Mike Schertzer

born May 27, 1965. Brantford, Ontario.
graduated 1987, University of British Columbia (B.Sc. in Biology)

and currently works as a Molecular Biologist

at the Curie Institute in Paris, France.

2009	Uncommon Hours (recent additions to A Personal Dictionary) self-published, 50 copies.

2008	Invigorations (recent additions to A Personal Dictionary) self-published, 50 copies.
	Words Learned at the Bottom of a Well, exhibition of recent sublimage. A440Hz, Vancouver BC.

2007	Instrangements (recent additions to A Personal Dictionary) self-published, 50 copies.
	excerpts from Peindicy published in Exile vol.31 (1).
	Peindicy published (Exile Editions).

2006	Hope is an Illegitimate Heir exhibition of sublimage and negatexts. Jarvis Hall Fine Frames, Calgary AB.
	I am not the end, 4 hour chalk performance of text by Joseph Joubert, Vancouver BC.

2005	Consequence (recent additions to A Personal Dictionary) self-published, 50 copies.
	The Prince, 7 hour chalk performance in Vancouver.
	7 (new poems) self-published.
	The Endroom (recent additions to A Personal Dictionary) self-published, 50 copies.

2004	excerpts from A Personal Dictionary published in Exile vol.27 (4).
	Daybreak, 6 hour chalk performance in Vancouver.
	A Personal Dictionary (4^th edition) is available online in its entirety.

2003	Thresheld self-published.
	Utopia : 9 hour chalk performance of a text by E.M. Cioran. Vancouver BC.
	Negatextual Resource Centre: exhibition of negatexts. Studio Blue, Vancouver, BC.
	excerpts from Evidence published in Exile vol.27 (3).
	Devil’s Wine self-published.

2002	exhibition of Sublimages @ Active Pass Pharmaceuticals, Vancouver, BC.
	Total Domination, 12 hour chalk performance. Vancouver, BC.
	A Congregation of Last Moments: exhibition of new Sublimages. Studio Blue, Vancouver, BC.

2001	The Grand Inquisitor, chalk performance in Vancouver.
	Contradiction, chalk performance. Pointless Hysteria, Vancouver.
	Dissociative Fugue, solo show of collage on glass and performance. Pointless Hysteria, Vancouver.
	selections from Short Films in Young Bloods (stories from Exile, 1972-2001).

2000	Evidence, a performance at the Blinding Light in Vancouver.
	Opacity Project, public interventions and performances throughout Vancouver.
	Low Tide, 8 hour waterfront chalk performance in Vancouver.
	Dissociative Fugue (limited edition of 50) self-published.

1999	PURGE, a 10 hour marathon reading encompassing the last 10 years of work, pseudo-work, and literate futilities.
	Marginotomy, a solo show of large collage works on glass. The Church of Pointless Hysteria, Vancouver.
	Discurse, a marathon reading series in unlikely public locations. (including The Loser by Tomas Bernhard, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino,)

1998	Cipher and Poverty (The Book of Nothing) published (Ekstasis Editions).
	The Broken Word Canadian reading tour.
	Solo exhibition Sublimage: collage and negatexts with a performance of Umbilicatorium, Din Studios, Toronto.
	Absulation (limited edition of 50) self-published.

1997	A Personal Dictionary (limited edition of 50 copies) self-published (Tonguenail Books).

1994	self-published The House of Misfortune (Tonguenail Books).
	Short Films from the Fourteenth Century published (Exile Editions).
	a hand for the drowned published (Ekstasis Editions).

1989- 1994	stories and poems appeared in: Dandelion, Exile, paragraph, Canadian Fiction Magazine, Prism, NeWest Review, Grain, The New Quartelry, Poetry Canada Review, Sub-Terrain

Notables

- performed the longest reading of original work in Canadian history
(10 hours, April 3, 1999)

- composed the longest acronym in the english language (224 words,
Acronymic in Cipher and Poverty: The Book of Nothing)

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