REMINDERS is a poetic artifact dredged from some ragged shore. And like an artifact, it contains a broader architecture, a lost cultural situation, from which it was molded. But the situation is hardly important, rather what arises here: an ache lit in the lonely hours, urges whispering in the margins, walking from the pool to the river, transformation beckoned in a flood.
There is no aim or directive defined in this work, only thickets of language and an invitation to “move more fascinated in greens / broad wastes of hue”.
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REMINDERS
by Jasper Pelle
Edition of 150
16pgs, 2c (Aqua,Med Blue, Yellow)
Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2025
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THANK YOUS

Gratitude never ending to my partner Remy, a well spring of inspiration, joy, and support; to my family for everything over the years; to all the beings, places, and spaces from which this work arose; and to Moniker Press for their patience and willingness to work with me, this project likely wouldn’t see the light of day without them.

BIO

Jasper Pelle was born and raised in Seattle, Washington but found their creative footing in Missoula, Montana, primarily as a poet and performance artist. Their writing practice took shape in the DIY punk/art scene, growing out of noise and ephemera, engaging with language not as a tool to be manipulated for the sake of expression, but as an end in itself. Grounded in a palpable sincerity, their poetry is abstracted and embodied, tactile and immaterial; fields of image and sensation from which meaning and feeling are not strictly communicated but given the space to arise. Beyond their art practice they are a gardener, baker, and community organizer. They live in Vancouver with their partner and two black cats.

EVENTS

REMINDERS Launch: Reading and Performance
July 4, 2025, 7:30pm at the Roundhouse Outdoor Plaza
Featuring Jasper Pelle, Emily Lawson and Exiliahu in disharmonious chorus. Part of Vancouver Art Book Fair opening night programming.
Sales of REMINDERS on friday were contributed to this GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/7be9103a to support Mohammed Alzaza’s family in Gaza and assist their travel and arrival to Canada. *Thank you so much we sold 8 copies and the money was donated to the gofundme!* Pictures here.

 
CENTO
dani neira, Vida Beyer, Nour Bishouty, Hazel Meyer, Philip Leonard Ocampo, Dana Qaddah
 
cento (noun)
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
anything composed of incongruous parts; conglomeration.
Obsolete. a patchwork.
 
CENTO is a loose-leaf, interactive artist book that features artist editions including a functional fortune-teller, bookplates with performance prompts, gossipy booklets, shape-shifting forms, existential meditations, and curatorial musings.
 
Through its expanded book form, CENTO extends its namesakes’ literary tradition and embraces the language of patchwork as a reparative method. Piecing together personal, cultural, historical, and speculative fragments, the publication explores a non-linear gathering and layering of meaning.
 
10×11″
sewn binding / loose elements
pgs: n/a (5 artists works)
 
Edition of 150
ISBN 978-1-989428-19-1
Co-Published by Moniker Press, Open Space
Curator — Dani Neira
Design, Layout — Moniker Press, Dani Neira
Risograph Printing — Moniker Press
Victoria / Vancouver, BC – 2024
 
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THANK YOUs

Thank you to Open Space, Doug Jarvis, Cassia Powell, dani neira and the artists.
 

ARTIST BIOS

 
Vida Beyer is an artist who blends the personal with an archive of artifacts, pictures and stories from popular and unpopular culture as a means to cultivate potential sites of recognition.
 
Nour Bishouty is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, sculpture, works on paper, digital images, and writing. Broadly concerned with gaps in archival memory and the Western production of knowledge and fantasy, her practice explores notions of permission and articulation in cultural narratives overwritten by dispossession and displacement.
 
Hazel Meyer is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between sport, sexuality, feminism, and material culture. Meyer’s work aims to recover the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of sports and recreation. Drawing on archival research, she designs immersive installations that bring various troublemakers—lesbians-feminists, gender-outlaws, incontinent-queers—into a performative space that centres desire, queerness, and sweat.
 
Philip Leonard Ocampo is an artist and arts facilitator based in Tkaronto, Canada. Ocampo’s multidisciplinary practice involves painting, sculpture, writing and curatorial projects. Exploring worldbuilding, radical hope and speculative futures, Ocampo’s work embodies a curious cross between magic wonder and the nostalgic imaginary. Following the tangents, histories and canons of popular culture, Ocampo is interested in how unearthing cultural touchstones of past / current times may therefore serve as catalysts for broader conversations about lived experiences; personal, collective, diasporic, etc.
 
Dana Qaddah (b. Beirut, Lebanon) is an interdisciplinary artist & independent curator currently based on unceded Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish territory. Qaddah’s practice uses archives of personal & itinerant cultural knowledge to traverse themes of Arab futurism & storytelling, while reflecting on the condition of being abstracted from the destruction of one’s own sense of self & place.
 
dani neira is a second-generation settler of mixed Colombian ancestry based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Their interdisciplinary practice involves curatorial projects, independent publishing, art writing, and visual art. Exploring memory, language and built environments, their work embraces affective knowledge and the queer slippages which occur in everyday life. Dani holds a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria, and is 1/2 of the curatorial project Dirty Dishes Collective.
 
OPEN SPACE  is a non-profit artist-run centre situated on unceded Lekwungen territory in Victoria, British Columbia. Since its founding in 1972, Open Space has worked to present contemporary visual arts, music, writing, media arts and more.

 
Sleep
by Heather Tsang
 
Sleep is a brief visitation into an imagined liminal space between sleep and wakefulness.
 
2.75″x3.75″, 12pgs, 1c
Edition of 150
Risograph printed and published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2023
 
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birdcage
 
Encounters with ghosts, diasporic memories, dreams, and grandmothers. 
 
birdcage is an introspective multi-media and performance work that reflects on family, migration, and memory through written text (scores and poetry), lanterns, voice, and music. The publication is designed to be assembled into a simple lantern that holds the scores and poems and invites the viewer to engage with the content in a non-linear way. The scores, poems, and lanterns are also part of a live performance work for solo violin and electronic tape. Created in collaboration with violinist, photographer Ilana Waniuk.–
 
dedicated to our grandmothers
 
Alex Mah – text scores, poems, concept
Ilana Waniuk- collaborator, violinist, photographer
 
Edition of 150
Riso printed and published by Moniker Press
ISBN 978-1-989428-13-9
Vancouver, BC – 2023
 
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