Showing posts with label Stan Douglas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stan Douglas. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Stan Douglas | Television Talk






Stan Douglas
Television Talk
Toronto, Canada: Art Metropole, 1996
16 pp., 20 x 12.7 cm., staple-bound
Edition of 1000, 25 of which are signed

Television Talk was the first issue of the Little Cockroach Press, a series of 20 artist-designed pamphlets published by Art Metropole between April 1996 and July 2000. Other artists included
Emma Kay, Alfredo Jaar, Stephen Willats, Zoe Leonard, David Shrigley, Lucy Pullen & Sandy Plotnikoff, John Waters, Linda M. Montano, Maurizio Nannucci, AA Bronson & Matthias Herrmann, Sonic Youth and others.

The work consists of an essay by Stan Douglas about politics on TV and the politics of TV, deciphering network buzzwords such as "topspin", “the hook”, “pipe” and “heat”.

Sample line: “For some reason on TV no one can leave a room without a joke. I don’t know how it is in your home, but in my home a lot of people will just go out, but here you cannot, you must deliver a joke and leave the room”.

They were produced in editions of 1000 copies, which were distributed free of charge to Art Metropole's mailing list. Copies now sell on the secondary market from between $20 and $200. Twenty-five copies were signed and set aside for a special edition, which was housed in a cardboard box designed by James Carl. This intially sold for $350, and is now unavailable.

An unsigned, unboxed set is available here, for £420.00.

A video of Television Talk can be found on Youtube, here.



Wednesday, July 29, 2015

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/

Thursday, May 14, 2015

LIQUIDATE Art Book Sale



Vancouver galleries and publishers Fillip, New Documents, Presentation House, Or Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery, Access Gallery and The Western Front are joining forces for a single day art book sale.

Liquidate will take place at Access Gallery (222 East Georgia Street, Vancouver) from 5 to 9pm on Thursday May 28th.

Below is a list of sample titles that will be discounted anywhere from 15 to 80% off.


Every building on 100 West Hastings – Stan Douglas
DONKY@NINJA@WITCH – FASTWÜRMS
You are my sunshine/You are my nebula – Euan MacDonald
Brian Jungen
Cabin Photographs – Scott McFarland
Unsuitable as an Institution: The Tenacity of Access Gallery 1992—2014
Far Away So Close, Part I
Far Away So Close, Part II
Ian Johnston: Reinventing Consumption
Encyclonospace Iranica
Life After Doomsday: Jason de Haan
The Ever-Changing Light: Raymond Boisjoly
Downing Street
Yes, But Is It Edible?
Culture Industry
Fillip 19
Institutions by Artists
12 Sun Songs, Cranfield & Slade
Ten Shows, Barb Choit
Exercises in Kinesthetic Drawing and Other Drawing, Aaron Carpenter
Vancouver Anthology, ed. Stan Douglas
Food for Thought
Notes on Collaboration
Explorations in Psychic Geography
Goin’ Solo
Active Process: Artist’s Books Photographic & Contemporary, 28 U.S. & Canadian Artists
Death and the Family, Gisele Amantea, Marian Penner Bancroft, Wyn Geleynse, etc.
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver
Judy Radul: People Things Enter Exit
Attila Richard Lukacs / POLAROIDS / Michael Morris
Ritual In Contemporary Performance
Eternal Network: Videos from the Western Front Archive
Recipes For An Encounter
The F Word
Marian Penner Bancroft: Two Places at Once: Transfigured Wood Part IV


The evening is sponsored by Jameson Whiskey, who will be providing a special cocktail called The Librarian.

For more information, visit the CAG website, here.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Stan Douglas | Every Building on 100 West Hastings



Stan Douglas
Every Building on 100 West Hastings
Vancouver, Canada: Contemporary Art Gallery/Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002
119 pp, 20.3 x 15.8 cm., softcover
Edition size unknown

"The 100 block of Vancouver's West Hastings Street is the gateway to one of the most contested and controversial inner-city neighborhoods in North America―Vancouver's infamous and impoverished downtown eastside. Lining the south side of the block are Edwardian-era buildings that have born the brunt of shifting market forces over the years.

