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Report from Leaf Forever' etc.) and an organic banquet. Correspondence
Twenty-four live ducks were installed for the
Canada duration of the exhibition, which included many Peter Phillips at the Whitechapel
The Peter Phillips exhibition planned since I
of Wieland's stuffed, quilted, embroidered,
hooked and knitted hangings, Arctic Day, I Love became Director of the Whitechapel over two
Canada, Reason over Passion/ La Raison avant la years ago to take place this autumn has had to be
Passion, and her films, Rat Life and Diet in postponed indefinitely. This regrettable decision
North America, Cat Food, Reason over Passion. is due to our financial crisis which has been
A huge iced cake representing Canada was precipitated and exacerbated by the withdrawal
surmounted with a dead and bleeding polar bear, of a local authority grant. Phillips has never had
while below the tree line the Spirit of Canada a one-man exhibition in this country, but when
suckled the French and English beavers. 'Sweet it happens it will be a remarkable event.
Beaver-the Perfume of Canadian Liberation' There are all sorts of things that the
could be purchased. Whitechapel should be doing and plans to do if
it manages to avoid closure and this is one
A major retrospective of the paintings of Emily particularly high priority.
Carr, which deal characteristically with the There are a number of facts about the Gallery
Indian forms and rain forests of the North West that are not generally known. One of them is that
`BC Almanac(h) C-B' is the result of funds made Pacific Coast, brought large crowds it is an unendowed Charity founded in 1899 by
available to fifteen artists/photographers from throughout the summer to the Vancouver Art Canon Barnett of Toynbee Hall in order to
British Columbia/Colombie-Britannique by the Gallery. The exhibition was in joint celebration bring enlightenment through art to the poor and
National Film Board. 'Each artist made a book.' of the tooth anniversary of Emily Carr's birth uneducated of the East End of London.
This format was decided among themselves, and and British Columbia's joining Confederation. The constitution of the Gallery and in
the East Coast equivalent, now being planned, particular 'the object of the foundation',
will not be the same. They are both part of the Ace Space Company, run by Dana Atchley, unchanged since 1899, is under urgent review.
Film Board's 'Image' series of publications. Each Co-ordinator of Space, resident at the A Whitechapel Gallery Report, the first since
`book' is separately bound; they come in a box University of Victoria, has, amongst other 1953 is being published this autumn. May I
printed with photos of their own process, from activities, produced two books, free. For the urge any of your readers who would like a copy
the forest trees, via newsprint and printer, to the second, Space Atlas, about too people and would perhaps be prepared to receive an
finished product in front of you. By contributed their 'visions, maps, plans and invoice for a few shillings to write to us at
photographing the pages Almanac(h) has been reflections of the spaces', that is, of the three Whitechapel Art Gallery, Whitechapel High
made into a travelling exhibition. It is pages allotted to each, in editions of 250 which Street, London Et.
accompanied by video-tapes by and of some of were then co-ordinated and bound. MARK GLAZEBROOK Director
the artists involved, and responsive electronic
sound by Dennis Vance, associated, like many of Lithographs made by twenty-nine artists, from Americanism, Pro- and anti-
them, with Intermedia in Vancouver. Canada, the United States and Europe in the Tim Hilton and his generation positively wallow
Lithography Workshop of the Nova Scotia in their ignorance of recent art history. They
`And he breaks out all the ugliest pictures in the College of Art and Design during the last two seem to refuse to find out what actually happened
image bank and puts it out on the subliminal so years, will be travelling across the country under ten or fifteen years ago whenever it concerns
one crisis piles up after the other right on the auspices of the National Gallery Extension British painters older than themselves. When
schedule.' William Burroughs -Nova Express. Services. The exhibition will be seen at the they write about their own contemporaries it is
And so an Image Bank has been set up by a Museum of Modern Art in New York 6 October quite another matter. For British artists of their
group in Vancouver for image deposits and -12 November, and at the Canadian Cultural own age they will claim this, that and the other,
withdrawals (at 4454 West 2nd Ave. Vancouver Centre in Paris, 15 May-15 June 1972. never guessing that half the things they claim as
8, B.C.). A regular mailing, with requests for innovations in fact cropped up fifteen years
specific kinds of images -the Image of the The N.E. Thing Company has joined the before in the works of my own age group : at a
Month etc. -links them with branch offices. An Vancouver Board of Trade. 'Your number one time, that is, when Tim Hilton's generation
international video exchange directory is being international consultants in media, image, ideas, were too young to notice.
established, and a post-card show in the Fine promotion, anything', puts the GNG (Gross I'm going on about this because it really is
Arts Gallery at the University of British National Good) against the GNP, corporation incredible that Hilton should write, in the bright
Columbia will publicise some of the Bank's against corpseration, wishing to 'use enlightened and breezy first paragraph of his review Beached
holdings. business as a power-base to do good'. The Promise (Studio International book supplement,
Company has recently had its booth at July/August 1971), ... English artists' and
La Region Centrale is the latest film by Michael international computer conferences, and a show, critics' relationships with America need a
Snow, who represented Canada in Venice last or Campaign, for the University of Alberta in particular kind of sharpening-not necessarily
year. (Other films include Wavelength, Standard Edmonton consisted of a series of broadcast and based on chauvinistic claims for artistic status,
Time and <—>.) A machine was developed telecast announcements (e.g. The N.E. Thing certainly looking beyond the cold-war-period
which enables a camera to move in pre-directed Co. presents imaginaty landscape No. 16. anti-Americanism current when Patrick Heron
orbits and spirals, and also to turn, roll and spin Imagine a vivid blue sky with a few tails of was writing, certainly beyond the wide-eyed
on its own axis. The film, which lasts nearly cloud and a bright orange sun. Thrusting into Pop period which succeeded that phase..: What
three hours, was shot in the wilderness region of this blue is a tall black chimney belching out needs sharpening is Tim Hilton's sense of the
northern Quebec. The soundtrack is provided pollution in the form of thick black and yellow recent past- and his ability to present facts
by the electronic programming tape. smoke.... If you would like to see a facsimile of fairly, even if this means the loss of a smart
this imaginary landscape go to 3 too block South phrase or two.
`True Patriot Love' -at the National Gallery, Broadway, any weekday between 7.3o am and ... looking beyond the cold-war-period anti-
Ottawa-a representative range of work by Joyce 3.30 pm.). q Americanism current when Patrick Heron was
Wieland, opened with a brass band (The Maple CHARLOTTE TOWNSEND writing ... ? Since he locates this fictitious period
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