Art Metropole
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Neri Oxman: Material Ecology Neri Oxman calls her design approach Material Ecology a process that draws on the structural, systemic, and aesthetic wisdom of nature, distilled and deployed through computation and digital fabrication. Throughout her twenty-year career, she has been a pioneer of new materials and construction processes, and a catalyst for dynamic interdisciplinary collaboration. With The Mediated Matter Group, her research team at the MIT Media Lab, Oxm...an has pursued rigorous and daring experimentation that is grounded in science, propelled by visionary thinking, and distinguished by formal elegance. Published to accompany a monographic exhibition of Oxman’s work at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Neri Oxman: Material Ecology features essays by Paola Antonelli and Hadas A. Steiner. Its design, by Irma Boom, pays homage to Stewart Brand’s legendary Whole Earth Catalog, which celebrated and provided resources for a new era of awareness in the late 1960s. This volume, in turn, heralds a new era of ecological awarenessone in which the genius of nature can be harnessed, as Oxman is doing, to create tools for a better future. See more

Find copies of Nour Bishouty's 1-130 at two exciting events happening this weekend: Online at Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair @printedmatter_artbookfairs, and in-person through Tai Kwun Contemporary’s BOOKED: 2021 Art Book Pop-Ups @taikwun.hk If you missed the book launch and discussion of 1-130, the recording will be available for the duration of the two events, February 25-28 through Art Metropole's Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/artmetropole #bookedhk #pmvabf2021 #pmabf #nourbishouty @nourbishouty @artmetropoledistribution

Good afternoon Hong Kong! Come and find us next to our friends @parasite.hk at Booked Pop-ups at Tai Kwun. Block 9 (far left of the Parade Ground when entering from Hollywood Rd entrance; or go straight to the end of Parade Ground when entering through Old Bailey Street) ... #BOOKEDHK @taikwuncontemporary See more

Good morning Hong Kong! Come and find us next to our friends @parasite.hk at Booked Pop-ups at Tai Kwun Block 9 (far left of the Parade Ground when entering from Hollywood Rd entrance; or go straight to the end of Parade Ground when entering through Old Bailey Street) #BOOKEDHK

ARTISTS WHO DO BOOK TABLES is a new fundraising poster edition by @kathy_slade, just in time for our participation at the @printedmatter_artbookfairs Virtual Art Book Fair. Slade’s work is based on Ed Ruscha’s 1976 drawing ARTISTS WHO DO BOOKS, which was originally produced by the artist at a time when the idea of books and other documents standing as works of art in their own right was still a relatively new concept. Forty-five years later, the artist’s book proliferat...es. So too does the #artbookfair, since the advent of the New York Art Book Fair, developed by @printedmatterinc in 2006, then under the direction of artist (and Art Metropole co-founder) @aabronson. Slade humorously offers an updated proposition to Ruscha’s original work. While the subjects of artist-curators and artist-publishers are well documented, less often do we acknowledge that, as important avenues for the dissemination of books by artists and small independent presses, art book fairs are largely organized and staffed by practicing artists, and that their selections and presentations at book fairs might rightly be considered extensions of their own art practices. Slade’s practice, not coincidentally, includes writing, curating, publishing, and bookselling. The poster edition is produced using a custom version of the Futura font, drawn by designer Stephan Garneau, to mimic the hand-drawn rendering in Ruscha’s original work. The poster also shares the same dimensions of 28.625 22.68 inches as the original, but is produced as a 4-colour black offset poster rather than the original chalk pastel. Edition of 1000 Published by Art Metropole Printed by #warrenswaterlessprinting in Toronto, Canada #pmvabf #pmvabf2021 #edruscha #artistswhodobooks #postereditions #artistsbooks #nyabf #laabf See more

Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube Known for her expansive multidisciplinary approach to art making Vancouver-based Dana Claxton, who is Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), has investigated notions of Indigenous identity, beauty, gender and the body, as well as broader social and political issues through a practice which encompasses photography, film, video and performance.... Rooted in contemporary art strategies, her practice critiques the representations of Indigenous people that circulate in art, literature and popular culture in general. In doing so, Claxton regularly combines Lakota traditions with Western influences, using a powerful and emotive mix, meld and mash approach to address the oppressive legacies of colonialism and to articulate Indigenous world views, histories and spirituality. This timely catalogue is the first monograph to examine the full breadth and scope of Claxton’s practice. #danaclaxton #vancouverartgallery @vanartgallery @danaclax See more

The Fall 2020 edition of C Magazine has arrived Issue 147 Gather ... Issue Contents: Editorial Jaclyn Bruneau, Ginger Carlson, and Natasha Chaykowski Features: Dawn Saunders Dahl Câhcacêp Art & Tea House: A Conversation with Jerry Saddleback and Jo-Ann Saddleback Kelsey Adams My Words Will Heal You: On RISE Edutainment Christiana Myers Crip Hope Su-Ying Lee Reading Images Against Racism L. Sasha Gora Cooking the Books: Recipes by Artists Mercedes Webb To Reciprocate All They Freely Offer Artist Project Aislinn Thomas A convex, minutely puckered surface could be called a vertical sea* with Alternative Audio Description by Anna Bowen, Text by Daniella Sanader Lauren Crazybull and Faye HeavyShield Miinakii and Me Columns Mackenzie Ground and Rob Jackson Alongside Underbrush Jenna Swift Evaporative Losses Henry HeavyShield One Thing: A Rock Isn’t Always a Rock Reviews Cason Sharpe Consciousness: Lex Brown Emma Steen Bureau of Aesthetics: Native Art Department International April Thompson David Wojnarowicz: Photography & Film 19781992 Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver Jan 10April 5, 2020 Safia Siad The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology Edited by Karina Vernon Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2020 Kate Whiteway Revisiting ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’ (2013): Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero Anj Fermor The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue 07: TILTING (1), TILTING (2) Edited and published by Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga sophia bartholomew darkness is as deep as the darkness is: Rita McKeough Lauren Fournier The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer Sinead Petrasek This is the future: Hito Steyerl @cmagazine See more

