Allan Sekula’s “Fish Story”
February’s Reading: “Fish Story” by Allan Sekula Wednesday February 29 2012 VIVO Media Arts (1965 Main Street), Vancouver BC 7pm Salon Free Facilitated by Andrew Witt American artist and writer Allan Sekula spent seven years photographing harbors and port cities around the world. Starting out in Los Angeles and San Diego, he traveled as … Read more
Excerpts from “Bring the Noise,” “Inside the White Cube” and “The Emancipated Spectator,” selected in conjunction with the main Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Wednesday, 07 March 2012 Gandai Workstation (1265 Bloor Street West) 8pm Free The main Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (mMOCCA)* was founded mostly from wood and old nails in 2011 and exists as a slightly for profit, arms length agency in the City of Toronto. The mMOCCA is relocating all the time, it could be … Read more
Thomas Bernhard’s “The Voice Imitator: 104 Stories” as selected by Barbara Sternberg
Thomas Bernhard’s The Voice Imitator: 104 Stories as selected by Barbara Sternberg Wednesday, 22 February 2012 LIFT (1137 Dupont Street) 7 PM Free Barbara Sternberg in attendance In conjunction with Pleasure Dome’s world premiere presentation of Barbara Sternberg’s in the nature of things (2011) a selection of excerpts from Thomas Bernhard’s The Voice Imitator: 104 … Read more
Annie MacDonell’s “Originality and the Avant Garde (On Art and Repetition)”
Readings inspired by Annie MacDonell’s “Originality and the Avant Garde (On Art and Repetition)” Tuesday, 31 January 2011 Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West) 7 PM Free Annie MacDonell in attendance In conjunction with Mercer Union’s exhibition of Annie MacDonell’s “Originality and the Avant Garde (On Art and Repetition),” a selection of texts will be … Read more
Pierre Clastres’s “The Duty to Speak”
November’s Reading: Pierre Clastres, “The Duty to Speak” (1974) Wednesday, 16 November 2011 7 PM VIVO (1965 Main Street) Free Guest-Facilitated by Raymond Boisjoly Keeping in proximity with the Imminent Future presentation, November’s edition of No Reading will be guest-facilitated by Raymond Boisjoly. We will be looking at Pierre Clastres’s “The Duty to Speak” drawn … Read more
In collaboration with FUSE Magazine: “Occupy” movements in relation to colonial dynamics in Canada
In collaboration with FUSE Magazine Wednesday, 02 November 2011 7 PM LIFT (1137 Dupont) Free Facilitated by Gina Badger and cheyanne turions In collaboration with FUSE, November’s salon will feature readings from the magazine and its library of review materials, focusing on those relating to FUSE’s States of Postcoloniality series. Through group reading and discussion, we will … Read more
“The Glorious Whitewasher” from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
October’s Reading: “The Glorious Whitewasher” from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Wednesday October 26 2011 VIVO Media Arts (1965 Main Street), Vancouver BC 7pm Salon Free Facilitated by the Lower Mainland Painting Co. “Why, ain’t that work?” asks Ben Rogers to Tom Sawyer in “The Great White-washer”, the second chapter of Mark Twain’s … Read more
Paul Willemen’s “Epstein and Photogénie”
September’s Reading: “Epstein and Photogénie” by Paul Willemen Thursday September 29 2011 VIVO Media Arts (1965 Main Street), Vancouver BC 7pm Salon Free Facilitated by Alex Muir No Reading returns in September with materials on early French avant-garde film. Paul Willemen’s article “Photogénie and Epstein,” surveys the texts of Jean Epstein and his contemporaries (Louis … Read more
Anton Vidokle’s “New York Conversations”
Anton Vidokle’s film New York Conversations (2010, 64 minutes, 16mm-to-video) Wednesday, 28 September 2011 The Camera Bar (1028 Queen Street West) 7 PM $ PWYC Facilitated by Melanie O’Brian and cheyanne turions As a special presentation of No Reading After the Internet, September will feature Anton Vidokle’s film New York Conversations. Following the screening, the … Read more
E. C. Large’s “The semantic discipline”
Featuring E. C. Large’s “The semantic discipline” Tuesday, 09 August 2011 Seoul Country Korean Restaurant (215 Banff Avenue), Banff AB 8 PM As a project within the framework of Dexter Sinister’s From the Toolbox of a Serving Library summer residency at the Banff Centre, this iteration of No Reading After the Internet will feature E. C. Large’s “The semantic … Read more
