Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980
Edmonton: Art Gallery of Alberta, 2012
ISBN 9781895442885
This book accompanies the survey exhibition Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, which toured across Canada through 2010 to 2013. The book defines Conceptual Art, provides a timeline of the movement, and analyzes numerous artworks. It is divided into regional subsections with chapters dedicated to the East Coast, Montreal, Ontario, the Prairies, and the West Coast. The authors highlight connections between artists, artworks, and regions in order to direct attention to the relational systems nurtured by Conceptual Art.
Contents:
Forward by Kathleen S. Bartels et al;
Introduction by Grant Arnold et al;
Conceptual Art in Canada: The East Coast Story by Jayne Wark;
Language Is Not Transparent: Translating Conceptual Art in Montreal by Vincent Bonin;
Dated Conceptualism: Toronto, London, Guelph by William Wood;
Episodes in Conceptual Art on the Prairies by Catherine Crowston with Grant Arnold;
Reference/Cross Reference: Conceptual Art on the West Coast by Grant Arnold;
Early Conceptual Practices in Context: A Conversation by Blair French et al;
Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980: An Annotated Chronology by Vincent Bonin and Grant Arnold;
Artists and Works in the Exhibition;
Author and Contributor Biographies;
Acknowledgements.
ITEM 2012.155 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
From Sunset to Sunrise – Dan Graham
Lax/Relax – Dan Graham
Two Correlated Rotations – Dan Graham
Like – Dan Graham
TV Camera/Monitor Performance – Dan Graham
Two Consciousness Projections – Dan Graham
Nude Two Consciousness Projection(s) – Dan Graham
In Search of the Miraculous – Bas Jan Ader
Thoughts Unsaid, Then Forgotten – Bas Jan Ader
Infofiction – Lee Lozano
Language Pieces – Lee Lozano
Homage to Sam Langford – Greg Curnoe
I Will Not Make Anymore Boring Art – John Baldessari
A Shot in the Dark – Pat Kelly
Length 4 – Gerald Ferguson
Location Piece #25 – Douglas Heubler
My Fourth Grade Class – Garry Neill Kennedy
O Canada – Joyce Weiland
Kiss Off – Vito Acconci
Trademarks – Vito Acconci
Canada in Parentheses – Bill Vazan and Ian Wallace
Coins d'ateliers – Serge Tousignant
A One Hour (Zero) Conversation with Allan B. – Suzy Lake
Suzy Lake as... – Suzy Lake
Sainte-Catherine Street Walk – Bill Vazan
Tour d'autobus – Bill Vazan
Vue d'une portion du trajet – Jean-Marie Delavalle
Série Écran Promenade – Pierre Boogaerts
Telephone Square – Tom Dean
Hochelaga – Robert Walker
La sacré et le profane – Robert Walker
12+1+ – Raymond Gervais
Le Terrain du dictionnaire – Rober Racine
Le Robert – Rober Racine
Is Politics Art? – Robert Walker
Authorization – Michael Snow
Venetian Blind – Michael Snow
Box with the Sound of Its Own Making – Robert Morris
Card File – Robert Morris
Portrait – Michael Snow
Kunstakademie – Arnaud Maggs
How to Hold a chiuahua – Rebecca Singleton
How to wear a raincoat while wearing a slip – Rebecca Singleton
A Man Illustrating – Ian Carr-Harris
Untitled Magazine – Robin Collyer
Birthday Suit--with scars and defects – Lisa Steele
Internal Pornography – Lisa Steele
Insertion (My Mouth) – Eric Cameron
Es In Arcadia Id: (Figure) – Eric Cameron
Keeping Marlene Out of the Picture – Eric Cameron
Sounding Board – Vito Acconci
Kiss – Robert Bower
Blood Tap (or pressing out/pressing down) – John McEwen
I'm a Killer – John Watt
The Ballad of Dan Peoples – Lisa Steele
String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video – Vera Frenkel
True/False – Colin Campbell
Sackville, I'm Yours – Colin Campbell
3 Death Stories – Tom Sherman
Distant Interior Sound, from a Photograph by Lynne Cohen – Tom Sherman
Envisioner – Tom Sherman
TVideo – Tom Sherman
Pilot – General Idea
Showcards – General Idea
Cultural Signs – Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge
Municipal Election Poster – Andy Patton
Pace and Process – Robert Morris
Condensed 220 Yard Dash – Dennis Oppenheim
Flour Drop – John Van Saun
Cornflake – Les Levine
AN ABRIDGMENT OF AN ABUTMENT TO ON NEAR OR ABOUT THE ARCTIC CIRCLE – Lawrence Weiner
A Natural Water Course Diverted Reduced or Displaced – Lawrence Weiner
The Arctic Circle Shattered – Lawrence Weiner
Family Music – Clive Robertson
A Year of..f – Clive Robertson
The Sculptured Politics of Joseph Beuys – Clive Robertson
I will not make any more art (after John Baldessari, 1971) – Brian Dyson
I Believe in Myself – Marcella Bienvenue
Do You Believe in Television – Chris Burden
Work in Process (The Cube) – Alex Poruchnyk
Sistine Tons – Funnell
Sidestreet – Rita McKeough
Mechanical Bliss – Linda Tooley and Reid Dickie's
Fall – Jon Tupper
Landscape Manual – Jeff Wall
Red Angel – Gathie Falk
Landscape Morphology and Perceptual Tools – Dean Ellis
Greetings from the Urban Wilderness – Michael de Courcy
Homes for America – Dan Graham
A Tour of the Monuments – Robert Smithson
Long Beach to Peggy's Cove – Roy Kiyooka
Forest Industry – Glenn Lewis
Sand Pile – Tom Burrows
Personal Baggage – Carole Itter
Pan-Am Scan – Ian Wallace