David Balzer is the author of Contrivances, a short-fiction collection forthcoming from Joyland/ECW Press. His writing on art and film has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Artforum.com, ARTnews, and the Walrus. He lives in Toronto.

• November/December 2011: Interview with Shuvinai Ashoona
  As Inuit artist co-operatives blossom in the Far North of Canada, artists once branded “traditional” learn to embrace the new economy.