Open Space prints a majority of its publications in-house. For information about ordering and purchasing any of the below publications, contact our Administrator.  Shipping and handling apply.

 

   

My Story of Making and Sewing Hides: Penny Louie, Penny Louie, 2013. 83 pages, 106 illustrations. Perfect-bound. $20.00

Penny Louie, Kaska/Tahltan artist, explains step-by-step how to prepare a hide for tanning. Louie shares her knowledge about preparing moose hides and sewing skins so that the art of tanning skins the old traditional way will continue for future generations.

 

   

islands: Emilio Portal, Peter Morin, April Piluso, Sophie Pouyanne, 2012. 40 pages, 18 illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 978-1-895532-38-8. $15.00

On May 14, 2012, Emilio Portal began the installation of islands in the gallery. islands was an ongoing performance that honoured the Lekwungen peoples of Vancouver Island. Through a series of creative acts, Portal performed a respect to the land and the remnants of history that lie underneath.

 

  

Shut Up and Listen: Trimpin: (CanonX+4:33=100), Helen Marzolf, Kristy Farkas, and Andrew Schloss, 2012. 60 pages, 47 illustrations. DVD. Perfect-bound. ISBN 978-1-895532-36-4. $20.00

Combining ancient concepts and methods with the latest in digital technology, Trimpin gave new life to five abandoned pianos by constructing visually dynamic and aurally stunning acoustic and electroacoustic sculptures and automatons out of their carcasses. The pianos were "prepared" with mechanical actuators, small robotic devices such as dampers, hammers, and bow wheels, to play the piano strings in a way in which composers John Cage and Conlon Nancarrow started to experiment more than half a century ago.

 

 

Stained, Shelley Miller, Sarah Stein, and Helen Marzolf, 2012. 12 pages, 12 illustrations (including fold-out poster). Saddle-stitched. ISBN 978-1-895532-35-7. $5.00

Stained is a catalogue documenting a public sugar mural that was on the wall of Waddington Alley during artist Shelley Miller's one-month production residency hosted and organized by Open Space, March to July 2011. PDFs: inner pages and cover/poster.

 

  

Pulse Interval, 2012. 20 pages, 13 illustrations. Saddle-stitched.

Pulse Interval was an exhibition that featured work by Jamie Drouin, Andrew Forster, Farheen Haq, and Azin Seraj curated by Catlin Lewis and Helen Marzolf. The curators adapted the term "pulse interval," a gap or interval between regular or intermittent signal waveforms such as the sounds made by bats as they navigate the night sky. The curators proposed that "technology and human movement act as navigational aides in forming an interiorized local knowledge of place or identity. The artists in this exhibition investigate the nuances of how we mobillize habits of movement, technology, and data to navigate and inhabit our geographic, psychosocial and political locales."

 

  

RICHARD RAXLEN: introspective?!*√º"ç¥å?!, Marilyn Brakhage, Peter Sandmark, Chelsea Rushton, and Helen Marzolf, 2012. 64 pages, 48 illustrations. DVD. Perfect-bound. ISBN 978-1-895532-34-0. $20.00

RICHARD RAXLEN: introspective?!*√º"ç¥å?! was an inter-disciplinary project exploring the diverse range of Richard Raxlen’s art. While Raxlen’s film work has been applauded internationally, the full sweep of his art practice had not been similarly acknowledged. Open Space joined forces with MediaNet to launch this mid-career survey or, as Raxlen prefers to call it, an introspective.

 

   

Drifter's Clip, Randy Gledhill, Melanie Siebert, and Peter White, 2012. 31 pages, 11 illustrations. folio. $15.00

Drifter’s Clip, featuring Jeremy Borsos and the DRIL artists collective (Dylan McHugh, Leisha O’Donohue, Ian Prentice and Rachel White), invoked the vagaries of histories and memory, recasting tropes of Hollywood cinema, popular, and DIY cultures.

 

 

Greenw∞sh, Helen Marzolf, Elyse Portal, Xane St Phillip, Marlene Jess, Robert Hengeveld, Rachel Evans, Scott Evans, Kyath Battie, Marlaina Buch, Brenda Petays, Bronwyn Preece, 2011. 87 pages, 50 illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 978-1-895532-33-3. $20.00

Greenw∞sh was an art project, featuring work by Kyath Battie, Rachel Evans, Scott Evans, Robert Hengeveld, Marlene Jess, and Xane St Phillip, that entangled the relationships among natural, technological, and consumerist ecosystems.

