Originally conceived as a way to pay homage to MATRIART, the quarterly Canadian feminist art magazine published in the 90’s, AWAY WITH YOUR MAN-VISIONS! (the title taken from a quote by American suffragette Susan B. Anthony) reasserts the urgency and relevance of feminist platforms. It is a tangential, wandering and emphatic collection of pages from 22 invited makers, thinkers and doers, that were given as a starting point: AWAY WITH YOUR MAN-VISIONS! has a predilection for textiles and fabric, braids and stains, knots and tulle… bodies, mess, tears, puke, shit… humour, the absurd, aerobics, subjectivity and connectivity, resistance of all sorts, social, physical, electrical, etc… as well as anxiety producing things like austerity measures, the current government, shoulder pain…’ The resulting multiple/duo-tang/zine/sketch book/reader/ course-pack/artist book is a collection of writing, doodles, run on sentences, comics, polemics, un/finished treatise, first sentences, last thoughts, lists, and ‘elder lez service’ posters. AWAY WITH YOUR MAN-VISIONS! was compiled, copied, designed, stamped, woven tagged & folded by Hazel Meyer, contributed to by Heidi Nagtegaal, Lex Vaughn, Logan MacDonald, Erin Silver, Julie Lequin, Zoe Kreye, Lara Bober, Jessica MacCormack, Jen Anisef, Lisa Visser, Sarah Febbraro, MIchelle Sterling, Lena Suksi, Allyson Mitchell, Jon Davies, Deirdre Logue, Helen Reed, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Marlaina Buch, Cait McKinney, Sarah Mangle, and Vincent Chevalier, and collated, stamped, hole-punched and bound by any number of people that came by Art Metropole on the afternoon of Saturday February 23rd, or Sunday March 31st, 2013.

More info: http://www.hazelmeyer.com

Hazel Meyer is an artist and sports enthusiast based in Toronto. She draws pictures, text and comics, makes letterpress prints, screen-printed multiples, felt banners, videos, broadcasts, and constructs physical environments that are used for performance, collaboration, workshops and amateur athletics. From the monumental to the modest her projects range from large immersive installations, to small woven tags meant for an audience of one. Much like the tag line of The Litter Game, a collaborative project she started with Lucy Pawlak and Jim Skuldt in 2013, her practice is devoted to a forever shifting ratio of endurance, transgression, and laughs, as ways of being in one’s body and the world. She holds an MFA from OCAD University (Toronto), a BFA from Concordia University (Montréal) and has recently had her work included in Separation Penetrates at Dutch Art Institute (Netherlands), More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), curated by Micah Lexier, PowerPlant, (Toronto), No Theory No Cry at Art Metropole (Toronto), Schlaegermusik with Annesley Black for Zukunftsmusik (Stuttgart), Walls to the Ball at La Centrale (Montréal), All Hands on the Archive : An Audience of Enablers Cannot Fail, with Logan MacDonald at F.A.G. (Toronto), and flex your textile, John Conelley presents (New York).