Essays by Suzanne Cotter, Jan Verwoert,
Catherine Wood.
Coproduced with Modern Art Oxford,
Oxford, United Kingdom
 

This publication was published to coincide with exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK, and Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Alberta. This fully illustrated monograph surveys Otto-Knapp’s paintings from 2003 to the present, with essays by Suzanne Cotter, Jan Verwoert, and Catherine Wood.

ISBN: 978-3-865606-65-5
120 pages, paperback
51 colour images
22 x 27 cm
$45.00

Edited by Richard William Hill
Essays by Richard William Hill, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and Joseph Nayhowtow
Coproduced with Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia; Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec

This catalogue accompanies World Upside Down, an exhibition curated by Richard William Hill that originated at the Walter Phillips Gallery in September 2006. The catalogue surveys the strategy of “symbolic inversion” used by contemporary artists, while also providing historical context on Western and Indigenous North American traditions of inversion. As an artistic strategy, inversion has the potential to illuminate and challenge the visual conventions that police social hierarchies, making power relations explicit. The world upside down is one in which the symbolic order is turned on its head. It is a world visualized by artists where rabbits hunt humans and Superman is a hero of the Soviet Union. It is the Planet of the Apes and a planet where British aristocrats lose their heads when dressed in African fabrics. In each inversion an artist has turned a hierarchical dichotomy upside down, but in most cases the dichotomy itself doesn’t survive the trip. It breaks down under the strain of its own absurdity and for a moment we are liberated from its tyranny.

ISBN: 978-1-894773-28-7
176 pages, hardcover
21 b/w, 43 colour photographs
19 x 28.5 cm
$29.99

Edited by Anthony Kiendl
Essays by Kim Adams, Paul Antick, Lance Blomgren, Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy, Gregory Cowan, Jimmie Durham, Elle Flanders, Donald Goodes, Arni Haraldsson, Candice Hopkins, Patrick Keiller, Anthony Kiendl, Andrew King and Angela Silver, Knowles Eddy Knowles, Robert Kronenburg, Marie-Paule Macdonald, Aoife Mac Namara, Rita McKeough, Joel McKim, Bernie Miller, Andrea Phillips, Marjetica Potrč, Sara Raza, Sean Topham, Eyal Weizman
Co-published with Black Dog Publishing, London, UK, and Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg.

Informal Architectures: Space and Contemporary Culture is a compilation of new and classic writing and visual art on spatial culture in modernity post 9/11. Contributors include established figures in the fields of cultural studies, art theory, urbanism and design. Informal Architectures creates an alternative perspective on the built environment through contemporary culture by focusing on the works and writing of international artists such as Dan Graham, Marjetica Potrc, and Gordon Matta-Clark. Particular attention is paid to spaces that are in some way temporary, contingent, marginal, or fictional in order to critically analyze the meaning of art, and to provide a tenable counter-narrative to architecture's dominant ideologies concerning the monumental and technological imperatives. Diverse perspectives are mobilized in order to question paradigms of modernity and postmodernity, such as progress, irony, and rationalism.

ISBN: 978-1-906155-33-9
208 pages, hardcover
15 b/w, 84 colour photographs
23.5 x 29 cm
$65.00