 

Like Some Pool of Fire, Byron Peters, Heidi Nagtegaal, and Gerry Gauthier, 2011. ISBN 978-895532-32-6.

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The Like Some Pool of Fire parallel publication further explores the colour-based strategies of the exhibition of the same name held from January 14 to February 12, 2011, featuring new works by Elizabeth Zvonar, Michael Drebert, Heidi Nagtegaal, and Raymond Boisjoly, whose research into the Berlin-Kay theory produced a stunning exhibition poster and subsequent work for this book. Boisjoly is also responsible for the title Like Some Pool of Fire. The book features critical prose by Byron Peters, Heidi Nagtegaal, and Curator, Gerry Gauthier, as well as documentation of the exhibition featuring the work of Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Kristina Lee Podesva, and Miles Collyer.

 

 

Walls of Intrigue and Cabinets of Curiosity, Jan Gates, Helen Marzolf, 2011. 32 pages, 39 illustrations. ISBN 978-895532-29-6. $15.00 

In 2008, Victoria artist Tracey Nelson embarked on a research project to construct 100 sock monkeys. It didn’t take long before her research veered into new hypotheses and materials. The cuddly toy monkeys morphed into life sized simian sculpture. Nelson’s murals and drawings attended the sculpture—and monkey furnishings upholstered with reused sweaters, video peepholes and a drawing robot animated a rampant installation. Art historian Jan Gates discusses Nelson’s project from the perspective of the historical cabinet of curiosity, interrupted by monkey back talk.

 

 

Wunder Worry, Megan Dickie, 2010. 30 pages, 12 illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 978-1-895532-31-9. $15.00

Troi Donnelly, Kevin Yates and Susanne Franks looked at anxiety and fear of the unknown from a place of curiosity with Wunder Worry an exhibition curated by Megan Dickie and Hailey Finnigan. This book features an essay by Megan Dickie and hand screen-printed covers.

 

  

Bamberton: Contested Landscape, Nathan and Cedric Bomford, 2010. 61 pages, 42 illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 978-1-895532-27-2. $20.00

Bamberton: Contested Landscape confronts land use skirmishes of Bamberton (an abandoned cement plant on Vancouver Island site) through architectural references and a fabricated oratorical arena. This book includes an introduction by Helen Marzolf, as well as a essay by Kathleen Ritter that add context to the 42 pages of installation shots taken by Nathan and Cedric Bomford.  

 

 

Gust Burns Piano De/Re-constructed, Gust Burns, 2010. 168 pages, 144 illustrations. Binder-clipped. ISBN 978-1-895532-30-2. $10.00

In March 2010, Open Space hosted the piano series Between the Notes. Following special performances by Tzenka Dianova and Lubomyr Melnyk, we invited Seattle pianist and composer Gust Burns to spend a week in residence working with an old upright piano donated by Michelle Purvis. Burns’ haptic deconstruction process, Piano De/Re-Constructed, is the consequence of his profound engagement with the piano. See this process documented in a 144 page flip book image series from start to finish.

 

 

Circuitous Routes: Excess/Abundance, John Luna, 2009. 44 pages, 22 illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 978-1-895532-25-8. $20.00

 

 

Eidola, David Cecchetto, Ted Hiebert, 2009. 30 pages, 7 illustrations, 4-track audio CD. ISBN 978-1-895532-28-9. $15.00

Curated by David Cecchetto and Ted Heibert, Eidola brought together two distinct disciplinary practitioners – one (William Brent) a musician who makes objects, and the other (Ellen Moffat) a visual artist who makes sound; between the two, a cross-pollination occured as sounds emerged through object presences. 

 

Us Ones in Between, Marlaina Buch and Nicholas Robins, 2009. 60 pages, 32 illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 978-1-895532-24-1. $10.00

 

 

Bannockology, compiled and edited by Peter Morin, 2009. 82 pages, 14 illustrations. Coil-bound. ISBN 978-1-895532-23-4. $20.00

Bannockology is an anthology of anecdotes, recipes, poetry and insights about bannock, the ubiquitous bread that is a part of every First Nations social event, private or public. Compiled and edited by artist, writer, curator Peter Morin, Bannockology was initiated in Watson Lake, Yukon where Peter worked with the local library and youth, and grew as Peter’s cultural adventures lead him to organize the World’s Largest Bannock event, and shaped by a deep commitment to his Tahltan culture. An essay by acclaimed curator Candice Hopkins introduces Bannockology.

