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.

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.

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

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.

11.25.18

Trixie’s Trek with Triniti is a collaboration in both print and music from Jon Vaughn and Sean Christensen. Starting from a few drawings made by Vaughn last summer, Christensen explored the series of abstract marks as a guide for a journey between two characters in which Vaughn later named Trixie and Triniti, a dog and its human friend. The two explore worlds of fragmented landscapes, rivers and architectures, taking pause to swim, read and dream. Reality and its many possible dimensions collide as both time and space morph throughout of the book, creating a kind of non-linear story that can be entered and existed at any point, yet also ‘read’ from start to finish like a traditional comic. To complete the experience the two composed a 30 minute soundtrack of synthesizer, drums and drum machines, adding musical colour to risograph printed gradients and deep blacks of the mysterious book.

Drawings by Jon Vaughn and Sean Christensen
Collaborative Book Design by Erica Wilk and Jon Vaughn

Risograph Printed by Moniker Press
Edition of 150
ISBN 978-0-9937881-8-5

Co-Published by Moniker Press and Ecstasy Editions
Vancouver, BC, 2018

*comes with a free download of the corresponding soundscape, limited edition of cassettes available.

07.20.18

Tone features poetry and writing by Jamilah Malika, Soledad Fatima Muñoz, Domunique Booker, and Kiran Dhaliwal. The publication aims to deconstruct preexisting ideologies and affect change, through the understanding of words and embodied materiality.

Listen to Black Women by Jamilah Malika, Love Poems to White Supremacy by Soledad Fatima Muñoz, Diary of a Sad Black Woman/ Living in a Tone Deaf Society by Domunique Booker,  life as an apology and the days that are finally mine by Kiran Dhaliwal.

Designed by Sylvana d’Angelo.

A Zine Club publication printed and co-Published at Moniker Press. Presented to coincide with an exhibition at Field Contemporary as part of the 2018 Current: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium. The exhibition investigated the social and gestural quality of words within a sonic framework.

1st Edition of 50
2nd Edition of 100
Vancouver, BC, 2018

BOOK LAUNCH

July 26, 2018
Field Contemporary

TONE: a publication and exhibition that investigated the social and gestural quality of words within a sonic framework. Work and readings featured: Jamilah Malika, Domunique Booker, Soledad Fatima Muñoz, Kiran Dhaliwal and Contrast Collective.

05.20.18

On May 15 we launched our latest collaborative publication with artist Janet Ford. Thanks to all who attended the event, your support is appreciated! Also thank you to Gregory Adams for leading the Q&A. See photos of the book and from the event below.

Artist, Janet Ford has lived with Bulimia Nervosa for over twenty years. Through witty illustrations and personal insights, the book follows Janet’s struggle and progression of the illness. At times wildly funny and utterly heartbreaking, Janet’s story aims to spread awareness about the complex nature of Bulimia as well as help others who suffer from the disease feel less alone and isolated in the madness.

MORE INFO + ORDER HERE