ReIssue

12/01/2024

Attention! 🔉🔊‼️ We are excited to announce that Kiel Torres is the ReIssue Year 3 Anthology guest editor! 🎉 💫

Kiel is a writer and editor from Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work focuses on performance, poetry, criticism, and correspondence. She is the assistant curator at Western Front, and hosts a seasonal reading series at Choklit Park.

The ReIssue Year 3 Anthology will be released in the Spring. More details soon!

ID: a portrait photograph of Kiel Torres.

01/12/2023

Fa la la, it’s the December Digestif!🧣🧤 Link in Bio~

12/01: 19,000 Scanned A**l Queefs and Counting | Christopher Lacroix
12/01: The Hungry Mist | Bento Leite, Dyó Potyguara, Simon(e) Jakiriuma Paetau .art.centre
12/01: Open Studios & Art Sale @ Howe Street Studios
12/02: Kasper Feyrer Artist Talk & Book Launch
12/02 & 12/03: ...wreckage upon wreckage... @ The Morrow
12/03: ADD - A Different Dimension @ The Annex
12/05 & 12/06: Orlando, My Political Biography
12/06: Artist Talk: Tsēmā Igharas with Rita Wong
12/07: Timeline Talks: crying at work (a score for the future)
12/08-12/10: COMBINE Art Fair
12/08 & 12/09: Transform
12/09: A Dream in the Eye Book Launch
12/15, 12/23, 12/28: All That Heaven Allows

ID: The ReIssue logo against a snowy textured pink, blue, and purple-ish background. Dates underneath it read: 12/01–12/31.

17/11/2022

“… it feels like we’ve been pulled into the room, into a kind of spectral, ghostly contact with the body on the screen: the studied coyness of its gaze at the camera, at us, pierces us with an intimacy that is both feigned and hyper-real.”
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Andy Zuliani (andy zuliani]) gives an expanded review of Mediating Vessels at Massy Arts Society in “Contact at a Distance” now on ReIssue.

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photo: Hán Phạm, Beacons, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

Image id: Wavering static-effect, glitchy photo collage of digital advertisements for moisturizer in front of a dark background.

27/10/2022

UNIT/PITT is the parent artist-run centre of ReIssue, and now you can come work with us! Applications for their entry-level Director position are due this Friday.

📣 Job Posting 📣 We are now accepting applications for UNIT/PITT Director: https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/call-for-director-2022/

Terms: Full-time, initial 2 or 3 year contract
Start Date: Between December 1 and January 16, 2023
Hours: 36 hours/week, flexible schedule
Salary: $50-55,000 per annum based on experience + benefits
Deadline for Applications: 4:00 pm PDT on October 28, 2022

This is an entry-level Director position, meaning that the candidate does not necessarily need to have prior curatorial or director experience, but must demonstrate a passion for and an extensive knowledge of contemporary art practice. They must show strong grant-writing and financial management skills, and bring a willingness to learn about charitable and non-profit organisations. Knowledge of artist-run centres and art labour history are assets. The candidate must be capable of maintaining and cultivating relationships with UNIT/PITT’s community-stakeholders, including emerging and early-career artists and curators, and donors and funding partners. The candidate can facilitate a collaborative working environment that is efficient, but also respects individuals’ need for rest and work boundaries.

Artists are encouraged to apply. UNIT/PITT also encourages applications from Black, Indigenous and racialised peoples; 2SLGBTQI+ non-binary/gender non-conforming people; people with disabilities; and people with lived experiences of poverty. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

Read the full posting here: https://www.unitpitt.ca/updates/call-for-director-2022/

07/05/2022

Sun's out for one minute and we are loving the energy! You too? Why not write a review!

ReIssue is looking for reviews that engage with west coast-based experimental art practices, including exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and events to fill out our spring/summer publishing schedule! Have something in mind? Now's your chance. Submit a pitch or first draft by May 23 to be considered for June publication!

