HANDBOOK is a collaborative intervention in art and design pedagogy. It offers faculty a radical rethink on how to work with queer and transgender students on their path to becoming artists and designers – from the first day of school through to seminars, studio classes, and critiques. HANDBOOK draws directly from student experiences to help faculty of all orientations bring equitable teaching practices and queer curricula into art and design classes.

This 112-page publication is produced in a limited edition of 1200 with a gatefold letterpress cover, printed by Nick Shick and Queer Publishing Project, on Vandercook Universal and No. 4 presses. HANDBOOK is designed by Cecilia Berkovic, with illustrations by Morgan Sea, and published by Queer Publishing Project and OCAD University Publications Program.

Handbook was a project of Queer Publishing Project, an active research group of over 100 students, former students, alumni, staff and faculty at OCAD University founded by Anthea Black, Shamina Chherawala, Nick Shick, Vicky Avramopolous, Taikun Kambashi, and Eli Howey. Our intersectional community aimed to centre the voices of queer and transgender students in post-secondary visual art and design pedagogy.

Read “In the making: Queer Publishing and Transpedagogies” in Art Journal’s special issue on Trans Visual Culture Project 

HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education edited by Anthea Black and Shamina Chherawala. Printed by Nick Shick and Queer Publishing Project, letterpress on Mohawk carnival yellow paper, edition of 1200. 2018.

Editors
Anthea Black and Shamina Chherawala

Graphic Design
Cecilia Berkovic

Production Coordination 
Nick Shick and Anthea Black

Illustrations 
Morgan Sea Thomson

Distribution Partner
Art Metropole (Toronto)

The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism is a limited edition art newspaper focusing on global grassroots HIV art and cultural production. Artists have and continue to play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working within communities that are most impacted by the virus: queer and trans people, people who use drugs, sex workers, people of colour, and indigenous peoples. Together we reflect the immediacy and urgency of global HIV/AIDS dialogues as well as their historical continuities. The HIV Howler is a forum for dialogue, a demand for aesthetic self-determination, a response to tokenism, and a guide to navigating the vibrational ambiguities between policy, pathology, and community.

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The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism es un periódico de edición limitada que se centra en el arte y la producción cultural del VIH a nivel mundial. Los artistas han desempeñado y continúan desempeñando un papel fundamental en la conformación de una comprensión social más amplia del VIH y en el trabajo en las comunidades más afectadas por el VIH: personas trans y queer, personas que consumen drogas, trabajadoras sexuales, personas de color y pueblos indígenas. Juntes reflejamos la inmediatez y la urgencia de los diálogos globales sobre el VIH / SIDA, así como sus continuidades históricas. El HIV Howler es un foro para el diálogo, una demanda de autodeterminación estética, una respuesta al tokenismo y una guía para navegar las ambigüedades vibratorias entre la política, la patología y la comunidad.

The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism est un journal d’art produit en édition limitée qui se concentre sur la production artistique et culturelle liée à l’épidémie mondiale du VIH. Cette tribune se veut à la fois un lieu de dialogue, un appel à l’autodétermination esthétique, une réponse aux mesures purement symboliques et un guide pour se frayer un chemin à travers les ambiguïtés vibratoires qui prennent forme entre la politique, la pathologie et la communauté. L’art et les artistes jouent un rôle fondamental dans la mise en œuvre d’une compréhension sociétale plus large du VIH, travaillant souvent à partir de l’expérience directe et au sein des communautés les plus touchées par le virus. En rassemblant les voix des artistes séropositifves, nous reflétons aussi bien l’impact immédiat et l’urgence des dialogues sur la pandémie du VIH/sida que leur continuité historique.

The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism, Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread, artist newspaper, published annually in an edition of 1,500.

Publishers + Editors
Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread

Editorial Advisory Committee
Anthea Black, Theodore Kerr, Charles Long, Kairon Liu, Mikiki, Darien Taylor, L’Orangelis Thomas, and Jessica Whitbread.

Funding
We gratefully acknowledge the founding support of the Toronto Arts Council, and project support from the Alternative Exposure 13, Real Time + Space, Hubbell Street Galleries, California College of the Arts for Issue 5.

Distribution Partners
Art Metropole (Toronto), Visual AIDS and Printed Matter (New York), Curatorial Research Bureau at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), San Serriffe (Amsterdam), Casa Bosques (Mexico City). 
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COMEDOWN / Sunrise Ceremony

This artist’s book documents two collaborative works by Anthea Black and Mikiki for Van Abbe Museum’s Deviant Practice 2018-19 season. 

A performance begins at 6:03 am to break with chrononormative displays of public culture. This period of the day directly preceding the dawn is known as “civil twilight.” Notions of civility and time often dictate individual and collective behaviour within public spaces of the street, the dance floor, and the museum. Gabber shows us that each social body lives by its own, often unspoken codes and timescales. By coming down at the museum after the party, but before productive daily life is typically thought to begin stirring, the artists ritualize their work outside of normal museum hours. It’s uncertain who will see it.

A textile project by Black and Mikiki frames the scene in the north facing bay-window and balcony of the Van Abbe Museum overlooking the river. The textile depicts visual and perceptual interpretation of Gabber jacket patterns, party crowds, and Van Abbe collection pieces that depict public gatherings. 

Exhibition + Artistic Researchers in Residence
HARDCORE EINDHOVEN, Deviant Practice 2018-19 season, The Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Curated by Nick Aikens.

Keep Queering the Syllabus is a contemporary art fanzine that contains personal snapshots of queer and trans artists, writers, and cultural producers, compiled by Anthea Black. The fanzine expands on the format developed by Black for the ‘Queering the Syllabus’ section of HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education, which is the first resource book of its kind for faculty of all orientations incorporate anti-oppressive teaching practices and queer curricula into their classrooms. The fanzine also includes a limited-edition bookmark that can be detached and given as a gift to a queer and/or trans student.

Instant Class Kit is a portable curriculum guide and pop-up exhibition dedicated to socially-engaged art as pedagogy. Produced as an edition of four, the kit brings together contemporary curriculum materials in the form of artist multiples such as zines, scores, games, newspapers and other sensory objects from a diverse group of artist-educators across North America. Instant Class Kit was conceived in response to art historical research undertaken as part of The Pedagogical Impulse, a research-creation project exploring contemporary art as pedagogy in schools. This research examined the experimental collaborative practices of Fluxus, Happenings, and other artist-teachers employed at art institutions across Canada and the US during the 1960s, against the backdrop of curriculum reforms, and social and political change that led to such radical pedagogies. 

Keep Queering the Syllabus, 2019
16-page zine with hand-stitched binding, limited edition letterpress bookmark on Mohawk carnival yellow paper.
Edition of 5.

Commissioned for INSTANT CLASS KIT, The Pedagogical Impulse, curated by Vesna Krstich and organized by Stephanie Springgay