Description
Executive Editor:
Eldon Garnet.
Editors:
Brian Boigon, Judith Doyle, Andrew Payne, and Carolyn White.
Contributing Editors:
Brendan Cotter, Julia Emberley, Monica Gagnon, Marc Glassman, Sylvère Lotringer, Donna Lypchuk, Alberto Manguel, Andrew James Paterson, Jeanne Randolph, Kim Sawchuk, and Janice Williamson.
Art Director:
Carolyn White.
Production Assistant:
Debbie Willock.
Administrator:
Gillian Leigh.
Proofreading:
Sabina Harris Dobo.
Cover Photograph:
George Whiteside.
Cover Design and Concept:
Carolyn White.
Table of Contents:
Donna Lypchuk, ‘Ms. Molly’; Andrew James Paterson, ‘Andy Warhol: The Starmaker and the Star’; Aldo Walker; Barbara Ess; Carolyn White; Bryan Bruce (Bruce La Bruce), ‘Zuzu’s Petals’; Judith Doyle, ‘Holy Smoke Interview with Guillermo Cabrera Infante’; Julia Emberley, ‘Metamorphosis’; Geoff Pevere, ‘Peewee and TV’; Donna Lypchuk, ‘This is Not a Shoe’; Scott Burton Talks to Peter Day, ‘Mutant Design’; Kim Sawchuk and Julia Emberley, ‘Fashion in Ruins’; Coco Fusco, ‘Cuba’; Janice Williamson, ‘Telltale Signs’; Brian Boigon, ‘Downtown’.
Editorial:
The square is history. Its over. You can package and analyze it, its dead. Like Warhol, like Beuys, like Cary Grant.
The eighties are over. Impulse impatiently enters the nineties. The ratified hope of a new era. A cultural quickening. Somebody is nervous. Someone else is excited. The last ten years of the millennium. After ten years of the same format. Let’s get going. There’s no time to waste. And someone shrugs their shoulders and says: so what’s the big deal, a new decade, a new century, a new millennium, so what? And I say, if you’re that bored and cynical get out.
And Impulse is excited. We want to know everything. We want it to be different. We want it fresh, we want it alive. We’d rather be a part of culture than history.
At Impulse we take it in and give it out. We reflect the mirror in which we reside. You are the image in the mirror of the magazine you hold in your hands.
We want you to know you aren’t alone. And we want you to know.
We’re curious and we expect you to be.
An art critic friend once told me he considered American culture boring. I couldn’t understand what he was talking about. And then he moves to New York and obtains a job in an uptown gallery, makes a lot of money, shops at Comme des Garcons, goes to dinner parties with collectors, and now I know what he means.
We want to know what you’re thinking and what you’re wearing. And if you’re eating at the worst restaurants at least I hope the company is good. And as far as magazines go we’d like to go further. A new Impulse. And we intend to provide you with more.
The older one gets the harder they have to shake to rid their bones of winter. And for us its always spring.
Eldon Garnet
