• Making books: In Search of Lost Time

    Here’s what it looks like at Publication Studio Vancouver right now, as we produce a three volume set of books for launch at the opening of In Search of Lost Time this Friday. We’ll be adding some more previews over the next few days. Drop by 15 East Pender on Friday, September 14, at 8pm…


  • Preview: In Search of Lost Time box set

    We’ll be launching the jewel-like three volume book, In Search of Lost Time, at the Pitt this coming Friday, September 14, at 8pm. The book accompanies Shannon Oksanen and Valerie Sonnier: In Search of Lost Time, which is on view until October 6, and is a three volume set. Volume One, In Search of Lost…


  • SWARM this week

    Tonight (Thursday, September 6) is the start of two nights of SWARM, which launches a new season of artist-run culture in Vancouver. Instead of listing everything that’s going on, here’s a little outline: Thursday night includes artist-run spaces in South Vancouver, Mount Pleasant, and Granville Island (we’re looking forward to the show at Malaspina Printmakers);…


  • This week’s video: Gutai

    Via ubuweb, some low-resolution, soundless, fascinating documentation of the Gutai performance art movement in Japan. See you in September! “Gutai art does not alter matter; it gives matter life … In Gutai art, the human spirit and matter, opposed as they are, shake hands … My respect goes out to the works of Pollock and…


  • In Search of Lost Time starts September 7

    The sign on our door says “see you in September”. And while we still have another week of film selections still to come, serious events at the Pitt are starting soon. The first is an exhibition by Shannon Oksanen and Valerie Sonnier, In Search of Lost Time, curated by Myfanwy MacLeod. The exhibition begins on…