English and French texts by Robert Tombs and Michael Windover. Published by Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; 96 pages, 29.7 × 21 cm (11.7 × 8.3 inches), hardcover with printed slip case, Smyth-sewn binding, offset. Design by Robert Tombs.

The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts announces the publication 'Ghost Stations: Amanda Dawn Christie, Thaddeus Holownia, and Radio Canada International', a 96-page, bilingual, hardcover, slip-cased book, printed and bound in Switzerland.

"'Ghost Stations' stands as an important historical and artistic document. Born out of a two-person exhibition of works by Amanda Dawn Christie and Thaddeus Holownia, this book foregrounds the now-demolished shortwave radio towers of Radio Canada International on the Tantramar Marshes near Sackville, New Brunswick. The photographs, film stills, and essays published herein, by curator/designer Robert Tombs, and architectural historian Michael Windover, highlight the urgency of understanding this particular instance of modernist communications infrastructure as beacons for historical memory, in the wake of technological obsolescence and an accelerating globalized technoscape. The book’s dynamic graphic layout juxtaposes the thirteen shortwave antennae within a stark landscape, with archival documents and art historical references to contextualize the technology’s history and the radio culture that it made possible. 'Ghost Stations' represents an important chapter in the modern communications and documentary artistic traditions, channelling a very different way of being and communicating in the world, now largely forgotten by a new technological paradigm." – Marina Roy, artist/writer

SHORTLISTED FOR MAJOR CURATORIAL WRITING AWARD, 47TH ANNUAL GALERIES ONTARIO GALLERIES AWARDS, 2024

EXHIBITED AT ‘MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS’, HELMHAUS, ZURCH, SWITZERLAND, 2024