ReIssue pays $350 for reviews. For Submission Guidelines, visit reissue.pub/about, click the link in our bio, or email [email protected].

ID: A bright yellow and orange image of a tulip on a spring background. White text reads "Spring Reviews 600-1000 words"

06/05/2022

🐣Here she is! ReIssue’s Year 1 Anthology is in print and alive in the world!

This is still a sneak preview as we work to get purchase links available online (and copies in bookstores), but this is to stay… stay tuned! So grateful for all the work put into it by guest editor , designer , proofreader , the contributors, and all who have supported and written for ReIssue over the past 1.5 years. The Year 1 Anthology features work by Brit Bachmann, Jonah Gray (), Godfre Leung (), Ben Lickerman, Kitt Peacock (), Dana Qaddah (), Amanda Siebert (), Casey Wei, Katayoon Yousefbigloo (), Chelsea Yuill (), and Coco Zhou. 🔥

📷: ReIssue Year 1 Anthology, ed. Jordan Wilson, 2022.

ID: A stack of ReIssue anthologies with blue and pink pixellated covers. Slide 2 and 3 feature the table of contents and the back cover.

11/04/2022

Good day—the video of songwriter & musician Carey Mercer ()’s 2021 Speaker Series talk is now online! Find it thru the link in our bio. Note: the first few minutes of the talk weren’t recorded, so it starts mid-thought.

Find closed captions by clicking the CC button at the bottom right hand of the video player.

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RSVP link in bio 📣 The next Speaker Series is with Carey Mercer on Fri, Jan 22 at 12-1pm PST.

Carey Mercer is a songwriter and musician, currently working on the unceded lands belonging to the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓wətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. Since 2001, Mercer has produced a steady stream of albums, releasing records under the names Soft Plastics, Frog Eyes, Blackout Beach, and Swan Lake. Mercer has published one book of essays and stories and had work published in McSweeney's, The Talkhouse, and other various publications. Mercer is currently working on more music in the early and late hours of most days.

📷 by Angela Fama

[ID: 1. Colour photograph of Carey Mercer against a textured grey-checkered background with text announcing the Speaker Series information, date and time.]

30/03/2022

March has been a quiet month here at ReIssue, but not because nothing is happening…

Excited to soon share more updates about the forthcoming Year 1 Anthology! 📕🤓💅

ID: A photo of a pixellated book spine with the words “ReIssue Year 1” in white text.

22/02/2022

Heads up! From now on, we won't be updating this page regularly. To keep up with ReIssue's latest essays, calls for pitches, and event notices, follow us over on Twitter https://twitter.com/reissuepub and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/reissue.pub, or check in on our website, https://reissue.pub/ Stay well! ✏️🙂

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08/02/2022

"Convention dictates that I refer to the artist by their surname, but I don’t think I’ve ever called her Cornelia. I had heard that someone referred to Cornelia as ‘Cory’ in a public and professional delivery and was unceremoniously corrected by her on the spot. What follows is not that kind of text though — not a review, but blatant appreciation on the occasion of her exhibition at the Libby. So, Cory it is, respectfully, going to be.”

Steffanie Ling writes a response to At Face Value, Cornelia Wyngaarden's ongoing installation at Libby Leshgold Gallery. "Against Pomposity and Phantasmagoria" is live now on ReIssue: https://reissue.pub/articles/against-pomposity-and-phantasmagoria-cornelia-wyngaarden-at-libby-leshgold-gallery

📷: Installation view of At Face Value, Libby Leshgold Gallery. Photo: Blaine Campbell. Courtesy of Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver.

ID: Installation view of At Face Value. In the centre of the image, a lit-up alcove reveals a framed portrait of a q***r woman rancher against a yellow background. To the left of the portrait are two monitors and to the right is a rectangular grid of black-and-white stills.

