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What if there is no ‘space,’ only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle. If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of flesh, air, fabric and colour. It’s about civic surface and natural history.(...)
August 2006, Toronto
Occasional work and seven walks from the office for soft architecture
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What if there is no ‘space,’ only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle. If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of flesh, air, fabric and colour. It’s about civic surface and natural history. It’s about social space and clothing and urban geography and visual art, and some intersection of all these. This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on Vancouver fountains, the syntax of the suburban home, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, sca×olding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.
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August 2006, Toronto
Renée Van Halm : dream home
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Writings in this catalogue describe and supplement the installation “Dream Home,” which was derived from real estate advertisements of the interiors of two houses listed for sale in Vancouver on a given day.
Contemporary Art Monographs
April 2002, Vancouver
Renée Van Halm : dream home
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Writings in this catalogue describe and supplement the installation “Dream Home,” which was derived from real estate advertisements of the interiors of two houses listed for sale in Vancouver on a given day.
Contemporary Art Monographs
The undesirables
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"The undesirables" by Myfanwy Macleod features work drawn from MacLeod’s public art endeavors over the past fifteen years and a newly commissioned text by Lisa Robertson. The publication comprises realized and unrealized projects as well as propositional ideas.
The undesirables
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"The undesirables" by Myfanwy Macleod features work drawn from MacLeod’s public art endeavors over the past fifteen years and a newly commissioned text by Lisa Robertson. The publication comprises realized and unrealized projects as well as propositional ideas.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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My fidelity is my own disaster.
Lisa Robertson's magenta soul whip
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My fidelity is my own disaster.
Architecture in Canada
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This book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on Vancouver fountains, the syntax of the suburban home, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material(...)
Occasional work and seven walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
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This book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on Vancouver fountains, the syntax of the suburban home, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.
Canadian Architects
The Baudelaire Fractal
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One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris- This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring,(...)
The Baudelaire Fractal
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One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris- This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring, part bibliophilic anthem, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting, "The Baudelaire fractal" is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson’s first novel.
Literature and poetry
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Catalogue d'exposition présentée à Dazibao, Montréal, du 7 janvier au 7 février 1999 et à Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, du 27 mars au 8 mai 1999.Inclut bibliographie.Ce livre réunit des oeuvres des artistes Josée Bernard et Sharyn Yuen ainsi qu'un texte de l'auteure et poète Lisa Robertson.
January 1999, Montréal, Vancouver
Manifeste pour une architecture douce, soft architecture, a manifesto
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Catalogue d'exposition présentée à Dazibao, Montréal, du 7 janvier au 7 février 1999 et à Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, du 27 mars au 8 mai 1999.Inclut bibliographie.Ce livre réunit des oeuvres des artistes Josée Bernard et Sharyn Yuen ainsi qu'un texte de l'auteure et poète Lisa Robertson.
The chatter of culture
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition by Robyn Laba held May 26 - June 23, 2007, and an exhibition by Lorna Brown and David Zink Yi held April 7 - May 12, 2007, at Artspeak, Vancouver.
January 2008, Vancouver
The chatter of culture
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition by Robyn Laba held May 26 - June 23, 2007, and an exhibition by Lorna Brown and David Zink Yi held April 7 - May 12, 2007, at Artspeak, Vancouver.