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 …
The Migrators
The Migrators documents a long range project which puts the migrations of Dahl’s friends and colleagues into intimate conversation with the activities of our earliest hominid ancestors. Montaged prehistoric skulls and Dahl's innovative mapping of …
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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Tierra y Libertad
In the summer of 2020, as hundreds of foreign agricultural workers tested positive to COVID19 while located in Canada—a situation that prompted the Mexican Government to suspend travel of workers to Canada for a few days—I took to up a physically …