Elspeth Sage:
Elspeth Sage is a co-founding director of On Edge,
curator, writer, producer and arts critic. Her articles have
appeared in Video Guide, Impulse, Vanguard, FUSE, V
Magazine, Parallelogramme, Media Arts, HARBOUR Magazine,
CIRCA, FRONT and Artists' Newsletter. She was the
Associate Curator of Yellow Peril: Reconsidered -
national tour of film, video and photography by 25 Asian
Canadians (1990-91), and curator of Feng Shui - photoworks
by 4 Asian Canadians in Newcastle (1993), curator of
Auslander Video new film and video from Berlin by
auslanders (outsiders) (1993). She produced the post-
exhibition publication of Feng Shui (1994) and was
co-curator with Daina Augaitis at the Walter Phillips
Gallery, Banff of Jan Wade's exhibition Epiphany (1994),
and the curator of the monumental mural project by Nhan
Duc Nguyen Temple of My Familiar in Belfast, Northern
Ireland (1994). She was Executive Producer of the post-
exhibition video of the Temple project, directed by Paul
Wong, and Executive Producer of Sovereign, the first
videotape by Belfast artist Philip Napier. She produced
installation and performance work by artists Jon Bewley
and Simon Herbert of LOCUS + (Newcastle) in Vancouver
in October, 1995 and was the curator of Vancouver
to Santiago - 2nd Bienal de Video in Santiago, Chile
(Oct 1995).Her text "Anatomy of a Thriller" appeared in
Paul Wong's exhibition catalogue On Becoming A Man,
published by the National Gallery of Canada in Sept. 1995.
She was the author of an essay for CIRCA Magazine
(Dublin) entitled "Cultural Axis" on international exchanges
and co-productions. She presented a video installation of
On Edge productions at Exchange Resources at the Belfast
Arts Festival in November, 1995. She curated a new site-
specific installation and performance work by Jan Wade
Jazz Slave Ships, Witness, I Burn presented in October,
1996 in Whitehaven, Cumbria and Hull, U.K. dealing with
England's involvement in the slave trade. She co-directed
with Paul Wong the videotape documenting this project
released in January 1998 and she is co-producing with
Paul Wong an electronic publication of 14 years of On
Edge productions. She is currently producing the
Vancouver premiere of Nguyen's Temple of My Familiar
for the 2000 Dragon Boat Festival. She is co-author with
Elizabeth Vander Zaag of the
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