Ibghy & Lemmens

It’s A Wonderful Life

Published in conjunction with the exhibition It’s a Wonderful Life, presented at the Owens Art Gallery from September 14 to October 19, 2007. The publication documents Struts Gallery's Open Studio program and includes a historical overview of artist’s residencies in Canada and an analysis of their significance in contemporary practice in this country.

Editor: Gemey Kelly
Foreward: Gemey Kelly
Essay: Jon Tupper
Published by: Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University
2007

Green

This catalogue was produced in conjunction with Green, UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, presented at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery from September 14 to October 7, 2007. The exhibition included works by Nicole Brabant, Paul Kajander, Marilou Lemmens & Richard Ibghy, Elizabeth Milton, Colin Miner, Kristina Lee Podesva, and Sarah Turner.

Forward: Ken Lum
Essays: Warren Arcand, Jessie Caryl, Dylan Godwin, Candice Hopkins, Jacqueline Maybe, J.J. Kegan McFadden, and James S. McLean
Design: Jeff Khonsary
Published by: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
2007

Common Room

This brochure was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Common Room, presented at the Belkin Satellite from March 4 to April 2, 2006. The exhibition included works by Abbas Akhavan, Shary Boyle, Genevieve Cadieux, Eryne Donahue, Rebecca Donald, Derek Dunlop, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, General Idea, Attila Richard Lukacs Colin Miner, Robert Niven, Kristina Lee Podesva, Wolfgang Tilmans, Sarah Turner, and Jeff Wall. Curated by Jesse Birch, Liz Park, Sophie Brodovitch, and J.J. Kegan McFadden.

Essays: Jesse Birch, Liz Park, Sophie Brodovitch, and J.J. Kegan McFadden
Published by: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
2006

Spaces of Observation

Booklet by Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens

In Spaces of Observation, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens engage with the history of mathematics, statistics, industrialization, and the rise of econometrics, including the first attempts at plotting statistical data onto a Cartesian coordinate system, and the role of suicide in the statistical turn in sociology to explore the codes and conventions that organise both the literal and conceptual spaces in which observations are located.

Design: Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens
Published by 221A Artist Run Center
January 2012, English
10,5 x 20,2 cm, 24 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9865732-1-7

Le Merle
Cahiers sur les mots et les actes/ Books of words and deeds

This issue includes : Anarchism: What It Really Stands For (Today): Edited and abridged by Heather Davis, The Geometry of Chance by Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, The Time of the Work, the Time of the Act: an interview with Bernard Aspe, a project by Simon Brown, Our Literal Speed by Abbey Shaine Dubin, Institutional Critique Flair Button* by Charles Gute, To Make One's Soul Anonymous: Practical Itinerary by Érik Bordeleau

Authors: Emma Goldman, Heather Davis, Richard Ibghy, Marilou Lemmens, Bernard Aspe, Abbey Shaine Dubin, Simon Brown, Charles Gute, Érik Bordeleau

Spring 2012, Vol.1/No.1
English and French
Published by Le Merle

Tools that Measure the Intensity of Passionate Interests

Book of emblems by Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens

If the exchange of goods and services are like twigs and branches floating along a complex network of rivers, streams and canals called the global economy, then how can we account for the undercurrents that brew deep below the surface without which the whole enterprise would remain in a state of perpetual stagnation?

This is the very question explored by Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens in a book of emblems that take as a starting point the spread of beliefs and desires as well the affective impressions that participate in the processes of economic valorisation.

Between conceptual writing and poetic expression, Tools that measure the intensity of passionate interests is a contemporary version of the Baroque book of emblems that combines “textual snapshots” along with original designs and mottos to provide distilled visions of the subterranean landscape of contemporary capitalism.

Published by Horse and Sparrow Editions, Durham-Sud / Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow / Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto.

June 2012, English
ISBN: 978-0-9881170-0-6
176 x 250 mm, 40 pages, 20 b/w ills.
Edition: 200 printed on a risograph machine

Living Labor

Milena Hoegsberg and Cora Fisher (Eds.)

Published to address critical issues in conjunction with the exhibition Arbeidstid (work time), Living Labor considers the increasing subordination of life to work.

Despite economic instability, growing income gaps across countries and the rise of a migratory, flexible and underpaid labor force, our commitment to productivity is unflagging. Today, work enlists us to psychologically invest ourselves in a boundaryless work life, which seeks to instrumentalize all of our waking hours. In response to the eroding boundaries between work and life, and against the historic backdrop of the Scandinavian labor movement, the writers gathered in Living Labor propose viable forms of refusal and imagine prospects for a post-work future.

Contributions by Will Bradley, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Carl Cedarström and Peter Fleming, Annette Kamp, Michala Paludan, Olivia Plender and Hester Reeve, Ole Martin Rønning, and Kathi Weeks.

Design: Jeanne Betak
Sternberg Press / Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
June 2013, English
15 x 21.5 cm, 216 pages, 51 color, 13 b/w ills.
ISBN 978-3-943365-67-2

Manif d’art 7 - The Quebec City Biennial Catalogue

Resistance - And Then, We Built New Forms

The catalogue Resistance - And Then, We Built New Forms features a bilingual, theoretical dossier on resistance from international and Quebec authors. Complementing the theoretical dossier is a full-color portfolio of the thirty-six artists that make up the official selection of Manif d’art 7 - The Quebec City Biennial.

Direction: Vicky Chainey Gagnon
Editor : Marc James Léger
Authors : Vicky Chainey Gagnon, Marc James Léger,
Brian Holmes, Dmitry Vilensky/Zanny Begg, Guy Sioui Durand

Design: Paquebot Design
Publisher: Manif d’art
Mai, 2014, English & French
21.5 X 24 cm, hard cover, 240 pages (50 color ill.)
ISBN 978-2-9812978-2-2

The 14th Istanbul Biennial Catalogue

SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms

The 14th Istanbul Biennial Catalogue contains articles specially penned for the occasion by curators, art historians and critics including Griselda Pollock, Elvan Zabunyan, Chus Martínez, and Alexander Provan, as well as by such scientists as Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Emin Özsoy, Jeffrey Peakall, and William Irvine, who represent a wide range of scientific fields from neurology to oceanography. The 550-page Catalogue also includes original drawings by biennial participants, along with an anthology that covers a variety of texts from 1st century to our day, all of which are chosen again by the participants.

Author: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Editor: Süreyyya Evren

New Essays: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Beatriz Colomina, Penelope Deutscher, Bracha Ettinger, Boris Groys, William Irvine, Chus Martínez, Ingo Niermann, Bige Örer, Emin Özsoy, Orhan Pamuk, Adrian Parr, Jeffrey Peakall, Griselda Pollock, Alexander Provan, Pietro Rigolo, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Aurora Scotti, Jean-Michel Vappereau, Andrew Yang, Elvan Zabunyan

Graphic Design, Leftloft, Milano
Copublished by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and Yapi Kredi Publications
Septmber, 2015, Turkish and English
12 X 18.5 cm, hard cover, 550 pages

Despite Efficiency: Labor

Emma Brasó (Editor)

The catalogue documents the two phases of the project entitled Despite Efficiency: Labour. The first phase involved a guest architecture and design studio, Aberrant Architecture, collaborating with students to transform the Herbert Read Gallery into a stage for (in)efficient work. Once built, the transformed gallery hosted a number of live performances, videos and other time-based projects presented by a group of international artists interested in situations and models of unprofitable, futile or ineffective work.

Design: Rafa Prada
Publisher: Herbert Read Gallery
April, 2015, English
21 X 29.7 cm, soft cover, 56 pages

The Biennale de Montréal 2014 Reader

L’avenir (looking forward)

The BNLMTL 2014 Reader includes curatorial texts by Gregory Burke and Peggy Gale; a fiction by Mark von Schlegell; a text by artist and theorist Amanda Beech; a collectively-authored essay by Erik Bordeleau, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, Adam Szymanski and Alanna Thain; a discussion between artist/curator Gean Moreno and cultural theorist Benjamin H. Bratton; and an essay by artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens which contextualizes their recent video installation The Golden USB, commissioned by La Biennale de Montréal for BNLMTL 2014 and presented in collaboration with VOX, Centre de l’image contemporaine. The catalogue also includes an illustration section which presents the works of the biennial participants.

