PUBLICATIONS

Additional shipping fees apply, please contact sarah@mercerunion.org for orders.


The Weight of the Sky
David Beattie
ISBN: 978-1-926627-09-0, 2010
Price: $15.00

This illustrated monograph includes a foreword by Sarah Robayo Sheridan and an essay by Sherman Sam. The volume is published on the occasion of David Beattie's first solo exhibition in North America. David's sculptural works combine the use of sound, movement and physics to create unlikely alliances.
60pp, full colour printing, foil-stamped cover

Meeting #56
Jonathan Monk
ISBN: n/a, 2009
Price: $60 / $160

Edition of 90. First 30 signed. Two water glasses printed with a bilingual invitation to meet the artist at The Maid of the Mist Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada on August 1st, 2015 at noon.

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This Is How We Walk on the Moon
Johanna Billing
ISBN: N/A, 2008
Price: $20

Original Film Soundtrack LP Produced apparent extent in collaboration with Malmö Konstall and Mercer Union.

untitled (playlist for Bas Jan Ader)
Laurel Woodcock
ISBN: N/A, 2007
Price: $75.00

untitled (playlist for Bas Jan Ader) is a signed and numbered limited edition print. It is the first in a series of posters that delineate the practice of some of Woodcock's favourite artists through song titles. Like the compilation tape or CD of previous technical era's, the playlist is a considered dedication. The foil stamped blue font of the print echoes the cover of Ader's survey catalogue Please Don't Leave Me published by Museum Biojmans Van Beuningen (2006).

Now with Duration
Thérèse Mastroiacovo
ISBN: N/A, 2007
Price: $40.00

ONLY ONE COPY REMAINING!
For her exhibition Art Now (April 20 to May 26, 2007) Thérèse Mastroiacovo installed three large silver helium balloons that spell out the word NOW. As the thirty seven days of the exhibition count down, the word slowly deflates. Everyday a Polaroid of the balloons is taken, documenting the duration of NOW. These Polaroids are framed and sold for $40.00 each. Please contact the gallery for availability of dates.

God Less America
Jeremy Deller
ISBN: ,, 2006
Price: $2.00

A 2nd edition of Deller's long out of print bumper sticker-the classic patriotic God Bless America with the letter B altered. "For me the most exciting thing about having a car was the opportunity to put some bumper stickers on it." -Jeremy Deller.

Free And Easey Society
Derek Sullivan
ISBN: ,, 2006
Price: $150.00

silkscreen and pantone ink on Arches with photocopy certificate, variable edition of 50.

Yesterduh
Brian Joseph Davis
ISBN: ,, 2006
Price: $20.00

A limited edition CD made from an exhibit at Mercer Union. Guests of the gallery were invited to sing The Beatles 'Yesterday' from memory, creating the audio for the disc.

Mercersound
ISBN: Price: $.

A compilation of 18 audio works by 15 artists, spanning spoken word, sound poetry, soundscapes, noise, conceptual works, little ditties, found & homemade instruments, mash-ups, bird calls, free-jazz and body works. The limited edition disk features classics and never before heard tracks by Dave Allen, Pierre Bismuth, Christian Bok, Martin Creed, David Cunningham, Peter Gazendam, Kelly Mark, Jonathan Monk, Janet Morton, Thurston Moore, Daniel Olson, Yoko Ono, Dominique Petitgand, Mathew Sawyer, Michael Snow, and Laurel Woodcock. No Longer available. Copies signed by Yoko Ono are available for donations of $100 or more.

Defile Magazine: Folk Archive
Jeremy Deller
ISBN: ,, 2004
Price: $5.00

This artist's periodical is the first published work from Deller's collaborative project with Alan Kane.The Folk Art Rchive is their collection and documentation of folk art. Published by Art Metropole, Mercer Union and the New Gallery, 28 x 20.5 x cm.

Wouldn't it be nice?
Derek Sullivan
ISBN: , 2003
Price: $20.00

Printed packing tape.

CONTENT 1.0
James Carl
ISBN: n/a, 2002
Price: $48.00

This artist bookwork showcases James Carl's meticulous yet spare drawings of household bottles, and includes a mac and pc compatible CD with a downloadable font. Co-published by Art Metropole and Mercer Union.

LOVE GASOLINE
Barbara Fischer
ISBN: n/a, 2002
Price: $12.00

Documenting Mercer Union's Love Gasoline exhibition. This catalogue examines the relation between performance and the camera in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Included artists: Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Jacki Apple, Lynda Benglis, Chris Burden, Colin Campbell, Ian Carr-Harris, Mary Beth Edelson, Dan Graham, Douglas Huebler, Suzy Lake, Rita Myers, Tania Mouraud, Dennis Oppenheim, Carolee Schneemann, Michael Snow, Lisa Steele, Colette Whiten, Hanna Wilke and Martha Wilson.

