbrace.net/12hr.html http://noemata.net/12h r( Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files more than once! To ftp, use Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, r ,[ TurboGopher or similiar. Download from: ftp.rdrop.com /pub/users/bbrace ftp.eskimo.com ?u/b/bbrace hot Iine://artlyi n.ftr.va.com .au http://kunst.noemata.net/12h r/ Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg E-mail-> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to the server address such as ftpmail@oak.oakland.edu The 12hr-lSBN-JPEGProject began December 30, 1994, an aroundthe-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from Brad The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg Brace. The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the Average size of images is only 45K. recognizable; it suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from determining the locus in which it speaks, is This interminable, relentless (on line)' sequence of imagery avoiding the ground on which it could find support. It is trying to began in earnest on December 30, 1994.The basic structure of operate a decentering that leaves no privilege to any center. the project has been more than 25 years in the making. While the specific sequence of photographs has been presently Pointless Hypermodern Imagery ... posted/mailed every 12 hours ... orchestrated for many years· worth of 12-hour postings, I will a spectral, trajective alignment for the 00s! A continuum of undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing publication with minimalist masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour image is like transformative metaphors for the everyday ... A poetic reversibility the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection, of exclusive events ... interruption, and assimilation. A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements imagery ... genuine gritty, greyscale ... corruptable, compact, and occasional commentary related to this project has been collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual E!'.".: ......, ~ -2 ~-.r·::,~:. 11 ,,•- --~' _ I ~- visual impact; an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the t An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically ·'""~ unassimilable ... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and resequenced over time ... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone ...Every 12 hours, another! ... view them, re-post ·em, save ·em, trade ·em, print ·em, even publish them. .. Resolutions PAGE 22, FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5 r endless present of the Net. established at topica.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg The purpose of the images was to make nothing visible but their connection with one another by space and air, yet each surrounded by the unique aura that disengages every deeply seen image from the world of irrelevant relationships and calls forth a tremour of astonishment at its fateful necessity. Thus from artworks of dead masters, over-life-size strangeness whose names we do not know and do not wish to know, look out at us enigmatically as symbols of all being. Resolutions 'ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types of image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or translate these images. /http.//www.eskimo.com/-bbrace/netcom/pictures -faq.html/ (cl Brad Brace 1994-2007 FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5, PAGE 23 IMAGE I DRAWING TEXT I FICTION Hopscotch by Chloe Lewis and Andrew Taggart It felt like a surreal undercut; a rush of blood pulsated in my head. A bitter taste coated my palate. His confession of betrayal crushed me. Why did he tell me now? Perhaps guilt and conscience had taken over, surpassing his lust. Maybe his affair had ended badly and now he wanted to reduce his losses and return to the way it was before. "I regret what I did. It was wrong." If the unexamined truth is not worth knowing, then resolving to know one's mind becomes a necessity ... by Sandra Yuen Mackay No more I knew we couldn't go back. Not completely, not now. Mistrust and sorrow filled my heart. The first time he blamed it on a mid-life crisis. This time he said, he was bored. Fuck him. He called me 'love', issuing excuses into my ear. I leaned back against the rickety fence, fading into old paint. Lies "Back off while I scream," I wailed silently in my mind. "What if you find another even more appealing?" I asked. "No more lies," he said. "The past is past. I'm a different man. I'll give you a choice. We can be together again but if you don't want me, I'll have to leave. And if I leave I'm not coming back." "You're giving me an ultimatum? What gives you the right?" "We could go on a trip to Africa or a Mediterranean cruise. We could start over." He started making plans, speaking adamantly. "We can make it work. I can book a flight tomorrow." He sounded almost sincere. "Please I beg you. Forgive me." Sweat of his repentance clouded my judgment. I