naïve readings

This past Friday, Vancouver Sun columnist Shelley Fralic wrote about Vancouver Specials, and suddenly traffic to vancouverspecial.com increased tenfold.

The set of four publications edited/produced by Kathy, collectively titled “Vancouver Special”, were just reviewed by Maria Fusco in Frieze magazine. It occurs to me that someone trying to locate information about them via Google might end up here (or at vancouverspecial.com, but there’s not much to be done about that), possibly very confused. The [...]

The show ends this weekend, and really I think has done OK for a summer exhibition in terms of the attention it gathered. Clint Burnham reviewed it in the Vancouver Sun on 12 August, and earlier for Akimbo. There was also a local CBC interview on 1 August.
I would have missed out on knowing about [...]

For a group exhibition during the relatively unobserved month of August, The Property in Question has done OK so far: last week, there was a five-minute item on CBC Radio One’s Vancouver Arts Report (including brief interviews with me and with Kim Kennedy Austin); yesterday, Clint Burnham’s Vancouver dispatch on Akimbo came out (about half [...]

At the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, opening Tuesday July 25th and running until September 3rd 2006: The Property in Question: Jacob Gleeson, Keith Higgins, Kim Kennedy Austin, & Tony Romano.
My piece is a projection of 1,200 photographs of Vancouver Specials, 72 at a time. I’m working on the transition timing now. Hopefully [...]

Have you ever been in the middle of a group of people who are talking about how ugly they find something — say, a car, or a painting or a pair of shoes – and felt like you were the only one that didn’t agree? Or at other times, feeling alone at a concert or [...]

Vancouver Special
For over two years now I have been photographing Vancouver Specials, and gradually learning a bit more about them. Originally, I was going to shoot a few dozen and use them as illustrations on a site that had more to do with local events, but I was gradually overtaken by my own momentum. At [...]