The Small Walker Press addresses the research and creative interests of faculty members at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at Brock University, and engages with authors, artists and academics alike to produce small, innovative publications.
Small Walker Press publications can be purchased at the following locations:
Campus Store (available only on occasion and as a course text for registered students)
Brock University, St. Catharines
Someday Books
St. Catharines, Ontario
The Salon für Kunstbuch
Vienna, Austria
Art Metropole
Toronto, Ontario
Bruno
Venice, Italy
2023 Publications: Books and Archives
Handmade
Bernhard Cella and Seth Weiner
Handmade
Bernhard Cella and Seth Weiner
St. Catharines, ON / Vienna, Austria: Small Walker Press / Salon für Kunstbuch, 2023.
Graphic design by Bernhard Cella
ISBN 978-1-990208-28-7
Handmade is the product of a reflection between two artists whose practice includes book design and curatorial projects. For Handmade, Bernhard Cella and Seth Weiner wrote together short creative-writing pieces. Each is the facetious description of contents in an imaginary book. They then used these descriptions to generate images of book covers through AI. The images look like photographs of books, although none of these books (none of these covers) actually exists. The book descriptions refer to content that was never written. The result is a catalogue of books that do not exist. Handmade points to the importance of book design and marketing (book descriptions, catalogues).
Touch, and Tender Readings. Books as Archives.
Brandon LaBelle and Annette le Fort
Brandon LaBelle and Annette le Fort. Touch, and Tender Readings. Books as Archives.
St. Catharines, ON / Vienna, Austria: Small Walker Press / Salon für Kunstbuch, 2023.
Graphic design by Annette le Fort and Bernhard Cella
ISBN 978-1-990208-30-0
Two artists – Brandon LaBelle and Annette le Fort – visit their local public library, check out a few books, keep these for a few days then return them. The text and black-and-white photographs included in Touch, and Tender Readings. Books As Archives document this trip to the library. They evoke a sensory experience – tactile, visual, and olfactive – and a meditative performance – walking through the stacks, touching book covers, turning the pages of a book. LaBelle and le Fort present the library as an organic space and the destination of an intellectual and sensuous journey during which thoughts expand quickly beyond the books displayed on the shelves.
Other SWP publications for 2023
(Im)mobilités
Image
Photo credit: Shawn Serfas
(Im)mobilités
Edited by Nicholas Hauck
Catherine Parayre, Shawn Serfas, Paul Savoie, Angela Cozea, Thomas Ayouti, Alexander Christie, Nicholas Hauck
Graphic design by Bernhard Cella
80 pages, 9 illustrations
ISBN 978-1-990208-20-1
Five authors of fiction-criticism – Paul Savoie, Angela Cozea, Thomas Ayouti, Alexander Christie, and Nicholas Hauck – explore motifs – urban life, travel, seascapes, illness – developed in a creative-writing piece by Catherine Parayre.
The book illustrations show artworks from a series titled Pseudo-fiction by Canadian artist Shawn Serfas and Catherine Parayre.
In French.
The Small Walker Press
Salon für Kunstbuch
E-book, free access https://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/17461
Book Launch and Fair
Small Walker Press book launch:
Books and Archives
Presented by the Centre for Studies in Arts & Culture and Walker Cultural Leader Series
Tuesday, Sept. 26 from 12 to 2 p.m.
Museum in the Hallway/Boîte-en-valise
(2nd floor by the Theatre entrance), MIWSFPA
Ontario Culture Days event
In conjunction with exhibition opening of Geoff Farnsworth: Blurs and Vagueness,
Four book designers publish their reflection on Books and Archives:
- Annette le Fort / Brandon Labelle, Touch and Tender Readings. Books As Archives, a sensory experience at the local library.
- Seth Weiner, Bernhard Cella, Handmade, an illustrated catalogue of books that do not exist.
HANDMADE (Bernhard Cella and Seth Weiner), and
TOUCH, AND TENDER READINGS. (Brandon LaBelle and Annette le Fort).
Please join us. We very much look forward to seeing you at the Book Launch to celebrate.
For more information:
HANDMADE
TOUCH, AND TENDER READINGS
See the Small Walker Press Catalogue Fall 2023
A Walker Cultural Leader event.
Book Launch
Salon für Kunstbuch and Small Walker Press – Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture are happy to announce the Book Launch of the 2023 publications:
HANDMADE (Bernhard Cella and Seth Weiner), and
TOUCH, AND TENDER READINGS. (Brandon LaBelle and Annette le Fort).
Please join us. We very much look forward to seeing you at the Book Launch to celebrate.
For more information:
HANDMADE
TOUCH, AND TENDER READINGS
Opernringhof – Opernring 1 – Passage – 1010 Vienna
6 / 6
Group Show
Black Book
Image Bank
Pin Ups
Punishment
Three Doubles
Three Doubles
“Six in a Pile” is a new series of works Bernhard Cella is showing in three display windows along a shopping arcade in the heart of Vienna, which has the advantage of making his show open and freely accessible 24/7. The small formats, photos, drawings, and objects assembled in these small exhibition spaces all deal with aspects of the “new normal”. The fourth in this series is entitled “Punishment”.
Bernhard Cella
Six in a Pile
27.04.2023
7 pm – 8pm
The Small Walker Press is homed in the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts and receives the support of the Walker Cultural Leader series.
It publishes collaborative work that brings together authors and artists from the Niagara Region, as well as the Canadian or international contexts, covering all disciplines and creative practices taught and researched at the MIWSFPA