wanted my say. I needed to make rules, set guidelines, or threaten punishment. But he already knew my answer. He planned it this way. Salt teardrops beaded on my cheeks. I didn't want goodbyes. I didn't have the courage to ask him to leave. He was all the family I had. Taking a deep breath, I looked into his cobalt blue eyes. "Stay with me," I faltered. "I'm too weak and old to fight you." I was more afraid of being alone. He said he'd solved his problem once and for all, as if he'd kicked a bad habit. "Love me forever," he said, enveloping me. "I give you my word it won't happen again." I held him close and rocked back and forth, with my eyes closed tight. I knew in my heart he wouldn't change as much as he knew I would succumb. Resolutions PAGE 24, FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5 Above: Chloe Lewis and Andrew Taggart, "Study for a Shared Experience /Hopscotch)", Pencil on paper, 30" x 22", 2007 Resolutions FRONT, VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5, PAGE 25 ARTIST'S PROJECT I MATRIX TIC TAC TRUTH by Kim Goldberg after Arthur Schopenhauer All truth passes through three stages ... first it is ridiculed I second it is violently opposed third it is accepted as self-evident first it is ridiculed first it is ridiculed second it is violently opposed second it is violently opposed third it is accepted as self-evident third it is accepted as self-evident I first it is ridiculed Resolutions second it is violently opposed third it is accepted as self-evident Kim Goldberg is currently outfitting a team of renegade neurons to mount future poetic expeditions. PAGE26, FRONT,VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 5 ------- • • .. I u I II I • I II .. 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Archive (Anne Walsh, Chris Kubick) October 26, 2007, 9pm Vancouver Art Gallery, room 302 Vanessa Kwan The Storm and the Fall Near Miss Kerry Tribe December 4 - January 12, 2008 Opening: December 7 at 8 pm December 1, 2007 - January 12, 2008 .a •• Access Artist Run Centre 206 Carrall Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2J1 Canada T, 604.689.2907 E, access@vaarc.ca W: www.vaarc.ca H: Tues-Sat, 12-5pm ARTSPEAK 233 CarraJISt Vancouver BC V6B 2J2 604.688.0051 artspeak.ca artspeak@artspeak.ca PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY PHG 333 CHESTERFIELD AVENUE NORTH VANCOUVER, BC V7M 3G9 CANADA Canada Council Conseil des Arts for the Arts du Canada WED TO SUN 12-5PM THURS 12-BPM MON, TUES BY APPOINTMENT A _ BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTS..COUNCIL .......,,..., _,_.,_, WWW.PRESENTATIONHOUSEGALL.COM IN FO@PR ESE NTATION HOU SEGALL.COM TEL 604 986 1351 charles h. scott gallery Emily Carr Institute 1399 Johnston Street Vancouver, Canada V6H 3R9 atB Canada Councll ~ for the Arts tel 604 844 3809 chscott.eciad.ca Conseil des Arts du Canada Luis Jacob A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, and Other Works October 26 to December 2, 2007 Opening reception Thursday, October 25, 8 to 10 pm Artist Talk Thursday, October 25, 7 pm UBC Frederic Lasserre Building, 6333 Memorial Road (adjacent to the Belkin Gallery), room 104 Guest Lecture Friday, November 2, 1 pm Queer Art/Queer Anarchy, Dr. Allan Antliff, University of Victoria UBC Buchanan Building, Block A, 1866 Main Mall, room 104 MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY A FULL COLOUR CATALOGUE AVAILABLE JANUARY 2008 WITH TEXTS BY JORG HEISER, JENS HOFFMANN, MONIKA SZEWCZYK AND MICHAEL TURNER. Canada Council for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada The Universityof British Columbia, 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver,BC V6T 1Z2 Tel 604 822 2759 Fax604 822 6689 Web www.belkin.ubc.ca Tuesdayto Friday10 to 5, Saturday and Sunday 12 to 5, closed holidays Th~eJieistLiter~I Literary PostcardStory Contest Michelle Allard Highlife More winners than any other literary contest! !' Gallery 1 Erica Stocking ProsceniumHome FIRST PRIZE(s): $250 SECOND PRIZE(s): $150 Gallery 2 THIRD PRIZE(s): $100 (more than one prize per category may be awarded) December 8 - January 10, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, December 7, 6:30 - 9pm Artist Talks: Wednesday, January 9, 7pm Curator Talk and Tour: Thursday, December 13, 6:30pm Exhibition Publications available with texts by Kristina Podesva www.richmondartgallery.org IWi phone: 604.247.8312 / 8300 7700 Minoru Gate Richmond BC V6Y 1R9 richmondartgallery.org A IIRJTISII COLtn,.IBlt. .Q.ARTSCOU:,;'Cll BfB Canada Council ~ fortheAtts Fromtop: MichelleAllard,Highlife,work in progress,the artist's studio, 2007; EricaStocking,Proscenium Home,pencilstudy,workin progress, 2007 OR GALLERY 103.480 SMITHE STREET VANCOUVERBC CANADAV6B 5E4 // ANDREA STULTIENS TRAVEL AND ESCAPES // OCTOBER 26 DECEMBER 1, 2007 // OPENING OCTOBER 25, 8PM // CURATED BY MICHELE FAGUET // WWW.ORGALLERY.ORG OR GALLERY 103.480 SMITHE STREET VANCOUVERBC CANADAV6B 5E4 // JOHANNA UNZUETA// JANUARY 11 - FEBRUARY 23, 2008 // OPENING THURSDAY JANUARY 10, 8PM