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Screen Ecologies by Emma Hicks and sophia bartholomew

Mar 302019

03.29.19

Screen Ecologies is a book which first existed as an orated text — something co-written by Emma Hicks and sophia bartholomew through the winter (Canada) summer (Australia) of 2016, and originally titled “Present, not present (or the smell that comes from the rocks before the rain).” Moving between philosophical reflection, poetic description, ink drawings, and family stories, Emma and sophia use their digitally-mediated friendship to consider broader questions around the maintenance of boundaries, social contract, healing, embodied communication, and the terms and limitations of knowledge exchange.

By Emma Hicks and sophia bartholomew
Edition of 180
Risograph printed and published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC, 2018

“What is enacted in online spaces? Objects circulated as stories, stories circulate as objects. The light from outside travels in with you, I can see it behind you… The air might get heavy, but it’s gravity that will give you shape. Grave-digging and negative numbers. The object is being articulated by the barbecue over your left hand shoulder, behind me there’s a refrigerator…”

Published collaboratively with Moniker Press, a limited edition of Screen Ecologies was risograph printed in Vancouver, BC, 2018. Earlier versions of this work were presented at the (Popular Culture Association of Australia & New Zealand) PopCAANZ Conference Digital Ecologies panel (2016) and at “Transcultural Collaborations: Advocating Reciprocal Spaces,” a First Nations & First Peoples Artist Panel Discussion at the Sydney College of the Arts (2017).

BOOK LAUNCH:

thanks to everyone who made it out to the Screen Ecologies launch!! Pictured first sophia bartholomew and Emma Hicks (via video) reading the original orated text which the publication is based off of.

READING:

Coop-Radio / SPIT, Interview + Reading, Artspeak Radio Digest, July 2018
More information here.

Suburbantomy by Adi Hadzismajlovic

Dec 192018

12.19.18

Suburbanatomy is a collection written over a five-year period. Stories of obsession, power dynamics, folklore, sexuality, Stockholm syndrome, family secrets, micro cults, and the peculiarly mundane. The collaborative design of the zine, takes the reader on a journey that hints at meaning but does not spell out. Risograph printed and published by Moniker Press, this risograph book includes enough puzzles to keep readers unnerved throughout their journey.

Stories by Adi Hadzismajlovic
Collaborative Book Design with Erica Wilk
Including found glitch images^{(google maps)}

Edition of 100
Riso Printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC, 2018

Publication: Suburbanatomy / Photo 1c bRE

BOOK LAUNCH
December 18, 2018
China Cloud Studios

Join us on Tuesday, December 18 for the launch of Suburbanatomy by Adi Hadzismajlovic at China Cloud Studios. Including a reading by Adi at 8 pm, accompanied by V.Vecker. Copies of Suburbanatomy will be available for purchase, and an exhibition of Lamb Hands illustrations will be on view.

ABOUT THE WRITER
Adi Hadzismajlovic is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. His work deals with the humorous, universal aspects of displacement and longing, often portrayed by characters and caricatures occupying surreal space. He is the author of an ongoing zine project Lamb Hands, as well as a booklet of poetry entitled Placenta Take Me Home and a short story collection Preaching Through a Straw. He currently resides in East Vancouver.

Trixie’s Trek with Triniti

Nov 262018

11.25.18

Trixie’s Trek with Triniti is a collaboration in both print and music from Jon Vaughn and Sean Christensen. Starting from a few drawings made by Vaughn last summer, Christensen explored the series of abstract marks as a guide for a journey between two characters in which Vaughn later named Trixie and Triniti, a dog and its human friend. The two explore worlds of fragmented landscapes, rivers and architectures, taking pause to swim, read and dream. Reality and its many possible dimensions collide as both time and space morph throughout of the book, creating a kind of non-linear story that can be entered and existed at any point, yet also ‘read’ from start to finish like a traditional comic. To complete the experience the two composed a 30 minute soundtrack of synthesizer, drums and drum machines, adding musical colour to risograph printed gradients and deep blacks of the mysterious book.

Drawings by Jon Vaughn and Sean Christensen
Collaborative Book Design by Erica Wilk and Jon Vaughn

Risograph Printed by Moniker Press
Edition of 150
ISBN 978-0-9937881-8-5

Co-Published by Moniker Press and Ecstasy Editions
Vancouver, BC, 2018

*comes with a free download of the corresponding soundscape, limited edition of cassettes available.

