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Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years
Edited by Sherry Farrell Racette
Contributors : Anthony Kiendl, Candice Hopkins, Steve Loft, Lee-Ann Martin, Jenny Western, Richard William Hill,
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair,
Victor Masayesva Jr,
Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Megan Tamati-Quenelle, David Garneau, Edward Poitras, Jaimie Isaac and Loretta Todd
Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years documents a ground-breaking exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art with artists from Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and South America. Through a myriad of histories, trajectories, tensions, collisions, and self-images, 34 artists imagine the future within the context of present experiences and past histories. By radically reconsidering encounter narratives between native and non-native people, Indigenous prophecies, possible utopias and apocalypses, these artists propose intriguing possibilities for the next 500 years. More than an exhibition catalogue, the writings gathered here provide a thorough, expansive and diversified exploration of indigenous culture. Fourteen contributors present essays that map distinct sub-themes related to the imagined future for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Profusely illustrated with dozens of colour plates, fold-outs and visual surprises, the volume also includes an extensive bibliography and complete artist biographies. Participating artists : KC Adams, Maria Thereza Alves, Shuvinai Ashoona, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Michael Belmore, Rebecca Belmore, Colleen Cutschall, Wally Dion, Jimmie Durham, Rosalie Favell, Jeffrey Gibson, Brett Graham, Faye HeavyShield, Marja Helander, Jonathan Jones, Brian Jungen, James Luna, Kavavaow Mannomee, Tracey Moffatt, Kent Monkman, Reuben Paterson, Archer Pechawis, Edward Poitras, Postcommodity, Pudlo Pudlat, Lisa Reihana, Paul-Anders Simma, Doug Smarch Jr., Skawennati, Christian Thompson, Marie Watt, Linus Woods, and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.
Plug In Editions (12/2011) 224 pp 100 col. ill. 10.5 x 10 in hardcover 978-0-921381-36-5 $75.00 Can. $79.00 U.S. (60 €)
My Winnipeg: Guide of the Artistic Scene / Guide de la scène artistique
Sigrid Dahle, Robert Enright, Noam Gonick, Anthony Kiendl, Cathy Mattes & Meeka Walsh
What do Guy Maddin, Marcel Dzama, AA Bronson, and Diana Thorneycroft have in common? They’re all from Winnipeg. Instigated by a French museum and touring France and Canada, this exhibition and accompanying publication set out to show that - far from heading toward globalization - the art world is driven by thriving but little-known centres of creative activity. Artists are inspired by the cities in which they live and the work they produce helps define their region’s identity. This identity is carried in films, music, literature and art, conveying these artists’ vision around the globe. Winnipeg is a prime example of how geographical location can shape artistic production and how that production can explode onto the international scene. Brimming with information and analysis, this collection of facts and fictions looks at Winnipeg’s art scene from the ground up. Critical writing by French and Canadian writers and illustrated biographies of 71 artists provide an up-close view of an intensely productive artistic community. Publication of an exhibition held at two French museums throughout 2011, La Maison rouge and Musée international des arts modestes, and opening at Plug In ICA in 2012. Published with Editions Fage (France). In English and French.
Né d’un intérêt pour les productions incomparables, sortant de l’ordinaire du flux majoritaire d’images dont nous sommes abreuvés quotidiennement, une galerie parisien - La Maison rouge - a choisi d’honorer la vie artistique d’une ville canadienne Winnipeg. Au-delà d’une exposition de groupe, My Winnipeg est une tentative de cerner un espace spécifique de création à la lumière d’un large corpus d’oeuvres témoignant de la multiplicité des médiums employés par les artistes winnipegois (peinture, vidéo, performance. installation, photographie). Arts visuels, cinéma, musique, mais aussi histoire, sociologie, économie et même météorologie sont convoqués. A la fois catalogue d’exposition et guide de voyage, cette publication a été écrit par une équipe d’experts, commissaires d’exposition, historiens et critiques d’art. Plus de 70 artistes répertoriés et plus de 250 œuvres illustrées. Publication d'une exposition tenue à La Maison rouge (Paris) et au Musée international des arts modestes (Sète) en 2011 ainsi qu'à Plug In (Winnipeg) en 2012. Publié avec les Editions Fage (France). En français et anglais.
