Call ampersand response
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Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made of images exchanged via email. Over a period of several months, Dumontier and Lexier sustained an image-based correspondence by sending each other scans of book covers, found objects, drawings and illustrations belonging to each artist’s respective collection. The project is based on the idea that their collections(...)
Call ampersand response
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Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made of images exchanged via email. Over a period of several months, Dumontier and Lexier sustained an image-based correspondence by sending each other scans of book covers, found objects, drawings and illustrations belonging to each artist’s respective collection. The project is based on the idea that their collections speak of their shared artistic affinities while informing their practices. Two rules dictated their conduct : each image was to function as a “call” seeking a “response” from the other artist, and the dialogue was to end when an image recalling the project’s opening image emerged, thereby constituting a narrative loop. Their conversation gave rise to a bookwork co-edited by Nieves and Artexte.
Illustration
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Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Canadian artists Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest in found images, line drawings and used books. The starting image was a circle on a rectangle; every subsequent image was(...)
September 2019
Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier: Call Ampersand Response
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Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Canadian artists Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest in found images, line drawings and used books. The starting image was a circle on a rectangle; every subsequent image was visually connected to the previous one. It was understood from the outset that they had to use images that could be scanned from physical items they already had at home (no images from the internet), such as children's books, technical manuals and assorted ephemera. The call-and-response nature of the enterprise can be appreciated in the pairs of facing pages that present themselves as you go through the book. This second edition, expanding on the Nieves edition of 2013, includes the entire project of 196 exchanges that make up Dumontier and Lexier's clever, competitive, meandering conversation.
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Drawn from the artist’s archive of 30 plus years of drawing, sketches, and concept plans, this publication is conceived as an installation and artist book project. Each of the hund reds of working drawings is executed on standard 8.5-by-11-inch paper, vertical in format, and identically mounted in thin white frames. The book documents a fascinating history, not only of(...)
Micah Lexier : working as a drawing (vol.1, 1980 to 2012, letter-size, vertical)
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Drawn from the artist’s archive of 30 plus years of drawing, sketches, and concept plans, this publication is conceived as an installation and artist book project. Each of the hund reds of working drawings is executed on standard 8.5-by-11-inch paper, vertical in format, and identically mounted in thin white frames. The book documents a fascinating history, not only of Lexier’s career, but also of the evolution of an aesthetic closely linked to conceptualism.
Canadian art