24/01/2022

Statement #5, a cut-up poem by R. Peng, is up now on ReIssue! https://reissue.pub/articles/statement-5

R. Peng is a writer, artist, and Furby enthusiast, currently living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

📷: R. Peng, Statement #5, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.

ID: The header of the Canadian Art website, reading June 15, 2021, "Statement from the Canadian Art Foundation." The text of the statement below is whited out to form a poem, reading "Over the past few months / our position was / postpone the summer"

18/01/2022

Announcement! 🎨✍️ Sign-up is open for FreeSchool 06 with Casey Wei: Art Reviews, which will run Saturday, February 26, March 5 and 12 from 12-2:30PST on Zoom.

Join interdisciplinary artist and ReIssue editor Casey Wei in a three session workshop to learn methods of approach on review writing. Whether it’s an art exhibition, concert, book, or something else, there are conventions to follow as well as to question when writing your hot-take. Participants will work towards writing and presenting a review (approximately 500 words) over the three sessions.

Apply by sending an email to Casey at: [email protected] with a brief introduction, and something you’d like to review. The workshop will accept up to 6 participants. For a break-down of each session: https://reissue.pub/events

About: Casey Wei is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and writer based in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. She holds an MFA from Simon Fraser University. Her moving image works include Murky Colors (2012), Vater und Sohn/Father and Son/父与子 (2013), Kingsgate Mall Happenings (2014), art rock? The Popular Esoteric (2018), Tuning to Oblivion: Piece for Monsanto Corn (2019), and various others. She runs the music and printed matter label, Agonyklub, and is an editor at ReIssue.pub. She currently is working on the final film in her 父母 trilogy titled, The Zhang Clan, and plays in the band Kamikaze Nurse.

ID: Two slides with graphics in purple and teal advertising Free School 06. The first contains a headshot of Casey Wei from the shoulders up; the second features a pixellated apple with the words: "Art Reviews with Casey Wei. 3 Sessions: Feb 26, Mar 5 & 12—on Zoom."

15/01/2022

Call for pitches! ⚾️

It's a new year and we are once again putting out the call for you to share your fresh, engaged critical art writing with ReIssue!

We are seeking pitches that centre contemporary art, artists, writers, and cultural workers with connections to the west coast of Canada, especially pitches that critically engage with experimental art practices.

ReIssue pays $100-500 for...
- Reviews
- Essays
- Interviews
- Poetry
- Plays
- and other art writing

For Submission Guidelines, visithttps://reissue.pub/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Submission-Guide-2021-09-06.pdf or email [email protected]. For more ideas on the kinds of things we publish, check out our website: https://reissue.pub/ ✏️

ID: Four slides with the text in the caption above in black font against a bright and muddled orange-pink background.

13/01/2022

A question moon travellers,
In whose possession are
the real openings?

A new poem for a new year! EA Douglas shares "A Year of Somatic Psychotherapy" in the latest issue of ReIssue. Read the whole poem: https://reissue.pub/articles/a-year-of-somatic-psychotherapy

📷: EA Douglas, A Year of Somatic Psychotherapy, 2021, collage. Courtesy of the artist.

ID: A minimalist collage in pastel colours. On the left side, an image of a kitchen is encircled in pink. On the right side, the illustration of a rocket ship cuts across the piece.

11/01/2022

“The nostalgia for my childhood spent frequenting a similar community art gallery in an adjacent suburb hit me upon encountering the small inset window display promoting Forged on the exterior of Evergreen Cultural Centre. Made up of items that mirror the ones in the exhibition — cloth masks (for facials, not for COVID-19), plastic fruit, packaged Japanese goods — this display resonates as a symbol of the community the exhibition serves.”

Casey Wei reviews Evan Lee's Forged at Art Gallery at Evergreen in Coquitlam. Read it now at ReIssue.pub! https://reissue.pub/articles/heart-of-process-evan-lee-forged-at-evergreen-gallery

📷: Forged window display, Evergreen Cultural Centre. Photo: Casey Wei.

