WILLIAM A. DAVISON

CURRICULUM VITAE - WRITING

779 Ossington Ave., Apt#2, Toronto, ON, M6G 3T8, Canada
Ph: 416-588-7539, E-mail: davison(at)recordism(dot)com

 

 

PUBLISHED WORK

2011

• "Haunting" collaborative text with S.Higgins, News From The Already Dead art book, Merl Fluin, London, UK
• "Zygote Arrival" two-page comic, The Wilding magazine (comic/art anthology), Issue #4, Fiona Smyth, Toronto, ON

2010

• "Gloon" one-page comic, The Wilding magazine (comic/art anthology), Issue #3, Koyama Press, Toronto, ON

2007

• excerpt from Dark Sun cut-up novel, The Robber Bridegroom (webzine)
• excerpt from "Friendly" détourned comic (collaboration with S.Higgins, S.Venright, K.Zentner), The Robber Bridegroom (webzine)
• excerpt from "At The Home For Old Plants" détourned comic (collaboration with S.Higgins, S.Venright, K.Zentner), The Robber Bridegroom (webzine)
• excerpt from "Mistaken Identity" détourned comic (collaboration with S.Higgins, S.Venright, K.Zentner), The Robber Bridegroom (webzine)

2005

• A Seance In A Bathtub, LyricalMyrical Press, Toronto, ON (poetry collection)
• "The Quick", Taddle Creek, Vol.VIII, No. 2, Summer 2005 issue, Toronto, ON

2004

• Various texts, Surreal Estate, The Mercury Press, Toronto, ON (poetry anthology, 13 authors)
• "Musique Concretins or The Sound of Six Heads Scratching", Magizone #2, Winter 2004 issue, Music Gallery Institute, Toronto, ON

2003

• "The Apple Hat", Muse Apprentice Guild, Winter 2003 issue (online literary journal)

2002

• "Tiny Gifts", Rampike magazine, Vol. 13, No. 1

1999

• "The Penrose Bicycle Moth", Perpetual Motion Machine Magazine #2, Toronto, ON

1998

• "Para-Gardist Picto-Manifesto", Rampike, Vol. 9, No.3
• "A Message From The Bureau", Awake! The Cult of PO-PO, 1998 issue

1997

• "I.B.R.I?", Emunctory of Dreams Press, Toronto, ON

1988

• "The Afternoon", Rewire magazine, Halifax, NS, March issue

1986

• "Twisted Clocks 1", New Works magazine, Halifax, NS, April issue
• "Twisted Clocks 2", New Works magazine, Halifax, NS, July/August issue

 

PUBLISHING PROJECTS

2010

• "The Organ Grinder's Gazette", Emunctory of Dreams Press, Toronto, ON (weblog)

2009

• "The Organ Grinder's Gazette", Emunctory of Dreams Press, Toronto, ON (weblog)
• "Halloween Island", Emunctory of Dreams Press, Toronto, ON (weblog)

2000

• "Tarred Eggs Entering Azoth" (I.B.R.I. Bulletin), Emunctory of Dreams Press (W.A.Davison - editor), Toronto, ON (newsletter)

1999

• "The G. Grosz Garden Nitrate" (I.B.R.I. Bulletin), Emunctory of Dreams Press (W.A.Davison - editor), Toronto, ON (newsletter)
• "The Organ Grinder’s Gazette" (I.B.R.I. Bulletin), Emunctory of Dreams Press (W.A.Davison - editor), Toronto, ON (newsletter)

1997

• "I.B.R.I?", Emunctory of Dreams Press, Toronto, ON (promotional flyer)

 

SOLO PERFORMANCES (text-based)

2008

• "Dialogue: Exhumation", Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

2001

• "Typewriter Variation No. 2", Reciprocity/Reciprocité performance art exchange, Elle Corazon, Montreal, Que. (as Songs of the New Erotics)

2000

• "My Nose, Tzara’s Face", The Box series, Labyrinth, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

1998

• "One Hundred Maggots", Extreme Noise event, Weave Club, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

1997

• "Shadows and Subterfuge", University of Guelph, Guelph, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Speech of the Eternal Killer", Wasteland Cathedral event, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Nonsense Companions", Forest City Gallery, London, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

1996

• "Recordist Manifesto In Memory Of The Engines", The Fight for the Light experimental music event, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Nonsense Companions", Robot Leader, Nora Vaughn Gallery, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

 

GROUP PERFORMANCES (text-based)

2008

• "Nuit Noire" event, Bovine Sex Club, Toronto, ON (collaboration with S.Higgins)
• Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (collaboration with S.Higgins, Thomas Carnacki, Neighborhood Public Radio)

2006

• Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, U.S.A. (collaboration with Nurse With Wound)

2004

• Lexiconjury, Cameron House, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)

2003

• "Several Species Of Birds", Le Gourmand, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Arnd Jurgensen, Watson Jennison)

1997

• "Music For Opposite Oxygen", The First Recordist Soiree event, I.B.R.I., Toronto, ON (collaboration with S.Higgins as Songs of the New Erotics)

 

LECTURES, READINGS, PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

2009

• Untitled, No Face, No Problem, DoubleDoubleLand Gallery, Toronto, ON (reading and workshop)

2008

• "The Works of Songs of the New Erotics", Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2008, Canadian Electroacoustic Community/Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto/New Adventures in Sound Art, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (artist talk)

2007

• Untitled, Poets In Their Natural Habitat event (as part of Scream In High Park), Toronto, ON (reading/performance/sound installation)

2005

• Untitled, The Sleepless Goat, Kingston, ON (reading)
• "Recordism", presented in the course "Modernist Movements: Dada/Surrealism in Europe and North America" (instructor: Prof. Ray Ellenwood), York University, Toronto, ON (artist's talk/presentation, co-presented with S.Higgins)
• "Songs of the New Erotics/Sound In Performance", presented in Louise Liliefeldt's performance art class, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (artist's talk and workshop)

1999

• "I.B.R.I. Open Meeting", presented at Anarchist Free School, Toronto, ON (workshop and lecture series co-presented with S.Higgins, weekly from Mar. 1999 to May 2000)

 

SMALL PRESS/ZINE FAIRS AND INDIE MARKETS

2010

• Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, ON
• Zine Dream 3, Tranzac Club, Toronto, ON

2009

• Zine Dream 2, Tranzac Club, Toronto, ON

2005

• Canzine, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

 

REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

2007

• Kerry W. Zentner, "The Recordists", Mondo, June 18-25, 2007 issue (interview in online publication)

2005

• Alessandro Porco, "Fluxuating Market Value", Books In Canada, April 2005 issue, Vol. 34, No. 3 (review of Surreal Estate anthology)

2002

• Rebecca Caldwell, "Under the Sheets and in the Flesh", Globe and Mail, Sept. 21, 2002
• Ray Ellenwood, "Canada's Forgotten Surrealists", Artfocus magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1, issue #74

2000

• Maxx Rush, "Recordism: An Interview with William A. Davison", Melting Clock - Internet Journal of Surrealism, Oct. 2000 issue (interview in WWW publication)

1998

• Kevin Paisley, "Bill Satan In 23 Questions", Brain Scan, No.2, Feb. 1998 (interview)

 

CURATORIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECTS

2004

• Recordist Open House, E.N.O.T.C.A. Studio, Toronto, ON (co-organized with S.Higgins)

2000

• I.B.R.I. Open Meeting, Anarchist Free Space, Toronto, ON (co-curated with S.Higgins, weekly from Mar. 1999 to May 2000)

1999

• I.B.R.I. Open Meeting, Anarchist Free Space, Toronto, ON (co-curated with S.Higgins, weekly from Mar. 1999 to May 2000)

1997

• First Recordist Soiree, I.B.R.I., Toronto, ON (co-curated with S.Higgins, various artists and artforms)

1994

• International Bureau of Recordist Investigation, Toronto, ON (multi-disciplinary art organization, 1994 - 2004)

 

RADIO AND TV APPEARANCES

2006

• interview, Arts In Review, KALX Radio, Berkeley, California (with Sherri Higgins)

2005

• interview, A Missing Sense, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (with Matt Waldron, Sherri Higgins)

1999

• interview, Art On Air, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON
• interview, Howl, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON (with Steve Venright)

1998

• interview, About Town, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON
• interview, Sex City, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2005

• project grant, Integrated Arts program, Ontario Arts Council

2003

• project grant, Inter-Arts Program: Creation Grants for Artists, Canada Council

2000

• project grant, Inter-Arts Program: Creation Grants for Artists, Canada Council

1995

• project grant, Grants To Composers program, Toronto Arts Council

 

EDUCATION

• Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Experimental and Electronic Music Composition, 1988 - 1989
• Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, B.F.A. Program, 1987 - 1989,1982 - 1983
• Atlantic Filmmaker's Co-Op, Halifax, NS, Small-Gauge Film Production, 1986

 

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