Developed in the wake of Vancouver's "emergence" as the terminus for the country's national railroad, the buildings in the area have been in decline since the 1930s, when the locus of the city's commerce began moving.

But the "story" of the 100 block is not strictly one of global market forces, nor does it belong to those who, through whatever political stripe, lay claim to it.

The book is based on a monumental-sized digital print of the 100 block of West Hastings Street by Stan Douglas, one of Canada's most distinguished contemporary artists, who utilized current technologies to create a 16'×3' panorama of epic scope, photographing each building and compositing the individual prints to assume a fantastic, impossible perspective; which is reproduced in the book as a removable full-colour poster, 5½" tall and 30½" wide.

Essays by Denise Olekszijuk, Nicholas Blomley, and Neil Smith use Douglas's photograph as a template for assessing the state of Vancouver's contested downtown eastside; its moral, economic and social implications.

Using the work of one of the art world's most celebrated and accomplished visual artists, the book unravels the dynamics of history and sociology, combined with photography and art, to create a compelling and visually arresting document that informs our understanding of what makes a neighbourhood. Copublished by the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver).

Co-winner of the City of Vancouver Book Prize

Now in its 2nd printing."

- publisher's blurb


Sunday, December 22, 2013

Or Gallery editions




Stan Douglas
Guilty, 1950 (2010)
Overall dimensions 28” x 34.5” (image size 18” x 24”)
Digital fibre print mounted on dibond aluminium
Signed and numbered edition of 25 (with 5 APs)
Edition previously unreleased from the artist’s
Midcentury Studio series.
$5,000 CAD





Ginger Goodwin Way
Edited by Jesse Birch
Texts by Jim Green, Jesse Birch, Michael Turner, Adam Sellen,
Eric Bell & Raymond Boisjoly
$12
Softcover






Ron Terada
Cockatoo Island
Published by Bywater Bros. Editions
and the Or Gallery
April 2009
104 pages, hardcover, edition of 500
Colour cover and inner pages
$25 CAD







Cranfield and Slade
12 Sun Songs
$20 CAD
Published with JRP Ringier in the Christoph Keller Edition series.




Aaron Carpenter
Exercises in Kinesthetic Drawing and Other Drawing
$25 CAD
Hardcover



Or Gallery

555 Hamilton St.
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6B 2R1

T. +1 604.683.7395
E. or @ orgallery.org

Gallery hours 12 - 5PM
Tuesday - Saturday


Sunday, June 10, 2012

Stan Douglas | Television Talk






Stan Douglas
Little Cockroach Press #1: Television Talk
Toronto, Canada: Art Metropole, 1996
16 pp., 20 x 12.7 cm., paper
Edition of 1000, 25 signed

An essay by Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas about politics on TV and the politics of TV, using network buzzwords (“the hook”, “pipe” and “heat”) as headings. Sample line: “I don’t know how it is in your home, but in my home a lot of people will just go out, but here you cannot, you must deliver a joke and leave the room”.

Friday, June 8, 2012

The Little Cockroach Press


To commemorate the 16th (!) anniversary of Art Metropole's Little Cockroach Press series, every day for the rest of the month will feature scans from the pages of the artists' pamphlets.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Ed Ruscha Afters

In the decade between 1962 and 1972, Ed Ruscha produced fifteen small artist's books:

Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1962), Various Small Fires (1964) Some Los Angeles Apartments (1965), Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966), Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Royal Road Test (both 1967), Business Cards, Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass (both 1968), Crackers (1969), Real Estate Opportunities, Babycakes with Weights (both 1970), A Few Palm Trees, Records, Dutch Details, (all 1971) and Colored People (1972).

All are considered classics and are exceedingly difficult to track down at an affordable price (and some difficult to track down at any price). Their influence on artists’ book production is immeasurable. They have spawned countless variations, parodies, tributes and cover versions, a few of which are illustrated below. The portrait of Ruscha with his books is ‘covered’ by Jonathan Monk.









































(see update here)