Barbara Balfour

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Artists' Books and Publications
2015    Essay “Spectral Apostrophe”, related to my publication The Inkiest Black, chosen for inclusion in PUBLIC: 51, the                                 Spring 2015 Colour Issue of PUBLIC journal (forthcoming)
             Essay, “The What and the Why of Print”, invited contribution to Open Studio publication (forthcoming)


2014    Artist’s book The Inkiest Black (published with funding from SSHRC Research/Creation grant)
             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”, included in Art School (Dismissed) exhibition catalogue. Curator/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 residency in Toronto


2009    Artist's project, Ex Libris, in Prefix Magazine #20. Featured artist’s portfolio
            “This Book”, personalized, self-published bookplate and participatory event
             Essay, “A Brief Interruption”, on Ingrid Ledent’s solo exhibition Continuum Ininterrompu. Open Studio, Toronto.                                 Open Studio publication

2008    “Ex Libris’, accordion style artist’s book. Multiple. Self-published
              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, Toronto. Open Studio                                         publication

2007    Essay, “Written Iteration: Signatures and Lists”, in Pro Forma: language/text/visual art. Editor: Jessica Wyman,                                     YYZBooks, Toronto

2006    "Belly Brain" in Technologies of Intuition. Co-publication: DisplayCult/MAWA/YYZ Books. Guest editor, Jennifer                                 Fisher

2002    "Self-Criticism (Medea and Marsyas)" Artist's project in C Magazine, Issue #75, Fall 2002, p. 13
             "Persistence", documentation of the artist's life mask. Postcard multiple. Self-published

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. Ed: Bill                         Burns, Cathy Busby, and Kim Sawchuk. Published by the University of Minnesota Press   
            "The Proust Questionnaire", text component of 102, boulevard Haussmann from 48 Rooms/48 Hours, rooming house                         exhibition, Montréal. Self-published

1998    "Twice Removed Transcripts", excerpts from video transcripts in Tessera, special issue on therapy, Winter 1998.                                     Refereed
            "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
            m  melancholia & melanomata. Artist’s book. 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

1992    "Loofa-suit/combinaison-luffa". Sewing pattern multiple. Self-published
            "Loofa-suit/combinaison-luffa". Postcard multiple. Self-published
© Barbara Balfour 2015