2 Planet of the Arts / December 1996 Volume XII — Issue 2 Contributors ADRIENNE lai ALAN hoffman BROCK ellis BRYAN langlands CAROLYN ashmore CHRIS czartoryski CHRISTINE carter CINDY spence CRAIG stewart DAMON craine DAN lukiv DAN vogel DAWN huck DC hillier DEB dyer DENISE martindale DENISE whitlow ERIN gillgannon ERIN gunther GERRI broadbent GRACE salez HENRI robideau IGOR santizo ILZE bebris ISAAC king JAMES baker JAMES riley JASON godding JENNIFER gottesman JENNIFER kleinsteuber JENNIFER weih JOE worley JOHN ngan JOSHUA aronovitch JOSHUA cohen JUBAL brown KAREN myskiw KENN sakurai KYATH battie LINDA szasz LING chiu LUKE MAAYAN MAEVE doyle MARK curry MARK lomond MARLEN madison plimley NANCY bleck NAOMI singer NATHANIEL akin P. ROCH smith PAUL morstad PAULA mcbride PAXTON downard ROD slemmons RODNEY sanchez RYAN kennedy RYAN schmidt RYAN tunnicliffe RYAN white SANDRA semchuk SHAWN nygren SUSAN coward TANIA conley TERRY dawes ‘WENDY wait ZUZANA kulhankova Section Coordinators BRONWYN masson MONIKA tang TYLA bolte Facilitators HARALD gravelsins JONATHAN lander Disclaimer Planet of the Arts is an independent student-run newspaper at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. It is funded through student registration levies and advertising sales. We welcome unsolicited contributions provided they include the contributor’s real name. Articles should be legible (preferable typed, and on diskette). Submissions can be placed in the Planet of the Arts mailbox (via ECIAD reception desk) or sent via e-mail. Planet of the Arts reserves the right to edit submissions for clarity, length and inappropriate content, and we welcome discussion and comment on our editorial decisions. The views expressed in this newspaper are not necessarily those of our funds providers. Address Planet of the Arts 1399 Johnston Street Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6H 3R9 tel: (604) 844-3861 fax: (604) 844-3801 e-mail: poa@eciad.bc.ca world wide web: http://www.eciad.bc.ca/~poa/ The Commentary on Page Two By Ilze Bebris Some thirty-five brave souls turned out to the first grad show meeting despite the demands of other non-events which clamoured for their attention in that vital noon hour slot. The scintillating agenda centred on fund raising schemes for the grad catalogue. To say this engendered heated debate would be a fiction of the most blatant sort. The usual wheels to raise funds for the grad show cata- logue are now in motion. Soon we'll be busy selling lottery tickets, framing and auctioning work to raise funds for the big glossy cata- logue to send back home to the relatives. In retrospect though, it seems we've put the proverbial cart before the horse. Sure it would be nice to have a glossy catalogue, but what about the SHOW itself. What kind of a show are we going to have? Will it be the usual process of grinding along with the assump- tion that at the end of the year we'll put out our wares and haggle over showing space? If last year’s interest in the show was any indi- cation and this year’s attendance at the grad show meeting decisive, then this will certainly be the way it plays out. After the hoopla of opening night in the cold light of dawn the show may turn out to be, well, just another yawn. Perhaps a quick tour of the work and a polite review by a critic from the lifestyle page of the press. More likely a polite, dismissive nod toward those Emily Carr students who are known more for their proclivity for body piercing than their work and ideas. But hey, it’s just another show, no big deal. But since you've read this far, bear with me for a moment while | fantasize. What about changing the strategy or as we've learned to say in Post-modern terms, shifting the paradigm. Suppose we decided to take control of the show and use it as a vehicle to make this wanna be sophisticated burg sit up and pay attention. Suppose we put on a splash. Suppose we pulled together and put some focus into our show. We could hire an outside curator to help us pull the work together thematically, to give us that distance that the parent never has from its offspring . Let's elimi- nate that aimless wandering through a maze of disconnected work. We could set themes and invite the grads to create work in response. We could really think about Cards+ Letters THE STATE OF THINGS dear eciad comrades: i just happened to walk by the school yesterday and run into some people i know, perhaps the least group of the students who would have the vaguest memory about who i was at emily carr and what i used to do there. i was, and to some degree am, the iranian ter- rorist who used to help run the stu- dents’ union and the planet of the arts between 1991-94. i guess in an art school such positions are always taken by intense characters; it’s often these kinds of motivated people who, unrewarded, put their time and energy behind public pro- jects, make a lot of enemies in the community for no reason, and get to do some good work for every- body. i'm writing basically to tell you how happy i am from the stories i heard from my friends about the state of things at emily carr. i saw a much better looking paper, a more organized students’ union, and in short, a definite step forward for the student body in general. please appreciate the work that is being done by these individuals and instead of complaining on the side tracks, try to participate and have your positive input integrated into the picture. how we're using the space that is ours for those three weeks in May. We could run the show instead of having it administered. We could make the show not only a show- case of our work but a vital process, an extension of the work and strategies we've been labour- ing with these past four years. Rather than behave like peeved adolescents who, against their will are required to participate in an event not of their own making, we could seize the day (and the show) and make of it a radical act, a statement of who we are and what it is we do and ultimately why this CATALOGUE In Searcy OF A Snow kind of thinking and doing is so important. We aren't limited to the building either. We could put our work out there, break the isolation of being down on Granville Island. We could do a large collaborative project, work that literally stretches from here out into the community. We could take the whole concept of grad show and reconstruct it. We could create three weeks in May that have energy, vitality and demand attention. We could, indeed. And we can have a glossy cata- logue to send home to the folks as well. <@ Hey Writers! QUIZ I have never seen a vision. compared to the rigid, crazy and brutal struc- tures out here in the working world, PoA and the eciad stu- dents’ union still seem like free invi- tations to open mike session, as long as you are willing to get over some post- modern pretensions and cliché accusations. mo sa’ lemy (the artist formerly known as mohammad) ———— N Figg ghew York OCT 24 / 9 PoA SELF-DIAGNOSTIC Answering the following questions may help you determine if your personality is well-suited to writing for Planet of the Arts. Evil spirits possess me at times. My soul sometimes leaves my body. I do not have a great fear of snakes. | have strange and peculiar thoughts. If you have any interest whatsoever in being a PoA contributor or know someone who might, then let's talk. Call 844-3861 or drop off a note to Jonathan Lander or Harald Gravelsins. Bryan Langlands graduated from Emily Carr in 1996, and is now studying at Hunter College; Damon Craine is on exchange studying at the Pratt Institute. Both of these individuals are in New York City. 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