New work @ the Vancouver Art Book Fair

Hi All, if you're in Vancouver this weekend, October 17th and 18th, please drop by the Vancouver Art Gallery and check out the amazing assortment of book works, zines and more, including the latest book by yours truly called Where is Here, from the series - Documents of Psychic Amateurs published by the fabulous Perro Verlag
http://www.perroverlag.com/dopa.html .

The series explores psychic phenomena in a variety of intriguing ways and includes works from Bucky Fleur, James MacSwain, Sally Rees, Emily Gooden, Courtney Bourke and James Whitman and Owen Plummer. Here's what the publisher has to say about Where Is Here :

"How is a person a medium, how a conduit, a visionary, a faker? What happens when a ghost enters the room? And who are the ghosts anyway? My Name Is Scot's document, Where is Here, won't provide answers to any of these questions directly but it is, nevertheless, a profoundly focused engagement with, and evocation of the images and voices hovering at the edges of these questions." 

I might add that the book discretely touches on notions of people gone missing and the structures and systems that contrive to disappear them. I might also add that some of the source materials for the book were adapted from the Journals of the Society for Psychical Research, a multi volume anthology which used to reside far back in the stacks @ the VPL but which has since 'vanished' during one of the many recent Library makeovers and which, according to current system records, never existed at all...

Please drop by and say hello to the Perro Verlag crew who will be sharing a table with the Western Front on the first floor. For more info on time and location please visit :  http://2015.vancouverartbookfair.com 

And if you get a chance to look @ Where is Here, I'd love to hear what you think! 

The Process - video premiere

Hey All, The Process, another video from the Acts of Domestic Terror series is being screened this Friday, November 9th @ VIVO Media arts centre, 1965 Main Street, Vancouver. I'm very happy to be included in the program of In Media Res, curated by The Automatic Message, especially as this will be the very first public screening of the video.  It all starts @ 8:30 PM and goes til 1 AM, not sure what time my piece will be on, but if you can make it down it'd be great to see you and I'd love to hear what you think.

Wasted - new work in progress

Slow, silent, omnipresent, all we could see, ever increasing, more toxic than previously thought, photo degradation, malnutrition, metabolized subsequent to ingestion, particularly damaging, the term debris, manufactured and processed, insidiously and ineluctably formed or imprinted, a system of coding, something discarded, the right or duty of intervention, anywhere in the world and ever growing, in ways that are only just becoming known.

 

Glass, rubber, metal, persistent solid material, the overwhelming amount, how vast, domestic waste, unquantifiable plastic mass, buoyancy, durability, undeniable behavioral propensity, indirectly, intentionally, disposed of or abandoned, towards a legal recognition, may be shaped when soft and then hardened.

Obligations, a forage into the great garbage patch, microscopic, their “social contract”, starvation, laceration, fragmented plastic debris, infection and suffocation, new sources of global contamination, enough is enough, just below the surface, the abysmal depth.

 

Over-consuming, we’re all afraid of what we’re going to find, a cylinder of tightly packed, shredded black plastic, strong bonds of various kinds, formerly living materials, blatantly visible, beyond visual, scavengers who take, lethal nature, giving rise to yet another…