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Steve’s Vinyl
Published by Visual Aids (New York), ECU Press in the Pile Driver Editions Series
Artist: Cathy Busby
Editors: David MacWilliam
Designer: Emily Davidson, Cathy Busby
Publisher: Visual Aids (New York), ECU Press in the Pile Driver Editions Series
Printed by: Hignell Books, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 15.2 x 15.2 x 1 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978 0 92135 642 4
Price: 20 CAD
Printed in an edition of 200
In 1993, music loving Steve Busby died of an AIDS-related illness, leaving an eclectic record collection to his sister, artist Cathy Busby. After 18 years of keeping the collection, Cathy organized a one-night celebration and album give away. The one-night only event is now a book, Steve’s Vinyl, with writing from Steve and Cathy, photos from the album give-away, and memories of Steve collected the night of the event. Like the event itself, the book is a tribute to Steve and his varied tastes in music, men, and identities and a way of activating the collection as music and graphics.
Biographies
Cathy Busby is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has exhibited her large-scale installations and printed matter in Canada and internationally. She was recently artist-in-residence with the Institute of Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary, New York and then at Emily Carr. She has been a visiting researcher with a Fulbright Fellowship at New York University and she is currently a visiting professor at the University British Columbia.