An Exhibition organized by the Way Up Way Down collective (Yam Lau, Sunny Kerr, Tania Ursomarzo).
This exhibition invites a number of artists to produce book works or related artworks in a bookstore. The structure of the exhibition is designed to adapt and travel to other bookstores in different cities and countries. New artists, especially those living in the city of the exhibition, will be added with each new show. The first exhibition will open in 23 June, 2007 at Balfour Books, Toronto.
For Titles, I created Weekend Getaways: The Vernacular Architecture of Suburbia. This is a limited edition book, hard-cover, cloth-bound with foil-blocked embossed type on the cover, of approximately 100 colour pages. The book attempts to define the styles, tropes or semiotic of suburbs primarily through photographs, annotations, automatic writing, rigidly designed text and partial diagrams. The content will simultaneously challenge and reinforce the stereotypes associated with some suburban life.
