New Publications

Bickel, Barbara, & Jordan, Nane. A. (multi-modal video article in press). Labyrinths as ritual art: A pedagogy of inquiry/witnessing/listening to the sacred. Educational Insights online journal.

Bickel, Barbara. (2008). Her divine countenance. Perspectives, 24(2), p. 8. 

Irwin, Rita, Bickel, Barbara, Triggs, Valerie, Springgay, Stephanie, Beer, Ruth, Grauer, Kit, Gu, Xiong, Sameshima, Pauline (2009). The City of Richgate: A/r/tographic Cartography as Public Pedagogy. International Journal of Art and Design Education. 28(1).

Bickel, Barbara. (2008). Writing the body/resistance/endurance: An a/r/tographic ritual inquiry. Educational Insights,12(2). http://www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v12n02/articles/bickel/index.html#thirdbody

Women Writing Women Collective [Barbara Bickel, Lynn Fels. Nané Jordan, Wendy Neilsen, Annie Smith, Jeannie Stubbs, Valerie Triggs] (2008), Evoking desire...and irreverence: A collection of women writing women. Complicity: A Journal of Complexity and Education, 5(1), 131-139. Available at http://www.complexityandeducation.ualberta.ca/COMPLICITY5/Complicity5_TOC.htm

Elicit Bodies
Art Exhibition & Performance Ritual
R. Michael Fisher & Barbara Bickel
Published by In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute
Edited by Nan Ariadné Jordan, Elicit Bodies is a catalogue that offers a visual discourse of aesthetic and intellectual inquiries into the art work of R. Michael Fisher & Barbara Bickel. With essays and an interview by illustrious Canadian artists-writers, Yvonne Owens, Eva Tihanyi, and Jordan, as well as a DVD of the performance ritual as documented by artist Leslie Stanick, this 35 page book is a tour de force in collaborative intertextual engagement of the sensitive and sacred.
ISBN NO. 0-9697347-1-0
Limited number of copies available $30 Canadian
Order from bickel.barbara@gmail.com
Review by Yvonne Owens
Interview by  Eva Tihanyi

Women Writing Women Collective, Annie Smith, Nane Jordan, Barbara Bickel, Valerie Triggs, Lynn Fels, Wendy Nielsen, Jeannie Stubbs (2007). Evoking desire...and irreverence: A collection of women writing women. Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Complexity Science and Educational Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Available: http://www.complexityandeducation.ualberta.ca/conferences/2007/proceedings.htm

Bickel, Barbara (2006). Crossing the waterline: A ritual inquiry. In K. Keifer-Boyd & D. Smith-Shank (Eds.). Visual Culture  and Gender 1(1), 86-91. http://www.emitto.net/visualculturegender

Tihanyi, Eva. Interview with Barbara Bickel.
Pulse Niagara. June 2003 issue. Ontario.

Tihanyi, Eva. Interview with Barbara Bickel..
Niagara Current Magazine. Summer 2003 issue. Ontario.
www.niagaracurrent.com Tihanyi, Eva. An Interview with Barbara Bickel.
Artichoke Magazine: Writings about the Visual Arts, Spring 2003. Vancouver, BC.
www.artichoke.ca

Independent Curating

2009 Travelling, digital installation by Pam Patterson. Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at  http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v13n02/exhibits/index.html

2009 Embodied Performance: World Making by Sally Gradle. Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v13n01/exhibits/index.html

2007 Mother, Daughter, Mother, multi-media digital installation by Jenny Arntzen.  Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v11n03/exhibits/arntzen/mdmweb/htm/mdmwall.htm

2006 Fearology of Technology: A phenomenolgy of “Educational” Weapons of Mass Destruction, mixed media art by R. Michael Fisher. Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v11n01/exhibits/index.html

2006 Oneiric Glasshouse Walking, Installation by Alex de Cosson. Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v09n02/exhibits/index.html

2004 Sacred Waltz, Paintings by Rahat Neveed Masud & poetry by Sohaila Javed, Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at http://www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v09n01/exhibits/index.html

2003 Desire, Disgust and disrepair: The Body in Education, Sylvia Wilson Kind & Stephanie Springgay. Co-curated with June Kaminski, Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v08n02/exhibits/index.html

2000 Spirit of Women: A Celebraton of International Women’s Day. Co-curated with Marylou Riordon- Sello, co-sponsored by The Vancouver Community Arts Council; The Unitarian Church of Vancouver; The Women’s Spiriutality Celebration, Chalmers Inst. Vancovuer School of Theology.