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Article: Rightfully yours, Wendy Coburn, Steven Cohen, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Alicia Framis, Alison S.M. Kobayashi, Mingering Mike, Mattias Olofsson, The Yes Men, Carnille Turner, Sislej Xhafa, Your personal viewing of Borat, Ali G, and Bruno, Curated by Tejpal Singh Ajji, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Toronto.
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- C: International Contemporary Art
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- June 22, 2008
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Rightfully Yours, was an intellectually thrilling and politically provocative exhibition mounted by young curator Tejpal Singh Ajji. Through a wide range of Canadian and international performance-based work--very broadly defined--Ajji created a laboratory to consider how artists insert themselves into a contemporary world wracked by conflicts over territory and identity, investigating what rights they or any of us have to take on and occupy the postion of the other. Artists here are productively framed as invaders, re-invigorating debates over cultural trespass and appropriation while never losing sight of the potent pleasures that cone with transgressions of symbolic and ...
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Article: Positive images of gays & lesbians. (Counterparts Film Festival)
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July 1, 1991 ;
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... ... may explain the dearth of lesbian content in this year's selections, with the NFB's Five Feminist Minutes (featuring Shawna Dempsey's gynaecological music video) bearing most of that burden. Part of the problem in attempting to match gay-content ...
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