Titles 3

exhibition 02/02/08 - 02/03/08

opening: Saturday 02/02/08 from 5pm to 7pm

at the bookstore L'Écume des Jours, 125 St-Viateur O., Montréal

Titles invites a number of artists, architects and designers to produce book works, or related artworks to exhibit in a bookstore. The participants will either choose an existing book title or create a new title to work on. The criterion is that the form and content of the artistic work should have a relation to the chosen title; The finished object must be found under a traditional category in the bookstore (i.e. literature, children's books, art, etc.) and placed in a slot on the shelf according to it's alphabetical placement. A list will be provided to visitors to facilitate locating the exhibited works.

The structure of Titles is designed to adapt and travel to bookstores in different cities. New participants, especially those living in the city of the exhibition, will be invited with each new exhibition. The first exhibition of Titles opened on 23 June 2007 at Balfour Books in Toronto. The current, third exhibition takes place in Montreal, Quebec with over 10 additional participants from the province.

The WayUpWayDown collective wishes to acknowledge the generous support from Articule and L'écume des Jours in Montreal, with special thanks to Stephanie Chabot, whose effort made the project possible in Montreal.

Titles reflects the "curatorial" interest of the WayUpWayDown collective (Sunny Kerr, Yam Lau, Tania Ursomarzo) to set into motion itinerant exhibition structures and manoeuvres. It is the mandate of the collective to facilitate tenuous and fluid relations between exhibitions, artworks and communities. The invitations to participants are extended on the basis of respect, which already entailed artistic merits, friendship and trust. Hence, the curatorial injunction is reduced to the existing categories of the bookstore.