CURATED BY MICHELE FAGUET // WWW. ORGALLERY.ORG $ dl:l'lllll~ Write a storythat relatesto a postcardimageand sendus both the story and the postcard.Maximum500 words,fiction or non-fiction.Entriesmust be postmarkedno later than c, l's,;,. ., ~ "° December 1, 2007. "o~"'o Winningentrieswill be publishedin Geistandon °0 ,a .. thetyee.ca.Winnersand runners-up will appearon geist.com. Entryfee: $20 for the first entry (includes a 1-yearsub or sub extension), $5 for each additional entry. Judgingis blind, so include your contact information on a separate sheet. More details: geist.comor call 604-681-9161 or email geist@geist.com. Co-sponsored by Tlj]~I4iX~E Be'stop independentonline newssource. www.thctyee.ca Visit henryart.org for related programs, talks, screenings,and more. • 1m KimJones.Performance for Furkart1991, Furkapasshiihe, Switzerland, August1991. Photo:RetaOechlin nes A RETROSPECTIVE 10/20 Henry Art Gallery FayeG. Allen Center for the Visual Arts - 1/20 Universityof WashingtonI 15th AvenueNE + NE 41st Street I www.henryart.org KimJones:A Retrospectiveis organizedby the UBArt Galleries,Universityat Buffalo,SUNY;andthe LuckmanGallery,LuckmanFineArts Complex,CSU,LosAngeles.Major supportfor presentation at the HenryArt Gallerywasprovidedby the PaulG.AllenFamilyFoundation, ArtsFund,andPONCHO. In-kindsupportwasprovidedby HotelMax. Stonding Wave Society presents: sTano1nG wave yeaTro Obedient, faithfu , companionable .. m De LL 'UDITO Sunday, December 9 I 2007 I 8:00pm Vancouver EastCultural Centre 1895 Venables A-K Coope Rebecca Whitling Peggy Lee Allen Stiles Vern Griffiths Guests: VedaHille Christie Reside Cameron Wilson Tickets through ticketmaster.ca [604 280 3311] Info: 604 683 8240 Giorgio Magnanensi curates thenewmusic eventoftheseason, including thepremiere afhisworkEthuia VIIandfeaturing works as diverse asMahler, NeilYoung, AkiTsuyuka andmuchmore. 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(That includesGST and saves 20% off the newsstandprice) Send to FRONT Magazine, 303 E. 8th Avenue, Vancouver BC, V5T 251, www.front.,bc.ca CUTETO KILL Animation screening Curated by Asa Mori and Yoriko lga Artists include Atsushi Wada+ Hooliganship November 17 9PM CUEUP: CHRISTOPHERPAVSEK Artist presentation and open screening November 29 8PM WINNIPEG BABYSITTER Daniel Barrow November 30 8PM VIVO MEDIA ARTS CENTRE VIVO MEDIA ARTS is a not for profit media arts production, exhibition and distribution centre. 1965 Main Street, Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada, VST3Cl info@vivomediaarts.com I www.vivomediaarts.com phone:604.872.8337I fax:604.876.1185 Bfe, Canada Council ~ for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada November Sunday Monday December Tuesday WFMedia Jude Norris artist in residence to Dec 13th Artspeak On the Beach toNov24 Access 4 5 Juan Zavaleta toNov24 WFMusic 6 NOW Improv. Workshops Friday Saturday ORGallery TravelandEscapes 1 2 3 to Dec 1 Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery LuisJacob toDec2 Henry Art Gallery KimJones to Jan 20 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday 14 MorrisandHelenBelkin 11 to4PM Art Gallery Artspeak Near Miss A Dancefor Those ... lecture 1pm 8 GalleryGachet Munch8 4-7PM opens to Jan 12 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 WFMedia Gallery Gachet Art Toys TheReincarnation of W Helen Pitt gallery WFMusic FRONT Magazine opening7PM Fall Auction 7PM to 10:30PM NOW Improv. Workshops Advertising copy Deadline opening7PM Performance 4-6PM frontmagazine@front.bc.ca 9 OpenSpace MusicImprov.Workshop 7pm TheWorkofMigration OpenSpace NewMusic 15 Centre A Turning the Lights On Koki Tanaka opens to Dec 15 frontmagazine@front.bc.ca InterUrban Gallery NOW Improv. 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Workshops Tommy Babin Bass 4-6PM Open Space Voice& Improv.Workshop MusicImprov.Workshop 25 Gallery Gachet/ VancotNer Museum New Voices Book launch 1PM The WorkofMigration opening !PM Open Space NewMusic Trio Kaufrnann/Gratows deJoode 26 WFMusic NOW Improv. Workshops Rehearsal4-6PM 27 28 Charles H. Scott gallery WF Exhibitions Andrew Dadson Paul Chan opening 7:30PM artist talk7PM 29 30 WF Exhibitions Paul Chan artisttalk7PM ECIAD CAG Henrik Hakansson to Jan. 13 VIVO Western Front Cue Up Christopher Pavsek opening8PM Gallery Gachet CCTCA open house 5-7PM Toque:A Holiday Craft Fair & Fundraiser 6to9PMLuxe Artspeak Near Miss KerryTribe opening8PM VIVO WinnipegBabysitter Daniel Barrow 8PM VNMS/ ScotiabankDance Centre FigTrees John Greyson& David W. toDec.9 // , s open iday, November 9, 8:00 pm tre A, Interurban Gallery, and Projections estreet.ca Community Sponsors: GMC Projects ana Macaonala Development Corporation, Carnegie Com Core funaing through Infinity Features, City of Vancouver, ArtsNow, Canada Council for the Arts, ,, S A ~ L IE NT conseildesArts du canada Macdonald Development Corporation CanadaCouncil for the Arts GMC Projects ARTSt NO'Y BRITISH COLUMBIA ~,:s~~~£!.!: r:, INFINITY Pl!ATU"l!8 CENTRE A fi!t;TYOF VANCOUVER 1.-~ phs radix~