Andrew James Paterson

408 Queen St. W., Unit 7,

Toronto, Ontario

M5V 2A7

Telephone- (416) 703-2236

andrewjamespaterson@gmail.com

www.andrewjamespaterson.com

(www.fringeonline.ca)

Born: Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1952

Education: General Arts B.A., University of Toronto

London University U.K. (English Lit. and Philosophy)

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

2018 Not Joy Division, novel published by IMPULSE B, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2016 Collection/Correction, artist's book published by Kunstverein Toronto and Mousse Publishing Milan.

2016 From Show Room to High Rise, response to Toronto art exhibition Chroma Lives, published online by If I Can’t dance I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution (Edition VI Event and Duration 2015-2016)

www.ificantdance.org

2015 A Not Exactly Round Table, response to subject of appropriation by Toronto chapter of If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution: Rereading Appropriation, (Edition V — Appropriation and dedication,), Westerdok 606-608, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp.48-56

2014 Extraordinarily Everyday, essay on performance by Berenicci Hershorn, Hamilton Artists’ Inc., exhibition catalogue

2014 Explosion In The Movie Machine, review of book published by Images Festival and LIFT, pub. C Magazine Issue # 121, Spring 2014, pp.74-75

2013 If I Can’t Dance Than What Can I Do?, response as member of Toronto reading group to Michael Hardt’s essay Affective Labour, included in Reading/Feeling, pub. If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution (Edition IV ¾ Affect), Westerdok, 606-608, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, p.42

2012 Hello Amiga, Goodbye and Then Hello Again, essay for exhibition Hello, Amiga, Toronto Animated Image Society & Trinity Square Video, http://www.helloamiga.ca

2012 Expanding Moving Pictures: 1988-2012, essay for 25th annual Images Festival catalogue,

pp. 33-39

2012 Notes on the 2010 Congress, commentary on 2010 Experimental Media Congress of Toronto, Canada, INCITE Journal of Experimental Media Issue 3: New Ages, pp. 28-34 (originally published on Images Festival Blog Apr.12,2010 see http://www.imagesfestival.com./blog/?p=72#more-72.

2011 We Are Behind The Object, review of book by Emily Wardill and Ian White, pub. C Magazine Issue # 110, Summer 2011, pp.52-53

2011 Canadian Artist’s Spotlight: James MacSwain, interview with artist, pub. Images Festival 24

Catalogue, pp. 37-40

2010 On Abstractionism: incl. in simpleposie essays and pictures, collected and edited by Jennifer McMackon, pub. Jennifer McMackon, pp. 89-95

2010 Anti-Hero: Qu’est que c’est: Icon, Villain, Anti-Hero, (Themed Commission Program Catalogue), pub. Trinity Square Video, pp. 35-41

2008 75.1 & 75.2: incl. in decentre: concerning artist-run culture, pub. YYZBOOKS, Toronto,

pp. 201- 205

2008 Spectacular Intimacies: essay on performance-to-video adaptations of Tanya Mars, incl. in anthology Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars, pub. Fado Performance Inc.

pp.92-109

2007 The Shame and The Glory: The Romance of Transgressions in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas, review of book by Thomas Waugh, pub. FUSE Vol. 30 No.2, pp.41-43

2005 Grammar & Not- Grammar : editor of anthology of scripts and essays by Gary Kibbins ,

incl. Foreword ( 4 Poems , 11 Essays , 5 Scripts , 2 Lectures , 1 Interview , and I Afterword ) ,

pp. 9-19 , pub.YYZ Books , Toronto , Ont.

2005 Men Who Don’t Drive : ficto-critical writing , incl. in Impulse Archaeology , pp. 186-187 pub. University of Toronto Press , Toronto , Ontario ( originally published in Impulse , fall 1987 )

2005 There’s Too Much Love in the World: review of the book Everybody Loves Nothing

by Steve Reinke , pub. Point Of View # 56 , pp.26-28

2004 The Revolution Will Be Televised: Stan Douglas’ Hors-Champs : review of media-art installation at Art Gallery of Ontario , pub. FUSE Vol.27 No.2 , pp. 47-9

2004 More Progress. Less Process: catalogue essay for 7th Annual Splice This Super-8 Film Festival

of Toronto , June 18-20 , 2004

2004 The Creator Has A Master Plan : essay for brochure/catalogue for screening of new films and videotapes by Michael Achtman & RM Vaughan , at Luft Gallery, Toronto

2003 Snowjob : essay on my videotape Snowjob for catalogue Blueprint: moving images in the 21st century , pub. Pleasure Dome, Toronto , pp.91-3

2003 Agencies and Inventories : An Artist and her Microscope , essay for anthology Susan Kealey: Ordinary Marvel , co-pub. YYZ Books and Southern Alberta Art Gallery , pp.149-56

