Category Archives: Books

Plastic Heart: A DIY Fieldguide for Reducing the Environmental Impact of Art Exhibitions

Produced by the Synthetic Collective for the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through (Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Fall 2021), this Fieldguide gives a step by step overview of curating less carbon intensive exhibitions.

Plastic Heart: A DIY Fieldguide for Reducing the Environmental Impact of Art Exhibitions

Produced by the Synthetic Collective for the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through (Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Fall 2021), this Fieldguide gives a step by step overview of curating less carbon intensive exhibitions.

Tear Gas Epiphanies

Winner of the 2019 Melva J. Dwyer Award (ARLIS) Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums (McGill-Queens University Press, 2019) focuses on the tension and friction created at the intersection of protest, culture, and museums. This book analyses museums as key institutions

Tear Gas Epiphanies

Winner of the 2019 Melva J. Dwyer Award (ARLIS) Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums (McGill-Queens University Press, 2019) focuses on the tension and friction created at the intersection of protest, culture, and museums. This book analyses museums as key institutions

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Crafting Community, the special issue of Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture that I edited with Lisa Vinebaum, is out. Our introductory essay is available here.  

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Crafting Community, the special issue of Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture that I edited with Lisa Vinebaum, is out. Our introductory essay is available here.  

Negotiations in a Vacant Lot

At a moment when the discipline of Canadian art history seems to be in flux and the study of Canadian visual culture is gaining traction outside of art history departments, the authors of Negotiations in a Vacant Lot were asked:

Negotiations in a Vacant Lot

At a moment when the discipline of Canadian art history seems to be in flux and the study of Canadian visual culture is gaining traction outside of art history departments, the authors of Negotiations in a Vacant Lot were asked:

Craftivism

  with Maria Elena Buszek. Craftivism: A Special Edition of Utopian Studies, (Penn State Press) volume 22, no. 2, 2011. Coined by artists and collectives in the wake of the September 11th, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, the

Craftivism

  with Maria Elena Buszek. Craftivism: A Special Edition of Utopian Studies, (Penn State Press) volume 22, no. 2, 2011. Coined by artists and collectives in the wake of the September 11th, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, the

Imagining Resistance

Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection

Imagining Resistance

Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection