Barbara Balfour
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ARTISTS' BOOKS, MULTIPLES & PUBLICATIONS
2020                
Inclusion of artist’s books and multiples, Literaturfest 2020, Lucerne, Switzerland. Curator: Jürgen Obrist
Invited contribution/short text, “20 Artists Looking Back: What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self?”, SNAPline journal, Hindsight issue, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AL
 
2019                
Essay “Spectral Apostrophe and The Inkiest Black” (special version in colour), invited contribution to SNAPline journal, special issue on colour, published by SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AL
Essay “What it is…”, published in proceedings of IMPACT8 International Printmaking Conference, Dundee, Scotland
 
2018                
Essay “When Does This Become That?”, invited contribution to inaugural issue of Art + Reading journal, editors: Jenn Law, Penelope Stewart, Arts + Letters Press
 
2017                
Essay “The What and the Why of Print”, Perspectives on Contemporary Print: critical writing since 1986; published by Manchester University Press. Editor: Ruth Pelzer-Montada

2016                
Essay “Spectral Apostrophe and The Inkiest Black”, in Normal 2016: Selected Works from the Third Annual DFW Conference, Lit Fest Press, Illinois State University, Normal, Michigan, USA
Essay “The What and the Why of Print”, invited contribution to Open Studio Printopolis publication
 
2015                
Essay “Spectral Apostrophe” and artist’s project related to my publication The Inkiest Black, chosen for inclusion in PUBLIC: 51, the Spring 2015 Colour Issue of PUBLIC journal     
 
2014                
Artist’s book The Inkiest Black (published with funding from SSHRC Research/Creation grant
Conference paper entitled “What it is…”, published in proceedings of IMPACT8 International Printmaking Conference 2013, Dundee, Scotland
Artist’s project in The Bookmobile Book. Editors: Courtney Dailey, Onya Hogan-Finlay and Leila Pourtavaf. Launch at Artexte, Montreal
 
2011                
Artist’s project “Teacher’s Pet”, Art School (Dismissed) exhibition catalogue. Editor: Heather Nicol
 
2010                
Essay in Living & Dying, YYZ Unlimited publication. Texts by Barbara Balfour and Caroline Langill
Conversation with Xu Tan. Videotaped by the Gendai Gallery as part of Tan’s Toronto residency
 
2009                
Artist's project,Ex Libris, in Prefix Magazine #20. Featured artist’s portfolio.
This Book, self-published bookplate and participatory event
Essay “A Brief Interruption”, on Ingrid Ledent’s solo exhibition Continuum Ininterrompu, Open Studio, Toronto. Publication
 
2008                
Accordion style artist’s book Ex Libris. Self-published multiple
Essay “A Writer’s Manual”, in “After the Grave: The Linguistic and the Material Mark in Contemporary Art“, a special issue of Visible Language, published by the Rhode Island School of Design. Guest editors: David Armstrong and Patrick Mahon
Essay “Urban Biomass”, on Alison Judd’s solo exhibition Trembling Bog, Open Studio Publication
 
2007                
Essay “Written Iteration: Signatures and Lists”, in Pro Forma: language/text/visual art. Editor: Jessica Wyman, YYZBooks, Toronto        
 
 2006                
Artist's project, "Belly Brain", in Technologies of Intuition. Co-publication: DisplayCult/MAWA/YYZ Books. Editor: Jennifer Fisher
 
2002                
Artist's project Self-Criticism (Medea and Marsyas), in C Magazine, Issue #75, Fall 2002
Postcard multiple Persistence, documentation of the artist's life mask (non extant, due to theft)
 
2001                
''Human Network Topology", artists' classified ads in MIX Magazine, Vol. 28, Summer Collaboration with Michelle Kasprzak
"Silence As A Vigil", co-authored with Gail Bourgeois, Loraine Simms, Lorraine Oades, in Feminism – Art –Theory, Hilary Robinson. Blackwell Publishing
 
1999                
"Senile Uterus" and "Macerated Liver", from the Dermatographia Series. Artist's project in When Pain Strikes. Editors: Bill Burns, Cathy Busby, and Kim Sawchuk. Published by the University of Minnesota Press     
The Proust Questionnaire, text component of installation 102, boulevard Haussmann from 48 Rooms/48 Hours, rooming house exhibition, Montréal
 
1998                
"Twice Removed Transcripts", excerpts from video transcripts in Tessera, special issue on therapy
"The First Five Things That Come To Mind (envy)", artist's project in Cube magazine #5, special issue on envy and jealousy
 
1996                
"Stage directions", artist's project in Les Occupantes catalogue for the Venus Fly Trap exhibition Self-published by the Venus Fly Trap collective
Artist’s book m  melancholia & melanomata. Self-published
 
1995                
"Wellbeing", artist's project in Time Capsule, a Concise Encyclopedia of Women Artists, Performers, and Writers. Published by Creative Time, New York, NY
 

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