2003 Why Stoics Don’t Riff: The Prime of Ms. Jeanne Randolph , ficto-critical writing regarding the cover of Jeanne Randolph’s book Why Stoics Box: Essays on Art in Society ,pub. C Magazine Issue

# 78, summer 2003 , p.42

2003 The Lodger aka. Daniel Olson : ficto-critical writing for brochure for exhibition ‘ Heckle and Jeckle’ by Daniel Olson , at The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta , May 2-30, 2003

2003 Meet The Residents , essay accompanying video programme at Trinity Square Video, Toronto

2002 Saxophone Countering Trumpet in Relation to Tulips , pub. PUBLIC 25 : ‘Experimentalism‘

2002 21st Century ARCs : 25th Anniversary Issue, FUSE ,

2002 Whatever Happened to Charlie - unpub. (novelette)

2002 The Celluloid Canon : Weird Sex, Frigid Landscapes, and Canadian Film, review of weird sex and snowshoes and other Canadian film phenomena, book by Katherine Monk, pub. Literary Review of Canada, Vol. 10, No. 5

1997-2002 various shotgun reviews and 600 word articles for LOLA (visual and media arts periodical)

2001 A Ghost of Many Colours -unpub. (novelette)

2001 The Left Is....., The Lefty Show - exhibition essay , A Space Gallery (Toronto)

2001 Censorious Practices - historical feature for Trinity Square Video newsletter

2001 Money, Value, and Art - co-editor of and contributor to anthology (Preface and Introduction, plus historical time-line), YYZ Books

2001 Short Circuits - exhibition essay , YYZ Newsletter

2000 Performative Impulses - Lux ,co-pub. Pleasure Dome and YYZ Books

2000 Political’ - pub. Public : ‘Lexicon’ issue

2000 Winding Up and Winding Down - survey of Images’ 2000 Film & Video festival , pub. in POV , summer 2000

2000 I’ve Got To Stop Talking To Myself..... - pub. I’ve Got To Stop Talking To Myself..... ,

ed. John Marriott, contributor to book and accompanying CD

2000 Missing Equations , Missing Words - web-site at Paul Petro Fine Arts (Toronto)

1999 A,B,C,D,E,F,G, and H (or Ships Passing) - unpub. (novelette)

1999 When Public Became Private - pub. Fuse ,Summer 1999, Vol. 22 no.3., pp.9-12

1999 True Fiction - pub. Open Letter: tenth series, number 5, Spring 1999

1999 Symptoms Of Whatever - self-pub. artist’s book w. computer-word-drawings, text, CD w. text/music.

1999 Filter Tipped (working title)- unpub. (collection of short stories)

1999 Zapping The Communities - pub. Mix, Winter 1998-99, Vol.24.3

1998 Symptoms and Corridors - unpub. ( novel )

1998 Canadian Shields - pub. in catalogue for art exhibition Canadian Shield

1998 Inside Out/ Outside In? - pub. Fuse ( review of media arts festival, arts/ cultural analysis )

1997 Accountability, Elitism, Access, and Censorship - a dialogue pub. in Suggestive Poses: Artists and Critics Respond To Censorship- pub. by Gallery TPW and The Riverbank Press (Toronto)

1996 Performance: A Performance - excerpts from performance art script - pub. In Performance Art supplement of Canadian Theatre Review (summer edition )

1996 Controlled Environments - artists page with stills and text excerpts from videotape Controlled Environments- pub. in catalogue supplement for exhibition Culture Slash Nation- pub. in Border/lines, winter issue.

1995 The Fruit Machine: Sweet, Healthy, and Familiar - pub. Fuse- review and commentary on media art series at Cinematheque Ontario.

1993 Symposium on Bisexuality - presented at Queer Studies conference at University of Toronto- unpublished- a fictional conference revised and included in Systems and Corridors.

1991 There’s No Place like Home: The Rise and Fall of David Lynch - pub. Fuse (popular culture issue)

1990 Lust For Language - pub. Rampike (10th anniversary issue )- fiction

1989 To See or Not To See - pub. Border/Lines - fiction and critical commentary on Toronto Film Festival

1988 Authorities - pub. Impulse- fiction

1986 The Disposables - pub. Art Metropole a novel

 

 

 

SELECTED WRITERS’ RESERVE GRANTS

2000- Fuse 1998- Public 1995- Mercury Press 1995- Fuse 1994- Coach House Press 1993- Border/ Lines 1991 What? 1990- Rampike 1990- Impulse 1988- Rampike 1987- Art Metropole, 1986- Underwich Editions

 

SELECTED BLOG JOBS

2013 Images Festival

2010 Images Festival

2009 Images Festival

2008 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art

2008 Images Festival