Lois Klassen | The Renegade Library

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A mail art project + artist talk by alumna + ECU Research Ethics Board Coordinator Lois Klassen.

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Nov 19, 2016 2:00pm – 5:00pm

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A mail art project + artist talk by Lois Klassen.

During the years 1996 to 1998, the Renegade Library developed as both a social practice, and a collection of over 500 artist books. Originating with a mail art call for "collaborative mail art in book form," this project of Lois Klassen in conjunction with the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, brought together over 700 artists from some 40 countries. Together, their correspondences produced a delightful collection of zines, assemblings, multiples, add & pass, miniatures, visual poetry, small presses, and much more. Renegade Library is an infectiously inspiring artifact of a 90s mail art and artist book experimentation.

Today the Renegade Library occupies 20 boxes, which are individually being acquired by public artist book collections. The Christa Dahl Media Library & Archive has acquired box #3. As the distribution of the boxes continues Renegade Library has taken up residence in collections including Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon), Also As Well Too (Winnipeg), Artexte (Montreal), Centro de Desarollo de las Artes Visuales (Havana), Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe), Bautista Kabistan Esquivel Collective (San Salvador), and Emily Carr University Library (Vancouver).

Presented by SiteFactory and VIVO's Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive (CDMLA).