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Author: erica wilk
  • The Garden: Reading Room by Brandon Cotter and Moniker Press

    09.28.15

    Had the pleasure of working with my friend Brandon Cotter on curating and designing this reading room that was installed at the Project Space Fundraiser Event on September 28th and will also be installed at Project Space’s Vancouver Art/Book Fair 2015 (Vancouver Art Gallery Annex, 750 Hornby Street – located in the second floor stairwell)

    The Garden is a modular reading room installation by Moniker Press, in collaboration with artist Brandon Cotter. Objects reconstructed from salvaged materials host a collection of local artists’ books, zines and publications that open to topics of contemporary thought, art criticism, boundaries and restrictions, as well as other unusual and unique subject matters.

    Sit. Read. Stay awhile.

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    Featured Titles:

    Em Space — Zebulon Zang

    Issues 32 to 40 — Bartelby Review

    ARClog 2.1: Women In And Out of Focus — Stephane Bernard

    Fragments of Bismuth — Alex Bovril

    Cuts of Thin Meat — Steffanie Ling

    guide to/making of — Moniker Press

    Chapter Two / Vancouver — Pecan Mag

    dress code in effect — Access Gallery

    I’d Hurt A Fly (Kara Hansen) — Clean Indoor Air Act (Steffanie Ling) — LIT LIT LIT LIT

    `Learn to live with the one you love`and the other side is `What I learned from living with the ones I love` — Nicole Schlosser

    “CULTURAL APPROPRIATION IN SPIRITUALITY – how deepening our understandings of settler-colonialism, race and privilege and help us reland our practices with humility, accountability and reciprocity.” — Aja Rose Bond

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    Brandon Cotter is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Vancouver. He graduated from Emily Carr University in 2010 and co-runs the commercial art gallery FIELD Contemporary.

  • Moniker Press at the Vancouver Art/Book Fair in October 2015

    09.03.2015

    Project Space Insta Takeover

    Moniker Press was invited to “takeover” the Project Space instagram account for a week!

    Will be posting a little bit of everything this week from the process of riso printing to the various projects I’ve been working on and some sneak peeks inside Moniker’s studio.

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    Moniker Press will be exhibiting at the Vancouver Art/Book Fair on October 17th and 18th!
  • Art Quake’s Recipes for Resistance Envelopes

    09.01.2015

    Custom riso printed envelopes for Art Quake‘s 5th anniversary publication ‘Recipes for Resistance’.Recipes for ResistanceEdition of 200
    Publisher: Mike Despotovic
    Editor: Katherine Chan
    Art Quake Team: Tahia Ahmed (ArtQuake Co-Founder), Manveer Singh, Anisha Karia, plus others!

    “Recipes for Resistance is a resource for community artists, activists, and organizers to use art as a tool to facilitate their resistance movements. Whether on campus, in classrooms, or on the streets, resistance is key to creating the just future we envision for ourselves and our communities. Art-based resistance centres our stories, solutions, and creative capacity as the driving forces of change. Use these 16 recipes for resistance to take up space, demand an audience, and disrupt the status quo.”

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    ArtQuake is a youth driven arts organization in Vancouver, BC that provides young artists and activists with mentorship, resources, and space to pursue the arts, and fosters a culture of creative political action in their communities. They approached Katherine and I on producing a custom publication in time for their 5th anniversary (Sept 2015). Given the budget and intentions, we decided to take what was initially a “handbook” style publication and turn the experience non-linear. Each recipe included a description, example, instructions, and set of ingredients for anytime action.

  • Summer @ Moniker

    08.28.2015

    July + August

    Summer updates! :: July and August were a mix of lake side rejuvenation, printing storms and riso repairs!
    The MZ790 arrived in Vancouver in June but unfortunately got a bit banged up on route from Edmonton; parts are being ordered and sweet nothings whispered! (hopefully something will revive her soon). Stay tuned.

  • June at Moniker

    06.29.2015

    June

    June was a busy riso printing month for Moniker! – here’s a few shots of some the work printed >> (L to R) ~ Mood Hut Flyers ~ Poem collages on newsprint by Ingrid Olauson & Yu Su for Kiosk Print Fair at Avenue ~ Too Many Maps: Russell Leng at FIELD Contemporary ~ Freshly folded turquoise paper for Wil Aballe Art Projects – WAAP‘s Muniment Monument: Maegan Hill-Carroll ~ Zine Zone at LEVITATION VANCOUVER ~ Watch The Smoke As It Rises: Alex Pichler at Dynamo Arts Association.

  • dress code in effect – publication launch

    03.28.2015

    Excited to show Moniker’s most recent design and print project:

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    Risograph printed on various papers.
    Designed by Erica Wilk (Moniker).
    32 pages + newsprint map insert.
    Edition of 60.

    Special thanks for the design and studio assistance:  Emma and Angela (champion folder!) 

    Exhibition:

    Access Gallery & Avenue (165 E Hastings St)
    March 14 – 27, 2015

    Work by: Mallory Amirault, Loes van Bruinessen, Emmalena Fredriksson, Rikke Goldbech, Fernanda Gutierrez, Jennifer Juba, Anchi Lin, Candice Okada, Felix Rapp, Alina Senchenko, Christian Vistan, Jacobo Zambrano.

    Collaboratively curated by Matias Armendaris, Manuel Correa, Erin den Hartigh, Matthew DeWetter, Kathryn Dobbin, Elsa Falkmann, Julia Dahee Hong, Emma Metcalfe Hurst, Dana Kearley, Karine Ling, Ingrid Olauson, Jon Peters, Titiana Peng, Lyndsay Pomerantz, Sarah Seburn and Noah Spivak, the seminar cohort of AHIS 401 Topics in Curatorial Projects at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Spring 2015.

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    Access Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and BC Gaming, the City of Vancouver, Burrard Arts Foundation, and our committed donors, members and volunteers.

    This exhibition was made possible in part due to the generosity of Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s Imagining Our Futures initiative.

    Established as an artist-run centre in 1991, Access Gallery is platform for emergent and experimental art practices. We enable critical conversations and risk taking through new configurations of audience, artists and community.

    Avenue is an artist-operated gallery and studio space that develops and exhibits contemporary art practices. Committed to the notion of flexibility, Avenue considers itself a hybrid platform and artist project space. Through the facilitation of exhibitions, publications, performances, talks, meetings and music, among other creative gestures, Avenue cultivates emerging and critical acts, providing a space for unconventional events to occur.

  • A Risky Jump – Scott Billings

    03.20.15

    A RISKY JUMP // Scott Billings
    Designed and printed by Moniker Press.
    Edition of 300.

    Wil Aballe Art Projects – WAAP
    105-1356 Frances St.
    Exhibition March 19 – April 18

    A Risky Business

  • Studio Series at Field Contemporary

    03.14.2015

    Moniker Press

    Field Book Shelf

    My latest personal riso project “Studio Series” is now available for viewing (or purchasing) at Field Contemporary as part of their gallery bookshelf. (There’s an awesome painting show up right now too!) Go on and check it out at 17 West Broadway.

    more pictures HERE

    series of five two-colour risograph prints
    on cotton rag paper 
    limited editions of 8

    (Bookshelf photo by Daniel Jefferies)

  • SKRSxMX7xMYSTERYFORMS presents theShopApprentice

    02.10.2015

    Moniker is excited to have been part of this awesome riso poster printing project with Mystery Forms! The first 11×17 full scale 3 layer print done by Moniker in Edmonton. Check out THIS LINK for more info and to purchase.

    MysteryForms Poster

  • Moniker’s Business Cards

    01.21.15

    An extended visit in Edmonton has led to some awesome new colour Riso print projects. These are new Moniker business cards – Blue and red ink + fun with coloured paper. More sneak peeks coming soon!

    Business Cards