FROM PRESENTATION HOUSE IN NORTH VANCOUVER

September 30 to November 8, 2015

Please join us for the Opening Reception for B.C. Almanac(h) C-B, Friday, October 2 at 7 pm, artists in attendance


B.C. Almanac(h) C-B brings to light a multimedia project that was originally commissioned in 1970 by the Stills Division of the National Film Board of Canada. The project features a reissued anthology of photographic bookworks and accompanying exhibition, as well as works from the period by artists included in the book. Fifteen artists, filmmakers and writers - many using cameras for the first time - were invited to produce photographic bookworks that were then compiled into a 472-page anthology. Participants included multimedia artists and photographers Jack Dale, Michael de Courcy, Christos Dikeakos, Judith Eglington, Gerry Gilbert, Roy Kiyooka, Glenn Lewis, Taras Masciuch, NE Thing Co. Ltd., Michael Morris, Jone Pane, Timothy Porter, Peter Thomas, Vincent Trasov, and Robertson Wood. The book itself was designed as an exhibition and the exhibition was conceived as a three-dimensional multimedia version about the production of the book, complete with walls painted greyscale. BC Almanac(h) C-B highlights the experimental ethos of artist book production as well as radical new approaches to the circulation of print culture through mass media. In the spirit of the era, the vibrant experimental art scene on the westcoast embraced new ideas about the potential of communication in the electronic information age and new camera technology, the artists were exploring new camera technology and ideas about communication in the electronic information age.