Editor: Sylvie Fortin

Texts by: Sylvie Fortin, Gregory Burke; Peggy Gale; Mark von Schlegell; Amanda Beech; Erik Bordeleau, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, Adam Szymanski and Alanna Thain; Gean Moreno and Benjamin H. Bratton; and Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens.

Graphic Design: Uniform
Produced by La Biennale de Montréal in collaboration with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
2015, French and English
12.8 X 19 cm, soft cover, 238 pages

Putting Rehearsals to the Test
Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics

Sabeth Buchmann, Ilse Lafer, Constanze Ruhm (Eds.)

Although the format of the rehearsal is used across a number of disciplines-film and theater as well as fine arts-it has been scarcely considered in historical and contemporary art discourses. With this in mind, Putting Rehearsals to the Test investigates the role and function of the rehearsal as a methodology, modus operandi, medium, site of representation, and reflection on processes of artistic production. As the contributions in this book show, practices of rehearsal put those procedures-sometimes joyful, sometimes troublesome but structurally productive-into the foreground to replace given conventions and regulations with new forms and rules. Shaping working processes (the in-the-making) and products (the making-of) without defined aims and ends, artists, activists, and theorists working with strategies of rehearsal focus on moments of contingency, interruption, recommencement, irregular repetition, uncertainty, and failure within existing systems. Practices of rehearsal, in attempting to transform asymmetric labor divisions, appear as links between aesthetic judgment and social or institutional critique. This book is a critical and timely reappraisal of the methodologies of the rehearsal, and makes a claim for the aesthetic and political potential in the unfinished project.

Contributions by Rainer Bellenbaum, Vincent Bonin, Sabeth Buchmann, José M. Bueso, Kathrin Busch, Stefanie Diekmann, Kai van Eikels, Stephan Geene, Richard Ibghy, Ekkehard Knörer, Eva Könnemann, Ilse Lafer, Christine Lang, Susanne Leeb, Marilou Lemmens, Achim Lengerer, Annemarie Matzke, Jenny Nachtigall, Silke Otto-Knapp, Avital Ronell, Constanze Ruhm, Martin Jörg Schäfer, Dorothea Walzer.

Published by Sternberg Press

Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, vol. 19
Design by Surface
August 2016, English
16.5 x 22 cm, 256 pages, 3 b/w and 23 color ill.
ISBN 978-3-95679-211-3

When the Guests Are Not Looking

Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

When the Guests Are Not Looking is an extended project consisting of a publication and a series of performances centered on the title character of Denis Diderot’s dialogue Rameau’s Nephew (1762-1777). In the character of the nephew, Diderot presents a hero of indiscipline, a buffoon and an idler, a subject who operates in the margins of the Enlightenment, a period that is at the root of our contemporary obsession with work and productivity.

The publication consists in a set of index cards each including a drawing as well as a written description of a performance. The performances reflect the spontaneous and irreverent behaviour of the Nephew in Diderot’s book. They constitute open scenarios that have the qualities of ephemerality, of pointlessness, of a gust of wind.

Published by Horse and Sparrow Editions

ISBN: 9780988117013
14 cm x 20.3 cm, 24 pages, 24 ills.
Printed on a risograph machine
August 2016, English

To Refuse/To Wait/To Sleep

M&A

Edited by Lorna Brown

A publication that documents the presentation of To refuse/To wait/To sleep and M&A at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, beginning on January 12, 2017, and continuing until complete.

