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Or Bookstore WintOr Book Sale!

November 21 — 27, 2020

Or Gallery is eager to announce the re-opening of our bookstore with a huuuuuge book sale! With a portion of proceeds going to Hogan’s Alley Society!

As you may already know, Or Bookstore aims to support independent artist publishing both locally and internationally. Our sale will focus on a large selection of artist books where one portion of the proceeds goes to the artist publisher and the other portion will be donated to Hogan’s Alley Society. Select books will also be 50% off! Why not consider doing your winter gift shopping early, knowing that the money from your purchase is going directly to both the artists themselves and an incredible local organization?

“The Hogan’s Alley Society advocates for Black Vancouverites who have endured the legacies of urban renewal and their erasure from the official historical narrative.” -Hogan’s Alley Society

For more information on Hogan’s Alley Society, please visit their website: www.hogansalleysociety.org/

Please note: Or Gallery and Bookstore is open Tues-Sat, 12-5pm. When visiting the gallery, please keep in mind that our capacity is 4 people. Please do not enter the gallery if you have signs of sickness. We ask that you wear a mask and sanitise your hands during your visit (supplies provided).

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While the bookstore remains closed for further improvements, Or Gallery is open with a new exhibition, “The Gas Imaginary” by Rachel O’Reilly. For further information regarding books, please contact books@orgallery.org. 

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Or Gallery and Bookstore Response to COVID 19

In light of the developments around COVID 19 and current public policies encouraging social distancing, Or Gallery and Bookstore is closed to the public until further notice. This includes the cancellation of the opening reception and artist talk for Emplotment by Pao Houa Her. We hope that everyone continues to take precautions and show care for those most at risk in these difficult times.

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New books galore!

Many new books have just arrived at Or Bookstore! Some of our newest titles include books of theory and criticism from Archive Books (Berlin), Antennae Arts in Society Series published by Valiz (Amsterdam), Jahresring Series published by Sternberg Press (Berlin), Goldsmiths (London) and MIT Press (Cambridge). 

We are also excited to be stocking some new publications with strong Vancouver ties! Such publications include former Vancouver-based artist and writer Mitch Speed’s “Mark Leckey: Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore” published by Afterall Books (London). And “Other Places: Reflections of Media Arts in Canada” edited by Deanna Bowen and published by MANO RAMO (Toronto) with contributions from many Vancouver-based artists, curators, writers and critics such as Glenn Alteen, Grant Arnold, Allison Collins, Shaun Dacey, Vanessa Kwan, Cindy Mochizuki, Cornelia Wyngaarden, and Jayne Wilkinson (now Toronto-based). 

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Holiday Sale 2019!

December 3 — 20, 2019

Or Bookstore’s annual holiday sale begins on December 3! This is the perfect time to get your holiday gift shopping done and view Anna Zett's solo exhibition Hold On at our new location at 236 E Pender! 

Buy one book and get 10% off! Buy two and get 15% off! Buy three or more and get 20% off! Includes all new arrivals. Additional discounts on periodicals!

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NWC

Northwest Coast is a new series edited by Dana Claxton, published by Or Gallery. Collectively, the series highlights the Northwest Coast region as a place in common that underlines the development and thrivance of the contemporary creative practices of five Indigenous women. Each book features a single text by a Northwest Coast First Nations artist in which they reflect on the sociopolitical context for their contemporary art practices and engagement with traditional Indigenous Northwest Coast visual culture. As Dana Claxton notes in her foreword to the texts, “It is my hope that the words and art in these precious volumes contribute to critical consciousness and justice for Indigenous People.”

Series titles include: NCW #1 Skeena Reece, “When the Business of Native Art Criticism Becomes Critical” NWC #2 Brenda Crabtree, “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” NWC #3 Morgan Asoyuf NWC #4 Marika Swan, “Pulling Back into Place” NWC #5 Roxanne Charles, “Hybridity: Practices Rooted in Indigenous Epistemologies, Born of Resistance, and Engaged in the Occupation of Sociopolitical Space”

This book project is supported by project grants from the BC Arts Council and the Hamber Foundation.

