The End of Money

Editor and introductory essay: Juan A. Gaitán
2011
Witte de With

The publication includes texts by Dessislava Dimova, Donatien Grau, Dieter Roelstraete, Hadley+Maxwell (with a text that explores some of the ideas behind Improperties) and Carolina Sanín, each contributing to the exhibition’s theme from the point of view of their own medium – be this fiction, art history, philosophy or criticism. Documentation of the exhibition is also included as well as material relating to the works of the participating in the exhibition.

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An Invitation to An Infiltration

Eric Fredericksen, Thomas Crowe, edited by Jenifer Papararo
February 19, 2011
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

This publication was designed by participating artist collective Dexter Sinister, printed by Fillip, and edited by Jenifer Papararo. It features a transcript of renowned art historian Thomas Crow’s keynote address for the 2005 Frieze Foundation Talks, along side a series of blog entries and emails pertaining to the exhibition and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Eric Fredericksen’s curatorial text and personal reflections on the exhibition, an audio piece by Fia Backström, and new artworks made specifically for the publication by Hadley+Maxwell and Jordan Wolfson.

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Improperties

Hadley+Maxwell
Introduction by Hilde de Bruijn, accompanying text Perspectors/Melancholia by Lisa Robertson
2010
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
15 pages, B&W with images

Produced in conjunction with the exhibition Improperties, this publication includes a parallel text by Lisa Robertson: “I might as well admit right away that by the social I mean the gesture of ornament, which is for sight. Everything appears for other eyes. Being leans into recognition. The lens is a social ornament.”

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Uninterrupted Stage Directions for Louise Miller

Hadley+Maxwell
2009
Worpswede artist editions and Argo Books, Berlin
48 pages, B&W w/ illustrations | English/Deutsch

Produced in conjunction with the exhibition The lemonade is weak like your soul/Die Limonade ist matt wie deine Seele at Künstverein Göttingen, this publication archives every stage direction written for the character Louise Miller by Friedrich Schiller in his Bourgeois Tragedy Kabale und Liebe (1784).

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1+1-1 / Endless, Nameless

Hadley+Maxwell
Essay by Eric Fredericksen
2007
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
23x23 cm, colour w/ images, 60 pages | Online Images

This publication documents the multi-valent project 1+1-1 with video stills, drawings, photographs, and previous works. Fredericksen’s companion essay, Endless, Nameless, examines karaoke, sociality and subjectivity in film, art, and musical production via Jean-Luc Godard, Johnny Lydon, and Kurt Cobain.

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The Décor Project

Hadley+Maxwell
Essays by Melanie O’Brian, Clint Burnham and Jonathan Middleton
2006
Projectile Publishing and Western Front Exhibitions, Vancouver
16.5x25.4 cm, colour and B&W w/ images, 96 pages

This publication documents the ongoing series of collaborative projects initiated in 2001 in which the artists’ worked with collectors and curators to temporarily redecorate rooms in their homes. In writer Melanie O’Brian’s words, “The Décor Project is the site to examine the “furnishings” of contemporary cultural production. …It incorporates the acts and objects of display to investigate the complex web of authorial power in visual art’s processes, roles, and spaces.”

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Negotiating Desire

Hadley+Maxwell
Essays by: Susan Edelstein and Kathleen Ritter; Poetry by Sarah Wakefield
1999
Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
5.5 x 7.5" 16 pages, 7 duotone images

Documenting the artists’ first solo exhibition, Negotiating Desire uses the imagery of rubber, wood and fetish objects as a departure point to investigate the nature of desire.

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Nomads

Josée Drouin-Brisebois
2009
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
88 pages, full-colour images, hardcover catalogue

Publication accompanying the exhibition Nomads, featuring the work of five artists living and working in Vancouver. Explores interpretations and manifestations of nomadism, a state of being where movement is paramount.

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How Soon Is Now

Kathleen Ritter
2009
Vancouver Art Gallery
96 pages, full-colour, softcover catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery

Publication accompanying the exhibition How Soon Is Now, a survey of new work produced by artists in the province of British Columbia: “A number of recurring metaphors and motifs run throughout the exhibition: the recording studio, the rehearsal space, the devalued object, the space of social interaction, architecture, the unconscious, literature and narrative, and a sense of experimentation and risk.”

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