• New music from Mathew Sawyer

    New music from Mathew Sawyer

    Had a nice package in the post today from Mathew Sawyer, who showed and performed with us in 2011. It’s his new CD, Sleep Dreamt a Brother, accompanied by some constructive suggestions for improving the community. You can buy Mathew’s latest release online, and you can also sample some of the tracks on Soundcloud.


  • The Lumpen-Headache video

    The Lumpen-Headache video

    Last week, Arnaud Desjardin led a group reading of The Lumpen-Headache, a partial transcript of a meeting of the editorial collective of The Fox, as part of Re: The Fox. Here’s some footage from the beginning of the reading, which took place at UNIT/PITT: An audio recording of the entire reading can be heard on…


  • Thanks to everyone for The Lumpen-Headache

    Thanks to everyone for The Lumpen-Headache

    Thanks to our fourteen readers last Saturday, who endured the intense cold in the gallery to read the entire transcript of the meeting in The Lumpen-Headache (from the third and final issue of The Fox). The readers were: Arnaud Desjardin, Keith Higgins, Kathy Slade, Cate Rimmer, Jamie Ward, Kevin Rowe, Zebulon Zang, Steffanie Ling, Kate…


  • Re: The Fox opens this week at UNIT/PITT

    Re: The Fox opens this week at UNIT/PITT

    Arnaud Desjardin is a London-based artist and publisher currently doing a residency in Vancouver through the Emily Carr University Library and READ Books. In addition to an artist talk at Emily Carr, a reading group at READ Books, and a book launch at Satellite Gallery, his residency will include an exhibition at UNIT/PITT entitled Re:…


  • TONIGHT | Spaces of Contestation continues with Jamie Peck

    TONIGHT | Spaces of Contestation continues with Jamie Peck

    Join us this evening for the second instalment of the Spaces of Contestation: Art, Activism and the City series curated my Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte. Geoff Mann gave the first talk to kick off the series last month. Tonight, the series continues with Jamie Peck: Neoliberal urbanism — artful alternatives?  What does it mean to say that…