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Susan Point
Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Vancouver Art gallery from February 18 to 28 May 2017.
Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever traces the course of the cabin in North America--from the simple architecture of colonial settlements to contemporary interpretations feverishly circulated across the Internet--showing how this humble architectural form has been appropriated for its symbolic value and helped shape a larger cultural identity. The title is borrowed from the idiomatic expression for anxiety resulting from a prolonged stay in a remote or confined place. But it also plays upon the more consumer-driven definition of "fever": a contagious, usually transient, fascination with an object of desire. Acknowledging the pervasive influence of this typology, Cabin Fever offers a historical survey of the cabin i...
Grand Hotel
"From the utilitarian inns that punctuated ancient trade routes to the worldwide network of Hilton and Hyatt, the hotel has transitioned from a marginal building type to a cultural phenomenon within the global economy. Terms like 'boutique' and 'lifestyle' have become ubiquitous buzzwords in the vocabulary of the hotel, and they engender a new vision of an affective and responsive spatial environment. Architecture and interior design have always played a crucial role in the development of hotels, but their purpose has become more and more decisive, transforming the building type into the advanced form of integrated design that it is today. The scope of the publication is global, an acknowledgment of the pervasive presence of a commercial network that is architecturally formed, geographically distributed, and socially defined."--Publisher's website.
Raven Travelling
This publication coincided with an exhibition of the same name celebrating the Vancouver Art Gallery's 75th anniversary.
Howie Tsui
Retainers of Anarchy' is a solo exhibition featuring new work from Howie Tsui that considers wuxia as a narrative tool for dissidence and resistance. Wuxia, a traditional form of martial arts literature that expanded into 20th century popular film and television, was created out of narratives and characters often from lower social classes that uphold chivalric ideals against oppressive forces during unstable times. The people?s republic of china placed wuxia under heavy censorship for fear of arousing anti-government sentiment. However practitioners advanced the form in Hong Kong making it one of the most popular genres of Chinese fiction. The title work, Retainers of Anarchy, is a 25-metre scroll-like video installation that references life during the song dynasty (960?1279 CE), but undermines its idealized portraiture of social cohesion by setting the narrative in Kowloon?s notorious walled city?an ungoverned tenement of disenfranchised refugees in Hong Kong which was demolished in 1994.00Exhibition: Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (04.03.-28.05.2017).
Georgia O'Keeffe
Spanning the artist's entire career, a catalog of paintings, tied to an exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, captures the evolution of O'Keeffe's art, from her earliest works to paintings created well into the 1970s, including her renderings of New York and New Mexico, flowers, dried bones, trees, and aerial perspectives.
Baja to Vancouver
Edited by Ralph Rugoff. Essays by Douglas Coupland, Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler.
