BRIDE MACHINE

Christine Walde

Bride Machine was originally published (2018) as an artbook multiple of 14 different folios of poetry with original artwork in a custom-made clamshell box inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even, also known as The Large Glass. This new soft cover, visually reimagined edition, brings together all of the text from each of the individual folios into one book. The texts are also the basis of a series of performances called Fete Accompli, which can be read, responded to, and performed. 

Christine A. Walde (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, and academic librarian whose work combines library and archival research with interests in artists’ books and multiples, experimental prose, poetry, visual poetry, performance, book arts, and the visual arts. Her scholarly and creative writing has been published in print and online journals in Canada, the US, the UK and Germany. Her artistic works are held in the public collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Banff Centre, the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, the University of Buffalo, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  Walde lives and works as the Fine Arts Librarian at the University of Victoria Libraries & Art Collections on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples in the Cascadia Bioregion of the Pacific Northwest.