Series contains 86 collages created during Coupland’s book tours from the 1990s to 2009. Collages were created in order to include a visual dimension to Coupland’s daily tour diary entries that were published to his website. Upon creation the collages were mailed to Vancouver, BC were they were then scanned and posted to Coupland’s blog with the accompanying 400-500 word entry.
Coupland describes the collages as embodying both high-tech and low-tech aspects of the early 2000s due to the nature of their creation, transportation and dissemination.
Subsequent exhibition of the collages featured floating the pieces in vitrines (glass paneled-display cabinets) with a ½ inch neutral background while nearby computers displayed the corresponding diary entries. Graphic moments from the collages were made into limited prints and sold at the show venues.
In 2004, Coupland produced a series of paper nests, inspired by those that wasps create. To make these nests, Coupland hand-chewed pages from two of his novels. The series contains samples of this paper in various stages of being pulped.
Series consists of records related to film, television and stage productions that Coupland has been involved with. Records include drafts of screenplays, scripts, publicity, props, call sheets administrative documents, set sketches, video cassettes, and other records related to the creation and publication of Coupland’s dramatic projects.
This series contains records related to the following projects:
Generation X (conceptual art video about the book, ca. 1992)
Hiroshima 95 peace commercials (texts from Life After God used for commercials)
MTV 30 second art films (ca. 1995),
Close Personal Friend (documentary written by and featuring Coupland, ca. 1995),
Mom’s Cookies (screenplay co-written by Coupland and Ian Verchere),
Mon Amour Mon Parapluie (in which Coupland appeared as an actor, 2001)
Analogs (screenplay written by Coupland and Ian Verchere, ca. 2000)
September 10 (play written and performed by Coupland, September 2004)
Everything’s Gone Green (film written and co-produced by Coupland)(ca. 2005)
Souvenir of Canada (NFB documentary adaptation of Coupland's book, featuring Coupland, 2005)
JPod (television series co-written and co-produced by Coupland, ca. 2006)
A Man, A Plan, A Canal (screenplay written by Coupland in 2006)
Series consists of records relating primarily to Coupland’s 21 published literary works (14 fiction and 7 non-fiction). Records in this series include:
Annotated handwritten and typed drafts of major works
Correspondence with publishers
Cover mock-ups
Pre-draft conceptual writings
Research notes and
Photographs and graphic material related to Coupland’s pictorial non-fiction books
Publicity material relating to books including stickers, tshirts and posters
Series includes records related to the following projects:
Fiction
Player One (2010)
Generation A (2009)
Extinction Event stylebook (Extinction Event is a 2009 television series in which Coupland has been involved).
The Gum Thief (2007)
JPod (2006)
Eleanor Rigby (2004)
Hey Nostradamus! (2003)
All Families are Psychotic (2001)
God Hates Japan (2001)
2080 Stylebook (a unique hand-book about the future created by Coupland that later influenced his other pictorial works such as Souvenir of Canada, ca. 2000)
