Books

Edited by: Paul Couillard

Publication Design: Sameer Farooq/New Ink

286 pp. (32-pp. colour section) with index includes DVD documentation of Mars’ Tyranny of Bliss project

Retail Price: $32.9 + shipping

With articles by: Paul Couillard, Tagny Duff, Jennifer Fisher, Randy Gledhill, Nelson Henricks, Will Kwan, Paul Ledoux, Joanna Nash, Jennifer Oille, John Oughton and Pam Patterson, Andrew James Paterson, Kim Sawchuk, Dot Tuer

From the Time Zones Residency

Edited by: Tania Bruguera
Publication Design: Bill Pusztai

36 pp. (including 6 pp of B/W images)

With articles by: Introductory text and performance descriptions by Tania Bruguera plus essays by Tagny Duff and Ein Manning.

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Vigilantes: The Dream of Reason is a small book reminiscent of a group of plane tickets in a travel folder that documents a series of liminal performances dealing with the relationship between ethics and desire. Produced in conjunction with the TIME ZONE residency curated by Tagny Duff, with internationally acclaimed Cuban artists Glenda León and Tania Bruguera.

During the residency, Bruguera will commute weekly between Chicago and Canada (first to Montreal and then to Toronto), using these trips as an opportunity to perform for the unsuspecting audience of her fellow travelers.

Bruguera describes Vigilantes: The Dream of Reason as "...a series of performances dealing with the relationship between ethics and desire; with the tension that can be found in a state of emotional vigilia, which is the state between being awake and asleep. Each piece will have several layers of appreciation, either from the position of the audience or of their level of boldness. These will be pieces that talk about the false strength and the hidden fragility."

Edited by Paul Couillard
Book Design: Randy Gledhill

96 pp. text, 16 pp. photos and DVD insert, 5.5 x 8 inches
Retail price: $22.50 + shipping

Articles by Glenn Alteen, Paul Couillard, Andy Fabo, Debbie O'Rourke and Sarah Sheard; plus chronology by Brice Canyon and story and collages by Margaret Dragu

DVD includes the videos Cleaning and Loving It © 2000 and More Cleaning and Loving (It) © 2001, directed by Margaret Dragu and Paul Couillard

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Margaret Dragu is a 2012 recipient of a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Margaret Dragu is a warm-hearted, fearless and indomitable spirit who has left her mark across disciplines and across the country. Dragu's astonishing output of work spans back to 1969 and includes forays into theatre, film, video, writing, choreography and above all, performance art. She is perhaps best known for her work in the 1980s, including her long-running X's and O's series, which began with a solstice mega-spectacle in Hamilton in 1983 (X's and O's on the Longest Day of the Year) and continues with her recent "Improvisation for X's and O's". Her 1988 film project I VANT TO BE ALONE reads as a who's who of the Toronto art scene of the 1980s, while her smaller, more intimate 1990s work has been produced and seen mainly on the west coast.