To refuse/To wait/To sleep and M&A bring together work by Goldin+Senneby, Melanie Gilligan, Gabrielle Hill, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Marianne Nicolson and Raqs Media Collective to investigate belief and prediction in economic models, precarious labour and illicit and marginalized markets. Speculative and experimental, their work tests models, forecasts futures and examines histories of exchange and the limits of productivity. In the context of knowledge-based economies, student debt and the outsourcing of intellectual labour, the exhibition aims to draw forth dialogues about how we imagine individual and collective futures in the “new normal.”
Works by Melanie Gilligan, Goldin+Senneby, Gabrielle Hill, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Marianne Nicolson and Raqs Media Collective are featured in an essay by curator Lorna Brown; Jamie Hilder contributes an essay about KP Brehmer; and Maria Lind’s conversation with Goldin+Senneby is offered in the form of a libretto by Pamela Carter.
Contributors: Lorna Brown, Jamie Hilder, Maria Lind, and Pamela Carter.

Design: Derek Barnett, Information Office

Published by Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
ISBN 978-0-88865-265-2
112 pages, 20.5 x 27 cm, full colour, hardcover
2017, English

Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens - Each Number Equals One Inhalation and One Exhalation

A booklet that documents the presentation of Each Number Equals One Inhalation and One Exhalation (2016-17) at Jane Lombard Gallery, New York.

The publication includes individual images of selected sculptures in the series as well as a commissioned text by Gregory Volk.

Essay by Gregory Volk.
Published by Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
n.p., 14 x 21.5 cm, full colour
2017, English

small format

Vol. 10, Fall, 2017

This volume focuses on the themes and ideas within the exhibition On Documentary Abstraction. Each contribution in this volume - by guest curator Racheal Rakes and artists Torkwase Dyson, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens - addresses expanded forms of visual abstraction and draws connections between history, politics and abstract forms.

With texts by Torkwase Dyson, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, and Rachael Rakes.

Design: Hello Gusto

Published by ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami, Florida
n.p., 14 x 21.5 cm, monochrome
2017, English

I stood before the source

Letters & Handshakes

A micropublication accompaning the exhibition I stood before the source, curated by Letters & Handshakes and presented at Blackwood Gallery from October 16 to December 3, 2016.

The publication features the commissioned essay, Opaque Epiphanies, by Alberto Toscano, an excerpt by David Harvey, a curatorial text by Letters & Handshakes, project statements, artist biographies, and full colour illustrations throughout.

With texts by David Harvey, Letters & Handshakes, and Alberto Toscano.

Design: Matthew Hoffman
Published by University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
39 pages, 16.5 x 22.8 cm, full colour
2016, English

Catalog / Catálogo XIII Bienal de Cuenca

Edited by Cristóbal Zapata

The catalog of the XIII edition ¨Impermanencia: The mutation of art in a materialist society¨, a curatorial proposal developed by the US Commissioner Dan Cameron that took place between November 25, 2016 and February 5, 2017.

The result of a laborious work of editing, this bilingual publication is not only a record of the works exhibited, but includes photographic documents of the educational project implemented in the XIII Biennial, considered the largest in history by the number of venues (20) where the works of 60 artists were displayed.

The catalog, organized by venues, each of which is the object of a brief historical review, is also, in the words of its editor and Director of the Biennial, Cristóbal Zapata, "a small guide to the historical center of Cuenca, the possibility of reviving for those who saw it, or to reconstruct for those who could not go through the nomadic and aesthetic experience that the exhibition entailed ".

Contributors: Cristóbal Zapata, Dan Cameron, Andrés Duprat, Ricardo Visentini, Christian G. Gallegos, and Luis Camnitzer.

Design: Juan Pablo Ortega and Graphisum

Published by Bienal de Cuenca
ISBN 978-9942-22-161-2
333 pages, 23.3 x 31 cm, full colour, hardcover
2017, Spanish and English

Anthology of Performance Pieces for Animals

Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

Drawing upon key experiments conducted in laboratories by psychologists, biologists, ethologists, zoologists and neuroscientists, Anthology of Performance Pieces for Animals (2018-ongiong) explores the various devices imagined by scientists to test the cognitive abilities of animals, including the examination of memory, spatial awareness, numerosity, and communication.

The work takes the form of an artist book presenting drawings of experimental apparatus alongside texts which read as instructions for performances. It also takes the form of small sculptures made of bamboo, string, and coloured gels.

Through an emphasis on performance, the work explores what happens when animals involved in research are no longer depicted as passive objects but rather as active participants, as performers, who make sense of the situations in which they are placed.

