Curated by Felicity Tayler, the exhibition Desire Lines. Displaced Narratives of Place highlights these lines, bounded by metadata describing three magazines published in Toronto between 1978 and 1987 : Fireweed, Border/Lines, and Fuse (formerly known as Centerfold), as well as their network of artists and writers who have mobilized around them.
Launch | Artexte, Desire Lines, exhibition, Felicity Tayler, launch, Magazines, Metadata, Montreal, SpokenWeb, Toronto
This network shows us how the absences, or received lack, in one publishing project generates desire for new ones. These panelists will share their personal memories of scenes and magazines as sites of discursive community, reflecting on how one magazine can emerge as a response to another.
Presentations, Talk | Access to Print, Concordia, Desire Lines, Joy Xiang, Kass Banning, Rinaldo Walcott, SpokenWeb, Will Straw, York University
Intergenerational mentoring is a central experience of cultural transmission; within publishing networks we can sense a print-based trace of Black feminist sensations of belonging. Magazines of the 1980s, such as Fireweed and Tiger Lily, offer a view into activist spaces where gaining access to print was a means to rewrite the terms of racialization and socioeconomic oppression. This panel will conjure personal memories around institutions such as Sister Vision Press and Fresh Arts as crucibles for cultural production in Toronto.
Talk | Art Gallery of York University, Artexte, Concordia University, Cultural Transmission, Desire Lines, Intergenerational, Magazines, Mentoring, Speaker Series, SpokenWeb, Toronto
This speaker series takes an algorithmically produced network diagram of publishing metadata as a jumping off point for story-telling around personal memories.
Talk | Art Gallery of York University, Artexte, Concordia University, Desire Lines, Mapping, Metadata, Montreal, Publishing, Speaker Series, SpokenWeb, Toronto