2019 Artists Calendar

Nov 062018

11.06.18

NOW ONLINE! We invited 12 artists to experiment with red and blue risograph printing, the 2019 Artists Calendar is the result! Calendar is bound with a purple spiral with small hole for hanging, includes artist biographies and monthly calendar spread on the last page.

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Gabi Dao – January
Anna Firth – February
Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling – March
Sonja Ratkay – April
Max Ammo – May
Melanie Thibodeau – June
Hue – July
Hayley Dawn Muir – August
Eli Muro – September
Russell Leng – October
Mengya Zhao – November
Molly Randhawa – December

Printed + Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC, 2018

Proceeds from the Artists Calendar will support Moniker Press’ 2019 publishing projects.

PURCHASE ONLINE HERE

tone, co-published with Zine Club

Jul 202018

07.20.18

Tone features poetry and writing by Jamilah Malika, Soledad Fatima Muñoz, Domunique Booker, and Kiran Dhaliwal. The publication aims to deconstruct preexisting ideologies and affect change, through the understanding of words and embodied materiality.

Listen to Black Women by Jamilah Malika, Love Poems to White Supremacy by Soledad Fatima Muñoz, Diary of a Sad Black Woman/ Living in a Tone Deaf Society by Domunique Booker, life as an apology and the days that are finally mine by Kiran Dhaliwal.

A Zine Club publication printed and co-Published at Moniker Press. Presented to coincide with an exhibition at Field Contemporary as part of the 2018 Current: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium. The exhibition investigated the social and gestural quality of words within a sonic framework.

1st Edition of 50
2nd Edition of 100
Vancouver, BC, 2018

BOOK LAUNCH

July 26, 2018
Field Contemporary

TONE: a publication and exhibition that investigated the social and gestural quality of words within a sonic framework. Work and readings featured: Jamilah Malika, Domunique Booker, Soledad Fatima Muñoz, Kiran Dhaliwal and Contrast Collective.

100 Days of Bulimia Photos

May 202018

05.20.18

On May 15 we launched our latest collaborative publication with artist Janet Ford. Thanks to all who attended the event, your support is appreciated! Also thank you to Gregory Adams for leading the Q&A. See photos of the book and from the event below.

Artist, Janet Ford has lived with Bulimia Nervosa for over twenty years. Through witty illustrations and personal insights, the book follows Janet’s struggle and progression of the illness. At times wildly funny and utterly heartbreaking, Janet’s story aims to spread awareness about the complex nature of Bulimia as well as help others who suffer from the disease feel less alone and isolated in the madness.

MORE INFO + ORDER HERE

100 Days of Bulimia Book Launch

May 092018

05.08.18

Very honoured to be releasing a project that we are so passionate about.

Join us on Tuesday, May 15 for the launch of 100 Days of Bulimia, written and illustrated by Janet Ford. 100 Days details life with an eating disorder. Risograph printed and collaboratively published in Vancouver by Moniker Press.

PRE-ORDER HERE

EVENTS

Books can be purchased in person in Vancouver on May 15 at the Book Launch (more info here). 100 Days will also be launching May 19-20 at Vancouver Comics Festival (Roundhouse) and the same weekend Los Angeles at LA Pages (6075 Normandie Ave).

Q&A

At the Book Launch on May 15, 8pm Janet will be answering anonymous questions and talking about her process making 100 Days. The Q&A will be broadcast live on instagram in @MonikerPress‘ stories. If you have a question you would like included in the section please DM @JanetFord.

WANT TO DONATE/SUPPORT?

One way to support those struggling with Bulimia and other eating disorders, is to start listening to their perspective, thus encouraging an open dialogue free from the stigmas often associated with mental illness.

If you feel inclined to make a monetary donation, we suggest The Looking Glass Foundation in Vancouver, BC. The Looking Glass “is a caring community of prevention and support for those suffering from anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders — and those who love them. In addition to helping with prevention and early intervention, [The Looking Glass offers] innovative programs for eating disorder support, recovery, and sustained relapse prevention.” Learn more about their work here.

