DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH: with Re’al Christian (As For Protocols) and Michael Nardone (Convivialities), in partnership with Vera List Centre for Art and Politics

October 3, 2025 - October 3, 2025

Join us at Critical Distance on Friday, October 3, 6:30 – 8 pm for the Toronto launch of two new books in conversation: As for Protocols (Vera List Center for Art and Politics/Amherst College Press, 2025) and Convivialities (Talonbooks, 2025).

New York-based writer, editor, and curator Re’al Christian, co-editor of As for Protocols, will be joined by Montréal-based writer and editor Michael Nardone, editor of Convivialities, for a conversation on the editorial/curatorial practices and perspectives at the core of their two volumes.

Both books emerge out of sustained engagements with writers and artists; together, Christian and Nardone will consider how the array of artists and writers involved in their editions articulate the contemporary conditions, relational affinities, and protocols of making.

Space is limited, please RSVP here.

Contributing Writers and Editors

Re’al Christian

Re’al Christian (MA, Hunter College; BS, New York University) is the Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives at the Vera List Center, where she edits and manages the center’s publishing projects, including anthologies, artist books, exhibition booklets, communications, and the digital series Post/doc. As an independent writer, her work explores issues…Find out more

Michael Nardone

Michael Nardone is a writer and editor based in Montréal. His recent and forthcoming works include: Convivialities (a book of dialogues), Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo (a monograph on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, co-edited with Edgar Picazo Merino), Aural Poetics (an edited work on sound and composition across the arts), Yellow Towel: A Score (a collaboration with Dana Michel), the Documents on…Find out more