Collaborating on Conceptual Art: An Aesthetics of the Impossible
C Magazine, Summer 2011, no. 110, pp. 4-8
Leah Modigliani offers a layered and multi faceted discussion of Conceptual art criticism, historicism and dialogue in Canada, through her discussion of the University of Toronto's conference Traffic, Conceptualism in Canada. She highlights the presence of the "centre vs. periphery debate," the conference dynamic of having younger art historians speaking while conceptual artists were in the audience, who offered corrections and alternative viewpoints. Modigliani discuss the work, writing, and lectures of Paul Woodrow and cites the importance of the Whistle Cove Commune and their artistic projects.
ITEM 2011.015 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
negative objects – Whistle Cove Commune
twenty-five-pound pink satin airplane, a hundred feet long b a hundred feet wide – Paul Woodrow
Secret Painting – Michael Heizer
Dennis Oppenheim
James Lee Byars
Ian Wilson
Mel Ramsden
Randy Gullison
Donna Gullison
Brenda Haddon
George Firlotte
Laird Hamilton