Melissa Gordon – Vital Signs: Writings on Gesture

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Melissa Gordon – Vital Signs: Writings on GestureVital Signs brings together writings by artist Melissa Gordon, which she has performed live over the past decade in various contexts. Focusing on the role and behaviour of gesture in her painting practice and that of others, Gordons texts move between topics of dropping out, (female) genius, con jobs, how one speaks in painting, and notions of suckcess. Gordons writing emerges from a history of feminist organising and editing. Vital Signs shows the

lived and died

staring cyclops’ eyes

The artists exhibited in this time

A book complementing the exhibition The Other Architect at the Canadian Centre for Architecture

engaged and motivated team becomes an unstoppable force

In an age in which the dichotomy between signifier and signified has long since come apart at the seams

With additional essential contributions from Rebecca Belmore and Julian Brave NoiseCat

Favrod’s works are presented with their titles across the image

cloud formations

Dane Lovett (b

and tele- vision shows

Thoreau at Walden) 'pours' the adapted poems into his pen-and-ink panels