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The undesirables

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"The undesirables" by Myfanwy Macleod features work drawn from MacLeod’s public art endeavors over the past fifteen years and a newly commissioned text by Lisa Robertson. The publication comprises realized and unrealized projects as well as propositional ideas.

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Renée Van Halm : dream home

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Writings in this catalogue describe and supplement the installation “Dream Home,” which was derived from real estate advertisements of the interiors of two houses listed for sale in Vancouver on a given day.

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Lisa Robertson's magenta soul whip

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My fidelity is my own disaster.

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Manifeste pour une architecture douce, soft architecture, a manifesto

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Catalogue d'exposition présentée à Dazibao, Montréal, du 7 janvier au 7 février 1999 et à Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, du 27 mars au 8 mai 1999.Inclut bibliographie.Ce livre réunit des oeuvres des artistes Josée Bernard et Sharyn Yuen ainsi qu'un texte de l'auteure et poète Lisa Robertson.

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The chatter of culture

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition by Robyn Laba held May 26 - June 23, 2007, and an exhibition by Lorna Brown and David Zink Yi held April 7 - May 12, 2007, at Artspeak, Vancouver.

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Occasional work and seven walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

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This book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on Vancouver fountains, the syntax of the suburban home, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.

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Riverwork

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Under the pavements of Paris there lies buried an ancient river, the Bièvre. For years, Lucy Frost has walked along these streets, unaware of the water and history under her feet, on her way to clean the apartments of Paris’s academic class. As she begins to study and transcribe the inherited notebooks and papers of her great-aunt, a teacher and researcher who disappeared years earlier, she commits to continuing her aunt’s youthful research on the Bièvre, mining the river’s documentary traces in the works of Rousseau, Rabelais, Hugo, Chateaubriand, and the like. She uncovers a history of industry: paper mills, dyeing workshops, tanneries, and textile manufacturers – and laundries. She finds resonances of her own labour in the history of the river’s laundresses. On stolen time at work, and in her insomniac hours of nightwriting, she fills notebooks with these woven stories and descriptions of obsolete sites, textiles, cosmologies, and voices, constructing her own forms of relation with the lost. ''Riverwork'' unearths not just an urban river but also a philosophy of research and the archive, a politics of hydrology, an ontology of ageing and belatedness, and a consideration of the unrepresented labour of women, past and present. Along the way it brings to life, in pyrotechnic prose, a long-gone Paris and both its domestic workers and its writers.

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Occasional work and seven walks from the office for soft architecture

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What if there is no ‘space,’ only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle. If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of flesh, air, fabric and colour. It’s about civic surface and natural history. It’s about social space and clothing and urban geography and visual art, and some intersection of all these. This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on Vancouver fountains, the syntax of the suburban home, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, sca×olding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.

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The Baudelaire Fractal

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One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris- This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring, part bibliophilic anthem, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting, "The Baudelaire fractal" is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson’s first novel.