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Bug City
Gary Genosko, Doug Lewis & Mary Reid
Artists look at the place of insects in contemporary art as well as at issues around urban ecology and public health that this presence reveals. Bug City also explores how, inspired by insect biology, entomology and technology have joined forces. Thirty artists show that bugs display a special kind of creativity and that the usual distinctions between nature and culture and helpful and harmful species can be questioned. Artists include Bill Burns, Fastwürms, Eldon Garnet, Ed Pien and Ed Ruscha. Includes a CD Rom.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery (01/2006)
48 pp 26 col. ill. 5.5 x 5.25 in softcover with CD-Rom 0-88915-233-0 $12.95 Can./U.S. (10 euros)
Museopathy
Jan Allen, Jim Drobnick & Jennifer Fisher
Intended to expand the discourse on the role of the museum, these essays interrogate conventions of display and re-imagine how artifacts are exhibited and history is represented. Based on what may be the largest on-site event ever to be held in Canada, the publication explores fourteen site-specific installations and performances that intervened into museums devoted to the widest possible range of historical and social phenomena. Parings of artists with museums were "brilliantly made" (Nancy Tousley, Canadian Art) with, among others, Brian Jurgen in the Correctional Services of Canada Museum, Jamelie Hassan in the Museum of Health Care, Fastwürms in the Museum of Geology and Mineralogy, and Joyce Wieland's 1967 video Sailboat projected on board the Museum Ship Alexander Henry. Produced in association with DisplayCult
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2002) 112 pp col. ill. 9x7 in. softcover 0-889119-08-2 $22.00 Can./U.S. (18 euros)
Beaver Tales
Reid Diamond & Marnie Fleming
Throughout history the Beaver has been the source of both admiration and annoyance while always sustaining the imagination of artists. In Canada it has been seen as a picture of tradition and stability but the Beaver has also acted as a potent cultural signifier. The 15 artists presented here speak to characteristics of the Beaver in all its guises: as a symbol of engineering (Frank. O. Gehry, Komar and Melamid); as a concept of female mythology (Joyce Wieland); as a search for identity (Jin-me Yoon); as an integral part of the environment (Carl Skelton) and as muse and inspiration (Fastwürms). Fleming's essay provides an historical overview of the Beaver and its symbolic uses from the early days of Hudson's Bay Company through Expo 67 to contemporary merchandising. Diamond's essay looks at the works themselves. Accompanied by artists' statements.
Oakville Galleries (2001) 47 pages, 13 col. ill., 8x6.5 in. 0921027931 softcover $15.00 Can./U.S.
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