Revenues from sales will be directed to the Watson Lake Library and Surrounded by Cedar Child and Family Services.

Co publishers: Camosun College, Western Front, Surrounded by Cedar Child and Family Services.

 

 

4x8_5x7, James Carl, 2008. 140 pages, all illustrated. Perfect-bound. ISBN 987-1-895532-21-0. $4.00

4x8_5x7 breaks a life-sized black and white digital drawing of a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood into 5 x 7 sections. Each page is a 5 x 7 section of the drawing.

 

 

workbench, David Capell, 2009. 32 pages, 14 illustrations. Perfect-bound. $3.00

A colourful document of a 2007 curatorial project lead by Ross Angus Macaulay and Zoë Kreye, workbench assembled the live-work realities of six young artists: Marlene Bouchard, Charlotte Campbell, Emily Goodden, Rachel Evans, Jordan Beggs and Caleb Beyers. Essayist David Capell situated their practices within a relational and action-based present.

 

Unpacked and Reheated, Ted Hiebert, Helen Marzolf, Catlin Lewis, 2007. 45 pages, 26 illustrations. ISBN 978-1895532-15-9. $4.00

Unpacked and Reheated examined the interplay between the organic and the synthetic, the real and the illusory, and dared the viewer to determine what constitutes authenticity. These works by Steven Rayner and Brendan Fernandes questioned the relationships between nature, technology and society by juxtaposing the natural with the hyperreal.

 

 

Dowsing for Failure, Ted Hiebert and Doug Jarvis, 2007. 62 pages, 20 illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 1-895532-18-3. $15.00

Curated by Doug Jarvis and Ted Hiebert, Dowsing for Failure featured works by Benjamin Bellas, Nate Larson, Gordon Lebredt, Mike Paget, June Pak, Daniel Olson and Anthony Schrag.  Failure is re-positioned to reveal paradoxes hard-wired into the practices and attitudes of contemporary culture and life.

 

Transmission of Knowledge, Irene Bindi, 2007. 14 pages, 13 illustrations. CD. Saddle-stitched. ISBN 978-1-895532-17-3. $5.00

Transmission of Knowledge was published to document part of a residency exchange jointly organized by Open Space Arts Society in Victoria, BC, and La Chambre Blanche artist-run centre in Quebec City. Two Québécois artists, François Mathieu and François Lamontagne, were in residence at Open Space from January 16 to February 24, 2006.

 

Vulnerable Light, Ted Hiebert, 2006. 28 pages, 8 illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 1-895532-16-2. $10.00

Vulnerable Light invokes the vulnerability and ineffability of photographic representation in the works of two nationally recognized photo-based artists: Isabelle Hayeur (Montreal) and Jennifer Long (Toronto).  This exhibit was curated by Tamsin Clark and Ted Hiebert, with writing from Micheal Turner.

 

 

Domestic Bliss, Roy Green, 2006. 24 pages, 10 illustrations. GBC-bound. ISBN 1-895532-14-0. $5.00

Domestic Bliss was curated by Roy Green(artist, poet), and featured recent work by Martin Golland (Guelph ON), Karina Kalvaitis (Victoria)and Robert Randall (Victoria).  Spurred by the retreat into the privacy of the domestic space, this exhibit deliberated ideas of the home: as status symbol, architecture, shelter/security, exterior and interior decor, investment/commodity, and as a site of personal expression and identity.

 

 

Supermodels, Ted Hiebert and Steve Rayner, 2006. 36 pages, 7 illustrations. Saddle-stitched. ISBN 1-895532-12-4. $5.00

SuperModels is a sophisticated inquiry into the mechanics of representation, hinged upon the model building (and mimicking) preoccupations of four artists: Chris Gillespie, Toni Hafkenscheid, Duncan Mackenzie and Tim van Wijk.  SuperModels was curated by Victoria artists Tamsin Clark and Ted Hiebert, featuring an essay written by Steve Rayner (Victoria).