ID: A window display features three white sheet masks, plastic grapes, and packaged Japanese foods. In the reflection of the glass, you can see the silhouette of Casey Wei taking the picture, and behind her, the snowy streets of Coquitlam.

23/12/2021

❄️ Happy holidays, everyone! ❄️

Over the weeks to come we are excited to be working with guest editor Jordan Wilson to bring you our Year 1 Anthology, out early 2022.

As we close out the year, we’d like to thank you again for your readership, your writing, your collaboration, and your support in helping to foster a thriving culture of critical arts writing on the west coast. In a time when so much in the arts is still unstable, this means a great deal. As we begin our second year of publishing, we are asking for your support to help us continue this project well into the future, and to continue paying writers well for their work!

You can support ReIssue by making a one-time or recurring donation through Canada Helps. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/58150 We are also selling ReIssue totes! https://reissue.pub/support

All the best into the new year and we look forward to sharing more exciting critical work—soon! ✏️🖼🤓

ID: A black background with white text reading “ReIssue.” Snowflakes are falling around the image.

17/12/2021

🎉It's been a big first year for ReIssue! 🎉 As we wrap up the year and look towards 2022, we'd like to thank everyone who's supported us so far and take a moment to reflect on 2021. Here are some of our top stats for the year…

✏️ We published 42 articles–including 12 creative pieces, 11 essays, 8 interviews, and 11 reviews.

✏️ We hosted 6 Free Schools—with facilitators Casey Wei, Sarah Todd, Vee CR, Angelic Goldsky, Reyhan Yazdani, and Annie Canto.

✏️ We coordinated 7 special events—including Speaker Series with Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, LAIWAN, Carey Mercer, Cecily Nicholson, Ardele Lister; Vivek Shraya's artist talk in co-production with SUM Gallery/Queer Arts Festival; and Barry Doupé’s Distracted Blueberry co-produced with STILLS moving image tract and DIM Cinema.

A big thank you to all the writers, artists, curators, and speakers who worked with us to create a full year of publishing and virtual events, as well as to the , whose support has been truly foundational! We can’t wait to see what our second year brings. ✨

ID: A pixelated blue gif with white snowflakes falling reveals the text: “42 articles, 6 FreeSchools, 7 Special Events!”

01/12/2021

Last week announced that , one of the partner orgs behind ReIssue, was selected runner-up for the 2021 Lacey Prize—which recognizes the impact of small artist-run organizations in Canada 🎉💐🍾

Posted • UNIT/PITT is runner-up for the 2021 Lacey Prize! To have our work be seen and to be shortlisted for this award means so much to us, particularly this year. The board and staff would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Eunice Bélidor, Curator of Quebec and Canadian Contemporary Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jonathan Shaughnessy, Director of Curatorial Initiatives , Louise Lacey-Rokosh, artist and representative from the Lacey family, the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, and everyone else involved with the Lacey Prize.

Congratulations to Lacey Prize 2021 winner .blinkers, fellow runner-up , and honourable mentions, and . UNIT/PITT is humbled to be included alongside such brilliant organizations.

Thank you to poet, writer and educator Adèle Barclay () for appreciating our programs and nominating us for this prize.

To read our full announcement, follow the link in our bio.

Image 1: UNIT/PITT administrative staff and program coordinators. 2-tone blue and yellow Zoom room screenshot. From top left clockwise: Brit Bachmann, Director; Casey Wei, ReIssue Editor; Rachel Lau, Program Coordinator; Lauren Lavery, Communications & Development Assistant; Kara Stanton, ReIssue Assistant Editor; Roxanne Panchasi, La Commune 2021 Program Curator and Board Member. 2021.
Image 2: Lacey Prize 2021 logo, black and white geometric.
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19/11/2021

Flavourcel Animation Collective: Whether it be with writing or sound or music or illustration or comics, we all dabble in at least a few mediums. I think that versatility really lends itself to animation because animation is like everything all at once. At its best, it incorporates everything. Animation is really the medium where you can bring anything to the table and make it move.

