Andrew Hill

2024

Dropped Out

Exhibition catalogue for Dropped out, a thesis show from Éric-Olivier Theriault. The trap-door binding is a reference to Theriault’s sculpture practice, which often involves sneaky entrances and exits to his work.

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2024

everyone you know

everyone you know 2024

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2023

life scores

life scores is the graduate thesis of dancer and choreographer Lauren Runions. It served as an exhibition supplement at their thesis defence at the Anna Leonowens Gallery in December 2023. The publication dissects score-making as a tool in social choreographies and community practice.

life scores 2023

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2024

Beef Plates

Exhibition catalogue for Dropped out, a thesis show from Éric-Olivier Theriault. The trap-door binding is a reference to Theriault’s sculpture practice, which often involves sneaky entrances and exits to his work.

Beef Plates 2024

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2023

Gushy and Gooey - and other stuff from the kids of Nova Skotia

A collection of children’s poems published in Nova Scotia in 1971 by Rick Rofihe of Anderbo Press and designed by Heiner Jacob. Jacob would go on to design the identity of the 1972 Munich Olympics and Rofihe would teach at Columbia University. Facsimile edition published in 2023 by Special Characters. Available at Printed Matter and Studio Mise.

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2023

Complete Book of Thaumaturgy

A wealth of wisdom, practical tips and techniques by two veteran wizards, for aspiring warlocks, shamans, sorcerers, all other magic enthusiasts and practitioners...

A booklet of concrete poetrry by Alek Green and Andrew Hill

Complete Book of Thaumaturgy 2023

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2022

Papercut

Soren Wilde

Papercut 2022

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2017 – ∞

OTCHO

OTCHO is a printed magazine dedicated to the fingerboard scene, initiated by Andrew Hill in 2017. As a relatively young and underground subculture, the fingerboard community has limited published resources. My research methodology includes the collection of oral histories and personal narratives from community members, supplemented by photo documentation at fingerboard events. Given the rapid evolution of online platforms, significant portions of fingerboarding history have been lost. Therefore, the production of serialized, physical documentation is essential for preserving the community’s historical record. To date, OTCHO has published six issues, continuing its mission to chronicle the previously untold history of fingerboarding.

All past issues can be purchased on the OTCHO webshop or downloaded on the OTCHO archive.

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2021

Mono Slab

Arranging rebound journals, their mono-aesthetics and spines create poetry and sculpture. By transferring books from a library and reanimating their position, they leave behind a vacant performance stage in the stacks. The borrowing of these books is a method of sculpting the library shelves and carving into the monolithic structure of the rebound journal stacks.

Mono Slab 2021

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2024 – ∞

Halifax Art Book Fair

The Halifax Art Book Fair hosted its first event in April 2023. HABF is a gathering of publishers from Halifax and beyond, featuring programming which aims to develop the role of the art book in Canadian culture.

Book Fair website

Press 1
Press 2

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2022 – 2024

Special Characters

Special Characters was an art book publisher based in Halifax, Canada. During its successful run, we published 15 titles with a focus on Atlantic Canadian artists. We published photobooks, poetry, and art theory books. We tabled across fairs in the US and Canada, as well as curated a group show at Hermes Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In 2024, Special Characters was rebranded to AC World and continues to be run by Nicholas Chapman in Halifax.

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2023 – ∞

Galerie Cecile

An artist-run gallery space, a platform for installations and publications in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our first group show Leak ran from February 17—30, 2023. Our second group show In Defense of Bogus took place in a parking lot behind a bowling alley in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 7, 2023.

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2023

An International Checklist of Fingerboarders

In an effort to chronicle fingerboard history, this checklist series records professional fingerboarders names and location. This publication functions as a historical document as well as a commentary on the necessity to archive who is who in art.
Available at OTCHO web shop.

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2023

What wheels? what wheels? what wheels? To encourage in the presence of the object

Undergraduate thesis exhibition about fingerboard history. The show encompassed video, photo, printed matter, and a fingerboard park created from discarded library materials. This union of performative action, live documentation and presentation of printed matter created a never-before-seen moment of fingerboarding culture, a physical manifestation of its history.

Photo documentation by Neil Kehler.

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2022

Partition Wall

A sculpture questioning the role of partitions walls in classrooms. Through a series of papers, this self-referential puzzle can be activated at any time to divide a space.

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