09.07.22

so that we don’t perish by the truth
by Emily Neufeld

There is a particular smell in abandoned houses, especially on dry, sunny days. The dust that hangs in the air, capturing the light, is part soil, part plaster dust, part dry pigeon shit, part microbes, part human cells, part stardust. It makes it easy to remember that human habitats are interwoven with the lives of so many other creatures. 

‘so that we don’t perish by the truth’ is a collection of four zines and loose prints, compiling together Emily Neufeld’s research and exploration of homes throughout Canada that are in their last days of functionality: Homes slated for demolition in the lower mainland, abandoned farmhouses on the prairies, empty homes in small fishing villages in Newfoundland and Cape Breton, and in mining ghost towns in British Columbia. Her work is a sort of funerary right, and acknowledgement of Canada’s colonial history. This risograph printed publication combines photographs, ephemera and collaborative writing in a non-sequential reading experience. Featuring Laura Cuthbert Gaaysiigad, Jane Walker, David Ng and Nura Ali, who have each responded to the accumulated material from a location they have an intimate relationship with.

Edition of 130
Risograph printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2022

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07.20.22

a/denegado: pensamientos en la frontera (special addition) for Out of Bounds at Libby Leshgold Gallery, July 20-Aug 28, 2022 (12-5pm daily)

Out of Bounds is the fifth installment of the Summer School for Artists’ Publishing, presented annually by the Libby Leshgold Gallery and READ Books. This year, we have commissioned several artist-publishers to make new or reanimated works that resist the constraints of conventional dissemination, intellectual property restrictions, state censorship, and economic barriers to reach or form new publics and counterpublics. These works belong to a wider field of publishing that includes unauthorized copies, facsimiles, activist tools and manuals, anarchist cookbooks, anonymous leaflets, banned or suppressed books, street posters, and samizdats.

pensamientos en la frontera is an ongoing project compiled by andi and collaboratively riso printed and published with Moniker Press. It consists of a continuously growing bundle of publications and prints that feature many perspectives on displacement and borders. It comes as a new generation of Nicaraguan youth are forced into immigration, to create bridges to connect culture-specific ways forced movement is carried in language, image, and sense of home across cultures. 

This addition is a call to action as more people exercising their right of movement and refuge are met by the violence of border regimes; six months 111,000 migrants, raided newspapers, swimming lessons for Rio Grande.