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Bibliography

Felshin, Nina. But Is It Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995.

Caught in the Act: An anthology of performance art by Canadian women.

Ed. Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder. Toronto: YYZ Books. 2004.

Hirsch, Marianne. "Mourning and Post Memory," and "Past Lives," Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1997.

Grant Kester. "Conversation Pieces" Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985. Ed. Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung. Oxford: Blackwell.1994. 76-88.

Andrea Fraser. "How to provide an artistic service" Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985. Ed. Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung. Oxford:Blackwell.1994. 69-75.

Andrea Fraser. "What's intangible, mediating, participatory, and rendered in the public sphere?" October, vol. 80 (Spring, 1997).111-116.

Andrea Fraser, et al. "Services: Working-Group Discussions" ('Introductions', 'Serving Institutions', 'Serving Audiences', 'Serving Communities') October, vol. 80 (Spring, 1997). 1119-148.

If You Lived Here : The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism: A Project by Martha Rosler (Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No. 6). The New Press. Ed. Brian Wallis. Fall 1998.

Kuhn, Annette. "A Journey Through Memory," Memory and Methodology. Edited by Susannah Radstone. New York: Berg. 2000.

Merewether, Charles, ed. The Archive (Documents of Contemporary Art series) London: Whitechapel, 2006.

Nora, Pierre. "Between Memory and History. Les Lieux de Memoire. Representations", No. 26 Special Issue: Memory and Counter Memory (Spring 1989).

Weschler Lawrence. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder. Vintage Books. 1995.

David Dibosa "Witness This: Art Memory Democracy" Parachute on Democracy. Issue 07 08 09, 2003.

Films

After Life, dir. Hirokazu Koreda. 1999. Japan.

Influential Works

Memory Boxes, Katherine Shozawa. (year?)

Websites

Atlas Group Archives
www.theatlasgroup.org/

Colour School
www.colourschool.org/

Esther Shalev Gerz
www.shalev-gerz.net/

Jochen Gerz
www.gerz.fr/

Kevin Hamilton
www.kevinhamilton.org/

Museum of Jurassic Technology
http://www.mjt.org/themainpage/index.html

Exhibitions

Orientalism and Ephemera. Curated by Jameile Hassan. Centre A, Vancouver, B.C. 2008.

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Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists. Curated by Grant Arnold, Vancouver Art Gallery, October 2005 - January 2006.
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Archive City: Portraits of Lulu Island - Reading List

Around One More Point: A journal of paddling adventures, Mary Gazetas. Vancouver, TouchWood Editions, 2006.

Whispers from the shedrows : a history of thoroughbred racing in Richmond, a collection of memoirs and writings / gathered by Gerry Gilker, Jack Lowe, Geradine (Dody) Wray. Richmond, B.C. City of Richmond Archives, 2001.

The truth about stories: a native narrative, Thomas King. CBC Massey lectures series, Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2003.

History of Lulu Island: and occasional poems, Thomas Kidd. Vancouver: Wrigley Printing Co. 1927.

Richmond, child of the Fraser, 1979-1989, Leslie J. Ross. Richmond, B.C.: Friends of the Richmond Archives, 1989.

Steveston, poems by Daphne Marlatt, photographs by Robert Minden. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2001.

Hippolyte's island: an illustrated novel, Barbara Hodgson. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2001.

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, Lawrence Weschler. Vintage Books, 1996.

“How to provide an artistic service” by Andrea Fraser, and “Conversation Pieces” by Grant Kester, in Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985. Ed. Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994, pages 69-88.

“Held Captive: the postcard & the internment camp” by Kirsten Emiko McAllister in West Coast Line, Spring 2001, #34-35/Vol.1, pages 20-40.

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Note: all of these books, except the last two are available for lending at the Richmond Public Library.