Douglas Coupland's Blog, page 2
January 23, 2013
Global Art Forum 2013, Doha + Dubai
Global Art Forum_7, the leading platform for cultural discussion and debate, explores Definitionism in 2013. Featuring commissioned projects and research, as well as six days of live talks, the Forum brings together a diverse lineup of artists, musicians, curators, strategists, writers and thinkers. It begins at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (March 17–18, 2013) and continues at Art Dubai, Madinat Jumeirah (March 20–23).
Global Art Forum 2013:
IT MEANS THIS
March 17–18
Mathaf: Arab Museu...
January 22, 2013
Dick Wolf + NBC pilot for Girlfriend in a Coma.
“Girlfriend in a Coma,” from “Nurse Jackie” co-creator Liz Brixius, comes from UTV and Wolf Films. Brixius, Wolf, Danielle Gelber and Peter Jankowski will executive produce the single-camera comedy, based on the novel by Douglas Coupland.
from thewrap.com
November 2, 2012
Reykjavìk International Literary Festival
Reykjavìk International Literary Festival
September, 2013
NWT Literary Festival
Reykjavìk International Literary Festival
September, 2013
NWT Literary Festival
NWT Literary Festival
May 30 – June 2, 2013
Yellowknife, NT
Turin Book Fair
Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino
May 16- 20
Lingotto Fiere
Via Nizza 294
10126 Turin, Italy
October 26, 2012
IDS Toronto
January 25, 2013
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
North Building
255 Front Street West
Toronto, ON
October 25, 2012
The Power Plant – Lecture Series
Douglas Coupland (born 1961) is a Canadian novelist. Since 1991, he has written thirteen novels published in most languages. He has written on visual art for the New York Times, ArtForum, the New Republic, the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Moderna Museet and the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian. In 2000 Coupland recommenced a visual practice that merges art with design and text. A specific feature of Coupland’s overall work is its synthesis of high culture, popular culture, technology, post modern...
DX 2012 Annual Fundraiser – “Intersection”
“Design Exchange celebrates its relaunch as Canada’s Design Museum with an unprecedented experience: creative disciplines and cultures converge in a large-scale blowout featuring a selection of Canada’s most iconic designers, architects, chefs, filmmakers, and artists.”
Read more at www.dx.org
Design Exchange (DX)
234 Bay Street, Toronto, M5K 1B2
November 16, 2012
8pm to late
Design/Art Installations
Douglas Coupland + Daniel Faria Gallery
Niall McClelland + Alex Durlak
Scott Cudmore + Jonah Falco
Cast...
September 22, 2012
Slogans for the Early Twenty-First Century
“Daniel Faria Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting a temporary installation of ‘Slogans for the Early Twenty-First Century’ by Douglas Coupland.
This is an ongoing body of statements Coupland has been working on, in which he has made a consistent effort to “Try and isolate what is already different in the twenty-first century mind as opposed to the twentieth.” Many of these slogans – 100 will be shown in the secondary exhibition space at the gallery — have appeared in the “Posthasteism” manifes...
