White Fungus # 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 installations 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.