Volumes. Including 33 Rpm Recording Dennis Reid Copy

KB65.176, [i]; folding insert of 113 full colour images; cardboard insert containing 33 rpm record and accompanying nearly square quarto measuring 10" x 10.25", white card, printed in multi colour. Some minor wear to the covers. Interior first page has Dennis Reid's red "chop" mark. Some minor wear, but overall in very good condition. Hard to find, with lovely provenance. "Volumes is an anthology of writings on contemporary artists engagement with sound and music. The publication is composed of artists projects and essays drawn from a series of exhibitions that took place between 2003 and 2013. Volumes is a hybrid publication in several respects. First, it includes textual, visual, and audio material from more than one exhibition. The curatorial projects include: Re-Play (curators Catherine Crowston and Barbara Fischer) , Come a Singin' (curator Andrew Hunter) , See Hear! (curators Timothy Long and Ben Portis) , Video Heroes (curator Sylvie Gilbert) and Volume: Hear Here (curator Christof Migone). All of the exhibitions save the last one took place in 2003, the last one came a decade later. In the intervening decade the presence of sound in visual art has grown immeasurably, and this publication implicitly track this evolutionfrom the way in which contemporary Canadian artists engage popular music through film, video, performance, and installation that was the focus of the 2003 exhibitions, to the way that sound activates specific phenomenological and ontological questions in the 2013 iteration of this series of curatorial propositions. The progression is by no means linear or continuous, consequently the publication presents a heterogeneous ensemble and does not attempt to draw definitive conclusions from what has become a pluralistic field with a broad set of concerns. "; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 176 pages.…