Louise Bak's 2003 Art Top Eleven (links by SM):

1. Getting an early-read of Philip Monk's new book "Double-Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon". I think it will be a critical surprise when it is released in 2004 from The Power Plant and The AGYU.
   
   
2. Guy Maddin's Cowards Bend The Knee was the most splendidly sordid video installation at The Power Plant.
   
   
3. Will Munro and Jeremy Laing's performance at Zsa Zsa, that involved multiple erogenous appendages and orifices was a pure delight.
   
   
4. Bjork's outdoor concert on Olympic Island. Even her twee "thank-you" after each song was otherworldly.
   
   
5. Virtual Clearcut by Brian Fawcett was one of the most touching books I've read in a long time.
   
   
6. Christine Duncan's sound poetry performance in the annual Musicwork's fundraiser (at the Gladstone).(anyone got a good link for Christine Duncan? please post a comment -ed)
   
   
7. Jeremy Deller's lecture at the Power Plant. The range of his folk/vernacular interests, ranging from aging burlesque workers to acid brass combinations was eccentric and inspiring.
   
   
8. Chester Brown's "Louis Riel" (Drawn and Quarterly). A comic-strip biography, that is an entertaining and extensively researched account of the life of one of the country's most shadowy historical figures.
   
   
9. A.A. Bronson's "The Quick and the Dead" at The Power Plant.
   
   
10. Young and Sexy's "Life through One Speaker," Peaches' "Fatherfucker," Outkast's "Speakerboxx", were at the top of my play-list. I also re-visited Elliot Smith's "either/or" in my sadness, when I heard he committed suicide at 34.
    
    
11. The limo-ride with pornstar Ron Jeremy, (as the last gal he saw) before he returned to L.A.