$10 each, $45 set of 5 Softcover, edition of 200 5” x 8”

ISBN 978-1-895005-56-1 (NWC 1: Skeena Reece) ISBN 978-1-895005-57-8 (NWC 2: Brenda Crabtree) ISBN 978-1-895005-58-5 (NWC 3: Morgan Asouf) ISBN 978-1-895005-59-2 (NWC 4: Marika Swan) ISBN 978-1-895005-60-8 (NWC 5: Roxanne Charles)

Click here to order via PayPal or contact the gallery: books@orgallery.org

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October Art Book Fairs

Look for Or Gallery at the Vancouver Art Book Fair and the 4/edition Toronto International Art Book Fair!

Vancouver Art Book Fair 2019 October 18 — 20, 201911AM-7PM Emily Carr University of Art and Design 520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver

Come visit the Or Gallery and Or Bookstore at the 2019 Vancouver Art Book Fair! In addition to our table selling artist books, zines, periodicals, criticism and theory titles from Archive, Sternberg, Semiotext(e), Univocal and more, we will host two events: NWC Roundtable Discussion Saturday, October 19 at 4PM at the Rennie Room We are pleased to be launching the complete series of NWC, a series of five essays by Northwest Coast First Nations artists. Each book features a single text by a Northwest Coast First Nations artist in which they reflect on the sociopolitical context for their contemporary art practices and engagement with traditional Indigenous Northwest Coast visual culture. We celebrate the launch of the complete publication series with a panel discussion between series editor, Dana Claxton, and contributing artists Brenda Crabtree, Morgan Asoyuf, Marika Swan and Roxanne Charles. For more details, please visit the Vancouver Art Book Fair website! Artificial Gut Feeling Book Launch and Signing with Anna Zett Sunday, October 20, 12-2PM Berlin-based artist Anna Zett will join Or Gallery’s VABF table for the North American launch of their new book, Artificial Gut Feeling (see above). This book launch coincides with the opening of Zett’s first exhibition in Vancouver, Hold On at Or Gallery from October 17, 2019 through January 11, 2020. Click here for our Facebook event. --- 4/Edition Toronto International Art Book Fair October 24 — 27, 2019 Metro Toronto Convention Centre 255 Front St, Toronto Admission is free FAIR HOURS October 24  6–10pm October 25  12–8pm October 26  11–8pm October 27  11–6pm Or Gallery and Bookstore is coming to Toronto! Please make sure to catch us at the 4/edition Art Book Fair. We will be featuring our newest publication series NWC and will be bringing a range of printed matter including editions, artists' books, local publishing, criticism and theory and journals and magazines. 

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Review! Slade and Cranfield’s 12 Sun Songs LP(2009)

Kathy Slade and Brady Cranfield, 12 Sun Songs LP(2009) is published by Or Gallery and JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag AG, Zürich

This review was written by our SFU SCA summer intern, Cross Li. They are currently completing their BFA degree in Film Production and is exploring various areas in theatre, gallery installation, and film.

As a person whose childhood spanned the early 2000s, a part of me thought that some crucial contexts might be lost on me when I first listened to Kathy Slade and Brady Cranfield’s 12 Sun Songs (2009), an album that features covers of George Harrison’s Here Comes the Sun and The Kinks’ Waterloo Sunset, among other reimagined tracks. Having never been in direct contact with the original tunes of the 70s, there’s an element within these twelve songs that I will never have the ability to truly connect to: the nostalgia. 

But around the fifth time I immersed myself in the album, I realized that my concern is quite silly when framed by 12 Sun Songs’ subject of interest, 

Which is, 

if it’s not obvious enough, 

the Sun. 

In the liner notes, Peter Culley, beloved Canadian poet and critic, points out that the modern enjoyment of pop songs must be rooted in a folkloric and historical origin, and the Sun⁠—the subject of focus in countless myths and ancient traditions⁠—has evidently been the topic of songs throughout the ages. It’s no wonder that ancient civilizations around the world worshipped this huge burning sphere of hot gas, an entity that can, if not angered, seemingly ensure a bountiful and generous harvest year after year. Although we no longer worship the sun in the fashion of the past, our cherishment of this floating fire orb never seems to have faded. 12 Sun Songs, wryly parodying a 70s concept album, is a celebration of the sun through pop songs.

The album uses field recordings collected from various Vancouver nature sites along with sounds made by acoustic and electronic instruments. As a person who has been living in Vancouver⁠—a city intertwined with forest and ocean⁠—the subtle aural details of footsteps on dry grass, birds chirping, and the ambient sound of the sea spark a familiar comfort. The soft vocal harmonies bring out a lighthearted playfulness in tracks like Where evil grows and Here comes the sun, and serenity in Thank You and The Warmth of the Sun. The musical elements feature a mellow static similar to the one from a cassette player; the retro element blends surprisingly well with the sounds of nature. The overall album gives the feeling of a sunny day of aimless wandering in the forest from dusk to dawn. 

With side A presenting the sunrise and side B the sunset, I often found myself putting on the A-side before getting ready for the day, and winding down with a cup of tea while the the B-side was playing in the evening. Even the colour of the record⁠—true bright yellow⁠—brings joy. When I first unpacked the album, I yelled out “It’s so bright!” due to the impressive colour saturation of the vinyl disc itself. During the typical rainy days of Vancouver, 12 Sun Songs is just the right dose of sunshine we need.

Cranfield and Slade’s 12 Sun Songs is available in the Or Bookstore!  

12” Vinyl Record

$20

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Closed For Summer, Re-Opening October 16

Or Bookstore will be closed for the summer until October 16 when we re-open in a brand new location at 236 East Pender! Bookstore inquires can still be directed to books@orgallery.org. Have a great summer everyone!

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New Arrival: Rita McKeough: Works

This critical monograph documents Rita McKeough’s collaborative artistic process and pedagogy from the late 1970s on; her interactions with visual and media arts communities in Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary, particularly alternative music and performance scenes; and the audio, installation and performance work that is her ongoing contribution to the contemporary Canadian art community.

EDITOR: Diana Sherlock

AUTHORS: Anthea Black, Eli D. Campanaro, Elizabeth Diggon, Johanna Householder, Areum Kim, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Deidre Logue, Jude Major, Rita McKeough, Jeanne Randolph, Mary Scott

PUBLISHERS: EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, M:ST Performative Art Festival, TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary

Includes vinyl record with five audio works from installations and performances—Shiver (1995), Opponent and My Heart Beats too Fast from In bocca al lupo/ In the Mouth of the Wolf (1991), Lament from Dancing on a Plate (1991), Veins(2016) and one new composition, Ashes (2017).

A limited number of the publications include an artist multiple by Rita McKeough that references The Lion’s Share (2012), an exhibition which incorporated kinetics, performance, and sound, and used a humorous and dream-like scenario to raise questions about the complexities of our relationship to eating animals.

This project has been generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and the City of Calgary, EMMEDIA, M:ST and TRUCK; institutional sponsor, the Alberta College of Art + Design; and community contributors, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville University and NSCAD University.

$75, Slipcase, Hardcover Publication, 12” Vinyl

$280, Boxset, Hardcover Publication, 12” Vinyl, Limited Edition Carrot and Text Multiple.

Photos by Marc Hutchinson

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Book Launch: Second Thoughts, Angie Keefer

Please join Or Bookstore, in partnership with Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, for the launch of Second Thoughts by Angie Keefer on Saturday, June 22 at 1 pm.

“I half hold that my life is a fine ride as long as I don’t attempt to navigate. The least critical way to describe this outlook is “bemused fatalism,” and as coping mechanisms go, there’s much to be said for keeping that faith, but so far it hasn’t proved compatible with ambitious ideas like writing a book, though this may turn out to be the first page of a first chapter, in which case I’ve changed my life and overruled fate with you as my witness.” - Angie Keefer

Second Thoughts is a selection of writing from 2008 to 2018 by artist Angie Keefer. This compilation traverses numerous disciplines from physics to philosophy, incorporating biographical elements and running parallel to Keefer’s visual practice.

Without directly addressing her own visual work, the book shadows the artist’s research, capturing her thoughts, travels, and encounters across a broad spectrum of subjects, including octopuses, protons, pictographs, poets, grammar, economy, love, loss, and politics.

At nearly 550-pages, Second Thoughts is long in scope but precisely constructed. Keefer leads readers down vividly articulated paths, documenting her thought processes in an exacting manner that reveals writing itself as a process of formulating the world. Accumulated knowledge is reconfigured through the pacing and cadence of each sentence.

Keefer worked closely with designer Scott Ponik to present this selection of writing as a unified whole while framing each individual text with its own synopsis and postscript. Though all of the pieces have been published previously, many were significantly updated, amended, and rewritten for this edition. Second Thoughtsincludes an introduction by Maxine Kopsa and a short text co-written with Lucy Skaer. The title is pulled in part from Keefer’s 2017 solo exhibition FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL at Plug In ICA.

Books will be available for sale and Keefer will be in attendance for a reading and signing.

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Angie Keefer is an artist, writer, teacher, and publisher, though the distinctions among these categories are much less definitive in Keefer’s work than comma-separated terms would indicate. Taking an interest in the incidental aspects of art making and its dissemination — from critical & commercial positioning through language, to surrounding labour, and shifting market forces — Keefer often pulls at the stitching that holds the enterprise together. She has exhibited extensively at institutions in the USA and Europe, including Witte de With, Rotterdam (2018); Plug In ICA (2017); Greater New York, PS1, New York (2015-16); Kunstverein, Munich (2015); Whitney Biennial, New York (2014); Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (2013-14); and Yale Union, Portland (2013); and has staged performances, talks, seminars, and other series at Artists Space, New York (2015); Liverpool Biennial (2014); Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius (2014, 2011); Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2013); São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2012); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012), among others. Her writing has appeared in numerous artists’ publications, as well as Mousse, Harvard Design Magazine, and Bulletins of The Serving Library.

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Or Bookstore will be closed for inventory this weekend, reopening Tuesday June 4th.

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Book Launch: This is Television, Judy Radul

Please join Or Bookstore on May 28th at 6pm for the Vancouver launch of Judy Radul's This is Television, out now from Sternberg Press and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program! Featuring Judy Radul in conversation with Allison Collins. -- This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book—by extension commenting on media’s continuous changes of form and format. Through an interplay of theory and artistic research material, the book extends Judy Radul’s ongoing investigation of media with an idiosyncratic perspective on television—while still feeding off collective experience. The book thematizes television as a cultural container, both in its format as a “box” for content and as an ideologically saturated apparatus for reception. With sections titled Craig, Oral History, Moon, Display, Landing, End of Analog etc., the book visually charts our identification with specific media, our attempts to understand media form and evokes our emotional response to technological shifts. Springing from a desire to engage intermedia form by way of a book about television, and to commit to the ambiguity of its title’s announcement, This Is Television is organized around three central chapters: “This,” “Is,” and “Television” are individually interpreted in newly commissioned essays by Honor Gavin, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Diedrich Diederichsen, with additional short texts by Judy Radul. Edited by DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Ariane Beyn, Judy Radul Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Honor Gavin, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Judy Radul Co-published with DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Design by Katja Gretzinger -- Judy Radul’s latest works involve an original computer-controlled system for live and pre-recorded video. Her practice also includes sculpture, photography, writing and performance. Recent exhibitions include: a solo exhibition at Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 2017; Contour Biennale 8, Mechelen, Belgium, 2017; Bienal de Nicaragua, 2016; a solo exhibition at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2015; Berlin Biennale 8, 2014; a solo exhibition at DAAD Galerie, Berlin, 2013. Her large-scale media installation World Rehearsal Court (2009) has been shown in Vancouver, Vienna, Seoul, Oslo and Moscow. Related to this project, with Marit Paasche she co-edited a book of collected essays and images A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law and Aesthetics (Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2011). She has a B.A. in Fine and Performing Arts from Simon Fraser University and a MFA in Visual and Media Arts from Bard College, New York. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver and teaches at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

Allison Collins is a Vancouver-based curator, writer and researcher, who has dedicated her practice to investigating and participating in artist-run centres both contemporary and historical. Since 2015 she has worked as Curator of Media Arts at Western Front, where she primarily focuses on the facilitation and production of new artistic projects in media art. In 2017 she co-curated (with Patrick Cruz) the 2nd Kamias Triennial, an exhibition, residency and event series that took place in Quezon City, Philippines. Other curatorial projects include Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage, 1972-1982 (with Michael Turner), grunt gallery and Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; Moveable Facture, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver; Suspicious Futures: Selected works of Susan Britton, Vtape, Toronto, DIM Cinema, Vancouver and PLATFORM, Winnipeg; and Hold Still Wild Youth: The Gina Show Archive, Or Gallery and VIVO, Vancouver. From 2011-2012 she published ARCLines, a series of historical profiles documenting the origins of Vancouver's artist-run centres, and was Event Manager for Institutions by Artists, a three day, international congress regarding contemporary artist-run centres and initiatives (Arcpost.ca). Recent writing has been published in Traffic Vol 1. by Project Space Pilipinas, and by Presentation House Gallery. She holds a BFA in Visual Art from the University of Ottawa and an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia. 

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Or Bookstore May Sale!

May 1 — 28, 2019

Or Bookstore is having a lovely spring May Sale! 

* Buy one book and get 10% off!

** Buy two books and get 15% off!

*** Buy three books or more and get 20% off!

Includes all new arrivals. Also additional markdowns on selected books! Get your books in time for some summer beach reading!

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Book Launch: Blank Sign Book, Anne Lesley Selcer

Saturday, May 25, 2 - 4 pm, 2019

Book Launch Blank Sign Book

Author Anne Lesley Selcer

Or Bookstore is pleased to host the launch of Blank Sign Book by Anne Lesley Selcer on May 25 at 2 pm.

Blank Sign Book is a collection of innovative art writing from poet and essayist Anne Lesley Selcer. Writing in the confluence of politics and aesthetics through the work of Ana Mendieta, The Otolith Group, Juliana Huxtable, Dolores Dorantes, Janet Cardiff, Ragnar Kjartansson, and more, Selcer’s debut collection culminates the interdisciplinary thinking and formal risk of fifteen years of public critical writing.

Selcer’s work has been nationally and internationally commissioned and solicited by museums, galleries and art magazines. Anchored by the feminist, queer, and decolonial thought of Susan Sontag, Saidiya Hartman, Lisa Robertson, Micha Cárdenas, and many more, Blank Sign Book explores representation from the image to the agora. The essays are embedded deeply within the pleasure of art and the power of artist. They consider topics from the materiality of the internet, protest, sound, and gentrification, to teenage literary obsession, femicide, and decolonized time. Blank Sign Bookunfolds within Selcer’s decade long investigation of Western beauty, from which two award-winning poetry publications have emerged. With lyricism, incisive clarity and a deep commitment to the power of art and artists as a vehicle for experimental advocacy and radical insight, Blank Sign Book displays Selcer’s capacious and assiduous grasp as an art writer and cultural thinker to be read for decades to come.

Blank Sign Book emerged from Anne Lesley Selcer’s tenure as inaugural Art Writing Fellow at Southern Exposure.

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Anne Lesley Selcer is the author of Blank Sign Book, a collection of essays. She also has a forthcoming book of poetry, Sun Cycle, selected for publication by CA Conrad. She is (recently) obsessed with gender, power, beauty, invisibility, formlessness, abjection and political emotion. Her award winning chapbook from a Book of Poems on Beauty is available from Gazing Grain, the limited edition Untitled (a treatise on from) from 2nd Floor Projects. Her art writing includes Banlieusard, a book-length text on media and sense memory for Artspeak. More is in Hyperallergic, Fillip, Art Practical, Jacket2, Open Space, the New Media Art 2017anthology, and gallery and exhibition catalogs internationally. She has poetry in Fence, The Chicago Review and GaussPDF, among others. She was the inaugural Art Writing Fellow at Southern Exposure and in residence at Krowswork gallery and Mildred’s Lane.

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New Arrival: The Work of Wind: Land

In 1806, the British sea admiral Sir Francis Beaufort invented the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force as an index of thirteen levels measuring the effects of wind force. It was first used for the practical navigation of nineteenth-century ocean space; through a system of observation, wind speed was measured by observing how it composes at sea (for example, waves are formed) and decomposes on land (for example, leaves are blown from trees, chimney pots lifted, houses are destroyed).

Across a variegated set of curatorial and editorial instantiations developed by Christine Shaw in 2018/19, the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force becomes a diagram of prediction and premonition in the context of accelerating planetary extinction. The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea appropriates the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force as a readymade index for curating a site-specific exhibition in the Southdown industrial area of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and a publication divided into three conjoining volumes published by K. Verlag. The project is extended by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, a public program and broadsheet series.

While the title of the project series might suggest a weather project, it is not about wind but of wind, of the forces of composition and decomposition predicated on the complex entanglements of ecologies of excess, environmental legacies of colonialism, the financialization of nature, contemporary catastrophism, politics of sustainability, climate justice, and resilience.

The Work of Wind: Land features contributions by d’bi.young anitafrika, Amy Balkin, Jesse Birch, D.T. Cochrane, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Anna Feigenbaum, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Ilana Halperin, Tom Keefer, Barbara Marcel, Mimi Onuoha, Pejvak (Rouzbeh Akhbari & Felix Kalmenson), Tomás Saraceno, Christine Shaw, Juliana Spahr, Adrienne Telford, Etienne Turpin, Allen S. Weiss, Tania Willard, and Eva Wilson.

$42, hardcover

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Book Launch: Query, Liz Knox

April 6, 2 pm, 2019 Book Launch Query: A compendium of Reddit threads, questioning the reality quotient of television shows Artist Liz Knox Or Bookstore is pleased to host the launch of Query: A compendium of Reddit threads, questioning the reality quotient of television shows, an artist’s book by Liz Knox. Please join us April 6 at 2 pm to celebrate the release of this multifaceted inquiry into popular culture, contemporary identity building, and the drive to find authenticity in the scripted. Query weaves together Reddit threads in which people ask questions about how realistic television shows are: Is “House of Cards” becoming reality? How true to life is the ‘constantly cheating on your spouse’ aspect of “Mad Men”? Is “Big Love” an accurate depiction of Utah culture and lifestyle (minus the polygamy)? My dad says “The Office” isn’t realistic…is it? To all “Breaking Bad” fans who have actually cooked meth or know someone who has … Query tracks this seemingly endless search for truth in fiction. Exploring everything from the attempt to understand one’s own identity through televised representations to how accurately a certain vocation is depicted, the book generates one long search for reality and self-identification in some of the most unlikely fictions. Query will be available for purchase and the artist will be in attendance. The artist would like to thank: Jaclyn Arndt, Katie Bethune Leamen, Jen Branagan, Annie Briard, Janice Cheung, Brynn McNabb, Sarah Nasby, Sunny Nestler, and the Canada Council for the Arts. --- Liz Knox uses conceptual strategies to examine systems of interpretation with an emphasis on irony. Language is the most major through line in her work, and a common starting point is found text. Query is her fifth artist’s book, following after Commentariat (2017), which compiles “A short history of politics in North America as told through the Savage Love advice column comment threads,” and Missed Connections (2012), which generates a portrait of Occupy Wall Street using Missed Connections posted on Craigslist from protests and camps across North America. Knox studied studio art at the University of Guelph and completed her MFA at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, in 2013. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and film festivals across Canada, including at Mercer Union, Toronto; Access Gallery, Vancouver; Paved Arts, Saskatoon; WUFF, Winnipeg; and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto. Currently, Law and Order (2018), a video installation using Law & Order footage, can be viewed at Vtape, Toronto, as a part of the exhibition ...any resemblance to real persons, dead or alive, is purely coincidental.