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Listenings is published in response to and alongside Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, a travelling exhibition curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson and organized by Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University and Independent Curators International. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Laiwan: Traces, Erasures, Resists at the Belkin (7 January-10 April 2022) curated and edited by Amy Kazymerchyk with essays and interviews by Laiwan, Olivia Michiko Gagnon, Amy Kazymerchyk, Missla Libsekal, Liz Park, Anne Riley, Scott Watson and Rita Wong. [more information and purchase] -
During Holly Schmidt’s three-year residency with the Belkin, she created Forecast (2019–23), a series of short poetic texts using weather report language to reflect on environmental changes. [more information and purchase] -
Drift: Art and Dark Matter features residency artists Nadia Lichtig, Josèfa Ntjam, Anne Riley and Jol Thoms with essays by exhibition curator Sunny Kerr, Nobel prize-winning astroparticle physicist Art McDonald, and Denise Ferreira da Silva, a leading critic of post-Enlightenment thought. [more information and purchase] -
Editioned face masks by artist Germaine Koh, who worked with the Belkin to develop a comprehensive approach to public interaction - Crowd Shyness. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from the four exhibitions associated with the Beginning with the Seventies project at the Belkin: GLUT (12 January-8 April 2018), Radial Change (22 June-12 August 2018), Collective Acts (4 September-2 December 2018) and Hexsa'am: To Be Here Always (11 January-7 April 2019), edited by Lorna Brown, Greg Gibson and Jana Tyner. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson: The Last Waves at the Belkin (6 September-4 December 2016) edited by Scott Watson, Greg Gibson and Jana Tyner, with essays by Alex Klein, Jesse McKee and Scott Watson. [more information and purchase] -
Image Bank explores the artistic collaboration of Michael Morris, Vincent Trasov and originally Gary Lee-Nova, including their most spectacular works – extended performances with props, such as Colour Bar Research (1970-78) and Mr. Peanut’s mayoralty campaign (1974) in which Vincent Trasov as Mr. Peanut ran for mayor of Vancouver – alongside their extensive mail-art exchanges with other networkers such as Robert Filliou, General Idea, Ant Farm and Ray Johnson’s New York Correspondence School. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Maria Eichhorn at the Belkin (11 September-13 December 2015) with texts by Nora Alter, Pamela M. Lee, Nina Power and Scott Watson; edited by Greg Gibson, Jana Tyner and Scott Watson. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Tom Burrows at the Belkin (9 January—12 April 2015) edited by Scott Watson and Jana Tyner, with essays by Tom Burrows, Gordon Payne, Ian Wallace and Scott Watson. [more information and purchase] -
The walking tour of Musqueam House Posts at UBC conveys how the Musqueam house posts on campus, both past and present, are markers of Musqueam’s relationship with its territory through time, particularly with the land that is now commonly known as UBC. The guide is part of a larger initiative of the Belkin to animate outdoor artworks on campus, both within and outside of its collection. The guide provides context for how the house posts relate to one another, Musqueam territory and to UBC history. [more information and purchase] -
Written by Lisa Robertson, edited by Lorna Brown and Jana Tyner, designed by Derek Barnett, Information Office and printed by Peter Kruty Editions, Brooklyn, NY, Proverbs of a She-Dandy was commissioned on the occasion of the exhibition Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT at the Belkin (12 January-8 April 2018). [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from To Refuse/ To Wait/ To Sleep and M&A at the Belkin (13 January-9 April 2017) with texts by curator Lorna Brown, Jamie Hilder on KP Brehmer, Maria Lind's conversation with Goldin+Senneby and a libretto by Pamela Carter. [more information and purchase] -
In the resistance to the violence of gender-based oppression, vibrant – but often ignored – worlds have emerged, full of nuance, humour, and beauty. Correcting an absence of writing about contemporary feminist work by Canadian artists, Desire Change considers the resurgence of feminist art, thought and practice in the past decade by examining artworks that respond to themes of diversity and desire. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Lalakenis/All Directions: A Journey of Truth and Unity at the Belkin (16 January-17 April 2016) edited by Scott Watson and Lorna Brown with essays by Beau Dick, Chief Robert Joseph, Guujaaw, Gyauustees, Linnea Dick, Wanda Nanibush, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Tarah Hogue and Shelly Rosenblum. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry at the Belkin (13 January-8 April 2012) with essays by Jamie Hilder, David MacWilliam, Michael Turner, Scott Watson and William Wood; edited by Scott Watson and Jana Tyner. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art from Havana at the Belkin (10 January-13 April 2014) with essay by Cecilia Andersson, Antonio Eligio (Tonel) and Keith Wallace. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Witnesses: Art and Canada's Indian Residential Schools at the Belkin (6 September-1 December 2013) with texts by Scott Watson, Geoffrey Carr and Chief Robert Joseph; edited by Scott Watson, Keith Wallace and Jana Tyner. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Esther Shalev-Gerz's exhibition at Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (22 September 2012-6 January 2013), curated and edited by Nicole Schweizer with essays by Nora Alter, Georges Didi-Huberman, James E. Young and Annika Wik. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition booklet produced in conjunction with the exhibition Esther Shalev-Gerz at the Belkin (10 January-14 April 2013) with an extended text by Georges Didi-Huberman, "Blancs soucis de notre histoire," and a preface by Scott Watson. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Mark Boulos at the Belkin (8 October–5 December 2010) with by Scott Watson, Marc Boulos and Philippe-Alain Michaud, Molly Macdonald and Juan Gaitán. The subjects filmed by Boulos inhabit the realm of documentary, but he chooses to show his largescale, multi-screen video installations in art venues and galleries. [more information and purchase] -
In conjunction with the exhibition Esther Shalev-Gerz, WHITE-OUT: Between Telling and Listening presented at the Kamloops Art Gallery, this hardcover, bilingual catalogue includes documentation of the KAG exhibition and three commissioned texts that explore Shalev-Gerz’s work from diverse perspectives. Curator Elizabeth Matheson addresses the work in the exhibition through a broader discussion of the artist’s practice and Ian Wallace offers a formal analysis of the work in the context of art historical approaches to photography and video. In addition, the catalogue includes an insightful contribution from Swedish academic Fanny Söderbäck, who worked closely with Shalev-Gerz on the production of WHITE-OUT: Between Telling and Listening. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Thrown: Influences and Intentions of West Coast Ceramics at the Belkin (30 January-4 April 2004) with contributions by Glenn Allison, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Michael Henry, Tam Irving, Charmian Johnson, Glenn Lewis, Lee Plested, Herbert Read, John Reeve, Naomi Sawada, Doris Shadbolt, Ian Steele, Nora Vaillant, Scott Watson and Soetsu Yanagi. The exhibition featured over 600 pots by John Reeve, Glenn Lewis, Michael Henry and Ian Steele—the four Canadian apprentices of English potter Bernard Leach—and their like-minded contemporaries Tam Irving, Charmian Johnson and Wayne Ngan. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words at the Belkin (18 June–22 August 2010) with texts by Melanie Townsend, Scott Watson, Mahmoud Darwish, Dot Tuer, Cliff Eyland, Monika Kin Gagnon, Mireya Folch-Serra, Scott Toguri McFarlane and Andy Patton. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue based on The Innocence of Trees: Emily Carr and Agnes Martin at the Belkin (14 March–25 May 1996) curated and written by David Bellman. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of Ḳi-ḳe-in at the Belkin (17 January–28 March 2010) with an essay by Charlotte Townsend-Gault. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography at the Belkin (7 April-4 June 2000) with texts by Keith Wallace, Thomas J. Berghuis and Maya Kovskaya. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Exponential Future at the Belkin (18 January-27 April 2008) with texts by Juan A. Gaitán, Monika Szewczyk and Scott Watson. Exponential Future features eight young Vancouver artists - Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger and Elizabeth Zvonar - and opens a window on the vitality of contemporary art in this city. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from David Claerbout: The Shape of Time at the Belkin (10 October-7 December 2008) with texts by Christine Van Assche, Francoise Parfait, Dirk Snauwaert and Raymond Bellour. [more information and purchase] -
Publication and texts about Jerry Pethick's Time Top, a public artwork in the City of Vancouver, with texts by Scott Watson, Margaret Pethick and Jack Jeffrey and a comic by Jerry Pethick. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Certain Encounters: Daros-Latin America Collection at the Belkin (7 April-4 June 2006) with an essay by Keith Wallace. Certain Encounters presents the work of 21 artists who have made important contributions to visual art in Latin America. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Stan Douglas: Inconsolable Memories at the Belkin (20 January-19 March 2006) with texts by Sven Lutticken and Philip Monk. The exhibition presents a new film work by Douglas and a series of photographs inspired by his recent trips to Cuba. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MuHKA) (17 December 2005 - 26 February 2006), curated by Scott Watson and Dieter Roelstraete with essays by Scott Watson, Dieter Roelstraete, Reid Shier, Shepherd Steiner, Monika Szewczyk, Michael Turner, Ian Wallace and William Wood. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Piotr Nathan: How Far Do You Dare To Go at the Belkin (14 October–4 December 2005) with essays by Ulmann-Matthias Cemali, Kassandra Nakas and Frank Wagner. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Rebecca Belmore: Fountain at the 2005 51st Venice Biennale's Canada Pavilion with texts by Scott Watson, Jessica Bradley and Jolene Rickard. Vancouver-based Anishnaabe artist Rebecca Belmore is Canada’s official representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Visual Art, the world’s oldest and most prestigious venue for the international display of contemporary art. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Substance Over Spectacle: Contemporary Canadian Architecture at the Belkin (22 April—5 June 2005) with texts by Georges Adamczyk, George Baird, Andrew Gruft, Sherry McKay and Marco Polo. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954-1968 at the Belkin (21 January–20 March 2005) edited by Ming Tiampo with texts by Mizuho Kato, Ming Tiampo, Lynn Gumpert and Scott Watson. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue and zine from Daniel Richter: Pink Flag - White Horse at the Belkin (8 October–28 November 2004) with texts by Robert Linsley and Scott Watson. Daniel Richter’s iconic paintings represent a significant contribution to renewed discussion of painting’s importance in 21st-century artmaking. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from AA Bronson: The Quick and the Dead at the Belkin (25 June—22 August 2004) with texts by Wayne Baerwaldt, Scott Watson, AA Bronson, Bill Arnin, Robert Morris, Jop von Bennekom and Andrew Zealley. [more information and purchase] -
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Exhibition catalogue from Kelly Wood: The Continuous Garbage Project, 1998-2003 at the Belkin (21 March—11 May 2003) with texts by Scott Watson, Peter Culley, Christina Ritchie, Ian Wallace and Kelly Wood. The exhibition marks the completion of a long project. For five years, since Vancouver’s garbage workers’ strike in spring 1998 and concluding the week before the opening of the exhibition in 2003, Wood photographed her own garbage. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Rebecca Belmore: The Named and the Unnamed at the Belkin (4 October–1 December 2002) with texts by Scott Watson, Charlotte Townsend-Gault and James Luna. During the summer of 2002, Rebecca Belmore was invited to use the space of the Belkin Satellite as a studio for producing works that would comprise her solo exhibition at the Belkin from 4 October-1 December 2002. The exhibition features five new works created during a residency at the Belkin Satellite. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from The Art of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution at the Belkin (23 March—25 August 2002) with texts by Scott Watson, Shengtian Zheng and Paloma Campbell. The exhibition features propaganda arts and rare materials such as oil paintings, wood block prints, silkscreens, drawings, mass-produced posters and newspaper cartoons. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Andrea Fraser: Exhibition at the Belkin (18 January—3 March 2002) with texts by Isabelle Graw, James Meyer, John Miller, Scott Watson, Thryza Nichols and Andrea Fraser. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Stephen Andrews: Likeness at the Belkin (23 March—31 May 2001) with texts by Scott Watson and Annette Hurtig. Toronto artist Stephen Andrews’s treatment of portraiture—as a form of mimesis and a way of displaying what is hidden or repressed—renews the genre’s intrigue. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Peter Doig at the Belkin (19 January–11 March 2001) with texts by Kitty Scott, Johanne Sloan and Matthew Higgs. Curated by Kitty Scott, the exhibition presents the the first exhibition in Canada of paintings by leading British artist Peter Doig and includes a selection of major landscape paintings produced during the 1990s-2000 loaned from public and private collections in Europe and North America. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from the exhibition Tonel: Lessons of Solitude at the Belkin (7 April—4 June 2000) with texts by Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa Tonel, David Mateo and Orlando Hernández. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Consolation Prize: Mike Kelley and John Miller at the Belkin (8 January—12 March 2000) with texts by Roy Arden, John Miller, Shep Steiner and William Wood. Curated by Vancouver artist Roy Arden, Consolation Prize brings together recent works by influential American artists Mike Kelley and John Miller. Both artists conceived new mixed-media projects specifically for this Vancouver exhibition. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Up Against the Wall, Motherposter! at the Belkin (8 October—19 December 1999) with texts by Serge Guilbaut, Jennifer Durrie, Patricia Kelly, James Phillips and Victoria Scott. The exhibition includes street posters of protest from the events of May 1968, Paris and the political movements in Berkeley (Oakland in the late 1960s), loaned from the Special Collections Division at the UBC Library and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from How sad I am today...: The Art of Ray Johnson and the New York Correspondence School at the Belkin (8 October–19 December 1999) with texts by Michael Morris, Sharla Sava, Peter Schuyff and Muffet Jones. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Sixteen Hundred Miles North of Denver at the Belkin (25 June–15 August 1999) with writing by Charity Mewburn. Featuring works produced in 1969 by Iain and Ingrid Baxter (N.E. Thing Co.) from when a group of Canadian and American artists, curators, critics and journalists traveled to Inuvik, NWT at the invitation of the Edmonton Art Gallery. The artists executed a variety of outdoor works which were documented on the spot via text and photographs by curator/critic Lucy Lippard. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Geneviève Cadieux at the Belkin (17 April–13 June 1999) with texts in English and French by Scott Watson, Chantal Pontbriand and Laurence Louppe. The exhibition features a new video-projection, Paramour (1998), produced for the Belkin by Cadieux. The work is based on an archetypal dialogue between a man and a woman, from a passage in The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Walter Marchetti and Zaj: Invitations from the Kenneth Coutts-Smith Archive at the Belkin (5 February—21 March 1999) with texts by Scott Watson, José Luis Castillejo, Walter Marchetti and Gabriele Bonomo. Walter Marchetti’s music began its present course after meeting Juan Hidalgo and Bruno Maderna in 1956 and befriending John Cage in 1958. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from 6: New Vancouver Modern at the Belkin (6 February—29 March 1998) with texts by Scott Watson, Patrik Andersson and Shannon Oksanen, Sharla Sava, Reid Shier and Michael Turner. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Roy Arden at the Belkin (21 November 1997—31 January 1998) with texts by Scott Watson, Peter Culley and John Miller. Co-curated by the Belkin and the Art Gallery of York University, this exhibition presents a selection of work from 1991-1997 by Vancouver artist Roy Arden. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Théodore Géricault: The Alien Body / Tradition in Chaos at the Belkin (15 August–19 October 1997) edited by Serge Guilbaut, Maureen Ryan and Scott Watson with texts by Serge Guilbaut, Maureen Ryan, Bruno Chenique, Abigail Soloman-Godeau, Philippe Bordes, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer and James Cuno. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Utopian Territories: New Art from Cuba at the Belkin (22 March—25 May 1997) with texts by Scott Watson, Juan Antonio Molina, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa and Keith Wallace. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Mina Totino at the Belkin (10 January–1 March 1997) with texts by Scott Watson, Clint Burnham and Judy Radul. The exhibition presents paintings by Vancouver artist Mina Totino, whose work celebrates the powers of the visual as she reinvents old genres like flower-painting and still-life. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Larry Johnson at the Belkin (25 October—14 December 1996) with texts by Scott Watson, Laurence A. Rickels and Gary Indiana. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Rodney Graham: Works from 1976 to 1994 at the Belkin (27 January—2 March 1996) with texts by Jeff Wall, Matthew Teitelbaum, Boris Groys, Marie-Ange Bayer, Émile van Balberghe and Yves Gevaert. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Robert Filliou: From Political to Poetical Economy at the Belkin (27 January–2 March 1996) with texts by Sharla Sava, Hank Bull and Scott Watson. Co-curated by Hank Bull, Sharla Sava and Scott Watson with Rob Kozinuk, the exhibition is a collaboration between the Belkin and Western Front and considers the work of Robert Filliou while in Canada. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Seeing in Tongues: A Narrative of Language and Visual Arts in Quebec/La bout de la langue: Les arts visuels et la langue au Québec at the Belkin (10 November 1995–13 January 1996) with a text by Johanne Lamoureux. Curated by Johanne Lamoureux, Seeing in Tongues considers how questions of identity are posed within or against a nationalist agenda and examines the ways in which the language issue, an inescapable feature of the sociopolitical landscape of Quebec for some thirty years, has worked its way into the visual arts, where it has left its own figures and traces. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Born to Live and Die on Your Colonialist Reservations at the Belkin (20 June–16 September 1995) with texts by Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Scott Watson, Robert Linsley, Vern Bolton and Loretta Todd. [more information and purchase] -
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Exhibition catalogue from Mark Lewis: Public Art Photographs and Projects at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery (20 January—26 Febraury 1994) with texts by Scott Watson, Johanne Lamoureux and Andrew Payne. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Rudolf Schwarzkogler at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery (23 April—22 May 1993) with texts by Scott Watson and Kristine Stiles. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Return to Brutopia: Eric Metcalfe, Works and Collaborations at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery (11 September—17 October 1992) with texts by Scott Watson and Peggy Gale. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from the exhibition Astrid Klein: Trager at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery (20 February—28 March 1992) with a text by Scott Watson. Watson prefaces his discussion of the photo-montage murals of Klein with observations of recent political events in Germany and Eastern Europe. He contrasts the subjectivity of her imagery with current photographic ideologies, and points out the artist's purpose in attacking historic forgetfulness (amnesia, nostalgia) and denouncing various modernist utopias. [more information and purchase] -
Exhibition catalogue from Ian Wallace: The Idea of the University at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery (7 February-17 March 1990) curated by Scott Watson with essays by Scott Watson, Ian Wallace and Paul Piccone. [more information and purchase]