The Printed Room – read the room/you’ve go to
Etel Adnan, Kolt Beringer, Harry Burke, Cynthia Cruz, Olivia Dunbar, Andrew Durbin, Ida Ekblad, Heike-Karin Föll, Lauren Gault, Harmony Holiday, Karl Holmqvist, Romain Juan, Joan Naviyuk Kane, John Kelsey, Paul Kneale, Sophie Jung, Sophia Le Fraga, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Garrett Nelson, Collier Nogues, Sophie Nys, Fatuma Osman, Vanessa Place, Lauren Printy Currie, Megan Rooney, Andrew Seguin, Donna Stonecipher, Sue Tompkins, Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Hannah Woo, Lynn Xu Curated by Quinn Latimer
20 Jun – 21 Jul 2014

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Opening: 19 June 2014, 6–10 pm

The exhibition read the room / you’ve got to explores the current blurring of borders between poetic and visual arts practices, as well as analogue and digital processes, while taking up the history of mail art in the internet age. The show is comprised of works on A4 paper—many of them made specifically for this exhibition—that the participating poets and artists chose to mail or email to the curator. In the case of the latter, the works were then printed out using a standard inkjet printer. From poems crafted from email spam to poems made from film-still subtitles to poems emerging from more traditional painting and drawing and typographic practices, the works on view describe the discursive range of contemporary poetics and the visual art oeuvres under that indelible influence.

Worklist / clockwise from left:

Lynn Xu, Une sorte de rendez-vous (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Megan Rooney, Desperado (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Mon petit alphabet (2012). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Big Bang Nr. 3 (2010). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Andrew Durbin, Madeline Gins, Make Dying Illegal (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Andrew Seguin, It is winter where you were born and the rain is recording my work (2014). Ink
on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Karl Holmqvist, Queer Latifa (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Heike-Karin Föll, Moascherrie! (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Harry Burke, B b u don’t know anything about lov (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Fatuma Osman, alif’s hope for omnipotence (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Sophia Le Fraga, Los Angeles is my fucking destiny (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Harmony Holiday, Adultery (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Paul Kneale, Alletage Sabotage (2014). Design for stick and poke tattoo for Harry Burke by Bea
Schlingelhoff, scanned and printed on top of lithographic plate stolen from history of painting
book in Airbnb villa, Arles.
Olivia Dunbar, For wanting to say that (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Etel Adnan, These days I am feeling eager to tell things as they are (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x
29.1 cm.
Joan Naviyuk Kane, Sanitary Memoirs of the War (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Sue Tompkins, Bionic Day (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Paul Kneale, Alletage Sabotage (2014). Design for stick and poke tattoo for Harry Burke by Bea
Schlingelhoff, scanned and printed on top of lithographic plate stolen from history of painting
book in Airbnb villa, Arles.
John Kelsey, Open Book (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Megan Rooney, Reader’s Sympthy (2014). Paint on H&M catalogue, 21 x 31 cm.
Sophia Le Fraga, One day, the sadness will end (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
John Kelsey, Slut (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Sophie Nys, QQQQ (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Tremolo (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Harmony Holiday, Hands in a dream (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Garrett Nelson, Transparenz (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Donna Stonecipher, Model City [1] (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Vanessa Place, Joke (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Lauren Printy Currie, Untitled (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Hannah Woo, HANNAH (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Kolt Beringer, Lodestar (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Cynthia Cruz, Wunderkammer (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Collier Nogues, MacArthur (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Ida Ekblad, The Root Cellar (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Lauren Gault, Such Lush Detail 2 (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Romain Juan, Untitled (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.
Sophie Jung, Deep Impact II* (2014). Ink on paper, 21 x 29.1 cm.

Photography: courtesy Gunnar Meier