A thin xerox printed pamphlet titled Your guide to…Where Does It Hurt? curated by Cathy Busby September 20 - October 18 1996, rests on a grey background. There is a black and white picture of two figures reading books in front of Cathy Busby’s Self-Help Library below the title with a long description that begins: Pain, like death, is hard to talk about even though we all know it. — *Your Guide to* '*Where Does it Hurt?'*, exhibition folder cover detail, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, 1996.

*Your Guide to* '*Where Does it Hurt?'*, exhibition folder back cover detail, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, 1996.

*Your Guide to* '*Where Does it Hurt?'*, exhibition folder interior fold out detail, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, 1996.

*Your Guide to* '*Where Does it Hurt?'*, exhibition folder back fold out detail, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, 1996.

*Your Guide to* '*Where Does it Hurt?'*, exhibition folder interior fold out scan, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, 1996.

YOUR GUIDE TO...WHERE DOES IT HURT? (1996)

Your Guide to 'Where Does it Hurt?' is the accompanying folder for Cathy Busby's 1996 exhibition, Where Does It Hurt?, at the Banff Centre for the Arts Walter Phillips Gallery off-site (Calgary, Alberta). This work was made up of a library style installation of hundreds of used artist books, text books and self-help books, a reading room, and a series of film screenings which centred topics of pain and pain management.

Where Does It Hurt? built off of Busby's earlier Self-Help Library which was first exhibited at the New Museum for Contemporary Art (New York, 1994) as a response to Bob Flanagan's Visiting Hours exhibition. In 2014, Busby re-articulated this work at Artspeak (Vancouver) for the exhibition Where Does It Hurt?, curated by Jonah Gray, who borrowed the title from this exhibition.

YOUR GUIDE TO...WHERE DOES IT HURT? (1996)

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