Ein wesentlicher Aspekt im Werk von Bernhard Cella besteht in der Erforschung von inneren und äußeren Formen des Verweilens sowie der von ihm ins Werk gesetzten Repräsentation und Verschiebung durch den Formenkanon der Kunst.

In the Fall of 2018, the Small Walker Press invited poet Adam Dickinson and artist Lorène Bourgeois to walk through a former landfill (1976-2001), the Glenridge Quarry Naturalization Site. Located on the Niagara Escarpment, overlooking the City of St. Catharines, Ontario, it functions today as a public recreation area.

Shawn Serfas grew up exploring the northern reaches of Saskatchewan’s lakes and river systems. Although initially drawn to an academic career in the environmental sciences, Serfas pursued Fine Arts and Art History degrees in Saskatchewan as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Alberta.

In a strictly formal arrangement, Bernhard Cella becomes engaged with the hitherto published works by Hans Ulrich Olbrist. In less than two decades, Olbrist has produced 69 publications, which are presented here in watercolor version. Edition of 300. Printed and bound in Austria.

Queer Publishing - A Family Tree: The Queer Tree of Life maps the landscape of queer LGBTQ publishing between 1880 and 2019 in an international context.

Städte wachsen seit Jahrzehnten an den Peripherien. Die Folge sind hybride Gegenden aus städtischen und ländlichen Fragmenten. Von der Verstädterung der Landschaft und der Verlandschaftlichung der Städte ist in diesem Zusammenhang vielfach die Rede........

Barbara Jean Hammer (1939-2019) gilt als Pionierin des queeren und feministischen Kinos und war eine der ersten Filmemacherinnen, die sich ausdrücklich dafür einsetzte, lesbische Realitäten sichtbar zu machen. In experimentellen sowie dokumentarischen Filmen, Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Collagen und Performances beschäftigte sich die Künstlerin mit der Auflösung der vorherrschenden Geschlechterrollen, der lesbischen Identität und der Sexualität. Hammers Arbeit beleuchtete Tabuthemen wie Altern, Krankheit und Tod.

The glue experiment. Located in a small town approximately twenty kilometers north of Vienna, Atelier Gugging is an open studio based on the creative experience of the Gugging House for Artists, whose residents are important representatives of Art Brut. In the Atelier, these artists work in a friendly atmosphere side by side with guests from Austria and abroad.

The photo of a woman’s leg stepping onto an open book when climbing out of bed served as inspiration. I asked some of my friends to take a picture for me according to these guidelines. They should photograph themselves stepping on a book with their bare feet. It was agreed that the authors of the photos remain anonymous

“Arc” by award-winning author Paul Savoie is a poem which captures the pensive impressions of a moment and is suffused with a quiet musicality. Savoie’s passion for and practice of music inform this long melancholy song. Mélanie Mesager, a French dancer and scholar in contemporary dance, selected a few passages (in bold in Savoie’s text) and,

Dance and musical improvisation are ephemeral expressions urging us to embrace the moment in thoughtful joy. Devon Fornelli’s improvisations documented here are two performances: his CitySounds, created on 18 September 2015 for the opening of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario; and his Garden Performance, five years later, on 9 May 2020, offered as a reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic and the temporary lockdown of the MIWSFPA.

Alejandro Cartagena’s photographs of recently built Mexican suburbs, ask us to look at this phenomenon of the suburban environs and how it has fueled variously the need for solutions to overcrowded cities, or the desire to form and incorporate community living where replication and anonymity are the rule rather than the exception.

Edition of 12, Set of 18 screenprinted ceramic tiles (15 x 15 x 1 cm), handmade box, book-binding linen, numbered, signed Edition. Edition Salon für Kunstbuch 2021, in cooperation with Fiona Liewehr

A three-dimensional paper sculpture with eight different views. A pop-up book as an homage to the contemporary art book scene.

In 2022 the Niagara Region welcomes the Canada Games; 2022 also marks the reintroduction of the Indigenous game of lacrosse. By thematizing lacrosse, this book celebrates the role sport plays in promoting cultural diversity.

In March 2020, the Rodman Hall Art Centre showed Industrial Niagara, an exhibition curated by Derek Knight, that brought together key works by members of the Research Centre in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Culture, Brock University.

E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake (1861-1913) is a writer, poet and performer who drew upon her Canadian and Mohawk upbringing on the Six Nations of the Grand River and Brantford in Upper Canada/Ontario. Landon Mackenzie is a Canadian artist, living on the unceded traditional lands of the Coast Salish.

"18 Autoren rätseln. Sie wundern sich über die Bedeutung eines Zeichens. In WHAT teilen sie in kurzen Stücken mit, was Ihnen durch den Kopf schwebt, in Hirnwindungen hängen bleibt und schreibend zu Blatt gelangt.

『NO-ISBN, 독립출판에 대하여』는 오스트리아 빈을 기반으로 활동 중인 아티스트 버나드 셀라를 주축으로 레오 핀다이센, 아그네스 블라하 세 사람이 ISBN(국제표준도서번호)을 부여받지 않고, 일반적인 국제 거래 시스템에 속하지 않은 총 1,800여 권의 독립출판물을 살펴보고 연구한 결과를 담은 책이다. 500여 쪽에 이르는 이 책의 내용은 크게 ‘개념미술’ 매체로 활용되는 출판물, 출판물의 매혹적인 물성, 포스트디지털 시대의 출판, 정치적 매체로서 ‘NO-ISBN’,

The Dark Redacted published in April 2020 by the Small Walker Press in their Invisibility series, featuring ten of my drawings, prose by acclaimed writer Gary Barwin, publication design by Lauren Wickware, and printed by Andora Graphics.

The monograph “Modifications” is an associative book about the works of Samuel Schaab from the last years. Published by Salon für Kunstbuch. With texts by Karolina Preuschl, Ferdinand Schmalz, and Samuel Schaab. Designed by Anna Liska.

We see women looking at art, everything an exhibition has to offer: paintings, sculptures, installations. If we’re women, then one could say they’re women looking at women looking at art.

Handmade is an ecstatic archive of synthetic handmade Artist’s books. Sequenced in no particular order, the project searches for meaning in the future tense through time, text, and touch. Using a combination of images and descriptions, the book chronicles not only a series of material proposals but also a visual discussion between the authors. Constructed entirely from text to AI generated images, the book works with collage at the granular level, speculating on what the form of a book might become when drawn from an impossibly broad archive of digital images.

The publication is developed as a reflection on books as archives of touch. Visiting our local public library, the Philipp Schaeffer Bibliothek in Berlin, we checked out a selection of books that caught our attention. Bringing them home, we took photographs of handling and reading the books, which we then printed out and inserted back into the books. Following this, we returned books to the library with these hidden pages added.

The notebook of James William Lacelot Lowther brings together drawings, sketches, dreams, watercolours, and paintings that document the artistic work of the artist. William, who passed away at the age of 21, was a talented, passionate, and empathetic young artist.