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Edited by Stan Douglas.

Essays by Keith Wallace, Sara Diamond, Nancy Shaw, Maria Insell, William Wood, Carol Williams, Robin Peck, Robert Linsley, Scott Watson, Marcia Crosby.

The essays collected in this book were first presented in the autumn of 1990 as part of a lecture series entitled Vancouver Anthology: Lectures on Art in British Columbia, a forum in which each contributing writer could test his or her research on the question of art and politics in public, before their papers were sent to print. The papers documented a range of Vancouver cultural practices, including the emergence of artist-run centres, experimental performance and video, feminist activity, collaboration, sculpture, painting, art criticism, conceptual art and landscape, as well as critical reflections on perceptions of aboriginal cultures.

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Ninety-some episodes were made from 1978-1981, in close association with the artist-run centre, PUMPS, and with the active involvement of a large community of performance and media artists and musicians. A stronghold of experimental media art, performance, punk and new wave the show formed among a sea of undefined local public programming, and then disappeared from public view. After surviving a fire that damaged the original video cassettes, 63 episodes have been transferred from fragile 3/4-inch tapes into archival and digital formats.

This installation brings together this vast record of video, performance documentation, interviews, promotional spots, music, and digital art with related materials and documents from PUMPS, for a close look at the local cultural underground circa 1979.

Publication for the exhibition Hold Still Wild Youth: The GINA Show Archive held June 5 to July 10, 2010 at the Or Gallery.

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Published by Bywater Bros. Editions
and the Or Gallery
April 2009
104 pages, hardcover, edition of 500
7.5/8” x 5 1/2”/ 19.3 × 14 cm
Colour cover and inner pages

ISBN 978-0-9780789-2-8

This book documents Ron Terada’s walkabout of Cockatoo Island in September 2008. Expecting an exotic, tropical landscape replete with cockatoos and other rare fauna, Terada instead found himself on an island more in common to an isolated penitentiary like Alcatraz. Located off Sydney Harbour, Cockatoo Island was indeed once the site of a former prison and shipyard, yet on this occasion, also the setting for the 2008 Sydney Biennale.

Presented in a refined yet deadpan serial layout, Terada’s Cockatoo Island “blacks-out” any visual evidence regarding the works in the exhibit, the trajectory of his walk, or any clues to the island itself. What remains is a list of each participating artist as presented by the Biennale organizers: on homely, hand-made signage that evokes at once both protest and resignation.

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10 copies of this edition include a special edition print by the artist.

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Edited by Sarah Edmonds, 2004

Glenn Alteen, Janis Bowley, Christine Corlett, Stan Douglas, Maura Doyle, Renée Gouin, James Graham, Arni Haraldson, Brian Jungen, Myfawnwy MacLeod and Kyla Mallett, Trevor Mahovsky, Phillip McCrum, Lisa Prentice, Ellen Ramsey, Mina Totino, Keith Wallace,

Food for Thought is an anecdotal history of the Or Gallery that includes interviews and writings by local artists and curators who have been involved with the gallery since its inception in 1983.

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Warren Auld, Octav Avramescu, Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke, Shary Boyle, Johanna Burke, Terrence Dawes, Jeff Derksen, Matt Dilling, Maura Doyle, Shayne Ehman, Scott Evans, Lesley Hope Farley, Sydney Hermant, Una Knox, Robyn Laba, Jace Lasek, Jane L

Edited by Sarah Edmonds, 2003

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Kim Kennedy Austin, Adalgisa Campos, Caroline Dionne, Sarah Edmonds, J.A. Gaitán, Sydney Hermant, Antonia Hirsch, Anne Elizabeth Low, Melanie O’brian, Recorder, Lisa Robertson, Samuel Roy-Bois, Jeremy Todd, Jordan Strom, Holly Ward

Edited by Sarah Edmonds, 2004

The d’Or publications document Sydney Hermant’s exhibition programming while curator/director of the Or Gallery.

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edited by Sarah Edmonds, 2006

Contributing editors:
Sydney Hermant, Lucy Pullen, Diana Warren, Dan Starling, Adair Rounthwaite, Denise Oleksijczuk, J.A. Gaitán, Corin Sworn, Mark Soo, Liz Bruchet, Robyn Laba, Melanie O’Brian, Anne Lesley Selcer, Doug Smarch Jr, Ted Hamilton.

And featuring:
Marina Roy and Natasha McHardy, Leigh Bridges, Jeremy Diggle, Hannah Jickling and Valerie Salez, Eleanor Morgan, Nadia Myre, Demian Petryshyn, Jen Weih, Holly Ward, Dani Gal, Shary Boyle, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Ron Terada, Kathy Slade, Euan Macdonald, Kerry Tribe.

The d’Or publications document Sydney Hermant’s exhibition programming while curator/director of the Or Gallery.

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Bas Jan Ader, Víctor Albarracín, Robert Arndt, David Askevold, Debra Baxter, Cedric Bomford, Marianne Bos, Derek Brunen, Clint Burnham, Elkin Calderón, Juan Céspedes, Dana Claxton, Phil Collins, Wilson Díaz, Stephan Dillemuth, Paul Gellman, Tomás Giraldo,

Edited by Michèle Faguet, 2007

You’re Still Here And So Are We documents Michèle Faguet’s exhibition programming from January 2006 to June 2007, while curator/director of the Or Gallery.

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Texts by Gerald Creede, Reid Shier, Deanna Ferguson, William Wood, Clint Burnham, Melinda Mollineaux, Peter Culley, Grant Arnold, Mina Totino, Scott Watson, Stan Douglas

Published in January 2000 for the exhibition Tear; the Practice of Non-Practice held February 14 to March 14, 1998 at the Or Gallery.

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Bruce Hugh Russell, 1996

This text is based on a paper given at “La vie en rose,” an international gay and lesbian studies conference held in Montreal in 1992 and published to accompany an installation at the Or Gallery, November 23 to December 21, 1996.