- Malcolm Sutton & François Lemieux : A thousand and one Xanadus Sept. 1st → 2010
In the fall of 2008, artist François Lemieux and writer Malcolm Sutton established a collaboration, a mail exchange, between Montréal and Toronto, based on the title 1001 Xanadus. The title reflected common interests in architectural utopias, in the manifold manifestations of such propositions, and in the idiosyncratic (or all-too-recognizable) desires seeping from them. Lemieux sent sets of images by Canada Post to Sutton, and Sutton likewise sent prose poems to Lemieux. The many allusions built into the title proliferated within the responsive exchange, and undeniable personal interests, not discretely implicated in the title, also sneaked in. This will be the first public reading of 1001 Xanadus.
Biographical notes
Since 2007, François Lemieux has developed an art practice that makes reference to art, architecture, and design. His work involves and comments the economy as well as the relationships that exist between objects, the means of their production, and the circumstances of their exhibition and reception. He is co-founded the DGC-CGA and more recently founded We Left the Warm Stable and Entered the Latex Void. He is currently collaborating with writer Malcolm Sutton on a book project entitled 1001 Xanadus. He “lives and works” in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Malcolm Sutton is the Founding Editor of The Coming Envelope, a publication of experimental prose run through BookThug Press. He is currently undertaking two book-length works: a study of community in postmodern American fiction, and and image-and-text collaboration with artist François Lemieux, entitled 1001 Xanadus. He “lives and works” in Toronto.