Erdem Tadelen - The Curtain Sweeps Down A book adaptation of the artist’s 2017 mixed media installation with the same title, and explores the story behind a novel published in Turkey in 1950. The project offers a semi-fictionalized narrative of the events surrounding the publication of this novel through a constellation of images and text, and looks at how womanhood is figured in the Turkish collective imaginary. An assemblage of found images, archival material, ...news headlines and texts written by the artist, The Curtain Sweeps Down underscores the systematic ways in which certain voice are muted while others are permitted to enter into the mainstream, and considers self-concealment as a strategic tool to advance progressive politics in environments where open dissent may be too risky. Signed and numbered edition of 125 See more

Art Metropole is happy to announce Blair Swann as our new Assistant Director & Inventory Manager. Blair Swann is an artist, writer, and curator, with experience organizing programs, residencies, publications, and exhibitions. As an artist, he has exhibited in Canada and internationally, most recently at The Round Tower (Copenhagen, DK). He is a founding member of the plumb, a recently-launched artist-run project space. Blair comes to Art Metropole with 7 years of experien...ce working at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, including over 2 years working with publications and artist editions as the manager of its shop. Blair will be instrumental in helping to carry the organization through a challenging and exciting period of transition as the organization searches for a new facility and adapts to short-term measures related changes brought on by the ongoing pandemic. Blair will assist with all aspects of the organization’s daily operations, and oversee the management of Art Metropole’s physical and online inventory and holdings. Photo: @phinamd See more

Archi-féministes! Contemporary Art, Feminist Theories (2019) ARCHI-FÉMINISTES! Contemporary Art, Feminist Theories, is produced by OPTICA, centre d’art contemporain, Montreal. Editors: Marie-Ève Charron, Marie-Josée Lafortune, and Thérèse St-Gelais... This publication brings together an important body of work produced between 1970 and the present, including the contributions of Sophie Bélair Clément, Rebecca Belmore, Olivia Boudreau, Marie-Claude Bouthillier, Marie-Ève Charron, Sorel Cohen, Raphaëlle de Groot, Philippe Dumaine, Vera Frenkel, Andrea Geyer, Cynthia Girard-Renard, Clara Gutsche, Rashid Johnson, Marie-Josée Lafortune, Suzy Lake, arkadi lavoie lachapelle, Maryse Larivière, Emmanuelle Léonard, Deirdre Logue, Allyson Mitchell, Wanda Nanibush, Abdi Osman, Camal Pirbhai, Claire Savoie, Johanne Sloan, Jana Sterbak, Thérèse St-Gelais, Camille Turner, Rinaldo Walcott, and Giovanna Zapperi. Feminist manifestations are examined in light of practices that persist in their resistance and that compel us to reexamine social norms through activism, citizen mobilization, and sharing communities. Striving to bring new insights to our attention, these contributions take up theoretical feminist models, but also reference cultural, decolonization, and queer studies. #art #bookarts #feminism #

Artist edition non-medical face mask by artist Germaine Koh. Back in stock "In crown shyness, trees grow with distinct space between their crowns, to avoid spreading pests, to avoid damaging their own fragile tips, and to leave room for their peers. They make small individual sacrifices for collective health. These natural processes are analogous to societies making adaptations rooted in mutual care: 'crowd shyness' as a form of conscious citizenship. "... Sending wishes of health and safety to everyone See more

Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle (2018) Editor: Stacey Allan Artistic Director: Olivia Marciano Designers: Lorraine Wild and Marina Mills Kitchen, Green Dragon Office, LA... This publication accompanies the exhibition Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle, on view September 28, 2018 March 3rd, 2019 at the Marciano Arts Foundation, Los Angeles. Organized by Jamie G. Manne, Deputy Director, Marciano Art Foundation. Includes an essay contribution Mythology in Real Time by Martin Shaw. #art #OliviaMarciano #sculpture #StaceyAllan #MartinShaw

Shopping in Jail: Ideas, Essays, and Stories for the Increasingly Real Twenty-First Century (2013) Publisher: Sternberg Press With an introduction by Shumon Basar... In Douglas Coupland’s writing, the doldrums of a world afflicted by the pains of dotcom booms and busts, the ascendency of subcultures to pop cultures, and the subsequent struggle for identity are counterbalanced by droll, personal, and incisive analyses. This collection of nonfiction essays provides an illuminating meander through what we call culture today. Douglas Coupland is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and designer. His first novel, Generation X, was an international bestseller. He has published fourteen novels, two collections of short stories, and seven nonfiction books; written and performed for the the Royal Shakespeare Company; and has penned a number of works for film and television. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Wired magazine, and the Financial Times. #bookarts #art #ShumonBasar #DouglasCoupland

Other Russias (2017) Translated from the Russian by Thomas Campbell Other Russias is the brilliant first collection of graphic journalism by artist and activist Victoria Lomasko. A fixture at Moscow’s protests and political trials, Lomasko illuminates the inequality and injustice at the heart of contemporary Russian society and gives voice to Russia’s many voiceless citizens. Not content to remain in the capital, she travels the country, visiting schools in dying villages; in...terviewing sex workers in foundering industrial towns; teaching children at juvenile prisons to draw, all while drawing their stories. Her portraits allow readers to see these people as more than words on paper and to see them as she does: with dignity, compassion, and love. Other Russias is an urgent and poignant work by a major talent. Softcover, perfect-bound, b/w. #russia #art #artist #VictoriaLomasko