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fruit/soil by Kimberly Edgar Launch

Apr 032021

02.04.21

fruit/soil observes the evolution of a pandemic– the hyper awareness of the precarious balance between relative safety and the fragility of living in a remote northern community. Whose bodies do we risk when we open up? We feel safe due to our distance, but does that isolation also make us vulnerable?

fruit/soil is an experiment by Kimberly Edgar that exists somewhere between; zine and art object, one-off drawings/comics and other sequential narratives.

Edition of 150
ISBN 978-1-989428-03-0
Riso printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC / Dawson City, YT, 2021

PURCHASE ONLINE HERE

Quilt of Hope Exhibition Tour

Mar 052021

04.03.21

Quilt of Hope Exhibition Tour
January 23—March 1, 2021
at Massy Books (229 E Georgia St)

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Publication: Quilt of Hope - Exhibition Massy Books

Making Of:

Q&A with Nya Lewis

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More info about the project here.

Quilt of Hope Publication Launch

Feb 202021

23.01.21

Quilt of Hope
VANCOUVER ARTISTS FOR BLACK LIBERATION

Quilt of Hope serves as a call to action, and a renewal of our commitment to positively impact the communities we create in. This publication asks artists to consider their role in the movement, and what art expression has to teach us about radical activism. A collection of voices, the Quilt of Hope shares the perspectives of 25 practicing artists across the Lower Mainland who have responded to the question, “What is the role of artists in dismantling anti-Black racism?”

Contributors: Nataizya Mukwavi (Black Women Connect Vancouver Founder), Moumy Mbacké, Jillian Christmas, Sade Alexis, Adam Hoens (Ndlocal), Rachel Achus, Desirée Dawson, Kali Works, Hue Nguyen, Palesa Koitsioe, AJ Simmons, K. Ho, Jane Shi, Vanessa Richards, Shahanah, Naomi Grace, Ejiwa ‘Edge’ Ebenebe, Tiaré Lani Kela Jung, Khari Wendell McClelland, Maneesa Veeraveyil, Marielle Beth Rosky, Shanique / DJ Softieshan, Amber Dawn, Anoushka Ratnarajah, Karla Decoran, Ground Floor Art Center.

Curator – Nanyamka (Nya) Lewis
Editor – Nic Wayara
Foreward – Cicely Belle Blain
Photography – Shoubhik Roy
Publication Design – Megan Chen, Triet Pham, Nanyamka (Nya) Lewis and Moniker Press

Co-Published by Moniker Press and BlackArt Gastown
Edition of 100, Risograph printed on 65# Natural and 67# Grey paper
with a Burgundy to Bright Red conversion and Black soy ink.
© Vancouver BC, 2020

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EVENT / LAUNCH

January 23-March 1 2021— Quilt of Hope Installation at Massy Books, 10AM-6PM daily.
Masks are required inside Massy Books (229 E Georgia St). Note: This exhibition takes place upstairs in the Massy Gallery, which is only accessible by a flight of stairs. More info on the event page.

February 25-28, 2021— Digital Exhibition Tour for Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair

Press: CBC, Nya Lewis interviewed for The Early Edition With Stephen Quinn, Jan. 22, 2021
Listen: ‘The role art plays in anti-racism’

INSTALLATION SNEAK PEEK:

2021 Artists Calendar

Nov 162020

11.10.20

The future. Moniker Press invites 12 artists to experiment with 3-colour risograph printing and the 2021 Artists Calendar is the result! Calendar is bound with a spiral coil and designed for hanging or standing display, includes artist biographies and monthly calendar spreads.

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Doan Truong, Odera Igbokwe, Whess Harman, Dre Gutiérrez Reyes, Atheana Picha, Rachel Lau, Tajliya Jamal, Cash X, Chhaya Naran, Cole Pauls, semillites hernández velasco, ryme lahcene

Printed + Published by Moniker Press, Vancouver, BC, 2020/21
Proceeds from the Artists Calendar will cover production costs + support Moniker Press’ 2021 publishing projects through the open call for submissions.

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Sessile by Hue Nguyen

Oct 162020

10.10.20

Sessile by Hue Nguyen

Being alive is complicated when ants have decided to house themselves inside your body.

Edition of 200
Printed and published by Moniker Press
Vancouver BC, 2020

Content notification: trauma, abuse, mental health, self harm

Nathan, Thanh, Sarah, Juli, Kirsten, Bill, Tom, Erica, Lisa, Toby,
and everyone who has supported me. Cảm ơn.

Soft Launch at Vancouver Art Book Fair — October 17-18, 2020
Online Publication Launch and Q&A — November, 7, 2020

2020 Printers Calendar

Jan 112020

01.01.20

Year 2020, 20 Prints, 20 bucks

Moniker Press presents a special edition Printer’s Calendar for the year twenty twenty. Packed with practicality, featuring large scale fold out design with twenty interchangeable loose risograph pieces! Created by Moniker Press, with work by our studio residents: Emma Metcalfe Hurst, Hayley Burns and Aaron Friend Lettner. Proceeds from the Printers Calendar will cover production costs and support Moniker Press’ 2020 publishing projects.

Edition of 200^ish riso printed and
published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC, 2019/20

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pensamientos en la frontera by andi, anonymous, Roxanne Charles

Jun 102019

06.10.19

pensamientos en la frontera

To fragment, to uproot lives, to cross livelihoods, to respond to everything else before responding to the responsibility towards a people’s sovereignty, and to interrupt the ancestral movement of life across land—this is the legacy of border regimes.

pensamientos en la frontera is a project that comes as a new generation of Nicaraguan youth are forced into immigration. As they begin to explore and respond to their forced uprooting they look back to the experiences of past generations. The project follows histories of displacement—creating a bridge to connect culture-specific ways forced movement is carried in language, image, and sense of home across cultures. The hope is to foster kinship and inclusive celebration of differences amongst each other, beyond la frontera.

pensamientos en la frontera is an ongoing project compiled by andi and collaboratively riso printed and published with the support of Moniker Press. It consists of a continuously growing folder of publications and prints that feature many perspectives on displacement and borders.

i. pensamientos en la frontera (2nd ed)
concept and drawings by anonymous

ii. Cut-lings
non-fiction short by andi
edited by Mallory Amirault

iii. Untitled
passage by Roxanne Charles
illustrated by andi and Erica Wilk

first edition of 100
a collaborative book design
printed and published by Moniker Press
translations by andi
co-edited by Mallory Amirault and andi
Costa Rica / Vancouver, BC, 2018

Publication: pensamientos en la frontera

BOOK LAUNCH

Launch of pensamientos en la frontera on Friday May 10 at Massy Books. Thank you to everyone who came to support and listen, it was a moving night and hopefully we all learned something we can carry and share.

Event: pensamientos en la frontera launch

Noodle Soup by Harlo Martens

Apr 262019

04.30.19

Noodle Soup began as a series of mindless character drawings and recurring personal motifs in an attempt to heal from depression and substance abuse. The work evolved as outlooks began to shift more positively. Noodle Soup is a light but powerful broth, capable of taking life by the reins and simmering bitter thoughts into something truly savory.

by Harlo Martens
Edition of 150
A collaborative book design
riso printed and published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2019

First available at VanCaf, May 18-19, 2019

ARTIST BIO

Harlo Martens is a trans & queer interdisciplinary artist with some formal training and zero post-secondary credentials. Their goal is to create with a strong understanding of cultural theory, philosophy, and environmental awareness. Non-human intelligence* politics are their biggest motivator. Their work has been presented in numerous comic anthologies, galleries, theatres, and VJ’d in Vancouver-based multidisciplinary art shows.

Screen Ecologies by Emma Hicks and sophia bartholomew

Mar 302019

03.29.19

Screen Ecologies is a book which first existed as an orated text — something co-written by Emma Hicks and sophia bartholomew through the winter (Canada) summer (Australia) of 2016, and originally titled “Present, not present (or the smell that comes from the rocks before the rain).” Moving between philosophical reflection, poetic description, ink drawings, and family stories, Emma and sophia use their digitally-mediated friendship to consider broader questions around the maintenance of boundaries, social contract, healing, embodied communication, and the terms and limitations of knowledge exchange.

By Emma Hicks and sophia bartholomew
Edition of 180
Risograph printed and published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC, 2018

“What is enacted in online spaces? Objects circulated as stories, stories circulate as objects. The light from outside travels in with you, I can see it behind you… The air might get heavy, but it’s gravity that will give you shape. Grave-digging and negative numbers. The object is being articulated by the barbecue over your left hand shoulder, behind me there’s a refrigerator…”

Published collaboratively with Moniker Press, a limited edition of Screen Ecologies was risograph printed in Vancouver, BC, 2018. Earlier versions of this work were presented at the (Popular Culture Association of Australia & New Zealand) PopCAANZ Conference Digital Ecologies panel (2016) and at “Transcultural Collaborations: Advocating Reciprocal Spaces,” a First Nations & First Peoples Artist Panel Discussion at the Sydney College of the Arts (2017).

BOOK LAUNCH:

thanks to everyone who made it out to the Screen Ecologies launch!! Pictured first sophia bartholomew and Emma Hicks (via video) reading the original orated text which the publication is based off of.

READING:

Coop-Radio / SPIT, Interview + Reading, Artspeak Radio Digest, July 2018
More information here.

Suburbantomy by Adi Hadzismajlovic

Dec 192018

12.19.18

Suburbanatomy is a collection written over a five-year period. Stories of obsession, power dynamics, folklore, sexuality, Stockholm syndrome, family secrets, micro cults, and the peculiarly mundane. The collaborative design of the zine, takes the reader on a journey that hints at meaning but does not spell out. Risograph printed and published by Moniker Press, this risograph book includes enough puzzles to keep readers unnerved throughout their journey.

Stories by Adi Hadzismajlovic
Collaborative Book Design with Erica Wilk
Including found glitch images^{(google maps)}

Edition of 100
Riso Printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC, 2018

Publication: Suburbanatomy / Photo 1c bRE

BOOK LAUNCH
December 18, 2018
China Cloud Studios

Join us on Tuesday, December 18 for the launch of Suburbanatomy by Adi Hadzismajlovic at China Cloud Studios. Including a reading by Adi at 8 pm, accompanied by V.Vecker. Copies of Suburbanatomy will be available for purchase, and an exhibition of Lamb Hands illustrations will be on view.

ABOUT THE WRITER
Adi Hadzismajlovic is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. His work deals with the humorous, universal aspects of displacement and longing, often portrayed by characters and caricatures occupying surreal space. He is the author of an ongoing zine project Lamb Hands, as well as a booklet of poetry entitled Placenta Take Me Home and a short story collection Preaching Through a Straw. He currently resides in East Vancouver.

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