Category Archives: Writing

A short review written on
Simon Brown’s
Shit That Excretes the Person
published by Paper Pushers
shortlisted for the
Art Gallery of York University’s
Artists’s Book of the Moment.

It is a small thin volume. The synthetic silver cover stock repels the ink  applied by letterpress, faint black excretions pool at the edges of the impression of   the title.  The binding glue is equally viscous, emerging suggestively from the slim space at the back of the book where spine and signatures meet. With its intimate dimensions, this book could slip easily into your breast pocket – or through the iron grate of a sewer. Read more.

This interview was conducted in Ottawa, May 2010 by Felicity Tayler and Corina MacDonald for artengine.ca

What can curators of contemporary art learn from the distributed and participatory systems of new media art? Sarah Cook and Beryl Graham, co-founders of CRUMB (The Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss, www.crumbweb.org), are the authors of the recent volume Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (MIT Press). While in residence at SAW video in Ottawa, Sarah Cook took a pause from a flurry of activity to expand upon concepts evoked between the covers of the book and during her presentation at the National Gallery of Canada. As Nathaniel Stern observes in his review (http://rhizome.org/editorial/3617) of this collaborative work (authored with drafts exchanged via email and Wiki), the number of examples and citations provide a provocative constellation of possibilities. They argue that the connectivity of new media art challenges default modes of artistic authorship and curatorial operation and points towards new metaphors and modes of curating as a distributed activity. Read more.

Anne Hirsch : Scandalishious — Ian Wojtowicz : The Betweeners  :   Apr. 16 → May 22, 2010

Apr. 16 → May 22, 2010 | Opening Saturday April 17th at 3pm
Conversation with the artists, curated by Felicity Tayler: Saturday April 17th at 2pm

Version Français

This text is speculative. At the time of its writing, the works described here have been communicated through the means of digital images, email, IM and online video. This is where these works, and their material, existed – until their installation in the gallery. What is presented within the white walls is the output of a process, one that reflects the formal structures of online social networks (Such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or YouTube), transposed into a physical space that designates this social process as visual art. Speculation is part of this process, an inherent element to the structure of social networks. Continue reading →

“The Page as Alternative Space” in Documentary Protocols (1967-1975)

Publisher: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Edited by: Vincent Bonin with the collaboration of Michèle Thériault
Design: FEED

Documents: Art Workers’ Coalition, N.E. Thing Co., Joyce Wieland, Intermedia Society, A Space, Véhicule Art (Montréal) Inc., General Idea / Art Metropole, Image Bank, Western Front Society, Glenn Lewis, Michael Goldberg, Vidéographe

Introduction: Michèle Thériault, Essays by Anne Bénichou, Vincent Bonin, Marion Froger, Kristy A. Holmes, Primary Information, Felicity Tayler, David Tomas. Essays by V. Bonin, A. Bénichou and M. Froger also in French.

416 pp., b.w. illustrations (perfect binding)
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery

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