PUBLICATION 2011

WOOD

WOOD
A COMPENDIUM OF THE BLACKWOOD GALLERY'S EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS IN 2009
184 PAGES, FULL-COLOUR, SOFTCOVER, 19cm x 24cm (7.7" x 9.5")
ISBN 978-0-7727-8210-6

BOOK LAUNCH - WOOD
special launch price: $25 (regular $30)
(in conjunction with the launch of Gordon Monahan, Seeing Sound: Sound Art, Performance & Music 1978 - 2011)
Saturday May 7, 1-3pm
Art Metropole
788 King Street West

DIRECTIONS
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— READ WOOD
— INSTEAD OF (AN INTRODUCTION)
— TABLE OF CONTENTS
— ARTISTS
— CREDITS
— HOW TO ORDER

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READ WOOD

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INSTEAD OF (AN INTRODUCTION)

PART-CATALOG, PART-MAGAZINE, PART-ANNUAL REPORT, MANY PARTS IN ONE WHOLE. PUTTING ALL OF YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET. BANKING ON TRIGGERING TANGENTIAL THREADS RATHER THAN FOCUSSING ON A SINGLE TIGHTLY WOUND THEMATIC. INSTEAD OF SLIM PUBLICATIONS DISTILLING A SINGLE EXHIBIT, WOOD IS ADAMANTLY MAXIMALIST. WOOD FEATURES SIXTY-FOUR ARTISTS AND WRITERS FROM FIVE EXHIBITIONS AND TWO PROJECTS PRESENTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL DISORDER. ARTISTS FROM EMERGING TO ESTABLISHED, LOCAL TO INTERNATIONAL, OF VARIED DISCIPLINES, ALL PARTICIPATING GENEROUSLY IN THE VARIOUS DEVISED CURATORIAL CONCOCTIONS. IT ALL STARTS WITH THEM AND THEIR ART WORKS. IT CONTINUES WITH YOU AS VISITORS TO THE EXHIBITIONS AND READERS OF WOOD. INSTEAD OF CLOSING THE BOOK, WOOD SUGGESTS YOU KEEP IT OPEN, LINGERING, SPLAYED OUT FOR CASUAL PERUSAL AS WELL AS CAREFUL CONSIDERATION. WOOD IS TWO THOUSAND AND NINE IN A CRACKED NUTSHELL. A YEAR AT THE BLACKWOOD GALLERY COMMITTED TO PAPER FOR FARTHER REACH. WOOD LOOKS BACK TOWARDS THE FUTURE. WOOD WAS. NOW WOOD IS.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INDEX p.006

INSTEAD OF (AN INTRODUCTION) p.008
By Christof Migone

AWASHAWAVE p.010 
- 2 Radio Solos   
- list of works

OPENING THE INSTALL (30 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF AN EXHIBITION) p.023
By Christof Migone  

WHAT COMES OUT IN THE WASH p.034
By Alison Syme
 
FALL OUT p.038
- project descriptions  

FALL IN  p.054 
- for bodies near the surface of the earth  
- project descriptions  

ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION: ON LIFE, ENVIRONMENT AND MACHINE p.078
By Shannon Hoff

DROP OUT p.088 
- Cry School Yearbook  
- F Papers  
- project descriptions  

ROCHDALE COLLEGE: FAILURE STUDIES IN TORONTO p.114
By Sunny Kerr  

THE SEVEN INCH FALL p.118
By Alison S.M. Kobayashi  

BEND p.122
By Johnson Ngo  

STIR p.126  

THE PROJECTS: PORT CREDIT p.128  
- project descriptions

NO STARS: A SHORT HISTORY OF INDUSTRY AND SMALL BUSINESS IN PORT CREDIT OVER SOME OF THE PAST CENTURY p.148
By John Armstrong

THE WAY I ARE p.154  
- list of works

THE WAY I ARE p.167
By Katie Bethune-Leamen

WORDAFTER p.172
By Christof Migone

BIOGRAPHIES p.174
 
COLOPHON p.180

BOOKENDS: SKYLINE
By Diane Borsato

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ARTISTS & WRITERS

ADAMS, KIM
ADER, BAS JAN
ANWAR, FAISAL
ARMSTRONG, JOHN
BETHUNE-LEAMEN, KATIE
BLASS, VALERIE
BORSATO, DIANE
BROWN, TRISHA
BURNHAM, ANTHONY
CAMPBELL, JENNIFER
CASTELLANOS, ULYSSES
CHEUNG, ANNIE ONYI
CLÉMENT, SOPHIE BÉLAIR
COLLYER, GILLIAN
CUMMING, ROBYN
FARBER, ZEV
FONES, ROBERT
FOOD JAMMERS
FORTIER, LOUIS
GOLDSMITH, KENNETH
GOLLAND, MARTIN
GOVE, EMILY
HIRSCH, ANTONIA
HOFF, SHANNON
HUTTON, JEN
JAZVAC, KELLY
JONES, SIMONE
KEMPINAS, ZILVINAS
KERR, SUNNY
KIERULF, ERIKA
KIM, YOUNG-SUP
KOBAYASHI, ALISON S.M.
KOROSHEGYI, ARNOLD
KREPAKEVICH, SHANE
LAHDE, KRISTIINA
LANDRY, DIANE
LICHTY, GARETH
LITHERLAND, PAUL
MALY, VALERIAN
MASSEY, JOHN
MCINTOSH, ELIZABETH
MIGONE, CHRISTOF
NGO, JOHNSON
NURSE, LAUREN
PADA, LATA
PARK, RYAN
PARTHENIOU, ROULA
PIVATO, JULIANA
PLANNINGTOROCK
QUADRASONIC
RECHICO, SANDRA
REID, KERRI
RICHARDSON, KELLY
ROMANO, TONY
SAMPRADAYA DANCE CREATIONS
SASAKI, JON
SCHWEBEL, JOSHUA
SHERMAN, TOM
SIMMONS, DON
SNOW, MICHÆL
SUDDICK, JENNIE
SYME, ALISON
THORPE, JOSH
WOOD, KELLY

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CREDITS

Editor: Christof Migone
Editorial assistants: Julia Abraham, Joanna Sheridan, Juliana Zalucky
Photo Credits: Toni Hafkenscheid (unless otherwise noted)
Graphic Design: Adam Hilborn – Peekay Design
Printing: C. J. Graphics

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HOW TO ORDER

For more information or to order your copy of WOOD, please contact:

Julia Abraham
Curatorial Assistant, Archivist, Permanent Collection

j.abraham@utoronto.ca