René Francisco Rodríguez is an internationally recognized contemporary Cuban artist with a diverse body of work. He works across different media (e.g., installation, sculpture, video, painting, photography, and performance) to consistently challenge the boundaries between art and everyday life, and explore the personal and social contexts of artistic production. His work draws on creative traditions of institutional critique and collective involvement by artists such as Marcel Broodhaers, Hans Haacke and, in particular, Joseph Beuys.
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The definition of an artist has gone through huge paradigmatic shifts in response to social and technological change. Perhaps it is most fitting to say that there is no one definition that covers everything artists do. But far from being unsatisfactory, this vagueness is maybe the most important part of the job description, because it leaves open that space of self-determination that makes it so vital as an agent of change. The artist can be seen as a fulcrum between idea and form, an agent of meaning -making, -breaking and/or -preservation, a juggler of significations.
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René FranciscoRichard Fung
Richard Fung is a Toronto-based video artist, educator, and writer. A Trinidadian-Canadian of Chinese descent, Fung's videos focus on subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography, to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS and his own family history. In the following interview with Visible City, Fung discusses his involvement in Toronto's artistic community, ranging from his political involvement as an artist to his past and current projects. He also shares his thoughts on various projects, interventions, and collaborations taking place in and about the city.John Greyson
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John Greyson is a filmmaker, video artist, educator and activist with innumerable credits in television and film. He currently teaches in the Department of Film, York University. His extensive body of work includes award-winning feature films such as Urinal (1988) and Lilies (1996), shorts such as The Making of Monsters (1991) and television episodes for Queer as Folk and Made in Canada. His most recent feature Proteus (2003), based on a true account of two Robben Island prisoners, is a complex exploration of desire, transgression and oppression set in South Africa, 1725. His publications include Urinal and Other Stories (Power Plant/Art Metropole, 1993) and Queer Looks (co-editor), a critical anthology of gay/lesbian media theory (Routledge, 1993).