The Sickle and the Cell Phone
A 48-page catalogue published by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON. The sculpture The Sickle and the Cell Phone by Vancouver-based multi-disciplinary artist Gu Xiong addresses the dramatic changes occurring in china from the Maoist period to present day. China is a country at the forefront of globalization. Xiong has repurposed […]
Science, Magic and Religion: The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic
Mary Bouquet and Nuno Porto. Science, Magic and Religion: The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2006 Book information: For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied […]
Germaine Koh: Shell
Shell was a situation in which part of an existing windowed storefront is physically opened to the public, for use 24 hours a day. An enclosure resembling a transit shelter was built on the inside of the space, attached to the existing glass frontage, a pane of which was removed in order to create free […]
Germaine Koh: Works
This book is published to document the residency of Germaine Koh in the International Studio Programme at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, as the 2004/2005 grantee of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, and the Embassy of Canada, Berlin.
Transference, Tradition, Technology: Native New Media Exploring Visual and Digital Culture
Dana Claxton, Steven Loft, and Melanie Townsend. Transference, Tradition, Technology: Native New Media Exploring Visual and Digital Culture. Banff, Alta.: Walter Phillips Gallery Editions, 2005 Book information: Transference, Tradition, Technology explores Indigenous new media and references the work of artists within a political, cultural and aesthetic milieu. The book constructs a Native art history relating to […]
Germaine Koh: Stall
Established but young Asian Canadian artist Germaine Koh has developed sensitivity to different cultures through her extensive exhibition career in different countries. Her work addresses issues of subtle perceptions of different situations and the politics of everyday life. She develops new work in response to the physical site of Para Site Art Space and the […]
Here is what I Mean
Gu Xiong and Xu Bing. Here is what I mean. London, ON: Museum London, 2004 Book information: A 15-page catalogue published by the Museum London, London, ON, featuring Gu Xiong and Xu Bing’s collaborative exhibition. Gu Xiong and Xu Bing are compatriots from the People’s Republic of China who shared experiences through the Cultural Revolution […]
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 […]