Fillip
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Fillip is a Vancouver-based contemporary art
publishing organization formed in 2004. It publishes a magazine as well as books of critical writing. In 2008 it opened an office on the border between Gastown
and the Downtown Eastside
from which it hosts month events including artist talks, publication launches, and screenings.
Fillip builds on Vancouver’s tradition of critical art publishing such as the pre-magazine era Vanguard (1972–78), Boo (1994–98), and Last Call (2001–02) by stimulating conversations about contemporary art through critical writing, projects, and events.
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
publishing organization formed in 2004. It publishes a magazine as well as books of critical writing. In 2008 it opened an office on the border between Gastown
Gastown
Gastown is a national historic site in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the northeast end of Downtown adjacent to the Downtown Eastside. Its historical boundaries were the waterfront , Columbia Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the 1870 townsite survey, the proper...
and the Downtown Eastside
Downtown Eastside
The Downtown Eastside is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and is known as "Canada's poorest postal code"....
from which it hosts month events including artist talks, publication launches, and screenings.
Fillip builds on Vancouver’s tradition of critical art publishing such as the pre-magazine era Vanguard (1972–78), Boo (1994–98), and Last Call (2001–02) by stimulating conversations about contemporary art through critical writing, projects, and events.
Books
Beginning in 2009, Fillip began publishing artist books and books of critical writing under the Fillip Editions imprint.- Antonia HIrsch, 'Komma (After Dalton Trumbo' Johnny Got His Gun), 2010
- Jeff Khonsary and Melanie O'Brian, eds., Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism, 2010 (co-published with Artspeak, Vancouver)
- Silvia Kolbowski, Dear Silvia...July 2009, 2010
- Mark MandersMark MandersMark Manders is a Dutch artist. He was born in 1968 in Volkel, Netherlands. Manders's body of work consists mainly of installations, drawings, sculptures and short films. Typical of his work is the arrangement of random objects, such as tables, chairs, light bulbs, blankets and dead animals. He is...
, Traducing Ruddle, 2010 (co-published with Roma Publications, Antwerp) - Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, Autogestion, or Henri LefebvreHenri LefebvreHenri Lefebvre was a French sociologist, Marxist intellectual, and philosopher, best known for his work on dialectics, Marxism, everyday life, cities, and space.-Biography:...
in New Belgrade, 2009 (co-published with Sternberg Press, Berlin)
External links
- Fillip.ca – official website
- Twitter.com/fillip — twitter page