Aleck Snow is Art Metropole's A/V project overlord and is a super star cocktail mixer. He loves ramen noodles.

Belated Greetings!, 2008
Current projections suggest that every ten and a half minutes, somewhere on this planet, a species goes extinct. Parasitic Ventures Press presents a series of fifteen mini-narratives which tell the story of extinctions from our recent past. Where did all the Great Auks go? How did the Rosy Wolfsnail get to Tahiti? Who is Donald Currey and what did he do to Prometheus? Belated Greetings! name names; they place blame. And they present them in the practical form of greeting cards, available now to you for your personal use. Boxed set of 15, unlimited edition.

Sebastian Butt, Cheetohs, 2008
The Cheeto Pin. Broach made in the image of the cheesey snack food. Fraudulent cheeto mounted on a silver plated stick pin.

Scott Treleaven, Cimitero Monumentale, 2009
A small-format photo album with clear protective pockets filled with removable black and white photographs of graveyard statuary that seems to have emerged from Treleaven's own gothic fantasies. Forty-three separate photographic c-prints, each 4 x 6 inches, all taken in the cemetery of Milan, depict weathered stone monuments of androgynous figures draping themselves over gravestones or lying back in religious ecstasy, or grief. The Milan cemetery is unusual in that the statuary exhibits an extreme tenderness in its depiction of the male figure, unlike the heroic sculpture most often associated with the dead. A signed and numbered signature card is inserted in each photo album. Edition of 150, signed and numbered.

Nehal El-Hadi, city/heart, 2008
Collection of illustrated poetry and short stories. "There’s a poem that anthropomorphises the city and then substitutes it for an entity consisting of an amalgamation of previous lovers (I made that up because it sounded good). Then there’s a short story that deals with the normalisation of violence in black immigrant communities (someone else said that, but it sounded better than anything I could have made up). Then there are five filmic vignettes titled by lines from the songs that would make up the soundtrack if, in fact, they were filmed vignettes." - the artist

Micah Lexier, Older Brother/Younger Sister, 1995
A stainless steel replica of a 9cm fragment of a ruler transformed through engraving - an information substitution, age transposed into inches. Numbered edition of 200, each in a clear plastic sleeve.

Christian Calon, Chantal Dumas, Chantal Dumas, Radio Roadmovies, 2000
A collection of recordings. The sounds and experiences of a 20000 km trip across Canada's roads and trails.

Filiz Klassen, Snow, Rain, Light, Wind: Weathering Architecture
This hardcover book with lenticular cover presents Klassen's explorations of the variations in atmospheric conditions and their effects on the building envelope as a creative potential for architectural innovation. "Snow, Rain, Light, Wind: Weathering Architecture" explores the potential of textile-based materials as a hybrid art and architectural medium that can bring art, design, technology, and materials research together in built spaces. For Klassen an architectural practice focusing on buildings that respond to environmental conditions can make us aware of weather and help us re-examine our contributions to climate change. Includes a DVD of montaged footage relating Klassen's investigations into the potential of architectural materials to be linked and connected to changing climatic conditions. ISBN: 1-894503-89-9

Will Kwan, The Quiet Americans, 2007
Art Metropole is pleased to announce our newest FWD edition with the celebrated, young, and nomadic Will Kwan. With The Quiet Americans, 2007, Will Kwan has re-purposed a Briggs & Riley carry-on bag. The bag has been etched with suggestive excerpts from 2 text sources: The Quiet American by Graham Greene, a spy novel about U.S. naïveté in Vietnam, and the 2006 Council of Europe report on extraordinary rendition networks, an EU judiciary report looking into secret flights shipping post 9/11 detainees outside U.S.-EU territory to be tortured by third parties. The novel is included as a paperback and the Council of Europe report comes stored on an USB key. The actual copies of these texts are included as part of the multiple and serve both as "in-flight reading material" and as a furtive mnemonic of the dark side of jet fueled globality. The edition was launched at Art | Basel Miami | Beach on Friday, December 7 at Booth T5.

Micah Lexier, This is Me Writing, 2008
"This is Me Writing" examines the act of writing. The 15 statements in this booklet utilize different means of physically putting pen to paper. By turns playful and clever, Lexier explores language, narrative and the idiosyncrasies of his own handwriting. Edition of 300, numbered.

Stephen Ellwood, THIS IS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE LIKE THIS Deluxe Edition, 2005
This book contains 58 text works, each a language-based drawing of a specific moment, object, action, or state, and tour through the bed, the body, the garden, and the street. The drawings were originally shown in Spring 2003 at CANADA, NYC. The book also includes ten reproduced landscape photographs taken by Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) in New York State and England between 1905 and 1915. Ellwood's work uses language as a means for creating narratives and indexes in various formats, including video, books, posters, cards, wall works, and temporary installations. Edition of 50, numbered and initialed. ISBN: 0-920956-74-2