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Baja to Vancouver
Edited by Ralph Rugoff. Essays by Douglas Coupland, Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler.
Frances Stark
This intimate publication focuses on Frances Stark's pivotal feature length video My Best Thing, (premiered at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011) a digital video animation, which traces the development of two sexual encounters that progress into conversations about film, literature, art, collaboration and subjectivity.British curator Mark Godfrey captures the density of this recent work by Stark with an in-depth essay considering the artist's use of online sex-chat rooms as vehicles for her creative process.In conveying the complexity of her interests Stark manages to imbue these commonly disparaged internet sites, as well as their users, with positive, productive and social characteristics. In Stark's depiction, as Godfrey states, 'Strangers meet, communicate, share ideas rather than brand preferences, and change how each one sees the world.' Published on the occasion of the exhibition Frances Stark: My Best Thing at Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (24 September - 11 December 2011), and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (3 February - 8 April 2012).
Susan Point
Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Vancouver Art gallery from February 18 to 28 May 2017.
MashUp
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture traces the inexorable rise of collage, montage, sampling and the cut-up. Tracing its roots from the multiple-perspectives, montages and readymades of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters and Hannah Hoch, to the present with its postmodern network culture, where remixing and co-production are the norm and the New Aesthetic seeks to harmonise the now-everyday crossover of the digital and the actual. The book addresses the development of détournement and deconstruction in art, architecture, music and society. Each chapter is a detailed, inclusive look at a cross-section of the main artists and thinkers that have embraced and developed all forms of 'mashup' cultur...
Unscrolled
Background Story examines Contemporary Chinese art, featuring artists who subvert the conventions of Chinese culture and tradition, using progressive mediums such as digital animation and installation to create an entirely new approach.
Entangled
Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting' offers an insight into two distinctly different modes of painting that have come to dominate contemporary painting in this country. The origins of both can be effectively traced back to the 1970s, to a moment when the continued existence of painting was hotly debated. Within that debate two new strategies were devised, one that proposed the possibility of conceptual painting - a highly refined notion of painting that emerged from and returned to the idea - and a second, ambivalent proposition that valued actions and materials over ideas - in short, doing and making were pitted against ideas and concepts.now enjoys in Canada.
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Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon
Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years. In discussions of the canon of art history, the notion of ‘inclusiveness’, both at the level of rhetoric and as a desired practice is on the rise and gradually replacing talk of ‘exclusion’, which dominated critiques of the canon up until two decades ago. The art field has dramatically, if insufficiently, changed in the half-century since the first protests and critiques of the exclusion of ‘others’ from the art canon. With increased globalization and shifting geopolitics, th...
