How does a socially-situated art project adapt to a prolonged pandemic? It takes up artist book publishing !! At RML headquarters the pandemic shut-downs of 2020/21 coincided with first-time research-creation project funding from BC Arts Council …
Victoria Lum
In print: The Migrators
It's been exciting to fold and assemble the first 60 copies of the most ambitious RML production to date. The Migrators (2020) by Crista Dahl, with book design by Victoria Lum and Lois Klassen, is comprised of multiple pieces that involved 5 …
Notas sobre un recorrido / Notes on a Tour
This bilingual (Spanish and English) artist book is a folded guidebook to the interior of a US immigration detention centre. It is created from the perspective of an El Paso-based artist and graduate student who joins an official tour offered by …
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Feeding the Migration (Painted Lady)
Plants seduce us so we will take them with us.The seeds carried in the hems of garments,intestines, testicles and wombs. We are flesh-covered seed-carrying devices.Our urges are to nurture, but alsodisperse . . . " With Feeding the Migration …
RML’s Mail Art Action
If you would like an artist book from the RML collection, you can receive it by exchange, including through Mail Art exchanges. Here's how it works: Send one or two original artist books, chapbooks, 'zines (or the like) about migration to: Reading …