Artspeak
William Wood
William Wood lives and works in Vancouver. An art historian and critic, Woodʼs current research focuses on contemporary art and its display, the history of conceptual and minimal art of the 1960s and 1970, aesthetics and cultural criticism. Since 1984, Wood has published on recent art in journals, anthologies and exhibition catalogues as well as holding editorial positions with a number of art publications including C Magazine, Public, Vanguard, and Parachute. Recent catalogue essays and articles have dealt with such artists as Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, Mike Kelley, Evan Lee, Ron Terada, and the entity known as the Vancouver School.
Exhibitions
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MARK LEWIS
March 12–April 2, 1988The exhibition Burning by Mark Lewis consists of a series of eight colour composite images, each image accompanied by separately framed, colour-coded text. The images are composed of fragments of illustrations from glossy magazines. In Lewis’ words, “The work uses common popular photographic imagery, placing it in narrative configurations in order to suggest and construct certain amorous possibilities. The series attempts to trace and complicate the relationship between images, fantasy and masculine desire, and does so by making critical discourses dirty.”
Talks & Events
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Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism Forum
JEFF DERKSEN, DIEDRICH DIEDRICHSEN, MARIA FUSCO, TOM MORTON, WILLIAM WOOD, TIRDAD ZOLGHADR
February 27–February 28, 2009Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Theatre 301, 1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver, British ColumbiaJudgment and Contemporary Art Criticism, is a two-day forum on the state of contemporary art criticism co-organized by Artspeak and Fillip. Through a keynote address by Tirdad Zolghadr and two panels made up of international critics Diedrich Diederichsen, Jeff Derksen, Maria Fusco, Tom Morton and William Wood, the forum seeks to address what is at stake in the shifting value of judgment within contemporary art writing. A renewed interest in the efficacy and function of art criticism has arisen in the last decade, embedded in art market speculation, global conflict and recent economic crises. This forum will engage with the key issues produced from these conversations, specifically returning to the role of valuation in contemporary art writing.
The forum will result in a book-length publication of papers and conversations derived from the event to be co-published by Artspeak and Fillip in late 2009.
For more information see: www.judgmentandartcriticism.com
FEBRUARY 27, 7PM / Keynote: Tirdad Zolghadr
Tirdad Zolghadr podcast: http://fillip.ca/podcast/2009-07-10
FEBRUARY 28, 10:30AM – 1PM / Panel One: Kristina Lee Podesva, Tom Morton, William Wood
William Wood podcast: http://fillip.ca/podcast/2009-07-17
Tom Morton podcast: http://fillip.ca/podcast/2009-07-24
FEBRUARY 28, 2:30PM – 5PM / Panel Two: Jeff Derksen, Diedrich Diederichsen, Maria Fusco
Diedrich Diedrichsen podcast: http://fillip.ca/podcast/2009-08-07
Maria Fusco podcast: http://fillip.ca/podcast/2009-07-31
Publications
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Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism
Title: Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism
Writers: Jeff Derksen, Diedrich Diederichsen, James Elkins, Maria Fusco, Sven Lutticken, Tom Morton, Kristina Lee Podesva, William Wood, Tirdad Zolghadr
Editor: Jeff Khonsary, Melanie O’Brian
Category: Criticism
Design: The Future
Printer: DieKeure, Belgium
Publisher: Artspeak, Fillip Editions
Year published: 2010
Edition: 1000
Pages: 176pp
Cover: Paperback
Binding: Perfect Bound
Process: Offset
Features: Edge painting, green
Weight: 159 g
Dimensions: 19 x 11.5 x 1.5 cm
ISBN: 978-0-9738133-6-4
Price: $20 CDNArtspeak and Fillip are pleased to launch Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism. The result of a public forum and reading room (held in 2009 at Emily Carr University and at Artspeak respectively) that investigated the role of valuation art criticism, this publication features commissioned texts by forum presenters and respondents: Jeff Derksen, Diedrich Diederichsen, James Elkins, Maria Fusco, Sven Lütticken, Tom Morton, Kristina Lee Podesva, William Wood and Tirdad Zolghadr. Examining the efficacy and function of art criticism, the publication focuses on the role of judgment in contemporary art writing and includes transcriptions from forum discussions with the Vancouver audience.
Co–edited by Jeff Khonsary and Melanie O’Brian and co–published by Artspeak and Fillip. The book is distributed by Motto Distribution, Berlin and available directly from Artspeak and Fillip.
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Title: Roy Kiyooka
Category: Exhibition Catalogue
Artist: Roy Kiyooka
Writers: Charlotte Townsend-Gault, John O’Brian, Roy Miki
Editor: William Wood
Design: Doug Munday
Publisher: Artspeak, Or Gallery
Year published: 1991
Pages: 56pp
Cover: Paper
Binding: Perfect Bound
Process: Offset
Features: 14 b&w, 7 colour images
Dimensions: 28.5 x 19.5 x 0.6 cm
Weight: 200 g
ISBN: 0-921394-13-6
Price: $9 CDNVarious stages of Kiyooka’s interdisciplinary career are examined as a means of providing a context to understand something of his influence on, and contributions to, contemporary practices.
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Title: Burning
Category: Exhibition Catalogue
Artist: Mark Lewis
Writers: William Wood, Mark Lewis
Design: David Clausen
Publisher: Artspeak
Printer: Hemlock Printers
Year published: 1988
Pages: 22pp
Cover: Paper
Binding: Staple Bound
Process: Offset
Features: 2 b&w, 8 colour images
Dimensions: 23 x 30 x 0.3 cm
Weight: 164 g
ISBN: 0-921394-00-4
Price: $5 CDNFeatures texts by both Mark Lewis and William Wood. Lewis creates a fiction, developing some of the concerns in his visual work, while Wood provides a critical context for Lewis’ work in his essay.
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Category: Exhibition Catalogue
Artist: Roy Arden
Writers: William Wood
Design: David Clausen
Publisher: Artspeak
Printer: Hemlock Printers, Vancouver
Year published: 1988
Pages: 48pp
Cover: Paperback
Binding: Perfect Bound
Process: Offset
Features: 2 b&w images, 10 colour images
Dimensions: 23 x 15 x 0.5 cm
Weight: 135 g
ISBN: 0921394020
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