LOIS KLASSEN

Independent Art Publishing Projects & Catalogues

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LIGHT FACTORY PUBLICATIONS

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Reading the Migration Library 2020/21 Series

• A.B Godfreed and SAAN, On Loss: Two Poems from Ghana

• Gabriel Awah Mainoo, We are Moulting Birds

• Jay Kophy, Walking on Water 

• Gabriela Galíndez, Notas sobre un Recorrido: el Centro de Procesamiento de El Paso / Notes on a Tour: the El Paso Processing Center

• Madame Beespeaker and Lori Weidenhammer, Feeding the Migration (Painted Lady)

• Crista Dahl with Jairo Salazar and Lois Klassen, The Migrators

• Carlos Colin with Lois Klassen, Tierra y Libertad: Little México

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PRESENT CARTOGRAPHERS

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• Daisy Quezada Ureña con/with Susana Landeros Moreno, Jonathan Loretto, Marian Naranjo, Oralia Prieto Gomez, Profesor Manuel Robles Flores, Roxanne Swentzell, Beata Tosie-Pena, bosque brotante  (2020), Lois Klassen, la editora/editor

• Sylvia Arthur, Lois Klassen, Daisy Quezada, editors, Terreno: Borderlands Linguistics (2017)

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CATALOGUE

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• Lois Klassen, Books on Fire: Documentation of the Renegade Library, exhibition catalogue (1998). Art Gallery of Southwestern  Manitoba, Brandon, MB. http://e-artexte.ca/13333/

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Book Chapters

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• “Home Economicus,” long-form poetry, book chapter in Kathy Mantas and Lorinda Petersen, eds. Middle Grounds: Essays on Midlife Mothering (2018), Demeter Press.

• “Research by Artists: Critically Integrating Ethical Frameworks,” book chapter in Marilys Guillemin, Deborah Warr, Susan Cox, and Sarah Drew, eds. Ethics and Visual Methods: Theory, Methodology and Practice (2016) Palgrave. http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137548542 

• “Time Shifting, Lori Weidenhammer in Performance,” book chapter in Johanna Householder, Tanya Mars, eds. More Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Women Performance Artists (2016), Volume 2, YYZ Books. http://www.yyzbooks.com/sample-product/book-launch-more-caught-in-the-act-an-anthology-of-performance-art-by-canadian-women/

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Articles, Reviews, & Posts

 

• Lois Klassen, "A letter to Agnes McCausland Richardson Etherington (1880-1854),” Public Journal 64, Beyond Unsettling: Methodologies for Decolonizing Futures.

• Lois Klassen and Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, "Amplified Listening to Race and Gender in Fiamma Montezemolo’s Echo and Stephanie Dinkins’s N’TOO," Media-N | The Journal of the New Media Caucus, Vol. 18, No. 1. Open Access.               

• Lois Klassen, "Figurations following the Ethical Turn," Parse Journal - Migration, Issue 10, 2019, Open access.

• Lois Klassen, Ethics and Participation in Art: Reading the Migration Library and other methods, dissertation portfolio, 2019, Queen's University, Canada.

• Lois Klassen, "Arriving at Nowhere – Chris Kraus and Radical Localism,” Fillip, Issue 20, 2015. Open access.  

• Lois Klassen, “We Spoke Again: Dialogue in display,” Word Hoard Issue IV, 2015. Open access.

• Lois Klassen, “Who Counts?,” review, Border Crossings, Issue133, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2015.

• Lois Klassen, "Elements of Mourning," LIVE! Vancouver's Performance Art Festival, 2013, http://livebiennale.ca/2013/sunday-live-international-performance-biennale-2013/

• Lois Klassen, "Participatory Art at the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad," Public Journal, 45: Civic Spectacle, 2012, http://www.publicjournal.ca/45-civic-spectacle/

• Lois Klassen, Glen Lowry, and Julie York, "Importing a Research Ethics Model into Creative Research," Current Design Journal,  3, 2012, https://current.ecuad.ca/importing-a-research-ethics-model-into-creative-research

• Lois Klassen, "2011: Final Re-Marks," LIVE! Vancouver's Performance Art Festival, http://livebiennale.ca/2013/tag/lois-klassen/

• Lois Klassen, “Poetry Battles – the drag,” review. LIVE2011, performance art festival blog.  https://livebiennale.blogspot.com/2011/09/peotry-battles-drag.html

• Lois Klassen, “Unrealized Potential,” review. Whitehot Magazine. https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/august-2010-unrealised-potential/2107 .

• Lois Klassen, “Draped and Folded: Entries and exits,” review. LIVE2009 performance art festival blog. https://livebiennale.blogspot.com/2009/11/draped-and-folded-entries-and-exits.html .

• Lois Klassen, “Esther Ferrer’s Anarchy,” review. LIVE2009 performance art festival blog. https://livebiennale.blogspot.com/2009/10/esther-ferrers-anarchy.html .

• Lois Klassen, “Even though it’s nearly winter, things are pretty lively here in the heart of Vancouver,” review. LIVE2009 performance art festival blog. https://livebiennale.blogspot.com/2009/10/even-though-its-nearly-winter-things.html .

• Lois Klassen, “to love – verb,” review. LIVE2009 performance art festival blog.  https://livebiennale.blogspot.com/2009/10/to-love-verb.html .

• Lois Klassen, “Comforter Art-Action: long range investigations into bedding and displacement,” 2007 Open Engagement Post Conference Catalogue, Jennifer Delos Reyes ed., University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada.

• Lois Klassen, “Founding the Future,” review, visual codec.

• Lois Klassen, “Folio (Mailable Objects),” critical response. Paper Wait, 2007, Winnipeg: aceartinc., Volume 2.

• Lois Klassen, "Fig Platz," recipe and description, Flavours of Vancouver: CBC Listeners Share the Stories Behind Their Favourite Recipes, compiled by Sheila Peacock and Joan Cross, 2005, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre.

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Podcasts & Broadcasts

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• “Beyond Institutional Ethics in Art Practice,” on-line presentation with Roxanne Charles, hosted by Chantal Spicer, SFPIRG with Reece Muntean, SFU Graduate Student Society (May 25, 2011).

• "New Books Network - Documenting Displacement," Host of author interview with Nihal Soganci, Adnan Al Mhamied, and Katarzyna Grabska (2022).

• "Tertulia: Artist Book Publishing by American, Canadian, and Mexican Artists," Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre (2022).

• "Research and Creation in Sites of Ethical Demand - Models of Conduct and Practice," INSPIRE Seminar Series, PRIO (Peace Research Institute Oslo) Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict.

• La Frontera Speaks, Episode 3 (2020), Institute of Oral History, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas in El Paso.

• "Ever Elsewhere: Siting a Mennonite Imaginary" Panel Discussion (2020), The Reach Gallery Museum.

• “Human Mobility / Human Dignity: Ethics in the act of representing migration and detention” (2018), World Issues Forum, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University.

• Margaret Dragu, Director (2016), "Art Talking Women Episode 8: Lois Klassen", Cinevolution, VIVO Media Arts Centre.

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