The artist Liz Magor discusses the new collection Subject to Change: Writings and Interviews (Concordia University Press, 2022), with Joseph Planta.

Subject to Change: Writings and Interviews by Liz Magor (Concordia University Press, 2022). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Subject to Change

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Liz Magor joins me now. The sculptor, considered one of the most important contemporary artists of the last fifty years, and I’ll ask her about that distinction given her by others, has just published Subject to Change: Writings and Interviews. The book brings together catalogue statements, essays, conversations, lecture notes, correspondence, and unpublished writing over her distinguished career. It’s often fascinating to see how she views her own work, and how her ideas evolve over the years. We see an artist who says she doesn’t enjoy writing, write so evocatively about art, about making art, and about how it might be received by a wider audience. We see a feminist artist in a settler-colonial society think deeply about her place where she lives, and what she is contributing to society itself. Liz Magor is the recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Audain Prize, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize. Her work has been exhibited all over the world, and in 2019 she was named chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of the French Republic. The book is published by Concordia University Press. She joined me from where she works at the Parker Street Studios here in Vancouver, less than two weeks ago. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Liz Magor; Ms. Magor, good morning.

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