I said I love. That’s the promise the T-Video politics of Jean-Luc Godard
Gareth James and Florian Zeyfang, eds. I said I love. That’s the promise the TVideo politics of Jean-Luc Godard. Berlin: b_books, 2003. Book information: I said I love. That is the promise. The TVideo politics of Jean-Luc Godard< focuses on the filmmaker’s often neglected work with television and video and his collaboration with Anne-Marie Miéville in the […]
Rebecca Belmore: The Named and the Unnamed
Charlotte Townsend-Gault and James Luna. Rebecca Belmore: The Named and the Unnamed. Vancouver, BC: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2003 Book information: Exhibition catalogue from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (4 October–1 December 2002). Texts by Scott Watson, Charlotte Townsend-Gault and James Luna. For more information: https://belkin.ubc.ca/publications/rebecca-belmore-the-named-and-the-unnamed/
“I Love You” in Gillian Wearing: A Trilogy
Marina Roy, “I Love You” in Gillian Wearing: A Trilogy. Vancouver, BC: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2002 Book information: In her documentations of contemporary social life, Gillian Wearing brings viewers into direct contact with the poignancy of human relationships: sensitive connections based on love, entanglements fraught with dysfunction and abuse or, more likely, associations that embody the […]
Germaine Koh
This book was published in 2001 by the Contemporary Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition, Germaine Koh at the the Contemporary Art Gallery in its new facility at 555 Nelson Street, May 4 – July 14, 2001. This publication features a forward by Keith Wallace, and essay “Immanent Domain” by Laura U. Marks. […]
Sign after the x
“X” is one of the most provocative representations in contemporary culture: a symbol of capital, power, waste, and illicit desire. Based on the connection between language and the lack thereof, Sign after the x investigates the letter “X” that is used in our culture as part of a complex sign system that encompasses the evolution of language […]
Drowning
A 17-page catalogue published by the Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, featuring Gu Xiong’s solo exhibition. In Drowning, an expanded version of the exhibition, The Mirror; A Return to China (Yukon Art Centre, 1999), Gu Xiong poetically links the personal trauma of this boating accident, in particular the near drowning of his daughter Gu Yu, […]
Ding Ho, Group of 7
Andrew Hunter and Gu Xiong, Ding Ho, Group of 7. Kleinburg, ON: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2000 Book information: A 60-page catalogue published by McMichael Canadian Art Collection, featuring Gu Xiong’s mixed media installation in collaboration with Andrew Hunter. This collaborative installation by Vancouver artist Gu Xiong and Dundas, Ontario-based artist and curator Andrew Hunter includes […]
Waste Management
This exhibition of sculpture, photography, drawing and installation takes a speculative look at how several up-and-coming artists recycle the disposable aspects of contemporary culture. This younger generation makes new use of the residual value from discarded art practices of preceding generations, from the transient pleasures of popular genres, and from the mundane objects and events […]
The River
Gu Xiong’s installation “The River” is described by John O’Brian as a meditation on migrancy and displacement. The author situates the work within the life of the artist, who left China because of political oppression, and the history of the Canadian West, which has marginalized its Chinese inhabitants. Short poetic texts by Gu Xiong in […]
Angola a preto e branco: Fotografia e ciência no Museu do Dundo, 1940-1970
When it comes to distributing scientific knowledge, photography and the museum share a number of characteristics. One like the other operate by selection, fragmenting the real. They proceed by composition, regrouping, in printed albums or in the confined space of a shop window, room or building, the fragments they produce. Both are mediators of something […]