成人大片

A presentation by Dr. Rebecca Draisey-Collishaw

ABSTRACT:

Premised on the excitement of live performance and extemporaneous convergences of unlikely combinations of Canadian musicians, the CBC radio program Fuse (broadcast 2005鈥�2008) prioritized an aesthetic of liveness as a production value. Though presented as a series of live concert performances, each episode was edited according to the narrative priorities of the broadcaster. Building on the notion of broadcasts as 鈥渋nterocular鈥� fields鈥攕paces that are structured by awareness of other sites and perspectives from which the gaze is projected (Appadurai & Breckenridge, Consuming Modernity, 1995:12), I ask what happens when viewpoints are, in reality, only partial. That is, what are the implications for the decoder when the moment of encoding involves obfuscation of an omission? I draw on examples from Fuse to explore how narratives about race, gender, and sexuality are both sounded and silenced through curatorial strategies and editing decisions. I explore the broadcaster鈥檚 mediating voice, suggesting its role in privileging relational readings of musicians that reinforce a narrow imagining of social normativity.