October 7, 8, 9, 2010
Co-produced with the Conference 2010 Res Artis, The Americas: Independent Artistic Practices in the Era of Globalization
To be held at the Just for Laughs Museum, 2111 Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Montreal

From October 7th to 9th, Gareth Long and Derek Sullivan will work on their on-going project to illustrate and translate Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas. Seated at an iteration of Long’s Bouvard and Pécuchet’s Invented Desk For Copying, a series of desk-sculptures pulled from the unfinished pages of Gustave Flaubert’s incomplete last novel, the two artists intend eventually to illustrate every entry in Flaubert’s posthumously published satirical dictionary – a text that contains 950 biting and surprisingly contemporary entries. They have compiled their collected illustrations to date in a new version of their bookwork, The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas. A new edition containing all illustrations completed to date will be launched at the conference.

Long and Sullivan have worked on the Dictionary through more than a dozen illustrating sessions to date, which have included public drawing sessions at Printed Matter and Kate Werble Gallery in New York, Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, Mercer Union and Jessica Bradley Art + Projects in Toronto, and PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens.