Exhibition essay for Svetlana Swinimer's Unveiling the Goddess, October 9 - November 7 2020. 

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Create This Revolution is a retrospective publication of the 2013 G101 exhibition of the same name, featuring:

• Howard Adler
• Marc Adornato
• Pansee Atta
• Priti Gulati Cox
• Alan Harrington
• Kaylene Kelly
• Helene Lacelle
• Emmanuel Laflamme
• Juliana McDonald
• Rehab Nazzal
• Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen
• Ben Powless
• Mana Rouholamini
• Svetlana Swinimer
• Jeff Thomas
• Laura Leah Traverse
• Lori Victor
• Adam Void

Transcontinental Divide grew from a collaboration between Gallery 101 and the Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver. The exhibition was conceptually based with 10 artists (5 from Vancouver and 5 from Ottawa) exchanging ideas to realize an exhibition in each other’s space. Two essays explore this collaboration, the catalogue also includes the artist’s instructions to each other. The exhibition was co-presented with The National Arts Centre’s British Columbia Scene.

CATALOGUE LAUNCH: Friday, September 23 at 6pm

Unboxed: Engagements in Social Space, is a collection of critical essays about and by artists who work across the borders of art, architecture and performance. This collection is loosely based upon the lecture series that Gallery 101 and the Carleton University School of Architecture co-hosted throughout the fall and winter of 2002-2003. The goal of that series (entitled Unboxed: dialogues on art & architecture) was, in part, to engage both architecture students and practicing visual artists with this vital yet under-explored arena of interstitial practices. The anthology, which is an attempt to further broaden the audience for this work and thereby increase the number of potential participants, includes transcriptions of lectures by international artists: Vito Acconci, Lucy Orta, Jan-Erik Andersson and Marko Peljhan, as well as commissioned essays by Canadian artists: Ana Rewakowicz, Eduardo Aquino, Marie-Paule Macdonald, Jean-François Prost, Luc Lévesque, Steve Topping, and Adrian Blackwell.

Each text adds a unique and important mode of thinking about notions of space; directing us to consider the local and social connections between individuals and environments and, in their variety, they mirror the various ways we move in and around communities, rural and urban. Together, forming a challenging, engaging and accessible anthology that enlightens our way of seeing and our sense of being.

It provides rare and exceptional information on interdisciplinary practices for students in art and architecture departments everywhere. Its subject matter is highly theoretical as well as practical, accessible, and technical, and will be of immediate interest to the public in Canada and abroad.

This Publication is represented by the Literary Press Group of Canada, www.lpg.ca and is available to libraries, retail bookstores, etc. through LitDistCo (1.800.591.6250, fax: 1.800.591.6251 orders@litdistco.ca).

For individual retail sales contact Gallery 101 or YYZ Books (416.598.4546, fax 416.598.2282), 401 Richmond Street West, suite 140, Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8.

Gallery 101's Resource Room is a sunny space on our second floor. Since 1999, it has hosted seven artists' projects based on various ideas of printed matter and archives. During the same period, the Resource Room itself has grown from a collection of old magazines and archives of 101's past projects, to a small but dynamic and jam-packed research centre for artists, curators, and students. The artists' Resource Room projects have been designed to complement the function of this space by challenging and reformulating ways of documenting, cataloguing, and preserving aspects of our culture, by playing with ideas of narrative, and by calling into question the traditional reception of art through the artists' use of innovative and often reproducible forms: from bookworks to posters to file-folders to CD-ROMSs. This book brings together all seven of the artists we've hosted, but it is not a catalogue of their past projects at 101. Instead, the artists have been re-invited to submit seven pages of new material that may or may not directly relate to their original Resource Room projects.

Four photographers delineate myth and reality of Ottawa as Canada's national capital. The politics of such a small national capital tend to overshadow the individuals who live there, favouring an image that is closer to a monument than to a neighbourhood. This book shows the real relations of individuals to this place, beyond the picturesque Ottawa promoted in travel brochures. All four artists' images reveal contradictions surrounding the presence and absence of individuals and, by extension, the idea and the reality of the city. With photographic essays by Marlene Creates ("Looking at the City of Ottawa from Ten Places Outside the Municipal Boundaries"), Lorraine Gilbert ("Somerset Suite"), Jeffrey Thomas ("Scouting for Indians"), and David Dybiec ("Ceremonial Routes/Disconnected Visions"). With artist birographies.

Essays on the work of four artists in relation to questions of identity, psychology, politics, race and gender. The artists' varied backgrounds contribute to an inclusive point of view on the larger cultural reality of the contemporary world. The artists are: Jim Grant (Britain), Tracey Moffatt (Australian), Iké Udé (Afro-American), and Mary Sui Yee Wong (Asian-Canadian).

Artist's book

A boxed set of postcards highlighting artists' works accompanied by an essay on the gallery's role in the alternative network.