Pivot Plays into Existence

Just a quickie Sunday heads up about a new journal being published here in Montreal:

Pivot: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Visual Culture

The inaugeral issue of Pivot is themed “Play” and contains work I’m excited to check out, like the piece by guest artist Darren O’Donnell (who I’ve been hearing about since I was a shy kid following my playwright dad around in hectic-but-awesome-theatre-festival-time Toronto… and again more recently, when Neil got his hair cut by kids as part of a Mammalian Diving Reflex experience.. that’s O’Donnell’s company - check ‘em out, they’re pretty awesome.)

Pivot has also got goods by some of my fellow ex gradstudents from Concordia’s arts and coms programs - people who do cool things like make mix cd’s for their thesises (ie; Owen Chapman, ie; opositive). And it’s also got some form of dearness I suspect by the artist who created the book I bought my sister this year for Christmas (Elizabeth Beliveau - she wrote Something to Pet the Cat About which makes a fine present for a teenage girl if I do say so myself.. and is published by Conundrum Press actually!)

Pivot: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Visual Culture

We are please to announce that the first issue of Pivot: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Visual Culture will available for sale in
Montreal at the FOFA Gallery (in the EV building of Concordia
University) and at the Olivieri bookstore of the Musée d’art
contemporain. Pivot’s first issue explores the broad and flexible
theme of Play, and features texts and visual work by graduate students
in the disciplines of Art, Art History and Communications, as well as
a text by guest artist Darren O’Donnell. To celebrate the launch of
Pivot, this inaugural issue carries inserts by artists Jerry Ropson
and Elisabeth Belliveau, and a limited number of issues include a cd
insert by sound artist Owen Chapman.

Pivot retails for $12.00.

For further information please contact the editorial staff at
contact @pivotjournal.com

–
Andria Hickey
Editorial Committee
Pivot
Interdisciplinary Journal of Visual Culture
Department of Art History
Concordia University
1455, de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1M8