Corinn Gerber of Passenger Books
June 4th, 2009
Fillip is very excited to present a talk with publisher and bookseller Corinn Gerber this Thursday, June 4, at 8pm. In addition to past stints at Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (Cologne), Pro qm (Berlin), and the CCA Bookstore (Montréal), Gerber has run Passenger Books since 2005 — a highly eclectic publishing house based in Zürich and Berlin focussing on small-run artist books. Recent publications include Vier5, Best Company (2009), Danna Vajda, New Directions in Curatorial Practices (2008), Linda Herzog, Mihriban (2007), and David Shrigley, Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve) (2005).
Admission is free, but given space limitations, visitors are encouraged to arrive early to guarantee a seat. Please buzz or call 604.781.4417 for access.
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- Volume 6 Montréal Art Book Fair
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- Post-Capitalist Architecture TV
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- Joar Nango & David Thomas in Dialogue: Supplement 7 at the Venice Biennale of Architecture
- Offprint London Art Book Fair 2023
- Seattle Art Book Fair
- Multiple Formats: Contemporary Art Book Symposium & Fair
- Print Pomona Art Book Fair
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- Offprint Paris
- Tokyo Art Book Fair
- ACID-FREE Video Catalogue
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- Andrea Fraser and Helmut Draxler: In Dialogue
- Performance by Guillermo Galindo and Raven Chacon
- Volume Montréal
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- LIT LIT (The Little Literary Fair)
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- The Age of Unarius
- In Dialogue: Andrea Fraser and Pope.L
- Launch — S T R A Y . W O R L D
- E.S.P. — Parallel Transmissions
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- Now Available: Institutions by Artists: Volume Two
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- Means of Production: The Employee with Joshua Schwebel
- Makeready: What Makes a Book a Book?
- Shannon Ebner: Stray World
- Project Series: Ian Wilson
- The Services Working Group
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- Moyra Davey: Two Hot Horses
- Kathleen Ritter: Gaslight
- Penny Slinger: Exorcisms
- E.S.P.: New Mineral Collective
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- Online Screening: Postmodern Times
- Means of Production: Community and the Work of Unworking with Am Johal
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- Means of Production: (In)consequential Thinking with Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross
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- Launch: Supplement 5: Mr. Peanut Summit
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- E.S.P.: Visible Language Workshop
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- Listening Group: The Red Krayola
- Supplement Launch: Berlin
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- Hotel Theory Reader: Vancouver Launch
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- Mr. Peanut Summit
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- Eternal Network
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- Christopher Régimbal on Institutions by Artists
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- Triple Canopy
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- Intangible Economies at Artists Space
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- Recent Publications
- Of Times Recent and Distant
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- Fillip 12 Now Available
- Unter dem Motto
- International Chilliwack Biennial
- Motto Storefront: Ooga Booga
- Motto Storefront: Working Format
- Motto Storefront: Metahaven
- Motto Storefront: Oscar Tuazon
- Motto Storefront: Andjeas Ejiksson
- Motto Storefront: Avalanche Launch and Screening
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- Autogestion Book Launch
- Antonia Hirsch at Space, London
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- Fillip Library and Reading Room Launch
- Fillip Summer Sale
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- Stockholm and Berlin Launches
- David Horvitz of ASDF
- Montréal Launch and Collaboration
- Issue Nine Vancouver Launch
- Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism
- Fillip Review Panel: February 2009
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- Vancouver Launch of Two Artist Multiples
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- Nick Thurston of Information as Material
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- A History of Tokyo Art Speak
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