 

 

Quantal Strife, Sally McKay, 2006. Published by Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto at Scarborough. 76 pages, 64 illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 0-7727-5401-2. $16.80

A beginner's guide to quantal strife: oscillating dichotomies, cognitive assemblages and the multivalent nature of communication when people look at it: but without all the big words. Essay by Sally McKay; round table between the curator, Sally McKay, and the artists, Scott Carruthers, Crystal Mowry, and Marc Ngui.

 

 

Book of Small, Sonja Ahlers, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Sarah Cain and Carey Ann Schaefer, 2005. 48 pages, 33 illustrations. Perfect-bound. IBSN 1-895532-13-2. $7.00

The exhibition The Book of Small starred three artists who, using modest materials including paper, paint, and fabric, further blurred the divisions between art and craft, art and community, and art and architecture. Sonja Ahlers (Vancouver) assembled free and donated scraps – tickets, comic strips, clothing tags, doodles, doilies – into collages that chronicled the objects, ideas and people that momentarily capture our attention. Ginger Brooks Takahashi (Brooklyn) presented quilts and drawings featuring rabbits and humans involved in sexual scenarios; these doubled as metaphors for the difficulties involved in reproduction, both biological and cultural, in the queer community. Sarah Cain (Oakland) created art installations that used space – walls, windows, corners, floorboards – merging art and architecture. This publication features a generous ten pages of each artist’s work (including two-page spreads) and a short essay on each by Carey Ann Schaefer.

 

Nominal Spaces: Stories for Photographs, Clint Hutzulak, Todd A. Davis, 2003. 34 pages, 3 illustrations. Saddle-stitched. ISBN 1-895532-10-8. $5.00

Nominal Spaces: Stories for Photographs was published to coexist with a photographic exhibition presented at Open Space in 2003 called “…and uncertain light,” which featured the works of Brenda Francis Pelkey, Holly King and Tamsin Clark. Drawing inspiration from the narrative impulses implicit in the imagery of the three photographers, writer Clint Hutzulak created a trio of short fictions to accompany the photographs.

 

 

Plot, Todd A. Davis, Robin Peck, Christina Ritchie, Margrét H. Blöndal, 2003. 47 pages, illustrated. Perfect-bound. ISBN 0-920751-87-3. $7.00

Plot is a publication that accompanied James Carl’s 2003 large-scale installation and pieces — an exploration of materials and an analysis of consumer culture — that were presented at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, and Open Space. The publication includes an essay by Robin Peck, an “interview” of James Carl by curator Christina Ritchie, as pieced together by months of telephone and email conversations, and a poem by Margrét H. Blöndal.

 

 

Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760: improvisation for four projectors, Adrienne Lai, Jessie Lacayo, Tamara Bernstein, Scott Watson, 2002. 35 pages, 25 black and white illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 1-895532-11-6. $4.00

Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760 was a gallery installation by Laiwan in collaboration with Lori Freedman. It combined film projection, sound, live performance, sculptural space and digital technology to produce variously mediated experiences. Four film loops projected on a central cylinder showed four views of bass clarinetist Freedman, creating a “quartet” – though this impression was disrupted by the fact that the film loops were of different lengths and shot in different locations. Additionally, Freedman performed live with the installation during scheduled performances.

Essays by Adrienne Lai, Jessie Lacayo and Tamara Bernstein focus on technology and the body, technology and ideology, and Freedman’s improvisational technique. Includes an extensive chronology of Laiwan’s past work by Brice Canyon.

 

Dream Factory, curated by Milutin Gubash and Althea Thauberger. DVD, 2002. $3.00

A DVD recording of Dream Factory, a live performance that took place in a makeshift television studio at Open Space as part of the gallery’s collaboratory: CHARACTER series. The sixteen performers in this show were chosen from among those who responded to an open call for amateur and professional acts; their talents range from opera singing to juggling. Performers: 34U, Jacy Holland & Emily Lyall, Dianne Pancel, Graham Kelly, Michael Eckford, Ryan Mellors, David Burke, Mica Strong, Nicki Solis, Trinda Reed, Duotwang.

 

 

Collaboratory: Character, Jessie Lacayo, 2002. Monograph. $1.00

The collaboraty: CHARACTER series showed off the collaborative projects of a number of artists working in various media: video, live performance, collage, concert. This pamphlet includes a brief essay by Jessie Lacayo with artist statements and colour photographs of the work.