Texts, illustrations, and design: Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

Published by Horse & Sparrow Editons
ISBN 978-0-9881170-2-0
72 pages, 19 ills., 14.8 x 21 cm, b&w, stapled
Printed on risograph
2018, English

Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale

Catalogue

Edited by Riikka Thitz and Ida Kukkapuro

Welcoming three curators, Jasper Morrison, Anniina Koivu and Jenni Nurmenniemi, to share their views and vision. The makers of art and design have been handpicked by the curators, introducing the visitors to nearly 100 artists and designers from around the world. The festival emphasises the principles of diversity and sustainable development. In combining art and design, the Biennale offers a unified experience while asking whether the two disciplines can benefit and learn from each other.

Texts by Anniina Koivu, Kari Korkman, Jasper Morrison, and Jenni Nurmenniemi.

Published by Luovi Productions
202 pages, 11.5 x 17 cm, colour
Graphic Design: Werklig
ISBN 978-952-94-2044-5
2019, English

Public, 57: ARCHIVE/COUNTER-ARCHIVES

Edited by May Chew, Susan Lord, Janine Marchessault

ARCHIVE/COUNTER-ARCHIVES advances conversations regarding the changing nature and political realities of audio and visual heritage in the twenty-first century. Bringing together artists, archivists, and researchers, this issue of PUBLIC argues that the re-thinking of audio-visual heritage preservation is ultimately strategic and political, especially given the precarious material conditions of archives in the digital era, and the fact that colonial and racialized forms of structural control over the history of place and belonging continue to embargo access to the past for many communities. This issue thus turns towards the transformative potential of counter-archives, which can be political, ingenious, resistant, and community-based. These insurgent archives are embodied differently and have explicit intention to historicize differently, to disrupt conventional national narratives, and to write difference into public accounts. PUBLIC 57 also brings to the fore the work of women and Indigenous, racialized, diasporic, and LGBT2Q+ communities to create counter-archives that expand, interrogate, and disrupt conventional archives and archival methodologies.

PUBLIC 57 Includes a graphical version of the Trade Catalogue of Everything by Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens.

296 pages, 24 x 19 cm, colour
Graphic Design: Associés Libres
Summer 2018, Volume 29, Issue 27
English

Pass: Journal of International Biennial Association

Edited by Sylvie Fortin

This annual publication aims to bear witness to the critical and experimental role of contemporary art biennials around the world. Pass presents diverse approaches and divergent perspectives on biennials as institutions, curatorial endeavours and public projects. It examines the biennial as an actively evolving form that mobilizes relationships between artists, sites and audience on varied scales and in different contexts. It explores the issues and challenges arising in the perennially shifting field of biennial-making. Pass also aims to serve as a tool for learning, debate and advocacy while shaping the public profile of biennials.

Contributors: Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg / Basak Senova / Bose Krishnamachari / Claire Tancons / Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro / Gerardo Mosquera / Iara Boubnova / Jens Hoffmann / Jochen Volz / Jonatan Habib Engqvist / Kitty Scott / Natasha Ginwala / Nav Haq / Nevenka Sivavec / Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens / Sylvie Fortin / Xenia Kalpaktsoglou

Text by Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens: “Plots from (Three) Biennials”.

Published by International Biennial Association
ISSN 2617-9970
168 pages, color
Design Studio Gusto
2018, English

The Imaginary Reader

Edited by Marie Nerland

The Imaginary Reader is both an anthology of commissioned texts by a variety of writers, artists, critics, art historians and philosophers and an exhibition in the form of a book with several artworks. The final section of the book presents a series of texts about some of the art projects in the Volt programme Imagining Commons, which lasted twelve days in June in Bergen in 2015 with exhibitions, performances, a 24-hour camp, conversations and lectures.

The book is meant as a stimulus to thinking about the imaginary and the relationship between fiction and reality. By way of artworks, experimental texts and reflections it offers a range of angles and ideas that it is up to the reader to take up and explore further. To imagine something is already to start a process; to acknowledge the limitations of a situation and at the same time to initiate a change. The Imaginary Reader explores different aspects of the imaginary - the political imagination, the imaginary in art and art production, imaginary projects, the lack of and the need for the imaginary.

