Griffin Art Projects Book Launch!

Join us in person for the launch of Griffin Art Projects’ recent publications, with informal remarks by contributors Su Ying Strang (Whose Chinatown? conference organizer), Karen Tam (Whose Chinatown? curator), Patrik Andersson (The Great Exchange: Teeth, Loan and Trust Company, Consolidated: The Trylowsky Collection, curator).

All Griffin Art Projects books will be available for purchase at 25% off during the book launch.

Whose Chinatown? Examining Chinatown Gazes in Art, Archives, and Collections is a comprehensive examination of Chinatowns across Canada, revealing an art historical and political account of Chinatown neighbourhoods while also looking unflinchingly at anti-Asian sentiments, which have grown more widespread globally during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Great Exchange: Teeth, Loan and Trust Company, Consolidated: The Trylowsky Collection and Three Short Films and Some Songs and Pictures about Donkeys, Truckers, Cowboys, Container Ships and Aeroplanes (Including Setbacks) is a dual-sided book that documents Griffin Art Projects’ 2021 exhibition, curated by Patrik Andersson, and the concurrent residency project with artists Bill Burns. The exhibition and residency each examined the concept of “parallel economies,” positing trade as an art practice on both individual and global levels.