Plug In Editions (11/2011) 248 pp 140 col. ill. 9.5 x 5.5 in softcover 978-2-849752-29-6 $40.00 Can. $45.00 U.S. (32 €)
Queer Spirits
AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs
From 2008 to 2010, AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs collaborated to convene small groups of men in various locations throughout Canada and the United States in a secret group ritual titled "Invocation of the Queer Spirits." Invoking the queer and marginalized histories of each site in celebrations of sexuality and memorialization, the groups performed something that Bronson has characterized as "a hybrid between group therapy, ceremonial magic, a séance, a circle jerk and a quilting bee." Queer Spirits explores all five performances in five chapters of photographic essays, primarily by Bronson, together with a brilliant and frequently humorous reflection on queer animals, forest rangers, shamanism and park sex by Peter Hobbs. A series of drawings by Chicago artist Elijah Burgher completes the volume. Published with CreativeTime.
Plug In Editions (04/2011) 176 pp col. ill. 10 x 8 in hardcover 978-1-928570-14-1 $34.95 Can. $39.95 U.S. (28 €)
Gordon Lebredt: Non-works 1975–2008
Ian Carr-Harris, Gary Michael Dault, Lin Gibson, Andy Patton, Yvonne Lammerich and Yam Lau
Known for its rigorous conceptualism and ambitious materiality, the work of Gordon Lebredt is among Canada's most challenging and gratifying. Alongside Lebredt's significant record of exhibitions, publications and interventions is a parallel body of unrealized work - a sprawling hypothetical topology of surfaces, abutments, expanses and disjunctions in which words, objects and images struggle to find and mark their place. This publication collects Lebredt's unrealized proposals from a thirty-three-year period - a major retrospective of a body of work that exists only as possibility. Designed and typeset by Lebredt himself, the book contains more than 125 works presented as drawings, schematics and sketches rendered in pencil, ink, spray paint and type. Published with the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art.
Plug In Editions (04/2011) 177 pp col. ill. 8 x 9 in softcover 978-0-921381-35-8 $50.00 Can. $55.00 U.S. (40 €)
Sp_mb: Complex Order
Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski
This publication collates a decade of creative output by Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski who operate under the moniker spmb - an acronym acknowledging the duo's divergent connections to São Paulo and Manitoba. Aquino and Shanski, both trained as architects, are active on the street and in the gallery through a practice that is particularly concerned with examining public space.
Plug In Editions (01/2009) 205 pp col. ill. 10.5 x 8 in softcover 978-0-921381-34-1 $45.00 Can. $50.00 U.S. (36 €)
Scratching the Surface: The Post Prairie Landscape
Steve Matijcio
Publication documenting a cross-disciplinary project exploring the changing face of Winnipeg through a genre that continues to haunt the Canadian subconscious.
Plug In Editions (2008) 207 pp col. ill. 10 x 8 in hardcover 9780921381334 $25.00 Can./U.S. (20 €)
Mitch Robertson 5,6,7: Economies of Good & Evil
Robert McKaskell & Steven Matijcio
Publication documenting work by Toronto-based artist placing his most recent project in the context of his career by way of images, texts, and an interview with the artist.
Plug In Editions (2007) 96 pp col. ill. 10 x 9 in hardcover 9780921381327 $25.00 Can./U.S. (20 €)
Micah Lexier: David Then & Now
Alison Gillmor & Steven Matijcio
This book documents Lexier’s project which took place in a series of bus shelters in Winnipeg. The project consisted of a 48 different images placed in the spaces normally occupied by bus shelter advertisements.
Plug In Editions (2006) 184 pp col. ill. 9 x 7 in hardcover 092138131x $25.00 Can./U.S. (20 €)
Shaan Syed: Crowds and Constellations
David Liss & Steven Matijcio
Monograph reflecting on the work of Toronto-born, London (UK)-based artist. It features a number of full colour reproductions of Syed’s paintings, and essays by curators who have worked closely with the artist over the course of a significant period of growth in his practice.
Plug In Editions (2006) 64 pp 52 col. ill. 9 x 7 in hardcover 0921381298 $25.00 Can./U.S. (20 €)
Dominique Rey: Selling Venus
Steven Matijcio, Marie Bouchard and Cliff Eyland
Dominique Rey’s photographic work is a progressive and thoughtful exploration of issues surrounding female identity and sexuality. With this project she delves into the difficult lives of women living in a controversial netherworld.
