Le Merle: a journal of words and deeds, is an adventure on a minor scale; a transformation that is feeling its way.

Together we explore pathways and exits, ways of listening in, of dissembling, attentive to transversal and anti-disciplinary knowledges and practices.

Le Merle is invested in a kind of roughshod approach to research, putting pieces into circulation that incite us to reconsider our ways of doing, living, and dying. Slight, it is also a protective circle traced across artistic and political ecologies. Fragmentary and partial, Le Merle goes hand in hand with this fitful world, making it quiver, undoing some of its violence; it imagines and makes place for ways of learning and living that are more desirable and just.

This publication effort is made on the unceded lands of several Indigenous nations. Settlers from Europe gradually took over these lands, which today continue to be claimed by and destroyed with the consent of the Canadian federal and provincial governments. If they are still inhabitable despite centuries of spoliation, it is thanks in no small part to the struggles and care of Indigenous peoples. This reality holds an important place in our thinking: we hope it will accompany you in yours.

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Distribution

L’Euguélionne, Feminist Bookstore
1426 Beaudry St.
Montreal, Quebec H2L 3E5

Un livre à soi
1575 Laurier Ave. East,
Montreal, Quebec H2J 1J1

N’était-ce pas l’été
6792 Saint-Laurent boulv.,
Montréal, Québec, H2S 3C7

Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, LB-165
Université Concordia
1455, De Maisonneuve Blv. West
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8

Canadien Centre for Architecture
1920 Baile St.
Montreal, Quebec H3H 2S6

Centre d’art et de diffusion Clark
5455 de Gaspé av. #114,
Montreal, Quebec H2T 3B3

SKOL
372 Sainte-Catherine street
Belgo building – 3e étage – room 314,
Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A1

AxeNéo7
80 Hanson St.
Gatineau, Quebec J8Y 3M5

Or Gallery
236 E Pender St,
Vancouver, British Columbia. V6A 1T7
Canada

Plug In ICA
1-460 Portage Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba. R3C 0E8

Aye-Aye books
Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall St.
Glasgow G2 3JD Scotland
United-Kingdom

The Fruitmarket Gallery Bookshop
Top level of Waverley Mall
3/1 Princes St.
Edinburgh, EH1 1BQ Scotland
United-Kingdom

Librairie par Chemin
Berthelot St. 116
at 1190 Forest, Brussels
Belgium

Michèle Firk
9 rue François Debergue
93100 Montreuil, Paris
France

Pro qm
Almstadtstraße 48-50
D
10119 Berlin
Germany

MOTTO BERLIN
Skalitzer Str. 68, im Hinterhof
10997 Berlin
Germany

ナツメ書店
〒811-0321 福岡県福岡市東区西戸崎1-6-21
Japan

世界文庫
〒603-8228　京都府京都市北区 紫野東舟岡町19　世界文庫
Japan

Colophon

Le Merle would like to thank all those who have been involved in the project, near and far, for their vital and precious contributions; and you, dear readers, for your attention and support.

Suzanne Beth, Erik Bordeleau, Edith Brunette, Heather Davis, Dalie Giroux, Anne Lardeux, François Lemieux and others have been involved in the editing of Le Merle since 2011. Vol.8 No.1 (available soon) has been edited with Mirna Abiad Boyadjian. Vol.7 No.1 was supported by supported by AxeNéo7. Vol.5 No.2 and was made possible with the help of precious anonymous allies from the healthcare sector. Vol.4 No.1 and Vol.5 No.1 were published with the financial support of the Musée d’Art Contemporain des Laurentides. Le Merle thanks 1646, Katasoho, Le Patio and Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.

Otherwise, the rest of this micro-publishing art project has been carried by François Lemieux since the start. Developed with Atelier Carvalho Bernau and Rectangle, this site was realized with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Special thanks to Norman McLaren for his animations of ecosophic danses!