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.

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.	Produced by	Material	Selected by	Collection
	Miles from India: A Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis	VSAP 001	Bob Belden	CD	Mina Totino	03
	The Standard Book of Color	VSAP 002	Andrew Berardini	Print	Andrew Berardini	03
	Spock Must Die! A Star Trek Novel	VSAP 003	James Blish	Print/Paper bag	Mark Delong	03
	Garments Against Women	VSAP 004	Anne Boyer	Print	Tiziana La Melia	03
	The Victorian Underworld: A Fascinating Recreation	VSAP 005	Kellow Chesney	Print	William Gibson	03
	The Copp Family Textiles	VSAP 006	Grace Rogers Cooper	Print	Anne Low	03
	The Modulor, Modulor 2	VSAP 007	Le Corbusier	Print	Khan Lee	03
	Ubik	VSAP 008	Philip K. Dick	MP3-CD	Alison Yip	03
	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	VSAP 010	Jean Fischer	Print	Jesse McKee	03
	The Andy Warhol Diaries	VSAP 011	Edited by Pat Hackett	Print	Ron Tran	03
	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	VSAP 013	J. Allan Hobson	Print	Julia Feyrer	03
	The Demon of Writing	VSAP 014	Ben Kafka	Print	Raymond Boisjoly	03
	Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants	VSAP 015	Robin Wall Kimmerer	Print	Michael Drebert	03
	The Great Animal Orchestra	VSAP 016	Bernie Krause	Print	Tamara Henderson	03
	Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure	VSAP 017	Edouard Lanteri	Print	Colleen Brown	03
	The Passion According to G.H.	VSAP 018	Clarice Lispector	Print	Barry Doupé	03
	Measurement	VSAP 019	Paul Lockhart	Print	Eli Bornowsky	03
	Disillusionment	VSAP 020	Thomas Mann	Print	Lyse Lemieux	03
	Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters from Eighteenth-century Kyoto	VSAP 021	Curated by Matthew P. McKelway	Print	Antoni Oko	03
	The Ecological Thought	VSAP 022	Timothy Morton	Print	Jesse McKee	03
	Realistic Magic Objects, Ontology, Causality	VSAP 023	Timothy Morton	Print	Jesse McKee	03
	Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World	VSAP 024	Timothy Morton	Print	Jesse McKee	03
	The Service Porch	VSAP 025	Fred Moten	Print	Elizabeth McIntosh	03
	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	VSAP 027	Eileen Myles	Print	Mina Totino	03
	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	VSAP 029	Georges Perec William Pietz	Print	Gareth James	03
	A Helen Adam Reader	VSAP 030	Kristin Prevallet	Print	Anne Low	03
	Feelings are Facts	VSAP 031	Yvonne Rainer	Print	Justine A. Chambers	03
	Alternative Facts Film Screening	VSAP 032	Curated by Myriam Salah	Print	Myriam Ben Salah	03
	Wendy’s Revenge	VSAP 033	Walter Scott	Print	Walter Scott	03
	Pipes That Won’t Smoke, Coal That Won’t Burn	VSAP 034	Carol Sheehan	Print	Charlene Vickers	03
	The Ormolu Clock	VSAP 035	Muriel Spark	Print	Anne Low	03
	Geography and Plays	VSAP 036	Gertrude Stein	Print	Derya Akay	03
	Indian Artists at Work	VSAP 037	Ulli Steltzer	Print	Krista Belle Stewart	03
	Vancouver Special Ambivalent Pleasures	VSAP 038	Vancouver Art Gallery	Print	Jesse McKee	03
	Find Me	VSAP 039	Laura Van Den Berg	Print	Kim Dorland	03
	Zipper Mouth	VSAP 040	Laurie Weeks	Print	Rachelle Sawatsky	03
	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)	VSAP 042 REF	Arvo Leo	Silkscreen on Newsprint	Arvo Leo	03
	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	VSAP 044	Marshall McLuhan with Wilfred Watson	Print	Julian Hou	03
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