Project Space isn’t an art gallery. It’s not quite a bookstore either. You could maybe call it a studio, but that doesn’t quite sum it up either. If you combine all of those things together, you start to get a sense of what’s going on at 222 East Georgia Street.

Last week, right in the heart of Chinatown, Project Space held its grand opening. Tracy Stefanucci and Jaz Halloran, the creative force behind the new space, hosted hundreds of guests who came to check out their quixotic collection of art publications, design books, magazines and art installations.

One book that drew the attention of visitors was Getting To Know My Husband’s Cock, a self-published sexual scrapbook by Ellen Jong that includes brazen pictures of the aforementioned appendage. The work is indicative of the controversial indie publications Project Space is interested in.

Stefanucci was shocked when she first picked up the book, but after hearing about Jong’s artistic vision, decided it had earned a place on her shelf. She said that she is happy to have a space that welcomes strange, offbeat and potentially offensive publications.

Stefanucci believes that Project Space will fill a necessary void in contemporary publishing.

“I have never enjoyed bookstores,” she said. “I always feel like the number of books they carry I am not interested in largely outweighs the number they

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