Editor, Designer, Art Director
5 works is a front-of-book feature from Inuit Art Quarterly, which invites staff to consider a piece of Inuit or Circumpolar indigenous art within the context of the issue’s theme.
From issue 33.2
Issue Theme: Water
5 works theme:
The Life Aquatic
IAF staff choose works showing the materials and inspiration artists find in their waterways
From issue 33.4
Issue theme: Painting
5 Works theme:
True Colours.
IAF Staff choose works that conjure whole worlds with few hues
A review of Music in Range: The Culture of Canadian Campus Radio by Brian Fauteux
(Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
From: May 2016 issue of the Literary Review of Canada
The movie Contact, adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name, opens with a shot of Earth from space, evoking the serene photograph snapped by the Apollo 17 crew. Except this Earth is accompanied by a jarring cacophony of insouciant 1990s pop music, bits of air traffic chatter and yammering talk radio hosts. Suddenly the camera retreats past the Moon, then past Mars, while the music becomes decidedly disco and the dissonance slowly subsides. Past Jupiter you can hear iconic DJ Cousin Brucie spinning Beatles 45s, while approaching Saturn it is early Elvis. The reports of an attack on Pearl Harbor ricochet off the rubble of the Kuiper belt, which marks the outer limits of our solar system. Since the invention of radio, it turns out, we have been unwittingly transmitting our existence and position to ALF and E.T., and our noise pollution facilitates first contact with Mork and his fellow Orkans.
But among all that clamour we are emitting, you will not hear the University of Calgary’s CJSW or Dalhousie’s CKDU from space—you would barely notice them if you were riding the shallowest satellite in orbit, Dr. Strangelove–style. Canadian campus radio was not meant to be among Earth’s ambassadors to other worlds and, according to Brian Fauteux, that is where its value lies. Leave space travel to Richard Branson; Canadian campus radio is all about the local, even in a time when “the local” dwindles from the dial.