Image from Tim Bollinger's Noah 2008

White Fungus Issue 9 Out This Week
The new issue of White Fungus is at the printers and will be available at all good retailers throughout New Zealand by the end of the week, and at international retailers approximately one month later. This issue features new work by Richard Killeen, Yao Jui-Chung, Hye Rim Lee and Tao Wells, whose exhibition Three Ideas For the State is currently showing at Auckland’s Gambia Castle.


Wellington comics artist Tim Bollinger has created a seven-page colour comic, Noah, for this issue, while Los Angeles-based writer Juan Santos writes about 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 performances involving amplified glass. Wellington musician and composer Daniel Beban interviews New York-based New Zealand sound artist Annea Lockwood. The issue features an in-depth article on the Dead C, not to mention writing on Greg Malcolm, John Wiese, Leslie Rice, Manuel Gottsching, and Terrence McKenna. Plus check out new poems by Iain Britton (Auckland), Gu Xie (Guangzhou) and Anne Cammon (New York); and some pages from Sheba William’s as-yet unpublished book Shanghai Sheba.


White Fungus Issue 9 is kindly supported by Creative New Zealand and is distributed in North America by Disticor.

The Lost Weekend Launch Party at Mighty Mighty

White Fungus is about to celebrate the release of its 9th issue with a party at the capital city's fabulous bar and night-haven Mighty Mighty on Friday, May 9. Titled The Lostweekend - in reference to the magazine's weekly Sunday radio show on the VBC - the night will include performances by local artists Shanghai Sheba and avant-experimental group The Elephant Men. There will also be DJ sets by Eric Ultimate (Coco Solid), Tao Wells (Gambia Castle), Ace Hurt (Cortina) and White Fungus.

Party starts at 8pm. The Lost Weekend kicks off at Mighty Mighty next Friday, May 9 at 8pm. Entry is $5 or $10 (including a copy of the mag).

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