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 Grinders
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, Tzaras 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