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Re: contacting Anna

Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

Hi Josh,

I regret to only be coming back to this now, but I have a further thought about how to approach Anna. 

I would like to create a “publication brief” about the book, the project, the contributors, etc. to attached to my email to her. I am working on this today and will send it to you for approval before it goes to Anna.

Can you please send me the bio you like to use? If it is the one on your website, would it be possible to include a few lines on exhibition/publication?

Merci,
Lauren


Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

Hey Lauren,
That’s a great idea!
Thank you for thinking of this.
I slowly started with edits for Mariane's text, and also thought of an important note for Marina's text (about the relationship between NFTs and Duchamp: do you think I should hold off with this until the next draft?)
Below is a bio you can use. Let me know if you need anything else for the dossier.
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Joshua Schwebel is a Canadian artist based between Montreal and Berlin. Since graduating from NSCAD in 2008, Schwebel has become known for practicing a particularly direct form of institutional critique, undertaken through process-based performances, withdrawals, delegated transactions, and impostors.

Selected solo exhibitions include presentations at Galerie UQO (Gatineau, 2022), Centre Clark (Montreal, 2021), piloto pardo (London, UK, 2021), Or Gallery (Vancouver, 2019), Kreuzberg Pavillon as one of the shortlisted artists for the 2019 Berlin Art Prize (2019), the Fonderie Darling (Montreal, 2018), and Centrum (Berlin, 2017).

Schwebel was a participating fellow in the Art by Translation program’s inaugural year (2017), was a participant in BPA // Berlin Program for Artists (2020-21), and has undertaken residencies at AiR 351 (Lisbon), Laznia CCA (Gdansk), the Couvent des Récollets (Paris), the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Rupert (Vilnius), Tadeusz Kantor Foundation (Krakow), Standards (Milan), and Where Where (Beijing), among others. Schwebel’s work has been supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. Schwebel is currently one of the long-listed artists for this year’s Sobey Art Award.

Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >

Hi Josh,

Thanks for this! I will get the doc to you asap, then on to Anna.

I think that the Duchamp/NFT connection is a nice one to mention to Marina, but we should be careful not to presume to over-direct beyond this draft. 

We could use this as a point upon which to re-connect with her about how the new draft is going - along the lines of “This occurred to me while working on Mariane’s text and I was excited to share. By the way, how if your text going?” Sort of a back-door chase.

xL