Thanks to everyone who came to the launch of Kate Armstrong’s generative bookwork Path. The installation continues until June 9; during our regular hours (noon to 5pm Wednesday to Saturday) you can browse the printed version of Path, and listen to the Path audiobook (broadcast continuously on ultra-low-power FM radio) at one of the listening stations.

You can also listen to the Path audiobook here:

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Also during the run of this installation, Space Video by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett is screening seven nights a week (until 11 pm) in the front window of 15 East Pender. Likewise, there’s a version that you can watch online: Space Video.

Here’s a preview of the audiobook version of Path, the 12-volume artists’ book that we will be launching at the Pitt on Friday, May 11. We will be playing the entire audiobook until June 9: you can come in and sample it at listening stations, and read the print version. Outside of open hours, you will be able to listen through UNIT/PITT Radio, either online or in front of 15 East Pender.

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Here’s an advance look at all twelve volumes and 7000-plus pages of Path by Kate Armstrong. Each set is produced by hand at Publication Studio Vancouver. See it, and hear the audiobook version, at UNIT/PITT on Friday, May 11 at 8pm (or during regular hours until June 9).

Kate Armstrong: Path launches at UNIT/PITT this coming Friday, May 11 at 8pm. Path is a multi-volume artist’s book containing text generated by the actions of an anonymous resident of Montreal between 2005 and 2007. UNIT/PITT is publishing a new edition of this work, in collaboration with Publication Studio Vancouver; from May 12 through June 9, we will be showing the book as an installation, including listening stations where you can sample an audiobook version.

We’ll also be showing Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett’s Space Video in the front window of 15 East Pender until 11pm each night during the run of the installation. More on this later in the week.

Saturday, May 5 is the last day of Research + Presentation Centre, an experimental reading room curated by Amanda Jehring and Steffanie Ling. For the past month, the Pitt has been a functional centre for reading and research, complete with collections contributed by Jesse Birch, Stefana Fratila, Lenox & Burrard,  Michael Turner, and Jerry Zaslove. The reading room is fitted with furniture and shelves designed by Kellen Deighton and Nathan Welland, and is equipped with a photocopier for free use by visitors. It’s an amazing project, and a pleasant place to visit.

Your last chance to browse these collections is today and Saturday, from noon to 5pm both days.

7pm tonight at the Pitt, SETUP #2 Release Party. Freshly made copies of the second issue of this unique art magazine, with contributions from Eli Bornowsky, Susanna Browne, Matthew Higgs, Genesis Mohanraj, Lee Plested, Reto Pulfer, Judy Radul, and Sean Weisgerber, will be on sale. SETUP #1, released last year, was a great issue and a beautiful object, and was sometimes hard to keep in stock.

There are a lot of other events in the neighbourhood too: check out an opening at Access, Jeremy Isao Speier at the Firehall, Centre A’s art auction,  and the grand opening of The Commons one block east of us.

We’re coming up on a busy month at UNIT/PITT:

• Research + Presentation Centre, curated by Amanda Jehring and Steffanie Ling, and featuring contributions from Jesse Birch, Stefana Fratila, Lenox & Burrard, Michael Turner, and Jerry Zaslove, closes this Saturday. This project is a custom-designed reading room with five great research collections, custom notebooks, and free photocopying.
• Kate Armstrong: Path opens on Friday, May 11 at 8pm. Path is a 12-volume bookwork generated by the daily activity of an anonymous individual. We’ll be presenting a new edition of this work, including an audiobook that will be broadcast on UNIT/PITT Radio; in the evenings, we’ll be showing a video project by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett, Space Video, in the window of 15 E. Pender.
• Don’t forget the launch of SETUP #2 at UNIT/PITT on Thursday, May 3, at 8pm. SETUP #1 was launched here at the Pitt almost a year ago, and we’re happy to have them back.
• Not least of this, and just announced: our neighbours down the block, The Rennie Collection, are helping out the Pitt with a benefit event on Friday, May 25: a screening of three short films by Francesco Vezzoli. Admission is $10, which includes one drink; proceeds from the evening go to the Pitt, to help sustain our exhibitions, events and publications in the coming year. Tickets should be purchased in advance, online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/246101. We’re really grateful for the help: thanks neighbours! (And the films are great too …)

Join us on Thursday, May 3 from 7 to 10 pm for the launch of SETUP Volume 1, Issue 2.

Issue 2 features contributions by Arabella Campbell, Sean Weisgerber, Eli Bornowsky, Genesis Mohanraj, Matthew Higgs, Susanna Browne, Judy Radul, Reto Pulfer, and Lee Plested.

Research + Presentation Centre opens tonight at 15 E Pender St.  Rather than an exhibition, this is a working installation for use by the public: these selections from the personal libraries of participants are both traces of the origins of artistic and scholarly inquiry, and opportunities for further exploration by the public.

Opening is at 8pm, on Thursday April 5. After that, we’ll be open from noon to 5pm, Wednesday through Saturday until May 5 (with the exception of Friday, April 6, when we’ll be closed). Later this year we will be launching a book project by R+P contributor Jerry Zaslove — details soon. In the meantime, R+P notebooks, co-published by UNIT/PITT and Publication Studio Vancouver, are available for $5 each (or a set of all five, with a handy strap, are $25).

After a couple of weeks with no video in the window (sorry), here’s a new one. The Aquarian Foundation will be playing at the Pitt on Saturday March 31 as part of the NO SHOW series — if you want to come and check that out, some and see us at 9:30 Saturday night, and also see Cloudface and Plays:Four. In the meantime, if you’re in our neighbourhood after sunset, you can immerse yourself in this atmospheric visual feast simply by stopping for a few minutes in front of our window at 15 East Pender Street.

(Or, if you want to watch it right now, here you go …)