Launching two publications at READ Books

Please join us on Wednesday, May 25 at 3 pm for the digital launch of Occasional Papers: Creative research at Emily Carr, followed by a 4 pm launch and reading from OTOH a new artist’s book by Randy Lee Cutler.

Occasional Papers: Creative research at Emily Carr

OCCASIONAL PAPERS is a collected volume of art, design and media research; it is a publication that aims to represent creative research from across the extended Emily Carr community. Envisioned as the first of a series, this collection champions practice-based research through open access digital publication. This inaugural volume celebrates new and ongoing creative work from all areas of Emily Carr with contributions from alumni, faculty, research labs, and undergraduate and graduate students.

Editing and design by the OP Team, with contributions from:

• Julie Andreyev
  
• Cheryl Wong
  
• Chris Carruth
  
• Christa Clay & Chiara Schmitt
  
• Vannysha Chang & Malika Gill
  
• Jenie Gao
  
• Zahra Jalali & Kimia Gholami
  
• Randy Lee Cutler
  
• Shraddha Kumbhar & Monserrat Palencia
  
• Sunny Nestler

Published by Occasional Press, an agile publication initiative aiming to showcase new and diverse forms of creative research from across ECU and its broader community. The Occasional Press team includes Ruby Pang, Leea Contractor, Aamir Rangwalla, Isla Pedrana, Jon Hannan, and Katherine Gillieson

OTOH by Randy Lee Cutler

OTOH is an artist’s book comprised of 60 reproductions of handout collages and an essay titled “Unsettled Feelings.” The collages, made between March and August 2020, represent an emergent visual syntax that embraces ciphers, hieroglyphics and a kind of writing across diverse cultures. Responding to a stack of gifted and thrifted National Geographic magazines, Cutler worked with the array of image fragments and how they pointed to our complex immersion in the world wide pandemic. The accompanying essay seeks to make sense of our historical moment through an engagement with Pandemic Discourse, Theories of Race and Representation as well as Contemporary Art History. This artist book is an edition of 100.

Taking the form of artist books, collage, performance, printed matter, audio walks, and creative/critical writing, Randy Lee Cutler’s practice weaves together themes of collaboration, materiality and intuition. Her hybrid projects engage with conversation, research and the exploration of gender, art and science to connect with audiences in diverse ways. Working with themes of speculation and geopolitics, she is fascinated with the intersection of matter and metaphor. Her recent collage series, On the Other Hand (shown at WAAP 2021), is a response to gifted National Geographic magazines, pandemic lockdowns and anti-racism initiatives.