Publications – Moniker Press

Launch: CENTO with Open Space / dani neira, Vida Beyer, Nour Bishouty, Hazel Meyer, Philip Leonard Ocampo, Dana Qaddah

Sep 222024

15.11.23

CENTO
dani neira, Vida Beyer, Nour Bishouty, Hazel Meyer, Philip Leonard Ocampo, Dana Qaddah

cento (noun)
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
anything composed of incongruous parts; conglomeration.
Obsolete. a patchwork.

CENTO is a loose-leaf, interactive artist book that features artist editions including a functional fortune-teller, bookplates with performance prompts, gossipy booklets, shape-shifting forms, existential meditations, and curatorial musings.

Through its expanded book form, CENTO extends its namesakes’ literary tradition and embraces the language of patchwork as a reparative method. Piecing together personal, cultural, historical, and speculative fragments, the publication explores a non-linear gathering and layering of meaning.

10×11″
sewn binding / loose elements
pgs: n/a (5 artists works)

Edition of 150
ISBN 978-1-989428-19-1
Co-Published by Moniker Press, Open Space
Curator — Dani Neira
Design, Layout — Moniker Press, Dani Neira
Risograph Printing — Moniker Press
Victoria / Vancouver, BC – 2024

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THANK YOUs

Thank you to Open Space, Doug Jarvis, Cassia Powell, dani neira and the artists.

ARTIST BIOS

Vida Beyer is an artist who blends the personal with an archive of artifacts, pictures and stories from popular and unpopular culture as a means to cultivate potential sites of recognition.

Nour Bishouty is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, sculpture, works on paper, digital images, and writing. Broadly concerned with gaps in archival memory and the Western production of knowledge and fantasy, her practice explores notions of permission and articulation in cultural narratives overwritten by dispossession and displacement.

Hazel Meyer is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between sport, sexuality, feminism, and material culture. Meyer’s work aims to recover the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of sports and recreation. Drawing on archival research, she designs immersive installations that bring various troublemakers—lesbians-feminists, gender-outlaws, incontinent-queers—into a performative space that centres desire, queerness, and sweat.

Philip Leonard Ocampo is an artist and arts facilitator based in Tkaronto, Canada. Ocampo’s multidisciplinary practice involves painting, sculpture, writing and curatorial projects. Exploring worldbuilding, radical hope and speculative futures, Ocampo’s work embodies a curious cross between magic wonder and the nostalgic imaginary. Following the tangents, histories and canons of popular culture, Ocampo is interested in how unearthing cultural touchstones of past / current times may therefore serve as catalysts for broader conversations about lived experiences; personal, collective, diasporic, etc.

Dana Qaddah (b. Beirut, Lebanon) is an interdisciplinary artist & independent curator currently based on unceded Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish territory. Qaddah’s practice uses archives of personal & itinerant cultural knowledge to traverse themes of Arab futurism & storytelling, while reflecting on the condition of being abstracted from the destruction of one’s own sense of self & place.

dani neira is a second-generation settler of mixed Colombian ancestry based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Their interdisciplinary practice involves curatorial projects, independent publishing, art writing, and visual art. Exploring memory, language and built environments, their work embraces affective knowledge and the queer slippages which occur in everyday life. Dani holds a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria, and is 1/2 of the curatorial project Dirty Dishes Collective.

OPEN SPACE is a non-profit artist-run centre situated on unceded Lekwungen territory in Victoria, British Columbia. Since its founding in 1972, Open Space has worked to present contemporary visual arts, music, writing, media arts and more.

sleep by Heather Tsang

May 272024

15.11.23

Sleep
by Heather Tsang

Sleep is a brief visitation into an imagined liminal space between sleep and wakefulness.

2.75″x3.75″, 12pgs, 1c
Edition of 150
Risograph printed and published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2023

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EVENTS

Soft launching at Tokyo Art Book Fair, November 23-26, 2023
Vancouver Launch at Zine Harvest – Preserves, January 27, 2024

ARTIST BIO

Heather Tsang is a graphic artist and designer residing on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She holds a BDes in Interaction Design from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2013) and is one sixth of the newly formed zine collective happen stance who exhibited at vanCAF 2023 and WORD Vancouver 2023.

As a second-generation Canadian, first-generation American, and a member of the Chinese diaspora, comfort and subversion of identity are themes she notices appearing and reappearing in her work. Other topics of interest include embodiment and ethics.

THANK YOUs

To the members of happen stance, mom, dad, auntie Amy, and my brother Eric for all your love and support.

TABF TRANSLATION:

本作品では、「眠り」と「覚醒」の間にある想像上の空間を視察する。

birdcage – Publication Launch, Alex Mah

Jul 152023

29.06.23

birdcage

Encounters with ghosts, diasporic memories, dreams, and grandmothers.

birdcage is an introspective multi-media and performance work that reflects on family, migration, and memory through written text (scores and poetry), lanterns, voice, and music. The publication is designed to be assembled into a simple lantern that holds the scores and poems and invites the viewer to engage with the content in a non-linear way. The scores, poems, and lanterns are also part of a live performance work for solo violin and electronic tape. Created in collaboration with violinist, photographer Ilana Waniuk.
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dedicated to our grandmothers

Alex Mah – text scores, poems, concept
Ilana Waniuk- collaborator, violinist, photographer

Edition of 150
Riso printed and published by Moniker Press
ISBN 978-1-989428-13-9
Vancouver, BC – 2023

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PERFORMANCE

(coming soon)

EVENTS

Soft Launch: Seattle Art Book Fair May 6-7, Washington Hall, Seattle WA

US Concert Premiere/Launch: San Diego May 26, 2023 – 5:00 pm Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater, UC San Diego, CA

THANK YOUS

Special thanks to Felicia, my family, and EDAM.

created on the unceded, traditional Coast Salish Lands, including the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations.

Made possible with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts and SOCAN Foundation

ARTIST BIOS

Alex Mah is an interdisciplinary artist, composer-musician, and performer in dance. He lives and practices on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. His electroacoustic music investigates time and timbre and his written music explores embodied concepts such as chance, choice, and relationality in performance. He has performed in Canada, the U.S., and Germany and holds a BFA from SFU (Canada) and an MRes from Bath Spa University (U.K.).

Ilana Waniuk is a violinist with interests ranging from improvisation to visual arts. She is a founding member and co-artistic director of Tkarón:to – based contemporary/experimental music ensemble and presenting organization Thin Edge New Music Collective and Balancing on the Edge (multidisciplinary production company merging contemporary music and circus arts). Most recently, she is the curator/performer behind ‘Filaments’, an evolving concert program dedicated to collaboratively co-creating interdisciplinary works for violin, electronics and multimedia. Ilana divides her time between Tkarón:to – traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, the Mississaugas of the Credit; the Haudenosaunee; and the Wendat peoples- and San Diego where she is a grateful guest on the lands of the Ipai-Tipai Kumeyaay Nation. Ilana is currently a doctoral candidate in contemporary performance at the University of California San Diego.

Nunca há Nada | There Is Never Nothing by Luciana Freire D’Anunciação Publication Launch

Mar 242023

25.02.23

Nunca há Nada | There Is Never Nothing
by Luciana Freire D’Anunciação

Nunca há Nada | There Is Never Nothing is a collection of poems that look into the performativity of the poetic language as potential to expand Luciana Freire D’Anunciação’s performance art and dance practice. They are based on the improvisation technique of paying attention to the smallest events from the continuous stimuli exchange between the internal and external worlds in the present moment. Poetry here becomes a medium for creatively documenting performances she did or witnessed — and after the fact chose to frame it as such. Most of the texts were written during the second year of the pandemic. Some of them she wrote first in English, some in Portuguese, some in Canada and some in Brazil. Later she translated them embracing the oddness of translation gaps and the impossible literal translations. This also reflects her condition as a Brazilian immigrant living in Canada, who reconciles two languages, two cultures, and two art disciplines (poetry and performance) as well as pursues never-ending questions around identity and sense of belonging.

Written and translated by
— Luciana Freire D’Anunciação

Mentor and editor (Portuguese)
— Magno Almeida

Editor (English)
— elika mojtabaei

Design and Layout
— Erica Wilk
— Luciana Freire D’Anunciação

Edition of 150
Risograph printed and co-Published with Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2023

2023 Artists Calendar Launch

Jan 012023

01.01.23

the future iii // Moniker Press invites 12 artists to experiment with 3-colour risograph printing and the 2023 Artists Calendar is the result!

Calendar is bound with a clear spiral coil, and designed for horizontal hanging or standing display. Includes artist biographies, monthly calendar spreads + bonus word search etc!

FEATURED ARTISTS: Yunhan Wang, Zion Greene-Bull, Robin N.,Sarah Leavitt, Alia Hijaab,Rawan Hassan, karen shangguan, Nandita Ratan, Paige Jung 健菁, Dana Kearley, Leanne Inuarak-Dall, Britney Yan

Printed + Published by Moniker Press, Vancouver, BC, 2022/23
Proceeds from the Artists Calendar will support Moniker Press’ 2023/24 publishing projects through the open call for submissions.

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Publication: so that we don’t perish by the truth by Emily Neufeld

Oct 082022

09.07.22

so that we don’t perish by the truth
by Emily Neufeld

There is a particular smell in abandoned houses, especially on dry, sunny days. The dust that hangs in the air, capturing the light, is part soil, part plaster dust, part dry pigeon shit, part microbes, part human cells, part stardust. It makes it easy to remember that human habitats are interwoven with the lives of so many other creatures.

‘so that we don’t perish by the truth’ is a collection of four zines and loose prints, compiling together Emily Neufeld’s research and exploration of homes throughout Canada that are in their last days of functionality: Homes slated for demolition in the lower mainland, abandoned farmhouses on the prairies, empty homes in small fishing villages in Newfoundland and Cape Breton, and in mining ghost towns in British Columbia. Her work is a sort of funerary right, and acknowledgement of Canada’s colonial history. This risograph printed publication combines photographs, ephemera and collaborative writing in a non-sequential reading experience. Featuring Laura Cuthbert Gaaysiigad, Jane Walker, David Ng and Nura Ali, who have each responded to the accumulated material from a location they have an intimate relationship with.

Edition of 130
Risograph printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2022

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a/denegado: pensamientos en la frontera (special addition) for Out of Bounds at Libby Leshgold Gallery

Jul 212022

07.20.22

a/denegado: pensamientos en la frontera (special addition) for Out of Bounds at Libby Leshgold Gallery, July 20-Aug 28, 2022 (12-5pm daily)

Out of Bounds is the fifth installment of the Summer School for Artists’ Publishing, presented annually by the Libby Leshgold Gallery and READ Books. This year, we have commissioned several artist-publishers to make new or reanimated works that resist the constraints of conventional dissemination, intellectual property restrictions, state censorship, and economic barriers to reach or form new publics and counterpublics. These works belong to a wider field of publishing that includes unauthorized copies, facsimiles, activist tools and manuals, anarchist cookbooks, anonymous leaflets, banned or suppressed books, street posters, and samizdats.

pensamientos en la frontera is an ongoing project compiled by andi and collaboratively riso printed and published with Moniker Press. It consists of a continuously growing bundle of publications and prints that feature many perspectives on displacement and borders. It comes as a new generation of Nicaraguan youth are forced into immigration, to create bridges to connect culture-specific ways forced movement is carried in language, image, and sense of home across cultures.

This addition is a call to action as more people exercising their right of movement and refuge are met by the violence of border regimes; six months 111,000 migrants, raided newspapers, swimming lessons for Rio Grande.

Publication: Passage and Portal by Sunny Nestler

Apr 122022

12.04.22

The actions we must take to slow a pandemic can become concentrated anxiety, gripping the collective guts a little tighter every day. A tangled knot; embodied uncertainty, and a portal; a looking glass; the possible futures that exist on the other side. Tubes lead into the feeling of time, expanding to step through a portal, and stretching over a threshold very slowly and very carefully.

Passage and Portal is a mixture of collage, drawing and painting melded together with the risograph medium. A glimpse into the perspective of Sunny Nestler who lives with an immune disease that affects their digestive system, throttling their upper cerebral-brain and lower gut-brain into overdrive.

Edition of 150
60 pages, Spiral Bound, 4c
Risograph printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2022

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Publication: freshwater | salt by Rosemary Xinhe Hu and Madeline Metras

Nov 102021

11.10.21

freshwater | salt is a meditative exploration of water and its relation to Rosemary’s mental health recovery. Living with a lifelong mental illness like bipolar can at times feel incapacitating in a way difficult to tangibly describe, and can make it painfully difficult to understand identity as a unified whole. How do you show someone what depressive episodes spanning 10 years looks like, with full shapes? And then how do you convince people to care?

Poetry — Rosemary Xinhe Hu
Illustration — Madeline Metras

Edition of 200
Risograph printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2021

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Publication: Act Natural by Hayley Burns

Oct 212021

10.21.21

Act Natural is a collection of digital and film photography that observes moments of human-made imprints and materials masquerading among natural elements. Printed in 4-colour risograph, the book includes interspersed carbon paper sheets. These sheets invite the reader to interact, doodle, sketch, trace, or write, leaving a new impression on the pages beneath.

Photography and design by Hayley Burns
Edition of 100
Risograph printed and published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC — 2021

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