Constellation & Correspondences

National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives Exhibition Series, No. 36.
Constellation and Correspondences: Networking Between Artists 1970-1980
15 September – 24 December 2010

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Constellation et correspondances. Transmissions entre artistes, 1970-1980

Conjectural Connectivity

Anne Hirsch : Scandalishious — Ian Wojtowicz : The Betweeners  :   Apr. 16 → May 22, 2010

Apr. 16 → May 22, 2010 | Opening Saturday April 17th at 3pm
Conversation with the artists, curated by Felicity Tayler: Saturday April 17th at 2pm

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This text is speculative. At the time of its writing, the works described here have been communicated through the means of digital images, email, IM and online video. This is where these works, and their material, existed – until their installation in the gallery. What is presented within the white walls is the output of a process, one that reflects the formal structures of online social networks (Such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or YouTube), transposed into a physical space that designates this social process as visual art. Speculation is part of this process, an inherent element to the structure of social networks. Continue reading

Documentary Protocols

“The Page as Alternative Space” in Documentary Protocols (1967-1975)

Publisher: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Edited by: Vincent Bonin with the collaboration of Michèle Thériault
Design: FEED

Documents: Art Workers’ Coalition, N.E. Thing Co., Joyce Wieland, Intermedia Society, A Space, Véhicule Art (Montréal) Inc., General Idea / Art Metropole, Image Bank, Western Front Society, Glenn Lewis, Michael Goldberg, Vidéographe

Introduction: Michèle Thériault, Essays by Anne Bénichou, Vincent Bonin, Marion Froger, Kristy A. Holmes, Primary Information, Felicity Tayler, David Tomas. Essays by V. Bonin, A. Bénichou and M. Froger also in French.

416 pp., b.w. illustrations (perfect binding)
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery

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