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In 2015

• THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT at Yale Union, Portland

 
In 2014

• L’ÉPOQUE, LES VALEURS, LES HUMEURS, L’ATTENTION at Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
• L’OMBRE D’UN DOUTE / I TVIVLENS SKYGGE at Years, Copenhagen
• ISSUES OF OUR TIME (3) at Artists Space Books & Talks, New York

 
In 2013

• ALONG THE GRAIN at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova
• OFFICE HOURS at Lost Property, Amsterdam
• THERE’S MORE TO LIFE THAN BOOKS, BUT NOT MUCH MORE at Art Metropole, Toronto

 
In 2012

• 100 YEARS OF CHEERS : MACHU PICCHU at la monnaie de Paris
• BREAKING POINT: KATHRYN BIGELOW’S LIFE IN ART at kim?, Riga

 
In 2011

• FREAKS AND GEEKS at Air de Paris Gallery
• THE WAY IT WASN’T at Culturgest, Porto
• THE ADVANTAGE OF EXPLANATION, at Centre George Pompidou, Paris
• BREAKING POINT: KATHRYN BIGELOW’S LIFE IN ART at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen

 
In 2010

• THE WAY IT WASN’T at Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis
• THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE BOOK at De Vleeshal, Middelburg
• BREAKING POINT: KATHRYN BIGELOW’S LIFE IN ART at Signal, Malmö

 
In 2009

• SECTION 7 BOOKS at FIAC Art Fair, Paris
• A COLLABORATION WITH KATINKA BOCK at Bétonsalon, Paris
• PARTICIPATION IN “TALK SHOW” at ICA, London
• GOOD MORNING, CAPTAIN at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

 
In 2008

• AFTER THE LAST DAYS OF MANKIND, at Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul
• UN AGREABLE MOUVEMENT DANS LES IDEES at Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz
• SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME PART 2 at Kadist Foundation, Paris

THERE’S MORE TO LIFE THAN BOOKS, BUT NOT MUCH MORE at Art Metropole, Toronto

Thursday May 9—Saturday May 11, 2013
Public seminar, curated by Benjamin Thorel

A public three-day-seminar with Laure Giletti (castillo/corrales, Paraguay Press, Paris), Chris Lee (Scapegoat, Toronto), Anouk Pennel (Studio Feed, Montreal), Patricia No (Publication Studio Portland), Kajsa Ståhl (Åbäke, London/Paris), Maki Suzuki (Åbäke, Dent-De-Leone, London/Paris), Benjamin Thorel (castillo/corrales, Paraguay Press, Paris), and more. Including Lazy Susan, a rotating notation machine by Jp King (Toronto).

Day One (Thurs. May 9)
The factory of the book, the situation of collaboration and the redefinition of author and (social) labour related to it.

Day Two (Fri. May 10)
The practices of exchange and distribution and their spaces; “independent” institutions of the book (magazines, niche bookstores…).

Day Three (Sat. May 11)
The question of the public and of reading, along the famous formula according to which: “Publication is the making of a public.” (Matthew Stadler, Publication Studio)

The seminar is a research project initiated by castillo/corrales, Paris, in collaboration with Art Metropole, Toronto, and develops as a new iteration of the ongoing project, The Social Life of the Book, so as to investigate the undertakings of some contemporary artists, publishers, writers, designers, booksellers, etc. and discuss problems related to the circulation of texts and ideas. “There’s more to life than books, but not much more” examines notably the economics and pragmatics of publishing and distributing books today; the social space of reading; the practices of scanning, bootlegging, translating, quoting, re-editing existing material; the ways texts can open up to events, actions, gestures, and other unforeseeable incidents.

The conversations in the seminar also formed the basis for the elaboration and construction of the book, A book about – What’s more to life than books, co-published by Publication Studio (Portland), Art Metropole (Toronto), and Paraguay Press (Paris). The collective work that led to this lexicon-like book doesn’t compare to any A-Z memoir about art publishing recently released.

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This project is presented in partnership with Paris‑Toronto, a ten-month series coordinated by the Consulate General of France in Toronto with support from the Institut français, with the aim to foster collaborations between France’s capital and the visual art scene in Toronto. Events are organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Metropole, Canadian Art Foundation, City of Toronto, Elegoa Cultural Productions, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, The Power Plant, the Ryerson Image Centre, and Vtape.