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- “The city represents, in the most delicate and disquieting way the ambiguous domain between the natural and the artificial, suggesting that there may be some third entity.”
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- The origins of ‘The Terminal City’
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Category Archives: queer space
Curating Laiwan’s four decades of artistic production, activism, theoretical engagement & teaching based in Vancouver: A resource site
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The 2nd Annual CRAFT PRIDE PROCESSION, Stratchona - Chinatown, Vancouver
Friday, August 24, 2012
CRAFT PRIDE PROCESSION was created in Vancouver, Canada, in 2011.
“We came together as a small collective to share our passion for textiles, process art and craftivism.
We were inspired by Lacey Jane Roberts, who has connected queer theory and craft in a very intelligent and creative way. The result of this is the Procession through which [...]
“Vancouver’s waterfront has been ruined by its new communities of high-rise towers…designed for people who don’t want much to happen in front of them.” Fred Kent 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
“Most designers are into their own ego rather than creating something remarkably human,” says Fred Kent, who founded the New York-based Project for Public Spaces (PPS) in the 1970s after helping to chart the behaviour of people in streets and parks with groundbreaking sociologist William H. Whyte.
Their research resulted in The Social Life of [...]
Crawl & Beg: Municipal Election Ennui High Tea for Enforcement of City of Vancouver Artist Live Work Rental Studio Bylaws
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
PDF available: 19-nov-2012-crawl-beg-high-tea-vancouver
John Greyson returns to the scene of the crime (one more time)
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
John Greyson’s contribution to the celebrated 2008 film Rex vs. Singh [1] centred on re-imagining the proceedings that took place historic Court House in downtown Vancouver. Today, the building where those repressive trials [2] took place houses the Vancouver Art Gallery.
John met me on a warm summer afternoon and we reflected on how this region [...]
Retheorizing the So-called ‘Gay Ghetto’ of Vancouver’s West End
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Vancouver’s West End in the upper left of this image from Google Earth**
This essay in now in press.* Part of this essay is available in the PDF file that has been posted here. ingram-2009-retheorizing-the-so-called-gay-ghetto-of-vancouvers-west-end
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Can interdisciplinary sciences such as landscape ecology, fields of inquiry that fully engage natural and social sciences, be adapted for better [...]
Returning to the Scene of the Crime — Again and again: Vancouver’s unresolved legacy of anti-Sikh entrapments & trials for supposed ‘gross indecency’
Thursday, August 21, 2008
A copy of this posting is available in a PDF file: returning-to-the-scene-of-the-crime-again-again-designs-for-the-terminal-city-21-august-2008
The following is compilation of my notes for and contributions to the 39 minute video made in 2008, Rex vs. Singh[1] that was first screened this week in Vancouver as part of the Out on Screen, Vancouver Queer Film Festival.
The convergence of the early [...]