Alysha Seriani interviews Flavourcel Animation Collective in "Snacking Artists Unite!" now on ReIssue! https://reissue.pub/articles/snacking-artists-unite-an-interview-with-flavourcel-animation-collective

Images:
1. Gil Goletski, it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it, 2021. gif.

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1. A gif by Gil Goletski: A tall cat wearing bright clothing and boots walks upright against a moving purple tunnel—a torchlight glowing on the wall.

16/11/2021

"Some memories, too, are simply created as a tool for survival. [The novel] speak[s] to the ways through which stories become a part of ourselves — over time, the stories we share become indistinguishable from our own history or someone else’s. Passed down through generations, this is how stories become stitched onto our bodies and into the collective memory."

Jessica Johns reviews The Strangers, the latest novel from Katherena Vermette, in "Intergenerational Storytelling and Collective Memory-Making." Now on ReIssue! https://reissue.pub/articles/a-review-of-the-strangers-by-katherena-vermette

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1. KC Adams. Cover, The Strangers. Designed by Jennifer Griffiths. Katherena Vermette, Penguin Random House, 2021.
2. Vanda Fleury. Katherena Vermette author photo, 2021. Courtesy Katherena Vermette.

ID: A collaged image: on the left side of the image, colourful flowers are beaded onto birchbark in the cover for The Strangers by Katherena Vermette, "The bestselling author of The Break." On the right side of the image, there is a headshot of Katherena Vermette, a Métis woman with long brown hair, looking thoughtfully off into the distance.

09/11/2021

“As what was once public art has been adapted, through the pandemic, to take the form of an independent and individual experience, the vulnerable space of an arts encounter has shrunk to the size of a laptop screen. While this can offer forms of accessibility and dynamism that in-person events cannot, it misses the physical experience of breathing and feeling in a room with other people. In the face of the shrinking cultural encounter and the shrinking of safety often to the walls of one’s home, it is also clear that we are more accustomed to being with various forms of virtual media than with each other. When gallery visits are mitigated by booking a time slot, wearing a mask, and practicing physical distancing, what kinds of intimate encounters with art can we hope to have in public?”

Kara Stanton traces reverberations of grief through the Victoria arts community and responds to programming by Regan Shrumm in "Grief City." https://reissue.pub/articles/grief-city

📷 Candle for Raj, March 2021. Courtesy of Kara Stanton.

ID: A dark shot of a glowing yellow candle from above. The light from the flame refracts off a quilt underneath it.

05/11/2021

“That’s the thing, with age, a person connects more dots and you see things in a whole new light. I see patterns in the work, I get more information. It’s like a crime scene. The archive is evidence to me. I can’t not do something with it, because it exists. It gives me source material that I can’t deny. I think of it like mark-making and not wanting to feel like a ghost: leaving a mark and creating evidence.”

This week on ReIssue, "The archive is evidence I exist," Sonja Ahlers in conversation with Alexandra Alisauskas and Godfre Leung. https://reissue.pub/articles/the-archive-is-evidence-i-exist-a-conversation-with-sonja-ahlers

📷 Sonja Ahlers in her studio, 2021. Photo: Geoffrey Tomlin-Hood. Courtesy the artist.

ID: Sonja Ahlers, a white woman with a blond bun on top of her head, holds up a black-and-white photocopy of a person with big shaggy hair. Behind her, a white wall is covered in other photocopied pages clipped to rows of strings with tiny clothespins. The pages include a drawing of a wolf's snout, a hand-written note, a newspaper clipping.