Contributors:
Øystein Aasan, aiPotu, Andreas Angelidakis, BADco., Erick Beltrán & Bernardo Ortiz, Milena Bonilla, Michel de Broin, Barbara Casavecchia, Daniela Cascella, Jan Christensen, Phil Coy, Bojana Cvejić & Ana Vujanović, Judith Dybendal, Mette Edvardsen, Espen Sommer Eide, Tom Engels, Jan Freuchen, Stian Gabrielsen, Dora García, Andrea Geyer, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Avery F. Gordon, Ane Graff, Luis Guerra, Mai Hofstad Gunnes, Johannes Heldén, Vlatka Horvat, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Institutt for Farge, Dimitris Ioannou, Ivana Ivković, Marte Johnslien, Cecilia Jonsson, Valentinas Klimašauskas, Brandon LaBelle, John Lely, Per-Oskar Leu, Lewis & Taggart, Isabell Lorey, Young Lunde, Kristin Nordhøy, Linn Pedersen, plan b, Alexandra Pirici, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Hans Rosenström, Andreas Schlaegel, Ingerid S. Straume, Jon Benjamin Tallerås, Hans E. Thorsen, Ève K. Tremblay, Synnøve Marie Vik, Jacob Wren, Icaro Zorbar

Design: Erik Johan Worsøe Eriksen
Published by Volt
ISBN 978-82-303-2814-9
Pages: 240
Hardcover: 24 x 33 cm
2016, English

Le soulèvement infini

Exhibition catalogue / essay collection

Edited by Louise Déry

Authors: Georges Didi-Huberman, Marta Gili, Louise Déry, Ariane De Blois, Guillaume Lafleur, Katrie Chagnon, Ginette Michaud, Philippe Despoix, Jean-François Hamel, Dalie Giroux, Tamara Vukov, Nicole Brossard, Marie Fraser, Annie Gérin, Dominic Hardy, Vincent Lavoie, Edith-Anne Pageot, Thérèse St-Gelais

Artists: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Rebecca Belmore, Dominique Blain, Paul-Émile Borduas, Shary Boyle, Maurice Bulbulian, Michel Gauthier, Alain Chagnon, Pascal Dumont, Edouard Plante-Fréchette, Mario Jean, Stéphane Gilot, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Michèle Lalonde, Suzy Lake, Marilou Lemmens, Richard Ibghy, Eduardo Menz, Jacques Nadeau, Blaire Russell, Mina Shum, Peter Sibbald, Michael Snow, Françoise Sullivan, Gabor Szilasi, Paul-Henri Talbot, Étienne Tremblay-Tardif, Pierre Vallières, Andrew Vaughan, Joyce Wieland

Published by Galerie de l'UQAM
21 x 27 cm, softcover
317 p., colour illustrations
Graphic design: Marc-André Roy
ISBN 978-2-920325-73-9
2019 French

Beyond measure

Editors: Nick Butler, Helen Delaney, Emilie Hesselbo, and Sverre Spoelstra

This special issue of ephemera explores questions around measurement in relation to management, organization, and politics - that is, how processes quantification intervene in our lives, sideline other modes of judgement, and lead us astray with a trail of numbers. Numbers reveal, but they also hide; they tell us who we are, but also who we ought to become; they show us how happy and healthy we are, but also urge us to adjust ourselves to the norm. Numbers manage us and we, in turn, manage ourselves through numbers. ‘Beyond measure’ thus signals an attempt to denaturalize measurement, to peel back the layers of commensuration to see what lies beneath. In other words, what practical and moral conditions are required for any kind of measurement to take place at all?

Published by ephemera: theory and politics in organization
volume 20, number 3
ISBN 1473-2866
August, 2020, English

Cahier 01

Cahier de la Fondation Grantham

Authors: Gentiane Bélanger, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

The result of a research residency at the Grantham Foundation and an accompaniment to the exhibition Querelle entre deux puces pour savoir à qui appartient le chien sur lequel elles vivent /Two fleas quarrelling over who owns the dog they live on, this bilingual publication is not only a record of the works exhibited, but includes photographic documents and research materials related to the project.

