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Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980
September 11–November 28, 2010 (more details below)
(The exhibition will travel across Canada in 2011–12)


Look at this list of artists! Conceptual art in Canada...whoo-hoo!
Vito Acconci, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Bruce Barber, Marcella Bienvenue, Robert Bowers, Wallace Brannen, Tom Burrows, James Lee Byars, Eric Cameron, Colin Campbell, Ian Carr-Harris, Tim Clark, Robin Collyer, Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Michael de Courcy, Sylvain Cousineau and Francis Coutelier, Gary Coward, Kenneth Coutts-Smith, Stephen Cruise, Greg Curnoe, Max Dean, Tom Dean, Jean-Marie Delavalle, Jan Dibbets, Christos Dikeakos, Graham Dube, Brian Dyson, Dean Ellis, Michael Fernandes, Gerald Ferguson, Robert Fones, Vera Frenkel, Jeff Funnell, Charles Gagnon, Yves Gaucher, General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal ), Raymond Gervais, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, John Greer, Hans Haacke, Noel Harding, John Heward (in collaboration with Alex Neuman), Douglas Huebler, Image Bank (Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov), Richards Jarden, Bill Jones, Donald Judd, Pat Kelly, Garry Neill Kennedy, Roy Kiyooka, Robert Kleyn, Joseph Kosuth, Michèle Lalonde, Suzy Lake, Gordon Lebredt, Les Levine, Glenn Lewis, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Ken Lum, Duane Lunden, Don Mabie, Allan MacKay and Lionel Simmons, Arnaud Maggs, Brian MacNevin, Barry MacPherson, John McEwen, Robin McKenzie, Albert McNamara, Ian Murray, N.E. Thing Co., Gunter Nolte, Dennis Oppenheim, Bruce Parsons, Andy Patton, Harold Pearse, Rober Racine, Yvonne Rainer, Clive Robertson, Ellison Robertson, Martha Rosler, Tom Sherman, Rebecca Singleton, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Jeffrey Spalding, Lisa Steele, Françoise Sullivan, David Tomas, Serge Tousignant, Bill Vazan, Bill Vazan with Ian Wallace, Robert Walker, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Theodore Wan, Douglas Waterman, John Watt, Lawrence Weiner, Irene F. Whittome, Joyce Wieland, Martha Wilson, Paul Woodrow, Jon Young, Tim Zuck

Conceptual art gets such a bad rap. In some circles, the phrase has become synonymous with boring, didactic and thinky. But lots of those artists in the 60s and 70s were exploring aesthetics in a way that was really funny, sort of dangerous and exciting. One thing that has remained very important to me about the movement(s) is the assertion that artists can understand and manipulate the contexts of reception of their own work. This is something that young curators, critics and art historians really need to be reminded of, especially in the current climate when so many people are scrabbling around trying to locate and claim some form of intellectual authority.

Here's some good snippets from the exhibition's "background" information sheet.
Both in Canada and globally, Conceptual Art is indelibly marked by the 1960s post-war political unrest that gave birth to anti-war protests and the student, womenʼs, civil rights and gay liberation movements. It was also informed by the emergence of new information technologies such as the television, the fax machine and the computer. Rebelling against the idea that art was a matter of individual expression, special skill, or purely visual and formal concerns, the conceptual movement emphasized art as ʻidea,ʼ in what has come to be known as artʼs linguistic turn.

Artists no longer wanted to simply add objects (paintings, sculptures, monuments) to a world already too full of ʻthings,ʼ particularly when new information systems, technologies and recording devices, such as video cameras, offered far more interesting and challenging possibilities. Asserting that a work no longer even needed to actually be produced in order to exist, or even be perceived, Conceptual Art came to exist as a kind of meta-art in the form of statements and writings about art itself and a critical engagement with the new systems of meaning-making in the age of mass media through the deployment of print media, radio, and television, as well as formats now identified as precursors of digital networks.
It's a really good time for a comprehensive Canadian history show on this topic. Especially in light of current discussions about immaterial art emerging in the context of online art practices (as well as the dangers of historical erasure from a certain American art critic who is nostalgic about "dominant objects.")

Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980
opens this weekend at the University of Toronto art galleries:
Friday, September 10, 2010
6:30 p.m. at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
7:30 p.m. at the University of Toronto Art Centre

Sunday, September 12, 2010
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. at the Blackwood Gallery
2:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the Doris McCarthy Gallery
(Free shuttle bus departs Hart House at 1:00 pm. For reservations call the Blackwood Gallery at 905.828.3789 or email blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca by Friday, September 10th.

- sally mckay 9-09-2010 11:52 am [link] [9 comments]






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Camille Turner A golden horseshoe of possibilities 2010 Digital print, 12" x 18"

(RE)Visions with Sandra Brewster, Stephen Fakiyesi and Camille Turner at The Print Studio, 173 James Street North, Hamilton, ON,
September 10 – October 23, 2010

Curated by Sally Frater

Opening reception: Friday September 10, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Featured performance by Miss Canadiana beginning at 7:30 pm

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- L.M. 9-07-2010 5:16 am [link] [add a comment]




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I see your little plastic mounties, Anthony Easton, and I raise you several pairs of shiny new RCMP riding boots.

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Ain't No Backin' Up Now

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