Access the archive of FREE online micropublications, broadsheets, books, and reports from Blackwood Gallery below.
Throughout the past several years, the Blackwood has been supporting a variety of publishing projects—from full-length book publications to experimental broadsheets to exhibition micropublications—many of which are available for free online. This catalogue compiles recent publications available online. Most are available in full as downloadable pdfs, with select longer texts available via issu reader.
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Excerpts:
Read the Introduction, by Etienne Turpin
Read Cold Wintry Wind, by Allen S. Weiss
Read The Theory of the Fire Ants, by Juliana Spahr
Co-edited by Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin
Co-published by K. Verlag and the Blackwood Gallery
The Work of Wind: Land is published as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea, a three-part exhibition and publication series dedicated to opening perspectives on climate change, environmental crisis, and resilience, developed by Christine Shaw from June 2018 to September 2019. It is the first of three volumes, with two additional volumes forthcoming in 2020.
Edited by Martin Arnold and Christof Migone
Published by Blackwood Gallery in partnership with the Art Gallery of Alberta, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto), MacKenzie Art Gallery and SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art
Volumes is an anthology of writings on contemporary artists’ engagement with sound and music. The publication is composed of artists’ projects and essays drawn from a series of exhibitions that took place between 2003 and 2013. Volumes is a hybrid publication in several respects, and includes textual, visual, and audio material from more than one exhibition.
Produced for Red, Green, Blue ≠ White, curated by Johnson Ngo, September 18–December 1, 2013
Featuring texts by Emelie Chhangur, Francisco-Fernando Granados, and Johnson Ngo, an artist project by Kristina Lee Podesva, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Issue 01: GRAFTING
Issue 02: COMMUTING
Issue 03: BEARING
Issue 04: SHORING
Issue 05: ACCOUNTING
Issue 06: FORGING
The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) is a serial broadsheet publication produced by the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea, a site-specific exhibition, public program, and publication series designed to expand perspectives on climate change through artistic practices, cultural inquiry, and political mobilization.
Furnishing Positions
FURNISHING POSITIONS 00
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FURNISHING POSITIONS 02
FURNISHING POSITIONS 03
FURNISHING POSITIONS 04
FURNISHING POSITIONS 05
FURNISHING POSITIONS 06
This broadsheet series is part of the comissioned project Furnishing Positions by Adrian Blackwell and is produced in conjunction with the exhibition FALSEWORK, September 15–December 7, 2014, curated by Christine Shaw.
Furnishing Positions is a serial publication that focuses on the paradoxical nature of public space. Its standard form is an 18”x18” broadsheet, consisting of an artist’s project on one side and a text on the other. It was published once every two weeks for three months, starting September 15, 2014, with each issue focusing on a specific paradox. As a serial, each issue builds on earlier editions.
Produced for Other Life-formings, January 13–March 7, 2020.
Featuring project descriptions, an exhibition text by Alison Cooley, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
Logics of Sense 2: Implications
Produced for Logics of Sense 2: Implications, October 28–December 7, 2019.
Featuring project descriptions, an introduction and exhibition text by Christine Shaw, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
Logics of Sense 1: Investigations
Produced for Logics of Sense 1: Investigations, September 4–October 19, 2019.
Featuring project descriptions, an introduction and exhibition text by Christine Shaw, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
This macropublication was produced for all five circuits of Take Care, September 11, 2017–March 11, 2018.
Featuring an excerpt by Precarias a la Deriva, a curatorial text by Letters & Handshakes, an overview of the five circuits of Take Care, and full colour illustrations throughout.
Take Care: Circuit 1, Labour of Curation
Produced for Labour of Curation, Circuit 1/5 of Take Care, September 11–30, 2017.
Featuring a curatorial essay by Helena Reckitt, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
Take Care: Circuit 2, Care Work
Produced for Care Work, Circuit 2/5 of Take Care, October 16–November 4, 2017.
Featuring project descriptions, a curatorial essay for The Let Down Reflex by Amber Berson and Juliana Driever, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
Take Care: Circuit 3, Infrastructures and Aesthetics of Mutual Aid
Produced for Infrastructures and Aesthetics of Mutual Aid, Circuit 3/5 of Take Care, November 20–December 9, 2017.
Featuring project descriptions, a curatorial essay for The Sustenance Rite by Lauren Fournier, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
Take Care: Circuit 4, Stewardship
Produced for Stewardship, Circuit 4/5 of Take Care, January 8–17, 2018.
Featuring project descriptions, a curatorial essay by the members of #callresponse, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
Take Care: Circuit 5, Collective Welfare
Produced for Collective Welfare, Circuit 5/5 of Take Care, February 12–March 11, 2018.
Featuring project descriptions, a curatorial statement by Letters & Handshakes, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
The Elements of Influence (and a Ghost)
Produced for Julien Prévieux's exhibition The Elements of Influence (and a Ghost), January 18–March 4, 2017, curated by Christine Shaw.
Featuring the commissioned essay, The New Graphic Method, by Julien Prévieux, an introduction and exhibition texts by Christine Shaw, and full colour illustrations throughout.
Produced for I stood before the source, October 16–December 3, 2016, curated by Letters & Handshakes.
Featuring the commissioned essay, Opaque Epiphanies, by Alberto Toscano, an excerpt by David Harvey, a curatorial text by Letters & Handshakes, project statements, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
Produced for Emily Mast's exhibition, The Cage is a Stage, June 22–September 18, 2016, curated by Julia Paoli and Christine Shaw.
Featuring research, texts, and source material corresponding to each of the twenty performance vignettes that comprise The Cage is a Stage, with an introduction by Emily Mast and full colour illustrations throughout.
Produced for Maryam Jafri's exhibition The Day After, January 13–March 6, 2016, curated by Mélanie Bouteloup and Virginie Bobin.
Featuring texts by Maryam Jafri with contributions by Jean Genet, Kapwani Kiwanga, Helihanta Rajaonarison, S.N.S. Sastry, Jürg Schnieder, students and researchers from the University of Toronto, an introduction by Christine Shaw, and black and white archival photographs throughout.
The pen moves across the earth...
Produced for The pen moves across the earth: it no longer knows what will happen, and the hand that holds it has disappeared, September 16–November 29, 2015, curated by Christine Shaw.
Featuring A Reading of Art in the Anthropocene, an artist project by Etienne Turpin in collaboration with Anna-Sophie Springer, Tomás Saraceno, Sasha Engelman, Jol Thoms, and the students of the Institut für Architekturbezogene Kunst (Braunschweig, Germany), an exhibition text by Christine Shaw, project statements, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.
Produced for Don't Forget the Money!, a half-day forum organized by the Blackwood Gallery to facilitate conversations around the presentation of dance, choreography, and live performance in various contemporary art contexts.
Writer Fabien Maltais-Bayda was commissioned by the Blackwood Gallery to produce a report that captured some of the concepts and organizing strategies put forward by the group.
