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Touring Home From Away
Jin-me Yoon

Catalogue of the exhibition held at PHG in January/February 2002.

Texts by Annette Hurtig and Shauna McCabe with eighteen colour reproductions of this work.
Jin-me Yoon's work explores the mechanisms and functions of identity construction. This catalogue documents and analyzes her research from a 1998 residency on Prince Edward Island. Touring Home From Away is a project that explores the cultural functions of landscape, and representations of place as they pertain to the body and subjectivity. Re-working PEI’s imaginary presentation of itself, Yoon explores the ways in which the myths of the Island are manifested. The catalogue Jin-me Yoon: Touring Home From Away presents three works generated from this image series: two wall-mounted works, and an installation comprised of eighteen images mounted in nine suspended double-sided lightboxes.

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

40 Pages, with 21 colour reproductions
ISBN: 0-920293-54-9

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Reader
Selected Work by Jan Peacock

Karen Love, Editor and Curator.

A review of work by this Halifax video-based artist, with particular attention to the major work, Reader by the Window, which was exhibited at PHG in early summer, 1997. A video projection and sound environment which draws on a personal archive of video landscape walks recorded over 6 years in Canada, Japan, France, the U.K. and U.S., Reader by the Window "explores the common experience of 'the familiar' in unfamiliar places, where the boundaries of our identities blur into our surroundings and the strange becomes unrecognizably ours" (the artist). The publication also includes two videoscripts by the artist, and an essay by Peacock about the making of Sirensong.

Essays by Paula Levine (San Francisco), Robert Sherrin (Vancouver), and Jean Gagnon (Montréal).

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

64 pages, 9" x 7" approx., colour and b/w reproductions.
ISBN: 0-920293-50-6

$8.00

Land, Relationship and Community –
A Symposium

Symposium proceedings from a conference held in 1998 at the time of Sandra Semchuk’s exhibition how far back is home…

Texts by Ron Burnett, Rod Slemmons, Ellie Epp, Daisy Sewid-Smith, Sandra Semchuk and James Nicholas.
The speakers at the conference addressed issues related to the symposium’s title from six very different angles, in effect ‘working around the subject’ and in the process creating a composite portrait of our relation to the land and the role that art and communication can play in it. The is a key document for anyone with an interest in the land claims process, the role of land imagery in art and the nature of the complex relations that exist between ethics and way land shapes perception.

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

44 pages, text only
ISBN: 0-920293-47-6

$15.00

By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge)
Marion Penner Bancroft

By Land and Sea: Prospect and Refuge is an artist’s project and publication which addresses the relationship to landscape as being at the heart of both art and identity. As an artist using photography Bancroft situates herself in various geographies, not as representative of the omnipotent view, but as an individual among others and within a personal and social history. Her own views are made up of the experience of being an artist, a tourist, and a descendent, each view with its own evolved conventions.
Text by Marian Penner Bancroft, poem by Fred Wah and essay by curator Karen Henry.

In conjunction with an exhibition toured by Presentation House Gallery

38 pages with 10 colour and 11 black & white reproductions, paperback.
ISBN: 0-920293-51-4

$30.00

 

War Zones

WAR ZONES represents photo and media-based work by Barbara Alper, Dominique Blain, Willie Doherty, Eugenio Dittborn, Jochen Gerz, Johan Grimonprez, Jamilie Hassan, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, John & Yoko, Roy Kiyooka, Allan Harding MacKay, Nam June Paik, Nancy Paterson, Edward Poitras, Martha Rosler, John Scott, Barbara Steinman, Hiromi Tsuchida and Gu Xiong, who look at memories and ideologies associated with war.

Essays by Sue Malvern, Zdenka Badovinac, Bob Sherrin and an introduction by the curators, Karen Love and Karen Henry.

Sponsored by Janice Dillon and David Gibbons, The Royal Bank, Preferred Service Customs Brokers, the Hamber Foundation, the Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation, VanCity Savings Credit Union, the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council, the Vancouver Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts.

119 pages, 44 b&w reproductions, 38 color reproductions. Paperback.
ISBN: 0-9200293-49-2

Published by Presentation House Gallery in association with Collapse: a view from here, a publication of the Vancouver Art Forum Society.
Distributed in the USA and internationally by Distributed Art Publishers, 155 Sixth Avenue, 2nd floor, New York, N.Y

 

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Running Fence
Geoffrey James


Running Fence is a photographic document by Toronto artist Geoffrey James, focusing on the first 14 miles of the border fence that separates the United States and Mexico, beginning at the Pacific Ocean and ending at the Otay Mountains. With its ironic reference to the famous project by Romanian-born artist Christos, James’s Running Fence explores the iconography of the border, at a time when the world hastens towards greater globalization and a new century. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, John O’Brian, The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Foundation, and Furthermore, the publication program of the J.M Kaplan Fund.

112 pages with 46 duotone reproductions, paperback with a dustjacket.
ISBN: 0-920293-45-X

Distributed in the USA and internationally by Distributed Art Publishers,
155 Sixth Avenue, 2^nd floor, New York, N.Y., 10013


Winner of Outstanding Achievement for Design,
David Clausen, Designer, Canadian Museums Association, 2000

Winner- Second Prize, Exhibition catalogues,
Association of American Museums, 2000

Nominee for The Roloff Beny Annual Photography Book Award, 2000
(One award presented annually; 5 shortlisted nominees

out of print
$27.95

 

First Son
Portraits By C.D. Hoy

First Son is an extraordinary collection of photographs by C.D. Hoy, a Chinese-Canadian photographer whose startling, evocative portraits of First Nations, Chinese, and European people in small-town British Columbia taken between 1909 and 1920, form an important historical and cultural document about the roots of "otherness" in Canada.

Essay by Curator, Faith Moosang; Preface by Paul Yee.

7X10.5 paper with dustjacket 170 pages. Includes 96 duotone photgraphs.
ISBN 1-55152-071-0

Supported by the British Columbia Heritage Trust and Barkerville Historic Town, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Hamber Foundation, with assistance form Emily Carr Institute Media Arts Section.
Co-published by PHG and Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver.

Winner of : Outstanding Achievement for Research Faith Moosang,
Curator/author Canadian Museum Association, 2000

Winner- First Prize, General Trade Books: Pictorial Book,
Alcuin Society Publication Awards, 2000

Nominated for: The Bill Duthie Bookseller's Choice Award B.C. Book Awards, 2000
and The Roderick Haig Brown Regional Prize (B.C. Book Awards)

$12.00

Transient Moments
Vancouver and the Performance
Photograph

Essay by Guest Curator Ann Pollock

A look at the relationship between photography and
performance art in Vancouver,  from the 1960s to 1980s.

16 pages, with approx. 25 b/w reproductions.
ISBN: 0-920293-43-3

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

$15.00

Projections – Mise en abyme
Judith Barry

Essay by Brian Wallis; Interview/conversation with Judith Barry, Brian Wallis and Mark Wigley.

A 96 page book addressing the work of New York artist Judith Barry.  Published in connection with an exhibition at PHG in 1993.

Acknowledgement by Guest Curator Helga Pakasaar.

96 pages, 75 black & white reproductions.
ISBN:0-920293-38-7

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Vancouver Foundation.