Vernissage- Memory Bank

So I've been selected for an exhibition of book art that opens next week. 

"Creating book art is one of artist's aesthetic expressions that can be challenging but still stays in a humble way. Selected Book artists created their collective memories and constructed a sculptural art form by filtering it through their personal lens.
We would like to invite viewers to the place where we could share the archive of our feelings, emotions and mingled perception of the process of absorbing the surroundings."
 -Memory Bank Website

The piece that I will be showing is Endorphins and Oxytocin, and older work that consists of a weaving and publication I made in 2012.

 Endorphins and Oxytocin is a publication and performance project by artist Jodi Sharp. In this project she questions what love is, how we are capable of it, and what role our historical relationships play. It consists of two parts, a book of poetry and writings, and an 18 foot weaving.

In the publication the artist has gone back over old writings, pulling out the redundancies in things that were written from one relationship to the next, questioning how it is possible to feel the same thing so sincerely for multiple people. 

The weaving is a catalogue that represents the artist's entire romantic history. Each color represents a different person, and each foot equals a year. In 2013, the artist wore this weaving every day for 3 months, as a way of physically dealing with the history of her relationships, in order to try to understand the concept of love.  

 For select writings from the book, go here.
For the process of the weaving, go here.

The vernissage will be held on Thursday June 18 from 6-7:30 at 1400 Maisonneuve Boul. W. 

Including the artists:

Arman Ainkhürn / Elliot Rajnovic / Gary Cherkas
Hearyung Kim / Jenny Lin / Jodi Sharp / Jon Park
Liz Xu / Lise Tardif / Myriam Bourgeois / Natalie Draz
Sarah Robinson / Shelly Low / Susan Rochester
Soraya Etemad / Tess Gobeil

Also including the Ayatana Residency Mini-Library Artists:

Helga Jakobsen / Susan Rochester / Natalie Draz / Sophie Lindsey / Laura Grossett / Sarah Fagan / Cara Cole / Rahni Allan / Elena Thomas / Alexis Williams