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The Halifax Conference
- Artist
- Craig Leonard
- Editor
- Jeff Khonsary
- Speakers
- Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Ronald Bladen, Daniel Buren, Gene Davis, Jan Dibbets, Al Held, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Murray, N.E. Thing Co., Richard Serra, Richard Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Lawrence Weiner, and Seth Siegelaub
- Price
- $25.00
- Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- New Documents
- Format
- Artists' Books
- ISBN
- 9781927354322
- Size
- 12 × 19 cm
- Length
- 184 pp
- Genre
- Art History, Canadian, Conversations, Criticism, Available for Wholesale
The Halifax Conference presents the transcript of a conference held at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design on October 5–6, 1970, transcribed and adapted by artist Craig Leonard.
Organized by Seth Siegelaub, the Conference was conceived as a means of bringing about a “meeting of artists…[from] diverse art making experiences and art positions…in as general a situation as possible.” Infamously, the conference was held in the college’s boardroom, while students and other interested parties watched the proceedings on a video monitor in a separate space. The result was a conversation that devolved—technologically and ideologically—into a quasi-tragicomic farce, punctuated by remarkable moments of rupture initiated by activist resistance to the Conference from the outside and dissenting voices from within.
Attendees at the Conference included Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Ronald Bladen, Daniel Buren, Gene Davis, Jan Dibbets, Al Held, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Murray, N.E.Thing Co. (Iain and Ingrid Baxter), Richard Serra, Richard Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, and Lawrence Weiner.
Adapted by Craig Leonard. Edited by Jeff Khonsary.
First edition.
Softcover, b/w.
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