Plug In Editions (2005) 48 pp col. ill. 7 x 7 in softcover 092138128X $15.00 Can./U.S. (12 €)
Paul Butler: My Mad Skillz
Lisa Gabrielle Mark and Cliff Eyland
Paul Butler’s subject is contemporary advertising, its reflection of urban social values, its fascination with superficial beauty, and its glamorization of life. He works in the collage tradition by cutting up magazines and then pasting, reorganizing, and sometimes obscuring the ad imagery.
Plug In Editions (2003) 56 pp col. ill. 10 x 8 in softcover 0921381263 $20.00 Can./U.S. (16 €)
John Kormeling: A Good Book
The book features sketches and photographs of Krmeling's output over the last 12 years, including a stripped-down square car, dog suits for cars, a public park installation of fake clouds with artificial sunlight, and many others.
Plug In Editions (2002) 184 pp col. ill. 10 x 8 in softcover 9780921381228 $25.00 Can./U.S. (20 €)
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Paradise Institute
Wayne Baerwaldt, Daniel Birnbaum and Scott Watson
Publication recreating Cardiff and Miller’s acclaimed mixed-media miniature cinema installation, The Paradise Institute, first exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale.
Plug In Editions (2001) 168 pp col. ill. 10 x 6 in hardcover 9780921381235 $45.00 Can./U.S. (36 €)
Pierre Molinier
Wayne Baerwaldt
Pierre Molinier's enigmatic photographs influenced European and North American body artists in the early 1970s and continue to engage artists, critics, and collectors today.
Plug In Editions (2001) 76 pp ill. 10 x 8 in hardcover 9780921381112 $34.00 Can./U.S. (28 €)
John Armstrong: Sanguine
Gordon Hatt & Lisa Gabrielle Mark
This catalogue includes numerous colour reproductions and essays by Gordon Hatt and Lisa Gabrielle Mark as well as poetry by Jill Battson and Gary Michael Dault.
Plug In Editions (1999) 6 pp col. ill. 9 x 9 in softcover 0968207138 $16.00 Can./U.S. 12 €)
Trance: Patrick Traer & Janet Werner
Wayne Baerwaldt
Trance was intended as an alternative to the conventional solo survey or retrospective exhibition in that it explores the collaborative process as an important issue in contemporary art.
Plug In Editions (1998) 44 pp col. ill. 9 x 8 in softcover 1896359183 $9.00 Can./U.S. (7 €)
Memories of Overdevelopment, Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Art
Wayne Baerwaldt
This exhibition catalogue commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Philippine people's drive toward democratic independence. Featured are contemporary artists whose work touches political issues such as the strengths of traditional materials and Asian cultural icons. Artists include Manuel Ocampo, Santiago Bose, and Joseph Santarromana.
Plug In Editions (1997) 28 pp ill. 7 x 5 in softcover 9780921381167 $17.00 Can./U.S. (14 €)
Rise & Fall: John Dickson Laurie Walker
Jan Allen, Wayne Baerwaldt and Nancy Campbell
The convergence of curatorial interest on the work of Canadian artists Laurie Walker and John Dickson attests to the compelling rigour of their art and the fact that in many ways it eloquently captures the tenor of the times and the concerns of an emerging generation of artists.
Plug In Editions (1996) 43 pp col. ill. 8 x 7 in hardcover 0889117063 $12.00 Can./U.S. (10 €)
Caroline Dukes: Remember Relate Retell
Caroline Dukes
This book chronicles Dukes’ passion to investigate the dim memories of a long lost father in Hungary which eventually becomes a focus on this man’s absence in her life.
Plug In Editions (1996) 48 pp ill. 7 x 5 in hardcover (No ISBN) $12.00 Can./U.S. (10 €)
Dark O’Clock
Alison Gilmor (ed)
Five artists purposely obscure or subvert simple ideological readings of their work and repeatedly showcase beguiling strategies of seduction to separate the viewer from ideological concerns. The participating artists are: Stephen Andrews, Doug Ischar, Mathew Jones, Wanda Koop and Glenn Ligon.
Plug In Editions (1995) 64 pp col. ill. 8 x 6 in softcover 0921381108 $9.00 Can. /U.S. (7 €)
Under The Influence of Nexus
Alison Gilmor & Wayne Berwaldt
Under the Influence of Fluxus catalogues the process of assessment and re-evaluation of the importance and influence of Fluxus ideas, the cutting-edge of the early 60’s avant-garde. Multiple colour images of Fluxus prints, old and new.
Plug In Editions (1991) 56 pp ill. 10 x 8 in softcover 0921381069 $12.00 Can./U.S. (10 €)