 

 

Content 1.0, James Carl, co-published by Art Metropole and Mercer Union, 2002. 78 pages, most illustrated. Includes a CD-ROM of fonts. Perfect-bound. ISBN 0-920956-68-8. $54.00

The drawings in this book were created in Adobe Illustrator and Aldus Freehand on Macintosh computers between 1997 and 2002. The drawings are available as a font on the CD which accompanies this book. The CD is compatible with Mac and PC formats. Simply follow the installation directions on the disc and the drawings will be available in the font menu of most applications. - James Carl 2002

 

Mapping the Body, Jessie Lacayo, 2001. 12 pages, 16 illustrations. Monograph. $2.00

Mapping the Body brought together work by eight artists that in some way dealt with the human body. In this publication, Jessie Lacayo interviews artists Kelly Mark, Wendy Peart, Karen Ralph, Su Rynard, Barrie Jones, Har-Prakash Khalsa, Monique Mees and Ed Pien on the thematic concerns in their work, which include technology and detachment from the body, gender, gesture, and what is monstrous or inhuman in representations of the body.

 

 

 

 

To Remain at a Distance 1998, Carol Williams. Monograph. $1.00/set

To Remain at a Distance 2000, Grant Shilling. Monograph.

To Remain at a Distance 2001, Jessie Lacayo. Monograph.

These three monographs accompanied To Remain at a Distance 1998, 2000, and 2001, episodes in a series of large group shows of contemporary art from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. (The monograph for the 1999 exhibition is no longer available.) Carol Williams discusses the artistic history of Victoria in relation to the present; Grant Shilling, an artist from Galiano Island, writes about isolation both cultural and physical; Jessie Lacayo’s shorter essay links geography and identity.

 

The Sleepless Night, Diane Schoemperlen, Stuart Reid, 1999. 64 pages with CD. ISBN 1-896380-01-x. $6.00

This bilingual English/Spanish publication accompanied Derek Besant’s project on memory and forgetting. Twenty-six men and women were portrayed in the act of remembering or forgetting; their portraits were paired with representations of (lost) objects or (partial) maps. The CD includes photos and sound from the exhibition, while the book features a critical essay by Stuart Reid and a creative contribution by Diane Schoemperlen.

 

 

Two Constellations: On the Work of Shelley Ouellet and Lee Goreas, Jennifer McMakon, 1998. Monograph. $1.00

Shelley Ouellet constructed a giant model insect by suspending thousands of small plastic toy insects from the ceiling. Lee Goreas uses comics and toys to investigate philosophical questions, as in the punny Beeing, which depicts honey jar mascot Billy Bee engaged in conversation with a human skull. Essay by Jennifer McMakon with black and white photos of the art.

 

 

Between Landscapes, Karen Solie, 1998. Monograph. $1.00

Karen Solie’s essay places Wayne Arsenault’s RE:Collect Slash/Smoulder and Nancy Duff’s  The Lay of the Land in the tradition of landscape painting, which has always had as much to do with history and cultural identity as with scenery. Illustrated with black and white photos of the work. 

 

 

Mowry Baden: A Choreography of the Ordinary, Recent Works 1988-1998, Robert Hullot-Kentor, 1998. 36 pages, 28 black and white illustrations. Perfect-bound. ISBN 1-895532-09-4. $4.00

This publication came about as part of a celebration of the Victoria sculptor’s work that involved cultural institutions throughout the city; exhibitions, lectures and a symposium took place. Baden is best known for his public art and interactive sculptures. This catalogue features an essay by Robet Hullot-Kentor centering on illusion in Baden’s work, along with short contributions by curators Brenda Petays and Lauren Schaffer.

 

Suburban Artwork: As the World Turns, Val Valgardson, 1998. 9 pages. $1.00

Diagram of a self-pruning hedge with illustrated instructions for its assembly. Valgardson draws from the suburban landscape to create metaphors for human behaviour and how we live in the environments we create.

 

 

[ un ] natural histories: The Art of Gwen Curry and Lyndal Osborne, Robin Laurence, 1997. 31 pages, 12 illustrations. Perfect-bound. $5.00

[ un ] natural histories is a provocative pairing, a complex dialogue between the practices of Lyndal Osborne and Gwen Curry. Each artist’s practice is poised on the nature-culture cusp and both employ strategies of repetition. However, while one artist expresses a joyful affirmation of life into which is folded a sombre recognition of death, the other strikes a funeral chord of environmental warning into which are woven notes of pure delight in the close observation of the natural world.

