White Fungus Now On-Sale throughout Canada and the US
New Zealand experimental arts magazine White Fungus is now on-sale throughout Canada and the US, distributed by Disticor. The irreverent independent publication, which is an edgy mix of experimental music, visual art, literature and politics, has previously been on-sale at a handful of North American outlets but this is the first time it will be widely available.
Current issue, number 8, kicks off with an in-depth 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. The Ureweras, a remote mountain area deep in central North Island, remain home to the Tuhoe people who never signed the country’s historic Treaty of Waitangi or ceded their sovereignty to the European state. In 2007 Tuhoe were again made victims of state aggression when the New Zealand Police invoked for the first time our new anti-‘terror’ legislation.
White Fungus Issue 8 is the biggest edition yet and includes 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 installations or sculptures of Sydney artist Mikala Dwyer. The issue includes new photography by Taipei artist Isa Ho, an interview conducted by Singapore poet Cyril Wong with sound artist Ang Song Ming, 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 subtle sublime music of early minimalist Hans Otte and argues that it is vastly under-appreciated. The issue is book-ended with 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 was launched in Wellington in late 2004 as a free-photocopied handout attacking the mayor and her property- developer husband in the lead-up to local body elections. It has since developed into a high quality print publication embracing a broad range of interdisciplinary content from New Zealand and around the world. The magazine was founded by brothers Ron Hanson and Mark Hanson after the pair had recently returned from Taiwan where they lived for four years. The name of the publication comes from a canned food product the brothers discovered in their local Taichung City Supermarket in 2003.
White Fungus is now on sale-throughout North America. To order copies for retail please contact your supplier or Disticor for further information. For enquiries outside North America, please contact retail@whitefungus.com
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