White Fungus Issue 10

Includes a short story by Duncan Sarkies, Sewer Rat

Debacle, an in-depth history article by Tim Bollinger,

The Bone Collectors: Walter Mantel and the early days

of New Zealand zoological discovery, a colour comic

by Auckland artist Barry Linton, a reflection on the

life of Diogenes by Richard Meros,  classic artworks

by Auckland iconoclastic feminist Judy Darragh, work

by Nick Austin and Tao Wells, articles on Brisbane artist Richard

Bell, Berlin-based Marcin Cienski and Hong Kong artist

Lee Kit, work by Andrew McLeod accompanied by two

stories by Chris Cudby, music features on Detroit Noise

group Wolf Eyes, New York ‘hyperrealist’ composer

Noah Creshevsky, interviews with musician Cristian

Amigo and Australian sound artist Jodi Rose and

Te Kupu of Upper Hutt Posse 20 years on from pro-

ducing the first-ever Rap record in New Zealand, E Tu,

in 1988, Simon Wickham-Smith writing about Mongolia’s

most subversive poet, Baatarin Galsansuh plus poems

by Cyril Wong, winner of the 2006 Singapore Literature

Prize and the epic Jena: An Other Cartography by enig-

matic Washington DC poet Francis Raven.

White Fungus Issue 10:  US$15

White Fungus Issue 9

Features new work by Richard Killeen, Yao Jui-Chung,

Hye Rim Lee and Tao Wells, a colour comic, Noah,

by Tim Bollinger, an article by Juan Santos on the

coming emergencies of Global Warming and resource

wars in the 21st Century, Jane Janesly returns to

write about the incredible story of 19th century Chinese

migrant Chew Chong who kick-started the Taranaki

dairy industy in the 1860s, Auckland writer and

curator Andrew Clifford interviews Sydney artist

Justice Yeldham about his knife-edge sound perform-

ances involving amplified glass. Wellington musician

and composer Daniel Beban interviews New York-based

New Zealand sound artist Annea Lockwood. Steve

Snatch’s in-depth article on the Dead C plus writing

on Greg Malcolm, John Wiese, Leslie Rice, Manuel

Gottsching, and Terrence McKenna, new poems by Iain

Britton (Auckland), Gu Xie (Guangzhou) and Anne

Cammon (New York) and pages from Sheba William’s

Shanghai Sheba.

White Fungus Issue 9:  US$15

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

White Fungus Issue 7

The bright red issue includes articles on New Zealand

artist Yvonne Todd, Australian artist Hany Armanious,

Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa, Japanese Noise pioneer

Merzbow plus an interview with LA writer and filmmaker

Chris Kraus talking about her  novel Torpor and grow-

ing up in Wellington in the 1970s. There are drawings

by Peter Robinson, a short story by Wellington writer

Hamish Low, an in-depth history article by Tim Bollinger:

Strange Days on Lake Rotomahana: The End of the Pink

and White Terraces, an idiosnynctatic essay, Symols

and Mysticism by Ernie Kozar, provocative quasi

ponorgraphic work by Hye Rim Lee, photography by

Yao Jui-Chung, critical coverage of mediocre Christ-

church arts bienale Scape 2006, A New Fundamentalism

Emerges by Rob Garrett, coverage of Fiona Connor’s

reconstruction of Enjoy Gallery and Dunedin’s ex-

perimental music festival Lines of Flight.

White Fungus Issue 7:  US $15

 
White Fungus Issue 6

Features an interview with Melbourne-based artist

Ronnie van Hout, an article on Islanded, an exhibition

of New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan art held at

Wellington’s Adam Art Gallery and Singapore’s Institute

for Contemporary Art, a colour comic, The Information

Center, by Tim Bollinger, an articles on Birchville Cat

Motel, Cortina and an interview with German publisher

and curator Christoph Keller about independent publishing

and travelling archive Kiosk, a history article on the New

Zealand Liberals of the 1890s and Kate Shepard’s women’s

suffrage movement and an exhibiton 360 Degrees feat-

uring Bruce Russell, Rosie Parlane, Antony Milton, Lovely

Midget and Richard Francis.

White Fungus Issue 6:  US $15

White Fungus Issue 5

The black fifth issue includes a history article, Prophet

Without Honour, by Terry Bag, a look at the life and

times of William Ball Sutch who was of New Zealand’s

greatest thinkers and public servants who advocated

ecomomic independence by was hounded by the New

Zealand Secret Service, arrested and charged with

being a spy for the Russians. The issue also includes

articles on artists Hye Rim Lee and William Dunning,

photographs by Louise Clifton, a provocative short

story by Ernie Kozar, an article by Theresa L’amour,

The Art Of Bureaucracy about Wellington Arts Centre

and the domestication of the city’s artists, plus an

article on UK electronic producer J Saul Kane and

an interview with Jeffrey John Henderson.

White Fungus Issue 5:  US $15

White Fungus Issue 4

This includes a DVD of two short films, an article

on New Zealand’s art collective et al.’s controvercial

exhibition at the 51st Venice Bienale, The Funda-

mental Practice, articles on US noise music by

Arnie Clap and experimental dance music by Ralph

Lipp, a history article on the Ship Cuba’s voyage to New

Zealand and Edward Gibbon’s Wakefield haphazard

colonial project, articles on the puppetry of Rose

Beauchamp and the short films of Veialu Aila-Unsworth,

plus a look at former anarchist centre The Cake Shop

and the destruction and commercialisaton of Wellington’s

inner city.

White Fungus Issue 4:  US $20 (incl. DVD)

White Fungus Issue 3

Featuring a history article on the Cuba Street riot of

1932 during the Great Depression, articles on Auckland

artist Phil Dadson, The History of Punk, Wellington actor

and comedian Jeremy Randerson, the ‘plastination’

cadaver art of Prof. Gunther von Hagen and right-wing

politican Gerry Brownlee.

White Fungus Issue 3:  US $10

White Fungus Issue 2

The second issue includes a history article about early

Wellington feminist Mary Taylor and her correpsondence

with Charlotte Bronte, articles on Wellington band Cortina,

artist Max Gimblet’s ‘long path home’, free trade with

China and failed Wellington politician Mark Blumsky.

White Fungus Issue 2:  US $10