White Fungus Issue 8

Includes a history article on early 20th Century

radical Maori prophet Rua Kenana who created his

own community in the heart of Ureweras, resisting

European domination, until the peaceful community

was violently broken up by the State in 1916, an

in-depth article on Portland experimentalists Smegma

- featuring interviews with Dr ID, Ju Suk Reet Meate

and Oblivia – writing on Auckland artists Rohan

Wealleans and Richard Orjis and the esoteric instal-

lations or sculptures of Sydney artist Mikala Dwyer.

The issue includes new photography by Taipei artist

Isa Ho (何孟娟), an interview conducted by Singapore

poet Cyril Wong with sound artist Ang Song Ming,

a report on Alastair Galbraith and Antony Milton’s

performance at Adam Art Gallery, new poems by

Vivienne Plumb, Harry McNaughton and Lina ramona

Vitkauskas (co-editor of Milk). German writer and

co-editor of Tokafi Tobias Fischer writes on the

music of early minimalist Hans Otte, plus an interview

with leading New Zealand investigative journalist

Nicky Hager whose groundbreaking 2006 book The

Hollow Men led to the resignation of then Conservative

leader Don Brash and exposed in unpresidented detail

the inner-workings and manipulations of a modern

cynical political campaign.

White Fungus Issue 8:  US $15