⁄ edition Toronto

In advance of the 1/edition fair next week,  I will try post as many books and multiples as possible in the coming days from participating artists and publishers. Send photos and information to ddyment@rogers.com of works that will be launching at the fair.

Co-founded by Division Gallery Director Gareth Brown-Jowett and Magenta Foundation President MaryAnn Camilleri, /edition Toronto is "dedicated to the promotion of art book publishing, in all forms, while building an appreciation for artworks produced in editions of more than one."

The inaugural fair runs from October 28th to the 31st, concurrent to Art Toronto, Canada’s international art fair at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

 ⁄ edition is directed by Magenta Magazine editor and collector Bill Clarke. The advisory board consists of myself, Art Metropole curator Nasrin Himada, and the artists Paul Butler, Charles Stankievech and Danielle St. Amour. Co-presenters include Art Metropole and Art Toronto. Vendors include:

8/11 (Toronto, Canada)
Afterall (London, United Kingdom)
Akin Projects (Toronto, Canada)
Alicia’s Klassic Kool Shoppe (Toronto, Canada)
Archive of Modern Conflict (Toronto, Canada)
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
Art Gallery of York University (Toronto, Canada)
Art Metropole (Toronto, Canada)
Art Works Consulting (Toronto, Canada)
BALZERI BALZERI (Toronto, Canada)
Blank Cheque (Vancouver / Toronto, Canada)
Brown & Dickson (London, Canada)
Bywater Bros (Toronto, Canada)
C Magazine (Toronto, Canada)
Colour Code (Toronto, Canada)
CRIT Paper (Toronto, Canada)
Critical Distance Centre for Curators (Toronto, Canada)
Dashwood Books (New York, United States)
Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina, Canada)
Ediciones Daga (Santiago, Chile)
ELLEPHANT (Montréal, Canada)
GuyGuyGuy (Toronto, Canada)
Hex Editions (Toronto, Canada)
Holiday Arts Mail-Order School (Toronto, Canada)
HOMOCATS (Brooklyn, United States)
HOTAM (Vancouver, Canada)
IMPULSE [b:] (Toronto, Canada)
Issue Press (Grand Rapids, United States)
JMS Press (Toronto, Canada)
K. Verlag (Toronto, Canada / Berlin, Germany)
Kunstverein Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Magenta Foundation / Division Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
McIntosh Gallery (London, Canada)
Mercer Union (Toronto, Canada)
Middle Path Prints (Toronto, Canada)
Mondo Books (Tromsø, Norway)
Nicolas Fleming (Toronto, Canada)
Nothing Else Press (Toronto, Canada)
OKAY Collective (Toronto, Canada)
Open Studio (Toronto, Canada)
Other Forms (Chicago, United States)
Parasitic Ventures Press (Toronto, Canada)
Paul + Wendy Projects (Toronto, Canada)
Perish Publishing (Toronto, Canada)
Prefix Photo (Toronto, Canada)
Presentation House (Vancouver, Canada)
Project Gallery Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Rare Photo Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Ray-Ray (Toronto, Canada)
Robert Tombs / L’Arène (Ottawa, Canada)
Sagan Editions (Toronto, Canada)
Scrap Books (Toronto, Canada)
Seth Fluker (Toronto, Canada)
Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Steven Beckly (Toronto, Canada)
Swimmers Group (Toronto, Canada)
The Canadian Academy in Rome (Toronto, Canada)
The Power Plant (Toronto, Canada)
Troy Gronsdahl (Saskatoon, Canada)
Wil Aballe Art Projects | WAAP (Vancouver, Canada)
YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto, Canada)
Zach Clark (Oakland, United States)

Volumes Book Launch tonight

In 2003, Catherine Crowston and Barbara Fischer co-curated an exhibition called Re-Play that featured myself, David Armstrong Six, Joanne Bristol, Stan Douglas, Raymond Gervais, Rodney Graham, Pascal Grandmaison, Instant Coffee, Tim Lee, Ian Murray, Shannon Oksanen, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Kevin Schmidt, Steven Shearer, Zin Taylor, Ron Terada, Althea Thauberger, and Holly Ward. Re-Play was part of a larger touring exhibition of sound art shows called Sounstracks, that also included Come a Singin' (curated by Andrew Hunter), See Hear! (by Timothy Long and Ben Portis), and Video Heroes (curated by Sylvie Gilbert).

A catalogue for the Soundtracks exhibitions has been in the works every since.

A decade later Christof Migone curated an exhibition called Volume: Hear Here. It featured myself, Alexis O'Hara, Darsha Hewitt, John Oswald, Ian Skedd, Charles Stankievech, Mitchell Akiyama, crys cole, Marla Hlady, Neil Klassen, David Lieberman, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sylvia Matas,
David Merritt, Ryan Park, Juliana Pivato, Alexandre St-Onge, Chiyoko Szlavnics and John Wynne.

Part of the impetus of the second show was to renew efforts to complete the original catalogue, which would now serve as a document of both. It launches tonight at Hart House (7 Hart House Circle, St. George Campus, University of Toronto) from 5 to 8pm. The book (and accompanying 10" vinyl record" is available for sale for $50, and the launch will feature DJ sets by Martin Arnold, Marc Couroux, Mitchell Akiyama.

If you're coming by car, please note the Pan Am games have closed off sections of Harbord Street. For more information, visit the facebook page here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1633089103574469/

U of T Holiday Art Book Sale

From December 2nd to the 6th (Tuesday through Saturday of next week) the University of Toronto Art Centre is hosting a hosting a holiday book sale with publications from Blackwood Gallery, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, and the University of Toronto Art Centre.

Books, postcards, and multiples will be offered for up to 50% off, including new releases A Story of Canadian Art: As Told by the Hart House Collection, David R. Harper: Entre le chien et le loup, and the reprint of Art Metropole's Sound by Artists. Other available publications include Michael Snow’s 2 Radio Solos CD, Funkaesthetics, Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Jon Sasaki: Good Intentions and Gordon Monahan: Seeing Sound. 

"Printed matter artists projects" by Charles Stankievech, Paige Sarlin, Kika Thorne, Dylan Miner, Abbas Akhavan, Scott Sørli, and Ron Terada will be made available for free.

December 2 – 6: 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Wednesday, December 3: 12:00pm – 8:00pm

University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King’s College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
416-946-8687
www.utac.utoronto.ca