Liz Knox
A Void
Sackville, Canada: Nothing Else Press, 2024
[28] pp., 21.5 x 14 cm., staple-bound
Edition of 100

In her extensive bookwork practice, Liz Knox mines online comments to produce portraits of changing cultural, political and sexual mores. Synopsis (2013) featured brief, often poetic, descriptions of over fifty films, sourced entirely from the parental advisory section of the Internet Movie Database. Commentariat (2017) assembled responses to the sex advice column Savage Love, portraying the shifting sexual politics of the era of the Obama administration. The Anarchist Review (2023) collected comments from the Amazon page for the notorious Anarchist Cookbook, ranging from those condemning the retailer for stocking a dangerous title, to those disappointed the bomb-making instructions were not more thorough. 

A Void continues this approach, reprinting Instagram posts regarding Urs Fischer’s controversial 2007 exhibition You, a quarter-million dollar hole in the ground of Gavin Brown’s Enterprise gallery. The spirited debate poses questions that poke at the nature of art, nomenclature, meaning, and what constitutes value.