Martha Wilson is an American feminist who began her career in the early 1970s at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Working in the male-dominated Conceptualist milieu of the time, Wilson generated pioneering photographic and video work that explored her female subjectivity through role playing and invasions of male and other female personas. After moving to New York City in 1975, she further developed her performative and video-based practice in founding and directing Franklin Furnace, an artist-run centre dedicated to the exploration and promotion of innovative installation, performance and time-based art practices. This publication chronicles Wilson's journey from the virtual isolation of her early work to the transformative experience of working with then-unknown artists like Jenny Holzer and Shirin Neshat in a socially-engaged feminist art practice that defied and challenged established artistic and political values.

Martha Wilson: Staging the Self

Arts & Photography

Wark, Jayne

Dykhuis, Peter

History & Criticism

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Anthem / Hymne: Perspectives on Home and Native Land / Points de Vue sur la Terre de nos Aieux (French and English Edition)

Rice, Ryan

Three South Asian Canadian women artists gather and create narratives informed by the mythologies and ideologies of their Sikh, Muslim, and Punjabi heritage. Their work investigates, pays homage to and challenges their cross-cultural memories by forging new narratives that straddle Canadian, British, and Indian traditions. Their work includes sculpture, video and installation that immerse the viewer in intimate personal exchanges that are (re)articulated through interventions of the domestic in the gallery space. An essay and an interview are accompanied by numerous color plates.

Collected Resonance: Shelly Bahl, Sarindar Dhaliwal, Farheen HaQ

Stanbridge, Nicole

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Terrance Houle: GIVN'R

Hill, Richard William

Kiendl, Anthony

Chhangur, Emelie

In his celebrated minimalist sculptures Kai Chan employs materials and techniques that speak to both tradition and modernity. Working with common objects such as thread, twigs and buttons, Chan alters the nature of what constitutes sculpture and what constitutes textiles by transforming elements of the natural world to evoke geographical boundaries and cultural influences. Kai Chan's work is critically received equally within the discipline of textiles and the visual arts in general. He participated in the prestigious 12th International Biennial of Tapestry in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1985, and the equally notable International Triennial of Tapestry in Lodz, Poland in 2001. This 35-year retrospective publication features works created between 1975 and 2010, many of are exhibited here for the first time.

Kai Chan: A Spider's Logic / La logique de l'araignee (English and French Edition)

Quinton, Sarah

Individual Artists

Heritage Complex

Ajji, Tejpal

Architecture

Reciprocal

McKay, Sally

Sylvie Bouchard: Trois Coups Sous Les Arbres (English and French Edition)

Gagnon, Vicky Chainey

Chevalier, Genevieve

Lore (English and French Edition)

The Solitudes of Place: Recent Drawings by Ann Kipling

Laurence, Robin

Martens, Darrin J.

Tovell, Rosemarie L

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