The Cahier contains texts by the Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens about the works developed as well as an essay by Gentiane Bélanger entitled Occupying the Soil.

Published by Fondation Grantham pour l'art et l'environnement
14 x 19.5 cm, softcover
40 p., colour illustrations
Graphic design: Louise Paradis
ISBN 978-2-9819284-0-5 (print)
2020 French and English

Pdf Français
Pdf English

L'illusion postmoderne? Réflexions sur l'évanescence d'un concept en arts visuels

Sous la direction de Nicolas Mavrikakis, Laurent Vernet et Chantal Boulanger

Cet ouvrage s’intéresse à l’héritage de la postmodernité dans les enjeux esthétiques et théoriques actuels. En quoi diffèrent-ils de ceux des années 1960 à 1980, époque où le discours sur la postmodernité se constituait en norme? Les pratiques postmodernes ont-elles généré de réelles prises de conscience culturelles et sociopolitiques et, si oui, en quoi ont-elles conditionné les pratiques artistiques contemporaines?

Avec les contributions de Julie Boivin, Chantal Boulanger, Cécile Camart, Maxime Coulombe, Clément de Gaulejac, Kélina Gotman, Thomas Hirschhorn, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Nicolas Mavrikakis, Gilles Mihalcean, Suzanne Paquet, André-Louis Paré, Yann Pocreau, Chantal Pontbriand, Bénédicte Ramade, Christine Ross, Julian Stallabrass, Laurent Vernet et Kim Waldron.

Publié par Les éditions Varia, Arts
22.8 x 15.3 cm
276 pages, couleur, illustré
ISBN : 978-2-89606-164-8 (livre)
ISBN :978-2-89606-165-5 (pdf)
2021, français

Colección Banco de España. Catálogo Razonado. Vol. II

Edited by Yolanda Romero

catalogue raisonné of the Banco de España Collection

The Colección Banco de España. Catálogo Razonado is a three volume descriptive catalogue of the Bank’s extraordinary collection comprising more than 1,400 works by almost 500 artists that confirm its patronage of the arts during 235 years.

In the current edition, the field of study encompasses sculpture, drawings and photography, leaving the decorative arts and the exceptionally well-endowed collection of prints for future research. The final result is in the form of a three-volume catalogue which reproduces more than 1,400 national and international works of art. The publication contains high-quality reproductions of each work of art accompanied by historical and artistic documentation and critical annotations, made by 22 experts, along with the biographies of the artists included in each volume.

Volumes II and III bring together more than 1,100 works of art which currently make up the contemporary collection, dating from the mid-20th century to 2018 and set out in alphabetical order, from Ignasi Aballí to Edwin Zwakman. Readers can also find in Volume II a conversation with José María Viñuela, curator of the Banco de España between 1982 and 2015.

Texts by Virginia Albarran Martin, Maria Jose Alonso, Roberto Diaz, Beatriz Espejo, Julian Gallego, Carlos G. Navarro, Paloma Gomez Pastor, Beatriz Herraez, Carlos Martin, Manuela Mena, Frederic Montornes, Javier Moya, Susana Nunez, Jorge Pallares, Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez, Javier Portus, Monica Rodriguez Subirana, Yolanda Romero, José María Viñuela & al.

Published by Banco de España
31 x 24.5 cm
557 pages, colour, illustrated
ISBN : 2-978-84-09-13747 (print, 2019)
ISBN :978-2-89606-165-5 (pdf, 2021)
2021, Spanish

Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens: The Power Given to Abstractions that Make Us Stupid

Monograph

The Power Given to Abstractions that Makes Us Stupid - Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens is the first comprehensive monographic publication devoted to our practice. Portraying multifaceted works that often develop over several years, the monograph covers our artistic production across several media, including video, sculpture, installation and performance from 2008 to 2018.

