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Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices

Banff Centre Press, 2003

The white cube — it's a vision of the gallery museum that has dominated thinking and practice in the art world for decades. Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices is a collection of essays by leading Canadian and international curators and artists that explores regions of practice outside this "cube," delving into contemporary challenges to traditional ideas about art and curating. With four main topics of inquiry — ...

Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writings about Dance and Culture

Banff Centre Press, 2000

Contributed by scholars and artists from across North America brought together to think through crucial aspects of dance's significance, twelve papers stage a set of illuminating connections between cultural theory and dancing practices, examining the body in an exhilarating range of performances. The essays interrogate choreography as a theorizing of identity - racial, gendered, and classed - and it elucidates power relations within and ...

Naming a Practice: Curatorial Strategies for the Future

Banff Centre Press, 1996

This publication features the proceedings of the Naming a Practice: Curatorial Strategies for the Future seminar that originated as an independent project within the Canadian curatorial community to provide a forum on curating in the visual arts. Organized in cooperation with the Walter Phillips Gallery and The Banff Centre, the event took place in November 1994. This publication documents the seminar, following the format of the event itself, ...

Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture, and Interpretation

Banff Centre Press, 2004

Art museums and public galleries amass collections in order to preserve, document, research, and exhibit collective histories as a culture. Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture, and Interpretation is a compilation of essays by leading Canadian and international curators and artists that explores the role of the art object in a broader context of visual and display culture. The book analyzes the human impulse to collect ...

Speaking In Tongues: Writers In A New Land

Banff Centre Press, 2005

The Edge of Everything: Reflections on Curatorial Practice (Naming a Practice, 2)

Banff Centre Press, 2002

Few public venues exist for the contemplation of curatorial research and development in Canada, and there are even fewer forums for reflection by Canadian curators within an international context. The Edge of Everything is the result of a book project designed by Catherine Thomas to provide such a space for curators. It is a surprising collection of political, personal, quirky, and humorous commentary by Canadian and international curators on ...

Taking Risks: Literary Journalism from the Edge

Banff Centre Press, 1998

Every summer, top writers gather at The Banff Centre for the Cultural Journalism Program, each with a rough draft and four weeks to develop it into a finished essay. These writers step away from the distractions of everyday life and explore their diverse subjects and their craft as they never have before. Offering unique insights, the writers take risks with style and substance, laying themselves on the line with an intimacy seldom seen in ...

Right To Dance: dancing For Rights

Banff Centre Press, 2004

Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environment
Tom Sherman

Banff Centre Press, 2002

Capturing over twenty years of thinking and writing about art, media, and technology, Before and After the I-Bomb is a techno-cultural history of a time when electronic, digital media flooded our homes, workplaces and landscapes. Author Tom Sherman's series of reflections express both a love for and struggle with the new technologies and the cultural changes they have spawned. His narrative is a personal history that looks at the past, present, ...

Arousing Sensation: A Case Study of Controversy Surrounding Art and the Erotic

Banff Centre Press, 1999

This publication was developed following a controversial exhibit that appeared at the Walter Phillips Gallery in 1992. In Much Sense: Erotics and Life, the artists explored ideas about sexuality, expressing frank viewpoints on topics such as body image and gay and lesbian sexuality. In the months following the opening, politicians, the media, and coalitions of arts organizations engaged in a rancorous debate, alternately battering and boosting ...

Questions of Community: Artists, Audiences, Coalitions

Banff Centre Press, 1998

Stronger artist alliances, skepticism about institutions, and awareness of new audiences have all contributed to a reevaluation of what works and what doesn't for artists striving towards social change. In this timely anthology, over twenty writers and artists share their experiences in a range of Canadian contexts. From First Nations coalitions to artist mentoring programs, important art projects are analyzed. Several theorists offer additional ...

Territories of Difference

Banff Centre Press, 1993

Intersections: Fiction and Poetry from The Banff Centre for the Arts

Banff Centre Press, 2000

Since 1984, writers from around the world have spent time in the artist studios at The Banff Centre. This collection of fiction and poetry from thirty-four of those writers gathers the threads of this unique creative community, bringing together remarkable intersections of setting, story, tone, and character.

Thing Feigned or Imagined

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Fred Stenson

Banff Centre Press, 2002

Written specifically for novice authors aspiring to create
Things Feigned Or Imagined is an insightful collection of tips, tricks, techniques and advice by career writer Fred Stenson and written specifically for novice authors aspiring to create truly imaginative fiction. Individual chapters informatively address just how characterization drives the story, how to quickly hook the reader, how to make effective use of humor, and so much more. An excellent ...