FEELING WEIRD PODCAST

Kye Plant has 1 hour conversations with a different person every episode about taboo and stigmatized subjects (mental health [OCD, Bipolar, ADHD, BPD, Depression, Anxiety] PTSD, illness, gender, sexuality, etc) in order to make listeners feel LESS WEIRD and less alone.

Kye featured Janet in a recent podcast where she talks about her 22 year battle with eating disorders. Janet breaks down misconceptions about bulimia. She also talks about body positive instagram accounts, fatphobia, body-shaming, diet culture, breaking down “good” and “bad” food, the concept of ‘health’, adults as role models for children, 12-step programs, recovery and SO much more!

Listen below:

More at feelingweird.com

2018 Artists Calendar

Nov 072017

11.07.17

NOW ONLINE! We invited 12 artists to experiment with green and blue risograph printing, the 2018 Artists Calendar is the result! Calendar is spiral bound with small hole for hanging, includes artist biographies and monthly calendar spread in the back.

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Priscilla Yu – January
Kate Hunt – February
Chandra Melting Tallow – March
Jess Butler – April
Jo Cook – May
Giselle Bourget – June
Ana Paula Reyes – June
Juli Majer – July
Sandeep Johal – August
Cindy Mochizuki – September
Kirsten Hatfield – October
Maia Boakye – November
Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes – December

Printed + Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC, 2017

Proceeds from the Artists Calendar will support Moniker Press’ 2018 publishing projects.

PURCHASE ONLINE HERE

I, II, III: TRIO // Poster by Sylvie Ringer + Erica Wilk

Jul 132017

07.12.17

Beyond excited to announce that our latest collaborative print will be the first available online at People of Print’s Department Store.

i, ii, iii: trio is a large scale interactive risograph poster that invites the viewer to participate as the third collaborator. The viewer can mold the poster into a 3D object by cutting out and folding shapes, thus create a play of light, space, room, shadow.

i. Graphite with water drawings by Sylvie Ringer
ii. Design and formatting by Erica Wilk
iii. Cut outs by _________________

2-colour Risograph printed and published by Moniker Press
Cream card stock. Size: 15 x 22″ (11 x 15″ when folded)
Special edition of 200—Vancouver, BC, 2017

i. Using graphite and ink, artist, Sylvie Ringer created a personal “setzkästchen“ (archive, collection) of reinterpreted objects and plants on paper.

ii. Erica Wilk (of Moniker Press) then worked with the raw drawings. They were rearranged, defragmented and composed into a different system of objects. Designed to be printed as a two colour large scale risograph experiment.

iii. Lastly, we invite the viewer, to complete the triptych by interacting with the poster as they desire.

PURCHASE ONLINE HERE

for the trees online launch

Jun 302017

06.25.17

Super excited to be releasing for the trees in our online shop! The book will be available online, at the next open studio, as well as at the upcoming Vancouver Art Book Fair in October. (If you live in Vancouver select “free shipping” to arrange a time to pickup your copy in person.)

PURCHASE ONLINE HERE

Preservation is a word oft associated with environmental activism. However, its implementation is a distinctly “cultural” phenomenon, not a natural one. Namely, it is one of human beings, and their technologies. Preservation brings along with it a whole host of other activities. The verb implies an external process to occur in order to accomplish its goal. You have pickling, salting, fermenting, cataloguing, copying, categorizing, languaging, embalming. In reality, ruin itself is a much needed process in the activity of sustainment of diverse life. The transfer of heat from one system (biological, ecological, and, I would argue, visual, and ontological) is integral and the multiplicities of systems allows for a birth of organization in the transfer of this heat. Origin of Species by Darwin, and Kelvin’s laws of thermodynamics were published in the same decade. They both came on the tail end of the industrial revolution. Both theories were argued as paradoxical, and heretical, by the church. Both conceptually resist the possibility of a creative or intelligent design in the world. However, once you consider the closed system of thermodynamics as being one which encompasses you, the earth, the universe, this transfer of heat and its loss in the process – the movement of such energy – can still create a beautiful and complex diversity of ruin. —Brynn McNab

THE BOOK:

EXHIBITION AND BOOK LAUNCH:

Event: for the trees book launch (portrait)

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