 

 

Sculpture and Installations, Niki Lederer, 1997. Monograph. $1.00

This fold-out pamphlet contains 22 colour photos of Niki Lederer’s works along with a brief artist statement. Lederer presented the installation Garden Site at Open Space in 1997. The installation consists of a wall-sized photo-mural and a chaise lounge upholstered in synthetic grass; the dramatic scale of the work threatens to engulf the viewer.

 

 

Drawing +, Robin Laurence, 1994. 12 pages, 14 illustrations. Saddle-stitched. ISBN 1-895532-06-X. $4.00

Drawing + was curated by Gwen Curry, Brigitte Potter-Mäl and Pamela Speight and featured work by Derek Besant, Blair Brennan, Briar Craig, Cathy Daley, Sophie Jodoin, David Liss, Gary Pearson, Douglas Scott and Barrie Szekely. The nine artists whose works were chosen for exhibition expand drawing practice into a wide range of ideas, materials and processes, including sculpture/installation, assemblage, painting, xerography, performance, text and printmaking.

 

We Need a New History: Autobiography, Autobiology, Steve Noyes, Jack Butler, Sheila Butler, 1994. 8 pages, 14 black and white illustrations. ISBN 1-895532-05-1. $2.00

We Need a New History was a collaborative installation by Sheila Butler and Jack Butler comprised of photographs, notes, drawings, an audiotape and an essay. In a performance documented here, the artists work with paint directly on each other’s skin, recopying medical diagrams while representations of the male and female body in Western art stand behind them. In their work, the artists propose a construction of sexual difference where the sexes are mutually transparent. With an essay by Steve Noyes.

 

Redressing the Crone, Nancy Shaw, 1993. 8 pages, 9 illustrations. ISBN 1-895532-04-3. $3.00

Redressing the Crone was Cynthia Jennifer Smith’s empathetic photographic essay of women who opt for plastic surgery in order to avoid aging. The portraits in this series were dramatic and disquieting pictures that attempted to document the paradoxical promises of plastic surgery.

 

The October Project, Gail Tuttle, 1992. 46 pages, 39 illustrations. Saddle-stitched. ISBN 1-895532-03-5. $3.00

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Twenty years before The October Project, Open Space was incorporated as a society. This publication remembers the centre’s past with a group interview featuring Bill Bartlett, Suzanne Bessette, Sue Donaldson, Michael MacLennan, Gene Miller and Jeanne Shoemaker. The October Project was a collaboration of many artists for an exhibition, performances and a concert. An essay by Gail Tuttle makes the point that no exhibition can be reflective of 20 years of activity; as founder Gene Miller said, “variety makes this place healthy.” The October Project was instead a testament to Open Space’s contribution to its arts communities through the many outstanding artists the centre has worked with. A chronology delineates the past 20 years.

 

Standard Sheathing, Barrie Szekely, Philip Willey, 1992. 8 pages, 8 illustrations. ISBN 1-895532-02-7. $2.00

Standard Sheathing was a 1992 exhibition of Barrie Szeleky’s drawings, paintings and photographs depicting plant and animal life in suburban settings. With colour and black & white photographs and an essay by Philip Willey.

 

PostPOPforNowPeople, Jim Cummins, Kempton Dexter and Elizabeth Fischer. Cassette tape, 1989. $3.00

Pop music by three artists, which, like Pop art, “level[s] wit at a world of maniacally cheerful consumerism”. With liner notes by curator Todd Davis.

Track list:

SIDE 1

untitled by Jim Cummins

song of improving one’s lot by Kempton Dexter

long weekend by Kempton Dexter

Fraser River by Kempton Dexter

stomp your feet by Kempton Dexter

lesbian life by Kempton Dexter

class of ’89 by Kempton Dexter

SIDE 2

states of grace by Elizabeth Fischer

well oh well by Elizabeth Fischer

pair of dice by Elizabeth Fischer

real estates by Elizabeth Fischer

 

Open Space: A Yearbook Sept. 1986 – Sept. 1987, Geoffrey Gerwing, Gail Harris, Philip Willey, and W. S. Blair, 1987. 48 pages. Saddle-stitched. ISBN 0-921989-03-2. Download FREE PDF.