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Item Details
Title: Festival of the Contemporary Arts 1965
Curator: Abraham Rogatnick
Date: 1965
Location: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC
Fonds: Exhibition Files, The Medium is the Message Feb 3-5 , 1965/Festival of the Contemporary Arts Feb 1-10, 1965
Size: 9.00 × 22.00 cm
More Information: A pamphlet for the fifth annual Festival of the Contemporary Arts at the University of British Columbia, organized by Abraham Rogatnick. Nicknamed “The Medium is the Message” after Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking work of communication theory, this festival marked a high point in interdisciplinary artistic activity. Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Archives, Exhibition Files.
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Project Sites
Discrete project sites documenting the work of specific artists and collectives in detail.
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Curated by Glenn Alteen Designed by Archer Pechawis - 03Expanded Literary Practices
Curated by Charo Neville
and Michael Turner Designed by The Future - 04The Intermedia Catalogue
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Essays
Essays and conversation providing a context for exploring the Project Sites and Archives.
- 01Making Indian Art “Modern”
By Marcia Crosby - 02Vancouver Cinema in the Sixties
By Zoë Druick - 03UBC in the Sixties: A Conversation
Edited by Marian Penner Bancroft - 04Siting the Banal: The Expanded Landscapes of the N.E. Thing Co.
By Nancy Shaw - 05Urban Renewal: Ghost Traps, Collage, Condos, and Squats
By Scott Watson
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Video Interviews
Video interviews conducted between December 2008 and May 2009 reflecting on Vancouver’s art scene in the sixties.
- 01Ingrid Baxter with Grant Arnold
- 02Christos Dikeakos with Lorna Brown
- 03Carole Itter with Lorna Brown
- 04Gary Lee-Nova with Scott Watson