Simple Experiments in Aerodynamics: 6 & 7
George Bures Miller
ISBN: n/a, 2001
Price: $8.00

This flip book was created from video footage of Miller's kinetic sculptures Simple Experiments in Aerodynamics: 6&7(Escape Velocity/Jump), featuring five-second excerpts of each work in action at Mercer Union. Critical essays by Wayne Baerwaldt and Dana Samuel.
B+W Book

Self Help
ISBN: 0-921527-43-8, 2000
Price: $12.00

essay Pumpkin by R.M. Vaughan
curated by Anda Kubis
edited by Lisa Tostevin
artists include: Joan Dymianiw, Alexander Irving, The Ladies Afternoon Art Society, Susie Major, Hall Smyth, Daniel Olson, R.M. Vaughan.

Accidental Audience: Urban Interventions by Artists
Edited by Kym Pruesse
ISBN: 0-921527-05-5, 1999
Price: $SOLD OUT

Off\Site@Toronto September 25 - October 31, 1998

Ghostwriter
edited by Lorraine Johnson
ISBN: 0-921527-05-5, 1998
Price: $12.00

essays by Andy Patton, Jamelie Hassan, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Gerald McMaster, Andy Fabo, Millie Chen.
artists include: Shirin Neshat, John Abrams, Faye HeavyShield, Veronica Verkley, Don Hall, Robert Houle, Charline Boudrewau & Anne Golden, Brent Cehan, John McLachlin, Michelle Gay, Janice Kerbel, Evelyn Von Michalofski.
35 p., b&w book.

 The Writing Arsenal: Website
Steve Reinke, Min Sook Lee and Heidi McKenzie
ISBN: web-based, 1997
Price: $free!

In response to a peceived ned for critical writing in the Toronto art community, Mercer Union is launching The Writing Arsenal on our Web Site. This feature is intended to stimulate writing about contemporary art and related cultural and political issues. The Writing Aresenal presents six original articles by three Toronto writers: Steve Reinke, Min Sook Lee and Heidi McKenzie. In keeping with its role as A Centre for Contemporary Art, Mercer Union intends this project to also act as a forum for critical debate by encouraging response and discussion from readers of the presented text.

Spring 1997

Min Sook Lee: Accessing Art
http://www.mercerunion.org/lee2.html

Heidi McKenzie: Cut It Out! Artists-Run Centres Take a Licking and Keep on...
http://www.mercerunion.org/mckenzie2.html

Steve Reinke: Nelson Henrick's Emission (1994) and Shimmer(1995)
http://www.mercerunion.org/reinke2.html

Spring 1996 Min Sook Lee: brenda joy lem (a conversation with the artist and her work)
http://www.mercerunion.org/lee.html

Heidi McKenzie:Who's Tending the Wounded Arts Councils?
http://www.mercerunion.org/mckenzie.html

Steve Reinke: Review: Cheryl Sourkes' Genes & Genisis/ Inexact Shadows, http://www.mercerunion.org/reinke.html and "Genes & Genisis" a web work by Cheryl Sourkes. http://www.mercerunion.org/sone.html

 White Lily Presents
ISBN: n/a, 1996
Price: $12.00

essays by Sonja Mills, Gretchen Sankey, David Miller, Joanne Tod, Corneil Van der Spek, Mundy McLaughlin, Robert Lee, John Massier, John Gzowski,
28 p., colour/ b&w catalogue.

Girrly Pictures
ISBN: n/a, 1995
Price: $15.00

essay by Shonagh Adelman
35 p., b&w catalogue.

For Lack of Evidence
ISBN: n/a, 1994
Price: $15.00

essays by Rosie Huhn & Barbara Fischer, 62 p., colour/ b&w catalogue.

Helmut Dorner, Under The Surface
ISBN: n/a, 1994
Price: $20.00

essays by Gregory Salzman (curator) & Alain Cueff (1994), 61 p., colour/ b&w catalogue.

The Heliotropic
ISBN: n/a, 1993
Price: $5.00

In her book The Heliotropic, Jennifer McMackon documents research on heliotropism in plants and proposes developing a means to incorporate the heliotropic process into human bodies, perhaps with implants affecting the lymphatic system. By making glands/bodies receptive and communicative in this non-traditional way, humans could function outside of linguistics. McMackon writes, "the heliotropic 'bend' hints at the presence of a sometimes dormant reflex." The 'bend' of the human body would be an involuntary response mechanism with practical applications like "a home pregnancy test, a lie detector, a recipe for perfume, post-Fluxus poetry" etc. 29 p., colour.

John Scott
ISBN: n/a, 1992
Price: $15.00

Limited edition artist made book, 36 p., b&w.

 John McKinnon
ISBN: n/a, 1990
Price: $10.00

Essays by Ihor Holubizky & Bernie Miller, 25 p., b&w catalogue.

Kawamata, Toronto Project
ISBN: n/a, 1989
Price: $30.00

Interview by Linda Genereux, essays by Rosemary Donegan & Detlef Mertins, 80 p., colour.

Mowry Baden
André Jodoin
ISBN: n/a, 1987
Price: $10.00

32 p., b&w catalogue.