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SUMMARY:Rob Kovitz: Ice Fishing in Gimli: a novel (the definitive edition)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Art Gallery of York University\n@ The Department  (1389 Dundas St W\, Toronto ON)\n8 – 27 February 2011 \nOpening reception: 11 February 2011 @ 7 – 10pm\n Artist’s talk: 12 February @ 2pm \nGallery hours:\nTuesday – Wednesday\, noon – 4pm\nThursday – Saturday\, noon – 6pm \n“Ten years in the making\, Ice Fishing in Gimli is an 8-volume image/text montage bookwork by Winnipeg artist/writer Rob Kovitz. Set in and around a strange small town and a large frozen lake in the uncharted center of Canada\, it’s an epic citation saga of desire\, ambition\, weather and landscape …”\nTesting the fair dealing copyright exemption to the limit\, and probably slightly beyond\, Rob Kovitz’s Ice Fishing in Gimli is a citational tour de force. Extending to 4\,750 pages\, this eight volume novel consists exclusively of quotations\, textual or otherwise\, which coalesces into a strange yet compelling narrative. Settled in 1875 by Icelandic emigrés\, Gimli is located on the south-western shore of Lake Winnipeg and is currently the sole location for the distilling of Crown Royal whiskey. While still certainly an artists’ book project\, Ice Fishing approaches sculpturality in its heft. The installation of the work aims to provide its readers with the ideal study-room environment to browse\, to study\, and to contemplate.\nIce Fishing in Gimli was the 2010 Artists’ Book of the Moment (ABotM)\, an open competition for artists’ books presented by the Art Gallery of York University. For more information\, and details on the 2011 ABotM see: http://www.theAGYUisOutThere.org/books\nThe next Pieces chapbook\, Whole Cloth from Piecemeal\, consists of a conversation between Kovitz and Marcus Boon on ideas around citationality\, appropriation\, and meta-ness\, will be available at the gallery. \nConcurrently:\nNot to be missed at the back of the gallery is a public presentation of the submissions to the 2011 Artists’ Book of the Moment competition. Short list and finalist to be announced in the near future. The Gallery would like to take a moment here to thank Joe Friday for his generous financial contribution to the ongoing health of the ABotM. \nhttp://www.theAGYUisOutThere.org/ABotM\nhttp://thedepartment.ca \nFor further information\, please visit our website or contact:\nMichael Maranda\, assistant curator\nArt Gallery of York University\nmmarand@yorku.ca\n(416) 736-2100 x77636 \nThe Art Gallery of York University is a university-affiliated public non-profit contemporary art gallery supported by York University\, The Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and our membership.
URL:https://www.icct.info/event/rob-kovitz-ice-fishing-in-gimli-a-novel-the-definitive-edition
LOCATION:Art Gallery of York University\, 1389 Dundas St W\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
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