The monograph includes essays written by Vincent Bonin (author, independent curator), Lorna Brown (artist, writer, curator and Associate Director at the Belkin Art Gallery), Sunny Kerr (Curator of Contemporary Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre), and Melanie O’Brian (Director at SFU Galleries). It also includes an interview with us by Kitty Scott (Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the National Gallery of Canada) as well as a critical text written by us, entitled Concrete Abstractions: The role of graphical representation in the measurement of productivity.

Richly illustrated and documented, the section “Works and Projects,” comprises nine chapters, each dedicated to some of our most prominent works, including: Horse & Sparrow (2008-10), Supply and Demand for Immortality (2011), Real failure needs no excuse (2012), The Prophets (2013-2015), Is there anything left to be done at all? (2014), Visions of a Sleepless World (2014-15), The Golden USB (2014-ongoing), Each Number Equals One Inhalation and One Exhalation (2016-2017), When the Guests Are Not Looking (2016-18), and Theatre from the Jungle (2018), as well as archival materials and documentation of lesser known projects.

Texts by Vincent Bonin, Lorna Brown, Sunny Kerr, Melanie O’Brian, Kitty Scott, and Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens

Co-published by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, SFU Galleries and the Owens Art Gallery.

The monograph can be ordered from Queen's University bookstore.

13" x 10"
224 pp col. ill.
ISBN: 978-1-55339-417-4
Softcover
Design: John McCusker
Printing: die Keure
2020, English

Land is not a mat to be rolled up and taken away | La terre n’est pas un tapis à rouler et emporter

Author: Sylvie Fortin

Published on the occasion of Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens’s exhibition Land is not a mat to be rolled up and taken away, curated by Sylvie Fortin and presented at Confederation Centre Art Gallery, this bilingual brochure presents works developed by the artists over the past five years in Nebraska, Kansas, Ontario, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island.

The exhibition is an invitation to contemplate the ways in which members of human and nonhuman collectives relate to the land and to each other. Presenting new and recent sculptures and videos by Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, the exhibition immerses visitors- body, mind, and soul-in a rich, multicoloured realm where objects, images, texts, sounds, and ideas reveal the magnitude of our kinship with all of earth’s inhabitants, challenging us to critically reassess our shared history and to imagine our fate with care.

Published by Confederation Centre Art Gallery
28 x 21.5 cm, softcover
n.p., colour illustrations
Graphic design: Gusto Studio
ISBN 978-1-928128-04-5
2023, French and English

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Triennale banlieue ! Interrègnes

Texts by Marie Perrault and Yan Romanesky

This publication accompanies the contemporary art event Triennale Banlieue! Interrègnes presented by Salle Alfred-Pellan. The 3rd edition examines the presence of nature in the suburban territory and the dynamics that link the human habitat and natural ecosystems. This contemporary art event brings together 19 artists or artist duos from Quebec, Canada and France whose approaches echo the place of nature in North American suburbs. This is a situation that the earth sciences, geography, biology, urban planning and landscape architecture approach with expertise and new perspectives which are also presented in the publication.

Triennial Suburbia! Interrègnes
Published by: Salle Alfred-Pellan Maison des arts de Laval
Graphic design: Balistique
31.4 cm x 210 cm, hard cover
88 pages, color illustrations
2022, French and English
ISBN 9782924922057

The Prophets : Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

Monograph

Ana Barajas ed.

The book focuses on Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens’ seminal work The Prophets (2013-2015), a delicate handmade collection of hundreds of small, whimsical sculptures made from everyday materials that renders economic graphs into makeshift models. In this work, the artists explore what it means to move from a material world of entangled, interacting agents to a world of mathematical modelling and graphical abstraction. The Prophets cuts across a wide range of historical and contemporary topics of interest to economists such as labour, consumption, production, taxes, savings, investments, credit and so on, to constitute a diagrammatology of economic thought.

With essays by Sven Lütticken, Harro Maas, Marina Roy, and Jakub Zdebik, and a Foreword by Peggy Gale.

Published by YYZ Books, Toronto.
24 x 16.5 cm, softcover
168 pages, colour illustrations
Graphic design: Michael Barker
ISBN 978-0-920397-63-3
2024, English

The book can be ordered from YYZBooks.