21/10/2021

Sonja Ahlers’ artist book, Swan Song, was recently released by Conundrum Press - Canada. Composed from collected cut-outs over the years, Swan Song accesses subconscious narratives that accumulate and reveal themselves over time. Read an excerpt from the book now on ReIssue: https://reissue.pub/articles/excerpt-from-swan-song

Plus look forward to next ReIssue, when Ahlers will be interviewed on her practice by archivist/librarian Alexandra Alisauskas and critic/curator Godfre Leung.

Image: Courtesy of the artist, 2021.

ID: A line drawing of a rainbow. Under one side of the arc, handwritten text reads "HARD ROCK (depression)." Underneath the other side of the rainbow, text reads "SOFT ROCK (anxiety)."

09/10/2021

"Looking at an object with the intention of sending it to a partner upstairs, an imaginary triangle grows as I activate the line between my body, my partner upstairs, and the object. Vividly aware of these distances, an awareness also grows of my presence on the land, and the object’s weighty self on the museum shelf."

Claire Geddes Bailey reflects on the artist-led workshop "all the things in the room," a project exploring sensory and somatic interactions with the collections at the Museum of Vancouver in fall 2019. Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver Read it: https://reissue.pub/articles/all-the-things-in-the-room

📷 Elisa Ferrari in collaboration with Jane Ellison, Megan Hepburn and Tiziana La Melia, all the things in the room (2019), video still.

ID: A person sniffs a wooden frame. They are sitting on the floor wearing a blue cap and a yellow sleep mask. The frame is lined with wire mesh.

06/10/2021

"Pixels break apart the screen and surface his mom’s image. They crackle in the river. Something wants to be known, but finds itself buffeted by silences and far-off looks from all sides.”

Assistant Editor Kara Stanton reviews Portraits From a Fire (dir. Trevor Mack, 2021) and Damascus Dreams (dir. Émilie Serri, 2021), two features on now at Vancouver International Film Festival! Check out VIFF to find ways to watch both films, either in-person or streaming online. Find the full review at https://reissue.pub/articles/reaching-through-the-smoke

📷 William Magnus Lulua in Portraits From a Fire (dir. Trevor Mack, 2021, Photon Films), digital.

ID: An Indigenous teenage boy wearing a hoodie and shoulder-length hair stands outside, looking into the distance. Behind him stretches a wide river banked by trees.

29/09/2021

Posted • 💥 𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗦 𝟭𝟬: 𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗲́𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰 is now available as a print ready PDF.

🤔 STILLS editors and employ correspondence criticism to think through the hard and soft stuff in ’s epic cine-poem shape and colour mind stroll Distracted Blueberry (2019).

📩 Download from the linked folder in our bio.

🫂 Hope to see the locals at the in-person return of DIM Cinema for tonight’s screening co-hosted with our friends at .pub.

15/09/2021

"I cannot yet memorate a community where no one is guilty and everyone is responsible."

"memoration," a new poem by Jane Shi () is live now on ReIssue. Read it: https://reissue.pub/articles/memoration

📷 Jane Shi, Columns of Hands, 2021, digital.

[ID: A dark, shadowy image of trees silhouetted against a dark purple sky. In the top left hand corner, there is a flare of bright yellow-orange light. The outline of two hands with their palms held upwards is just barely visible in the foreground.]

10/09/2021

"The universe has a thickness. A centimetre of air. The sun is shining on half of me. One square foot of fire. Half a piano is better than none. I am as simple as I can possibly be."

Read an excerpt from the ongoing writing practice of artist Barry Doupé now on ReIssue! https://reissue.pub/articles/excerpt-from-100-pages-of-poetic-writing-2010

ReIssue is also co-presenting a screening of Barry’s film Distracted Blueberry with Stills: a moving image tract and The Cinematheque later this month—find more here: https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2021/distracted-blueberry

📷 Barry Doupé, Distracted Blueberry (2019; Video Data Bank, 2021), digital.

[ID: A digital image of a bright red room. Blue dots line the walls and floor in a grid. A large yellow pencil takes up the centre foreground of the room.]