Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures

Collection 03 Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures

Start year: 2016

In 2017, 221A presented a season of public talks, performances, and workshops in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery for the occasion of the exhibition Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures. 221A’s program sought to provide the exhibition’s 40 artists with a space and time oblique to the civic museum to traverse alternative lines of thought and forms of engagement. For the duration of the program, 221A hosted a public reading room and library collection presenting books selected by the various contributors and collaborators involved in the exhibition.

In 2017, 221A presented a season of public talks, performances, and workshops in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery for the occasion of the exhibition Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures. 221A’s program sought to provide the exhibition’s 40 artists with a space and time oblique to the civic museum to traverse alternative lines of thought and forms of engagement. For the duration of the program, 221A hosted a public reading room and library collection presenting books selected by the various contributors and collaborators involved in the exhibition.

From 221A’s invitation to contribute to the library: “We invite you to select a book, document, or text that you’d like to have here as either a reflection on your current practice, or as an opening to your questions or thinking about art and everything else. Your selection does not necessarily need to correspond with your work in the exhibition; rather, we are interested in how your selection may inform a public’s engagement with your work in general, whether as an interpretive device, as a window to alternative perceptions, or perhaps as something that encourages opacity.”

Browse Collection 03

44 items
Media link Name Call No. Format Produced by Material Selected by Collection
Miles from India: A Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis
Miles from India: A Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis VSAP 001 Bob Belden CD Mina Totino 03
The Standard Book of Color
The Standard Book of Color VSAP 002 Andrew Berardini Print Andrew Berardini 03
Spock Must Die! 
A Star Trek Novel
Spock Must Die! A Star Trek Novel VSAP 003 James Blish Print/Paper bag Mark Delong 03
Garments Against Women
Garments Against Women VSAP 004 Anne Boyer Print Tiziana La Melia 03
The Victorian Underworld:
A Fascinating Recreation
The Victorian Underworld: A Fascinating Recreation VSAP 005 Kellow Chesney Print William Gibson 03
The Copp Family Textiles
The Copp Family Textiles VSAP 006 Grace Rogers Cooper Print Anne Low 03
The Modulor,
Modulor 2
The Modulor, Modulor 2 VSAP 007 Le Corbusier Print Khan Lee 03
Ubik
Ubik VSAP 008 Philip K. Dick MP3-CD Alison Yip 03
Waiting to be Interrupted:
Selected Writings 1993-2012
Waiting to be Interrupted: Selected Writings 1993-2012 VSAP 009 Jimmie Durham Print Richard William Hill 03
Vampire in the Text:
Narratives of Contemporary Art
Vampire in the Text: Narratives of Contemporary Art VSAP 010 Jean Fischer Print Jesse McKee 03
The Andy Warhol Diaries
The Andy Warhol Diaries VSAP 011 Edited by Pat Hackett Print Ron Tran 03
Redressing the Pained Body Towards a Theory of Practice
Redressing the Pained Body Towards a Theory of Practice VSAP 012 Saidiya V. Hartman Print Matt Browning 03
Dreamstage: 
An Experimental Portrait of the Sleeping Brain
Dreamstage: An Experimental Portrait of the Sleeping Brain VSAP 013 J. Allan Hobson Print Julia Feyrer 03
The Demon of Writing
The Demon of Writing VSAP 014 Ben Kafka Print Raymond Boisjoly 03
Braiding Sweetgrass:
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants VSAP 015 Robin Wall Kimmerer Print Michael Drebert 03
The Great Animal Orchestra
The Great Animal Orchestra VSAP 016 Bernie Krause Print Tamara Henderson 03
Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure
Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure VSAP 017 Edouard Lanteri Print Colleen Brown 03
The Passion According to G.H.
The Passion According to G.H. VSAP 018 Clarice Lispector Print Barry Doupé 03
Measurement
Measurement VSAP 019 Paul Lockhart Print Eli Bornowsky 03
Disillusionment
Disillusionment VSAP 020 Thomas Mann Print Lyse Lemieux 03
Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters from Eighteenth-century Kyoto
Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters from Eighteenth-century Kyoto VSAP 021 Curated by Matthew P. McKelway Print Antoni Oko 03
The Ecological Thought
The Ecological Thought VSAP 022 Timothy Morton Print Jesse McKee 03
Realistic Magic Objects, Ontology, Causality
Realistic Magic Objects, Ontology, Causality VSAP 023 Timothy Morton Print Jesse McKee 03
Hyperobjects:
Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World VSAP 024 Timothy Morton Print Jesse McKee 03
The Service Porch
The Service Porch VSAP 025 Fred Moten Print Elizabeth McIntosh 03
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black VSAP 026 Cookie Mueller Print Derya Akay 03
The Importance of Being Iceland:
Travel Essays in Art
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art VSAP 027 Eileen Myles Print Mina Totino 03
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities VSAP 028 Robert Musil Print Gareth James 03
Things: A Story of the Sixties and A Man Asleep ;
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces ;
Death of the Deodand: Accursed Objects and the Money Value of Human Life
Things: A Story of the Sixties and A Man Asleep ; Species of Spaces and Other Pieces ; Death of the Deodand: Accursed Objects and the Money Value of Human Life VSAP 029 Georges Perec William Pietz Print Gareth James 03
A Helen Adam Reader
A Helen Adam Reader VSAP 030 Kristin Prevallet Print Anne Low 03
Feelings are Facts
Feelings are Facts VSAP 031 Yvonne Rainer Print Justine A. Chambers 03
Alternative Facts
Film Screening
Alternative Facts Film Screening VSAP 032 Curated by Myriam Salah Print Myriam Ben Salah 03
Wendy’s Revenge
Wendy’s Revenge VSAP 033 Walter Scott Print Walter Scott 03
Pipes That Won’t Smoke, Coal That Won’t Burn
Pipes That Won’t Smoke, Coal That Won’t Burn VSAP 034 Carol Sheehan Print Charlene Vickers 03
The Ormolu Clock
The Ormolu Clock VSAP 035 Muriel Spark Print Anne Low 03
Geography and Plays
Geography and Plays VSAP 036 Gertrude Stein Print Derya Akay 03
Indian Artists at Work
Indian Artists at Work VSAP 037 Ulli Steltzer Print Krista Belle Stewart 03
Vancouver Special
Ambivalent Pleasures
Vancouver Special Ambivalent Pleasures VSAP 038 Vancouver Art Gallery Print Jesse McKee 03
Find Me
Find Me VSAP 039 Laura Van Den Berg Print Kim Dorland 03
Zipper Mouth
Zipper Mouth VSAP 040 Laurie Weeks Print Rachelle Sawatsky 03
The Critic as Artist
The Critic as Artist VSAP 041 Oscar Wilde Print Garry Neill Kennedy 03
Accidental Ant Hill Sculpture (Born in 2003 after a forest fire made love to a Ford Mustang)
Accidental Ant Hill Sculpture (Born in 2003 after a forest fire made love to a Ford Mustang) VSAP 042 REF Arvo Leo Silkscreen on Newsprint Arvo Leo 03
These are the tools of the present
These are the tools of the present VSAP 043 Mai Abu ElDahab, November Paynter, Marnie Slater (Eds.) Print Mai Abu ElDahab 03
From Cliché to Archetype
From Cliché to Archetype VSAP 044 Marshall McLuhan with Wilfred Watson Print Julian Hou 03

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