Andil Gosine

Sex in The Clearing

21 October, 2010 | Andil Gosine

LORRAINE O’GRADY pauses when I ask about “nature.” She’s genuinely hesitant – unusual for a woman who for three decades has produced art that valiantly defies and disturbs some of the most intimate agreements and unchallenged dictums of contemporary culture. “The division between nature and culture is so extremely codified in the West that it’s unreal,” O’Grady contends. “The real problem is that we have eliminated nature to such a degree that anytime we are reminded of it, we have to suppress the knowledge of it.”...

Published in: Biodiversity 36.6

Pink Greens

9 June, 2010 | Andil Gosine

The first thing that I notice as I enter the 519 Community Centre on Church St. – unofficial headquarters of Toronto’s queer community – is the men. Tonight, on a frosty December evening, the recently formed group Ecoqueers is hosting its first major public event, a panel presentation called “Greening A Queer Planet: Where Pink is Green,” and I am surprised – understandably so, I think – to see a significant number of men in the audience of an environmentalist event.  

Published in: Eros & Nature 27.3

Brain Mulch: Eat Your Car

3 June, 2009 | Andil Gosine

Jean-Claude and Blen swap tarts for cars at Queen Ann, his Parisian tea house. Jean-Claude’s bicycle always sits prominently outside the café’s main window. “I don’t need a car for anything,” he says. Trains, not planes, take him away on far-ish-away vacations. One bite of his always locally sourced tarts or soufflés (really, they feel like clouds in your mouth), and it’s easy to understand why he prefers fields kept to grow food, not fuel.

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