The Comox Valley Art Gallery will be hosting a reading on Thursday, October 3rd, with artists Lois Klassen and Deanne Achong. The artists are conducting creative research and development during their residency at the Gardens.

Lois and Deanne will be at CVAG at 6:30pm on Thursday, October 3, to read from RML3: Undercurrents and Folds publications and to discuss the process of making artist books and zines on the topic of migration. Bring your own zines or artists publications to exchange for RML3 titles.

The Migration Library, a long-running artist project that has produced events and publications in the theme of migration and displacement, has just released its third and final series called RML3: Undercurrents and Folds. Artists Lois Klassen and Deanne Achong are thrilled to present six new small edition publications in the series of creative responses to topics of displacement, diaspora, arrivals and failed arrivals, arrivants, travel over sovereign Indigenous territory, and the violence of forcible containment caused by colonizing states.

Lois Klassen is the founding artist-editor of RML with a hand in creating previous publications and events. Klassen hosts Light Factory Publications which has produced RML, Present Cartographers, and Renegade Library.

Deanne Achong works across disciplines. She is the artist-author of Workin’ for the Yankee Dollar (2017), published by RML, as well as the web designer-developer behind ReadingtheMigrationLibrary.com and LightFactoryPublications.ca.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: RML3: Undercurrents and Folds would not be possible without funding and support from BC Arts Council (Individual Arts Award); Canada Council for the Arts (Research Creation, Explore and Create grant); SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Critical Media Art Studio (cMAS), School of Interactive Art and Technology, SFU; Centre for Inter-Media Arts and Canada Research Chairs Program; SITE/ation Studio, UBCO; and, Light Factory Publications.