Marie-Douce St-Jacques, Une entrée
Publication : december, 2023
Format : 140 x 105 mm ; 238 pages
ISBN : 978-2-9814330-8-4
Print run : 300 copies, 30 of which are numbered, including a risograph print.
Language : French
Une entrée invites us to a cinematic, emotional and memorial stroll. Page after page, cinema tickets — exhumed from the past, preserved until today and now published for tomorrow — retrace the cinematic journey of the artist Marie-Douce St-Jacques, or at least fragments of it between 1998 and 2007. Together, they tell us above all the story of a discreet struggle against oblivion and indifference.
25$CA
Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, Mauvaises Herbes
Publication : december, 2023
Format : 140 x 105 mm ; 56 pages
ISBN : 978-2-9814330-7-7
Print run : 300 copies, 30 of which are numbered, including a cutout.
Language : French
Mauvaises herbes is an alphabetical list of unwanted plants. A poetic lexicon of Quebec flora, where composite and figurative terms accumulate in an incessant enumeration.
From Absinthe du pays to Willie puant, the text is built as a poetic quest in migration, whose spread wavers between technical and vernacular names, numerous momentary anaphoras, new expressions and even potential insults, if we are to believe the climax of the work. A raw poem by its nature, Mauvaises herbes is a nod to the works of Brother Marie-Victorin, Paul-Marie Lapointe and Claude Gauvreau.
A literary Ready-made, Mauvaises herbes is a meticulous and summary rewriting of the work Noms des pauvres herbes du Québec, written by the agronomist Maurice Ferron and the agronomist-botanist Richard Cayouette, whose third edition, revised and expanded, was published by Agriculture Québec in 1975.
12$CA
Emily Roby, T A L O S
January 2023
Format : 181 x 181 mm ; 6 pages, inserted in a handprinted bag (220 x 220 mm)
ISBN : N/D
Edition of 100
Riso printed, 2 colours, black and metallic gold
Language : English
Layout : Marie-Lyne Tarabulsy
T A L O S is an interdisciplinary effort bringing together writing, electroacoustic music, performance and visual arts.
Here, a misadventure propels the protagonist into the script of Talos, an early ideation of a robot that emerged from ancient Greece. Having lost a bolt at his ankle, the bronze automaton lets out the ichor that kept it artificially alive. The formal and acoustic similarities, imagined and recorded, between the myth and the spilling of a water heater inspire the autofictions in the libretto, from which the themes of memory and water emerge. In the form of bodily fluids, robotic hemorrhage or osmosis, the omnipresence of water projects the reader and the listener into a universe of vulnerability, urgency and scarcity.
Emilie Roby is a performance artist and musician from Northwestern Quebec.
More information : emilieroby.ca/
A download code is included in the booklet to retrieve a 22-minutes audio piece.
Listen here : emilierobytalos.bandcamp.com/album/t-a-l-o-s
20$CA
Annie Descôteaux, Matières premières (Raw Materials)
September 2021
Format: 140 x 105 mm; 114 pages
ISBN: 978-2-9814330-6-0
Edition of 250, including 25 numbered copies with an intervention by the artist
French-English translation by Simon Brown
Matières premières opens with three citations from women — Anne Truitt, Anni Albers, and The Slits — resolutely setting the tone for this first book by visual artist Annie Descôteaux. Somewhere between confession and denial, rebellion and comedy, these brief poetic texts embody unabashed ecofeminist meditations on the place of the artist within the institution, and indeed within everyday life.
With Matières premières, Annie Descôteaux succeeds in constructing a series of texts that lets us see and consider the world that lies “through the looking-glass”, that is, just beyond the prism of disobedience inherent to the very art-making she practises.
18$CA
Le fruit vert & Delphine Dora, À la becque
June 2020
Format : 18,5cm x 18,5cm (Saddle Stitch binding)
Inserted in a hand printed paper bag (29cm x 21,5cm) ; 12 pages
Edition of 150, hand numbered, includes a hyperlink to download seven improvisations (keyboards, voice, synthesizers and objets; 38 minutes).
Language : French
À La Becque is a semi-digital sonorous publication documenting the meeting of three musicians during their brief stay at La Becque, an artist residency in La Tour-de-Peilz (Switzerland). Both a digital album and artist book, the publication comprises 12 pages printed on a risograph, and includes a hyperlink to download seven improvisations (keyboards, voice, synthesizers and objects; 38 minutes).
To listen : lefruitvertetdelphinedora.bandcamp.com/
20$CA
Sophie Jodoin, Les confessions
June 2019
Format : 140 x 105 mm; 98 pages
ISBN : 978-2-9814330-5-3
Edition of 400, including 25 numbered copies with an intervention by the author.
In French (titles and credits). The book contains no text.
Les confessions is a recent project that reflects Sophie Jodoin’s ongoing preoccupation with the interaction of language with images. While books act as raw material for the work, language functions as its mode of articulation. Through a series of feminine surnames, Les confessions chronicles a plural (her)story. As both declarations and silent testimonies, these multiple voices form a collective portrait, a rewriting of women’s social and political bodies where the reader is invited to fill in the voids.
15$CA
Émilie Mouchous, D’un érotisme botanique (A Botany of Eros)
May 2018
Format: 140 x 105 mm; 56 pages
ISBN: 978-2-9814330-4-6
Edition of 250, including 25 numbered copies with four-leaf clover.
French-English translation by Simon Brown
A Botany of Eros is both a sonic artwork and a poetic coming-of-age story where the author phlegmatically looks to the plant world to explore her own psyche. Mouchous’s writing is one of metamorphosis, articulating the desire to dialogue in real time with our plant relatives. This debut book also includes a downloadable 18-minute sound piece (voice and synthesizers).
Anne-F Jacques, Roches rencontrées (Stones Met)
May 2018
Format: 140 x 105 mm; 58 pages
ISBN: 978-2-9814330-3-9
Edition of 250, including 25 numbered copies with a drawing by the author.
French-English translation by Jen Leigh Fisher
Stones Met is an inventory of the objects and materials artist Anne-F Jacques uses in her sonic and kinetic assemblages. Through their weights and textures, and her accounts of meeting them, Jacques retraces a small part of their biographies, inviting the reader into a veritable microcosm of obstinate objects. This debut book also includes a selection of recent drawings from the artist’s notebooks.
Alexandre St-Onge, Nude de chose de même
January 2017
Format: 140 x 105 mm; 78 pages
ISBN: 978-2-9814330-2-2
Edition of 200, including 25 numbered copies with handwritten intervention by the author. Second edition (2019) of 100 copies.
French / English
Nude de chose de même is both a book of hermetic poetry and a sonic artwork. After triggering an outpouring of words through a sound improvisation, the author rearranges and reappropriates them with his voice. Out of the shadows of process emerges a dialogue between desubjectified subjects and impossible objects. A download of the accompanying sound pieces (13 tracks, 26 minutes) is included.
15$CA